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in october of 2008 Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon Related account #26718

Vocalization near Dufur, Oregon

In October 2008 the witness and a relative heard repeated strange vocalizations through the night at camp until leaving for town early morning.

Vocalization
BFRO YEAR: '73-'74? Dufur., Wasco County, Oregon Class B #8621

Boy scout hears repeated screams

As a young scout camping overnight in a tent away from the main camp, the witness lay awake while his tent mate slept. He heard repeated loud vocalizations from a distance that started low, rose higher with a warbling quality, then faded. The sounds continued for about an hour and at times seemed to get closer, while he remained motionless and silent in his sleeping bag.

Vocalization
BFRO YEAR: 1973-1974? Elgin, Union County, Oregon Class B #27711

Woman recalls her possible sighting while deer hunting near Elgin

While waiting on stand during a rifle deer hunt, the witness watched a brown man-like figure walk upright into view and stop beside a lone pine tree, feeling it was looking at her. After a few seconds the figure dropped to all fours and left her view. Minutes later her brother appeared in the same spot, looking much smaller and dressed differently, convincing her the earlier figure was neither her brother nor a bear.

Full-body sighting
about 16 years ago Place not stated Related account #10934

Property disturbance

Years earlier the witness and her father found moved and torn-open logs and displaced rocks along a little-used trail, which park staff said could not have been bear sign.

Property disturbance
BFRO YEAR: Around 1992 Walla Walla Wa, Umatilla County, Oregon Class A #692

Witness observed two creatures crossing the road

About seven years earlier, while driving at dusk on a gravel road into the Blue Mountains, the witness came around a bend and saw two tall figures crossing the road in the headlights. The lights reflected yellow from their eyes while low sunlight illuminated their bodies. The witness stopped and got out after they walked into the woods but saw nothing further and found no tracks because the ground was hard.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingEyeshine
early in the week about 0600 Place not stated Related account #7124

Movement only

Early in the week around 0600 the witness heard extremely noisy brush movement on the hillside above the tents as he and a campmate exited.

Movement onlyPossible misidentification
subsequently Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Related account #15746

Tracks near Pendleton, Oregon

The witness later found a 20-inch footprint in a soft area a little distance from the house.

Tracks
repeatedly at nightly intervals Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Related account #15746

Property disturbance near Pendleton, Oregon

A light mounted high on a house corner was repeatedly broken and later found unscrewed over successive nights.

Property disturbance
in the early morning hours Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Related account #15746

Footsteps near Pendleton, Oregon

The witness had previously heard someone walking around the house in the early morning hours.

Footsteps
a couple weeks later in November, 2012 Place not stated Related account #57323

Scream

The same witness heard the same loud vocalizations again a couple weeks later from the same field offset by several hundred yards for about half an hour.

ScreamWhoopVocalization
last night 9/1/01 Grande Rhonde, Polk County, Oregon Related account #3064

Wood knock near Grande Rhonde, Oregon

The witness returned at night to cast impressions and take photos and exchanged knocking sounds with an unseen source for 20 minutes.

Wood knockUnidentified sound
last September Grande Rhonde, Polk County, Oregon Related account #3064

Sasquatch sighting near Grande Rhonde, Oregon

The witness describes an earlier nighttime sighting of a large bipedal creature crossing a road in the same general area.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
sometime between 12am and 2am Place not stated Related account #45813

Scream

Two campers heard repeated long loud screams from across a stream at night that stopped after horn honking and a warning shot.

Scream
That night just as it started to rain Place not stated Related account #45813

Wood knock

The witness reports hearing repeated loud knocks from multiple locations for about an hour during rain while camped farther up the road.

Wood knock
In 1972 Place not stated Related account #6734

Sasquatch sighting

In 1972 while driving toward Falls City with a companion, the witness saw something large and tall running on two legs across the road.

Road crossingFull-body sightingPossible misidentification
that winter in a snowstorm Troutdale, Multnomah County, Oregon Related account #7789

Sasquatch sighting near Troutdale, Oregon

During a winter snowstorm two students came inside frightened after being outside, and the witness went alone onto the snow-covered football field but felt unable to move forward past a line near the training stations.

August or September Place not stated Related account #7789

Property disturbance

A pole-and-plastic shelter used by students was found wrecked with snapped roof poles, broken furniture, a strong bad smell, and reddish hair nearby.

Property disturbanceOdorHair
BFRO YEAR: 1979-80 Troutdale, Multnomah County, Oregon Class A #7789

Members of Job Corps group have several encounters

Late at night a group gathered above the football field during foggy full-moon conditions. The group noticed a large shadowy bipedal form at a distance that appeared and disappeared in moving fog. Some members started toward it before it vanished in the fog, and the witness reported feeling unable to advance beyond a point. An odor was noted in connection with the sighting.

SilhouetteOdor
in 1970 Place not stated Related account #5350

Tracks

The deputy and a search team found human-like footprints about sixteen inches long during a 1970 search for a lost fisherman.

Tracks
For years Place not stated Related account #5350

Howl

The deputy reports hearing an unidentified howling noise at night for years near his home.

Howl