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Summer 1970 Detroit, Linn County, Oregon Class B #6027

Heavy steps around tent in dark scare backpackers

Four teenagers were bedded down in a small wall tent during a hiking trip when they heard heavy footsteps circling the tent three times. The steps brushed against the tent fabric without tripping on the supporting ropes, and no flashlight was seen in the darkness. The group was frightened and stayed inside the tent without going out to look.

Footsteps
24 August 1969 Curry County, Oregon Class B #661

Campers hear terrifying vocalizations and see a huge dark form

Five boys were camping in a wilderness area when loud screams approached their camp late at night. Something circled the camp on two feet for about half an hour while wailing, as the group hid terrified in sleeping bags. As it left, two or three of them saw a huge hulking shape moving away in moonlight.

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March 1969 Washington County, Oregon Class A #700

Man spots Bigfoot in field

The witness was driving a spray rig along an orchard boundary and scanning a neighboring field when a tall dark figure was seen walking about 100-150 yards away. The witness stopped the vehicle and watched from the hood as the figure moved with a smooth human-like stride into a walnut grove and did not reappear. A few days later the witness estimated the figure's height from a comparison tree and found no footprints on the hard soil.

Full-body sighting
1968 Josephine County, Oregon Class A #677

Huge creature almost hit by a truck

Two relatives were at home late at night when they heard someone going through items on the back porch. They looked out and saw a huge Bigfoot-like figure going through their belongings. One of them screamed and the creature ran off.

Partial sightingProperty disturbance
Summer 1968 Estacata, Hood River County, Oregon Class B #5816

Nighttime encounter by a worker at a logging site

In summer 1968 the witness was working alone at night installing radio equipment on a yarder at a remote logging landing in Oregon. After dark he felt watched and twice saw bright eyes, the second time discerning a large wide black shape about 20 feet away, accompanied by a repulsive odor. He left the site for the night and returned at daylight, finding no footprints. The next morning a crew member showed him heavy barrels that had been moved, which the witness associated with the animal.

Partial sightingEyeshineOdor
1963–2002 Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Class B #7785

Family in small boat hears animal retreating and finds prints

In 1963 the witness hiked with family members to Teddy Lakes to fish. While rowing around an island they heard splashing and then found a line of very large, deep, human-like footprints in shallow mud where an animal had exited the water. Neither the witness, then a youth experienced with tracks, nor his expert-tracker grandfather could identify the maker, and the trail was lost in forest litter.

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July 1956 Lake Lemolo, Douglas County, Oregon Class A #12021

Boy encounters animal near Lemolo Lake

When the witness was a child of about eight, he was walking home from school on a lakeside trail in the Oregon Cascades on a clear summer afternoon. He reportedly saw a large fur-covered creature crouched drinking at the water's edge about 150 to 200 feet away. The creature then stood upright and stared at him, and he ran back up the trail.

Full-body sighting
1955–1956 Silverton, Oregon #ce48b170-ef13-45eb-9b63-f4829d08eff9

Sasquatch sighting near Silverton, Oregon (1955)

The witness was driving with his girlfriend to a high school dance when a dark hairy biped emerged from a grass field and walked diagonally into the road in front of the car. The driver slowed and swerved around it while it turned to look at them twice, showing no fear or expression, then left the road into a field. The couple fled shaken, and the passenger refused to discuss it afterward.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
1949–1950 Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/25/sc-ep57-missing-people-and-bigfoot-encounters

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1949)

A group of young people were swimming when one girl sitting at a picnic table screamed after seeing a large hairy figure watching through bushes. When she screamed it replaced the branches to cover its face and left. She was hysterical and only described what she saw after calming down elsewhere.

Partial sighting
1949–1950 Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/25/sc-ep57-missing-people-and-bigfoot-encounters

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1949)

The driver was going home alone on a cold rainy night and caught a brief glimpse in the headlights of a very large hairy figure standing in bushes off the road. Something long with hanging white hair appeared to be tucked under its arm. Days later the driver learned an elderly neighbor who kept goats had disappeared and a separate violent death had occurred nearby.

Partial sighting
Fall 1949 Fairview, Coos County, Oregon Class A #8745

One audible and two visual, early evening encounters by a coastal witness near the North Fork of the Coquille River

When the witness was a child living in a remote wooded valley, pounding on wood drew a sibling indoors and the family went outside to listen. From the driveway they heard loud guttural roaring together with continued pounding for several minutes on a clear calm evening. The sounds eventually stopped and the family went back inside, leaving the witness frightened.

GrowlWood knock
1933 Seaside, Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Sasquatch sighting near Seaside, Oregon (1933)

In 1933 out of Seaside three men in a search party for lost people reportedly saw a Bigfoot at different times. One of the witnesses was the Seaside city attorney.

Full-body sighting
April 1904 Sixes, Coos County, Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Sasquatch sighting near Sixes, Oregon (1904)

In 1904 near Sixes miners reported a wild man seen three times in three weeks. Two men heard something walk around and shake their cabin corner, heard a frightful noise, saw it walk away, shot and missed. Later a similar visit at dawn ended with the creature hurling a four-pound rock after being shot at.

Partial sightingVocalizationDoor or window contactRock throwing
1904 Roseburg, Coos County, Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/01/12/sc-ep397-bigfoot-west-coast-wild-men

Sasquatch sighting near Roseburg, Oregon (1904)

Miners reported a seven-foot hairy wild man repeatedly shaking cabins at night and making frightful noise. Shots failed to stop it. On one morning it shook a door, was shot at, and retaliated by throwing a four-pound rock before vanishing.

Full-body sightingRock throwingProperty disturbanceFootsteps
Date unknown Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/04/14/sc-ep422-this-haunts-me-to-this-day

Footsteps in Oregon

A friend camped alone without a tent at an empty high-elevation campground and woke around 3 a.m. to very large bipedal-sounding steps moving through brush toward him. He turned on a headlamp and the movement stopped behind a tree about 30 feet away, then silence followed while he lay paralyzed with fear before eventually falling back asleep. He reported the incident to the witness the next afternoon.

Footsteps
A few weeks since Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/01/12/sc-ep397-bigfoot-west-coast-wild-men

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

A boy camping with a man was awakened by cries and seized by a tall hairy figure that carried him rapidly to a thicket. They descended into an illuminated cave strewn with bones where a woman appeared. The boy escaped through the entrance with a knife and reached miners.

Full-body sightingScreamStructure or nest
real early spring Dallas, Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/12/24/sc-ep284-the-christmas-show

Odor near Dallas, Oregon

The witness describes multiple strange events at her rural home while alone, including a strong sulfur sewage odor, shuffling sounds, a blocked bathroom window, disturbed trash, broken lights, a ringing doorbell with no one there, and something hitting the house. She also often felt watched from the tree line.

OdorFootstepsProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
over 30 years ago when 19, 20-ish Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Wood knock in Oregon

The witness was on a family nostalgia trip in the Mount Hood forest and camped unprepared by the road. After a few hours she woke to very loud wood-on-wood impacts coming from multiple directions every minute or two. No people, vehicles, lights or voices were detected, and companions slept through it.

Wood knock
Date unknown Estacada, Oregon #0c25fd7b-680e-484c-8f23-e30bc8e49354

Sasquatch sighting near Estacada, Oregon

The friend reportedly was walking home after being dropped off by the bus when he saw three upright figures cross the road. He described a large squatch with two smaller ones striding across near a logging road intersection. The guest relayed the story secondhand and admitted he was skeptical at the time.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
Date unknown Estacada, Oregon #0c25fd7b-680e-484c-8f23-e30bc8e49354

Odor near Estacada, Oregon

The second guest's friend reportedly stepped outside his house late at night to get firewood. He smelled a strong rank body odor mixed with wet dog and heard a howl-scream in the distance. The account was relayed secondhand by the guest, who was skeptical at the time.

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