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Date unknown Place not stated Related account #41378

Vocalization

Other stories from the area are said to involve vocalizations, tree knocks, eye shine, walking and rock throwing.

VocalizationWood knockEyeshineFootstepsRock throwing
BFRO YEAR: 83 or 84 Elmira-Elmyra, Lane County, Oregon Class B #3200

Man recounts being chased as a teen

The witness and a cousin stopped for lunch in a small clearing while scouting in dense mountain forest. They heard loud snapping and movement circling the clearing, then the cousin fired a handgun into the air. A loud low-to-high roar answered, and repeated yells pursued them as they ran downhill for about a mile without ever seeing the source.

ScreamFootsteps
about a year before the Wolf creek encounter Place not stated Related account #3702

Footsteps

About a year earlier near Wimer, the witness heard heavy footsteps in brush while hiking with a dog at night, called out with no answer, felt threatened and fled to spend the night elsewhere.

Footsteps
That night Place not stated Related account #669

Footsteps

Later that night at a camp about 15 miles away, the witness and companion heard something large and heavy circle the camp repeatedly without seeing it.

Footsteps
BFRO YEAR: 1979-80 Douglas County, Oregon Class B #2274

Late night up-close encounter in the Umpqua Nat'l Forest near Toketee Falls

The witness and a companion were sleeping on the ground at camp while deer hunting after forgetting tent poles. During the night the witness felt fingers touching his beard and smelled a strong odor. After he sat up and shouted, something large moved away through brush on two legs making loud leaf-crunching noise. No tracks were found with a flashlight, and the witness later concluded it was a Bigfoot.

OdorFootstepsMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
BFRO YEAR: 1980-1 Sutherlin, Douglas County, Oregon Class A #3295

Afternoon sighting in hills between Oakland and Sutherlin

The witness and a friend were hiking on logging roads when they paused for a restroom break and the witness walked a short way back down the road. The witness saw a big, hairy, dark figure coming down a steep embankment upright with heavy thumping steps and crashing brush. After the witness screamed the figure stopped and looked toward them, and both hikers ran away shouting about a bear.

Partial sightingFootsteps
during another summer visit Place not stated Related account #3387

Footsteps

On another summer visit the witness and a cousin walking back from a bridge heard large bipedal steps following them from the treeline, stopping and starting with them.

Footsteps
Date unknown Tumalo, Deschutes County, Oregon Related account #63779

Footsteps near Tumalo, Oregon

The witness was alone cutting poles when faint crackling from the south ridge grew louder and closer, prompting departure.

Footsteps
back in the '80's Place not stated Related account #13729

Footsteps

The [name withheld] while hunting heard heavy crashing from something running on two feet and a loud monkey-like vocalization.

FootstepsVocalization
for a couple of days Brookings, Curry County, Oregon Related account #13729

Unidentified sound near Brookings, Oregon

Coworkers at the same work site reported feeling watched over several days and hearing sticks breaking and movement in brush.

Unidentified soundFootsteps
for the past hour Place not stated Related account #42352

Footsteps

The third party member said something bipedal followed him just out of sight in the forest for an hour.

FootstepsMovement only
two years later, I was down in the woods at almost midnight Clackamas County, Oregon Related account #652

Footsteps near Clackamas County

Two years later at almost midnight the witness alone heard footsteps approaching and a horse-like huffing noise in the woods and ran home.

FootstepsUnidentified sound
the first night, around 11:00pm to almost 5:00am Place not stated Related account #24882

Wood knock

The night before the sighting, the group heard distant knocking that moved closer to camp and later close grunting and huffing exchanges around the clearing.

Wood knockGrowlVocalizationFootsteps
Usually between midnight and three am Place not stated Related account #9391

Footsteps

The witness reports hearing very heavy human-like footsteps on more than one camping trip at Molalla after campers had settled for the night.

Footsteps
the first morning Place not stated Related account #76546

Unidentified sound

On the first morning the witness heard an unseen animal enter the lake near the tent, catch a fish, drip water, then run off after hearing the witness move.

Unidentified soundFootsteps
Two weeks later Place not stated Related account #36076

Footsteps

The companion later heard loud thumping steps and saw an entity running away up the mountain.

FootstepsPartial sighting