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Vocalization
Other stories from the area are said to involve vocalizations, tree knocks, eye shine, walking and rock throwing.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 near Tumalo, Oregon
The witness was alone cutting poles when faint crackling from the south ridge grew louder and closer, prompting departure.
Footsteps
The [name withheld] while hunting heard heavy crashing from something running on two feet and a loud monkey-like vocalization.
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.
Footsteps
The third party member said something bipedal followed him just out of sight in the forest for an hour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Footsteps
The companion later heard loud thumping steps and saw an entity running away up the mountain.