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July 1989 We Were In Lookingglass, The Nearest Large City Is Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon Class B #3387

Vocalizations heard in Lookingglass

Late at night in summer 1989, the witness and two cousins stepped outside after movies and heard a loud deep guttural sound from the creek bottom rise into a 5-10 second howl. Frightened by its apparent size and closeness, they went back inside and locked the door. The witness described the end of the sound as more wolf-like than cow-like and later compared it to a reference Ohio recording.

Howl
May 1984 Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Class B #703

Loud vocalizations heard on logging road 15 miles west of Yamhill

Three people were together in forested hills northwest of Yamhill late at night when they heard a very low, prolonged howl-like scream from what seemed like a mile away. Roughly thirty minutes later they heard the same sound again from very close range, describing strong vibrations and intense fear. They left immediately without seeing the source, which the reporter later came to believe was Bigfoot.

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12 August 1983 Bend, Lane County, Oregon Class B #80

Late Arriving Campers Hear Running, Stomping, Shrieking, Howling

Three people had laid out sleeping bags for the night at Kitson Springs when they heard rustling, loud stomping, and prolonged shrieking and howling nearby. They did not see the source and remained still while the sounds continued and then moved up a hillside into the distance. In the morning they made only a brief check and reported no tracks.

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May 1980 Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/03/02/sc-ep83-sasquatch-encounter-on-the-mountain

Scream in Oregon (1980)

In May 1980 [name withheld] and a friend skied at night up the closed Highway 242 toward Middle Sister to claim the season's first summit entry. They were followed for hours by something screaming, breathing heavily, breaking branches and circling on two legs, forcing them to shelter in a road grader. After it left they found large human-like tracks with toes crossing a creek and in the woods, then abandoned the climb and skied out.

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Summer 1977 Gates, Marion County, Oregon Class B #5350

College students get approached by sasquatch and shoot at it

Four college geology students camping at night heard howling from a canyon and then saw the outline of a huge bipedal animal on the road in moon and campfire light. When the animal approached, one student fired a rifle several times, after which it crossed the road and moved noisily up the opposite slope through brush. A responding deputy examined the area the next day and reported indistinct impressions, small pushed-over trees and long uphill strides, but no blood or fur.

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August 1974 Pilot Rock, Umatilla County, Oregon Class B #15744

Possible screams heard by campers near Indian Lake

The witness was at a summer youth camp at Indian Lake in the mid-1970s. At night around the campfire the group heard loud yells from the direction of the dam that seemed to get closer, and counselors sent everyone to bed. Later in a teepee the witness felt the ground shake with loud booming steps and was held still by a counselor; the camp broke quickly the next morning.

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1970–1974 Rainier, Oregon #804840f3-2653-4f6e-998e-b89f4c7d6483

Sasquatch sighting near Rainier, Oregon (1970)

The witness describes three years of repeated encounters after his family moved onto a wooded hillside property. Four ape-like animals repeatedly approached the trailers, peered in windows, vocalized at night, left tracks, damaged structures, and killed livestock. The father shot the largest animal in the shoulder near the pump house, after which the animals moved faster and more cautiously but continued the activity. Forestry and law-enforcement visitors reportedly told the father to stop shooting, and timber workers and well drillers also encountered the animals.

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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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last May Oregon #9de1e7c1-7793-4ab5-9cae-9c7d1b2bc4cf

Odor in Oregon

The guest and three companions camped several days in remote central Oregon to look into Bigfoot. They smelled a skunky BO odor, felt something brush tents, found large and human-sized barefoot prints, heard human-like grunts, found torn branches and an uprooted tree, had apples taken from high up with sticker skin peeled, and saw a bulky dark figure at the treeline captured as a blurry night-vision still. They left early due to bad weather.

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Pretty recent, really, over a two-week period Oregon #beb7de0d-b82b-4357-8e07-0ca6cbffbf25

Howl in Oregon

Over about two weeks of night deliveries, the driver heard howls and unexplained slaps on the box truck in the same area. One morning the headlights lit a tall slender hair-covered humanoid standing in the road. Noting its overlong arms and matted hair, the driver kept going as it stepped into lava rock terrain, then stopped to look but found nothing.

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normally in November Oregon #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/IC8JtU-2b4MDR-AZiJ5hAH6ZSUIuSqWtZAyrWgFtw3Y

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

At a rural house on the Oregon coast the household experienced repeated night howls, growls, talking-like sounds, dogs reacting, motion lights, a hand smudge, and large footprints in hard gravel. Young children repeatedly described dark hairy figures with flat noses and red eyes pawing or scratching at a bedroom window, motioning to come outside, and disappearing and reappearing.

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several months later, six, eight months later Oregon #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/GyJYybEqO6DKP7p05jef4dhcUSS6HHqeBqaftGgWxVA

Howl in Oregon

Several months later the same guest was camping in Oregon and heard the same type of distant, long-duration howl. It lasted almost 15 to 20 seconds. He remarked on hearing similar sounds months and miles apart.

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Last night Elsie, Oregon #16fe2681-2f32-4bcb-b395-cc63d7e69f68

Vocalization near Elsie, Oregon

The writer and spouse live in a rural hollow adjoining forest land. Late one night the spouse heard odd sounds from the porch, and the writer began recording. A loud yelling vocalization continued for an extended period, at times apparently answered from farther away before seeming to approach. Domestic and neighboring dogs reacted fearfully.

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about three years ago Oregon #3e175d18-ef64-4efa-a927-6b9ae8fcd3ed

Howl in Oregon

While glassing with a companion days before elk season, the witness heard a loud cow-like calling Howl from a steep creek bottom. The sound moved to the ridge top in about five to ten minutes, far faster than he felt a person could climb. It stopped at the top and was not identified as elk or bear.

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late at night on several occasions Lookingglass/Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon Related account #22996

Howl near Lookingglass/Roseburg, Oregon

On several later occasions the same witness heard strange howling vocalizations late at night near the family property but could not confirm the source.

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