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Fall 1979 Klamath Falls, Jackson County, Oregon Class B #3820

Sasquatch evidence near Mount McLoughlin

The witness and a companion were hiking in fresh snow with no prior tracks ahead. They found very large human-like tracks with a long stride and followed them about two miles. Near a turn the tracks stopped, snow clumps rolled down an embankment and brush moved as if something had just jumped uphill, and the pair left quickly.

TracksMovement only
Fall 1978 Estacada, Clackamas County, Oregon Class B #656

Rancher finds a large track while looking around outside at 1:00 am to see what's disturbing his horses

Around 2 a.m. on a fall night in 1978, the witness and a relative went to the corral to check on panicked horses, suspecting a bear. They heard something crashing away into brush and found a corral-post tree snapped over with large human-like footprints around its base. They concluded the prints were not from a bear and later wiped them out while telling other family members it was a bear.

Movement onlyTracksTree break
May 1977 Belknap Springs, Lane County, Oregon Class B #21154

Couple has possible daylight encounter near Proxy Falls

The witness and a companion hiked about three miles into a wilderness area and stopped in a small meadow. From the surrounding trees they heard heavy footsteps and low soft grunting as an unseen source circled them twice over about ten minutes. Becoming uneasy, they walked out, stopped to listen, then hurried to their car while discussing the possibility it was Bigfoot.

VocalizationFootstepsMovement only
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.

HowlSilhouetteMovement only
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.

TracksMovement only
Date unknown Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/01/sc-ep76-open-phone-lines-and-your-thoughts-1

Full-body sighting in Oregon

The caller and her husband were camping off logging roads near the Oregon coast, with friends in a tent by the river and the couple sleeping in the truck. She felt stared at and terrified and blocked the windows, then her husband hurried into the truck saying he had seen a whitish-gray thing about four feet high and five feet long moving on all fours as if gliding. Both remained scared in the truck without investigating.

Full-body sightingMovement onlyPossible misidentification
first part of May, about eight years ago Sweet Home, Oregon #ebc3b6f0-083a-405b-9698-424e91654384

Footsteps near Sweet Home, Oregon

The witness was scouting remote mountain roads for fishing access when he found a newly placed stacked rock pile blocking the road. After stopping to inspect it, he heard something charge down the steep slope toward him and stop when he drew his pistol, then parallel him back to his vehicle unseen. He returned later with a hunting partner and heard coordinated whoops from multiple positions, and a few days later with a larger group found extensive tree damage, possible structures, and three sizes of bare human-like tracks.

FootstepsWhoopTracksTree breakStructure or nest +1
Date unknown Oregon #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/UA0kClRuX69Der0GjPRQaGraNppCqCjCus2OEj6Mf1Q

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

The witness parked an ATV and hiked alone on a trail through dense young pines. He noticed something staying still in the trees, shouted with no response, then saw a large dark mass moving through and violently shaking the trees. He fired shotgun slugs while retreating about 100 feet as the mass kept pace inside the treeline, and believes he must have hit it.

Partial sightingMovement onlyTree break
37 years ago Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/07/sc-ep48-sasquatch-encounters-and-audio-files

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

The guest was elk hunting deep in a canyon and started hiking out up a skid road. He sensed something wrong and noticed a huge dark mass paralleling him in the brush, matching his steps. He saw portions of an arm and long leg as it followed him for about 100 yards until he reached the main road and left.

Partial sightingMovement only
when we were 14 to 16 years old Detroit, Oregon #c26984ee-6c28-49e8-a3e1-111b1a606630

Cryptid sighting near Detroit, Oregon

During a summer camp, four youths hiked to a small lake with a vertical log sticking out of the water. On the second day the log went underwater and resurfaced, then a wide dark orb-like mass moved from the log location in an S shape toward a relative on a float. It disappeared about 10 to 15 feet away, and the group ran back to camp.

Partial sightingMovement only
that night Oregon #95d976f1-4e47-450d-a56a-5dda261ed027

UFO sighting in Oregon

After returning to his mother's house, the witness went to bed but woke to see a bright light approaching across the fields and entering through the window to hover over him. He felt a warm paralyzing sensation and fled to his mother's bed. While lying there he saw a floating bull-skull-like vision and heard his sleeping mother make a bull-like sound before waking her.

Partial sightingMovement onlyVocalizationAnimal behaviour
three weeks ago Oregon #3e175d18-ef64-4efa-a927-6b9ae8fcd3ed

Movement only in Oregon

While driving home after letting his dogs out, the witness stopped and glassed a red taillight-colored dot. Through binoculars it was a large perfectly round orb descending from the sky into timber about a mile away. He fumbled with his phone and got no photo, then told his wife and neighbor.

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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.

HowlMovement only
sometimes Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Related account #15746

Vocalization near Pendleton, Oregon

Relatives had heard grunts or whispering and things running through the fields.

VocalizationMovement only
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: 94 or 95 South Of Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Class B #412

Cousins followed for a quarter mile

The witness and a relative drove into a forested area near lava flows and walked a short distance down a trail to watch the sunset. They heard grunting and other sounds and noticed bushes moving as something appeared to follow them for about a quarter mile. Back at the car, something very close screamed and shook the bushes violently, frightening them into quickly driving away.

GrowlScreamMovement onlyAnimal behaviourPossible misidentification