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September 1975 Pilot Rock, Umatilla County, Oregon Class B #695

A pheasant hunter's sighting near Pilot Rock cemetary.

The witness was walking home from pheasant hunting on a ridge before dark. He noticed a dark upright figure about a quarter-mile away walking toward the mountains. He shouted twice; it turned its whole upper body to look at him once, then kept walking. He watched for about 15 minutes until it disappeared, speculating it had been lying down before standing up.

Full-body sighting
November 1974 Brookings, Curry County, Oregon Class A #13729

Logging crew has daytime sighting

Four coworkers at a cable logging site noticed movement across a canyon. Two of them watched the subject for about 15 minutes through a rifle scope from about 2500 feet away. They described an upright two-legged figure with broad shoulders, reddish-brown hair and a pointed head moving unhurriedly toward a ridge until it disappeared. After work they discussed the sighting and concluded it was a bigfoot.

Full-body sighting
1 July 1972 Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon Class B #41634

Memory told of observing bi-pedal creatures while driving on an unimproved dirt road in the Wallowa Mountains east of Cove

In early July 1972 the witness was slowly driving family members on a faint dirt track atop a broad ridge when upright human-like figures appeared ahead to the left. He first saw one figure, then three together, then a fourth, all uniformly dark and bulky, milling and then walking steadily toward a ravine and treeline. Despite waving and honking, the figures continued away and disappeared into trees within about 45 seconds at no closer than about 100-125 yards, while the witness's wife partially awoke and briefly saw them.

Full-body sighting
June 1971 Boring, Clackamas County, Oregon Class A #604

Nightime sighting by motorists near Boring

The witness and a companion were driving at night when a large hair-covered upright figure entered the road ahead of them in the headlights. It reportedly paused to look toward them, then ran down the road before leaving up an embankment. The occupants exited the car but saw nothing further.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
Fall 1971 Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon Class A #25531

Witness recalls face to face encounter with creature near Myrtle Point

In 1971 the witness was alone watching TV at the parents' rural house near Myrtle Point. After hearing dogs bark, smelling a strong foul odor, and hearing footsteps on an outside plank, she saw a tall hunched hairy female figure pass a glass door. The figure stopped, turned toward her and made eye contact, after which she fainted and was later found on the floor by her parents. Her father searched outside with a flashlight but found nothing.

Full-body sightingFootstepsOdorAnimal behaviour
1970–1979 The Dalles, Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Sasquatch sighting near The Dalles, Oregon (1970)

In the 1970s a man rabbit hunting in The Dalles reportedly shot one in the face. He said it did not do much harm, only making it go back a bit.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Albany, Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Sasquatch sighting near Albany, Oregon (1970)

In the 1970s near Albany a mint farmer saw one during a period of many sightings. The creature reportedly jogged alongside the farmer's truck for a while and looked in.

Full-body sighting
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.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingHowlVocalizationFootsteps +4
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
1960–1969 Oregon #69b382a5-30f0-4438-8cab-1f270c00d963

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1960)

A career lumber worker was with two other men deep in Oregon in the 1960s when a creature with a white face walked fearlessly into their camp to within about 15 feet and stared at them. The encounter frightened the father so badly that he quit the lumber industry and did not discuss it for decades.

Full-body sighting
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
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
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/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
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
Date unknown Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/08/23/sc-ep139-sasquatch-encounter-on-a-military-base

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

A logger living in a mobile home at a remote logging site reported being followed, having objects thrown, and seeing ape-like creatures. He told family that one paced and growled at him as he returned home. After about two months without contact, outsiders called police, who found the home destroyed and all but a young daughter dead; the daughter was said to have later been institutionalized.

Full-body sightingObject throwingGrowlProperty disturbance
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 Oregon #080edaf7-f5bb-4cf2-b93f-abd0019a8cd0

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

A woman searching for mushrooms first mistook a figure for a man chopping with an axe. When the figure noticed her watching, it turned and moved backward up a steep incline on hands and feet without breaking eye contact. The movement was described as smooth and spider-like, and frightened her enough to leave.

Full-body sighting
after about a month and a half of me living out there Oregon #dddbdef1-8afa-40b3-826e-6bf1c59d45e3

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

The witness was living alone in a trailer while clearing land for a cabin. Over several nights loud banging on a metal trailer woke him, culminating in screams that drew him toward a large excavation. He confronted two tall hairy figures and a smaller one trapped in the pit, with another large figure flanking him. After a tense standoff the group retrieved the small one and withdrew to the treeline, and the witness left the property at sunrise.

Full-body sightingScreamGrowlUnidentified sound