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Late night sighting by family along Hwy 126, near McKenzie Bridge
The witness was driving home at night with family when a large standing figure was seen motionless beside the highway. The witness turned the car around for another look but nothing was there. Years later the witness and his wife realized they had seen figures on opposite sides of the road, indicating two creatures.
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.
Family hears loud whooping for three consecutive nights near Drain
The witness and a relative were walking home in the evening when they heard loud whooping from the mountain above them and ran home. They brought parents outside to listen, and all four heard the continuing whoops. The sounds recurred over subsequent nights, and a county trapper later searched the area but found nothing.
Early evening sighting in Canyon City
At age six the witness was outside with a relative in late summer 1976 in Canyon City and watched a hair-covered figure standing on a hill across the road backlit by the setting sun for about a minute. The figure then turned and walked away out of sight. The witness ran inside to tell family, and parents later found large footprints on the hill.
Boy Scout sees part of retreating sasquatch
The witness was on a midweek overnight compass exercise with fellow scouts in a wooded ravine in northeast Oregon. While fishing alone in a creek at dusk he felt watched, turned, and saw a dark long leg and foot moving uphill into trees and brush. He saw no other details, noted no odor, and told no one at the time.
Travelers watch tan-brown 5-6 foot hairy creature drink from stream with cupped hands
Four relatives stopped while driving over a mountain pass to stretch their legs. One member who is blind noticed a very foul smell, and the others looked into the canyon below and saw a long-haired brown creature drinking from a creek with its hands. The creature then stood, walked away upright in a semi-crouched posture, looked back at the group, and entered the forest.
Hiker encounters large footprints
In the early spring of 1976 the witness was hiking uphill from a cabin when they found very large flat-footed tracks in soft dirt in a Ponderosa Pine forest. The tracks were fairly deep and appeared to come up the hillside from the cabin area. The witness did not see the track-maker and later read library publications about prior regional sightings.
Creature seen crossing in front of witnesses car
While driving east on the interstate at night in rain, the occupants of a car and surrounding traffic slowed for a tall dark figure running on and across the highway. The witness viewed the figure at close range from the passenger window and described eye contact and an expression of fear before it struck an oncoming pickup camper, ran up an embankment, and entered the trees.
Two hunters got the terrifying feeling they were being watched and followed
While heading back to their truck at dusk during an elk hunt, the witness and a companion felt watched and heard a loud scream lasting several minutes from behind trees, along with banging and branch breaking. They hid behind boulders with rifles but nothing emerged. They then left for the truck about a half mile away.
Young hunter sees and hears a sasquatch near Applegate
A 12-year-old waiting alone in a truck on a logging road noticed a foul odor and his dog became frightened. A tall dark-haired biped stepped into the open on a bank about 40 feet away, watched him for about 30 seconds while making grunting and mumbling sounds and tilting its head, then ran uphill. The boy fled on foot toward relatives.
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.
Daytime sighting by swimmers in Wolf Creek area
In mid-summer 1975 the witness and a companion were at an isolated creek swimming hole. While washing hair in the water, the witness noticed a head watching from behind a fallen log, which then ducked out of view. Moments later the witness saw the head, shoulder, arm and upper torso of a very tall brownish hair-covered upright creature near scrub vegetation across the creek. Both people quickly left the water, and a later search of the hillside revealed nothing.
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.
Deer hunters find footprints near Wahtum Lake
While deer hunting with three family members near Whatum Lake, the witness found and followed a trackway of huge human-like footprints. Near where the tracks crossed a road the group found berry-filled scat, and later found another set of similar tracks in an old burn area. No creature was seen; the group concluded the tracks were from bigfoot.
A camper reports a foul odor and unusual sounds at 2:30 am, then finds numerous tracks at day break
The witness was sleeping at a sandy riverside camp when dogs barked then became frightened and quiet. With eyes kept shut, the witness heard something walking in the water, noticed a strong urine-like odor, and felt something brush their hair during an encounter lasting several minutes. At daybreak, very large foot-like indentations were found in dry and wet sand around the sleeping area, campfire and tent.
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.
While sitting on a platform, 6 ft.up in a tree, two witnesses watch a cinnamon coloured creature walk by them
Around noon the witness and a relative were in a raised platform in the woods shooting a BB gun at a stump when the witness saw a furry head pass in front of the stump and disappear into brush. The relative turned only in time to see branches swaying. The two later estimated the height at about seven and a half feet from where it had passed.
Hunter briefly observes a stationary upright animal before it runs away
About 30 years ago the witness was hunting elk alone along a high ridge in daylight. He watched a dark upright shape behind a lone pine for a couple minutes, looked away to check for elk, then glimpsed brown legs to the waist running bipedally and silently across a clearing. He ran to get a wider view but saw and heard nothing further and could not explain the sighting as a known animal.
Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1973)
The witness was with two companions camping and riding dirt bikes when freezing rain left ice on the road. At night on a dark cloudy hilltop he stopped to wait and watched something come up to the road. It took two or three large upright steps across the road onto a cut bank and was gone. He described it as much bigger and too bulky to be a person.
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.