Sasquatch Sightings

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This is a case of delayed recall. Orr states that he had no recollection of this incident after it happened, it only came back to him after the early Bigfoot stories jogged his memory. Hence the low reliability rating. Orr said he was driving from Happy Camp to Orleans via a forestry road high up on the north side of the Klamath River, because the regular road on the south bank was blocked by a slide. He had a fleeting glimpse in the headlights of a grey orangutan-type creature that quickly stepped off the road. Then his car seemed to skid and he had a glimpse in the rear-view mirror of an animal-human face illuminated by the taillights. A quarter mile down the road he stopped to try to pull aside a small tree down across the road. Then he heard feet pounding, and a hair-covered creature a bit larger than himself ran up to him and commenced circling around him. It would move away but whenever he moved back towards his idling car it rushed him. He thought it was getting increasingly angry, but eventually it got far enough off that he was able to rush back to the car, get in and smash the tree out of the way. He felt that something was trying to hold the car back, but it broke loose. The thing made a roaring, panting noise. He kept going and the memory blocked out before he reached Orleans. His step-father drove the same detour later in the night and told him something had tried to push his car off the road, but even that did not cause him to remember.