Incident #1001034
Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon
Jun 1972
Account
Ed was in charge of fallers and buckers on a logging operation near Robinson Lake where huge barefoot humanlike footprints, 17 to 18-inches by 7 inches, were showing up overnight near equipment and along trails for a couple of weeks. These were considered to be a hoax, but one day Ed felt he and the buckers were being watched, and spotted a heavily-built, 6-foot plus, hair-covered creature just inside the standing timber about 40 yards away. It had long arms, massive shoulders, a bullet-shaped head and an apelike countenance. He yelled to the crew and the thing vanished, but more big tracks backed up his story, and he has a poloroid photo of a print, of which Mike Jay has a copy: "looks like a BF track to me, as good as any I've seen."
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Linn Cty
- Nearest Town
- Sweet Home
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 40
- Population of Town
- 7000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 45
- Latitude
- 4417--
- Longitude
- 12153--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- open
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found previously
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- hillside
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- many large
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 9
Source
- Source
- The Track Record No. 22, Mike Jay quoting Ed, his
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- NOV 1992
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- NOV 1992
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Shoulders
- wide
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Head Profile
- peak in centre
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Reaction
- watched, avoided
- Attracted By
- human activity, machine activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Watched loggers at work with chain saws.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 17.5
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Trackmaker attracted by
- human activity, machine activity
- Remarks
- Tracks showed up for weeks around logging operation.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Mike Jay
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- studied, shouted
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- many