Incident #1001047
Oakridge, Lane Cty, Oregon
1973
Account
Mark Krueger was working on a disabled boxcar on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the Pope & Talbot Co. mill at Westfir when he saw a sasquatch watching him from the fringe of the brush a few yards away. He went to get his co-workers, but when they returned it was gone. He said it was very tall, apelike, covered with reddish-brown hair. A fellow worker Dale Stuck, told Mike he was sure Krueger had seen something, because he would not go back to the mill for a week, and also said Krueger told of talking to an Oakridge woman who had seen a creature of similar description about six miles away a few days before.
When
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Lane Cty
- Nearest Town
- Oakridge
- Direction from Town
- West Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 3
- Population of Town
- 900
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 43450-
- Longitude
- 122302-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- hearsay
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Mike Jay, hearsay from Mark Krueger, who would no
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- DEC 1973
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1973
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Reaction
- watched
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoors
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- departed slowly
- No of witnesses
- 1