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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Mar 1959 La Grande, Oregon

    Ray McFarland, Doug Holman and Leonard Knight were on a pleasure flight over the Wallowa Mountains when they saw near Horseshoe Lake (not on 1:250,000 map) a hairy half-man, half-beast tearing at the carcass of a small animal in the…

    #1001009 one, no description Creature description

  2. May 1969 Myrtle Point, Coos Cty, Oregon

    Jack Woodruff wrote that a fisherman had found huge barefoot tracks across the river from his home on the East Fork of the Coquille River. It is not clear if he spoke to the witness.

    #1001010 one large, sex unknown

  3. Aug 1969 Copper, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Perry (Slim) Lovell, an elderly prospector living in a cabin near Copper, found 18-inch tracks near his garden and on nearby sandy bottom land, in the Applegate River valley. The tracks were flat-footed, with distinct toe marks and a stride…

    #1001011 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  4. 1969 Pendleton, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    Pixie Mooris and a friend were walking about 2 a.m. on a path a couple of miles west of Reith, when they saw an "animal-person" crouched by a cattle chute watching them, about 10 feet away. After about 30 seconds…

    #1001012 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Sep 1969 Creswell, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Credibility problem, see 1000309 Joe Bayless told Bob Betts that when he was staying at the home of a prospecting partner, Jack Riffe, 2.5 miles out of Creswell, he went outside with a 30-30 to see why there was a…

    #1001013 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  6. Jun 1974 Cave Junction, Josephine Cty, Oregon

    Thomas Edmonds, with Mr. Polk and Nancy Graybill, followed tracks 23" by 8.5" approx. in sand patches on banks of Sucker Creek, starting from where the Cave Highway crosses the creek across the road from Grayback fores service guard house,…

    #1001014 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  7. Oct 1972 John Day, Grant Cty, Oregon

    Herbert Roth and his father were hunting about 20 miles from John Day. At midnight, hearing a noise around their camp trailer, Herbert got out and saw by flashlight a 7 to 8-foot creature, black, heavy, with red-reflecting eyes, about…

    #1001015 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  8. 1970 Forest Grove, Washington Cty, Oregon

    Friend told Francis Williams that a friend of his while working in his orchard near Forest Grove looked up and saw a big hairy creature standing by the fence watching him. It was about 8 feet tall.

    #1001016 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. early 1970's Sisters, Deschutes Cty, Oregon

    Unidentified man was cutting wood near Pole Creek when he realized that what he had taken for a stump was in fact a hairy creature. He pretended not to see it and while he was wondering what to do it…

    #1001017 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Nov 1970 Oakridge, Lane Cty, Oregon

    R.L. Lakey apparently filled out a computer form (lost) about tracks half a mile East of Blair Lake, about 5,000 feet up. The tracks were 14 to 15 inches long, and appeared several days old (so presumably in snow). He…

    #1001018 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. Mar 1970 Madras, Jefferson Cty, Oregon

    J.W. Gottshalk says that he and Jim De Smith, Bend, Oregon, were driving in heavy snow on the road from Hwy. 20 to Camp Sherman, following Tom Normington and Roger Maier, both from Portland, in another car, all of them…

    #1001019 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. 1970 Rockaway, Tilamook Cty, Oregon

    Dorothy Neal said that in the early summer of 1970 she and a friend were walking in the forest near Rockaway when they say a large, hairy, humanlike thing that had been drinking from a stream. It stood up and…

    #1001020 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Aug 1970 Millton-Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    Rich Myers was riding his motorcycle on Mill Creek Road in the Blue Mountains, near Camp Kiwanis, when he saw a figure 10 to 12 feet tall, shadowlike, in the brush. It made a high-pitched scream, with arms outstretched. Its…

    #1001021 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 1970 Pine Grove, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Fire lookout in the Timothy Lake area South of Mount Hood reported to have watched a sasquatch walk up the road toward the tower then turn and walk into the woods. (Story and location are entirely reasonable, but source is…

    #1001022 one large, sex unknown

  15. early 1970's Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Henry Gertz and his cousin Darrel were driving North along Memaloose Creek Road at dusk when they saw something standing 100 yards ahead. They slowly approached to within 75 yards and watched it for a good 45 minutes. It occasionally…

    #1001023 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  16. Feb 1971 Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Pastor and his family on a hike in early February walked up a logging road off Hwy. 20 beside the South Santiam River and at the end of a dead end road in 6 to 8 inches of snow saw…

    #1001024 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. Apr 1971 Mill City, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Ronald Correll and his two sons were hiking the trail to Pamelia Lake, off Hwy 22, when they came on 17" tracks near the trail and running parallel to it, heading downhill, for a mile and a half. They looked…

    #1001025 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  18. Oct 1971 Beaver, Tilamook Cty, Oregon

    #1001026 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. 1972 Cannon Beach, Clatsop Cty, Oregon

    Ray Cameron was on his way home to Cannon Beach from Astoria late at night when a white sasquatch ran across in front of him. (Near Seaside, but not stated which side.)

    #1001027 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. 1971 Cannon Beach, Clatsop Cty, Oregon

    Observer was driving towards Portland on Hwy. 26, East of the Saddle Mountain Park road, when a black sasquatch came down off the bank and ran across the road in front of his car, went over the guard rail and…

    #1001028 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Nov 1976 Cannon Beach, Clatsop Cty, Oregon

    Cheralyn Coffee, 15, was with a Lewis and Clark Church group hiking up Saddle Mountain on Hallowe'en. She got behind on the steep trail and was resting when she saw the bushes move and a humanlike creature covered with longish…

    #1001029 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. 1974 Astoria, Clatsop Cty, Oregon

    A former Astoria police officer said that he talked to two men who saw a reddish-buff sasquatch looking at them from a distance while they were hunting elk "away back in". It was big. The creature just studied them for…

    #1001030 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Jul 1974 Astoria, Clatsop Cty, Oregon

    Heidi Ballard told of seeing a buff-coloured infant sasquatch near the railroad spur East of Tongue Point Job Corp., east of Astoria. No information except size and colour.

    #1001031 one small Creature description

  24. Feb 1972 Eugene, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Jim Kunkle and a friend were spotlighting for deer in the vicinity of Triangle Lake. They saw several deer running down a hillside "like bats outa hell". They had never seen deer act like that, especially at night, so they…

    #1001032 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Apr 1972 Oakridge, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Luther Roam and his father-in-law, James Ping, fishing along Salmon Creek less than three miles East of Oakridge, found a single left-foot track 17.5 inches long, 7.5 inches wide and 1.5 inches deep, very wide at the toes. There were…

    #1001033 one large, sex unknown Footprints