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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jun 1972 Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon

    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.…

    #1001034 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  2. Jun 1972 Eugene, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Bert Schluckebier was one of a group of motorcyclists heading for the top of Mount Nebo, an old volcanic peak 3400 feet high. Taking a break at noon, half a mile from the peak, one of them noticed a black…

    #1001035 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Jun 1972 Cottage Grove, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Brad Chambers was hunting Chittum Bark with Eugene Brown, when he heard a crashing noise in the brush and saw the above the low foliage the back of an oval-shaped head covered with dark hair, 8 or 9 feet up.…

    #1001036 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jun 1972 Detroit, Marion Cty, Oregon

    Thomas Smith and a friend were fishing in a lake at the base of Mount Jefferson, name unknown, which they had to reach by descending a "boulder-strewn cliff" for about 1000 feet. The other man saw two "guys" on the…

    #1001037 one medium, one small Creature description

  5. Jun 1972 Blue River, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Jack Harris, Bud Miller and Charles Ross were clearing a right-of-way for a road into a wilderness area along the McKenzie River (presume South Fork, as was Southeast from Blue River, and there was already a highway following the McKenzie…

    #1001038 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Jul 1972 Blue River, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Russ Lawrence, the surveyor, was walking a trail along the route of the new road following the McKenzie River (presume South Fork) when he noticed his Husky dog in a clearing ahead looking down towards the canyon. Went to see…

    #1001039 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Sep 1972 Myrtle Point, Coos Cty, Oregon

    Dewey Strong was driving West on the Lee Valley Road just off Hwy. 42 between Coquille and Myrtle Point, at 4.30 a.m., when his headlights swung across a 7-foot ape standing in the ditch on the North side of the…

    #1001040 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Oct 1972 Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Arlene Arp and her husband (called Oscar at one point and Larry at another??) camped at Cascadia Forest Camp on US 20, he hiked up a steep hill into the woods and saw giant humanlike tracks, flat, about twice the…

    #1001041 one large, one small Creature description Footprints

  9. 1972 Klamath Falls, Klamath Cty, Oregon

    Michael Bradley was hunting near Klamath Falls when he walked down a deer trail to a stream and saw a sasquatch (no description) standing across the stream from him. It turned and walked out of sight. Melvin Gunsaullus states that…

    #1001042 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Apr 1973 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Don Stratton driving to his home 12 miles East of Estacada when a chunk of wood flew out onto the road. He got out to see where it came from and saw about 25 feet away amid the small trees…

    #1001043 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. about 1973 Molalla, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Two sons of Carol Cannard, aged 10 and 11, were motorcycling on the road to Goat Mountain (Clear Creek Rd.?) found 18-inch tracks. Later showed them to their parents. A dozen or more tracks in the center and alongside the…

    #1001044 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  12. May 1973 Rainbow, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Renee Allen told a Lane County deputy that while hiking near Linton Lake she heard a noise, stopped on the trail and watched from about 40 yards as a "Bigfoot" ran up a hill at tremendous speed and disappeared in…

    #1001045 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Aug 1973 Baker, Baker Cty, Oregon

    Mona Woodward and others were driving home from fishing at Anthony Lake, at 10.30 p.m., when they saw a large, upright animal walk into the brush along the road. It was in sight for 4 or 5 steps. Height 7…

    #1001046 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 1973 Oakridge, Lane Cty, Oregon

    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…

    #1001047 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Mar 1974 Florence, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Nick Wells was walking to school when he smelled a rotten stench, heard a deep growl and then heavy thudding steps in the brush and a panting growl. Whatever was there was keeping pace with him, stopped when he stopped,…

    #1001048 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. May 1974 Hood River, Hood River Cty, Oregon

    Jack Cochran was operating a log loader on Fir Mountain (not on 1:250,000 map) somewhere North of Mount Hood mountain and South of Mount Hood town when he saw at the edge of the clearcut a broad-shouldered creature about 7…

    #1001049 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. May 1974 Hood River, Hood River Cty, Oregon

    At the same logging operation as Jack Cochran (1001049), on the following day, Fermin Osborne saw a big, hair-covered, broad-shouldered creature walk off on two legs.

    #1001050 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Dec 1974 Winston, Douglas Cty, Oregon

    Twelve-year-old daughter of owner of Reston Shake Mill found tracks in the snow, 19 inches by 6.5 inches, in the snow behind the house and a corral where there were three horses and a cow, then passed up toward the…

    #1001051 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. Feb 1975 Florence, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Mary Wells and Roger Unser had been sasquatch hunting since Nick Wells saw one the year before (1001048) On this occasion they found tracks going up a road, heading from the beach to the mountains, on two separate occasions, two…

    #1001052 two large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Apr 1975 Tillamook, Tillamook Cty, Oregon

    Unnamed informant told Around Town columnist that they had seen barefoot humanlike prints on the Tillamook Head hiking trail, about a mile and a half past the top. One set was 11 inches long and 7 inches across the toes,…

    #1001053 one medium, one small Footprints

  21. Jul 1975 The Dalles, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    Bob Bellemy, his wife and Mr. and Mrs. James Stevens reported to have seen a grey apelike creature from a distance of about 450 yards near Tygh Valley, and to have watched it for 2 or 3 minutes until it…

    #1001054 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Nov 1975 Sutherlin, Douglas Cty, Oregon

    Informant hunting with two other men in the foothills of the Cascades, entered the bottom of brushy canyon while the other two took the two sides. Almost immediately he came upon a humanoid footprint in damp sand on a gravel…

    #1001055 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  23. Feb 1976 Eugene, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Informant had heard of a sasquatch sighting on the McKenzie River near Nimrod. No further information.

    #1001056

  24. Mar 1976 Medford, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Stan Moore was checking section lines in a timber stand in the Clark Creek drainage for forest service when he came upon tracks crossing a patch of snow deep in remote woods, bipedal, about 12 inches long and wider than…

    #1001057 one small Footprints

  25. Mar 1976 Medford, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Rancher near Butte Falls reported to have seen a bear-like animal digging in the center of a field he was plowing. When it saw him it got up and left, walking erect, but hunched over, and ducked through a barbed…

    #1001058 one large, sex unknown Creature description