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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Aug 1980 Grants Pass, Josephine Cty, Oregon

    Scott Ericson, 13, went to mailbox on a motorcycle, and saw what looked like a sasquatch standing in the thick brush nearby. It was very large and had brwonish silverish hair, and it took off through the brush.

    #1001084 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. 1980 Gresham, Multnomah Cty, Oregon

    Kay Martin, David Brown and Claudia Herholz were in a car in Dabney State Park about 11:15 p.m. when they saw a 9-foot creature come up an embankment, stop and look at the car, cross the road and climb a…

    #1001085 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  3. Jun 1982 Milton Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    WARNING: On the face of it this is a high-quality report, but since then Paul Freeman has been involved with so many more reports, one of which involved proven fakery by someone, that it is generally discounted. Who knows? Paul…

    #1001086 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  4. Jun 1982 Milton Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    WARNING: See 1001086. Paul Freeman and Bill Epoch, patrolling inside the Mill Creek Watershed, found a number of 14-inch by 7-inch tracks, similar to those found 10 days earlier. Joel Hardin, a U.S. Border Patrol tracker, pronounced them fakes, but…

    #1001087 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  5. Jul 1982 Wallowa, Wallowa Cty, Oregon

    Allen Mitchell, Mike Evans, Russ Evans, Andy Ely, Rodney Bonifer and Paul Freeman on a fishing trip on the South Fork Wehana River, camped at the mouth of Milk Creek, where someone found and Freeman cast large cripple-footed tracks. Next…

    #1001088 more than two, sex unknown (large) Footprints

  6. Oct 1983 Grants Pass, Josephine Cty, Oregon

    Paul T. Claywell reported to state police at Grants Pass that while riding his motorcycle on Interstate 5, slowly because of rain, Northbound between the two Grants Pass exits, his headlight hit an animal standing upright in the road. As…

    #1001089 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Nov 1985 John Day, Grant Cty, Oregon

    Ross Turner was driving North on Hwy 395 just South of John Day, when he saw a very dark creature getting something out of a snowbank beside the road. Did not see it until it was very close. Estimated 5…

    #1001090 one small Creature description

  8. 1986 Ashland, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Kay Daily was cross-country skiing on the North slope of Dutchmans Peak when she followed for about a mile very plain large bipedal tracks that at the time she thought must be bear tracks. Thought it strange that a bear…

    #1001091 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  9. 1986 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Daniel Beardslee said that at Lookout Springs Campground he had seen an 18-inch by 8-inch track with toe marks, on one side of a 5-foot snowdrift. There were drag marks across the drift, and another perfect track on the other…

    #1001092 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  10. Jul 1986 Weston, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    Two friends found five footprints 14.5 in. long, 6 in. wide, stride 4.5 to 5 feet beside a creek in the Blue Mountains between Pendleton and Walla Walla, also a bed of ferns where a large animal lay. One perfect…

    #1001093 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. Nov 1986 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    James Hewkin investigated two lines of tracks found about 300 yards from the home of a family engaged in logging a 1700-acre tract in the Clackamus River drainage, with equipment and vehicles, plus chained dogs, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and…

    #1001094 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  12. Sep 1987 Lebanon, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Chris Johnson was bow hunting in a wilderness area in the Snow Peak vicinity when he came to a clearing around a pond and saw on the other side of the pond a large male sasquatch sitting against a tree,…

    #1001095 male, female and small Creature description

  13. Oct 1988 Lebanon, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Chris Johnson and his girlfriend returned to the wilderness area in the Snow Peak vicinity where he had a sighting the year before, and found three sets of tracks, the largest 18 inches byk 7.5 inches. Cliff Crook saw them…

    #1001096 more than one, no description Footprints

  14. Jun 1988 Tillamook, Tillamook Cty, Oregon

    Unnamed young man out motorcycling on a logging road in the Coast Range, at dusk, saw a big, dark, biped come downhill and walk along a log, then stand near the road and watch him ride by. Another man found…

    #1001097 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 1987 Warm Springs, Oregon

    Vic McDaniel and three other Indians elk hunting in the McQuinn Strip of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, saw 800 yards away two sasquatches tearing chunks off a dead elk and eating. After a while another joined them, and later…

    #1001098 other group of large and small Creature description

  16. 1986 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Jim Hewkin said that the boy who previously found 16-inch tracks at the family homestead had since found and cast 13-inch tracks on an old skid road in a clear cut.

    #1001099 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. 1989 Hood River, Hood River Cty, Oregon

    Tyrone Harvey and his brother, fishing at Lost Lake, went ashore at the West end of the lake and encountered a 7-foot creature covered with matted black hair scratching its back against a tree. When it saw them it paid…

    #1001100 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Aug 1989 The Dalles, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    Jesse Spears and his son Steve watched from their home in the 3000 block of West 2nd St. as a dark creature appeared half a mile away on the hillside near Eagles Point about 7 p.m. and walked erect along…

    #1001101 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. 1989 Salem, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Greg Bader was on Forest Service Road No. 6330 near Bagby Hot Springs when he found tracks 16 to 18 inches long, going down the middle of the road, and followed them for almost a mile until they went up…

    #1001102 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Apr 1991 Beaverton, Multnomah Cty, Oregon

    Anonymous woman lives on houseboat on Columbia Slough, behind Sauvies Island, in the Columbia River, North of Portland. Birdwatching with binoculars, she was looking for herons in the shallow waters towards the mainland when she saw a "cave man" covered…

    #1001103 one large male Creature description

  21. Jun 1992 Yachats, Lincoln Cty, Oregon

    Steve Maxwell said that while driving on the access road of his family's 300 acres a mile north of Cape Perpetua about 4 p.m. he saw a 9-foot creature run across the road at high speed, in front of some…

    #1001104 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Jul 1991 Lincoln City, Lincoln Cty, Oregon

    Dan and April Jolly were staying at their employer's condo at the mouth of the Salmon River when they saw on the sand by the river 280 yards away a black creature 8 feet tall, with no neck, covering the…

    #1001105 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Jul 1991 Silver Lake, Lake Cty, Oregon

    Informant told Ray Crowe that his brother worked on a road crew in Wyerhauser holdings Southwest of the Thompson Reservoir where big footprints had been showing up around the work area for weeks. Operating a bulldozer one day he heard…

    #1001106 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Jun 1992 Cave Junction, Josephone Cty, Oregon

    James Thompson was driving to his home in heavy woods at 1 a.m. after a basketball game when he saw an animal 7.5 to 8 feet tall, dark in colour, with long arms hanging almost to its knees. Called friends…

    #1001107 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  25. Aug 1991 Silver Lake, Lake Cty, Oregon

    Informant told Ray Crowe that his brother working on a road crew in Wyerhauser holdings Southwest of the Thompson Reservoir saw a 5-foot sasquatch run across a road while he was on the way to work in the morning.

    #1001108 one small Creature description