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May 1991
Dixie, Walla Walla Cty, Washington
Laura Jarrell looked out the front window of her home in the Dry Creek area a few miles outside Dixie and saw what she thought was a bear crouched in the back yard near a storage shed. Her dogs barked…
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Sep 1991
Dayton, Columbia Cty, Washington
Two deer hunters reported seeing two large creatures on the timberline at the junction of Eckler Mountain Road and Maloney Mountain Road. One was estimated over 8 feet tall, the other under 5 feet. They found two sets of tracks,…
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Aug 1992
Inchelium, Ferry Cty, Washington
Camping with his girlfriend, Diana James, scouting Onion Ridge for later bear hunt, Mike Bowman found tracks of three different creatures, one 17", one 17.5", one 18". Several days spent at the Hall Creek campground, Aug 4 to 9; Aug…
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Oct 1975
Fruitland, Stevens Cty, Washington
Two farmers said to have seen a huge, dark, bipedal creature walk upright 500 yards across an open field near their homes before disappearing in timber.
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before 1972
Grande Ronde Riv, Oregon
Witness was fly fishing for summer steelhead in the Grande Ronde River in Northeastern Oregon when he noticed a very large animal sitting on a rock watching him. He kept an eye on it as he fished and it continued…
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before 1963
Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon
Informant and two companions fishing on a wilderness lake "beyond Estacada" saw an animal on shore, "hairy but almost human." Rowed to shore, to find the fourth member of their party throwing rocks into the brush. He said that the…
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Dec 1885
Lebanon, Linn Cty, Oregon
Mr. Fitzgerald and others, hunting near Bald Peter in the Cascades, approached within a few yards of a "wild man" covered with hair, which was eating a deer. When it saw him it fled. Isaac Banty said to have seen…
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1890's
Brookings, Curry Cty, Oregon
Ivan Sanderson gives no source for this story, which refers to tracks of enormous, naked human feet passing back and forth from the foredsts to the seashore at the mouth of the Chetko River, and tells of two watchmen being…
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1899
Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
Prospectors Robbins and Benson were developing a "gold ledge" above a spring beyond the head of Star Gulch on the South Fork of the Sixes River. Returning from lunch by the spring they looked back and saw a creature, big,…
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Dec 1900
Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
Two miners, William Page and Johnnie McCulloch, out hunting. McCulloch saw and "animal-man" come down to a stream to drink. When he called Page's attention to it it bounded out of sight with catlike agility. Story says there have been…
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Mar 1904
Powers, Coos Cty, Oregon
Story quotes the Myrtle Point Enterprise saying that the "Wild Man" of the Sixes mining district (this time in Coos County, not Curry County) has been seen three times since March 10, when it appeared at night at a cabin…
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Apr 1904
Powers, Coos Cty, Oregon
Story quotes the Myrtle Point Enterprise saying that the "Wild Man" of the Sixes mining district (this time in Coos County, not Curry County) has been seen three times since March 10. On this occasion "a few days ago", it…
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1905
Florence, Lane Cty, Oregon
C.E. Dixon and another man returning from seashore towards Florence, saw huge tracks on a flat covered with small evergreens, near a small stream. Stick cut to track length measured 18 inches. Thought they were huge grizzly tracks. (No grizzlies…
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about 1922
Dora, Coos Cty, Oregon
Juanita Haines, then 7, and her sister, 5, saw a very large grey creature, apparently hair-covered, run across a clearing towards them on two legs. It was about a quarter mile away, and had covered about half the distance to…
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Aug 1986
Raymond, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Fred Bradshaw, then a policeman, went with his son and step-sister to Ox? Camp where a boy had reported being pelted with rocks, 6 miles by canoe up the North River from Willapa Bay. His Doberman was whining and crying.…
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1983
Milton-Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon
Gary Wielert and others were in camp at Big Meadows, on a high ridge between Mill Creek and the North Fork of the Walla Walla River during an elk hunt. They saw what they took to be another hunter walking…
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Sep 1990
Willows, Glenn Cty, California
Jon Purcell with others walking in remote part of a friend's property, heard shots beyond a hill. Fearing poachers they went to their jeep for guns, then climbed hill in line abreast. Two thirds up 60-foot hill, a large, heairy,…
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Oct 1993
Hemet, Riverside Cty, California
Witness was in his back yard at sunset when he heard a noise, turned and saw a five-foot, hairy, upright, flat-faced creature standing still staring at him. Both fled, creature "ripping through brush at incredible speed." Pets had been acting…
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Feb 1994
Quincy, Plumas Cty, California
Pat Farley and Jerry Paradiso were driving on Hwy 89 five miles East of Quincy at 12.15 a.m. when they saw a creature dart across the highway from the side of the road. It was man-sized, hair covered, hunched over,…
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Feb 1994
Quincy, Plumas Cty, California
Nate Soileau and Dan Fields were driving on Hwy 89 five miles East of Quincy at midnight, when they saw a creature walk across the highway from the side of the road. It was 9 to 10 feet tall, had…
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about 1949
Vanderhoof, Nechako Val, British Columbia
Mr. Hentges, driving from Cluculz Lake to Vanderhoof on a highway under construction, saw what he thought was a gorilla walk across the road about a quarter mile away on a straight stretch. It was on its hind legs, with…
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before 1910
Vernon, Okanagan Dis, British Columbia
Charles H. Olds recalled a newspaper item, perhaps in the Vernon News, sometime between 1903 and 1910, of large humanlike tracks seen coming down from the hills to the East, between Woods Lake and Duck Lake, crossing the high land…
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Jul 1965
Hope, Hope-Princeton Hwy, British Columbia
Mel Mortimer was driving East on the Hope-Princeton Highway, just East of the big slide, on the stretch of highway abandoned after the bypass was completed, when he rounded a curve and saw something 8 feet tall and 5 feet…
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1969 to 1970
Keremeos, Okanagan Dis, British Columbia
Wendy Edelson was driving East on Highway 3 between Keremeos and Penticton, came around a curve and saw greeny-blue eyes reflecting, then drove past a 7-foot creature covered with longish dark brown hair standing beside the road next to the…