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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Oct 1971 Beaver, Tilamook Cty, Oregon

    #1001026 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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