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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Feb 1976 Eugene, Lane Cty, Oregon

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

    #1001056

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Apr 1976 Medford, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Three women picking wildflowers and mushrooms near Butte Falls found six tracks 12 inches long, wider than human, with bulbous toes, about 100 yards from a gravel road. Roy Lack of North American Wildlife Research (Ron Olson) made a cast.…

    #1001059 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. 1976 St. Helens, Columbia Cty, Oregon

    Larry Baley and his wife were in a vehicle driving on Hwy 30 near the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, when a 7.5-foot creature appeared din his headlights, took two giant steps to cross the road, leaped a wide ditch and…

    #1001060 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. May 1976 Mill City, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Steve Adams reports seeing on the trail to Pamelia Lake, half a mile from the road, a number of melted-out tracks in four feet of rapidly melting snow. A track estimated 15 inches by 6 inches on one side of…

    #1001061 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  23. Jun 1976 Klamath Falls, Klamath Cty, Oregon

    George Morrison, head naturalist at Crater Lake National Park, was driving South on Hwy. 62 inside the park about 7.30 p.m. when he saw a dark, tawny animal moving down the left bank a half mile or more away. As…

    #1001062 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Jul 1976 Heppner, Morrow Cty, Oregon

    Three footprints 21 inches long, 10 inches at the toes and 5 inches at the heel were found by a man working for Pine Contract Logging on a new road above Johnson Creek. He had been placing markers on the…

    #1001063 other group of large and small Footprints

  25. Jul 1976 Butte Falls, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Frieda Hayes and Patrick Kennedy Jr., camped at Whiskey Springs Campground, went down a path and saw across a large meadow of tall grass a 7-foot creature walking in and out of willow trees on the far side. It looked…

    #1001064 one large, sex unknown Creature description