Bigfoot sighting near Fairview, Oregon
Aug 1949 · Fairview, Oregon, United States
Witness and family heard pounding and a guttural roar outside their Fairview, Oregon home one early evening in August 1949; later sightings near Hwy 101 are also described.
The account itself raises a hoax or a misidentification.
Facts
- Reported as
- One audible and two visual, early evening encounters by a coastal witness near the North Fork of the Coquille River
- Date
- Aug 1949
- Place
- Fairview, Oregon, United States
- Evidence
- vocal
- Point
- 43.255, -124.060
- Located within
- 2.2 km
- Light
- twilight
- Witness was
- driving
- Witnesses
- 4
- Creatures
- 1
- Described as
- biped
- Behaviour
- eating, fleeing, standing
- Sounds
- roar, wood knock
- Animals
- horses reacted
- Traces
- blood, scat
- In the account
- cave or rocks, childhood memory, face seen, felt fear, field or clearing, firearm present, full moon, headlights, in vehicle, long arms, near home, near water, nothing found after, on or by road, repeat location, reported years later, ruled out bear, scat found, searched after, smell, very fast, very tall, wood knock
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 2 independent (5 listings)
Sources
- BFRORead the report
- BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
- BFRO (KML copy)Read the report
- ManganiRead the report
- BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report
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