REPORT RECEIVED From:  The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.

DATE:    1976
 

TIME:    4:00 pm
 

LOCATION:   Oregon, Polk County
 

TERRAIN:    Mountains
 

OBSERVED:    MY WIFE AND HER CUSIN AND HER FRIEND WENT THERE JUST TO GET AWAY FOR THE DAY TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.  WE SAT IN THE PARK AND BUILT A BIG BON FIRE.  IT STARTED SNOWING.  THE GROUND TURNED WHITE IN ABOUT 20 MIN.  WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW DUMB THIS WAS  AND WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE.   WE HEARD THIS SCREAM OR HOWEL, IT WAS SO LOUD.  I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY SOUND LIKE THAT BEFORE.

IT WENT FROM A LOWER TONE TO A HIGHER PITCHED TONE.  THERE WAS ANOTH CAR BY THE BRIDGE.  2 GUYS WERE FISHING.  THEY WERE ABOUT 100 YARDS AWAY.  THEY TOOK OFFIN THEIR TRUCK.  THE SOUND WAS OVER POWERING.  I FELT A SHOCK GO THROUGH MY BODY.   WE LOKED TO OUR LEFT. I STOOD UP BUT DID NOT MOVE FROM WHERE I WAS.  THE 3 OTHERS WITH ME WERE RUNNING FOR THE CAR.   I STOOD THERE LOOKING FOR A COUPLE OF MIN AND HEARD NOTHING ELSE.  I WALKED TO THE CAR AND STOOD IN FRONT OF IT. I THEN HEARD BANGING AND SAW TREES SHAKING.  I SAW NO ANIMAL.   I GOT INTO MY CAR AND DROVE TOWARDS
WHERE I SAW THE TREES MOVING.  I DROVE RIGHT UP TO THE EDGE WHERE THE ROAD GOES INTO THE FORESTAND I ROLLED MY WINDOW DOWN.

MY WIFE WAS ANGRY AT ME FOR NOT GETTING OUT OF THERE.  IT WAS QUIETE.  I OPEND MY DOOR BUT DID NOT GET OUT OF THE CAR.  I LISTEND.   WHEN I OPEND MY CAR DOOR I HEAR WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A

COW WOULD MAKE CRASHING THROUGH THE FOREST.  IT WAS MOVING AWAY FROM US.  I DROVE UP THE ROAD FOR A 100 YEARDS BUT HEARD AND SAW NOTHING ELSE.   I WENT TO THE RANGER STATION AND ASK THEM ABOUT MOUNTAIN LIONS IN THAT AREA BUT WAS TOLD THE LAST SIGHTING WAS IN 1959 AND THE LION WAS SHOT.   WE DROVE HOME.   I THEN WENT TO WORK ON MONDAY AND TOLD A MAN I KNOW ABOUT 6 WHAT HAPPENED.  HE HAS BEEN A BIG FOOT HUNTER FOR YEARS FROM WHAT HE SAID.  HE SAID WE HAD HAD AN ENCOUNTER.  I DIDNT SEE ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES WHAT I DISCRIBED.  I HAVE GONE BACK A FEW TIMES DURING SUMMER MONTHS BUT NEVER HEARD OR SEEN ANYTHING.  THE RANGER STATION WORKS WITH BOISE CASCADE.   IT IS JUST WEST OF DALLAS.  AGAIN I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO LOUD IN MY LIFE. I THINK I COULD SAY THAT IF YOU WERE STANDING BESIDE A ELEPHANT AND HE MADE HIS LOUDEST SOUND HE COULD THAT MY BE EQUAL TO HOW LOUD IT WAS
 
 

Activities of Witness:   WE WERE SITTING ON LOGS THAT ARE PUT THERE BY THE STATE  AND WE BUILT A BON FIRE IN A PIT THAT IS BUILD BY THE STATE FOR DAY CAMPING.   WHEN WE GOT THERE IT WAS COLD BUT WITHIN 30 MIN IT STARTED SNOWING.  ONE OF THE REASON I WANTED TO LEAVE WAS THAT WE HAD TO CROSS BUTTLER HILL.  VERY STEEP GRADES AND IT WAS SNOWING PRETTY HEAVY.  WE WERE DRINKING COFFEE THAT WE HAD BROUGHT WITH US IN A THERMOS.  WE WERE EATING JUMK FOOD.  EVERYTHING WAS VERY STILL BEFORE WE HEARD THE SCREAM OR THE HOWEL.

I MUST SAY THAT WHEN I GOT TO MY CAR MY WIFE AND FRIENDS HAD LOCKED THE DOORS AND I HAD TO GET
MY KEYS OUT.
 

Description of Creature:    N/A
 

Other Notes:    After doing a lot of reading i have found that there were several sighings in that area.  i remarried 12 years ago and my wife had asighting about that same time when her and her ex husband was cutting would not far from there.
 

Additional Notes or Comments:  N/A

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