From the GCBRO
DATE: Late 1970's & 1980's
TIME: All Daylight Sightings
LOCATION: Oregon, Lane County, McKenzie River Valley
TERRAIN: Wooded
OBSERVED: I've lived here a number of years and have heard a number of reports of sightings in the upper McKenzie valley. Two of the sightings occured near Linton Lake in the Three Sisters Wilderness:
In the first case, a high school teacher was on a solitary day hike to Linton Lake when she noticed what she first thought was a very large man striding down the opposite shore. She soon realized that this creature was covered in fur and was far too large to be a man. It did not see her as she was standing in the shadows of the forest gazing across the lake. She watched it stride down the lakeshore for a minute or so before it turned and walked into the forest. In telling her story she used the term "massive" several times in describing her amazement at the size of this creature. She also related a sense of awe at encountering a creature which she had previously regarded as myth, yet she felt no fear of it. This occured in the late 70s.
In the other case, which occurred about ten years later, two fisherman were hiking to a small lake near Linton Lake when they came up behind what they thought was a bear feeding on something in a meadow.As they approached, it stood up and turned to face them and they found themselves face to face with a seven ft tall BF. They stood facing this creature at a distance of maybe 100 ft not knowing what to do.Finally one of the fellows started fumbling in his jacket for a 22 he was carrying when his friend yelled at him, " Are you nuts?, Don't even think about it!" At this point the BF reached down and slung a dear carcass over it's shoulder and walked off into the woods. The two fellows turned and fled the opposite direction back to their truck.
A third case involves a young couple, who are now married,who were skinny dipping in Blue River Reservoir when they noticed what they described as a 4ft tall monkey on the shore.The gal screamed and it fled up the bank and into the forest.
