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An enormous black creature crosses a road near Newport. A winged being reportedly climbs onto a moving car outside Amity. A father and son describe tall, gray-furred figures surrounding them near Union Creek. And a former Crater Lake worker’s story ends with more than two hours he cannot remember.
Join Lon Strickler on Phantoms & Monster Radio for UNEXPLAINED OREGON, featuring eight unusual encounter reports spanning decades.
Tonight’s accounts include:
• A deer-like figure with a human upper body in Pendleton
• A reported Dogman encounter near Newport
• A winged humanoid outside Amity
• An alleged encounter with a group of creatures near Union Creek
• Blue humanoids carrying flaming swords on Beaverton rooftops
• A reportedly reptilian figure in a black suit near Portland
• Unexplained bedside visitors and a Portland family’s troubling questions
• A pale humanoid, strange singing, and reported missing time at Crater Lake
These stories are presented as reported experiences, including a secondhand account. Witness interpretations and comparisons are not established identifications, and the reports do not establish a shared or paranormal cause.
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>> Hey folks, welcome to Phantom's Monsters
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Radio.
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Now, um, an ordinary evening on a front
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porch, a late night drive to release a
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trapped mouse, a return trip down a work
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trail to retrieve a forgotten bag.
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Nothing about these situations suggests
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that something extraordinary is about to
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happen. But for the witness in tonight's
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presentation, those everyday moments
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become experiences that would struggle
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to explain for years afterwards.
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Welcome to Phantoms and Monsters Radio.
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I'm Lon Strickler, and tonight we're
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exploring unexplained Oregon.
2:51
Now, our reports take us from
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residential neighborhoods and country
2:54
roads to isolated mountaintops and
2:57
forest of Crater Lake.
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We'll hear descriptions of a deer with
3:01
human upper body, an enormous wolf-like
3:04
creature, a winged being that climbed
3:07
onto a moving car,
3:09
and tall figures that appeared to hunt
3:11
in a group. Then the accounts become
3:14
stranger still. Armed humanoids crossing
3:17
rooftops, a disturbing encounter with a
3:20
figure in a black suit, unexplained
3:22
visitors around a family's bed, and a
3:25
park worker who says more than two hours
3:28
disappeared from his memory.
3:31
These are witnesses accounts, including
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one re relayed through a neighbor.
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Descriptions, impressions, and
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conclusions belong to the people telling
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them. They leave us with questions and
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we'll keep those questions open as we
3:46
listen.
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So, we begin in Pedalon during the
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summer of 2001 with a young person
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standing on a friend's porch and looking
3:56
across the street.
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Now, this incident took place during the
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summer of 2001. I had just graduated
4:05
from Pendleton High School in Pendleton,
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Oregon. It was evening and I was at my
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friend Eddie's house. His parents were
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out of town, so we were just unwinding a
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bit.
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Eddie's house was in the race division
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area of Pendleton next to a large field.
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Now, around there, seeing wildlife was
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not unusual, especially deer. Now, at
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one point, I stepped out onto Eddie's
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front porch to have a cigarette.
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I was standing there when I looked
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around the street toward an empty lot
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full of weeds. That was when I saw what
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I thought was a deer.
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Now, at first glance, it looked like any
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other deer I had seen before. It had
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four legs, a bushy white tail. But as my
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eyes moved upward toward the torso, I
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realized something was very wrong. The
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top half of this deer was a man.
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I could see his chest, arms, and head.
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He had long black hair and appeared to
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be wearing a black leather jacket. I
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just stood there staring at it. The
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figure never noticed me on the porch. It
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did not turn toward me and it did not
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react at all.
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Drag after drag of my cigarette, I
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stared at it without blinking. It was
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probably only a couple of minutes, but
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it felt like a lifetime. The creature
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never moved. It simply stood there
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staring off into the distance. Finally,
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I turned around, opened Eddie's front
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door, and yelled inside, "Hey, Eddie,
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come check this out." Eddie answered,
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"Coming."
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I turned back toward the vacant lot. The
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creature was gone. Eddie stepped outside
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and asked, "What's up?" I just said,
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"Never mind." And we both went back
5:51
inside. Eddie asked me what I had seen,
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and I told him. I thought I saw
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something, but I guess not.
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I never did tell Eddie what I actually
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saw. So, a few days later, I was at
6:03
work. I worked in the produce department
6:05
of a local grocery store. I stepped
6:08
outside to have a cigarette, and one of
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our regular customers, a Native American
6:12
man, was outside drinking a can of beer.
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I stopped and talked with him. I told
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him what I had seen a few nights
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earlier. He said to me, "That's a
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spirit, a shape shifter, skinwalker, the
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Wendigo."
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I said something like, "Oh, wow. Okay,
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thanks."
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Then he looked at me and said, "Stay
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away from it if you ever see it again."
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Now, over the years, I told a few people
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the story. Most of the time, I was met
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with laughter or accused of being
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stoned. But before this incident, I had
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never heard of anything like this.
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I had never seen anything like this.
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It has been more than 20 years since it
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happened, but in my mind, it still feels
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like yesterday.
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Now, the witness never got Eddie outside
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in time to see the figure. What remained
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was a memory, a reluctance to talk about
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it, and a warning from someone who
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offered his own interpretation.
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The names that customer used are part of
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the witness's recollection. They do not
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establish what the figure was and we
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should not treat them as interchangeable
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explanations.
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Now, our next witness also began with a
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familiar identification, an animal
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beside the road. Then it stepped into
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the street light.
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I saw something on August 1st, 2022
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around midnight that I still cannot
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explain. I live near Newport, Oregon in
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a neighborhood near the edge of a large
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forest behind our house. So, this wasn't
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completely rural, but it isn't far from
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what the woods either. The odd part is
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how it all started. I had set a live
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trap for a mouse. I do catch and release
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because I cannot stand to harm mice.
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Around midnight, the trap went off and a
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loud pop of the door woke me up.
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I didn't want to leave the mouse in the
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cage all night until morning. I could
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hear it trying to chew through the
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wires, and [clears throat] I was worried
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it would hurt itself trying to escape.
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So, I decided to take it out right away
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and release it. I don't release mice in
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my own yard, and I'm not going to put
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one near someone else's house and create
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a problem for them. I usually drive
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about 3 miles away in a forested area
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and let them go there. Now, before I
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even got into my car, my stomach
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suddenly began hurting in a way I'd
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never felt before. It wasn't just a
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normal stomach ache. It felt like a
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deep, painful, forboding sensation,
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almost as if something was warning me
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that something terrible was about to
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happen.
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I almost never get stomach problems, so
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this stood out immediately.
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The feeling was intense, and I kept
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getting the sense that something was
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wrong. I got into the car with a little
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cage and started driving. I had gone
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only one block from my house when I
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immediately slowed down because I saw
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something enormous on the side of the
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road. Now, at first, I thought it was
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the tallest dog I'd ever seen. Its
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silhouette was darker than the night
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around it. I slowed from about 20 mph to
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maybe 10. Then, it stepped out on on
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into a street light and walked around
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the road in front of my car.
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I wasn't running. It wasn't running. It
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wasn't moving slowly either. That was
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when I realized this was not an ordinary
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dog. I also knew it wasn't a bear
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because it didn't have the body shape or
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belly of a bear. This thing was three to
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four times the size of a wolf. I can say
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with certainty that it was not a wolf.
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What I saw looked like a humanoid
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hunched over on all fours. Its back was
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raised in a strange erect hunch as it
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moved across the road. The head was
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distinctly wolf-like and enormous. It
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literally looked like a giant wolf head.
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The fur was jet black, as black as hair
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can be, and the legs were lanky. My
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brain froze. I immediately began trying
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to rationalize what I was seeing, but it
10:20
was almost impossible. The closest
10:22
comparison I can make is to the werewolf
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form from Harry Potter, the one
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Professor Lupin turned into.
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All I could think was, how did they
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know?
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That image is nearly identical to what
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this thing looked like while hunched
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over and walking on all fours. It was
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horrifying. On all fours, his backside
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was probably four to four and 1/2 ft
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high. The head was higher, easily
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reaching 5 foot.
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There was no way that this was a bear or
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any other regular animal. There was
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nothing familiar about it. If someone
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suggested it was a large sick dog
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hunched over, I'd definitely say no. It
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was bigger than the largest dog breeds
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I'd ever seen. A regular dog cannot be
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over 4t tall at the back while hunching
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over. It was too skinny to be a bear,
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and the humanoid aspect of it could
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couldn't be denied.
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I could tell that it wanted to.
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It could have easily stood up on two
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legs.
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What made it even more disturbing was
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that I could feel its energy. It felt
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dark, oppressive, and dangerous. There
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was something very otherworldly about
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it. I kept driving slowly and looked to
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the left as I passed, trying to see
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where it had gone. I saw it silhouette
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near a bush. It was looking back at me,
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watching me pass. I did not stop cuz I
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was scared.
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I continued with my original plan,
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released the mouse, and when I got back
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home, I ran into the garage and shut the
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garage door as fast as I could. I was
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panicked and very terrified.
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People always say, "When you know what
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you saw, you know what you saw."
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That's how I feel. I also know my mind
12:11
isn't just filled with blanks. And it
12:13
is, and I didn't hallucinate this. Now,
12:16
later that night, I started looking up
12:17
accounts of dog men. I found
12:20
descriptions and drawings that were very
12:22
similar to what I had seen. What are the
12:24
odds of that?
12:26
Now, I'm convinced this thing is real. I
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never thought it in my wildest dreams
12:30
that I would see something like this.
12:34
Now, the Newport witness described a
12:36
creature that crossed the road, then
12:38
watched the car pass. No pursuit was
12:40
reported, but the encounter left the
12:42
witness frightened enough to rush
12:43
indoors when returning home. In the next
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account, the distance between the
12:48
witness and the creature closes much
12:51
further. A driver
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outside Amity
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thought something had passed beneath his
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car. Then a hand, a wing, and a face
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came into view.
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Hi, Lon. I had an experience in the mid1
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1980s that I never really understood.
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For years, I kept it to myself because I
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didn't have a frame of reference for
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what I had seen.
13:18
It was only much later after seeing the
13:20
field jeeper creepers that I finally had
13:23
a visual comparison for the creature I
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encountered. Even then, I didn't explain
13:28
what happened. It only gave me a rough
13:31
image that came uncomfortably close.
13:34
Now, at the time, I was driving home
13:36
from work late at night. I worked
13:39
evenings and night hours, and I was
13:40
talking I was taking a country road
13:43
outside of Amity, Oregon. I remember
13:46
seeing something ahead of me low above
13:48
the ground and in the roadway. Now, at
13:50
first, I thought it might have been an
13:52
owl or another bird crossing over the
13:54
road. So, I slowed down, but then I saw
13:57
it more clearly. For an instant, it
14:00
seemed to appear, then disappear. And I
14:02
actually tried to dismiss it. I told
14:04
myself, "No, that couldn't be right."
14:07
But then it turned completely black in
14:10
front of me. And almost immediately, I
14:12
heard and felt a series of heavy impacts
14:14
under my car. Thump, thump, thump.
14:19
I thought I had run over something. I
14:22
looked back through the mirror. I
14:24
checked both sides. I turned my head. I
14:25
was driving a station wagon trying to
14:27
figure out what had just happened. But
14:30
then I saw it. I saw arms first, then a
14:33
hand, then a wing. After that, I saw the
14:36
face. Its eyes were orange, but not like
14:40
animal eye sh eye shine. They looked
14:42
human in shape, only much larger. The
14:45
nose also looked strangely human. The
14:48
wings were leathery, and I could see the
14:51
veins in them. The skin had that thin,
14:54
almost translucent quality, like when
14:56
you hold your ear up to a light and you
14:59
can see through it slightly. It was that
15:00
kind of texture.
15:02
The thing had crawled up onto the car's
15:05
roof and partly over the front
15:07
windshield. Its arms and wings shifted
15:09
and flapped as it moved. I was
15:11
terrified. I can still feel that part
15:14
when I think about it. But then
15:17
suddenly, I heard another series of
15:19
impacts. Thump, thump, thump, thump.
15:22
It was back on the ground behind me on
15:24
its back while I was still moving
15:26
forward.
15:29
I remember wondering whether it would
15:30
stand up, whether it was hurt, whether
15:32
it was all right. But it just it was
15:35
just my nature. I didn't want to hit
15:37
something and leave it there no matter
15:39
what it was. So I slowed down. I got up
15:44
and turned to look. It got up and turned
15:47
to look at me. It seemed crippled at
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first, struggling to stretch itself out.
15:51
But after a moment, it appeared to
15:53
regain its balance.
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Then it turned toward a field with a
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wooden fence railing,
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almost like pasture land with a tree
16:03
line behind it and the moon in the
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background. It tried to fly, but hit the
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ground again. It was wobbling. Then it
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got up once more, lifted off, and flew
16:14
again. This time, it disappeared.
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Even now, I'm still shaken by it. For a
16:20
long time, I had no idea what I'd seen.
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I never connected to it to anything
16:25
until years later. Then, only two months
16:28
before writing this, I looked online
16:30
after thinking about the movie creature
16:32
again, and I still couldn't make sense
16:34
of it. I found myself wondering whether
16:38
somebody had been had seen something
16:40
like this before the film had ever been
16:42
made.
16:43
This happened outside Ammon, Oregon. At
16:46
the time, I lived up in Malala and
16:49
traveled through multiple counties to
16:51
get to work because I hadn't moved. I
16:54
was driving all night and the moon would
16:56
come in and out of the time and time. It
16:58
was almost as if the light intensified
17:00
just enough for me to see the thing
17:02
properly on the driver's side. I was
17:04
terrified. You're only the second person
17:07
I've told this.
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It took me at least two to three weeks
17:11
before I could make myself drive that
17:13
road again.
17:15
Now, even after describing something
17:16
terrifying on the windshield, the
17:18
witness remembered worrying that the
17:20
creature had been injured.
17:22
The next witness described a very
17:24
different response. A father and son
17:26
stopped beside a deserted seasonal
17:28
business in southern Cascades. Almost
17:31
immediately, the father felt that they
17:33
needed to leave. Then, the figures began
17:35
moving across the snow in front of them.
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Now, back in the winter of 2001, my
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youngest son and I were driving from
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Boise, Idaho to Medford, Oregon,
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we had taken a car trailer to his old
17:52
place in Boise to haul his non-running
17:54
Jeep back to the new place in Medford.
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Around 2 in the morning, we hit heavy
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snow in the Southern Cascades, and it
18:01
took about 45 minutes to get down the
18:04
mountain.
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We had both been drinking coffee just to
18:08
stay alert.
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>> About 25 miles west of the pass, it
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became obvious that the coffee needed to
18:15
be dealt with. We stopped at the wide
18:18
spot on the road near a summer tour stop
18:21
that was completely deserted in winter.
18:24
There was a gas station and an ice cream
18:26
stand on the west side of the road. Both
18:28
closed for the season, and there was no
18:30
town or settlement within 30 miles.
18:34
It was tall timber country, isolated and
18:36
dark. Now across the road is a small
18:39
paid parking area for the ice cream
18:41
stand about 200 feet wide and 80 foot
18:43
deep. I pulled in, stepped out with my
18:47
45 on my hip, but almost instantly I
18:49
realized bringing the Mossberg 9 I mean
18:52
590 would been a would be a very good
18:54
idea.
18:57
As my son and I walked toward the far
18:58
end of the lot so we could be well off
19:01
the road, the hair on my arms and back
19:03
of my neck suddenly stood up.
19:07
Directly in front of us was an open
19:09
stretch of ground maybe 50 yards deep
19:10
and 100 yards wide. The night was clear
19:13
and cold.
19:15
There were 8 to 10 inches of snow in the
19:17
ground and the moon was nearly full, so
19:20
visibility was better than we might have
19:22
expected. While standing with my son
19:25
about 15 ft to my right, I suddenly saw
19:28
movement in front of us across the open
19:29
area. It was just it was as if this
19:34
these things had sprung out into the
19:35
earth.
19:37
There were 10 or 12 of them at first
19:39
moving rapidly and and back and forth in
19:42
a crisscross pattern almost like a
19:44
living weave.
19:47
These were not human beings. They were
19:49
close to 7 foot tall, thin bipeedal,
19:52
long armed covered in medium gray fur
19:55
and incredibly fast. I brought the
19:57
shotgun up and pushed the safety off at
20:00
the same moment my son was drawing his
20:02
45.
20:03
I don't know if I can fully explain the
20:05
feeling that hit me, but I'll try. I had
20:08
already been operating on instinct from
20:10
the second I stepped out of that truck.
20:14
The feeling landed a split second before
20:16
those creatures fully registered in
20:18
front of us.
20:19
It was not a logical thought process. It
20:22
was an immediate overwhelming certainty
20:24
that we were prey and that we were in
20:27
grave danger and that if we had if it
20:30
got a hold of us, it would kill us and
20:32
eat us. That was a gut level message and
20:36
it was absolute.
20:38
As they moved around in front of us,
20:39
most of them appeared and blended in
20:41
with the first group. All of them
20:43
running quickly back and forth while we
20:45
started moving toward the truck. I
20:48
refused to turn my back on them. Then
20:50
some of them peeled off to the right and
20:52
left. That was when I realized they were
20:55
trying to circle us. They came in fast
20:57
from both sides. I could smell them. I
21:00
could feel their presence. By the time
21:02
we reached the truck, my son and I were
21:03
flooded with adrenaline and ready to
21:05
kill if we had to because we knew, both
21:08
knew that we were in serious danger.
21:12
We piled into the truck and locked the
21:13
doors. Already had the keys in hand. As
21:16
I hit the seat, I started the engine,
21:18
slammed in the gear, and meshed the gas
21:20
in and mashed the gas in one motion. We
21:23
fled. That's exactly what we did. And as
21:26
we tore out of there, something very
21:28
close by let out an undulating scream of
21:32
rage and pain. I've always believed that
21:35
one of them got extremely close during
21:37
the pursuit and that I ran over its foot
21:39
as we bolted out. They were that close.
21:43
>> [snorts]
21:43
>> We rolled back onto the highway and I
21:45
told my son to watch the pickup bed in
21:48
the trailer. He was already turning to
21:50
the rear. The shotgun raised.
21:54
We drove hard for at least 20 miles
21:56
before the feeling of imminent danger
21:58
began to lift. Now, when we talked about
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it afterwards, we both described the
22:03
same thing. The strongest impression was
22:05
not just fear. It was a certainty of
22:08
being hunted.
22:10
Now, I'm not someone who is easily led
22:12
around by stories, and I do not
22:13
automatically believe every Bigfoot
22:15
ghost or werewolf account I hear. I'm
22:18
skeptical by nature. About 6 months
22:21
earlier, excuse me, about 6 months
22:23
later, my son was talking to a c-orker
22:25
who had grown up in Prospect, Oregon,
22:28
roughly 30 mi south of Union Creek,
22:30
where this had happened. My son asked
22:33
him if he had ever heard of any strange
22:35
going on in the area. The man went pale.
22:38
then almost retold our experience to
22:41
him. He said to stay away from that
22:44
place at night. He also said that a
22:46
family friend, a retired police officer
22:48
for 25 years on the job, a levelheaded
22:50
level-headed man and a good observer,
22:53
had reported a very similar incident
22:55
about a year earlier.
22:58
I told my wife about what happened. At
23:00
first, she looked at me like I was
23:02
suddenly grown a third eye in the middle
23:04
of my forehead.
23:05
That was not because she thought I was
23:07
lying. It was the shock and she believed
23:09
me. But she didn't want the details. She
23:12
told me the whole thing just gave her
23:14
the chills.
23:16
It still does the same to me. And even
23:18
writing this now, the hair in the back
23:20
of my neck and forearm just standing up.
23:23
I never gone back to investigate that
23:25
place. And I would not do it without a
23:27
large, heavily armed group with me. My
23:30
son and I are both sane, sober men, not
23:33
prone to hysteria. We were wide awake,
23:36
fully alert and absolutely clear-headed
23:38
when this happened.
23:40
We saw what was there and we smelled
23:42
what was there. One detail that has
23:44
always stayed with both of us is this.
23:46
We never heard footfalls from any of
23:48
them. Not once that rema they remained
23:52
silent until that scream as we heard
23:54
escaping when I believe I may have
23:57
injured one of them. As far as I know,
24:00
and I have looked into it, uh there is
24:03
no exact known animal that matches what
24:05
we encountered unless a person started
24:07
digging into old legends and folklore.
24:12
Now, the father believed the figures
24:13
were surrounding him. He also believed
24:14
the truck injured one during the escape.
24:17
Now, those are his interpretations of an
24:19
encounter he described as immediate and
24:21
overwhelming.
24:23
The silence is one of the details that
24:25
stays with me. numerous figures moving
24:28
rapidly across the open area. Yet
24:30
neither witness recalled hearing of
24:33
footfalls.
24:35
As far so far, the accounts have
24:38
involved figures on the ground or close
24:40
to it. Our next report moves above
24:42
street level into Beaverton neighborhood
24:44
where three unusual formers were
24:46
reportedly traveling across rooftops.
24:53
>> [snorts]
24:55
>> Now, the witness states, "On the night
24:56
of October 12th, 2022, unusual humanoid
24:59
figures were reportedly observed moving
25:01
across rooftops in Beaverton, Oregon.
25:05
The encounter occurred approximately one
25:07
block from a local high school. The
25:09
report did not identify the school
25:11
street intersection or the witness's
25:13
exact observation point. Now, according
25:16
to the account, three separate figures
25:18
were visible. Two appeared human-shaped
25:21
but had distinctly blue skin, blue
25:25
colored bodies, or an overall blue
25:28
appearance. The description does not
25:30
make clear which of these possibilities
25:32
the witness intended. Now, the witness
25:35
did not record their height, clothing,
25:37
facial features, build, or apparent age.
25:41
Both reportedly demonstrated unusual
25:43
agility. Instead of moving along the
25:46
street, they hopped their leap from one
25:48
rooftop to another. Each carried an
25:51
object resembling a sword surrounded by
25:53
visible fire.
25:55
The flames reportedly remained attached
25:57
to the weapons as the figures moved
25:59
across the buildings. The account does
26:02
not say whether the flames produced
26:03
smoke, illuminated nearby surfaces,
26:05
caused heat distortion, or damaged the
26:07
rooftops.
26:09
A third being accompanied two blue
26:11
humanoids. Now, this figure reportedly
26:13
resembled Hulkman, the winged warrior
26:16
from comic books and popular culture.
26:19
That comparison appears to describe its
26:21
general appearance rather than suggest
26:23
that the witness believed it was
26:25
literally the fictional character. It
26:28
was described as human- shaped with
26:29
large bird-like wings and an appearance
26:31
of a warrior or guardian. No clear
26:34
details were provided about its face,
26:36
clothing, armor, feathers, hands, or
26:39
feet. It was not stated whether it
26:42
carried a weapon. The account also
26:44
leaves its movement uncertain. We do not
26:47
know whether a flu glided between
26:49
buildings, jumped across rooftops, or
26:51
remained positioned near its companions.
26:54
The three figures appeared to be moving
26:56
together. Now, their behavior seemed
26:58
coordinated to the observer.
27:01
The the blue humanoids reportedly
27:03
dropped leaping continued leaping from
27:06
the rooftop to rooftop while holding
27:08
their flaming swords. with the Hulk-like
27:10
figure remaining close beside them. No
27:14
attack against the witnesses, residents,
27:16
or animals, vehicles, or property was
27:18
ever reported. Their purpose was
27:20
unknown, and the description gave the
27:22
impression that they were traveling
27:24
through the area attending to something
27:26
the witness could not see.
27:29
No voices, wing beats, footsteps,
27:32
mechanical sounds, odors, unusual
27:34
sensations, or atmospheric effects were
27:37
included in the account. Now that
27:39
absence of detail does not tell us
27:41
whether these things were absent or
27:43
simply unrecorded.
27:46
Now a similar group was reportedly seen
27:48
again in the same general area in 2025.
27:52
However, the exact date, time, duration,
27:54
location, and identity of of the later
27:57
witness was not provided. It is also
27:59
unknown whether the same person observed
28:02
both incidents.
28:04
That possible recurrence is intriguing,
28:07
but the available information does not
28:09
establish that the same three figures
28:11
return. For now, the 2025 sighting
28:15
remains an unverified part of an already
28:18
unusual report.
28:21
Now, this Beaverton account is visually
28:24
striking, but it also leaves substantial
28:26
gaps. Without a precise location, a
28:29
forward description or additional
28:30
testimony, we can only go so far. Now,
28:34
our next account brings up much closer
28:36
to a single figure. It happened decades
28:39
earlier inside a building in Portland
28:41
area. A young visitor noticed a str row
28:44
of exceptionally tall men wearing
28:47
matching black suits. Then the visitor
28:50
walked over and stood beside one of
28:53
them.
28:55
Now, he states, "This happened back in
28:57
1970s when I was much younger.
29:00
I had taken a trip to Portland, Oregon
29:02
area with an older friend and his son
29:04
and daughter. At the time, I had no idea
29:07
what was about to experience.
29:10
We stopped behind a large building
29:12
somewhere in the area. I don't remember
29:14
the exact location. It was nighttime and
29:16
the four of us had got out of the car
29:18
and walked toward the rear entrance.
29:22
When we went inside, I saw rows and rows
29:24
of small metal chairs. The interior was
29:26
long and roughly a 100 people were
29:28
seated ahead of us. We sat down and
29:31
looked around. I don't know any of the
29:34
people in front of us, and I still
29:35
didn't understand what we walked into.
29:38
Then I noticed eight or nine men
29:40
standing together. They were all wearing
29:43
matching black dress suits, black
29:45
jackets, and black pants. I asked, "What
29:49
is this? Are those FBI guys or what? I
29:52
sat there for a little while trying to
29:54
figure out what was going on. It was
29:56
almost midnight. Eventually, I decided
29:59
to get up and take a closer look. I left
30:01
the three people I had come in with and
30:03
walked toward the men. I approached the
30:06
man to the far left of the end of the
30:08
group and stood beside him. The others
30:11
were lined up in to his right, and from
30:13
that close, I could see that they were
30:15
all unusually tall.
30:17
I stood there for a moment looking
30:19
straight ahead, but I began to get this
30:21
odd feeling. Now, out of the corner of
30:24
my eyes, something about the man beside
30:26
me didn't look right. Something about
30:28
the color and appearance of the skin on
30:31
his face just felt strange. At first, I
30:34
wondered whether he had been in a fire.
30:36
That was the closest explanation I could
30:38
think of.
30:40
I kept facing forward, but I couldn't
30:42
shake the feeling that something was
30:43
wrong.
30:45
Finally, I turned my head to look
30:47
directly at him.
30:49
The first thing I noticed was the side
30:51
of his neck. His skin was gray, not
30:53
green, but an unnaturally gray color,
30:59
and it appeared to be covered in small
31:01
scales.
31:03
I was looking at the lower part of his
31:04
neck because he towered over me. I
31:07
estimated he stood about 7t tall. Then I
31:10
raised my eyes toward his face. At
31:12
first, he continued looking straight
31:14
ahead, but as he began turning his head
31:16
toward me, I saw something I still had
31:18
trouble describing. His head moved in
31:21
small, separate motions, almost in
31:23
segments. With each movement, his face
31:26
seemed to become invisible and nearly
31:29
translucent.
31:31
It was only his head that I could see
31:33
doing this. The rest of him was covered
31:36
by his suit, but as I watched his face
31:38
turn, it seemed to fade with each little
31:41
movement. Then he tilted his head and
31:43
looked directly at me. His expression
31:46
gave me the distinct impression that he
31:47
wasn't happy about being examined.
31:50
I found myself staring into the face
31:52
that looked like what people call a
31:55
reptilian. Although this one did not
31:58
have green skin. Now from what I had
32:01
seen on television about men in black, I
32:03
never understood them to look like
32:05
reptilelike creatures.
32:08
Yet there was this figure in a black
32:10
suit standing right beside me with a
32:12
face unlike anything I'd ever expected.
32:16
He never spoke.
32:18
Once I saw his features clearly, I was
32:20
terrified. He was much bigger than I
32:22
was, and I suddenly felt far too close
32:24
to him. I remember wondering whether he
32:27
had claws. I didn't see any, but the
32:29
thought crossed my mind as I stood there
32:31
beside him. His eyes were large and
32:34
striking, a reddish gold color, a
32:37
beautiful gold, but with vertical slit
32:39
pupils like those of a cat or an
32:41
alligator.
32:42
The rest of his face was just as
32:44
unusual. His mouth, his nose, and the
32:47
whole front of his face had a reptilian
32:49
appearance. The nose looked very flat.
32:52
[clears throat]
32:53
It was bizarre. I couldn't stop noticing
32:56
those large gold eyes. I started walking
32:59
forward because I no longer wanted to
33:01
stand beside him. Eventually,
33:02
[clears throat] I made my way back to my
33:04
friends and his children. I asked them,
33:06
"Can you see those guys over there?
33:08
Those guys in the suits?" All three
33:10
said, "Yes." I asked again, wanting to
33:13
be sure they could see the men I was
33:15
talking about. They kept telling me that
33:18
they could. To me, that confirmed I
33:21
hadn't imagined the men standing there.
33:23
Although what I had seen when I stood
33:25
there or looked into that one figure's
33:28
face was another matter.
33:33
Now that final distinction matters. The
33:35
[snorts] companions reportedly confirmed
33:37
seeing the men in suits. The account did
33:39
not say that they also saw the scales
33:42
unusual eyes or apparent changes in the
33:43
figure's face. We are left with one
33:46
person's description of what happened at
33:48
close range.
33:50
Now, the next report also comes from
33:52
Portland, but the setting is a family
33:54
home. The questions began to follow the
33:58
following morning when the mother asked
33:59
whether anyone let paramedics into the
34:02
house during the night.
34:06
Hi, Lon. This appeared This happened on
34:10
April 15, 2013.
34:13
We were living in Portland, Oregon. At
34:15
the time, I had bothered my family ever.
34:18
It has bothered my family ever since.
34:21
Now, my mother was very sick that night
34:23
with a serious respiratory illness. She
34:25
later told us that she woke up in what
34:27
she felt like a drug induced stuper. She
34:31
said her vision was blurry, but she
34:34
could make out figures around her bed.
34:37
They looked like people wearing full
34:39
surgical attire, like doctors in
34:40
operating room. One of them called her
34:43
by name. The voice was calm and
34:45
reassuring.
34:47
He told her that something would
34:50
everything would be fine. Now she
34:52
remembers feeling completely helpless.
34:54
She could not move or speak. She then
34:57
felt a needle go into her arm. She
34:59
instinctively recalls blood being drawn.
35:02
But after that she passed out.
35:05
The next morning she woke up shaken.
35:08
There was a small puncture mark on her
35:09
arm where she had remembered the needle.
35:12
She became very upset.
35:14
My stepfather, who had been in bed
35:16
beside her, discovered that he had had a
35:18
similar needle mark on his arm. Now,
35:21
this is important. My stepfather had an
35:24
extreme phobia needles. When he goes to
35:27
the doctor, he must be sedated before
35:29
they can draw blood. If he even sees a
35:32
needle, he becomes nauseated and can
35:33
pass out. He cannot remain in a room
35:36
when my mother had blood taken. Yet
35:39
[clears throat] that morning he had a
35:41
puncture mark and no memory of anything
35:43
happening. He felt unusually drowsy and
35:45
confused.
35:47
They both came to me and asked if I had
35:49
let paramedics into the house during the
35:51
night. I told them no. I had not heard
35:55
anyone come in. That night I had been
35:58
awake surfing the internet. I worked the
36:00
graveyard shift at times. So I only
36:02
gotten her up around 8 in the evening.
36:06
Now, after about two hours, I was
36:07
suddenly overwhelmed by exhaustion. It
36:10
came on fast and unnaturally strong.
36:13
It crawled. I crawled back into bed and
36:15
fell asleep within minutes, and that was
36:17
not normal for me. I woke up the next
36:20
day feeling sore all over. I had no
36:23
needle marks, no memory of anything
36:24
unusual. My parents told me that I that
36:28
they had fallen asleep suddenly, like
36:30
around the same time based on what was
36:32
playing on television. Now, the next
36:34
day, our cats were acting very strange.
36:37
My largest cat is fearless. Vacuum
36:39
cleaners, barking dogs, loud noises,
36:41
nothing bothers him. Yet, I found him
36:43
hiding under stacked boxes.
36:46
When I tried to reach in, he hissed at
36:48
me. The other cats were also terrified,
36:51
hiding throughout the house. Now, my
36:53
stepfather later mentioned that the
36:55
front door was unlocked that morning. He
36:58
always locked it. We lived in a rough
37:00
neighborhood and never forgot.
37:03
We have searched for explanations for
37:05
years. I have researched medical
37:07
conditions, sleep disorders, and
37:09
intrusions. Nothing fits all the
37:11
details.
37:12
I was always interested in UFOs, but I
37:14
never seriously considered alien
37:16
abduction. The more I read, the more
37:18
confused I became.
37:21
I have been hesitant to report this to
37:23
any official agency. I found your name
37:25
online and decide to reach out. What
37:28
happened to us?
37:31
That is where the family's report ends
37:34
with a question.
37:36
The mother recalls figures in a
37:38
procedure. Other family members describe
37:41
unusual sleepiness, marks on their arms,
37:43
frightened pets, and an unlocked door.
37:45
The account does not establish a cause
37:47
or who, if anyone, entered the house.
37:52
Our final report takes the uncertainty a
37:54
step further. It comes through a person
37:57
recounting a neighbor's experience while
37:59
working at Crater Lake National Park in
38:01
the late 1980s.
38:03
The worker returned one evening for a
38:06
forgotten bag. He described singing in
38:08
the trees, footsteps behind him in a
38:10
pale figure near his truck. But what
38:13
finally drove him away from the job
38:15
happened when he returned the next day.
38:19
Hi, Lime. I have been reading your blog
38:21
for months, ever since I became
38:23
interested in cryptids in the
38:24
supernatural. I currently live near
38:26
Portland, Oregon. I recently talked with
38:29
the neighbor about a strange encounter
38:31
he had had working at Crater Lake
38:33
National Park in the late 1980s.
38:36
Now, at the time, he was clearly he was
38:38
clearing brush and repairing a trail.
38:42
One evening, soon after he had clocked
38:43
out, he realized he had forgotten his
38:45
work bag. He drove back to the work site
38:48
and started walking along the trail that
38:49
led to the area where he had been
38:51
working.
38:52
That was when he first felt it. He said
38:55
he suddenly had a strong impression that
38:57
something was watching him from the
38:58
forest. He had no idea what it was, but
39:02
he knew something was there. He kept
39:04
walking, trying to ignore the feeling,
39:07
but then he heard a strange singing
39:09
sound coming from somewhere in the
39:11
trees.
39:13
He described it as sounding like a woman
39:15
or child. It was haunting and strange.
39:18
The sound seemed to be coming from the
39:19
same direction as the work area, which
39:21
made him apprehensive about continuing.
39:24
The more he listened, the more uneasy he
39:26
became. Eventually, he decided that the
39:29
bag could wait until the next day. He
39:32
turned around and started walking back
39:34
toward his truck. And as he walked, he
39:36
heard footsteps somewhere behind him in
39:38
a distance. He turned around, but he saw
39:41
no one. He quickened his pace. The
39:43
footsteps continued and they seemed to
39:45
be keeping pace with him. When he
39:48
stopped, the footsteps stopped soon
39:50
afterward. Then he felt an overwhelming
39:52
sense of danger. And at that point, he
39:54
ran. Just before he reached the truck,
39:58
he turned around and saw two bluish
40:00
colored eyes staring at him through the
40:02
darkness. He said there was something
40:04
evil in those eyes. And as he watched,
40:06
the rest of the figure slowly became
40:08
visible. It was humanoid in shape and
40:10
gray color. and [clears throat] pale
40:12
gray in color. It stayed low to the
40:14
ground and appeared to creep toward him.
40:17
Its head looked alienike.
40:19
He said it was he was transfixed by the
40:22
sight and felt paralyzed. The thing
40:24
stopped and stared at him without
40:26
blinking. Then it quickly turned and
40:28
disappeared into the undergrowth.
40:31
He stood there shocked for a minute or
40:32
two before he was able to move again.
40:35
Instead of leaving immediately, he
40:36
became curious about what he had just
40:38
seen. He stepped forward and searched
40:41
the area for about 30 minutes, but found
40:42
no sign of the being and eventually gave
40:45
up and walked back toward the truck.
40:48
Before leaving, he returned to the area
40:50
where he had first heard the strange
40:51
singing. There he found tracks. They
40:54
looked somewhat like dog tracks, but
40:56
they were very large.
40:59
Each print appeared to have only four
41:01
toes.
41:02
He studied the tracks for several
41:04
minutes, trying to understand what they
41:06
could have been.
41:08
Then something strange happened. He said
41:11
his mind went blank. He suddenly could
41:14
not remember why he was there or what
41:16
had happened. Confused and unsettled, he
41:19
decided to leave the area and go home.
41:22
The next day at work, his boss radioed
41:24
him and asked if he had been had seen
41:27
anything strange in that area.
41:30
Another worker had apparently reported
41:31
seeing something unusual.
41:35
My neighbor told him yes and described
41:37
the grayskinned humanoid with bluish
41:39
eyes.
41:42
His boss was dismissive and tried to
41:44
explain it away. But the two of them
41:46
went back to the area to look for the
41:47
tracks
41:49
and when they arrived they looked around
41:51
for a few minutes. Then my neighbor said
41:54
he his mind went blank again just like
41:56
before. He blacked out and when he
41:59
became aware again he was looking down
42:01
at the tracks. His boss was gone. He
42:04
checked his watch and realized that that
42:06
more than two hours had passed. It was
42:10
now midafter afternoon and he had no
42:11
memory of what had occurred during the
42:13
missing time. That terrified him. He
42:16
walked back to the parking area hoping
42:18
his truck was still there. It was. He
42:21
got in and immediately returned to the
42:22
main station. When he arrived, his boss
42:25
was sitting in his office as though
42:27
nothing unusual had happened. My
42:30
neighbor asked him what had happened,
42:31
but his boss simply looked up and
42:34
casually asked how his day was
42:35
progressing.
42:37
It was if the earlier trip to the site
42:39
had never happened.
42:41
That was my neighbor's last day working
42:43
at Crater Lake. He realized he
42:46
encountered something otherworldly and
42:47
wanted nothing more to do with it. And
42:50
all the years since, he has never
42:52
experienced anything else out of the
42:53
ordinary. But he stays away from Crater
42:56
Lake and says he'll never plans to
42:58
return to the park.
43:02
Now, a forgotten workbag brought that
43:04
man back to the trail. According to the
43:07
account, what happened Edward ended his
43:09
willingness to work there or ever
43:11
return.
43:13
We don't have a supervisor's version of
43:15
the events, the other workers reports or
43:17
the explanation that those for those
43:20
missing hours. We have the story he
43:22
shared with his neighbor and the lasting
43:24
effect he said it had on his life. That
43:27
lasting effect runs through the
43:29
tonight's presentation. The Pendleton
43:31
witness remembered a figure in a vacant
43:34
lot more than 20 years later. A driver
43:37
outside Amity needed weeks before
43:40
returning to the same road. The father
43:42
and son described a fear that remained
43:44
vivid long after their escape and the
43:46
Porton family continued searching for an
43:48
explanation of what they believe
43:49
happened inside their home.
43:52
There are similarities between some of
43:53
these accounts. Unusual humanoid forms,
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a feeling of being watched, sudden fear,
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and suddenly finding words for what was
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seen.
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But similarities alone do not establish
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a common explanation.
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Each report has its own circumstances,
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its own unanswered questions, and its
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own limits. For me, the most compelling
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moments are around the small ones.
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The witness turns to call a friend
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outside. A driver slows down out of
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concern for something had just terrified
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him.
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A young visitor asked whether anyone
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else can see the men in the front of the
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room. A worker looks at his watch and
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discovers that the afternoon has moved
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on without him.
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Those are the moments when an ordinary
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experience becomes something a person
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may spend the rest of their life trying
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to understand.
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This has been unexplained Oregon.
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45:08
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So, let's start the Q&A. And please put
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your questions in all caps.
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Damn it. The city of Portland has many
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underground tunnels that has many
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strange happenings there. Yeah, I know.
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You know, and I got some pretty strange
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strange uh sightings
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in in Portland. You know, it's funny. My
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my girlfriend and I just started
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watching Grim again. Uh you remember the
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TV show that was on maybe about
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a decade ago? Actually, it's actually
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it's coming back in a movie from what I
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understand. But anyway,
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uh it happened in the Portland area and
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I always loved that show and looking
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back at it after 10 years, it it showed
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a lot of strange things. Though I'm not
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saying everything that happens in
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Portland
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happened in the show happens in
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Portland, but I I will tell you this. I
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have gotten some very unusual reports in
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the Portland area over the years and it
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almost involves every aspect of the
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paranormal.
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[snorts]
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Any other questions, folks?
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No.
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Okay. Well, I want to thank everyone
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again for joining me this evening. I'm
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grateful for your continued interest and
47:14
support of the channel. So, until next
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time, please remain and observe it.
47:19
Trust your instincts and remember that
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the world around us may be far stranger
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than what we've been led to believe.
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Have a nice evening. Have a great
47:27
weekend. See you next Friday. Good
47:29
night.
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Heat.
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