Couple has daytime sighting in the Big Creek Wilderness Area witnessed in Lane County, Oregon

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On the afternoon of August 17, 1984, about 3 or 4 pm, my (now ex)wife and I were leisurely riding our Vespa motor scooter in the woods on Fairview Mtn. Road, near Yachats on the Central Oregon Coast. We had been coasting downhill for a minute or two with the engine shut off, so it was very quiet. We pulled over off the road to look at the nice view of the horizon. The weather was clear and warm. Our visibility was excellent. At that point we noticed movement about 100 yards slightly downhill on the far side of the clearcut. A large brown creature got up off the ground, looked at us, and started walking down the hill along the treeline, looking at us a few more times. It walked about 20 seconds and maybe 150 feet directly in our view before it stepped up on a 4 foot tall bank, parted the brush and entered the forest. Along the way, it walked behind and close to a stump, and about 1/3 of its body was visible above the stump from our point of view. The creature walked upright, had a...