College students get approached by sasquatch and shoot at it witnessed in Marion County, Oregon

Open Map

I was a Deputy Sheriff for Marion County from 1970 to 1982. In about 1977, I was dispatched to a reported shooting incident on the Little North Fork Rd., East of Salem and northwest of Gates. The incident involved four young men who were college geology students, camping near the old mining town of Jawbone Flats doing some college work. They were at their camp around 10:00 at night when they heard a howling noise coming from the canyon below their camp site. They later heard the sound of a large animal coming up out of the canyon towards the road near their campsite. They had dogs with them that became scared and hid in the tent. One of the men got a rifle out of the tent and they all went onto the road to try and see what the animal was. When the animal got onto the road, they could not see it clearly as the area was only lit by the light of the moon and the camp fire but they could see the basic outline of the animal. They described it as being huge, maybe eight feet tall and standin...