Couple meets sasquatch and finds nest in cave witnessed in Clackamas County, Oregon

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C. and J. A., a young married couple, were exploring the site of abandoned mines about 0.75 miles below the dam of Harriet Lake, located in the Clackamas River drainage. The area has about 30 mine openings on steep hillsides that surround Shell Rock Creek. The mine in question had a stake on it some time recently, but has gotten abandoned since. J., the wife, entered this defunct, horizontal mine through a framed access hole about 5' high and 6' wide. She noted a fairly strong 'dead smell, combined with sewer' inside the mine entrance. As she played her high powered flashlight about from a few feet into the cave, it shone on a shaggy, silver-grey-haired sasquatch sitting against the wall with knees pulled up, arms about knees, and head hidden by holding down its face into its arms (about 12 away). J. fled hastily, telling her husband what she had seen, although he didn't see it and left the area promptly. They observed no footprints since the ground is rocky. Two days later they...