Woman Recalls 1969 Bigfoot Encounter With Juvenile Sasquatch in Oregon

What happens when a four-year-old girl sneaks out of her house one last time before her family moves—and comes face to face with four juvenile Sasquatch? That's exactly the kind of story that keeps the research community buzzing, and it's the focus of a recent episode from the My Bigfoot Sighting YouTube channel. Annette, one of the guests on the show, shares a chilling childhood encounter that took place in Oregon back in the fall of 1969. At just four years old, she wandered down to a wooden fort in her neighborhood—a structure the local kids had been playing at all summer. With her older siblings in school and her parents packing up the house for a move, she slipped out the back door to visit the fort one last time. What she found there would stay with her for the rest of her life. Standing on the upper level of the fort were four hair-covered beings, small like children. The tallest, a male, stood roughly four and a half to five feet tall with broad, muscular shoulders and a round face. Beside him was a shorter female, around three and a half feet, and next to her an even smaller female—clearly the youngest of the group at about three feet. Another male, slightly shorter than the first, stood nearby. Annette describes their skin as light-colored, similar to a well-worn baseball mitt, and their hair as a reddish-golden color that varied in shade. Their eyes were striking—large on their heads, with thin, pale blue irises surrounding oversized pupils. The whites of their eyes were clearly visible, and they stood huddled together with their mouths in a surprised "O" shape, clearly startled by her presence. Then things escalated. The tallest male jumped down right in front of her, bent over, and placed his hands on her shoulders—fingers straight, not gripping. He brought his face close to hers and let out a shrilling scream that Annette says ricocheted through her entire body. He then lifted his hands away, causing her to stagger backward and fall, before turning, punching the dirt at her as if to say "stay back," and pulling himself back up onto the fort with a single arm like an ape would. But the encounter wasn't over. From across the railroad tracks, through the blackberry thickets, came an adult male on all fours, rushing out with such force that rocks kicked up from his hands as they crossed the tracks. He growled at Annette, then looked up at the juveniles—who immediately scrambled down and crawled back into the blackberries using one arm extended for navigation. The adult male let out a frustrated huff at Annette before disappearing back into the brush. The aftermath was just as strange. Annette sat frozen for a while before walking home, and when she got there, she didn't recognize her own parents. It took time for her memory to return—she didn't even recognize her brother and sister at first. A deeply unsettling experience for anyone, let alone a four-year-old. Annette also mentions a second encounter later in life, in her 30s, while camping with her ex-husband north of Oakridge, Oregon—but the story gets cut off there. This is one of those witness accounts that really sticks with you. The level of detail Annette provides—from the varying shades of the hair to the specific eye color to the way the juveniles moved on all fours—is the kind of testimony researchers find incredibly valuable. Childhood encounters like this are particularly fascinating because the memories are often preserved with such vivid clarity, untouched by outside influences or pop culture expectations. For anyone interested in Sasquatch encounters from witnesses who experienced them as children, this episode is absolutely worth checking out. The full story, including more details about the second encounter, can be found on the My Bigfoot Sighting YouTube channel.