Young family on afternoon outing find footprints east of Pendleton, Oregon witnessed in Union County, Oregon

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My husband and I lived in Walla Walla, WA during the '95-'96 school year, and often went exploring in the nearby Blue Mountains. Nearly every little diner and gas station seemed to have "bigfoot" plaster casts on the wall that "were found 1 mile from here." I thought it was all a big joke intended to boost tourism. I did NOT believe in Bigfoot. One Saturday we were looking for an out-of-the-way place to explore where we wouldn't run into anybody. We were driving down a remote track, maybe it was an old logging road, and finally had to stop when it crossed a large stream that was too deep for our little Geo Metro. Since we were miles from the last sign of civilization, and since we couldn't go any farther, we decided to do some exploring right there. I remember getting out of the car and immediately feeling an intensely eerie sensation of being watched. It was the kind of "being watched" that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I've never experienced that feeling either...