Other / Unknown · Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Oregon · 1985
OR-1985ID case-43b7167ff3Added to map Nov 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- 1985to the year
- Where
- Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Oregonto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A witness reports that hikers in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness were disturbed by screams from a creature they called a banshee, causing one man to panic and wet his pants.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Rhododendron, Clackamas County, Oregon, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1985
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-43b7167ff3
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness Hikers leave camp in the middle of the night to avoid a
oregonbigfoot · 2002-07-09
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.