Bigfoot · Umatilla National Forest, Oregon · 1982
OR-1982ID case-57f582b767Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 10, 1982to the day
- Where
- Umatilla National Forest, Oregonto approximate level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Paul Freeman, a U.S. Forest Service employee, claims he encountered a hairy biped in the Blue Mountains and observed it for several seconds before it fled.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 10, 1982
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-57f582b767
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1982 (p. n6)
ISC Newsletter · 1982
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 3, Autumn 1982 (p. n0)
ISC Newsletter · 1982 - The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1984 (p. n3)
ISC Newsletter · 1984
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Further reading
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, John Green (1978)
Newspaper-publisher's file of Pacific Northwest reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch, Don Hunter with Rene Dahinden (1975)
Casebook from a long-time field investigator.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Bigfoot, Marian T. Place (1974)
1970s account of reports and searches.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, Loren Coleman (2003)
Coleman's history and case survey.
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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.