Bigfoot · North Fork Nehalem River, Oregon · 1996
OR-1996ID case-7acdb33a1eFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 1996to the month
- Where
- North Fork Nehalem River, Oregonto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report finding around 100 tracks and catching a glimpse of a BF near the Nehalem River over a six-week period.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- North Fork Nehalem River, Clatsop County, Oregon, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1996
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-7acdb33a1e
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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.
- Nehalem River - Joe R. and wife found around 100 tracks and more over a 6 week period
oregonbigfoot · 2002-07-09
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.