A logger and his friend were clearing trees for a private landowner in Northwest Oregon. They decided to camp in the woods for the night. That was a decision that they both regretted!
I received the following account:
"I'm a logger living in Northwest Oregon. I've lived here my entire life; these woods are my home. My father and my grandfather were loggers and I took over the family business after they retired.
A private landowner liked how we conducted business and we provided him light arborist work as well. Recently, he had some old trees that he wanted us to take down. It was an easy job. My buddy and I set to work and ended up cutting well into the night, so we decided to just make camp for the night and pick up first thing in the morning. That way it would be out of our hair and we could just keep it moving. I pitched a tent for us while my friend made the fire. We spent a few hours telling jokes and drinking until we decided to get some shut-eye.
The tent ended up being a bit warm so I decided to sleep out under the stars. It was a beautiful summer night and the stars were always more visible out here in the woods. So eventually the sound of the wind and the swaying of the trees lulled me to sleep.
I woke up a few hours later. It was pitch dark. The stars weren't out anymore and the wind was no longer blowing in the trees. Everything was very still. It felt like it happened in an instant, like I blinked and this stillness set in all at once. In the distance, I heard a strange noise, a loud blood-curdling roar echoing through the forest. All my hair stood up on end as I reached for my flashlight. When I clicked it on it was super bright. I beamed directly into the deep woods and the roar happened again and that's when the breeze picked up. I crawled over to the tent to kick it so my friend would wake up.
I heard him rustling inside as he slowly unzipped the tent and he's white as a sheet. I know just from his face that he had also heard the roar. We both know what bears sound like and we know how to handle them. We were scared but also curious. Only a very large creature could make a noise like this. I reckoned it was much bigger than a bear.
Then, in the next moment, a tree fell about a hundred or so yards from camp. It was a big old tree. It slammed into another tree and it fell that one too. My friends looked at me dead in the eyes and slowly he raised his flashlight in the direction of the fallen tree. He turned it on. There it was! This creature was huge, much bigger than a bear. It was on all fours like a bear and it had that similar giant head but this creature had very sparse dark fur and lots of light-colored bare skin! I could see its muscles shifting and, whatever it was, it fell two trees like they were nothing!
The creature roared once again and turned in our direction. It stared into the glare of our flashlight and, to our shock, started running at us! We glanced at each other and quickly climbed a nearby tree. Luckily we got up there before the creature noticed where we went! We heard it tearing through the tent and the campsite for what seemed like hours. There we stayed until the sun rose and brightened the dark woods.
We had no idea where the creature had gone. When we looked down our tent and our campsite it was torn to shreds. It looked like a whole pack of bears descended on it rather than just one large one!
We slowly moved down the tree, watching around the area as we descended. We gathered whatever stuff we could salvage, then walked as quickly and quietly back to our truck as we could. I drove directly home. I don't know what it was but it could have killed us and anyone else that got in its way!
Looking back at the encounter, and after talking to my friend, we believe that it may have been what some people refer to as a Dogman. The human-like way it appeared was not only shocking but totally confusing. I just don't have any other explanation as to what this creature was!" L
NOTE: After contacting the witness he did tell me that the encounter occurred in Clatsop County in June 2023. I asked if he could provide more details on the description of the beast. He was reluctant to do so. I honestly believe that he is still in shock over the encounter, and probably did not pick up on more specific characteristics since it occurred so quickly. Because of his business and the possible ridicule that he would receive if he were associated with the incident, he didn't offer further information. Lon
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