Sightings are reported so frequently that the town of Boring opened a centre dedicated to the legendary biped
In the foothills of Mount Hood, the forest is alive with 10ft-tall, ape-like marauders. Douglas firs shake as they bound through the undergrowth. Deep-chested bellows deaden the birdsong trill. A sense of eyes, blood-red and menacing, intensifies the woodland air, like we are entering a long-forgotten kingdom.– doesn’t exist, at least in my mind.
On our forest ramble, we find neither mystery nor myth, but I discover something else later that day. One of the many unusual things about Oregon is that, even in its quietest towns, everyone has some sort of Sasquatch story to tell. The attraction itself is a sort of portal to adventure, with newspaper cuttings, movie reels and local maps pinned with sightings. Bigfoot informs everything here, and there are walkthrough galleries focused on links to indigenous Native American culture, the history of hoaxes and plaster-cast evidence .
One such trek through moss-dripped forest follows the Salmon River, a trail used by conservation body Oregon Wild for its summer guided hiking excursions.
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