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Two men from Oregon who went missing after going on a search for
Sasquatch have been found dead, Washington state officials announced
Saturday.

The men, both from Portland, were reported missing by a family member
on Christmas Day and were set to return from searching for the
legendary creature in eastern Skamania County on Christmas Eve,
according to the county sheriff's office.

A search was launched and a vehicle associated with the two men was
found off a road near Willard, Wash.

After a three-day search involving more than 60 people, the bodies of
both men, 37 and 59 years old, were found in Gifford Pinchot National
Forest, located in the southwestern part of Washington state, in a
heavily wooded area, according to the Skamania County Sheriff's
Office.

Their cause of death appears to be because of "exposure, based on
weather conditions and ill-preparedness," the sheriff's office said.

The area had faced rounds of snow and rain with temperatures in the
30s across the Cascades in the days leading up to the men being
reported missing. The search for the men also took place amid
"difficult terrain and harsh weather conditions" as crews faced
conditions such as "freezing temperatures, snow, high water levels,"
law enforcement said.

Sasquatch, commonly known as "Bigfoot," is a large, hairy figure that
resembles a human and is thought to live in northwestern parts of the
U.S. and Canada. The existence of Bigfoot has been debated for decades
and many have reported sightings of the creature. More than 700
reports of Bigfoot sightings in Washington state have been submitted
to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the group says.

In Skamania County, harming Bigfoot is punishable by a $1,000 fine and
can include jail time, according to the county's chamber of commerce �
a law meant to protect the mysterious creature and to prevent hunters
with large beards from accidentally getting shot.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5242491/portland-men-dead-sasquatch-bigfoot


Judith

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On Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:14:53 -0400, Judith Latham wrote:

Two men from Oregon who went missing after going on a search for
Sasquatch have been found dead, Washington state officials announced Saturday.

The men, both from Portland, were reported missing by a family member on Christmas Day and were set to return from searching for the legendary creature in eastern Skamania County on Christmas Eve,
according to the county sheriff's office.

A search was launched and a vehicle associated with the two men was
found off a road near Willard, Wash.

After a three-day search involving more than 60 people, the bodies of
both men, 37 and 59 years old, were found in Gifford Pinchot National
Forest, located in the southwestern part of Washington state, in a
heavily wooded area, according to the Skamania County Sheriff's Office.

Their cause of death appears to be because of "exposure, based on
weather conditions and ill-preparedness," the sheriff's office said.

The area had faced rounds of snow and rain with temperatures in the 30s across the Cascades in the days leading up to the men being reported
missing. The search for the men also took place amid "difficult terrain
and harsh weather conditions" as crews faced conditions such as
"freezing temperatures, snow, high water levels,"
law enforcement said.

Sasquatch, commonly known as "Bigfoot," is a large, hairy figure that resembles a human and is thought to live in northwestern parts of the
U.S. and Canada. The existence of Bigfoot has been debated for decades
and many have reported sightings of the creature. More than 700 reports
of Bigfoot sightings in Washington state have been submitted to the
Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the group says.

In Skamania County, harming Bigfoot is punishable by a $1,000 fine and
can include jail time, according to the county's chamber of commerce —

a

law meant to protect the mysterious creature and to prevent hunters with large beards from accidentally getting shot.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5242491/portland-men-dead-

sasquatch-bigfoot

Judith

From perusing Google News it looks like the British tabloids skipped
running this story, though the BBC took it.

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On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 14:01:18 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer wrote:

On Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:14:53 -0400, Judith Latham wrote:

Two men from Oregon who went missing after going on a search for
Sasquatch have been found dead, Washington state officials announced
Saturday.

...

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5242491/portland-men-dead-

sasquatch-bigfoot

Judith

From perusing Google News it looks like the British tabloids skipped
running this story, though the BBC took it.

Update: Two British papers, the Daily Mail and Daily Star,
carried the story.

Oddly enough, there has been no followup since Dec 30 in which the
authorities released any identifying information about the victims.
But a side story developed. Equipment was stolen from the
base station of the volunteer rescue group on the day of the
search. In checking out that story, I found stories about rescue
equipment being stolen from fire and rescue stations in
--a British team, Cleveland Mountain Rescue (Feb 18)
--a British Columbia Parks team during Nov 29 search (Dec 23)
--a Nova Scotia RCMP location (Mar 25)
--an Edmonton area fire station (Feb 23)
--and 25 other apparently distinct similar incidents going back
as far as 2015 in the US, UK, NZ and Canada.

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