Oregon Caves Bigfoot Sighting

It isn't often that someone as credible as Dr. Matthew Johnson has a Bigfoot sighting -- but he's adamant about it -- he clearly saw a Bigfoot and has been a Southern Oregon Bigfoot researcher ever since.

On July 1, 2000 he decided to take a hike on the Big Tree Loop Trail just uphill from the Oregon Caves Chalet and Visitor Center. His wife and three children were with him. A terrible skunk-like scent filled the air. As they walked they heard a strange noise, but every time they stopped, the noise stopped. Something was stalking them!

He decided to walk off the trail on his own while his wife waited below; the children played with an insect on the trail. It was then that he saw the Bigfoot as it walked from behind a large tree to another tree. The Bigfoot was watching his wife and children!

This terrified Dr. Johnson -- he ran down to where his wife and children were and told them to start hiking back to the safety of the Chalet. He was not at that time aware that Sasquatch do not usually attack people.

My first visit to Oregon Caves was on June 1, 2000. I was there with my two youngest children to celebrate my son's tenth birthday.

It was exactly a month later on July 1, 2000 that Dr. Matthew Johnson went to Oregon Caves with his family and hiked the Big Tree Loop Trail where he had his Bigfoot sighting which is considered one of the most credible sightings ever due to his professional status as a psychologist.

On this page you'll see photos from my two other trips to Oregon Caves National Monument. I was there in 2005 with three of my children, and in 2007 my Bigfoot research partner and I hiked the Big Tree Loop Trail.

I first learned about Dr. Matthew Johnson's Bigfoot sighting from a website he posted years ago, which since then disappeared. I didn't meet him until he came to speak at the Happy Camp Bigfoot Jamboree in 2006.

The following spring my Bigfoot research partner and I took a trip to Oregon Caves and hiked the Big Tree Loop Trail. We weren't sure which trail the sighting was on but a park ranger pointed us toward the Big Tree Loop, and we set out to the left, which is the opposite of what Dr. Matthew Johnson and his family did on July 1, 2000. They went right; we went left. So I had a long hike ahead of me before we got to the location of his sighting -- and at the time I didn't know exactly where that had taken place. As I said earlier, I sensed out the most likely Bigfoot habitat locations and decided it lived beyond the crest of the hill but had come closer that day just in time to meet up with Dr. Matthew Johnson.

The Big Tree Loop Trail is just over 3 miles in length and involves a lot of uphill hiking. The big payoffs are the view from the far end of the trail -- where hundreds of miles of Oregon mountains and forests are at your feet... and the opportunity to have your photo taken with the big tree, of course.

In 1874 Elijah Davidson of nearby Williams, Oregon was on a hunting expedition when he discovered an opening in the side of what was then called Sand Mountain.