Marcus Schneck/ PennLive

Bigfoot crossing signs stand along a roadway at a park dedicated to Sasquatch in Clearfield.

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Sasquatch is everywhere in Oregon. How do we know? Well, there's a whole database of Bigfoot sightings, managed by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, and Oregon is full of sightings.

So, we crunched the numbers. Now, we have the definitive ranking of counties in Oregon based on Sasquatch sightings. Where does your county land? Keep reading. And if you want to know how often Bigfoot shows up in the U.S. and Canada, scroll to the bottom and check out the map.

-- Mark Graves and Lizzy Acker

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Counties with zero sightings

Sherman

Malheur

Wheeler

Gilliam

If the idea of running into a hairy man ape in the woods doesn't appeal to you, go to one of these counties.

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Counties with one sighting

Crook

Lake

Lincoln

Marrow

Yamhill

These are also relatively safe, for the Sasquatch-averse.

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The Oregonian archives

Idona Dutton of The Dalles visited the Big Foot Center in 1972 to report finding a footprint in a rock. This print may have been made when the rock was still cooling a long time ago.

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Counties with two sightings

Harney

Jefferson

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Counties with three sightings

Columbia

Wallowa

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Marv Bondarowicz/The Oregonian

Naturalist and author Robert Michael Pyle attempts to make a plaster of Paris mold of a large track in the woods of southwestern Washington. As a scientist, he is keeping an open mind when investigating whether Bigfoot exists.

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Counties with four sightings

Baker

Benton

Union

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Counties with five sightings

Grant

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Dale Swanson

Jean & Boyd Brougher of Salem with Bigfoot Cookbook & baking pan with footprint Oregonian

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Counties with six sightings

Jackson

Washington

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Counties with seven sightings

Coos

Linn

Multnomah

Wasco

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Counties with eight sightings

Clatsop

Klamath

Polk

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Counties with nine sightings

Curry

Tillamook

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Counties with 10 sightings

Marion

From here on out, you hit what might be considered heavy Sasquatch territory...

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Angela Pancrazio/The Oregonian archives

In 1924, six terrified miners rushed off Mount St. Helens to report that a band of hairy, ape-like giants had attacked them in the middle of the night. The encounter is thought to be the first modern report of Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest. The names of Ape Canyon and Ape Cave allude to the event.

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Counties with 12

Hood River

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Counties with 15 sightings

Deschutes

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Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian

Despite the news about Ray Wallace faking the Bigfoot legend, Ray Crowe still believes. Crowe, who lives in Hillsboro, is head of the International Bigfoot Society. He holds a cast of the fake Big Foot foot cast (on the right) comparing it to a cast of a true foot print( the whiter one).

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Counties with 16 sightings

Lane

Umatilla

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Counties with 17 sightings

Douglas

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The Oregonian archives

A sketch by Richard Brown of what he said he saw in headlights of car as he drove to the Pinewood Trailer Court near The Dalles in June 1971.

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Counties with 21 sightings

Josephine

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And the county with the most recorded Bigfoot sightings is...

Clackamas County, with 27 reported sightings. The last report? In June of 2014 near Estacada.

"There among the old trees a shadowy figure, an intelligence controlling a hand, with an opposable thumb," the reporter writes, "wielding possibly a large stick, sending knocking sounds echoing through the dark cathedral forest."

You can read the whole thing here.

Watch out residents of Clackamas County, it's possible Sasquatch is among you.

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Bigfoot sightings in U.S. and Canada

There were 3,800 Bigfoot sightings from 1920 to 2017. Here's a map to show you where they happened.

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