Laura Krantz

The encounter puzzled him.

So when he got back to civilization, he quietly mentioned it to his boss at the Forest Service.

And apparently, Mayanzinski wasn't the only person to have had a sighting in that area around the same time.

Mayan Zinsky's story raises the hair on the back of my neck.

These aren't your typical fisherman's tall tales of landing a marlin when you actually just caught a minnow.

They're not masterfully told, and many have been shared so many times that they sound kind of flat.

They don't have a lot of zing.

It's like they're trying to avoid sensationalizing it.

Honestly, though, that kind of makes them seem more real.

These eyewitnesses are less concerned about wowing their audience than they are about remembering every detail accurately.

I did go on a couple of expeditions.

I went on one with Shane Corson.

And we went up to we were out in the Mount Hood National Forest where he had had a sighting himself.

And so we kind of went back to that area and spent a couple nights just to see if we were going to see anything.

I was there with him.

And with Gunnar Monson, who owns the Sasquatch Coffee Company in Portland.

And Cindy Cadell, who is a... She works for BLM, I think, as an anthropologist and was involved in like...

Her main job, last I heard, was she was preserving Indian pottery and things like that from getting destroyed by wildfires.

So like trying to help do fire prevention around historic sites, anthropological sites.

But I was with them and with Cindy's daughter.