Two Oregon men are dead after a Christmas week trip into a rural Washington county in search of Sasquatch turned tragic. Days before Christmas, a 59-year-old man and a 37-year-old man ventured out from their hometown of Portland, Oregon into rural Skamania County in southern Washington.
That county, according to Bigfoot experts, is one of the world’s most active regions of ‘squatch sightings. The men intended to look for the cryptid, and then be back home on Christmas Eve.
But when they didn’t return as scheduled, family members grew concerned. According to Fox News, at 1:00 a.m. local time on Christmas morning, the men’s family members called the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office and reported that the men had not returned home as planned.
Per a press release later shared by the law enforcement agency, investigators used a license plate reader known as a “flock camera” to track the duo’s abandoned vehicle to a rural road outside the tiny town of Willard, Washington. Related: Kentucky Dad Punched His Baby To Death Because He Got Mad At A Video Game For the next three days, beginning on Christmas, more than 60 volunteers took part in a massive search and rescue operation in the rural county.
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