NE WIND 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS TO 25 KT.
EASING TO 10 TO 15 KT EARLY EVENING.
WIND WAVES 4 FT.
NW SWELL 5 FT AT 8 SECONDS.
DROPPING TO W SWELL 4 FT AT 10 SECONDS.
The Bandage Man
There is a phantom figure wrapped in bandages that haunts a stretch of Highway 101 near Cannon Beach. The Bandage Man, smells of rotting flesh and jumps onto vehicles passing on a road outside of town. He is purported to have broken windows and left behind bits of bloody foul-smelling bandages. He is sometimes said to eat dogs and to have murdered several people. Legend has it that he is the ghost of a dead logger cut to pieces in a sawmill accident or an escaped criminal who had been shot many times.
Some abridged accounts:
"An old bypassed section of 101 was, for many years ,was known as "Bandage Man Road". It was a popular place for local kids to go park and makeout. One night, two local kids were parked on the dark lonely road in an old chevy pickup. Suddenly, they felt the truck lean. They turned to encounter a bandaged figure that started to beat on the glass an cab of the truck. The kid started the truck and tore out of there with his girlfriend screaming in terror as the bandage man continued his pounding. Once they made it into Cannon Beach, the bandaged figure was no where to be seen."
"...saw this with a group of freinds, about two years ago. We were traveling home to Portland from the beach. We go to the beach in middle of the night, so it was about 3 in the morning when we saw "The Bandage Man". We saw a man running (in a strange fashion) down the highway with strips of white cloth hanging from his body. We had no idea what we saw, and we were freaked out! We didn't know if it was a ghost, or s
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