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Memory told of strange occurrences while growing up near Castle Rock State Park
In the fall of 1965 the witness was staying in a trailer on the family property when loud screaming was heard approaching from the direction of the river. The witness and a relative heard something pacing behind the dwelling while the screaming continued, then striking the trailer sides four or five times. The witness fired a gun once from the doorway, after which no further sound was heard that night.
Teens have unusual experience near Myers Flat
Five boys were camping overnight in a repaired old logging cabin in the woods. During the night they were awakened by huffing, shuffling and prying sounds as something circled and probed the cabin walls. When the door was opened they saw only dark hairy legs in the darkness, a companion fired a rifle, and the creature screamed and fled with heavy thuds, leaving torn ground and indentations.
Man recalls possible encounter at a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside Salt Lake City
In August 1964 two teenagers were walking back to a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon after dark when they heard footsteps matching their movements and a low unearthly growl. They ran through a gully to the cabin and locked themselves inside. They then heard the nearby outhouse door open and slam, saw nothing when they turned on an outside light, later heard the door fling open with crashing in brush, and spent the night upstairs.
Object throwing (1960)
Two brothers camping by a river had a rock twice the size of a softball land by their fire where no such rocks occur. Their large dogs growled and clung to them and would not chase. As they walked to the house, they heard something walking in brush alongside them, stopping when they stopped, across a railroad track and fields to the yard light.
Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque
In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.
Sasquatch sighting near Orleans (1952)
A logger driving alone at night to collect a coworker saw a figure by the road and then a face in the mirror. He found a small tree blocking the road and, after getting out, heard running footsteps as a creature charged and backed off repeatedly. The creature tried to push the car off the road before the driver escaped, and the coworker later reported a similar push.
Memory told of encounter at a remote cabin at Sandy Run
The main witness was sleeping in the front room of a remote lakeside cabin with a relative when she awoke at night to the porch screen door opening and footsteps. She watched a large, red-haired, bipedal figure pass three front windows and pause at the door to peer inside, bending down to look in. Frightened, she fled to sleep with her grandparents and did not speak of the incident for years.
Sasquatch sighting near Roseburg, Oregon (1904)
Miners reported a seven-foot hairy wild man repeatedly shaking cabins at night and making frightful noise. Shots failed to stop it. On one morning it shook a door, was shot at, and retaliated by throwing a four-pound rock before vanishing.
Witnesses hear, smell, and feel something large moving & walking right next to them
Late at night in heavy fog, the witness's wife went to the outhouse and encountered something very close that she heard moving and smelled strongly, then fled back inside. The witness went outside with a gun and flashlight but could see nothing in the fog, though he heard bipedal footsteps, noticed a strong odor, and heard a low screeching sound toward a relative's home. The next morning he found a barbed-wire fence broken down with nails pulled out but found no tracks or hair.
Footsteps
During summer stays relatives reported heavy bipedal footsteps, a loud bang on stored roofing metal, and single loud cracks from the forest at a consistent distance.
Footsteps
During a family tent stay the group heard heavy bipedal-sounding footsteps on gravel over multiple nights and the witness felt a hand-like touch through the tent fabric.
Possible stalking and rock throwing in the Fraser Valley
Three companions walking back from swimming along a forestry road felt watched and heard snapping branches and rustling paralleling their movement. When they shouted and threw rocks toward the roadside bushes, rocks were thrown back at them while growling sounds were heard and the accompanying dog barked. Frightened, they ran to a nearby activity centre and later told a parent, who suggested a bear.
Hunters find scat and have large rock thrown at them
While hunting near a lake in the fall of 1970, the witness reported a strong musky odor, unusual large and small scat, rhythmic thumping with ground vibration, and a large dead tree falling nearby while alone. The next day the witness returned with a companion, encountered the thumping and shaking again, and a large rock flew over their heads, after which they left the area.
Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.
Footsteps
The witness heard footsteps near his vehicle and something pounding on a steel garbage container after midnight.
Campers have close encounter with large, hairy creature
Three people were sitting around a campfire late at night when they heard footsteps in the woods and a loud crash against a nearby mobile home. The reporter ran to wake a sleeping companion while the other two put out the fire. Those two companions reported seeing a large hairy man-like figure about 20 feet away, about 7-8 feet tall with red eyes, which then ran off hunched over.
Teens have scary encounter in abandoned creamery near Sussex
Two teenagers exploring an abandoned creamery had the companion climb a ladder to the upper floor, where he reported a foul smell and hairy legs behind a box. Both then heard heavy running overhead with ceiling boards moving, and saw a large hairy figure break through a wall, cross a roof, and appear directly after loading doors blew open. They watched it run away through a cornfield for several seconds until it went over or through a fence and disappeared.
Footsteps
About a month and a half earlier the witness and companion heard a large animal walking and large splashes suggestive of thrown objects at a nearby spot on the same river.
Door or window contact near Summerville, South Carolina
On another night the household was awakened by a loud thud at the house, a relative screamed about something at a window, then they heard slow heavy footsteps leaving over the fence into the woods without seeing it.
Footsteps
Friends fishing a few miles downstream reportedly heard loud stomping and then had large objects tossed at them into the river.