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Footsteps in Oklahoma
The daughter, staying in the guest house, felt a loud ground thud vibrate the floor and sofa, heard loud metallic banging at night near farm implements, heard walking in the woodline each morning that stopped at the fence, and felt hits on the bedroom wall opposite her head that repeated when she resumed a movie. Searches found no one.
Unidentified sound
The guest describes strange activity around a camp, including disturbed food and sounds of something walking around. He looked for bear tracks and found none, calling the situation bizarre. No creature was seen.
Door or window contact
After moving across the street, the witness heard her puppy growling, then three taps on the front kitchen window. The dog was backed into its crate with hair raised in fear. She checked with a flashlight, saw nothing, and called police to search the property. It never recurred.
Unidentified sound
The guest describes repeated strange sounds at the Sierra camp. The group heard the camp being torn apart but found nothing changed, and heard a car door slam and horses approaching where no cars or horses could be.
Tracks
A field researcher described finding a campsite in a long-studied area with the tent torn and burned, fire logs scattered, food and belongings strewn, trees knocked down, and skin-like material on the ground. After hearing blowing-like sounds from both sides of the road, the party found large barefoot tracks with smaller ones nearby along an established trail. They reported the find, returned next day to find authorities cleaning the site, and later described drag marks, blood staining, and urination along the trail.
Unidentified sound in Ohio
The witness was parked at night with three companions by a large honeysuckle bush at the woods edge. After hearing branch-breaking sounds, a companion threw a vodka bottle into the bushes and it was thrown back past them into the road. They fled by car, had to move a large branch blocking the road while smelling a foul odor and hearing movement around them, then left and avoided the area.
Unidentified sound in Florida
The witness was scouting for a redfish tournament from a kayak in Florida near NASA property in the early morning. After hearing a large splash, smelling a nauseating odor, jumping wild hogs, and hearing a powerful scream-growl with trees shaking, the witness saw a tall hairy human-like face watching from behind a palm frond. The creature charged to the water's edge about 15 feet away, stopped when the witness raised a paddle and yelled, stared again, then walked back into the woods, leaving the witness physically ill and anxious for weeks.
Vocalization in Texas
Two researchers spent the afternoon and night at a remote gated pond campground. After daytime shooting and loud vehicle sounds stopped at dark, they heard long female-like woos answered by male-like moans, a heavy stomp, subtle brush movement, a guttural sound, and a heavy splash from a thrown log. Through night vision a companion reportedly saw five figures standing together across the water, prompting rapid packing and departure through the locked gate.
Odor near Fort Leiden, New York
The witness went to check his father's hunting stand and found it ripped off the tree and twisted by the fence. He smelled rotting flesh, got knocks in response to his knock, and heard his whistle mimicked. Returning to his ATV he found it flipped over with a partial print nearby, then had rocks of increasing size thrown at him as he fled.
Unidentified sound
Shortly before the road sighting, the witness and his wife heard scratching on the truck bumper at their campsite and felt strongly uneasy, prompting them to leave.
Property disturbance
Overnight the witness heard the horse-trailer tack-room door open and shut and found it unlatched in the morning with nothing missing.
Unidentified sound near Hendersonville, North Carolina
After moving into the grandfather's old house, the family experienced ongoing phenomena. Upstairs sounded like someone playing jacks with bouncing ball and metal pieces, with cold spots and feeling of being watched. Lights flickered and ceiling fans spun with switches off, stopping after occupants apologized for noise. A visitor searched the house without finding occupants who were present.
Property disturbance
Seven years later the next-door neighbor told the guest that around Christmas in the year both families moved in, her bedroom door was forcefully kicked open at night. The next night it happened to her son. Later they heard a tremendous crash like a car hitting the living room, but found three glass-framed photos of her sons face-down on the floor undamaged.
Property disturbance
While the guest and his partner were at the supermarket, the son and his friend were in the son's bedroom. The door handle shook up and down, then the door opened all by itself. Both boys were so frightened they ran out of the house and the son phoned his father saying he would not come home because the house was haunted.
Vocalization in California
While sleeping in his van in Alabama Hills, the witness woke at 2:30 AM to bird-like sounds shifting to crickets, then a short wailing whistle. Something pressed against the van and shook it violently while he felt overwhelming dread, pressure, inability to move and hear. After it stopped he dressed, found no tracks, felt watched while leaving, and drove to a populated rest stop.
Woman describes night time sighting during childhood in the Pike National Forest
While camping and sleeping in a camper trailer with family and companions, the young witness awoke at night to loud heavy breathing outside her window and indistinct chatter-like sounds moving along the window. She pulled back the curtain and saw a dark-skinned partial face with brown eyes inches away staring in. The sounds stopped shortly after, and the next morning the adults found apples and potatoes missing from the back of the truck.
Door or window contact near Allen, New York
The family reports years of disturbances in the farmhouse including doorbell and knocks with no one there, loud bangs upstairs, claw-like footsteps down stairs, and a howl from upstairs. Witnesses also describe solid-looking figures including a man at the foot of a bed holding a hat with no head, a sulfur-smelling man from a closet, and hairy legs entering a bedroom, plus moved objects such as truck doors, a broken statue, a sliding piano bench and chair during a blessing.
Object throwing
During long employment at an old secure juvenile facility, the witness and coworkers experienced repeated unexplained activity. A computer twice flew off a conference table, doors opened and slammed without pressure change, a voice spoke in an empty search room, and a recorder left overnight captured distant door slams. Youths also reported seeing a short figure looking through cell windows.
Silhouette in Pennsylvania
The witness set up after sundown on a public trail by a creek to call raccoon. He felt watched, heard patting sounds on the water, then saw an arm-like silhouette slip back into darkness. He left for his car, drove to a fishery lot, had a stone land at his feet, and fled.
Property disturbance near Poplar Creek, Mississippi
The witness describes nighttime noises around trash followed by discovery that garden plants were trampled and watermelons and vegetables were torn open and half eaten. The next day more fruit trees were found with broken branches and trampled, half-eaten fruit, and peas apparently picked and eaten. An older relative attributed the damage to the local wild man figure.