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Date unknown Place not stated Related account #12088

Unidentified sound

A relative reported hearing something while camping, throwing a rock toward it, and having a rock thrown back.

Unidentified soundRock throwing
That same summer Place not stated Related account #31992

Property disturbance

A relative who operated a nearby turkey farm found penned turkeys with heads and necks missing after they stuck through wire.

Property disturbance
A number of months later, (it was winter and very cold) Thunder Bay, Ontario Related account #27959

Property disturbance near Thunder Bay, Ontario

Months later in winter the landlord found a large amount of earth moved from one side of the crawl space to the other, freezing pipes, with wood boards placed where digging occurred.

Property disturbanceStructure or nest
over the past 17 years Perth, Westport, Ontario Related account #30249

Rock throwing near Perth, Westport, Ontario

On two or three past mornings the same boat witness felt a rock thrown at him while fishing near the sighting area.

Rock throwing
A couple of days prior to the above reported incident Place not stated Related account #14341

Structure or nest

A couple days earlier the witness and a relative found a woven-stick structure across a river and a large stick newly placed upright like a spear in a trail, which the relative took home.

Structure or nestProperty disturbance
at night Between Lombardy And Portland, Ontario Related account #14981

Unidentified sound near Between Lombardy And Portland, Ontario

On a night during the same stay, garbage cans were heard being jostled, initially attributed to raccoons.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbance
last summer Haliburton, Ontario Related account #17501

Door or window contact near Haliburton, Ontario

The previous summer something repeatedly struck the side of the cottage hard in the middle of the night and woke the witness.

Door or window contact
Date unknown Westport, Ontario Related account #24733

Property disturbance near Westport, Ontario

A large embedded rock weighing about twenty to thirty pounds had been pulled up and moved off the trail to the creek.

Property disturbance
the day prior to the sighting Westport, Ontario Related account #24733

Property disturbance near Westport, Ontario

An oriole feeder left hanging about seven feet high a week earlier was found on the ground empty the day before the sighting.

Property disturbance
Maybe about 2000 Ontario Related account #9516

Property disturbance in Ontario

Around 2000, something hit the side of the cottage hard while the witness was in bed, an impact also heard by her son in another room.

Property disturbance
A couple of days before we had spoken Place not stated Related account #1528

Property disturbance

A grain bag stored in a secured building was found torn open with a substantial amount missing without signs of rodent chewing.

Property disturbance
Recently Westlock, Alberta Related account #23259

Property disturbance near Westlock, Alberta

On five recent occasions cleaned deer carcasses were removed from the property without signs of dragging and were never recovered.

Property disturbance
At another time during the first weekend of deer season Merritt, British Columbia Related account #13815

Rock throwing near Merritt, British Columbia

At another time, a rock was thrown into the witness's hunting camp set up in the same remote area during deer season.

Rock throwing
9/19/19 Place not stated Related account #63218

Rock throwing

While walking a dense pine section about half a mile from home, the witness watched rocks knock pine cones down from a tall pine from across a stream, then found cones gone the next day.

Rock throwing
late last night Place not stated Related account #2446

Door or window contact

Late the same night, a relative found something holding the trailer door shut when trying to use the outhouse and left without going.

Door or window contact
BFRO YEAR: About 1979 British Columbia Class B #2446

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.

OdorMovement onlyFootstepsVocalizationProperty disturbance
Summer 2009 night Place not stated Related account #28740

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.

FootstepsWood knockProperty disturbance
1975 Summer Place not stated Related account #28740

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.

FootstepsProperty disturbance
BFRO YEAR: 1980-81? Mission, British Columbia Class B #15141

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.

FootstepsGrowlRock throwingUnidentified sound
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #2420

Rock throwing

A relative of a local guide told the writer that local Indigenous people have seen the creatures, had rocks thrown at them while fishing, offered fish that disappeared, and seen footprints never cast or photographed.

Rock throwingTracksAnimal behaviour