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2,276 encounters
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #28484

Property disturbance

A trail was found three rows into corn across from the house with two to three rows knocked down for about 100 to 150 yards parallel to the house and road.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #40475

Property disturbance

While camping about a mile into the woods with friends, the witness found potatoes, bacon and other food missing from camp more than once.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Metroplis, Massac County, Illinois Related account #37972

Property disturbance near Metroplis, Illinois

Game cameras placed on the property were chewed, smashed beyond data recovery, or disappeared.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Atwood, Moultrie County, Illinois Related account #29241

Rock throwing near Atwood, Illinois

The witness reports additional occasions when rocks were thrown at the witness group at the same pond embankment.

Rock throwing
Date unknown Shipman, Macoupin County, Illinois Related account #37758

Property disturbance near Shipman, Illinois

The witness reported ongoing odd happenings including a clanging gate, missing food, a shaken shed door, missing garden produce, and objects left in the mailbox.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #37758

Rock throwing

As a child the witness recalled sticks flying and rocks being tossed while playing in the woods.

Rock throwingObject throwing
Four years ago Shipman, Macoupin County, Illinois Related account #37758

Door or window contact near Shipman, Illinois

Something ran past the witness's log cabin pounding the walls hard enough to shake the house.

Door or window contact
During the last year or so Place not stated Related account #25273

Object throwing

The witness found chunks of firewood thrown from the wood pile.

Object throwingProperty disturbance
Date unknown Alton, Madison County, Illinois Related account #10535

Rock throwing near Alton, Illinois

The witness reports having had rocks thrown at them on another occasion in the same area.

Rock throwing
last year Place not stated Related account #41043

Property disturbance

Many apples went missing from the back orchard last year.

Property disturbance
a couple of nights Shipman, Macoupin County, Illinois Related account #41043

Unidentified sound near Shipman, Illinois

On several prior nights the witness heard banging on the back shed and found its door open.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbance
Earlier in the year Decatur, Macon County, Illinois Related account #37522

Object throwing near Decatur, Illinois

Earlier in the same year apples were repeatedly thrown at the house and a family member was blamed though they deny it.

Object throwing
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #36667

Property disturbance

Neighboring farmers discussed losing pigs and other livestock.

Property disturbance
1980 to 1999 Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois Related account #36667

Footsteps near Ottawa, Illinois

Over many years the household heard loud walking and branch breaking at night, noticed quiet beforehand and foul smell, and found footprints and damaged rabbit cages.

FootstepsTracksOdorProperty disturbanceTree break
Date unknown Utica, La Salle County, Illinois Related account #40476

Property disturbance near Utica, Illinois

Two areas of the chain-link fence surrounding the home were found mashed down as if something heavy had crashed into or climbed over it.

Property disturbance
at 2 a.m. Utica, La Salle County, Illinois Related account #40476

Property disturbance near Utica, Illinois

The family was awakened at 2 a.m. by something banging two or three times on the outside wall of the house.

Property disturbanceUnidentified sound
A few years after these experiences Place not stated Related account #3474

Unidentified sound

A neighbor and a companion camping in a camper heard sounds, felt the camper sway and pounded on, then saw it run into the woods, leaving dents and scratches.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
early April of 2012, on at least 3 occasions in about a month's time Place not stated Related account #40120

Vocalization

While catfishing at night the witness and a companion heard strange sounds and large splashes close by on three occasions.

VocalizationRock throwingMovement only
BFRO YEAR: 1988-89 IDOC Lake A-41 On The Map, Jackson County, Illinois Class A #44003

Close encounter while fishing remembered near Giant City State Park

The witness was fishing alone at a small wooded lake in the afternoon when brush breaking, snapping trees, and splashing rocks drew attention. The witness turned to see a large muscular creature standing nearby that emitted a loud high-pitched scream. The witness froze, the creature quickly retreated into the woods, and the witness fled down the trail to the vehicle.

Partial sightingScreamRock throwingTree break
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #28525

Howl

The witness says they have heard numerous stories from others of weird howls, growling, footsteps and objects thrown at hikers.

HowlGrowlFootstepsObject throwing