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Wood knock
While deer hunting from a stand, the witness heard wood knocks followed by does bedding beneath the stand.
Animal behaviour
Later that day while gutting a deer, the witness had an uneasy feeling of being watched.
Animal behaviour near Moon Twp, Pennsylvania
On other occasions while hunting in the same area the witness felt watched.
Scream
A local farmer reported strange noises and howls from the woods, feeling watched, and fearful behavior in hunting dogs.
Animal behaviour
On more than one occasion as a child the witness had an uneasy feeling of being watched while playing in the woods.
Sasquatch sighting
Two relatives on horseback saw a distant dark-clothed man-like figure waving its arms, which frightened the horses.
Animal behaviour near Milton, Delaware
The next morning the witness let the dog out and the dog went to the area of woods where the sounds seemed to come from and marked the area.
Folklore
A biologist told the witness at a security gate that folklore placed a goatman or Bigfoot figure in that area.
Sasquatch sighting
Multiple observers reported a large brownish-black bipedal creature along the river, which government biologists attributed to a black bear.
Animal behaviour
A relative and a companion at a downstream bridge watched a tall tree shake while the cause stayed hidden in underbrush and then left the area.
Animal behaviour near Street, Maryland
On another occasion a different person was also chased from the same woods in the same manner.
Animal behaviour near Street, Maryland
The landowner told the relative that he had been chased from the same woods in the same manner on a separate occasion.
Footsteps near Street, Maryland
While deer hunting a relative heard loud bipedal steps and grunts and tree shaking, then was followed and chased back through a creek to a barn.
Animal behaviour
The witness had heard that the property owner at the time was chased through the woods by something frightening.
Animal behaviour
Campers noticed something prowling near their RVs.
Historical account
Supposed sightings in the area are said to date back to before towns like Sykesville were established.
Odor
The witness and spouse smelled a wet-animal sulfur odor near their home on several nights when dogs also avoided the property edge.
Animal behaviour
Over several years before and after the sighting, unseen harassment at night and sounds of a large animal moving through brush were reported.
Movement only
A soldier on a two-mile night hike reported being followed through the forest and then watched until pickup.
Odor
The next morning the witness smelled the same foul odor in the home garden where the moss had been placed while the dogs sniffed the ground.