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Wood knock near Kane, Pennsylvania
Over about seven years, group members reported hearing knocks, loud branch breaks and large bipedal footsteps, smelling foul odors and feeling watched without seeing a creature.
Several possible incidents over the years in the Allegheny National Forest
In March 2014 while staying at a cabin with four companions, the witness went alone to a nearby meadow after dark to look at stars. The witness heard bipedal footsteps approaching up the slope, called out twice with no reply, and the steps paused then stopped at the lane edge. As the witness walked back past that spot, brush shuffled as if something turned to watch, but all companions were still inside and had heard nothing.
Vocalization
While walking at dusk near a stream the witness and two companions smelled compost and urine and then heard a deep hollow groan, after which the smell vanished.
Night time sighting near a secluded forest home outside Wesleyville
One evening around dusk the witness sat locked out on the front porch of the parents' wooded house. A very large hair-covered biped approached to about 40-50 yards, paused and stared with glowing red eyes for about half a minute, then ran away rapidly breaking branches. The next morning large footprints were found in wet driveway dirt but were washed away by rain before they could be photographed.
Vocalization near Connellsville, Pennsylvania
About five days after the sighting, the witness walking the same path heard a loud grunting and bushes shaking loudly as something got closer.
Property disturbance near Columbia County
The witnesses found shed windows smashed and noticed a strange odor about a week before the main event.
Movement only near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Same witness saw a ball of blue light moving through the woods in the same area at an unspecified time.
Odor near Frugality, Pennsylvania
The witness and a companion visited the hunting area the day before the season to set up stands and noticed a heavy musty odor.
Odor
A couple months later the witness and a neighbor smelled a brief putrid odor near an outdoor fire but saw and heard nothing.
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.
Scream
On a senior campout in 1985 the witness heard screaming noises that seemed to circle the camp late at night.
Odor
Earlier in the same outing the witness, her husband and dog smelled a musty mildew odor near a pond and trail and turned back.
Movement only
As children the witness and a friend were chased from the woods by something unseen running behind them that they could hear breathing.
Whistle
As children the witness and a companion repeatedly heard whistles, had small stones tossed near them, and found a bedding area, large footprints and a wet-dog odor in woods on a circular trail.
Odor near Cape May, New Jersey
The reporter recalls smelling a very strong foul wet-animal-like odor on the deck in winter about two years earlier.
Odor near Street, Maryland
The witness, a relative and the landowner occasionally smelled the creature's scent on the wind annually in fall months.
Odor near Street, Maryland
Later the same year after dusk the witness found a relative knocked to the ground and then smelled a pungent odor and heard heavy breathing and footsteps retreating through woods and across a creek.
Unidentified sound
Same night after fleeing, the witness and companion heard prolonged movement, branch breaks, and tree and bush shaking in a different forested area without seeing eyeshine.
Odor
The witness and spouse smelled a wet-animal sulfur odor near their home on several nights when dogs also avoided the property edge.
Odor
The witness had previously seen piles of rocks and smelled a similar but weaker body odor.