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Date unknown Pembine, Marinette County, Wisconsin Related account #51419

Odor near Pembine, Wisconsin

A relative had smelled the same bad smells in the area on prior occasions.

Odor
when hunting season starts Place not stated Related account #3044

Movement only

The writer spent time hunting in swampy river bottoms and repeatedly sensed something moving with him but never saw anything or found tracks.

Movement onlyUnidentified sound
Date unknown Wisconsin #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/24/show-notes-with-shannon-author-and-investigator-linda-godfrey

Sasquatch sighting in Wisconsin

While driving past a mowed field the witness noticed an unusually large dark stump where no stump was known to exist. After passing, the witness stopped and backed up within seconds. The shape was gone, inferred to have moved quickly into nearby kettle woods.

Partial sightingMovement only
Date unknown Texas #73f44fd0-7e79-4c80-80d4-7abb54b97dd6

Footsteps in Texas

While walking in the woods on their North Texas property, the witness says on a couple of occasions something moved parallel to the group. The sounds stopped when they stopped, taking one or two extra steps. The family could not see what was making the noise.

FootstepsMovement only
Several years ago Place not stated Related account #39031

Sasquatch sighting

While watching a distant tree line with binoculars the witness saw a black object move out and back twice over ninety minutes.

Partial sightingMovement only
Date unknown British Columbia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2013/12/30/sc-ep9-a-look-back-at-2013-in-the-bigfoot-world

Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia

Crew members on a fishing boat anchored off Village Island noticed a strong unfamiliar odor after entering a bay. After dark a large crouched creature with elongated red eyes appeared on the shoreline and was watched for almost an hour. One experienced hunter aboard said it was not a bear and chose not to shoot.

Partial sightingEyeshineOdor
Date unknown British Columbia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2013/12/30/sc-ep9-a-look-back-at-2013-in-the-bigfoot-world

Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia

The witness was sleeping in a motorhome on Vancouver Island when something large violently rocked the vehicle. He saw a very hairy bipedal creature standing outside the window, then ran outside and smelled a strong musky odor like dead fish. He heard its footsteps stop nearby in the dark and retreated inside without seeing it again.

Partial sightingVehicle contactFootstepsOdor
when I was 13, 14 Place not stated #ae1d2774-3692-4cde-9244-f821c0834c91

Howl

Years earlier at an old farmhouse, the witness and his brother stood in the driveway listening to something moving through woods between houses. They heard branches breaking, movement across a road toward a power line trail, and a loud howl they did not recognize. They heard a second much fainter howl later suggesting great distance covered.

HowlFootstepsMovement only
Saturday evening Place not stated Related account #8435

Odor

On the same Saturday evening, the group heard movement in brush, smelled a foul odor, heard snaps and a splash, felt watched, then saw trees thrashing and ran to the cabin.

OdorMovement only
when I was 13, 14 Maine #5fa3d3ec-3a40-431e-b000-6cc9145638a6

Howl in Maine

Years before the 2015 sighting, the witness and his brother stood outside their farmhouse at night listening to something moving through the woods between houses. They heard a loud howl they did not recognize as coyote, fox, or bobcat. They tracked the movement by breaking branches across a road to a power line trail, then heard a second much fainter howl from far away.

HowlMovement only
on several other occasions following June 1st Danbury, Burnett County, Wisconsin Related account #4789

Tracks near Danbury, Wisconsin

On several later visits to check the road for prints, the witness says the same creature followed him and crossed the road at three stream-adjacent spots, with no castable prints found.

TracksMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Louisiana #cafe23b1-d981-48b0-967f-a80c345fc358

Scream in Louisiana

The witness went squirrel hunting with the stepfather in Middle Fort Bottom toward dusk. Something paralleled them in the woods, stopping when they stopped. When they stopped once, something nearby gave a very loud scream described like a tornado siren mixed with a distressed cow, and it continued to follow them until they reached the car.

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When I was about nine years old Lisbon, Louisiana #cafe23b1-d981-48b0-967f-a80c345fc358

Growl near Lisbon, Louisiana

The witness and two other children walked past a forbidden cattle guard toward the woods and smelled something like something dead. After a few more steps, something gave a deep guttural growl from the edge of the woods to their left. They ran back to the house and were scolded for going past the guard.

GrowlOdor
a few years later, in January Indiana #d1b60833-a6db-4537-a084-6ddcb1580a06

Object throwing in Indiana

The witness and the same friend set up in a valley to call coyotes on a warm misty January night. A large green branch broke or was thrown down beside them and something large tore off in the opposite direction. They fled immediately and the witness later found the broken green limb.

Object throwingMovement only
Date unknown Woodland Park, Colorado #f7520a18-5134-4df1-8669-ed504cd07553

Footsteps near Woodland Park, Colorado

The guest and two companions camped by a river while fishing and kept a stump burning in a fire ring overnight. Something heavy entered the camp and moved around the tent without approaching the fire. The group shouted, and the visitor eased back into the woods rather than running.

FootstepsMovement only
one night California #154b0476-8de7-4087-a8ea-0b6f13abff7f

Movement only in California

While driving the road below the house at night and rounding a corner, the witness saw red lights moving through the trees that looked like vehicle brake lights. There was no road in that direction where a car could have been. He remains unsure what the lights were.

Movement only
when I was 20, late December, just before Christmas Massachusetts #c417924a-ee05-4a16-b29e-a888cab928f8

Dogman sighting in Massachusetts

The witness went alone with a dog on snowshoes in winter to find where the creature lived. In a frozen bog he found a knoll with a dark hole and saw the thing halfway out on all fours. He threatened it, backed out without turning his back, then hiked toward the pond in a whiteout. He saw a distant black shadow seeming to follow, shouted a warning, and continued to town.

Partial sightingMovement only
at least in the same month South Carolina #b249adab-db11-4aee-b2d1-0fe9333640b7

Tracks in South Carolina

After leaving a fishing rod wedged in a tree over baited pond channels overnight, they returned at dawn to find the rod gone. At the base of the tree in murky water they saw a large heel-shaped depression with skin-line detail. They first suspected the grandfather had taken the rod as a prank, but he denied it.

TracksDermal ridgesOdorProperty disturbanceUnidentified sound
we were 13 or 14 at the time South Carolina #b249adab-db11-4aee-b2d1-0fe9333640b7

Vocalization in South Carolina

Two friends squirrel hunting in a fenced former fox-training woods noticed total wildlife silence, then a foul odor, then a loud roar accompanied by a large pine falling in the distance. The ground shook when the tree hit and they fled to the grandfather's farmhouse. The grandfather laughed and used a local term for a wild hairy creature.

VocalizationTree breakOdor
Date unknown Jackson County, Missouri #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/04/02/sc-ep92-lights-in-the-forest

Movement only near Jackson County

The witness said he has seen strange lights several times while having campfires in his yard near an area locally known as the Atherton lights by the river bottom.

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