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Scream near Oregon, Illinois
In spring 1960 the witness and family heard terrible screaming from the woods with a horrible smell, and a relative searched outside with a gun and found nothing.
Movement only near Godfrey, Illinois
While putting up Christmas lights, the witness saw a large bush shake at the woods edge with no visible cause.
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.
Animal behaviour near Manteno, Illinois
The witness states he had previously felt watched, smelled the same pungent odor, and heard the same whooping noise on earlier fishing visits to the same site.
Wood knock near Makanda Or Cobden, Illinois
The night after the eyes encounter the group walked the same path hearing movement, twig snaps, snorting sounds and one woodknock.
Odor near Midlothian, Illinois
The witness says they have smelled a sudden freaky death-like odor in the woods that others also report.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
A horrible stench lingered outside the house for two days while the retriever refused to go outside even in daytime.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
Witness and daughter repeatedly noticed foul odors near home, strange night noises, and waking simultaneously without known cause.
Odor near Perry, Fla, Florida
While hiking in the days before the main night, the group sometimes noticed a horrible foul smell.
Movement only near Clearwater, Florida
A few months earlier the witness felt and heard something run past and tear through brush on the same fence line without seeing it.
Hunter has unexplained, late night encounter while in small boat on Saddle Creek
Late at night the witness paddled a small boat up a creek with two dogs and heard something following on the bank, then a loud blowing noise. The dogs refused to go ashore and later barked intensely. The witness shone a light and saw a large ape-like figure running away over a hill, then noticed a group of tracks while leaving. A skunk-like brassy odor was noted before the sighting.
Year long sightings by family
The witness describes repeated nighttime visits to a rural property over about a year by a family of large hairy creatures that ate fruit, looked in trailer windows, and once bit a penned hog. The witness reports seeing three individuals of varying heights, hearing frequent chattering, noticing odor, tracks and hair, and attempting to hunt them without driving them away. After about a year the visits stopped, believed to have ended when habitat regrew.
Kayaker experiences frightening incidents while traveling down Yellow River
While kayaking a long stretch of river in northwest Florida near dusk, the witness heard moaning to yelling sounds and smelled a strong musky odor. Rocks were thrown from the treeline toward the water and near the kayak, while sticks and trees were heard breaking. The witness also heard coyotes and loud unidentified sounds suggesting animals fighting, felt followed for much of the trip, and never saw the source.
Family has a strange and terrifying encounter while fishing in the Everglades National Park
While night-fishing beside a canal in the Everglades with his parents as a young child, the witness heard something pacing back and forth in dense vegetation behind them. His father threw a piece of coral, shone a spotlight, and shouted, but the movement continued without any visible source or response. Frightened by the persistent, methodical pacing, the family fled in their car without breaking down their fishing rods.
Growl near Ocala National Forest (Fort McCoy) Fl, Florida
The witness says he returned heavily armed, heard distant growls at first dark, fired his weapon, then left as something moved through a clearing pushing pines apart.
Young girls have daylight sighting near their home
The witness and a relative went to a play hut at the edge of the woods just after daybreak. They noticed a foul odor, heard something large moving and growling, and hid in a nearby gully. They then watched a very tall, broad, brownish-red haired biped with human-like shape approach the hut from 50 to 70 feet away before turning and walking away, after which they ran home.
Odor near Geneva, Florida
The witness recalls smelling a strong rancid odor while bow-hunting from a stand that came and went without a wind shift and left no tracks in the rocky creek bed when checked the next day.
Movement only near Jacksonville, Florida
The reporter and a fellow officer heard movement of something large in underbrush and found a freshly broken pine limb nearby.
Man describes possible encounters off Route 41 near Ochopee
The witness and a companion were walking a dirt trail by a canal to find a bass spot while looking down to avoid snakes. They saw large brown legs cross the trail ahead and noticed branches rustling in a nearby group of trees, which the witness attributed to a sasquatch watching them. Scared, they backed away slowly and left the area.
Howl near Ochopee, Florida
About a month later at the same camp, the group heard a howl in reply to the witness's call and later heard crashing, footsteps and smelled skunk-like odor.