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October 1997 Delaware County, New York Class B #1453

Hunter hears odd clicking noises while scouting

The witness hiked to a deer stand while hearing repeated groups of clicking sounds for about 45 minutes but could not locate the source on the ridge. While walking back out of the woods, the witness heard something large approach and stop behind them. The unseen source then made a very loud close grunt and, after the witness chambered a round, a loud guttural scream/grunt. The witness never saw the source.

Unidentified soundGrowlScreamMovement only
1995–1996 New York #d13c179d-c46a-4207-9373-0e38be93ed5f

Sasquatch sighting in New York (1995)

The witness's family had moved to a remote house bordered by extensive forest. Over three consecutive nights an exchange student staying in the lower level reported a face watching him through the window while working out. The witness heard car-door-like slams and footsteps with no vehicle present, and on the final night the witness and the father chased outside and heard something crashing rapidly and powerfully through dense woods away from any road.

Partial sightingFootstepsUnidentified soundMovement only
August 1994 Albany County, New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/SJ0ENTQ4h0WsGIaRm8gpFcsL1-hUSnxBrX2Fpg95_o0

Tree break near Albany County (1994)

The witness's car sputtered to a stop on a bridge and the witness set out on foot toward home. From a dark forested slope the witness watched a tall tree thrash, then heard a massive thud, three loud knocks, and rapid footsteps sprinting uphill toward the road. An unseen presence stopped feet away breathing sharply, then repeatedly ran ahead and waited, forcing the witness to pass it several times over an eighth to a quarter mile. Near dawn where cover ended the presence vanished without ever being seen.

Tree breakWood knockFootstepsVocalizationAnimal behaviour +1
May 1992 Location Withheld, Orleans County, New York Class B #11089

Two young boys experience powerful, high-pitched vocalization

When the witness was about 10, he and a companion were shooting BB guns at fish in a pond on family land and then fired into a hedgerow. Immediately something unseen about 10 feet into the brush produced loud screaming and howling vocalizations and violently shook vegetation before moving rapidly toward the forest while continuing to vocalize. The boys fled to the house.

ScreamHowlMovement only
Date unknown Addison, Steuben County, New York Related account #4643

Unidentified sound near Addison, New York

Neighbors reported hearing noises and sometimes smelling a stench from the remote pond area.

Unidentified soundOdor
BFRO YEAR: 95-96 Clarendon, Orleans County, New York Class B #4799

Possible vocalizations heard by coon hunters near Clarendon

The witness and a hunting companion were about to start a nighttime hunt when they heard an unfamiliar loud scream. The sound appeared to move rapidly away, shifting from nearby to much farther within seconds while crashing through brush. Frightened despite being accustomed to the dark, the pair left without seeing the source and returned to their truck.

ScreamMovement only
BFRO YEAR: 1989,1993 Essex County, New York Class A #1522

Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.

ScreamOdorFootstepsSilhouetteProperty disturbance +1
Fall 2003, around 7:30 pm Keene Valley, Essex County, New York Related account #11956

Odor near Keene Valley, New York

Earlier the same night the witness and his wife went outside with two dogs, smelled a strong musky odor, and the dogs became fearful and wanted inside.

OdorAnimal behaviour
around July 17, 2003 Wellsville, Allegany County, New York Related account #11726

Footsteps near Wellsville, New York

The same witness returned to the same trail years later with a different companion, heard movement in the swamp, smelled a powerful odor, experienced sudden silence, and felt followed while leaving.

FootstepsOdorAnimal behaviour
the next night (after last 4th of July) New York #c69fa039-7a7c-40e2-80c5-f4e3a1407fcc

Movement only in New York

The next night the group hiked a trail to a nearby quarry for night photography. The same colored balls of light appeared about eighty yards away moving through the woods parallel to them. The lights stayed alongside for several hundred yards to the quarry.

Movement onlyPossible misidentification
last 4th of July New York #c69fa039-7a7c-40e2-80c5-f4e3a1407fcc

Movement only in New York

On a hot night around a summer holiday the witness lay by an open cabin window looking into the woods. He saw flashing red, blue and yellow lights moving through trees and down a road. Others in the cabin also looked, and companions with night vision described softball-sized balls. The lights disappeared after noise and activity.

Movement onlyPossible misidentification
in March, a few years before 2018 New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/XPMsCXTnM51YAiDdP1GIgBYl_3q8qXbvztVC5ILAkD4

Sasquatch sighting in New York

The witness's mother got up at night and saw a large dark figure at her back patio door putting its hands over the glass as if trying to enter. After the witness drove up with headlights, the figure left over a steep ravine in one leap. The mother remained fearful and kept doors locked.

Full-body sightingDoor or window contactMovement only
Date unknown New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OJyBFBo3E5nWOmT6AA3fl3zJ4R85B6A9sKIOwQk5AGQ

UFO sighting in New York

Standing at a stop sign at midnight, the witness heard buzzing and saw a short red streak of light rushing toward him. At the sign it made a sharp impossible turn and continued toward the cemetery. He told only one friend at the time.

Partial sightingMovement only
probably six weeks ago Oneonta, New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OJyBFBo3E5nWOmT6AA3fl3zJ4R85B6A9sKIOwQk5AGQ

Sasquatch sighting near Oneonta, New York

While alone locking up the mall late at night, the witness drove behind stores and saw a dark hairy being on all fours dart from dumpsters toward vans and into a nearby tree line at extreme speed. He saw its lower body with human-like buttocks and no tail, then heard crashing and smelled an intense dirty-feet odor.

Partial sightingMovement onlyOdor
Date unknown Oneonta, New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OJyBFBo3E5nWOmT6AA3fl3zJ4R85B6A9sKIOwQk5AGQ

Vehicle contact near Oneonta, New York

Driving about 65 mph after leaving a mall, the witness felt a violent impact that destroyed the front end and scattered parts far behind, but saw no animal. He found hairs and blood spots, noticed a wet-dog smell, and an officer suggested a wolf without filing a report. He later wondered it was a juvenile sasquatch.

Vehicle contactOdorHair
about age 17, about a year after pond incident New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OJyBFBo3E5nWOmT6AA3fl3zJ4R85B6A9sKIOwQk5AGQ

Vocalization in New York

The witness and friends walked into dark woods and heard deep snorting or grunting that sounded like a bull but seemed impossible among close trees. As they ran toward their campfire, the unseen animal pursued them, its steps shaking the ground, until they reached the fire and left.

VocalizationFootstepsMovement only
the night after Christmas Wellsville, Allegheny County, New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/3zCtD0WxHQmQX3QMDcxq_MNCCW4ry3ybPBDTsfJ6kYs

Movement only near Wellsville, New York

The night after Christmas the witness watched from a gas well across the valley as dozens of small pin lights moved along the ridge and dropped into the valley. Later from the truck near the first sighting area he watched a beach-ball-size bluish light and then a basketball-size yellow-orange light move intelligently six to ten feet off the ground around trees, pause at the ravine edge, and drop over, casting almost no light despite brightness. Companions asleep in the truck did not see them.

Movement only
late June New York #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/01/03/sc-ep180-scary-night-in-the-adirondacks

Wood knock in New York

The witness kayaked into a remote river area in the Adirondacks to fish and camp alone. On two consecutive nights he heard loud rapid tree knocks followed by prolonged crashing, pacing and movement around his tent. On the second night the activity escalated and he heard powerful lion-like roars and screams from about 50 feet away that left him terrified. In the morning he found a large human-like footprint about 15 inches long near his kayak and left the area.

Wood knockMovement onlyGrowlScreamTracks
a couple months ago Fort Leiden, New York #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/11/22/sc-ep167-that-is-when-the-rock-throwing-started

Odor near Fort Leiden, New York

The witness's father was in the tree stand, then climbed down, smelled something dead and felt watched. He was chased out of the woods by something he could not identify. He later told TV investigators who called it a level two or three sighting.

OdorAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Fort Leiden, New York #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/11/22/sc-ep167-that-is-when-the-rock-throwing-started

Odor near Fort Leiden, New York

The witness went to check his father's hunting stand and found it ripped off the tree and twisted by the fence. He smelled rotting flesh, got knocks in response to his knock, and heard his whistle mimicked. Returning to his ATV he found it flipped over with a partial print nearby, then had rocks of increasing size thrown at him as he fled.

OdorWood knockWhistleTracksRock throwing +2