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Big, fast moving creature seen near Laurel Hill Turnpike
The witness was walking back from a grassy field off an old road when they felt watched and smelled a strong odor like body odor and wet dog. They then glimpsed something out of the corner of their eye moving parallel to the road through dense woods. They described it as larger and faster than a bear and noisy while moving, and they left quickly without checking for tracks.
While walking home alone at night, man encounters a large, hairy, human-like creature.
Late at night the witness walked down a snowy farm lane and saw a large dark hairy figure standing by a pond about 80 to 100 yards away, feeling that it was watching them. The witness ran down the lane while loud crashing noises from the woods kept pace, then continued to a relative's house and collapsed inside without reporting what happened at the time.
Hunters hear nighttime vocalization on Belltown Hill, near the north shore of the Clarion River in the Allegheny National Forest
The witness and two relatives were playing poker inside a hunting cabin at night when a loud bang struck the side door followed by an unfamiliar loud scream-howl from outside. They armed themselves and opened the door with flashlights but saw nothing, only hearing something walk away into the woods and smelling a wet-dog-like odor. They chose not to follow it.
Teenager has face-to-face encounter with tall, hairy, man-like creature
After sneaking into a community pool at night, the witness ran into adjoining woods to avoid the caretaker and collided with something. He looked up and saw a manlike figure about eight feet tall covered head to foot in long hair with a strong smell. He ran back toward his friends warning them not to go that way, and none of them went to check the spot.
Possible encounter between a juvenile and a human child, near Gettysburg
The witness, then about 13, was playing hide-and-seek at night behind a hall when he backed around a target box into something. He turned and saw a human-like figure a little over five feet tall covered in long hair, with a strong musky odor, then ran to tell the other children. When the group went back to look, nothing was there.
Shriek heard in PA woods in early 70's
Three teenagers were camping by a fire near a pine grove on a farm property. They heard intermittent branch-breaking and movement approaching and receding, then a single loud inhuman scream. They fled to the house without seeing anything and reported no odor or sense of being followed.
Odor near Springville, Pennsylvania
The witness's son smelled a rotten-egg odor and heard something moving in the woods near the house after dark.
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.
Sasquatch sighting near Confidential, Pennsylvania
As a child the witness and a relative encountered a large hairy figure at close range while hunting and fled as it followed them through brush.
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.
Full-body sighting near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
While being interviewed at the bridge, witnesses who said they had been paced in the adjacent woods reported seeing a seven-foot-tall solid black figure cross the path. The witnesses said they regularly visited the area but would not return to that spot.
Eyeshine in Pennsylvania
The witness and a companion parked at a closed road on private property in February to look for strange lights previously reported there. After about twenty to thirty minutes they saw bright white-blue lights on a hillside that shifted to green and turned red when hit with a green laser, appearing single to the naked eye but double through binoculars and moving as if rising, shifting sideways, and blinking out and reappearing. A companion also reported a large moving shadow on another hill. The pair left while the lights were still present after feeling suddenly frightened.
Partial sighting in Pennsylvania
The witness and a companion were at the site at night when they both saw a large white flash of movement cross the trail about eight to nine feet off the ground. The witness had previously described the sighting as a flash, which listeners mistook for a flash of light.
Movement only in Pennsylvania
The guest says he and a friend were walking in a valley in Pennsylvania when they heard rustling and movement. The friend reportedly saw something move quickly up a hillside while the guest saw nothing himself. They later found unclear footprints in snow and took photos to compare sizes.
Vocalization in Pennsylvania
After starting to research, the witness went into the woods at night with a friend. They heard a very deep, strong vocalization and the friend wanted to leave. The witness moved toward a hillside hollow, heard breathing and branches being knocked over about 30 to 40 feet away without seeing the source, then returned to find his friend frightened.