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Family has strange experience in Golden Trout Wilderness
A family staying at a remote pack station heard a high-pitched whooping call for many minutes that seemed to approach and then pass toward a wilderness trail. The daughter went to the access road to meet the caller and saw a large, hair-covered, unclothed being with a long beard, long arms and a big mouth walking quickly past. She said it did not see her and was not vocalizing when seen. The next morning the family found a few possible wide-toed prints in the dust at the spot she indicated.
Family Encounters Red Eyes and Unusual Smells
The witness group was camped in a Sierra County campground and walked to an outhouse at night with a small flashlight. The witness shone the light toward the outhouse area below the trail and saw two red eyes that appeared to crouch down, then quickly returned to camp. A foul odor noticed around the outhouse lessened when others checked shortly after, and the next morning the group found small uprooted trees and no odor, estimating the eyes had been 7 to 8 feet off the ground.
Logging reveals a brief sighting of a bipedal creature near Pennsboro
In late summer 2002 the witness was walking alone on a logged ridge in the early evening and heard a tree fall nearby. Shortly after, the witness saw a very large brown figure lope between trees on the ridge, perceiving only an arm and leg and no head. Days later the witness returned and judged from the tree positions that the figure would have been seven to eight feet tall if human.
Arrowhead hunter has distant encounter in Sulphur River bottoms.
The witness was hunting arrowheads along a lake/river shoreline on a very hot late afternoon. From across the water the witness noticed a dark shape first taken for a stump, then saw it move while soaking in the water. After the witness climbed onto a dam, the figure apparently noticed the witness, stood up and walked to shore, and was gone by the time the witness finished crossing.
Nighttime sighting by residents near Smyrna, NY
Two people were sitting on a porch late at night when they noticed a tall figure covered in hair moving along the road. The figure moved upright with very long strides and swinging arms, looking straight ahead without turning toward them. It was out of sight within seconds while faint footfalls were heard.
Memory told of a daylight sighting near Chauncey
The witness was swimming and having lunch with a companion, a child, and a dog at a secluded river sandbar on a hot summer day. When the dog became agitated, she went to check near the parked truck and saw a tall thin dark figure moving through brush about 20 yards away. She was startled, told her companion it was a Sasquatch, and they left.
Vacationers see large, upright figure near Newfound Gap
The witness and three companions were driving north on Highway 441/71 into Tennessee toward Gatlinburg around dusk. From a distance they saw a very tall, large, hairy, ape-like figure crossing the highway from left to right on two feet, illuminated by street lights ahead. They reported a clear view from the shadow side but could see nothing at the crossing point when they drove up due to darkness.
Teenage girl and her younger sister chased out of the woods near Greenwater
During a daytime rock-hunting outing, the witness and her younger sister walked down a trail past a creek. Something charged toward them from a wooded hill, crashing through vegetation while emitting a terrifying howl/growl, and the witness glimpsed a black figure. Both girls fled back to their group in tears and left the area immediately.
Sighting along trail in SE part of Francis Marion National Forest
The witness was hiking alone on a narrow wooded trail searching for snakes. About 50 yards ahead, a brown human-shaped figure about person-sized or bigger leaped across the trail from left to right on two legs. The witness stopped to listen, then walked to the crossing point but saw nothing in the dense woods and heard no movement. The witness continued hiking while looking back and only later considered the sighting might be out of the ordinary.
Possible stalking of couple parked at power line cut outside Opelika
The witness and his wife sat on his truck tailgate at a power-line clearing late at night when they heard snorting, brush breaking, and a loud growl/grunt moving up a steep hill toward them. The witness saw a large shadow moving on the slope in moonlight, heard breathing and stomping, and smelled a musky sour odor. After revving the truck engine the sounds crashed rapidly downhill, and the pair left, seeing deer run across the road as they drove out.
Possible sighting near Sullivan Lake
Two companions were camping overnight on a fishing trip near Sullivan Lake when they were awakened by a distant crash and a musty odor. A second, louder crash close to camp was followed by a grunt, and the narrator saw a tall gray-furred shape through the tent mesh that fled when lit by a flashlight. Both spent the rest of the night in the truck and left the area the next day.
Tourists recount their viewing of a biped walking up hill in Kananaskis Country
Two people walking near a hotel on a very cold January afternoon noticed a large dark figure moving steadily up a snow-covered hill in the distance. They described it as walking upright and bipedally and appearing larger than a human. They watched it for about 20 to 30 minutes until they had to go inside, and it was gone when they checked again later.
Possible eye-shine and sighting at a rural home near Stronghurst
The witness was driving home late at night and stopped near cows along a treeline after noticing a pair of yellow eyes several feet above the cows' eye level. When the car door was opened the eyes shifted quickly sideways, and the witness left the area. Shortly after arriving home the witness walked back with a dog and flashlight; the dog growled at something unseen but nothing was seen.
"Chimp-like" animal briefly seen by backcountry horseman near Winlock
About eight years before the phone interview, the witness was riding horses with his wife on a logging road in wooded country when he saw a dark animal cross the road a couple hundred yards ahead. The animal moved quickly on all fours using long arms and then disappeared into vegetation. The couple rode to the crossing spot, where their horses became frightened and refused to continue, behavior the witness said was unlike their reactions to bears.
Late afternoon sighting at creek, about fifteen miles NW of Paris
The witness was on a walk in woods near a creek below her property and sat on a natural log bridge. She twice viewed through binoculars a brown, hairy, bipedal creature about 50 to 75 yards away that appeared frozen mid-stride in a bent-over stance staring toward her, then could not find it on a third look. She heard nothing further, waited some time, and continued her walk about ten minutes later without further incident.
Woman tells her memory of being wakened by something watching her thru bedroom window near Augusta
The witness, about eight years old at the time, was awakened at night by a noise and saw a large figure looking through her bedroom window. She reports being frozen with fear and remaining hidden in bed until morning. Her parents later found indentations in the ground outside the window.
Two friends have a possible nighttime sighting on a rural road outside Madison
Two companions were riding on a dirt road at night when their headlights illuminated a tall, dark bipedal figure standing in the road. The figure dropped what it was holding and leapt into the adjacent woods. The witnesses stopped and found a half-eaten rabbit at the spot, noticed a musky odor, and found no tracks on the hard-packed ground before leaving.
Family experiences activity near Ector.
In the fall of 2001 the witness's daughter was driving up the gravel access road to the family home late at night after work. A large fur-covered figure running upright crossed a few yards in front of her headlights from west to east. She later compared its appearance to the creature from the film Harry and the Hendersons and was reluctant to discuss it.
Boys are chased on way home from bow hunting
The witness and a relative were bowhunting for deer in the evening and started hiking downhill toward home after feeling watched. After hearing a loud crash in brush, they ran about half a mile while hearing something running behind them. They crossed a pasture gate, stopped, and watched a large hairy bipedal figure by the gate for about 30 seconds before it turned and walked away.
Motorists have daylight sighting near Uniontown
Two people driving on a gravel road around midday saw a hairy biped run across the road about a block ahead near a low-water bridge over a creek. The passenger looked up late and saw it only briefly before it entered the woods, while the driver reportedly got a better look. The witness estimated it at about five feet tall with reddish hair and emphasized its unusual speed.