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Odor near Pike County (1994)
For six to eight months an elderly farmer and his wife reported nightly tapping that followed them room to room, shadows outside windows, a barn door torn open, missing dog food and missing outdoor dogs, and a low voice whispering the indoor dog's name. The responding deputy initially suspected neighbors, moonshiners or a grow operation, but later found a large hand-like dent in the house and an 18-inch footprint in the creek that he cast. The cast was later reported to show dermal ridges and to be considered authentic east of the Mississippi.
Good Samaritan has encounter near Liberty Hill
A driver stopped to help two motorists whose car had left the road after swerving to avoid a large hairy creature chasing a deer across the road. While fetching a rope from his truck to pull their car out, he walked directly into the creature standing behind his truck. He noted a foul smell, red eyes, and a low growl before it walked to the woods edge and then into the woods. He then helped move the car and continued his trip, shaken by the encounter.
The "Big Muddy Monster" flap of Murphysboro
In the late 1970s to early 1980s, residents around the Big Muddy River reported a foul-smelling, hairy hominid-like creature. Witnesses described seeing and hearing it near the river and finding footprints, with size and color accounts varying. The writer compiled these secondhand accounts and notes the creature was never reported as violent.
Newspaper account of an encounter with an unknown creature near Salt Creek
A motorcyclist turning onto Fairfield Street claimed a Bigfoot-like creature ran in front of him and caused him to fall. The creature then continued south toward Salt Creek while emitting a terrible smell. The frightened rider got up and left. A nearby resident recalling the story years later said it was in the local newspaper the next day.
Odor in Michigan (1977)
The guest relayed his father's account of a night when the family was home while the grandfather was away hauling freight. After a foul odor and prolonged barking by the guard dog, a long loud vocalization was heard, the dog was apparently dragged from under the chicken-coop camper, and three household members separately reported red eyes staring through windows. By morning the dog was dead and mutilated, all chickens were gone with feathers and footprints scattered, and the coop hatch had been opened from underneath.
Two separate sighting reports of a creature
The writer's brother was driving alone late at night on Skyball Mountain when he smelled a strong odor. He saw a large dark hair-covered figure in tall weeds beside the road that stepped onto the road and stared at him while he stopped and watched for a minute or more. The figure then walked into the woods on the other side of the road and he drove home.
Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1975)
The guest's mother arrived at his grandmother's farm at night and was hurried inside after being told a tall hairy creature was nearby. Family members then used a spotlight to show her a figure stepping out of the light along the tree line. Over the following years the family reported repeated nighttime visits marked by forest silence, strong odor, screams and chatter, plus damage to orchard trees and garden crops.
Sasquatch sighting in Oklahoma (1975)
The guest's grandparents noticed meat and vegetables disappearing from an outdoor wash house over several days. One night the family smelled a strong musky odor in the living room, and the grandmother saw a large hairy figure squatted outside a picture window. The guest's father chased it as it hopped yard fences, snapped a railroad-tie post, and disappeared over a hill. For about a week afterward the grandmother heard something tampering with the wash-house door at night.
Cryptid sighting (1960)
A family bought an old homestead where the son repeatedly said little people bothered him in the forest, horses refused the barn, and the barn smelled foul. One evening during dinner the son pointed to a bay window and the father saw a three-foot-tall hairy human-like being by an outdoor spigot apparently chattering to others below. It made eye contact, widened its eyes, leaned back, and dropped from view. The father later found a rock-covered hole in the barn opening to caverns with strong odor, and a neighbor warned that dwarves lived under the old ruined house.
Sasquatch sighting near Brandenburg, Kentucky
The witness's son and daughter encountered a large dark-furred creature with shining eyes in the yard near the garage amid a strong stench.
Sasquatch sighting
Two relatives waited in a field to photograph the creature, smelled a strong odor, watched it crouch behind a tree before leaving, and later noticed widely spaced foot impressions on leaves.
Sasquatch sighting near Ravenna, Ohio
Family members report a multi-year history of sightings, vocalizations, footprints, odors, tree and limb breaks and suspected nest structures on old family land.
Tracks near Athens, Ohio
A couple of days later the witness returned to the same area with a relative, found a possible print, noticed a horrible stench, and the relative thought a Bigfoot was watching them and wanted to leave.
Sasquatch sighting near Winamac, Indiana
A decade later two relatives waited quietly on a screened porch at night, smelled a strong rotten-meat odor, and watched a large dark-haired biped pass under a bridge light before dropping to all fours to cross the bridge while a dog chased it and returned injured.
Sasquatch sighting
An older junkyard owner near the river reportedly smelled a rotten odor, repeatedly saw the creature, co-existed with it, and described vocalizations ranging from grunts to howls.
Sasquatch sighting
Another local resident said his young son alerted him to something at a high window, after which the resident found breath condensation on the window and then saw a very large upright figure with a strong odor run into a swamp while hunting dogs hid.
Sasquatch sighting
Acquaintances camping across the highway heard dogs react, saw a creature by the fire that fled after eye contact, then found strong-smelling dark hair on a high barbed-wire strand the next day while tracking with dogs.
Sasquatch sighting
An officer responding to a prowler call at a trailer reportedly saw a large muscular hairy biped at a window that fled leaving a strong odor.
Sasquatch sighting
Several other people reported experiences in the same general area dating back to the late 1940s, including sightings of a 6-7 foot creature with a musty wet-dog odor.
Sasquatch sighting
A woman in another town reported seeing a hairy ape-like figure looking over her fence with a rotting-meat smell.