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Tree break near Malakoff Historical State Park Campgrounds, California
On the group's first night at the same campsite, they heard several distant tree breaks they dismissed as regular forest noises.
Tracks
Over about a decade the household reported additional visits involving footprints, screams, and smells, sometimes multiple in one summer.
Unidentified sound near Lee Vining, California
Several days later the witness with relatives heard debris falling down the canyon wall at night.
Howl
About 30 years earlier in Southern California the same witness heard a similar howl and felt watched.
Whoop
The witness and another household member previously woke at night to unexplained whooping sounds outside the house.
Footsteps
On the prior night at a tent site deeper in the bush, the witness and companion heard loud circling footsteps breaking branches, shouted warnings, fired rifle rounds, then fled on foot to a highway ditch until morning.
Whistle
The witness and relatives heard a low steady whistle lasting several seconds at a time for 15-20 minutes on more than one night that summer, during which other animal sounds stopped.
Wood knock
About a year later the same couple returned to Highway 128, made whoop calls, then heard wood knocks and tree breaks and smelled a dead animal/skunk odor for about three minutes.
Possible growling at hikers near the San Gabriel Wilderness
About 15 years before reporting, the witness and a friend paused at a saddle near Smith Mountain while hiking. They heard a very low growl/snuffling sound from tall bushes nearby that they could not see through. Frightened, they left quickly without investigating, and the witness later wondered about the source after seeing nearby reports.
Vocalization
The next morning both witnesses were awakened by powerful yelps and growls coming from the direction of the previous day's hike.
Scream
In 2003 the witness and companion heard a strange apelike scream south of camp while processing a deer and felt watched in the dark.
Three children have daytime sighting near Eureka
As children, the witness and two companions were fishing and walked up an old logging road when they heard a noise and saw a creature across the road in the trees. The creature stayed in cover across the road and kept pace as they ran back down toward a clearing, at times getting ahead then stopping to watch them. Once they reached the clearing, it was gone.
Howl
The witness and a friend camped in a tent with dogs and heard multi-voiced howling like loud talking and howling from about 100 yards away.
Growl
Earlier that summer the group heard moaning or low growling sounds from the forest along the top edge of the property.
Vocalization
The witness heard a repeated hooting ape-like call from the Preston Peak area.
Vocalization
The witness heard an ape-like call from a cabin on the Illinois River.
Vocalization
The witness and family had heard similar strange calls around the same campground area in prior years, more distant and less frequent the previous year.
Howl near Between Eureka And Crecent City, Oregon, California
On a later return to the same area the witness heard the same rhythmic howling from much farther away for about five minutes but failed to record it.
Scream
The night before the gate encounter, the witness reports hearing continuous very loud guttural screaming for over five minutes from a wooded slope above a rented cabin at dusk.
Wood knock
The witness reports being awake in a tent around 3 a.m. and hearing loud, randomly timed wood knocks from a few hundred meters upslope that echoed down the canyon.