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Unidentified sound
The next day near camp the group heard pots clinking and later found table items shuffled slightly with nothing taken.
Footsteps
While hiking toward Fleming Lake earlier, the party heard something moving through thick brush in the ravine below, breaking branches, which a companion thought was a bear.
Howl
The witness reported hearing a deep bellowing howl in the morning before the evening encounter.
Vocalization
On other riding outings the witness recalled hearing something like voices but not voices.
Family finds large footprints and hears strange sounds near Pollock Pines
During a family walk on a mountain logging trail in the late 1970s, the group heard branches breaking around them. Near a recently fallen tree they found a wet blood-like substance on the log and a very large fresh human-like footprint that dwarfed an adult man's boot. The group quickly left the area and returned toward the cabin.
Footsteps
The night before the treetop sighting, the witness and companion heard wading-like sloshing steps in the river near the tent, then found nothing when searching with a light.
Scream near Sugar Pine, California
The witness's family hears scream-like calls most nights during yearly multi-day stays at Sugar Pine, described as two individuals calling back and forth.
Unidentified sound
Later that night the witness and companion heard a moving noise outside that the companion thought was a deer.
Wood knock near Georgetown, California
As a child camping in the same general area, the witness repeatedly heard knocking and whoop-like sounds.
Vocalization
About 12 years earlier the witness and a relative were deer hunting at daybreak when a strange-acting deer approached, they shot it, then heard a loud roar-growl turning into a scream, with branches breaking and limbs and large rocks thrown toward them until they abandoned the kill and left.
Footsteps
On a prior night at Dark Lake with a relative, the witness heard footsteps around camp and wood knocking all night.
Scream
The witness heard screams in the Desolation Wilderness area as a boy scout in the early to mid 1980s.
Vocalization
The witness reports hearing calls and screams while camping in the Sierra Nevadas and Desolation Wilderness since childhood.
Wood knock
The witness reports making imitation calls roughly a mile and a half away three years earlier and receiving a single wood-knock reply.
Unidentified sound near Butte County
On several trips to the outhouse before bed two household members noticed surrounding sounds stopping and felt watched with neck hairs prickling, after which they stopped going out after dark.
Whistle near West Point, California
A week earlier the witness's family group heard a loud whistle from the woods while leaving the area in vehicles.
Howl
The night before the sighting the witness heard a long mournful howl outside the home for about an hour and a half that frightened dogs and was also heard by a relative living there.
Unidentified sound
That night at camp after a companion made a mock howl, the party heard timber cracking and a large tree fell near camp.
Whoop
About a week earlier at Mt Lassen, the witness with companions heard a low vibrating whoop sound that seemed to follow them.
Scream
The witness recalls hearing a distant garbled scream in spring 2004 likened to a young mountain lion.