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Vocalization near Sandy, Oregon
The witness and a friend had a nighttime fire along a mountain road. They heard nearby grunts followed briefly by chattering like primates. The friend retreated quickly to the vehicle while the witness remained briefly, and the sounds stopped.
Vocalization near Elsie, Oregon
The writer and spouse live in a rural hollow adjoining forest land. Late one night the spouse heard odd sounds from the porch, and the writer began recording. A loud yelling vocalization continued for an extended period, at times apparently answered from farther away before seeming to approach. Domestic and neighboring dogs reacted fearfully.
Footsteps near Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia
Co-workers on the same seismic job reported being followed out of the woods by something unseen. They said the presence paced them, stopping when they stopped and making noise as they moved, leaving them frightened. They radioed a bear alert but later said it was not a bear.
Wood knock near Saint Marie’s, Idaho
The witness reported repeatedly hearing late-night wood knocks and indistinct whispering voices outside on other nights.
Whistle in South Carolina
While sitting in a box stand in a hardwood bottom, the witness heard a whistle-like sound followed by whoops from toward the creek and river. He said no one else was down that way. It was the first time he had heard such vocalizations.
Howl in Ohio
After moving back to Ohio, the guest was training martial arts with others along the Cuyahoga River one November night. They heard an incredibly loud howl that scared them enough to leave the spot and train next to their cars.
Wood knock in Washington
The next year the guest hiked to Swamp Lake with his young daughter, a friend from Eugene and families while doing wood knocks. On the return near a river log crossing they heard a loud wood knock behind them. After crossing, a large rock thrown from a small cliff splashed 30 to 40 feet away, but nothing was seen.
Vocalization in California
While sleeping in his van in Alabama Hills, the witness woke at 2:30 AM to bird-like sounds shifting to crickets, then a short wailing whistle. Something pressed against the van and shook it violently while he felt overwhelming dread, pressure, inability to move and hear. After it stopped he dressed, found no tracks, felt watched while leaving, and drove to a populated rest stop.
Wood knock near Boise, Idaho
In May 2025 at the same campsite the same witness heard steady distant tree knocks from the southeast while trying to sleep.
Backpacker hears howls and knocks on different trips in Upper Dry Creek, seven (7) miles NE from Boise
In May 2023 the witness camped overnight with four companions at a secluded site off Dry Creek Trail north of Boise. Unable to sleep, the witness heard three long howls from different directions across the valley, described as similar to a known Ohio recording but longer. The companions reportedly did not hear the sounds, and no further howls occurred that night.
Unidentified sound near Dillon, Colorado
As a youth, the reporter explored the same woods alone, at times feeling watched without seeing anything and occasionally hearing sounds of unclear origin.
Unidentified sound near Silverthorne, Colorado
During the night the companion continued to hear rocks knocked together around camp while the witness slept.
Woman describes night time sighting during childhood in the Pike National Forest
While camping and sleeping in a camper trailer with family and companions, the young witness awoke at night to loud heavy breathing outside her window and indistinct chatter-like sounds moving along the window. She pulled back the curtain and saw a dark-skinned partial face with brown eyes inches away staring in. The sounds stopped shortly after, and the next morning the adults found apples and potatoes missing from the back of the truck.
Footsteps in Mississippi
The young witness and a friend finished fishing class and walked a short way down a trail to look toward another fishing spot. They heard a third set of footsteps that stopped when they stopped and called out with no answer. They then saw a blurry roughly six-foot-tall mass peeking from behind a thin tree about fifty feet away, left quickly, and avoided returning to that trail.
Wood knock near Brantley, Alabama
The witness was tent camping on family property and stepped a few steps from camp around midnight to relieve himself. He heard three loud whacking sounds like leather striking a pine, then several seconds of steps, then three strikes again from an estimated thirty to forty yards away. He stood briefly, heard nothing further, and returned to his tent.
Movement only in British Columbia
While fly fishing, the witness saw large brown movement between trees and then found very large flat-footed barefoot tracks with splayed gripping toes and a midfoot bend. He followed them to a creek crossing showing very long strides up a bank. He then heard a deep chickadee-like whistle, answered it, feared it was signaling another individual, and fled.
Sasquatch sighting in Massachusetts
The witness, an HVAC apprentice, waited alone in the back of a work van at a rural house in western Massachusetts while his coworker stepped away and a boiler timer ran. He heard faint breathing and a light tap on the van, then saw a very tall dark figure hunched to peer through a 3-4 inch gap in the rear door and locked eyes with it for several seconds. The eye appeared pitch black then briefly glowed white-gray, apparently reflecting the coworker's headlamp, before a loud boiler boom startled the figure. It fled in three loud steps across gravel, grass and leaves that both men heard, left a sour wet-towel odor, and the elderly homeowner responded that local animals are friendly.
Footsteps in Wisconsin
The witness and his young son went squirrel hunting in a public forest reached through a swamp. On the trail back they heard loud bipedal footsteps, heavy raspy breathing, and a powerful growl from very close range but saw nothing despite sparse cover. The unseen presence paced them for about a hundred yards, then growled again and ran toward them through the swamp as they reached the truck and left.
Vocalization near Estes Park, Colorado
The witness hiked alone at night to snowboard down an old hill. After the speaker died, a loud echoing bark answered the witness's shouts three times from downhill. While preparing to descend, the witness heard close loud joker-like laughing from trees ahead and fled downhill frightened.
Scream near Cherokee, North Carolina
The witness heard a baby-like crying sound near his property, then about ten minutes later a very loud, long, deep roar from a mountain about half a mile away. Shortly after, an answering roar came from the top of his own mountain behind him. The two roars went back and forth, shaking his RV, and he went inside with his dog.