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Vocalization (1934)
The teller's grandfather was riding a mule at night in 1934 while courting his future wife. Something in the woods startled or spoke to the mule, causing it to bolt hard for the barn. The rider held on prone and crashed into the barn wall, destroying a candle lantern.
Footsteps in [name withheld] (1930)
The guest's grandmother was walking the guest's father as a child to school before daylight along a dirt road bordered by a tall solid wood fence in the Big Thicket. Something large and heavy paced them on the other side of the fence, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. They turned back halfway and abandoned school that day to avoid meeting it where the fence ended.
Tracks in Montana (1700)
Two trappers set up camp to trap beaver and found their camp demolished and human-like tracks around it. At night they heard rustling, smelled a foul stench, fired a shot and heard something flee. After separating in the morning, one man found his partner dead with a broken neck and bite marks and fled, blaming a wild man.
Unidentified sound near Town Of Shebandowan, Ontario
Earlier the same day, the witness and a relative paddled near the isolated shore, heard loud thrashing approaching, and saw large trees swaying before leaving without seeing the source.
Unidentified sound near Eden, Vermont
A week earlier the witness heard twigs snapping and weeds moving behind the fenced garden while the dog barked, then fired an air horn.
Witnesses hear, smell, and feel something large moving & walking right next to them
Late at night in heavy fog, the witness's wife went to the outhouse and encountered something very close that she heard moving and smelled strongly, then fled back inside. The witness went outside with a gun and flashlight but could see nothing in the fog, though he heard bipedal footsteps, noticed a strong odor, and heard a low screeching sound toward a relative's home. The next morning he found a barbed-wire fence broken down with nails pulled out but found no tracks or hair.
Sasquatch sighting near Withheld, British Columbia
Three years earlier the witness and a companion found a large woven nest over a dug hole, saw eyes, heard knocks and felt thumps from below, then saw dark shapes while fleeing.
Wood knock near Duncan, British Columbia
On a later visit to the area, the group heard sequenced branch taps and then heard the source leave after they made whooping calls.
Scream
The witness recalled hearing a loud reverberating scream and falling gravel in a gravel pit in his late teens and fleeing without looking.
Sasquatch sighting
A resident mother reportedly saw something in her driveway at night that ran into the woods while branches were heard breaking.
Possible vocalizations heard by coon hunters near Clarendon
The witness and a hunting companion were about to start a nighttime hunt when they heard an unfamiliar loud scream. The sound appeared to move rapidly away, shifting from nearby to much farther within seconds while crashing through brush. Frightened despite being accustomed to the dark, the pair left without seeing the source and returned to their truck.
Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.
Movement only near Torrington, Connecticut
The witness and a friend on the porch sensed something very large and heavy running in a straight line across the field behind the house without seeing it.
Shriek heard in PA woods in early 70's
Three teenagers were camping by a fire near a pine grove on a farm property. They heard intermittent branch-breaking and movement approaching and receding, then a single loud inhuman scream. They fled to the house without seeing anything and reported no odor or sense of being followed.
Several possible incidents over the years in the Allegheny National Forest
In March 2014 while staying at a cabin with four companions, the witness went alone to a nearby meadow after dark to look at stars. The witness heard bipedal footsteps approaching up the slope, called out twice with no reply, and the steps paused then stopped at the lane edge. As the witness walked back past that spot, brush shuffled as if something turned to watch, but all companions were still inside and had heard nothing.
Vocalization near Connellsville, Pennsylvania
About five days after the sighting, the witness walking the same path heard a loud grunting and bushes shaking loudly as something got closer.
Wood knock
One night the witness heard rustling behind old equipment, walked toward it with a flashlight and heard a distinct knock.
Scream
On a senior campout in 1985 the witness heard screaming noises that seemed to circle the camp late at night.
Movement only
As children the witness and a friend were chased from the woods by something unseen running behind them that they could hear breathing.
Unidentified sound
Same night after fleeing, the witness and companion heard prolonged movement, branch breaks, and tree and bush shaking in a different forested area without seeing eyeshine.