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Footsteps near Ottawa, Illinois
Over many years the household heard loud walking and branch breaking at night, noticed quiet beforehand and foul smell, and found footprints and damaged rabbit cages.
Growl
A few months later the reporter and a companion heard growling and heavy bipedal running approach them in a weedy backyard at night, smelled a terrible odor, and heard it outside a window.
Animal behaviour near Manteno, Illinois
The witness states he had previously felt watched, smelled the same pungent odor, and heard the same whooping noise on earlier fishing visits to the same site.
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.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
Witness and daughter repeatedly noticed foul odors near home, strange night noises, and waking simultaneously without known cause.
Scream
A neighbor living at the swamp edge reported hearing scream-like yells from the swamp and smelling a brief foul stench.
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.
Unidentified sound
Witness recalled earlier being frightened while hog hunting on landfill land by something big, loud and smelly, and losing dogs.
Hunter has unexplained, late night encounter while in small boat on Saddle Creek
Late at night the witness paddled a small boat up a creek with two dogs and heard something following on the bank, then a loud blowing noise. The dogs refused to go ashore and later barked intensely. The witness shone a light and saw a large ape-like figure running away over a hill, then noticed a group of tracks while leaving. A skunk-like brassy odor was noted before the sighting.
Year long sightings by family
The witness describes repeated nighttime visits to a rural property over about a year by a family of large hairy creatures that ate fruit, looked in trailer windows, and once bit a penned hog. The witness reports seeing three individuals of varying heights, hearing frequent chattering, noticing odor, tracks and hair, and attempting to hunt them without driving them away. After about a year the visits stopped, believed to have ended when habitat regrew.
Kayaker experiences frightening incidents while traveling down Yellow River
While kayaking a long stretch of river in northwest Florida near dusk, the witness heard moaning to yelling sounds and smelled a strong musky odor. Rocks were thrown from the treeline toward the water and near the kayak, while sticks and trees were heard breaking. The witness also heard coyotes and loud unidentified sounds suggesting animals fighting, felt followed for much of the trip, and never saw the source.
Odor
As a juvenile the witness was chased for about a quarter mile before dark by an unseen follower with a strong odor and grunting sounds and fled inside to get a rifle.
Sasquatch sighting
On the second morning the witness and a helper saw a dark biped step into the fence line, watched it about a minute, then it left while they heard movement.
Rock throwing
Area residents report rocks thrown at windows, unknown screams, whistles, and intermittent very bad odors.
Growl
On a night around 2 or 3 am at the witness's home, a loud low snarling was heard twice, a dog reacted fearfully, and a horrendous odor was noticed when a door was opened.
Young girls have daylight sighting near their home
The witness and a relative went to a play hut at the edge of the woods just after daybreak. They noticed a foul odor, heard something large moving and growling, and hid in a nearby gully. They then watched a very tall, broad, brownish-red haired biped with human-like shape approach the hut from 50 to 70 feet away before turning and walking away, after which they ran home.
Unidentified sound
While crawfish hunting with a companion on Turner River Road after an evening shower, the witness heard odd woods noises and smelled a methane-like odor that followed them for about 30 minutes until they left.
Howl near Ochopee, Florida
About a month later at the same camp, the group heard a howl in reply to the witness's call and later heard crashing, footsteps and smelled skunk-like odor.
Chatter
About a year later while jogging a few blocks north, the witness found a large bloodstain and a mangled domestic dog hidden in brush and heard unusual chattering he later said matched Sierra Sounds recordings.
Unidentified sound
The witness notes prior unspecified occasions hearing or smelling something unusual while in the woods.