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usually each summer and fall West Union, Adams County, Ohio Related account #58703

Howl near West Union, Ohio

The witness describes prior summer and fall overnight stays at the same cabin with nighttime howls, movement around the cabin, and gear disturbed.

HowlMovement onlyProperty disturbance
since September Place not stated Related account #821

Scream

The family reports being frightened three times since September with nighttime screams, torn fences, dumped feed containers, ripped doors and spooked animals.

ScreamProperty disturbanceAnimal behaviour
during his next camping trip Place not stated Related account #34312

Wood knock

On a later camping trip on family-owned land, the group heard knocks answered from the distance, whoops and grunts, violent shaking of bushes, and found branches stacked like a small shelter.

Wood knockWhoopVocalizationStructure or nestProperty disturbance
year round Vestaburg, Montcalm County, Michigan Related account #58621

Whoop near Vestaburg, Michigan

Relatives living with the witness report year-round whoops, yells, knocks, and one impact to the house described as sounding like a truck hit.

WhoopVocalizationWood knockProperty disturbance
Few nights ago Place not stated Related account #26782

Howl

A few nights before the sighting the witness smelled a skunky musty odor, heard weird howling, felt watched in the backyard, and noticed things had been moved.

HowlOdorProperty disturbance
while building the cabin Kalkaska, Kalkaska County, Michigan Related account #46401

Door or window contact near Kalkaska, Michigan

While staying alone in a trailer during cabin construction, the witness heard bipedal footsteps and a stick dragged along the exterior after something slapped the trailer, finding scrape marks, a large hand print in moss and a stick the next morning.

Door or window contactFootstepsHandprintProperty disturbance
Date unknown Allen, Hillsdale County, Michigan Related account #15187

Property disturbance near Allen, Michigan

On the same property, locked supply trailers were found open with pried siding and scratches, and stacked wood and pipe-like sounds were heard being tossed.

Property disturbanceUnidentified sound
Since that night Allen, Hillsdale County, Michigan Related account #15187

Vocalization near Allen, Michigan

Since the first night the witness and his wife repeatedly heard loud nighttime vocalizations, large movements in brush, banging on the trailer, and occasional dead-skunk odor.

VocalizationMovement onlyOdorProperty disturbance
about a year later Campbellsburg, Washington County, Indiana Related account #25793

Footsteps near Campbellsburg, Indiana

About a year later the same witness camped in the valley with companions, heard steps descend the valley wall and cross the creek into camp, had a cooler knocked over, and saw a large hairy head look into the tent before it left.

FootstepsPartial sightingProperty disturbance
the last 2 years Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana Related account #44166

Wood knock near Martinsville, Indiana

On return visits over the last two years the witnesses heard knocks and whoops, had food taken and found prints including in snow without visual contact.

Wood knockWhoopTracksProperty disturbance
a couple of nights Shipman, Macoupin County, Illinois Related account #41043

Unidentified sound near Shipman, Illinois

On several prior nights the witness heard banging on the back shed and found its door open.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbance
1980 to 1999 Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois Related account #36667

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.

FootstepsTracksOdorProperty disturbanceTree break
at 2 a.m. Utica, La Salle County, Illinois Related account #40476

Property disturbance near Utica, Illinois

The family was awakened at 2 a.m. by something banging two or three times on the outside wall of the house.

Property disturbanceUnidentified sound
A few years after these experiences Place not stated Related account #3474

Unidentified sound

A neighbor and a companion camping in a camper heard sounds, felt the camper sway and pounded on, then saw it run into the woods, leaving dents and scratches.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
Later in the week Ormond Beach, Volusia County, Florida Related account #12068

Vocalization near Ormond Beach, Florida

A few days later the witness returned with another person, placed a cantaloupe on the broken tree, heard a loud wheezing like a startled boar, and later found the cantaloupe hollowed out with intact shell.

VocalizationProperty disturbance
at this time last year Place not stated Related account #36112

Growl

A household reported strange nighttime growling and screaming culminating in a loud bang that shook the house and damaged siding.

GrowlScreamUnidentified soundProperty disturbance
Date unknown Hawthorne, Putnam County, Florida Related account #24893

Property disturbance near Hawthorne, Florida

A relative saw the trailer floor heave upward and noises were heard from the crawl space.

Property disturbanceUnidentified sound
BFRO YEAR: 74-75 Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida Class A #414

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.

Full-body sightingChatterOdorTracksHair +1
In 1988 or '89 Pasco County, Florida Related account #737

Footsteps near Pasco County

In the late 1980s the same group heard something walking through tall grass toward an abandoned house, heard something hit the house, fled, and the next day found a path through the grass and a damaged wall under a window.

FootstepsObject throwingTracksProperty disturbance
A few weeks after that Place not stated Related account #31153

Property disturbance

A relative went to feed the chickens at night when the shed was slapped loudly and heavy footsteps moved rapidly into the woods.

Property disturbanceFootsteps