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Scream
The witness and a close friend were living in a tent camp deep in the woods while hiding as runaways. After hearing strange noises for some time, they returned to find the camp destroyed by fallen trees and witnessed shaking trees and a large hairy creature moving on all fours that charged past them kicking sand. They hid in a hollow until sunrise, then fled the area and never spoke of the event for years.
Property disturbance near Fredonia, Arizona
Two nights later something allegedly shook the camp trailer repeatedly overnight and a low growl was heard.
Growl near Roanoke, Virginia
A woman near Roanoke experienced negative entity activity including attacks, apparitions, poltergeist activity, moans, growling and bad smells. A stranger with an official presence came to her door, claimed knowledge of what was happening in her house, and questioned her about it. She told him to leave and he left.
Vocalization in Michigan
A woman living near a large airport sent the witness audio of loud yelling and screaming. She also reported strange footprints, a presence in her barn, large crossed-tree blockages on trails, and small trees and flowers left on her porch after she cleared them. Contact was later lost without identifying the source.
Vocalization near Isabella County
Residents of a central Michigan farm reported frequent night vocalizations over several years. Recorders captured goat-like and horse-like sounds, breathing and banging on a food barrel, and loud knocks from the woods when people moved between buildings. The witness investigated possible human sources and found one distant caller to exclude, but did not see the source.
Footsteps near Hillsdale, Michigan
The witness volunteered as bait on a southern Michigan property while others monitored with microphones. Operators reported footsteps following the witness along a road. On other nights the group broadcast whale sounds and later recorded similar sounds unprompted, and daytime slapping on a garage was reported until cameras and lights were installed.
Woman tells of her husband's close encounter as a young man with "The Hermit" near Huntsville
About 1960, the submitter's husband and two school friends were spending a weekend night inside a relative's cabin when they felt watched and saw a tall hair-covered figure silhouetted by the open refrigerator light. The boys shouted and split up to flee to the car, with the husband reporting something running close behind him that he could hear breathing and smell strongly like moldy skunk. In hindsight he wondered whether the figure was also fleeing and had simply taken the same path.
Growl near Woodville, Texas
Several months before the main sighting, the witness and a relative heard a close low growl while feeding goats at night, around the time young goats and geese went missing and dismembered goats were found.
Paranormal encounter
On the same property as the bedside encounters, the household heard upstairs footsteps and saw chairs roll. The youngest cousin reportedly saw an apparition of a blood-covered man in the kitchen.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
The witness and several friends camped on family land in South Florida near the national park. At night they heard hisses, tree knocks and whoops, saw strange lights, then saw a group of large hairy bipeds that threw rocks, injured a friend, threw a large dog, and chased the group as they fled on ATVs. The next day the camp was found destroyed and the dog was found dead.
Dogman sighting
The witness heard a dog being killed in the driveway at night and went to the porch with a firearm. The witness saw a figure run behind a parked semi, then saw a clawed hand and a werewolf-like face peering around it and heard a deep growl. The witness froze and then dragged the injured dog inside. This followed a period of disappearing animals and scratching at windows.
Whoop in Florida
The witness set out alone on a multi-day hike through swamp trail and camped overnight in a hammock. During the night the camp was surrounded by unseen figures making vocalizations, knocks and walking sounds, and a food bag was knocked down. The next day the witness found large tracks, then encountered large dark hairy figures on and near the trail, one of which followed closely. The witness fled in panic to a highway rest stop and required medical care, reporting lasting distress and nightmares.
Odor in Virginia
The guest was awakened by a strong smell she associated with prior outside activity and shouted not to strike the balcony. She then moved to the kitchen side and heard something moving on the roof overhead. She described the period as a whirlwind of weirdness.
Property disturbance in Florida
As a boy in Florida, the witness took weighted trash cans out early in the morning. When he turned to walk back, the lid with a cinder block came off and he heard a clear voice in his head telling him they were not of this earth and to go home.
Footsteps near John Day, Oregon
The following fall archery opener, five hunters camped at the same site and the guest shot a buck in hot weather, butchering it and hanging the inedible carcass across the creek about nine feet up. After 10 p.m. they heard heavy footfalls and feeding grunts, fired guns to scare the animal, found the carcass pulled down, rehung it higher twice with the same result, then listened as it stripped rib meat requiring great grip strength. One companion left for Alaska afterward and the guest never returned to the area.
Vocalization
The primary witness camping with two young nephews fled at night during loud surrounding vocalizations and later found the camp torn apart.
Sasquatch sighting
An older resident living deeper in the woods reportedly met a grunting creature at trash barrels at night, found scattered trash, and heard screaming before daylight the next morning.
Wood knock
The witness's father and grandparents heard something outside their home, had the porch light knocked out, and heard knocks and sounds through the night.
Whistle in California
While logging on private timberland above the river, the witness heard whistles and knocks in the early morning and found crew lunches missing. The Native crew members refused to leave the vehicle until daylight. Years later the witness interpreted the sounds and missing food as Bigfoot activity.
Cryptid sighting in South Dakota
The guest's uncle was alone on Bear Butte on a multi-day vision quest holding his pipe. While dozing he heard two little voices planning to take the pipe and felt tugs on it. He woke growling and saw two six-inch-high little men with wide eyes who fled into the woods.