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Vocalization in New Hampshire
After the family guard dog died, the household noticed an absence of bears, deer and other animals and a series of odd events. Large and strategic trees blocked paths to the creek, owl-like hoots and coyote-like sounds approached each other then turned violent, and something breathed, growled, scraped and slapped at windows, trailer and shed, mostly when the witness worked nights. The other dog became afraid to go out alone.
Tracks
Two campers rode horses with pack mules to set up a remote deer camp and found a fresh large footprint crossing the trail, which they photographed. After arriving near sunset they heard rhythmic pounding and whooping sounds around camp. They retrieved tape recorders and began recording the sounds.
Scream
The witness describes ongoing activity at a hunting lease including screams, deer disappearing in mid-November to mid-December, and broken trees. A trackway across a drying pond was found with a long stride and one print was cast. Game cameras captured images and a height estimate was made by measuring at the site. A hunting partner also reported hearing multiple trees snap and feeling compelled to leave, with breaks later found several feet high.
Vocalization in Kansas
While walking near a creek the witness heard something wading bipedally through water and making a lip-rattling sound similar to one the witness often makes. The witness tried to parallel it to see through an opening but only caught a brief flash of light auburn hair. After circling, the witness found a wet step on a root and bark pulled back where something appeared to have climbed out, but saw nothing further.
Whoop
Another person stopped to photograph old equipment and over an hour heard hoots and screams, breaking limbs and thrown rocks from two directions before leaving.
Tree break near Malakoff Historical State Park Campgrounds, California
On the group's first night at the same campsite, they heard several distant tree breaks they dismissed as regular forest noises.
Wood knock
About a year later the same couple returned to Highway 128, made whoop calls, then heard wood knocks and tree breaks and smelled a dead animal/skunk odor for about three minutes.
Vocalization
About 12 years earlier the witness and a relative were deer hunting at daybreak when a strange-acting deer approached, they shot it, then heard a loud roar-growl turning into a scream, with branches breaking and limbs and large rocks thrown toward them until they abandoned the kill and left.
Unidentified sound
That night at camp after a companion made a mock howl, the party heard timber cracking and a large tree fell near camp.
Whoop near Clayton, Washington
On another afternoon something disturbed the roofless chicken pen with branch breaking and repeated whoops, leaving broken branches and causing chickens to roost higher.
Howl near STANWOOD, WASHINGTON [Property Address Removed By MM], Washington
One November night the witness heard five howls followed by two trees being knocked down, finding the downed trees the next morning.
Scream near Stanwood, Washington
The following evening the witness returned to the same spot with a friend and the same loud roaring and breaking sounds were heard again for several minutes before the friend left.
Tree break
The witness reported trees being uprooted and pushed over at night accompanied by screams.
Wood knock
While clearing trail, the witness heard weak knocks, exchanged loud knocks across water, left fruit on a stump, and later saw vegetation move; the fruit was gone next morning.
Scream
Camping with three companions, the witness followed mumbling sounds and watched blond and black animals including a female with an infant before a tree was broken.
Growl
The witness's other sons and friends were chased from a creek drainage by something crashing, throwing objects, growling and hollering, pushing over a small tree.
Vocalization
The witness reports several other encounters involving strange dialect sounds, whistles, stomping, branch breaking, a howl and pounding on a tree.
Scream
An antique dealer heard a loud moaning scream and something crashing through brush, with many broken branches found the next day.
Scream near Trout Lake, Washington
Four years earlier the witness camped at the same remote site with a companion and the companion's child and heard screams before dark, then after dark heard branch breaking and movement that shook the ground, garbage cans being disturbed, and a loud grunt.
Camper details possible encounters in 2005 and again in summer 2009 near Trout Lake
A group was camping overnight at a remote forested lakeside camp. After hearing distant screams that seemed to shift position and prolonged branch-breaking around camp, the witness stayed awake listening while others slept. The witness heard heavy running and breathing pass the RV and noticed moonlight through the windows dim briefly, then later the companion's son fled his tent to the RV reporting tree-banging, movement, darkness at the tent, and a voice imitation. No one saw anything, and the next morning knocking elicited whistle replies from the woods.