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Woman recalls childhood experience of a terrifying night-time encounter while camping near Kennecott Copper mine
A family group of six was inside a large tent at night during a thunderstorm when they smelled an overpowering odor and heard loud screaming approach. A large hairy figure stood over the tent, visible in lightning flashes, screaming for several minutes while the occupants huddled in fear. An adult companion left the tent, apparently confronted the creature amid scuffling and growling, then returned pale and blocked the zipper until dawn when the group left.
Vocalization in Utah (1970)
The witness describes repeated nighttime experiences from childhood into late teens where he would fall asleep and wake up outside in a field without knowing how he got there. He recalls bruises, a sensation of being held, seeing his own body from above, a bright light in his face, feeling restrained, and hearing voices urging him to come outside. The episodes stopped after he left for college, with tapping on windows and scratching also reported.
Man recalls possible encounter at a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside Salt Lake City
In August 1964 two teenagers were walking back to a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon after dark when they heard footsteps matching their movements and a low unearthly growl. They ran through a gully to the cabin and locked themselves inside. They then heard the nearby outhouse door open and slam, saw nothing when they turned on an outside light, later heard the door fling open with crashing in brush, and spent the night upstairs.
Footsteps in Utah
The witness's male coworker said he was doing water testing and sleeping in a van with a trailer at a remote reservoir with a work partner. He awoke to fast approaching footsteps, then felt the van jerk up as something jumped on the trailer tongue and saw a shadowy face with dread-like hair look into the window. Both men immediately drove out through the locked gate and saw no one else.
Unidentified sound in Utah
A couple of weeks after the camping trip the witness returned to the same general area with his brother to scout for hunting. While sitting near a small lake they repeatedly heard sounds of rocks or boulders being moved nearby every few minutes. They did not investigate and left without seeing what made the noise.
Tracks in Utah
While following a large bear track with an owner's hounds wearing GPS collars, the dogs bayed at the canyon bottom then went completely silent and could not be located. Months later the owner returned from another direction, recovered collars and smashed bones shoved under a large rock, suggesting the dogs were killed together.
Scream in Utah
While staying in a trailer with two coworkers late at night, the witness and others heard a female voice crying for help and bare feet running toward them. Something hit the trailer wall and rattled the locked door while the voice continued, then walked away through the woods. Older campers nearby separately reported someone pulling on their tent that night.
Dogman sighting in Utah
The witness was night fishing with his brother and a friend when movement in dense cattails prompted him to throw concrete that struck something with a loud thud and exhale. They saw high amber-red eyeshine, then fled to their lifted pickup as a large snout-faced biped chased them. It reached toward the tailgate and kept pace on two and four legs for several hundred yards until they detoured around the lake to escape.
Whistle near Paiute County
The witness and a companion were hunting in a remote hard-to-reach area and gave whoops. They received a loud distinct whistle reply and later heard tree knocks. A distant dog barking and two distant whoops were captured on a recorder.
Scream in Utah
The witness, working as a hunting guide in southeastern Utah, waited alone for deer in a canyon in the evening. He heard prolonged loud screaming that frightened two distant guides away. After dark with a dead flashlight, he hiked up the canyon trail toward the sound and faced a tall silhouette blocking the trail before it moved aside and let him pass.
Howl in Utah
The witness went with family at night to watch the ranch from a hill after getting directions at a gas station. They heard close coyotes, saw blue fog spread over the fields, later saw carousel-like lights in the sky and a fighter jet, and on roads nearby saw house dogs walking with a coyote. Security spotlight and guards chased them from the gate.
Sasquatch sighting near Logan, Utah
The witness went with family at night to look for Bigfoot on a dirt road. He felt dread, shone a flashlight into a hillside and saw a pair of huge widely spaced amber eyes about fifteen feet away. After a slow blink and a powerful huff, the eyes vanished, shots were fired into the ground and the group ran to the car where a ranger warned of dangerous things.
Sasquatch sighting in Utah
Through a thermal camera the witness watched two figures crouching across a river for about twenty minutes. One stood, moved back about forty feet and crouched again while the larger belly-crawled behind a bush. A loud knock like a tree knock was heard without visible movement.
Sasquatch sighting in Utah
Looking through a thermal camera the witness saw two figures on their bellies that rose to a crouch on their haunches on either side of a tree about two hundred feet away while knocks, whoops, whistles and rock clacking were heard. By the time he rigged his phone to record through the thermal they had dropped back down and the recording shows almost nothing.
Whistle in Utah
After dark on top of a mountain the witness tried to descend switchbacks while his dogs kept running off toward whistling, branch-breaking and thrown objects. He felt three individuals flanking and closing in with stomping and an overwhelming sense of dread. He prepared to call his spouse to say goodbye and had no flashlight.
Sasquatch sighting in Utah
Later the same day while on a road with his dog, the witness heard stomping, whooping and a stick break uphill. About thirty feet away a very small black child-like figure stood from behind a stick structure, squatted rapidly and flipped its head back and forth. It then threw its arm forward and dashed away.
Sasquatch sighting in Utah
While filming in the woods the witness heard talking-like sounds and then saw part of a brown figure leaning from behind a large tree in daylight. He spoke to it trying to calm it, and it quieted briefly before breaking objects and other unseen individuals flanked him. He then left the area.
Footsteps in Utah
The witness was camping with friends in a Utah canyon and became separated alone in the woods while playing a nighttime game. After hearing a grunt and a deep growl and seeing an arm wrap around a tree, he watched a tall, muscular, thin-haired biped step between trees while staring at him. He fled toward approaching headlights, fell down a drop to the road breaking his collarbone, and was picked up by a passing couple who took him to a ranger station.
Wood knock in Utah
While elk hunting, the witness heard with a bionic ear a sharp knock followed by muffled knocks and occasional dog-like barks from a steep juniper mountain with no campers present. A pack of coyotes barked then stopped while the knocking continued. He theorized a Bigfoot was knocking cones from pines, smashing them, and eating ripe pine nuts.
Sasquatch sighting in Utah
The witness's younger sister and friends heard labored breathing outside the house and went to check. She saw a dark silhouette walking along the edge of the house and turning the corner by her window, after which the group screamed and ran inside.