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almost a year to the day, in October again Missouri EP 724

Vocalization in Missouri

The guest and his girlfriend were sitting outside a cave at dusk in October. They heard a loud gorilla-like sound from across the river. After the guest struck a tree with a log, his girlfriend heard something running uphill through leaves making repeated whoop sounds.

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Date unknown Missouri EP 724

Howl in Missouri

The guest and his girlfriend were walking back to their car from a cave at dusk. They heard four distinct howl-like vocalizations from different directions in succession. The guest felt they were not coyotes, dogs, or people.

Howl
about a year prior Missouri EP 724

Vocalization in Missouri

The boyfriend's father and a companion went at dusk to look at farmland near the river. They heard the same gorilla-like and howler-like sounds the guest described. As they tried to drive away something lifted the rear of their car, and the father saw only a hair-covered dome-shaped head and shoulders in the rear window before it dropped the car and they fled.

VocalizationVehicle contactPartial sighting
later that week Place not stated EP 70

Eyeshine

The officer and a deputy drove slowly through the area of the prior bike incident using patrol lights. They observed about eight sets of eyeshine at heights above six feet and were then roared at.

EyeshineGrowl
Date unknown Place not stated EP 70

Whoop

The officer was parked beside an orchard doing paperwork when he heard three whoop-like vocalizations. About five minutes later he heard three more whoops farther along the orchard. He initially dismissed the sounds.

Whoop
10 years ago, I think it was June, maybe, in the summer Florida EP 715

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.

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three years ago Chesley, Ontario EP 720

Sasquatch sighting near Chesley, Ontario

The witness stepped away from a group dinner at a remote family property to relieve himself. He noticed movement from a ditch and watched a tall thin hair-covered figure walk carefully then sprint across a field to avoid bright farm lights. The figure ran bipedally at remarkable speed before dropping to all fours and disappearing into the treeline.

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Date unknown Utah EP 704

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.

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Date unknown Utah EP 704

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.

ScreamFootstepsDoor or window contact
when I was a teenager in Granbury Granbury, Texas EP 705

Odor near Granbury, Texas

Walking home in the dark the witness smelled a terrible stink and heard slow footsteps approaching in the woods. When he jogged and looked back he saw a huge black mass at a tree archway with reflective glowing eyes. He sprinted home barefoot after losing his untied shoes and stopped visiting his friend after dark.

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Date unknown Lipan, Texas EP 705

Footsteps near Lipan, Texas

While walking alone down the dirt road the witness heard branches breaking then heavy elephant-like running steps behind him. Something kept pace with him in the trees with loud nasty huffing wheezing breathing. He ran home hyperventilating and his parents later found a pushed-over trail in the tall grass where something had run.

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Date unknown Lipan, Texas EP 705

Dogman sighting near Lipan, Texas

At his uncle's hillside house at night the adults saw something moving trees and went with guns to look. In a flashlight beam the witness saw a huge tall creature distinguished by massive upright pointed ears. His uncle fired a shotgun and it gave the same loud girthy scream heard on the Fourth of July, after which his father carried him running back to the house.

Partial sightingScreamTree break
A little later on, 4th of July Lipan, Texas EP 705

Scream near Lipan, Texas

After a ground artillery shell exploded during family fireworks, a loud blood-curdling scream came from the woods. The family dog that had ignored fireworks went on high alert. The father ended the fireworks and sent everyone inside.

Scream
Date unknown Place not stated EP 702

Howl

The witness led clients before dawn to an area where elk had been bugling the night before, but found total silence. At sunrise he bugled and heard a loud siren-like howl from the deep canyon, followed by repeated pounding like tree knocks or rocks. The group listened briefly then left to find elk.

HowlWood knock
Date unknown Place not stated EP 702

Sasquatch sighting

Three hunters walking out in rain and moonlight felt watched and heard steps above them. The witness hid and scoped a large figure crouching then standing on the hillside. They prepared to shoot, but one companion fled in panic, and the other two held fire because its posture looked manlike, then left to retrieve their friend.

Full-body sightingFootstepsAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Place not stated EP 702

Scream

While walking to a hunting point the witness heard loud screaming for help in the canyon but could not locate his brother or father. When he returned, neither had heard anything. His father later linked the area to an old cabin where a family was found dead, and the witness says he has heard the screaming two or three times near dusk.

Scream
a few months back around morel mushroom season Prairie City EP 702

Vocalization near Prairie City

The witness took his children to a burn area to pick morels. They heard a loud high-low holler followed by a heavy tree-impact thump. As they walked out, the witness heard bipedal footsteps following them to the vehicle, then drove away without seeing the source.

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Date unknown Virginia EP 697

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.

OdorFootstepsProperty disturbance
Date unknown Virginia EP 697

Vocalization in Virginia

After logging repeated overnight knocks and noises, the guest awoke to find the downstairs security light on. A deer stood on the patio sofa close to the house shaking and quivering, which she interpreted as fleeing something in the woods. She had begun keeping a written log because disturbances occurred almost nightly.

VocalizationWood knockAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Virginia EP 697

Scream in Virginia

A woman from the next wooded street approached the guest and husband in their yard to ask about weird nighttime screaming. She described it as sounding like someone murdering a woman and called it unnerving. The guest advised caution at night without naming a cause.

Scream