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in 2013 while closing up our chickens Place not stated Related account #43963

Tree break

While closing chickens in 2013 the witness and a companion heard loud limb-breaking in thick brush, and the companion later heard a loud unfamiliar holler nearby.

Tree breakVocalization
about 2 years ago Place not stated Related account #28005

Structure or nest

About two years earlier a relative found bamboo cleared from a stand area and stacked teepee-style against a rock wall.

Structure or nest
the following year Place not stated Related account #882

Tracks

The witness reports similar tracks appeared in the snow the following year but no photographs were taken.

Tracks
BFRO YEAR: 1990-1994? Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee Class B #882

Young Man finds footprints in snow

As a boy walking in snow on a relative's farm, the witness claims to have found adult-sized human-like footprints with four toes on each foot in an open field near a road. No photos were taken and similar tracks were noted the following year. The witness also describes hearing an unidentified scream years later and now wonders whether the two incidents could be related.

Tracks
BFRO YEAR: '92-'93 Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee Class B #11682

Young men have frightening vocalization incident near Stones River

The witness and two companions hiked a horse trail along a river at night. They heard repeated loud branch breaks that seemed to follow them as they tried to leave. At the base of a bluff area they heard an extremely loud scream that echoed down the river, then ran to a nearby house where they heard the scream again from the woods.

Tree breakUnidentified soundScreamOdor
after a rain Lawrenceburg, Lawrence County, Tennessee Related account #24547

Tracks near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Immense human-like footprints were commonly seen in bare dirt yard after rain, large enough to fully contain an adult's shod foot.

Tracks
four days later Flat Woods, Linden, Perry County, Tennessee Related account #30748

Tracks near Flat Woods, Linden, Tennessee

The witness returned four days later and found a footprint larger than his own size-twelve shoe.

Tracks
weekend of the 11th and 12th Place not stated Related account #26307

Tracks

Witness on a solo day hike found a large human-like footprint on the Round Knob trail the previous weekend.

Tracks
Approximately 3 or 4 years later Place not stated Related account #29704

Odor

Years later the witness and a companion returned to the mountaintop area, smelled the same foul odor and found similarly snapped-off trees, then left.

OdorTree break
BFRO YEAR: 1978-79 KNOXVILLE, Franklin County, Mississippi Class A #12122

Morning sighting by hunter in Homochitto National Forest near Knoxville

The witness was deer hunting in the morning and waiting against a tree when a nearby deer spooked. He then heard heavy breathing and saw a tall hair-covered upright creature standing a few feet behind him. He fled leaving his gun, then returned with two companions to find large three-toed tracks leading to a creek.

Full-body sightingVocalizationTracks
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #1338

Tree break

The witness group found small trees knocked down and laid across each other in the woods.

Tree break
fall/winter of 1977/78 Place not stated Related account #1338

Tracks

Alone as a teen the witness found a fence knocked down and large human-like tracks leading to the road and back.

TracksProperty disturbance
about 1973 during the fall Place not stated Related account #1338

Scream

As a child the witness with family on the porch heard a shrill scream, the dog fled in terror, and a partial footprint was found the next day.

ScreamTracks
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #9567

Tree break

The witness noticed live fresh trees blocking old logging roads.

Tree break
BFRO YEAR: 1991 & 2008 Varnado, Washington Parish, Louisiana Class B #25548

A hunter recalls finding giant footprints as a boy, and recently heard a strange vocalization while hunting hogs late at night on the outskirts of Varnado

Family members found a line of large human-like footprints in sand that started at a lake, went up a steep sand bank, and continued toward a thick swamp. The prints were described as about 16 inches long with a very long stride of about eight feet. The discovery was reported in summer 1991 after a relative noticed the tracks by the lake.

Tracks
For years after this Place not stated Related account #6530

Tree break

Trees with bark missing from the ground up have been found for years after the main event.

Tree break
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #2080

Tree break

The family noted bark scraped from a tree too high for a deer, of unknown relation to other incidents.

Tree break
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #2080

Structure or nest

The family found ground under a rotted tree that looked packed with straw with small neat piles of bones and feathers.

Structure or nest
over a period of years Place not stated Related account #2080

Tracks

Over years the family repeatedly found large four-toed prints with wide spacing on the dirt road behind the house, including an imprint in soft rock and a smaller set that grew, plus light-brown hairs on barbed wire that were saved.

TracksHair
Early February Colfax, Grant Parish, Louisiana Related account #56576

Tracks near Colfax, Louisiana

In early February the witness mowed a path across the street, found a fresh large footprint, photographed the area, then heard human-like sloshing in the swamp and left.

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