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Strange encounter at night with something on all-fours outside Leona by Boggy Creek
Late at night the witness ran into her yard ringing a bell and yelling to chase coyotes away from her cats, when something in the darkness growled back at her. She retrieved her truck and aimed its headlights into shrubs by the driveway, revealing a gray long-haired animal. It jumped a barbed-wire fence and ran on all fours through tall grass as she followed by truck before it veered toward a creek and disappeared.
Possible nighttime activity while camping and a chimp-like animal seen lifeless in the road near New Era
Four people were camping overnight when the witness awoke around 3 a.m. to sounds described as rocks being struck together. The witness woke a companion as loud crashing and branch-breaking circled the campsite for several minutes before moving off into the woods. No vocalizations or odor were noted, and the group left early in the morning without investigating the area.
Possible nighttime sighting outside a home near Christopher Creek
The witness was staying alone in a trailer and went uphill to check what triggered a house motion light. He reports seeing a giant upright human-like silhouette near the house that made a loud howl/scream/growl directed at him before turning toward the forest. He ran back to his trailer and found no clear footprints the next morning due to dry ground.
Midnight vocalizations disturb camping family near Mormon Mountain
The witness was camping with family in old-growth pine forest on Mormon Mountain east of Flagstaff. After going to bed around midnight, repeated whooping yells were heard approaching within about 100 yards, circling the camp, then moving away over about ten minutes. The witness, a lifelong hunter, said he had never heard such sounds until later hearing similar vocalizations on a research website.
Three people report screams near Foresthill
The witness was camping with two relatives when they heard a resonant moaning wail off and on for hours. The sound seemed to move around the hillside and appeared to involve two sources calling to each other. The group searched with lights and by vehicle but saw nothing. The noises continued until the early morning when the group went to sleep.
16 year old has strange experience walking home
A teenager was walking a short distance between two houses on family property around midnight. He heard a loud thump nearby followed by sounds he interpreted as bipedal footsteps moving toward him. He ran to his house, locked the door, and stayed inside to calm down. He later recalled a musky smell in the area at the time.
Professor and students discover series of large footprints crossing high mountain trail
The witness was hiking with straggling students toward a mountain lake when they found a line of very large human-like barefoot prints crossing the trail at a right angle. The prints were described as huge, wide, unusually deep, and widely spaced on a steep snowy slope, heading away from the lake. The witness told the students the prints were probably enlarged hiker tracks but privately regarded them as extremely unusual.
Strange, loud animal howls heard by resident near Gnesen
The witness stepped into the yard on a Sunday night and heard frantic dog barking and wolf howling overlain by loud, prolonged wailing unlike any known animal. The wailing source held position briefly then moved rapidly northeast around the lake, causing underbrush disturbance and loud ice crushing before falling silent. The background animals also fell silent, then erupted again minutes later without the wailing resuming.
Large footprints found by individual while he was repairing a fence.
The morning after dogs repeatedly barked toward the woods overnight, a resident found fence wires pulled down and a large print in sandy soil near the fence. He searched downhill and found a second similar print on a creek sandbar. The family reported the finds, and investigators visited that afternoon and measured both prints.
Hiker encounters intimidating beating sounds and heavy running footsteps
The witness parked to hike a closed-area trail and heard loud, fast drumming sounds from two directions that could be felt as percussion. After smelling a strong unfamiliar musky odor, the witness heard and felt heavy footsteps moving rapidly through brush ahead and then across a second trail as if cutting them off. The witness fled cross-country back to the vehicle without ever seeing the source and heard the drumming again near the vehicle.
Woman hears nighttime screams near Polk
The witness reports hearing a very loud high-pitched scream on two to three occasions in the middle of the night while awake in bed, once loud enough to wake her. On one occasion she woke her sleeping husband, who also heard the screeches. She first thought it was another animal but later wondered if it could have been a bigfoot.
Possible vocalizations heard while motorists were taking a break at turnout near La Manga Pass
Four people stopped at a turnout on Highway 17 ascending toward La Manga Pass in the morning. After one person in the party gave a whoop, they heard three loud roar-like vocalizations with pauses between them. They saw no source and left quickly, later noting the sounds resembled an Ohio howl recording and acknowledging a human trick was possible.
Unusual screams and thrashing sounds heard by 3 fishermen
Three companions were camping overnight for gigging and lying in a large tent trying to sleep when prolonged loud screams were heard from across a creek for about 30 minutes. They described the screams as deep-throated, lasting several seconds each, and coming from a large animal, but they stayed in the tent and saw nothing.
Footprints, sometimes in pairs, seen periodically on family property
The witness went out in daylight to check for deer tracks. On hard ground he found two sets of large human-like footprints that appeared to be trailing four to five deer from a northern swamp toward southern swamps. He described this as the first of many similar footprint finds.
Three hikers observe tracks while mountain biking on a trail in a canyon
While hiking a trail to mines with two companions, the witness found large five-toed human-like footprints in mud and sand, including a 13-15 inch track and smaller tracks, and took photos. On the return in lower light the witness found additional clearer tracks. When left alone on the trail the witness felt watched and hurried down.
Loud knocking of wood striking another piece of wood
The witness and a companion were walking back to a truck during a follow-up visit when they heard repeated loud wood-on-wood knocks coming from near the truck. After waiting and trying their own knocks without response, they heard something run through the woods sounding bipedal at a sprint. They stayed by the truck until another vehicle arrived and then left.
Two campers hear morning vocalization near Galeton
The witness had spent two days at a friend's camp in Potter County and was preparing to leave. While heading toward a vehicle in the morning, the witness and the friend heard a single loud guttural scream unlike anything either had heard before. The sound was heard only once and was not heard again.
Motorist has a possible nighttime sighting west of Albion
Late at night the witness was driving home from work when a strong odor was noticed through an open vehicle window. The witness then saw a very large dark figure beside the road between a ditch and a field about 120 feet away in the headlights, moving upright and pausing as the vehicle passed. The witness was frightened and said the figure was not a coyote, wolf, or bear known from the area.
Strange calls and other possible bigfoot related activity experienced by investigators.
The witness found the remains of a shot and dumped hound at a town dump with soft tissue removed, chest ligaments stretched upward, skin peeled back, and no teeth marks on bones. A dark greasy foul-smelling spot lay inches away on hard ground. The witness inferred human-like hands were needed to open the chest and suspected a sasquatch was responsible.
Screams heard in mountians near hwy 680
The witness and a visiting companion were awakened in the home in the middle of the night by a loud unnatural howling that seemed to pass the house and fade into the distance over about ten seconds. They stayed inside and assumed at the time it was dogs or coyotes. The witness later shared the account after reading similar descriptions while still doubting it was Bigfoot-related.