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Unidentified sound
The guest and a companion sat out around 2 a.m. and heard a faint rhythmic beating like an Indigenous drum with chant-like vocal sounds. It recurred three or four times within about an hour. The guest later found the sounds on his recorder tied in a tree.
Footsteps in New Jersey
The witness and his partner parked in a refuge at night and made vocal calls. Heavy footsteps approached the van and a dark figure was seen through reeds. After leaving and returning, whoop calls were exchanged. The partner declined to return after that.
Wood knock in Florida
A larger group walked away from a noisy camp toward a river with lights out. They heard a clear knock, then later review revealed laugh-like and jabbering sounds and another coyote-like yell. Two close wood snaps were also recorded.
Growl near Pine Glen Campground
Alone at Pine Glen Campground, the witness set up his camera and immediately heard a loud growl. Birds were chirping in summer conditions, but scanning with the camera revealed nothing around. The growl was captured on camera audio.
Scream in Washington
After playing a wedding, the witness drove into the mountains with a recorder and stood on a road when loud calls erupted below. A nearby deer began snorting in alarm and a large heat signature moved behind him on thermal. He backed against his vehicle ready to leave.
Unidentified sound in Oklahoma
Old tape recorders left unattended in remote woods captured a truck leaving, then hours later a several-minute conversation between two women and on another tape distant drumming-like sounds with no known people present.
Chatter in Washington
About three weeks before the interview the witness and a friend overnighted in the truck in a different part of the valley. They recorded chatter and whooping audio and found a footprint in thick moss. No creature was seen.
Howl near Kendall County
During a fall visit with abundant hogs, the witness and a visitor experienced heightened activity. A recording captured multiple loud howls at once while barbecuing. The visitor was later chased from the woods to a vehicle, and the pair were growled at, more aggressive than prior encounters.
Scream in Ontario
During a fall camping excursion near a major park, the team placed a recorder deep in forest to avoid human noise. It captured a one-off loud scream around 2 a.m. after rain had cleared other campers. The witness felt no person could have made it and likened it to a hominid.
Chatter in Ontario
The team recorded a continuous chatter vocalization in a large southern provincial park. The witness describes it as extremely primate-like and ongoing screaming. He sent it to primatologists without explanation.
Wood knock in Ontario
The witness describes a fall investigation in a remote forest north of the city. A prior night vigil yielded stomps, calls, knocks and sounds of something circling camp. Follow-up reconnaissance found sharpened sticks staked across a game trail, tracks along a nearby river, and a very tall teepee structure the next day.
Footsteps in Washington
Audio recorders left around camp overnight captured three loud steps described as booms. On playback the sound was described as seeming to say a team member's name between pounds. The guest notes the recorder was placed just below where he had been sleeping.
Vocalization in Missouri
While at camp one night the witness had a recorder placed three-quarters of a mile away. During audio review the witness heard his own distinct laugh on the distant recorder, though the sound could not have traveled that far normally. He interprets it as possible mimicking.
Vocalization in Missouri
After previously recording a deep backup-alarm-like sound in the early morning, the witness demonstrated the beep sound at camp while a recorder ran on the truck. Something in the woods answered with matching beeps after each demonstration, four times in about 15 minutes. Additional similar sounds were recorded after the group left recorders past midnight.
Vocalization in Missouri
In the spring following the first grunt recording, the witness used the same technique of leaving a recorder on the truck during a day exploratory hike. A second similar grunting incident was recorded in the same area.
Chatter
On a day scouting trip the group followed a possible trail to a structure and left a drop-box recorder in a tree at 3 p.m. Audio review later revealed unusual chatter and activity. That night a hike produced distant screams and a large parabolic at camp recorded bipedal walking.
Tracks in Missouri
The same truck-driver couple described ongoing activity at a cabin property they bought about three years ago on the outskirts of Mark Twain National Forest. After a few months all regular wildlife stopped visiting, and motion cameras began triggering nightly around 10-11 with nothing visible but low growls and a distant siren-like scream that set dogs barking. They also found footprints with toe ridges, fresh tree breaks, bent and intertwined trees, and a semi-circular stacked-log structure of large broken trees behind the property.
Vehicle contact in Washington
The film crew parked an RV at the mountain encounter area during rainy weather and sent one member up the hill. Later they recorded tapping sounds on the vehicle, saw a possible light on night vision, and heard distant vocalizations. Around early morning two members heard a deep growl very close to the vehicle and retreated inside.
Vocalization
Around 2 a.m. the guest heard clicking and movement around tents and vehicles. After hours of activity, something lifted a Dutch oven lid, charged 30 feet, pushed a fist through his tent window and then pushed its face inches from his. He held a pistol, heard a voice telling him to kick his legs, did so, and the group left chirping. Urine, prints and handprints were found.
Vocalization in Texas
While the group talked around a campfire, a recorder left about one hundred twenty yards away captured what sounded like two individuals communicating. The recording was described as clear monkey-like talk rather than screams. The witness offered to share the audio for cleanup and analysis.