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Odor in Ohio (2001)
During a July camping trip at Beaver Creek State Park, the guest hit trees with a staff and then a strong foul odor appeared. Around 2:30 a.m. a large limb whooshed through still air and thudded near camp. The next night something handled a food box, crackled a tarp, urinated by a tree, left a tarp corner neatly folded, and left a rolled ball of pine pitch on a tent.
Whistle in California (1999)
Shortly after graduation the witness and three friends camped overnight in a vacant house and were tormented by whistles and loud bangs on windows all night. They found the house completely destroyed when they returned the next day. On a dusk return with shotguns they saw trailers upslope, heard the whistle again, and a large rock was thrown at them, prompting gunfire before they fled.
Possible prowling at TinkerBrook shelter in Calvin Coolidge State Forest
The witness and a relative camped overnight in a remote lean-to shelter in a forested ravine. After going to sleep, both were awakened by repeated knocking and pushing sensations against the shelter that continued intermittently until about 3 a.m. The witness checked outside with a flashlight but saw nothing, and a morning search found no damage or tracks, so they left without staying another night.
Wood knock near Burkeville, Texas (1995)
The witness recalls odd activity while the family lived on the property in the mid-1990s and around 2001. Back doors were found open, wood knocks were heard, stick structures were seen, and something was heard walking beyond the treeline. No creature was clearly seen during this period.
Young man has sighting near home
The witness was looking after his girlfriend and her younger brother when the locked front door knob was jiggled. After leaving to call police from his parents’ house, he stepped outside with a flashlight and saw a tall off-white muscular human-shaped figure standing in the weedy field in moonlight. The figure vanished when he raised the light again, and he later found the weeds mashed down where it stood.
Sasquatch sighting in Michigan (1991)
The witness returned to his family's remote cabin to find belongings disturbed and sensed a presence in a front bedroom. After retrieving his shotgun he heard the screen door slam and searched outside without seeing anyone. He then walked to the lake to call to relatives fishing offshore, and on returning spotted a hairy biped rushing from behind a tree and diving into the water. He waited several minutes but it never surfaced, then found a fresh bare footprint with clear toe detail at the water's edge.
Hikers find footprints and see 10 foot tall creature outside home
The witness and a companion found very large footprints and broken branches while hiking and felt watched and followed back to the companion's house. The next morning the witness, sleeping on a couch by large front windows, saw a very tall brown human-like hairy creature in the clearing outside. After watching for several minutes, the creature approached, climbed a bank, and struck the house wall hard enough to wake the companion.
Paranormal encounter in South Dakota (1989)
The witness and his father were awakened around 2 a.m. by knocking at their motel door. Looking through the peephole they saw a tiny elderly woman outside, but when the door was opened she was suddenly a football field away. They followed tiny boot prints across a field into the woods for a quarter to half a mile until the tracks abruptly stopped.
Memory of 3 hairy fingers sliding under the front door outside Nauvoo
The witness was watching television in the living room at night while a relative worked outside. The unused front door began to move and its knob turned, and three long hairy fingers with long black nails slid under the gap at the bottom for several minutes. When the fingers withdrew the movement stopped, and the relative later said he had not touched the door.
Footsteps in Washington (1987)
In 1987 the witness was deer hunting and camping in eastern Washington. After the group left him alone at a logging road camp, he heard bipedal footsteps approach his tent at night, felt something strike the tent, then heard movement near his car and a log being torn apart in a gully before fleeing by vehicle to the highway. A night or two later he returned with a hunting companion and both heard multiple chattering, tonal and clicking vocalizations from different directions surrounding the camp.
Paranormal encounter near Belvedere, Illinois (1986)
After moving into a rented house by a hospital, the family heard night noises and found objects moved. Coming home one night, the witness and a parent both saw a human-like silhouette in the hallway that fled and vanished. Days later the front doorknob turned and the door opened by itself, and a parent reported being tapped on the shoulder with no one there. They left and later learned others had also left quickly and neighbors had seen lights and shadows when empty.
Dogman sighting near Decatur, Illinois (1984)
Late on a bright-moon winter night after the house had been quiet, a thunderous bang shook the wall. The guest looked up and saw a dog-like face with a white toothy grin and yellow eyes looking down through the upper pane, nose pressed to glass. After staring, it slid toward the open window above his head making a squeak on glass, banged the wall again, and the guest fled to the living room couch. He avoided the room, kept curtains closed, and the family moved that spring.
Man tells of his two encounters 30 years apart
The witness reports waking at first light as a child while sleeping on the floor of a relative's house and seeing a figure pass the bedroom window, then look in. The figure reportedly reached an arm through the open window, took jewelry from a dresser, and fled when an adult moved in bed. Adults in the house reportedly said the creature had been around for years and was harmless.
Memory told of strange incidents while alone at a family hunting camp near Cornell
Late at night the witness was alone in the family's hunting camp when something repeatedly struck the window and screen and then dragged down the side of the building. He searched outside with a flashlight and rifle but saw no one, noting no trees were close enough to hit the cabin and the access gate remained locked. Frightened, he packed up and left that night without identifying the cause.
Footsteps heard outside of camper trailer near Bear Valley National Bald Eagle Refuge
The witness and a young relative spent the night in a camp trailer near the family house. Over several hours at night they heard heavy bipedal footsteps circling the trailer, brushing and clawing sounds on the siding, door and ceiling vent, and later blows to the trailer. The witness reported a brief glimpse of a long shaggy finger-like shape through the vent screen, and said the sounds withdrew when a car approached and returned later.
Bigfoot rips door off of home. Witness has to flee from home
Late one night the witness was sitting on the porch at home alone with a dog when something was heard breaking through brush. The witness went inside for a rifle, heard the thing move to the back of the house and try the door, then fled through an orange grove, fell into a swamp and lost the rifle. After looking back and seeing a creature, the witness reached the road and got help, and friends later found the back door torn off.
Family has encounters with a large, hair covered creature just on the edge of Wayne National Forest
Late one spring night in 1979, the witness and a sibling were in bed in a downstairs bedroom when they saw a tall hairy figure looking in the window and then at the back door apparently trying to get inside. Their mother also saw the figure at the back door and called out for help before contacting the sheriff. Deputies searched the surrounding woods but reportedly found only a burned area of ground from apparent vomit and a small knocked-down tree.
Husband and wife have bedtime visitors at their window near Emily
One evening in September 1978 around 10:30 p.m., the witness and his wife were going to bed when something was noticed outside their bedroom window. After turning on the light, they reported seeing three bipedal creatures with widely spaced orange-rimmed eyes peering through the screen, one stooping to look in. The visitors then made a loud vocal sound and left walking bent forward.
Sighting by a fisherman at night near Kilgore, and separate nighttime sighting by a family in a mobilehome
The witness, a child at the time, was inside a mobile home with family and a family friend late at night. A heavy thud on the side and prolonged pounding on the door were heard, and the friend saw a tall hair-covered figure looking in through a window. The group hid and screamed, called for help, and the noises stopped; prints were found outside the next morning.
Hunters hear nighttime vocalization on Belltown Hill, near the north shore of the Clarion River in the Allegheny National Forest
The witness and two relatives were playing poker inside a hunting cabin at night when a loud bang struck the side door followed by an unfamiliar loud scream-howl from outside. They armed themselves and opened the door with flashlights but saw nothing, only hearing something walk away into the woods and smelling a wet-dog-like odor. They chose not to follow it.