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Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.
Odor near Keene Valley, New York
Earlier the same night the witness and his wife went outside with two dogs, smelled a strong musky odor, and the dogs became fearful and wanted inside.
Footsteps near Wellsville, New York
The same witness returned to the same trail years later with a different companion, heard movement in the swamp, smelled a powerful odor, experienced sudden silence, and felt followed while leaving.
Odor near Mt Wachusett, Massachusetts
Two days later the witness returned to the same spot, saw nothing but noticed a distinct animal-like odor.
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While hunting behind the cabin in early November, the witness and a companion encountered an overpowering putrid smell for about 100 feet and felt watched.
Wood knock near Kane, Pennsylvania
Over about seven years, group members reported hearing knocks, loud branch breaks and large bipedal footsteps, smelling foul odors and feeling watched without seeing a creature.
Vocalization
While walking at dusk near a stream the witness and two companions smelled compost and urine and then heard a deep hollow groan, after which the smell vanished.
Property disturbance near Columbia County
The witnesses found shed windows smashed and noticed a strange odor about a week before the main event.
Odor near Frugality, Pennsylvania
The witness and a companion visited the hunting area the day before the season to set up stands and noticed a heavy musty odor.
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A couple months later the witness and a neighbor smelled a brief putrid odor near an outdoor fire but saw and heard nothing.
Teens have scary encounter in abandoned creamery near Sussex
Two teenagers exploring an abandoned creamery had the companion climb a ladder to the upper floor, where he reported a foul smell and hairy legs behind a box. Both then heard heavy running overhead with ceiling boards moving, and saw a large hairy figure break through a wall, cross a roof, and appear directly after loading doors blew open. They watched it run away through a cornfield for several seconds until it went over or through a fence and disappeared.
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Earlier in the same outing the witness, her husband and dog smelled a musty mildew odor near a pond and trail and turned back.
Whistle
As children the witness and a companion repeatedly heard whistles, had small stones tossed near them, and found a bedding area, large footprints and a wet-dog odor in woods on a circular trail.
Odor near Cape May, New Jersey
The reporter recalls smelling a very strong foul wet-animal-like odor on the deck in winter about two years earlier.
Odor near Street, Maryland
The witness, a relative and the landowner occasionally smelled the creature's scent on the wind annually in fall months.
Odor near Street, Maryland
Later the same year after dusk the witness found a relative knocked to the ground and then smelled a pungent odor and heard heavy breathing and footsteps retreating through woods and across a creek.
Odor
The witness and spouse smelled a wet-animal sulfur odor near their home on several nights when dogs also avoided the property edge.
Odor
The witness had previously seen piles of rocks and smelled a similar but weaker body odor.
Odor
The next morning the witness smelled the same foul odor in the home garden where the moss had been placed while the dogs sniffed the ground.
Odor near Roxboro, North Carolina
The witness smelled a strong dumpster-like odor while working at the back of the property.