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Friends hear late night scream near Garberville
After returning late from a dance, three people sitting indoors heard a loud wailing cry from bluffs across the road that rose in pitch and lasted several minutes. Frightened, they stayed inside with doors locked for the night. The next morning two of them found a freshly cleared, trampled area on the blufftop where trees had been pulled from the ground, with a strong smell but no tracks due to hard ground.
Bowhunter and wife abandon deer when threatened by large, unseen animal
The witness and spouse were bow hunting in timber when something unseen followed them, starting and stopping as they moved. After the witness shot a deer, the follower vocalized loudly and thrashed brush and trees while pursuing them downhill. The pair abandoned the deer and left the timber, with the follower continuing to vocalize behind them to the timber edge.
Teen has daytime sighting near Myers Flat
The witness was hunting with two friends and hid alone in berry bushes to startle them. While waiting, the witness smelled a strong odor and saw a large hairy biped stand up nearby and walk away through thick brush, hearing snapping and leaf crunch as it left. The witness ran to the friends and later returned with them to find a squatted feeding spot and small broken trees.
Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque
In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.
Twist
The witness reported small trees twisted together in various places and pine branches broken off and stacked neatly on a trail in mid-January 2007.
Tracks
A couple years earlier the witness group found footprints in snow and shredded bark on standing trees and submitted photos for review.
Footsteps
While fishing with a companion the witness heard heavy footsteps approaching from a mountainside with repeated loud wood breaks but saw no animal.
Scream
Three campers on a mountainside west of Goat Lake were awakened late at night by screaming from below and violent shaking of trees or branches.
Unidentified sound
Earlier that afternoon while sitting on shore, the witness and companion heard sharp cracking sounds followed by a tree falling despite calm conditions.
Property disturbance
Two years ago the witness found all first-season pears gone and fruit-bearing branches broken high in a young tree.
Tracks near Wilson Mills, ME/ Errol, Maine
The witness returned to the site with two additional people to view the track and noted a high break in a healthy tree.
Hunters find scat and have large rock thrown at them
While hunting near a lake in the fall of 1970, the witness reported a strong musky odor, unusual large and small scat, rhythmic thumping with ground vibration, and a large dead tree falling nearby while alone. The next day the witness returned with a companion, encountered the thumping and shaking again, and a large rock flew over their heads, after which they left the area.
Tracks
The witness and a companion found very long footprints and broken high branches while hiking and felt watched and followed home.
Wood knock
A family member walking in the woods felt watched, heard loud repeated wood-on-tree strikes, and found a muddy human-like footprint and stripped cedar bark.
Tree break
The witness found several living trees and branches at various heights twisted apart or split within a small area.
Tree break
A year later the witness found three healthy trees broken off high at the camp entrance with tops folded over still attached.
Tree break
The same witness reports an earlier incident while hiking where something smashed trees and produced loud click-like noises.
Tree break near Becket, Massachusetts
The witness heard a loud branch break and later found a freshly broken 3-4 inch diameter branch near the stand.
Tree break
After a party member imitated a howl on the rear deck one spring evening, a very large tree limb was heard snapping down the slope behind the cabin.
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.