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Date unknown Place not stated EP 692

Structure or nest

In a hidden hollow the guest found teepee and larger stick structures, peeled bark, a twisted tree, and a shelter of sticker vines hooked over a bent young tree with another pole stuck in rocks. When he returned with others the structure was knocked down, the floor cleaned, and pieces moved, with new structures nearby.

Structure or nestTree breakTwist
one foggy morning Place not stated EP 692

Object throwing

On a foggy morning the dogs alerted at the usual crossing spot and again toward a fresh hunter gut pile. A large bottle flew off the ridge and shattered on a rock. After inspecting the pile and leaf trail, the guest returned to load the dogs and heard cracking followed by a huge tree falling to his left and shaking the ground.

Object throwingTree break
While taking a drive Place not stated Related account #1109

Tree break

While driving, the group noticed twisted and broken trees in the forest.

Tree breakTwist
about four more times before I killed a bird, spring turkey season Indiana EP 675

Tree break in Indiana

While sitting in a blind days later the witness heard an extremely loud tree snap like a gunshot on the ridge. After feeling he should leave, a second tree broke and he zipped out and drove away.

Tree break
this year during the rut Georgia EP 685

Tree break in Georgia

While checking cameras during deer season the witness found an arm-thick tree pulled over and broken at the base with no windstorm. It stood along his travel route in an area where lights had been reported.

Tree break
Date unknown Georgia EP 685

Tree break in Georgia

On an earlier hunt with his son-in-law the witness recalls another large tree pulled across a road with surrounding trees unaffected. He had noted it as odd at the time.

Tree break
a couple of days after that Sandpoint, Idaho EP 689

Tree break near Sandpoint, Idaho

While looking for huckleberries within sight of camp, the witness found a mid-sized tree snapped clean about eight feet up, with the long top section balanced across the stump. He noted no nearby fallen trees that could explain it and thought it looked placed. He said he took photos and video of it.

Tree break
Date unknown Sandpoint, Idaho EP 689

Tree break near Sandpoint, Idaho

During a calm, windless day while packing to leave, the group heard a loud crack and watched the top of a large healthy aspen fall near the river. The trunk was later found split diagonally at the base rather than uprooted. He initially rationalized it as a bear or moose pushing it, but now questions that.

Tree breakUnidentified sound
Date unknown Thorn Bay, Alaska EP 676

Tree break near Thorn Bay, Alaska

The witness reported finding several alder trees with breaks fifteen to eighteen feet up. The trees were four to five inches thick and could not easily be bent over. He and a companion could not explain how the breaks occurred.

Tree break
Date unknown Georgia EP 670

Tree break in Georgia

While descending into Jenkins Gap, the witness and a companion heard a live tree being pushed over despite no wind. They went to the bottom and found the pushed-over tree with no tracks. While standing at opposite ends examining it, both simultaneously heard and felt a rushing sound right beside them but saw nothing.

Tree breakUnidentified sound
June, four or five days stay Sawyer County, Wisconsin EP 671

Structure or nest near Sawyer County

While staying alone several days at the resort that was the site of a 2022 BFRO Class B report, the guest found a football-sized wet muddy rock deliberately placed atop a four to five foot boulder beside a game trail, and further down a roadside branch about eight feet up that looked twisted and snapped rather than cleanly broken.

Structure or nestTree breakTwist
Date unknown Sawyer County, Wisconsin EP 671

Footsteps near Sawyer County

As children fishing on the pier, the guest and his younger brother heard something crashing through the woods toward them with increasingly heavy footfalls sounding like trees snapping. Both simultaneously dropped their poles and ran crying to the cabin where their grandmother kept them inside.

FootstepsTree breakMovement only
Date unknown Connecticut EP 667

Sasquatch sighting in Connecticut

The witness describes four years of activity by a family group of Bigfoot living in woods and fringes right next to houses in southeastern Connecticut. He reports a nut tree feeding area, blinds of stacked limbs and pricker bushes, hunting parties seen on a Night Owl security camera, and photos showing six individuals including a very large male. He also reports orbs, green fog, blue eyeshine, whistling, tree-breaking, a musty wet-dog odor, fast movement on all fours, and a transparent individual that vanished with a flash.

Full-body sightingEyeshineWhistleTree breakStructure or nest +4
Date unknown Texas EP 663

Tree break in Texas

After clearing a lane with a dozer, the witness returned a couple days later to find an ironwood tree bent back down to itself. He judged it not weather-related and clearly bent. The find increased his attention to possible activity.

Tree break
mid July, just this summer, just a few months ago Washington EP 664

Footsteps in Washington

The guest camped alone at his main camp and was woken overnight by quiet barefoot-like footsteps that stopped beside his tent on the tarp. After he made noise the area went quiet, but in the morning he heard limbs snapping down the road. He then watched a large limb fly across the road and heard breaking sounds follow him as he left to check game cameras.

FootstepsTree breakObject throwing
August tenty twenty second of that year, around 2008-2009 Clackamas County, Oregon EP 653

Vocalization near Clackamas County

The witness and his father camped with his three young boys in the Molalla corridor. After a call, something large crashed straight up a hill to the treeline, a chipmunk chattered for minutes, his father heard a hard stomp and was hit twice by pebble-sized rocks, and faint movement crossed right to left. Next morning he found a 14-inch footprint and a bent 3-inch-thick tree.

VocalizationFootstepsRock throwingTracksTree break +1
Date unknown Place not stated EP 652

Structure or nest

The guest and a companion found a large tree with its root ball attached woven through other standing trees with no hole where it came from and intact limbs. Two women in a Forest Service truck who were told to look at it joked that Bigfoot did it.

Structure or nestTree break
that one night South Carolina EP 647

Silhouette in South Carolina

The witness and a friend hid under a flatbed truck to catch nighttime visitors. They saw silhouettes standing on a trailer and jumped out racking shotguns. The figures fled rapidly around the drive and down through a limb-filled gully, breaking branches as they ran.

SilhouetteMovement onlyTree breakFootsteps
when I was eighteen years old South Carolina EP 647

Movement only in South Carolina

The witness had fallen asleep at a partner's home and walked home around 1 a.m. While pausing on the road he heard something crashing through brush and trees toward him. He ran to his parents' house as the pursuer thrashed through briars in the ditch and he could hear heavy breathing.

Movement onlyTree breakUnidentified soundFootsteps
the following year, the last time at the cabin Wardensville, Hardy County, West Virginia EP 646

Tree break near Wardensville, West Virginia

On the final summer trip the witness and his uncle found a large snapped branch blocking the driveway. That night after the witness did whoop calls they heard distant wood knocks, return whoops that mimicked the witness, and a loud scream/howl. In the morning something slapped the cabin wall leaving an oily handprint, prompting them to leave.

Tree breakWhoopWood knockScreamHowl +2