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Scary encounters outside a rural home near Jackson
The witness and a companion were camping in a tent on the witness's driveway in mid-October. Around 2 a.m. under a full moon, the witness awoke to grunting and snapping trees and saw a large hair-covered figure striking and eating a deer, then dragging it uphill. The figure approached the tent, giving off a strong musky odor and knocking a frying pan from a tree before leaving. In the morning the witness found deer remains, drag marks, and a shelter-like structure of bent and broken pines.
Howl near Cartersville, Georgia
On many return visits the group heard howls, screams and return whoops, heard branches breaking, and found different-sized tracks and large stick structures.
Rock throwing near Gadsden, Alabama
Six-inch-diameter trees were torn apart and rocks, dirt and other objects were thrown, with rocks thrown in the past week.
Tracks
In 1986 the witness and a companion found three sets of tracks on a trail by a former house site with missing fruit and broken limbs.
Tree break
A day or two after driving down a fire break, witness repeatedly found a tree pushed down across it without storm or wind.
Tree break near Opp, Alabama
The witness and a companion heard loud limb-breaking sounds behind the house that stopped when approached and lit.
Wood knock
Later the same night the witness with others heard wood knocks and a tree being pushed down.
Tree break
The witness and a companion had heard similar limb-breaking about two weeks earlier that did not last as long.
Tree break
While closing chickens in 2013 the witness and a companion heard loud limb-breaking in thick brush, and the companion later heard a loud unfamiliar holler nearby.
Young men have frightening vocalization incident near Stones River
The witness and two companions hiked a horse trail along a river at night. They heard repeated loud branch breaks that seemed to follow them as they tried to leave. At the base of a bluff area they heard an extremely loud scream that echoed down the river, then ran to a nearby house where they heard the scream again from the woods.
Odor
Years later the witness and a companion returned to the mountaintop area, smelled the same foul odor and found similarly snapped-off trees, then left.
Tree break
The witness group found small trees knocked down and laid across each other in the woods.
Tree break
The witness noticed live fresh trees blocking old logging roads.
Tree break
Trees with bark missing from the ground up have been found for years after the main event.
Tree break
The family noted bark scraped from a tree too high for a deer, of unknown relation to other incidents.
Footsteps
The same witness later heard repeated footsteps following them while hunting, then heard a branch snap and a tree shake before firing a shot and hearing the presence move away along a ridge.
Structure or nest
After the 1993 flood, bent-over trees topped with large rocks with smaller trees leaned against them were found, resembling suspected nests seen online.
Vocalization near North Washougal, Washington
Sitting on his deck near dusk, the witness heard a seriously guttural sound followed by a huge limb crashing and tearing apart. He then heard indistinct talking that he could not understand. He went inside rather than confront it.
Tree break
The witness found broken-over trees, bent cedars forming small dens, and fresh breaks appearing over the summer.
Twist
About four years before the show the caller walked a mile past a gate down into tall timber toward a creek. About two hundred yards in he noticed twisted and broken trees, stopped, and felt intense unease with hair rising. Other campers later reported tree breaks in the same area.