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Date unknown Nebraska EP 328

Growl in Nebraska

During a haunted trail fundraiser in a timber, youths imitating whoops and growls got a guttural growl response. When they lit the area, a creature knocked a good-sized tree over and flipped it end over end toward them, then ran away jumping off a hill with loud heavy footfalls.

GrowlTree breakObject throwingFootstepsPartial sighting
Date unknown Place not stated EP 32

Tracks

A field researcher described finding a campsite in a long-studied area with the tent torn and burned, fire logs scattered, food and belongings strewn, trees knocked down, and skin-like material on the ground. After hearing blowing-like sounds from both sides of the road, the party found large barefoot tracks with smaller ones nearby along an established trail. They reported the find, returned next day to find authorities cleaning the site, and later described drag marks, blood staining, and urination along the trail.

TracksTree breakProperty disturbanceUnidentified sound
Last year or the year before Mount Sterling, Missouri EP 31

Hair near Mount Sterling, Missouri

The researcher took boys to a Missouri conservation area chosen from reports and found long strings of hair-like balls, some wrapped around trash. Further up the trail he photographed a bent tree with broken top branches and piles of cut cedar like blinds. He later connected it to a local report of screams attributed to a panther.

HairTree breakStructure or nest
Date unknown Utah EP 306

Whistle in Utah

After dark on top of a mountain the witness tried to descend switchbacks while his dogs kept running off toward whistling, branch-breaking and thrown objects. He felt three individuals flanking and closing in with stomping and an overwhelming sense of dread. He prepared to call his spouse to say goodbye and had no flashlight.

WhistleFootstepsTree breakObject throwing
Date unknown Utah EP 306

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

Later the same day while on a road with his dog, the witness heard stomping, whooping and a stick break uphill. About thirty feet away a very small black child-like figure stood from behind a stick structure, squatted rapidly and flipped its head back and forth. It then threw its arm forward and dashed away.

Partial sightingWhoopFootstepsTree break
Date unknown Utah EP 306

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

While filming in the woods the witness heard talking-like sounds and then saw part of a brown figure leaning from behind a large tree in daylight. He spoke to it trying to calm it, and it quieted briefly before breaking objects and other unseen individuals flanked him. He then left the area.

Partial sightingVocalizationTree break
Date unknown Burnt Ranch, Trinity County, California EP 302

Tree break near Burnt Ranch, California

The witness hiked several miles down the Trinity River and sat on a rock watching for fish on a calm day. A tree snapped and fell across the river in the brush, then a heavy log was thrown from the brush onto the river bar. The witness left slowly up the trail while watching the far side.

Tree breakObject throwing
during hunting season Place not stated EP 28

Footsteps

The witness tripped over a deer skull with a snapped neck and saw several more, then felt something pacing beside him while leaving. When he stepped off trail to confront it, a branch was bent back and struck him in the head, knocking him out until midnight. He later recalled a hair-covered face with brow ridges and said officials scrubbed sign from the snow and threatened him.

FootstepsTree break
15 turning 60. Florida EP 28

Sasquatch sighting in Florida

The witness was out at night with a friend and the friend's father when their dogs ran back terrified and would not leave the dog box. While driving out they saw high wide eyeshine and an outline that leapt from a tree. A crouched hairy shape then rose screaming and tore at trees, and the witness fired his shotgun before all three fled in the truck and never returned.

EyeshineSilhouettePartial sightingScreamTree break +1
next morning, next night, recent weeks Virginia EP 286

Property disturbance in Virginia

Around the second home the witness found toy trucks moved from a lidded sandbox to the steps two mornings, footprints behind the barn, broken trees, newly piled sticks by the pond and a small teepee structure. Later the trampoline was shifted about nine feet back and seven feet sideways, a makeshift clothesline gutter was torn off, a rock was heard flying through trees in daylight, and brief strong skunk-like and dead-meat odors occurred.

Property disturbanceTracksTree breakStructure or nestRock throwing +1
Date unknown Place not stated EP 289

Tree break

On his own large private property the witness found a marked sapling deliberately broken above his ribbon. He also found trees uprooted, turned upside down, and reset firmly in the ground. He treats an area beyond those trees as a boundary he does not cross.

Tree breakProperty disturbance
two years later, roughly British Columbia EP 274

Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia

A few days before the October chum opening, the guest and three others were anchored off Village Island when banging, chirping whistles and a strong stink were noticed. In the spotlight two upright creatures were seen on the beach, one larger in the grass and one smaller below, which crouched and covered their faces. Rifles were aimed but not fired, and the figures later left into the bush, with further eye-shine, scenting sounds, and a tree bent as one departed.

Full-body sightingEyeshineWhistleOdorFootsteps +1
when I was about 13, 14 years old, in really late summer Ohio EP 268

Scream in Ohio

The witness was sleeping in a camper parked by the woods on a relative's property when loud breathing and screaming circled the camper for many minutes. The witness's father stepped outside with a flashlight and the sound seemed to come from the woods and echo for miles. Next morning they found a nearby tree branch freshly stripped of bark.

ScreamGrowlTree break
Date unknown Ohio EP 26

Unidentified sound in Ohio

The witness was parked at night with three companions by a large honeysuckle bush at the woods edge. After hearing branch-breaking sounds, a companion threw a vodka bottle into the bushes and it was thrown back past them into the road. They fled by car, had to move a large branch blocking the road while smelling a foul odor and hearing movement around them, then left and avoided the area.

Unidentified soundObject throwingOdorTree breakMovement only
early fall Indiana EP 252

Tree break in Indiana

A hunter arrived one early fall morning to find a roughly twelve-inch-diameter tree pushed over onto his twelve-foot ladder stand. There had been no storm, snow, or other explanation, and the tree lay across the shooting rail.

Tree break
Date unknown Pennsylvania EP 23

Vocalization in Pennsylvania

After starting to research, the witness went into the woods at night with a friend. They heard a very deep, strong vocalization and the friend wanted to leave. The witness moved toward a hillside hollow, heard breathing and branches being knocked over about 30 to 40 feet away without seeing the source, then returned to find his friend frightened.

VocalizationTree breakMovement only
Date unknown Washington EP 225

Scream in Washington

Parked at a gate in Washington at night, the group heard something in a creek and then a scream. Something broke branches climbing out of the creek toward the truck, followed by a massive display that sounded like it would slam into the truck, after which activity stopped.

ScreamTree breakMovement only
a year later, after the wood knocks Cuba, New York EP 215

Tree break near Cuba, New York

While staying back at a cabin during a scout camping trip, the witness heard a very loud wood crack like a branch breaking or tree falling. There was no wind and no birds or small animal sounds before or after, which struck the witness as unusual.

Tree breakUnidentified sound
a couple weeks later, mid-spring Erie County, New York EP 215

Tree break near Erie County

On a return visit the witness found a branch high off the ground that was snapped, twisted and pulled with a fresh clean break and no debris below. The witness measured the height with a child standing underneath for scale and also noted woven triangular tree formations in the same wooded area.

Tree breakStructure or nest
Date unknown Tennessee EP 215

Sasquatch sighting in Tennessee

The witness left his tent during a multi-day backpacking trip and walked up a trail where he found a large hairy figure squatted in the trail. The figure watched him while something large crashed down the slope breaking young trees. After grunting at him, the figure stood and loped away while the witness sprinted back to camp and stayed silent about the event.

Full-body sightingVocalizationFootstepsTree break