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Structure or nest
Earlier that day the witness found very large branches torn from distant trees and laid across trails near the camp.
Vocalization
About 12 years earlier the witness and a relative were deer hunting at daybreak when a strange-acting deer approached, they shot it, then heard a loud roar-growl turning into a scream, with branches breaking and limbs and large rocks thrown toward them until they abandoned the kill and left.
Tree break
A few weeks earlier the witness noticed dozens of broken trees in the area and photographed some.
Unidentified sound
That night at camp after a companion made a mock howl, the party heard timber cracking and a large tree fell near camp.
Hunters are intimidated out of their hunting ground near Bear Valley
Two deer hunters reported that after a rock flew over their heads in a meadow, something unseen paralleled them down a trail for about a mile while throwing or rolling large rocks alongside them. Back at camp that night all four hunters heard a large tree fall across the creek after noticing an unusual absence of wildlife all day. Believing something did not want them in the valley, the group packed up and left that night.
Whoop near Clayton, Washington
On another afternoon something disturbed the roofless chicken pen with branch breaking and repeated whoops, leaving broken branches and causing chickens to roost higher.
Tree break
The witness found about ten broken fir saplings parallel to a trail and all pointing the same direction.
Howl near STANWOOD, WASHINGTON [Property Address Removed By MM], Washington
One November night the witness heard five howls followed by two trees being knocked down, finding the downed trees the next morning.
Scream near Stanwood, Washington
The following evening the witness returned to the same spot with a friend and the same loud roaring and breaking sounds were heard again for several minutes before the friend left.
Tree break
A couple days later while hunting beyond Coal Lake the witness and companions found bent small trees and possible X-shaped stick structures.
Tree break
The witness describes finding four snapped trees about 6-8 feet high and angled across the road during a prior ride in the same general area.
Wood knock
While clearing trail, the witness heard weak knocks, exchanged loud knocks across water, left fruit on a stump, and later saw vegetation move; the fruit was gone next morning.
Vocalization
The witness reports several other encounters involving strange dialect sounds, whistles, stomping, branch breaking, a howl and pounding on a tree.
Tree break
The same pair reported seeing large snapped and twisted branches near a game trail and an inaccessible print nearby.
Tracks
The writer reports four tracks, casts, a scratched tree, broken high branches, and ferns at a creek, with tracks followed downstream to a clearcut.
Tree break near Humtulips, Washington
The witness and an investigator waited at the site at dusk, heard large-animal movement on both sides, and watched a live fir fall toward them with no wind.
Tree break
Witness found three mid-sized trees broken off about ten feet up and laid across the road near a swamp.
Tracks
On the way back to camp the witness found another topped young pine with a trampled area, tracks and hair on the broken top.
Tracks
The witness followed a bipedal trackway in a river field to trampled areas at pine bases with hair and to scat piles.
Scream near Trout Lake, Washington
Four years earlier the witness camped at the same remote site with a companion and the companion's child and heard screams before dark, then after dark heard branch breaking and movement that shook the ground, garbage cans being disturbed, and a loud grunt.