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203 encounters
2007 Place not stated Related account #28577

Unidentified sound (2007)

In 2007 a friend camping at Tenas creek was frightened by something crashing in the woods during the night.

Unidentified sound
30 May 1998 Dennison/Leesville, Harrison County, Ohio Class B #4950

Sighting by camper in Harrison County near Tappan Lake

The witness was walking around a cabin toward an outhouse just before dawn. About 6-7 feet beyond a makeshift counter she saw peripherally a pewter or dark gray figure moving very rapidly on two feet. She said it made a noise but had no smell. Her companion was awakened afterward and searched but found nothing.

Partial sightingUnidentified sound
1995 Constance, Boone County, Kentucky Class C #2365

Strange "yowling" sounds heard behind home in Constance

Friends living by the Ohio River reported hearing loud yowling from the woods behind their house that they could not identify as a known animal. They also reported hearing something crashing through underbrush on a steep hillside. No visual sighting or footprints were reported, and the reporter relaying the account noted it could be a known animal such as a coyote, bobcat, or bear.

VocalizationUnidentified soundPossible misidentification
June 1980 Calcutta, Columbiana County, Ohio Class B #12220

Possible approach to a dwelling between Calcutta and East Liverpool

The witness was sitting inside a mobile home with an infant after dark when a dog began barking and would not leave its house. After turning out the lights and waiting, the witness saw a tall figure approach the trailer window breathing heavily and froze until it walked away. The next morning the witness found paths of flattened brush leading toward a creek bottom.

Partial sightingUnidentified soundTree break
1978–1979 Michigan #9c2d52c2-d5e0-4036-96f6-02b2a06ee7c7

Unidentified sound in Michigan (1978)

The grandfather drove in at dusk to find pigs raising a disturbance and something large scattering through the woods. He asked the witness's father for a gun and they found leaves torn up and limbs broken where it had plowed through. The grandfather was badly rattled and thereafter always carried a rifle there.

Unidentified soundTree break
Summer 1976 Mendocino County, California Class B #2201

Creature seen in the woods by hunter

While deer hunting in the morning, the witness and a companion heard loud noise from a wooded gully and then met an elderly hunter climbing out. The elderly hunter appeared pale and frightened and told them he had just seen a huge bigfoot at the bottom and had dropped his rifle while fleeing. The witness and companion later recovered the abandoned scoped rifle, but the elderly hunter kept walking away and left.

Unidentified sound
1970–1979 Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia Related account #2786

Unidentified sound near Milton, West Virginia (1970)

A relative and companion reportedly saw a gray hairy bipedal creature drinking at the creek and running up the hollow in the late 1970s.

Unidentified soundFull-body sighting
1968–1969 Washington #68d95401-bd1f-4387-bc24-4f376b18e26d

Movement only in Washington (1968)

While serving on active duty and assigned to guard duty at a military base, the witness's father and others in his unit responded to a report of noises at a newly installed perimeter fence. They found several fence posts pulled from the ground and saw movement. They ordered whoever was there to show themselves and then fired, finding no blood or other result, and the unit was shipped out much earlier than originally scheduled.

Movement onlyUnidentified soundProperty disturbance
1960–1969 Place not stated Related account #6656

Sasquatch sighting (1960)

A person fishing at dusk heard splashing near a bridge and saw something crouched in the creek that disappeared after the person stumbled.

Partial sightingUnidentified sound
1950–1969 Kentucky #cb946455-d79d-4e6c-8c7d-fb639f566e42

Movement only in Kentucky (1950)

The guest's mother said that when she was a child staying with her cousin in a house next to a creek, they would hear something large moving up and down the creek lifting and moving rocks with stomping and strange noises. Dogs in the area would hide under the porch during these visits. The girls would stay in bed terrified listening.

Movement onlyUnidentified sound
at night Place not stated Related account #16779

Sasquatch sighting

Other people in a nearby village report seeing or hearing a similar figure.

Partial sightingUnidentified sound
when she ran away from home and was staying in the bush Place not stated Related account #12088

Unidentified sound

The witness's mother reported always hearing something following her while staying in the bush after running away from home.

Unidentified sound
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #12088

Unidentified sound

A relative reported hearing something while camping, throwing a rock toward it, and having a rock thrown back.

Unidentified soundRock throwing
a couple of nights ago Place not stated Related account #1293

Unidentified sound

A neighbor reportedly heard weird sounds outside his house a couple of nights before the main sighting.

Unidentified sound
about 1936 Place not stated Related account #5873

Sasquatch sighting

The witness's father and the father's brother were picking dew worms when they heard a grunt and rustling and saw a giant hairy man walk away into the bush.

Full-body sightingVocalizationUnidentified sound
in the forties Place not stated Related account #1422

Unidentified sound

Two people fishing reportedly heard a tree fall onshore attributed to a tree-striker being, with a later unsuccessful search for the fallen tree.

Unidentified sound
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #14166

Unidentified sound

A relative heard slow steady rock-tapping sounds on and off for hours near an abandoned quarry and found no one there.

Unidentified sound
around the same time Place not stated Related account #15961

Unidentified sound

A neighbor living behind the witness said he heard something strange around the same time.

Unidentified sound
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #27281

Unidentified sound

Friends of the witness reportedly heard sounds and saw tracks in that area.

Unidentified soundTracks
In the morning time before we found the nests Falkland, British Columbia Related account #26821

Unidentified sound near Falkland, British Columbia

The younger relative heard a brief growling mechanical-like sound with no machines in the area.

Unidentified sound