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Wood knock near Mount Vernon, Illinois
Relatives outside north of the house heard tree knocking from the treeline, noticed a quick-dissipating skunk-like smell and agitated geese, and saw red eye-shine across the pond.
Scat near Mount Vernon, Illinois
Two family members checking across the pond found unidentified scat, a strong foul odor, and footprints with about a 7-foot stride.
Odor near Mount Vernon, Illinois
The witness noticed a brief skunk-like smell by a window on three occasions between spring and summer with no skunks found the next day.
Tracks near Danville, Illinois
While mushroom hunting in April the witness smelled the strong odor again and found a single very large detailed left footprint.
Odor near Danville, Illinois
The witness and a relative returned the next morning to follow the blood trail, found the deer vanished, and noted strong odor and feeling of being watched.
Odor near Chatham, Illinois
A year earlier the dog became fearful facing south, hid shaking in the basement, and that evening the witness smelled a strong locker-room and road-kill odor, after which deer and coyotes were rarely seen.
Scream near Oregon, Illinois
In spring 1960 the witness and family heard terrible screaming from the woods with a horrible smell, and a relative searched outside with a gun and found nothing.
Footsteps near Ottawa, Illinois
Over many years the household heard loud walking and branch breaking at night, noticed quiet beforehand and foul smell, and found footprints and damaged rabbit cages.
Animal behaviour near Manteno, Illinois
The witness states he had previously felt watched, smelled the same pungent odor, and heard the same whooping noise on earlier fishing visits to the same site.
Odor near Midlothian, Illinois
The witness says they have smelled a sudden freaky death-like odor in the woods that others also report.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
A horrible stench lingered outside the house for two days while the retriever refused to go outside even in daytime.
Odor near Lake Helen, Florida
Witness and daughter repeatedly noticed foul odors near home, strange night noises, and waking simultaneously without known cause.
Odor near Perry, Fla, Florida
While hiking in the days before the main night, the group sometimes noticed a horrible foul smell.
Hunter has unexplained, late night encounter while in small boat on Saddle Creek
Late at night the witness paddled a small boat up a creek with two dogs and heard something following on the bank, then a loud blowing noise. The dogs refused to go ashore and later barked intensely. The witness shone a light and saw a large ape-like figure running away over a hill, then noticed a group of tracks while leaving. A skunk-like brassy odor was noted before the sighting.
Year long sightings by family
The witness describes repeated nighttime visits to a rural property over about a year by a family of large hairy creatures that ate fruit, looked in trailer windows, and once bit a penned hog. The witness reports seeing three individuals of varying heights, hearing frequent chattering, noticing odor, tracks and hair, and attempting to hunt them without driving them away. After about a year the visits stopped, believed to have ended when habitat regrew.
Kayaker experiences frightening incidents while traveling down Yellow River
While kayaking a long stretch of river in northwest Florida near dusk, the witness heard moaning to yelling sounds and smelled a strong musky odor. Rocks were thrown from the treeline toward the water and near the kayak, while sticks and trees were heard breaking. The witness also heard coyotes and loud unidentified sounds suggesting animals fighting, felt followed for much of the trip, and never saw the source.
Young girls have daylight sighting near their home
The witness and a relative went to a play hut at the edge of the woods just after daybreak. They noticed a foul odor, heard something large moving and growling, and hid in a nearby gully. They then watched a very tall, broad, brownish-red haired biped with human-like shape approach the hut from 50 to 70 feet away before turning and walking away, after which they ran home.
Odor near Geneva, Florida
The witness recalls smelling a strong rancid odor while bow-hunting from a stand that came and went without a wind shift and left no tracks in the rocky creek bed when checked the next day.
Howl near Ochopee, Florida
About a month later at the same camp, the group heard a howl in reply to the witness's call and later heard crashing, footsteps and smelled skunk-like odor.
Movement only near Floral City, Florida
The witness parked before daylight for a bow hunt, heard something large jump from bushes behind the vehicle, and smelled a strong feces-like odor that soon dissipated.