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Girl sees creature while picking blueberries. It follows when she screams and flees
A young girl picking blueberries alone near dark felt watched and saw a figure crouched in the patch that slipped into brush. Moments later she saw a very tall, hair-covered, man-like figure by a tree that ducked behind it, then followed her at a distance as she ran home screaming. Her relatives later searched the site armed and reported matted brush with a bad odor.
Vocalization (1934)
The teller's grandfather was riding a mule at night in 1934 while courting his future wife. Something in the woods startled or spoke to the mule, causing it to bolt hard for the barn. The rider held on prone and crashed into the barn wall, destroying a candle lantern.
Footsteps in [name withheld] (1930)
The guest's grandmother was walking the guest's father as a child to school before daylight along a dirt road bordered by a tall solid wood fence in the Big Thicket. Something large and heavy paced them on the other side of the fence, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. They turned back halfway and abandoned school that day to avoid meeting it where the fence ended.
Tracks in Montana (1700)
Two trappers set up camp to trap beaver and found their camp demolished and human-like tracks around it. At night they heard rustling, smelled a foul stench, fired a shot and heard something flee. After separating in the morning, one man found his partner dead with a broken neck and bite marks and fled, blaming a wild man.
Unidentified sound near Town Of Shebandowan, Ontario
Earlier the same day, the witness and a relative paddled near the isolated shore, heard loud thrashing approaching, and saw large trees swaying before leaving without seeing the source.
Morning daylight encounter with grouse hunter on Indian Island 45 km east of Fort Francis
The witness, then 14, was hunting grouse alone with a dog on overgrown trails in northern Ontario in the morning. After noticing a strong odor and the dog fleeing, a large upright hair-covered creature rose from tall grass nearby, looked briefly, and crossed the trail silently into brush. The witness froze, then ran back the way they came while hearing branches breaking as the creature moved away.
Unidentified sound near Eden, Vermont
A week earlier the witness heard twigs snapping and weeds moving behind the fenced garden while the dog barked, then fired an air horn.
Witnesses hear, smell, and feel something large moving & walking right next to them
Late at night in heavy fog, the witness's wife went to the outhouse and encountered something very close that she heard moving and smelled strongly, then fled back inside. The witness went outside with a gun and flashlight but could see nothing in the fog, though he heard bipedal footsteps, noticed a strong odor, and heard a low screeching sound toward a relative's home. The next morning he found a barbed-wire fence broken down with nails pulled out but found no tracks or hair.
Sasquatch sighting near Withheld, British Columbia
Three years earlier the witness and a companion found a large woven nest over a dug hole, saw eyes, heard knocks and felt thumps from below, then saw dark shapes while fleeing.
Wood knock near Duncan, British Columbia
On a later visit to the area, the group heard sequenced branch taps and then heard the source leave after they made whooping calls.
Movement only
The witness mentions having seen shadows moving down the dirt road near home.
Scream
The witness recalled hearing a loud reverberating scream and falling gravel in a gravel pit in his late teens and fleeing without looking.
Movement only
The ranger was followed down the hill at night by something unseen that stayed the same distance behind him.
Sasquatch sighting
A resident mother reportedly saw something in her driveway at night that ran into the woods while branches were heard breaking.
Possible vocalizations heard by coon hunters near Clarendon
The witness and a hunting companion were about to start a nighttime hunt when they heard an unfamiliar loud scream. The sound appeared to move rapidly away, shifting from nearby to much farther within seconds while crashing through brush. Frightened despite being accustomed to the dark, the pair left without seeing the source and returned to their truck.
Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.
Movement only near Torrington, Connecticut
The witness and a friend on the porch sensed something very large and heavy running in a straight line across the field behind the house without seeing it.
Shriek heard in PA woods in early 70's
Three teenagers were camping by a fire near a pine grove on a farm property. They heard intermittent branch-breaking and movement approaching and receding, then a single loud inhuman scream. They fled to the house without seeing anything and reported no odor or sense of being followed.
Odor near Springville, Pennsylvania
The witness's son smelled a rotten-egg odor and heard something moving in the woods near the house after dark.
Several possible incidents over the years in the Allegheny National Forest
In March 2014 while staying at a cabin with four companions, the witness went alone to a nearby meadow after dark to look at stars. The witness heard bipedal footsteps approaching up the slope, called out twice with no reply, and the steps paused then stopped at the lane edge. As the witness walked back past that spot, brush shuffled as if something turned to watch, but all companions were still inside and had heard nothing.