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Creature observed by hunters
While hunting with a companion, the witness smelled a strong animal odor and saw a large hairy figure crouching near a swamp. The figure stood to full height and was watched for several minutes, reacting nervously to movement and making vocal sounds. The pair fired into the road to scare it, and the creature then fled into the timber.
Young hunter sees an upright walking animal
The son left a family barbecue to hunt nearby and ran back reporting a tall, dark, hairy biped stepping over a wire fence about 100 yards from camp. Three relatives went to the spot minutes later and found pressed-down grass but no clear prints. They noted a strong pungent odor that lingered, but the creature had left the area.
Various bigfoot-related incidents 3 miles west of Shelton
In early fall 1996 the witness stopped to pick mushrooms near the Satsop River after checking leases. While kneeling with the dog close by, the witness smelled a strong putrid odor, stood up, and saw a large dark hairy creature standing in a fern patch about 200 feet away. They made eye contact, the creature turned its head and torso showing long arm hair, then walked quickly away. The witness left the area and told no one for a couple days.
Father and son hear heavy footsteps made by an apparent bipedal creature
The witness and a relative were walking in dense woods when they heard large, heavy bipedal footsteps on the other side of a dirt mound. The footsteps approached to within a few feet, stopped for several minutes, then resumed and moved away. As they left the area they noticed a strong ammonia-like odor.
Camper diverts tall creature approaching him near Puyallup
In 1983 the witness was camping and was awakened around 11 p.m. by loud screams repeated every 15-20 seconds that approached through brush. The witness then saw a tall dark shape about 7-8 feet tall striding through undergrowth and yelled, after which it veered to go around and continued on screaming. A foul odor was noticed as it passed, and broken branches were found the next morning.
Sounds heard like growling
As an eight-year-old, the witness became separated from friends while playing in the woods and walked alone down a trail. The witness smelled an indescribable odor and heard growling from thick bushes to the left, then heard a surrounding scream and ran out of the woods without looking back. Years later the witness felt the earlier growl matched a supposed Bigfoot vocalization heard in a TV documentary, but remained unsure what was encountered.
Man recalls his possible nighttime encounter while instructing at Ft. Lewis
In 1977 the witness, an Army instructor at Fort Lewis, was alone grading trainees on a night exercise when he smelled a foul rotten-egg odor and heard brush rustling and branches breaking. He saw a pair of eyes staring at him as a creature moved left to right in front of him, then left the area, after which the odor and sounds stopped. He was frightened and hid, and a next-day search found no tracks.
Camper experiences odd odors and sounds, feels presence
The witness was camping with family near the Elwah River and was sitting outside after others went to sleep when a rock struck the tent twice. The family moved to their car, and the witness later stood outside in darkness sensing a very tall man-like presence nearby, hearing breathing, footsteps and snapping twigs and smelling a musky foul odor. After headlights showed nothing, the odor and sense of unease lifted and the family returned to the tent for the night before breaking camp the next day.
Husband and wife harassed by unseen creatures at their camp late at night
A couple camped overnight by a stream about three miles from the road. After dark they smelled a strong stench and heard grunting, hooting and stomping that seemed to surround their tent, but saw nothing when checking with a flashlight. They ran back to the road in the dark and found scuffle marks in the dirt when they returned in the morning.
Strong odor, crunching footsteps and large human-like tracks found in snow
Overnight at a cabin, the wife noticed a strong odor, heard a metallic bang on the back porch and crunching footsteps moving toward the driveway. She woke her husband, who went outside with a flashlight and found a strong smell and large man-like footprints where frozen food stored under a wash tub had been disturbed. Investigators visited a week later, examined remaining tracks, took photographs and measurements, and collected hair.
Lake Tapps
Two companions on their way to school in the morning saw two pale human-like figures standing at the edge of woods on a hill. The figures smelled like skunks and then wandered back into the woods. The witnesses estimated the figures' height against a tree limb and later reported finding nest-like structures nearby.
Memory told of screaming creature terrifying campers at Gold Basin Campground along the Mountain Loop Highway
Four people sleeping outdoors beside a river were awakened around 2 a.m. by loud screaming from across the river. The source paced the far bank, crossed the river, snapped a fallen log, approached within 10 feet while screaming and giving off a strong odor, then recrossed the river and left up the hill over about 25 minutes. Nothing was seen because it was pitch dark.
Two hunters hear nighttime vocalizations near Darrington
Two people were settling to sleep in sleeping bags at a roadside camp late at night. They heard leaves and branches breaking and screaming from all around them and smelled a strong foul odor they did not recognize. Unable to see anything in the darkness without a flashlight, they grabbed their rifles, threw their bags in the car, and left.
Two men witness three large individuals, two very large and the other about two-thirds their size
The witness and a companion who had left a training area early saw three large silhouetted figures across a moonlit meadow near a tree line. When approached, the figures moved toward them silently without answering, frightening both witnesses. They fled and hid under a low pine tree for about fifteen minutes, noticing a strong odor and sensing a nearby presence, before running to catch a bus.
Camping group has night time sighting near the Dosewallips River
The witness, then a teenager on a church group camping trip in the mountains, was sleeping apart from the group and watching the peaks. He noticed the jagged horizon looked smooth and swaying, realized it was the silhouette of a large standing animal at the foot of his sleeping bag, smelled a skunk-cabbage odor, hid under his bag, and later found it gone. Around the same time other children by a rock overhang shouted about seeing a big gorilla-like figure moving and walking away, which the adults dismissed.
Large footprint find, large creature witnessed by a school bus driver
Two relatives living on a farm reported a strong odor in their dairy barn followed by footprints in the barn lot leading toward dense forest. A few days later additional tracks were found near a creek and plaster casts were made. At the time the residents said they had never heard of Bigfoot and interpreted the activity as contact with some kind of giant.
Mt. Olympus Incident
Four people were quietly walking horses along a trail in rainy conditions when a black creature about eight feet tall stood up from a stooped position beside the trail and ran away, leaving a foul odor. The group did not look for footprints.
Odor in Washington
The guest's mother attended a daytime gathering at a neighbor's house. The group smelled a foul odor and heard noises. The homeowner shut the kitchen window and said that thing regularly shows up looking through her window, acting annoyed rather than scared.
Odor in Washington
One night a very foul stench approached the house and was strong enough to make breathing difficult. The father moved the children to an interior wall, opened a window facing the horses with a shotgun, and said he would shoot the unknown visitor. The guest feared he would hit the horses.
Tracks in Washington
The guest's family walked onto virgin county land across from their home to plan trails. They found dozens of sets of prints of different sizes that dwarfed a child's hand. A foul urinary skunk-like odor hung in the air and the group felt uncomfortable.