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Campers have close encounter with large, hairy creature
Three people were sitting around a campfire late at night when they heard footsteps in the woods and a loud crash against a nearby mobile home. The reporter ran to wake a sleeping companion while the other two put out the fire. Those two companions reported seeing a large hairy man-like figure about 20 feet away, about 7-8 feet tall with red eyes, which then ran off hunched over.
Teens have scary encounter in abandoned creamery near Sussex
Two teenagers exploring an abandoned creamery had the companion climb a ladder to the upper floor, where he reported a foul smell and hairy legs behind a box. Both then heard heavy running overhead with ceiling boards moving, and saw a large hairy figure break through a wall, cross a roof, and appear directly after loading doors blew open. They watched it run away through a cornfield for several seconds until it went over or through a fence and disappeared.
Property disturbance near Monroeville, New Jersey
The witness recalled a goose that had been ripped apart in the same area.
Tracks
Local reports described chicken farms being rampaged and large bare human-like tracks found around farms.
Scream
Relatives reported a night-visiting screaming animal at their farm that left odor, stripped bark, high scrape marks, ate stored oats and killed vegetation with urine.
Property disturbance
Local farmers reportedly found livestock killed, partially eaten, with broken necks, or dragged away.
Property disturbance
After the initial report, a stack of moist uncovered straw bales was found pulled apart with several bales pushed down but not torn apart.
Property disturbance
After routinely leaving a last bite of lunch and abandoning a broken walking stick, the witness found a large sturdy stick left leaning where the witness usually sat.
Property disturbance near Street, Maryland
Years before the main sighting the landowner's wife was alone in a trailer when something furiously shook it without being seen.
Property disturbance
A friend reported camp being repeatedly ransacked and being paralleled while camping and trout fishing in western Maryland.
Unidentified sound near Meadowview, Virginia
The witness heard something pushing and rattling the house siding around 3am, woke his spouse, and found nothing on checking outside with a flashlight.
Youth catches standing figure in flashlight glow during camp-out
Around May 1970 the witness was camping with family at a lakeside campground and lay awake in a tent near midnight. After hearing trash being disturbed, the witness stepped out barefoot with a flashlight and saw a small upright furry creature looking into a hanging trash bag. The creature turned, made a squeal-grunt cry, and dashed away while the witness ran shouting to wake relatives. No tracks were found afterward because the area was trampled.
Property disturbance near Greene County
The witness noticed several large hand-manageable rocks turned over as if something had been foraging for insects underneath.
Property disturbance near Blackstone, Virginia
An upper back-porch window was found smashed with garbage missing, and later the porch door was ripped apart with more trash taken.
Door or window contact near Blackstone, Virginia
The farm had recurring night slaps on the house, moved yard objects, and choruses of wailing howls.
Property disturbance
Unverified wintertime accounts describe objects or areas being disturbed around the camp, possibly invented to frighten campers.
Property disturbance near Roxboro, North Carolina
Discarded carcasses left near the back of the property were usually gone the next day.
Property disturbance
Another resident reportedly found a dent high on a mobile home corner with white hair strands in the siding.
Property disturbance near Mill Spring, North Carolina
The family reports nighttime sounds of something huge behind the back fence shaking it, apparently to retrieve tossed food scraps.
Property disturbance
The next morning the witness found a large water barrel moved from the front of the trailer to the backyard, dumped out with contents missing.