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BFRO YEAR: 1992 or 93 Butler County, Pennsylvania Class A #3551

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.

Full-body sightingEyeshineFootstepsProperty disturbance
BFRO YEAR: 1976 or 77 Sussex NJ, Sussex County, New Jersey Class B #7185

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.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingFootstepsOdorProperty disturbance
Date unknown Monroeville, Salem County, New Jersey Related account #76444

Property disturbance near Monroeville, New Jersey

The witness recalled a goose that had been ripped apart in the same area.

Property disturbance
a few years before the sighting Place not stated Related account #27743

Tracks

Local reports described chicken farms being rampaged and large bare human-like tracks found around farms.

TracksProperty disturbance
only at night during the 1950's Place not stated Related account #12825

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.

ScreamOdorTree breakProperty disturbance
at the time Place not stated Related account #45647

Property disturbance

Local farmers reportedly found livestock killed, partially eaten, with broken necks, or dragged away.

Property disturbance
Between the initial report and my subsequent investigation Place not stated Related account #37386

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
The very next day Place not stated Related account #50159

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
in the years before the encounter described above Street, Harford County, Maryland Related account #31814

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
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #30634

Property disturbance

A friend reported camp being repeatedly ransacked and being paralleled while camping and trout fishing in western Maryland.

Property disturbanceMovement only
about 3am Meadowview, Washington County, Virginia Related account #37817

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.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbance
BFRO YEAR: 1970? Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia Class A #7392

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.

Full-body sightingVocalizationProperty disturbance
Date unknown Greene County, Virginia Related account #2283

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
Date unknown Blackstone, Brunswick County, Virginia Related account #29305

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.

Property disturbance
most of the last five years Blackstone, Brunswick County, Virginia Related account #29305

Door or window contact near Blackstone, Virginia

The farm had recurring night slaps on the house, moved yard objects, and choruses of wailing howls.

Door or window contactProperty disturbanceHowl
during the winter months Place not stated Related account #4788

Property disturbance

Unverified wintertime accounts describe objects or areas being disturbed around the camp, possibly invented to frighten campers.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina Related account #8804

Property disturbance near Roxboro, North Carolina

Discarded carcasses left near the back of the property were usually gone the next day.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #3439

Property disturbance

Another resident reportedly found a dent high on a mobile home corner with white hair strands in the siding.

Property disturbanceHair
at night Mill Spring, Polk County, North Carolina Related account #67582

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 (Aug. 11, 2011) Place not stated Related account #30438

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.

Property disturbance