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2000 Virginia #ffa970ff-7711-4667-940d-bb29f00963b5

Scream in Virginia (2000)

The investigator describes a 2000 case near Smith Mountain Lake involving a family experiencing poltergeist activity, orbs in the hallway, triangular UFOs and lights in the woods, crop circles, and woman-like screams. Investigators camped on the property, noted abundant quartz crystal, and collected crop samples for analysis. The family eventually moved away and the investigation was discontinued without identifying a cause.

ScreamProperty disturbance
June 1984 Sherando, Augusta County, Virginia Class B #16777

Possible trash snatching (2 witnesses) outside Sherando

The witness and a companion were sleeping in their truck at a forest camp late at night when a large bipedal shape walked past and went to trash bags hung high in a tree. The shape reached up, carried one bag into the woods where tearing and eating sounds were heard, then returned about half an hour later to take a second bag. The pair remained in the truck, then packed up and left to spend the rest of the night elsewhere.

Partial sightingSilhouetteProperty disturbanceUnidentified sound
1980 Bedford, Virginia #0ad7e1d7-18bc-473d-a117-acc5b0bf0906

Movement only near Bedford, Virginia (1980)

A woman on a farm near Bedford reported long-term poltergeist activity and in 1980 saw three colored balls of light at the foot of her bed that moved down the hall and into a room. Discolored circles were later found on the window screen and reportedly tested as highly irradiated. She reported illness afterward and later hip bone changes described as consistent with radiation.

Movement onlyProperty disturbance
1980–1984 Virginia #05462760-445b-42b9-8818-e62fd11edf6a

UFO sighting in Virginia (1980)

A farm resident reported waking to three softball-sized colored orbs hovering in line at the foot of her bed, moving in formation down a hallway and into a dining room before disappearing. Next morning she found three circular discolored spots on a window screen. A team radiochemist analysis reportedly found high irradiation and neutron flux effects, and she later reported flu-like illness and porous hip bone described as radiation-like.

Full-body sightingProperty disturbance
November 1973 Buchanan, Botetourt County, Virginia Class A #18623

Memory told of an early morning encounter with hairy biped near Buchanan

After bedding down in an open three-sided shelter, the witness awoke around midnight to a strong odor and saw a tall hairy bipedal silhouette backlit by the campfire. The figure urinated onto the adjacent occupant's sleeping bag before stepping off the shelter floor and leaving. The group then left the isolated shelter for a more populated campground nearby.

SilhouetteFull-body sightingOdorProperty disturbance
August 1936 Luray, Virginia #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/LjviJdFXrUavchlExmK9LAx2OXIcLEoi3KGO4HIJCrE

Sasquatch sighting near Luray, Virginia (1936)

A construction crew camped in a Virginia valley in the mid-1930s reported repeated visits by large hairy beings that stole food, left huge footprints, and were seen felling and dragging trees. Early one August morning in 1936 a being reached into a tent and pulled a sleeping worker out by the ankle. Other workers threw hand axes and chased it with rifles and shotguns, firing many shots without killing it, after which sentries were posted day and night.

Full-body sightingTracksProperty disturbance
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
Date unknown Roanoke, Virginia #ffa970ff-7711-4667-940d-bb29f00963b5

Growl near Roanoke, Virginia

A woman near Roanoke experienced negative entity activity including attacks, apparitions, poltergeist activity, moans, growling and bad smells. A stranger with an official presence came to her door, claimed knowledge of what was happening in her house, and questioned her about it. She told him to leave and he left.

GrowlOdorProperty disturbance
Date unknown Virginia #b9641701-c9b5-4647-9514-90603ef1b6a2

Odor in Virginia

The guest was awakened by a strong smell she associated with prior outside activity and shouted not to strike the balcony. She then moved to the kitchen side and heard something moving on the roof overhead. She described the period as a whirlwind of weirdness.

OdorFootstepsProperty disturbance
same summer, about two to three weeks later Virginia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/23/sc-ep56-sasquatch-looking-in-the-window

Property disturbance in Virginia

The witness later found the same small dog that had accompanied the woods walk missing and flattened into mud near the barn, with its skull flattened and a flat area around it. No vehicle or heavy livestock was present to explain it. In hindsight the witness speculated something very large stepped on it.

Property disturbance
first night with dog, past summer about 7:30, one 8 or 9 o'clock morning Virginia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/01/01/sc-ep286-strange-things-going-on-at-home

Growl in Virginia

The family dog was terrified the first night by a deep growl and later refused to go behind the house. With his cousin near the pond the witness felt dread and found scattered deer ribs, legs, skull and later skin with other bones gone. On another morning he heard a deer screaming, found drag marks, blood on a fallen tree and a dead deer with head bent back, while his white shepherd had no blood on it.

GrowlVocalizationProperty disturbanceMovement only
next morning, next night, recent weeks Virginia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/01/01/sc-ep286-strange-things-going-on-at-home

Property disturbance in Virginia

Around the second home the witness found toy trucks moved from a lidded sandbox to the steps two mornings, footprints behind the barn, broken trees, newly piled sticks by the pond and a small teepee structure. Later the trampoline was shifted about nine feet back and seven feet sideways, a makeshift clothesline gutter was torn off, a rock was heard flying through trees in daylight, and brief strong skunk-like and dead-meat odors occurred.

Property disturbanceTracksTree breakStructure or nestRock throwing +1
after bathroom incident, including one 5 o'clock morning Virginia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/01/01/sc-ep286-strange-things-going-on-at-home

Door or window contact in Virginia

After the window incident the house was repeatedly smacked, cameras caught nothing and seemed avoided, and an access door was found open. One 5am morning the girlfriend heard window pecking then saw a big black arm pass the front-door window. The witness found piled weeds at the door and two muddy handprints at that bedroom window measuring about eight to nine inches long with slightly wider fingers.

Door or window contactPartial sightingHandprintProperty disturbanceFootsteps
about 15 years ago, investigated over two years, no attacks for over 10 years Virginia #05462760-445b-42b9-8818-e62fd11edf6a

Property disturbance in Virginia

A woman and her husband reported brutal unseen attacks with scratches in sets of three, beatings and being thrown. The investigator documented photo and video evidence, consulted a religious demonologist and priest, and performed a permitted deliverance prayer. The environment calmed and no further attacks were reported for over ten years.

Property disturbanceAnimal behaviour