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Wood knock
While clearing trail, the witness heard weak knocks, exchanged loud knocks across water, left fruit on a stump, and later saw vegetation move; the fruit was gone next morning.
Tree break near Ashford, Washington
One couple returned alone for trap shooting when a large alder tree crashed down about three hundred feet away, frightening them into leaving.
Scream
Camping with three companions, the witness followed mumbling sounds and watched blond and black animals including a female with an infant before a tree was broken.
Growl
The witness's other sons and friends were chased from a creek drainage by something crashing, throwing objects, growling and hollering, pushing over a small tree.
Vocalization
The witness reports several other encounters involving strange dialect sounds, whistles, stomping, branch breaking, a howl and pounding on a tree.
Tree break
The same pair reported seeing large snapped and twisted branches near a game trail and an inaccessible print nearby.
Scream
An antique dealer heard a loud moaning scream and something crashing through brush, with many broken branches found the next day.
Tracks
The writer reports four tracks, casts, a scratched tree, broken high branches, and ferns at a creek, with tracks followed downstream to a clearcut.
Tree break near Humtulips, Washington
The witness and an investigator waited at the site at dusk, heard large-animal movement on both sides, and watched a live fir fall toward them with no wind.
Tree break
Witness found three mid-sized trees broken off about ten feet up and laid across the road near a swamp.
Tracks
On the way back to camp the witness found another topped young pine with a trampled area, tracks and hair on the broken top.
Tracks
The witness followed a bipedal trackway in a river field to trampled areas at pine bases with hair and to scat piles.
Scream near Trout Lake, Washington
Four years earlier the witness camped at the same remote site with a companion and the companion's child and heard screams before dark, then after dark heard branch breaking and movement that shook the ground, garbage cans being disturbed, and a loud grunt.
Tree break
The witness found two downed trees about 4-5 inches in diameter twisted or snapped and lying in a cross pattern across a game trail.
Tracks near Morton, Washington
The couple found large impressions, structures, a nest with hair and handprint, and their own blind disassembled and stacked.
Scream
While getting water near the trailer the couple heard movement, threw rocks, and the creature shook a small tree down before leaving after a shot.
Property disturbance near Chehalis, Washington
Two weeks after the mice incident, a bag of apples placed in a tree was torn open with apples missing and a partly eaten apple found where the mice had been.
Scream near Winlock, Washington
On a return to look for evidence, the witness watched short pine tops shake violently and heard a harsh loud scream, later noting suspicious tree breaks.
Tree break
Two additional tree fall events occurred during twilight hours of the expedition within 3/4 mile of the main site.
Tree break
A tree fall occurred the previous night when no wind was noticeable.