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Tracks
The witness and companions found an area up the hill with a branch-bordered depression, additional depressions, snapped trees, branch huts, spread-finger handprints, and several footprints forming a path toward the house.
Whoop
Another person stopped to photograph old equipment and over an hour heard hoots and screams, breaking limbs and thrown rocks from two directions before leaving.
Tree break near Malakoff Historical State Park Campgrounds, California
On the group's first night at the same campsite, they heard several distant tree breaks they dismissed as regular forest noises.
Wood knock
About a year later the same couple returned to Highway 128, made whoop calls, then heard wood knocks and tree breaks and smelled a dead animal/skunk odor for about three minutes.
Tracks near Weldon, California
The witness reported finding pinion pines with tops broken off, prints with and without claws, and many scat piles on a recent weekend outing.
Tree break
North of the second site near the creek the witness and spouse found more tree breaks and a huge pile of dried feces with seeds and berries unlike local bear scat.
Tree break
Later the same day the witness found a 50-70 meter stretch with over 15 trees broken off 4-8 ft up and photographed them.
Tree break
Earlier that day the witness noticed bark picked off a tree, thought not bear-made.
Structure or nest
Earlier that day the witness found very large branches torn from distant trees and laid across trails near the camp.
Vocalization
About 12 years earlier the witness and a relative were deer hunting at daybreak when a strange-acting deer approached, they shot it, then heard a loud roar-growl turning into a scream, with branches breaking and limbs and large rocks thrown toward them until they abandoned the kill and left.
Tree break
A few weeks earlier the witness noticed dozens of broken trees in the area and photographed some.
Unidentified sound
That night at camp after a companion made a mock howl, the party heard timber cracking and a large tree fell near camp.
Whoop near Clayton, Washington
On another afternoon something disturbed the roofless chicken pen with branch breaking and repeated whoops, leaving broken branches and causing chickens to roost higher.
Tree break
The witness found about ten broken fir saplings parallel to a trail and all pointing the same direction.
Tree break
In October a couple miles farther east the witness found broken trees around a spot and later that evening a baseball-sized rock landed near him by a campfire after unsuccessful howls and knocks.
Howl near STANWOOD, WASHINGTON [Property Address Removed By MM], Washington
One November night the witness heard five howls followed by two trees being knocked down, finding the downed trees the next morning.
Scream near Stanwood, Washington
The following evening the witness returned to the same spot with a friend and the same loud roaring and breaking sounds were heard again for several minutes before the friend left.
Tree break
A couple days later while hunting beyond Coal Lake the witness and companions found bent small trees and possible X-shaped stick structures.
Tree break
The witness describes finding four snapped trees about 6-8 feet high and angled across the road during a prior ride in the same general area.
Tree break
The witness reported trees being uprooted and pushed over at night accompanied by screams.