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Tracks near Owen County
While mushroom hunting with his mother the witness crossed a creek and found a single tiny human-like footprint in a wash. No other prints appeared after extended tracking, while crashing sounds moved away through woods, which he interpreted as something carrying off a young one.
Howl near Currotherville, Missouri
The witness and household heard loud noises, banging sounds and high-pitched howls from the silo area through the winter into the next spring.
Animal behaviour in Illinois
While coon hunting at night, the witness's dogs abruptly stopped treeing and ran back growling toward a draw. The witness shined a light, saw nothing, and left.
Vocalization near Index, Washington
Over several weeks at the camp, five people at different times heard what sounded like Gregorian chanting at night from inside closed vehicles and trailers. Opening a door made the sound stop, and it repeated off and on through the night several times a week with no known source.
Unidentified sound in New York
The witness reported horses avoiding a pasture behind the house and corral rails repeatedly pulled down in one direction at night. Recently after tossing a stone onto a wall and making a clack, a similar loud clack answered within seconds from a ravine across the street.
Whoop in Michigan
Alone on a full-moon night the witness heard whoops from two directions, then alternating knocks and thumps for over an hour. Loud chatter erupted from behind the car in the swamp, followed by a tree fall and final whoop. Next day a fresh snapped tree and viewing window in brush were found.
Unidentified sound near Grain Valley, Missouri
The prior night the witness's hound trailed then went silent and returned cowering after loud splashing was heard.
Silhouette in Washington
After his grandfather died, the witness was home alone hearing tapping on the roof and seeing a large shadow cross a window for about a week in winter. His cousin reported bad dreams about a sick old Sasquatch. He left smoked fish on the smokehouse and three nights later it was gone, after which the disturbances stopped.
Vocalization in Mississippi
Over a period on the farm, the guest and his young nephew repeatedly heard loud prolonged vocalizations and crying-like sounds while outside. The mother dismissed them as a horse, donkey, or bobcat. The guest later doubted those explanations because of loudness and duration.
Unidentified sound near Potosi, Missouri
A family member heard a very loud crash in the forest followed by a less intense crash behind the hammock while the witness slept.
Vocalization
The witness heard the same metallic ping sound years later while deer hunting in the woods.
Property disturbance near Ava, Missouri
On other overnight stays at the same property, similar disturbances recurred and a calf was found dead with neck broken and twisted.
Unidentified sound
The witness recalls hearing unexplained noises in the woods while growing up.
Vocalization near Poland, Maine
The witness was six and sharing a room with his brother when they heard a loud bang and grunt outside. They did not look out until later in the day. Outside they found huge bare footprints in the snow and a deep dent caved into the frozen above-ground pool, which his father dismissed.
Unidentified sound
After an exhausting day-long hike into camp, the group had just set down packs to rest when a loud clear cowbell-like clang was heard about fifty yards to the west. Minutes later the same metallic sound was heard from the east at similar distance. No cows, tracks or other explanation were found, leading the witnesses to attribute the sounds to mimicry.
Wood knock
One morning at camp the group heard knocking sounds resembling woodpeckers coming from three directions around them in sequence. The pattern matched an Irish drum beat the witness had played earlier. The witnesses concluded the sounds were not actual woodpeckers but mimicry triangulated around camp.
Unidentified sound
The guest and a companion sat out around 2 a.m. and heard a faint rhythmic beating like an Indigenous drum with chant-like vocal sounds. It recurred three or four times within about an hour. The guest later found the sounds on his recorder tied in a tree.
Whoop
Two campers with a child and a large dog told the guest they camped after hiking in. Around 1 a.m. in fog, the dog hid, growled, and stared into the forest. The men heard a clicking sound from one side and a whoop-like reply from the other side, repeated for a minute or more, then heard something large run off like a horse. The dog remained frightened and watched the woods while leaving.
Unidentified sound near Big Bend, California
After catching a large trout late in the day far downriver, the witness climbed the gorge in darkness and tried to find the road through brush. A large unseen presence to his left breathed deeply, walked through vegetation rather than around it, and paced him, stopping and moving with him. He broke his pole, was struck by a whipped branch, reached the road, ran to camp, and later saw brushed-down vegetation where he emerged.
Unidentified sound
While hunting with a companion, the host heard what sounded like a horse running directly between them. Both looked but nothing was visible. He could not explain it except possibly as strangely bouncing sound.