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Footsteps near St Clair, Missouri (1970)
The guest's sister said that in the 1970s she repeatedly heard something bipedal walking behind her house at night. The next morning her son found long reddish-brown hair on a barbed-wire fence where the sounds had been. In later years she has also reported howl-like vocalizations and heavy breathing from the woods and once made a phone recording.
Vocalization near Forsyth, Missouri
A few hours later the same relative was awakened by a very loud roar that seemed close to her home.
Vocalization near St. James/Rolla, Missouri
The witness and two relatives heard a loud deep roar from the woods behind the house at dusk and ran inside.
Scream near Hornersville, Missouri
The witness recalled hearing unidentifiable animal screams and vocalizations on other occasions while living at the same house.
Vocalization near Charleston, Missouri
The witness heard distant high-pitched echoing sounds off the pump station walls and found them odd but ignored them.
Three incidents in marshy zone outside Charleston next to Mississippi River
The witness and a companion were bowfishing at night at a pump station when they heard high-pitched sounds. A spotlight then revealed a tall hair-covered figure about 25 yards away at the treeline, gripping a limb and watching them for under a minute. The figure grunted loudly and walked away steadily while breaking limbs in its path, after which the two left terrified.
Vocalization near Potosi, Missouri
The witness and family heard a very loud owl-like sound during the second rainy night in camp.
Vocalization near Cherryville, Missouri
On several occasions the witness heard hollering, wood knocking and walking outside, noting activity seemed to occur if singing.
Vocalization near Cherryville, Missouri
The mother went to check barking dogs and heard something loudly speaking in an animal language toward the pack, after which the dogs went silent.
Vocalization near Cherryville, Missouri
While letting a dog out at night the witness heard a long holler perceived as a warning, grabbed the dog and went inside shaken.
Vocalization near Lee's Summit, Missouri
In the last week of August 2020 the witness, alone at the same lake, heard three rapid owl-like hoots followed later by a deep growl behind him that vibrated in his chest, saw nothing, and left.
Vocalization near Salem, Missouri
The witness reports hearing strange vocalizations unlike known animals and wood-on-tree banging at night since acquiring the property.
Vocalization in Missouri
While walking alone in the woods toward a chosen direction, the witness heard a voice say hey from behind. He turned to look for the source. He felt it may have been a distraction because something was closer than expected.
Vocalization in Missouri
While camping with grandchildren, the guest's research partner stepped behind the truck to get away from chatter. He then asked who had called his name, though no one at camp had said it. The parabolic was pointed the wrong way so it was not recorded.
Vocalization in Missouri
While at camp one night the witness had a recorder placed three-quarters of a mile away. During audio review the witness heard his own distinct laugh on the distant recorder, though the sound could not have traveled that far normally. He interprets it as possible mimicking.
Vocalization in Missouri
After previously recording a deep backup-alarm-like sound in the early morning, the witness demonstrated the beep sound at camp while a recorder ran on the truck. Something in the woods answered with matching beeps after each demonstration, four times in about 15 minutes. Additional similar sounds were recorded after the group left recorders past midnight.
Vocalization in Missouri
In the spring following the first grunt recording, the witness used the same technique of leaving a recorder on the truck during a day exploratory hike. A second similar grunting incident was recorded in the same area.
Vocalization in Missouri
The guest and his girlfriend were sitting outside a cave at dusk in October. They heard a loud gorilla-like sound from across the river. After the guest struck a tree with a log, his girlfriend heard something running uphill through leaves making repeated whoop sounds.
Vocalization in Missouri
The boyfriend's father and a companion went at dusk to look at farmland near the river. They heard the same gorilla-like and howler-like sounds the guest described. As they tried to drive away something lifted the rear of their car, and the father saw only a hair-covered dome-shaped head and shoulders in the rear window before it dropped the car and they fled.
Structure or nest in Missouri
Two officers spent a day hiking between a park trail and the uncle's land into an unlogged old-woods area. They filmed a rock box containing grape stems, numerous large fresh tree breaks all pointing the same compass direction, and a large intertwined structure at the top. They felt followed, heard large movement above them, human-like mumbling, footsteps that mimicked one officer, and a squirrel that abruptly went silent.