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23 August 2026 Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky Class B #82512

Country boys have frightening nightime encounter 50 miles south of Louisville

The witness and two companions stopped on a rural back road at night and heard a distant knock, then sounds of wood breaking after the witness whistled. After driving on to turn around and stopping again, the witness shone a light into the woods and saw a tall dark hairy figure with eyeshine watching them. The encounter lasted only a few seconds before the group drove away in fear.

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November 2024 Kentucky #cc19accb-efaf-4683-bbfc-3985e810481f

Wood knock in Kentucky (2024)

The witness hiked into public land to bowhunt deer from a climber stand. After the woods went silent he heard two wood knocks, then saw a black bipedal figure through timber that vanished. Moments later a very large jet-black wolf-like animal appeared nearby staring at him, stalked toward a cedar thicket and disappeared. While hiking out he heard a deep scream-howl, panicked and ran to his truck and avoided the woods for the rest of deer season.

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April 2021 Kentucky #f7bfe408-1485-4234-ad06-3c2c7e371719

Tracks in Kentucky (2021)

The couple left the trail to look for sheds and reached a slipping area of soft dirt from old logging. They found what looked like two barefoot prints with toe impressions where loggers would not have left prints. The prints led to an old grown logging trail, they heard an unidentified knock-like noise, and they left.

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October 2018 Blane, Lawrence County, Kentucky Class B #61108

Farmer family frightened by ongoing Class B activity around rural home in hollers 12.5 miles south of Grayson

The witness reports ongoing nighttime disturbances over about a month, coinciding with logging on an adjacent property. Claimed activity includes tree knocks, footsteps and running around the house, growling outside, and slaps or thuds against the house. The family reports feeling watched while walking from their parked car to the house, the outside dog refusing to leave the porch after dark, and one night a branch landing on the porch followed by a shotgun shot into the air to scare whatever was there.

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22 December 2015 Stanton, Powell County, Kentucky Class B #50746

Possible aggressive behavior at new rural cabin site near Stanton

The witness was spending the evening on a relative's front porch shortly before Christmas. After knocking three times on a deck rail, the witness heard three knocks returned from nearby woods and later saw branches moving despite no wind. About an hour later the witness heard footsteps and pacing beside the house for about 15 minutes and attempted to record the sound on a phone.

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2015 Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/10/29/sc-ep266-sit-down-with-wes-and-woody-1

Wood knock in Kentucky (2015)

The guest was crawling on hands and knees up an icy mountain in deep snow when he heard a loud wood-on-wood knock behind him. He turned with binoculars and watched a dark bipedal figure walk easily down a distant mountainside. He estimated it was about eight feet tall because the snow only reached mid-calf.

Wood knockPartial sighting
5 April 2012 Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky Class B #35456

Possible knocks, vocalizations and footprints found outside a home near Leitchfield

Late at night the witness went outside to feed dogs and heard three loud solid knocks followed by a long loud scream-like cry. About half an hour later after going back outside the same sequence repeated. She later found very large footprints where the sounds seemed to originate and had tracking dogs follow the scent until they stopped and refused to continue.

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13 April 2010 Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky Class B #27589

Possible footprint and strange occurrences at a rural residence west of Louisa

The witness returned to the site of a large footprint found the previous day to take photographs. He banged sticks together for about ten minutes to try to provoke a response. Immediately after one knock he heard an extremely loud high-pitched scream or roar that frightened him. He ran down a steep brushy hill back to the house without looking back.

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October 2009 Zachariah, Lee County, Kentucky Class B #27323

Possible harrassment at a secluded cabin near Zachariah

The witness was alone in a remote primitive cabin just after dark on a mid-October evening when she heard repeated loud knocking sounds for 15-20 minutes and then gravel hitting the tin roof. She saw nothing outside and stayed inside with a gun until her husband returned. Her husband later fired guns into the woods and found a fired bullet standing upright in the outdoor shower the next morning.

Wood knockRock throwing
21 October 2008 Slade, Powell County, Kentucky Class B #24948

Campers experience possible harassment all night in the Red River Gorge

Three people camping overnight near a creek reported prolonged howling in the evening and a close loud scream during the night. Through the night they heard movement around the tents, sticks hitting trees, branches breaking, and had objects disturbed including a tent stake pulled out. They also reported white eyeshine, a pungent odor, a dark figure seen in the treeline after daylight, and footprints and torn branches found in the morning.

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August 2003 Blaine, Lawrence County, Kentucky Class A #34725

Ginseng hunter has an unexpected encounter near Blaine

In August 2003 the witness left relatives fishing to hunt ginseng on a ridge near Yatesville Lake. He claimed hearing wood-like knocks and rocks moving through the trees, then seeing a large upright hair-covered figure watching him from across a hollow. He said he spoke to it, then hurried down the mountain hearing crunching steps and more thrown rocks behind him, and then packed his family out of the area.

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July 1993 Madison County, Kentucky Class A #2368

Hiker has detailed sighting on Bear Mountain.

The witness was hiking on a mountain and heard a tapping sound while looking down a hollow toward a thicket. Through binoculars the witness watched a large hairy figure sitting on a log hitting it with a rock, then standing, looking toward the witness, moving its head side to side while hunched, and dashing into the thicket.

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Last time I was there Stanton, Powell County, Kentucky Related account #50746

Wood knock near Stanton, Kentucky

On a prior visit the witness knocked wood planks together and received a response.

Wood knock
Date unknown Campbellsville, Larue County, Kentucky Related account #55870

Howl near Campbellsville, Kentucky

After the initial report, the witness described increased howls, whoops, wood knocks, and rocks thrown at the house and car, mostly from across the street.

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one week before the sighting Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky Related account #21142

Scream near Earlington, Kentucky

A week earlier the witness and his father's friend heard running, knocking and loud screams from the woods before sunrise while bow-hunting.

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Date unknown Owensboro, Kentucky #4a2bd381-ea8b-47d0-bf1e-5514668f86e1

Wood knock near Owensboro, Kentucky

On later return visits the guest tried wood knocking and got responses. He found partly washed-out 16-18 inch footprints inside the barn and, while hiking, noticed possible nests or bedding areas and tree breaks throughout the woods.

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when I was 16 or 17 Kentucky #0db56b06-fcae-44ae-903f-281cfda906f6

Wood knock in Kentucky

While fishing a remote spillway with his father, the witness heard distant wood knocks that got closer and heard something bipedal pacing in thick woods. A Red Bull can flew out of the woods and landed near another fisherman, which frightened the father. They left as it got dark planning to return next day.

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throughout the course of the 20 years that we've hunted down there Muhlenberg County, Kentucky #8ebcc7ee-6871-49bd-b56c-a161f2d5c592

Wood knock near Muhlenberg County

Over many years of hunting the same reclaimed coal land, the witness group repeatedly heard loud tree knocks, rocks clanged together, and varied howls after dark. They sometimes returned to camp to find items slightly moved and often felt watched. No creature was seen in these ongoing incidents.

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