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mid-afternoon Place not stated Related account #42351

Wood knock

While returning to a car in deep snow the witness heard branch snapping and exchanged a whistle for loud knocks, reporting feeling unable to move before leaving.

Wood knockWhistleTree breakAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #42351

Tracks

Another person reported seeing tracks in a yard directly behind the witness's home.

Tracks
back in July Place not stated Related account #35437

Scream

Back in July in the middle of the night the scream sounded right outside the window, dogs barked, and the husband heard something very large walking away but found no tracks next day.

ScreamFootsteps
around midnight (Removed), Mecosta County, Michigan Related account #35437

Whoop near (Removed), Michigan

Around midnight at the relative's house the witness played shared vocal recordings outside, heard something large moving and received three short whoop-like responses.

WhoopMovement only
about 12:30 at night Place not stated Related account #35437

Scream

Around 12:30 at night the husband heard the scream while letting dogs out, and next morning the relative said he heard the scream at the same time.

Scream
a few times since (Removed), Mecosta County, Michigan Related account #35437

Scream near (Removed), Michigan

On several later occasions the relative heard the same sound, noting his dog sometimes growled with hackles up at animals but other times ran inside to hide.

ScreamAnimal behaviour
A few weeks or so after he moved into the house (Removed), Mecosta County, Michigan Related account #35437

Scream near (Removed), Michigan

A few weeks after moving to a house about 1-1.5 miles away, the relative reported hearing an unfamiliar chilling screaming sound overnight.

Scream
About 2 years ago, sometime during warm weather Place not stated Related account #35437

Scream

About two years earlier, the witness and her husband were awakened very early morning by a high-pitched scream like a terrified woman or child.

Scream
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #36355

Movement only

An investigator's group reported a similar paralleling experience during a Michigan U.P. Expedition.

Movement only
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #36355

Object throwing

The witness and a companion heard sticks breaking near a campfire, were pelted with acorns, and later found possible stick structures nearby.

Object throwingStructure or nestUnidentified sound
the third week in September Place not stated Related account #36355

Wood knock

The same witness later reported hearing nighttime knocking, whoops, whistles, falling trees and mumbling-like sounds from the yard and swamp behind the home.

Wood knockWhoopWhistleVocalizationTree break
in their teens Place not stated Related account #43889

Sasquatch sighting

As teens camping and swimming at a gravel pit, the witness and friends fled to a cabin after one friend saw something huge coming through the woods.

Partial sightingAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #43889

Animal behaviour

Relatives passed down warnings about a huge bear frequenting a nearby bridge picnic area and harassing people.

Animal behaviourFolklore
all day Place not stated Related account #43889

Unidentified sound

Two companions reported hearing strange noises and feeling they were not alone all day in their blinds.

Unidentified sound
The previous night Place not stated Related account #28945

Wood knock

The companion alone heard a similar banging noise near home one night and reported something large passing the window.

Wood knockPartial sighting
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #78631

Movement only

Earlier the same morning the dog flushed something bedded in the marsh, shaking trees, which the witness thought was deer.

Movement only
in 2006/2007 Place not stated Related account #44191

Sasquatch sighting

A neighbor near the cabin reported seeing what was thought to be a black bear, once near a truck by the house.

Partial sighting
that year Place not stated Related account #44191

Tracks

Other hunting party members reported oversized footprints in snow with a step length too far for a normal walking person.

Tracks
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #44191

Blood or tissue

Other individuals reportedly found deer carcasses untouched except for missing internal organs with no tracks visible.

Blood or tissue
On the fourth day of gun season in 2003 Place not stated Related account #44191

Footsteps

On the fourth day of gun season in 2003 something large moved in a clover-leaf pattern around the witness as if testing for location.

FootstepsAnimal behaviour