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on my birthday Place not stated EP 845

Tracks

After a fire the witness believed a family group had left the area. On returning on the witness's birthday, the witness found extensive tracks for a hundred feet in both directions. The trackway included very large prints and smaller prints attributed to different age classes.

Tracks
Date unknown Place not stated EP 845

Paranormal encounter

A hiker felt they walked through an energetic, shimmery barrier on the mountain. The hiker glimpsed a hairy arm from the corner of the eye and heard spoken words before barely escaping. The story was said to have been told at a research expedition in the Southwest.

Partial sightingVocalization
Date unknown Place not stated EP 845

Paranormal encounter

A man reported seeing the Rake in a creekside wooded area. The creature was described as pale, skinny and white with claw-like hands and long nails. The telling is brief and offered as a reliable secondhand report.

Full-body sighting
a few years ago Place not stated EP 845

Sasquatch sighting

A woodcutter working after a storm saw what looked like a man on a bluff nearby. After looking again without eye protection, the witness described it as a bigfoot staring back. When the witness tilted their neck, the creature mirrored the movement, prompting the witness to abandon tools and later request an escort to retrieve them.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #86

Sasquatch sighting

A relative of the witness reportedly saw a creature run across a road on the east slope of the Cascades.

Road crossing
Date unknown Montrose EP 836

Eyeshine near Montrose

A couple with land shared game-camera images showing a bobcat turning to look at something with two large eyes visible. The tellers were shown the photo, which was later enlarged and measured at about eight feet high. The eyes were described as too far apart for an owl with no branch for perching.

Eyeshine
last August Friday to Sunday Colorado EP 836

Vocalization in Colorado

A parent and child camped with a dog on a forest road and set out a recorder. Overnight the teller heard yelling moving through woods, knocks, a lion-like roar, and something repeatedly lifting and setting down metal dog bowls on a table. The dog stayed silent, and raccoon prints were found on the table in the morning.

VocalizationWood knockProperty disturbance
last May on the nineteenth after May seventh surgery, eight nine months after night hike Bailey, Colorado EP 836

Object throwing near Bailey, Colorado

A family spent the day at a dispersed site by a boulder, with children playing and the group cooking. In the early evening while organizing to leave, a pine cone flew in a straight line from across the road and uphill, passing close enough to feel air and striking the ground near the teller. Family members denied throwing it, and a loud angry yell was then heard down the road.

Object throwingVocalization
Date unknown Place not stated EP 836

Odor

A hunting companion walked in early morning to a tree stand to hunt all day. Something circled the tree unseen, left a large foul-smelling scat, and left. The hunter was shaken, later spoke of a possible sasquatch-like sighting, and stopped using that stand.

OdorScatMovement only
Last night before the recording Cheyenne, Wyoming EP 836

Whistle near Cheyenne, Wyoming

While getting ready to sleep with a bathroom window cracked open, the guest heard a whistle from that direction. The guest checked on parents who were asleep, then closed and locked the window without looking out. The guest chose not to respond to the sound.

WhistleUnidentified sound
after the night hike, before the call Cheyenne, Wyoming EP 836

Partial sighting near Cheyenne, Wyoming

After the expedition, the guest reported strange activity at home. The guest's mother, resting on a couch facing a mostly glass back door, screamed that someone big was looking in. Nothing was found when lights were turned on, and a blanket was hung to cover the door.

Partial sighting
same Saturday night after canyon hike Colorado EP 836

Eyeshine in Colorado

After the canyon, the group drove to a second brushy road to sit and listen. They saw red lights and heard a whoop, which on approach proved to be young people with red lights making noise. The guide was described as unhappy about the disturbance.

EyeshineVocalizationPossible misidentification
Saturday night in August in summertime Bailey, Colorado EP 836

Odor near Bailey, Colorado

A group of five did a guided night hike in a steep creek canyon. They encountered a wall of rotten-fish odor, a shadow movement across the trail, equipment failure, amber and whitish lights, a shimmering blur with gnat-like points, and a dark blob rising along a pine without moving branches. On the way out they heard a twig break, a heavy stomp, and child-like laughter very close in the dark.

OdorPartial sightingEyeshineFootstepsVocalization +1
Date unknown Bailey, Colorado EP 836

Sasquatch sighting near Bailey, Colorado

A woman at an outpost told two visitors she sees three juveniles when she goes to the same area. She warned them to back away if the forest goes quiet and they hear humming or buzzing. The visitors relayed her warning and sighting claim.

Full-body sighting
probably a month after that Place not stated EP 836

Sasquatch sighting

A fisherman with family near the same fishing area left abruptly after the wife and children encountered a biped looking over a rock. The teller later spoke with the fisherman, who was reluctant because others laughed. The husband left to town and had others retrieve the family.

Partial sighting
Later that summer Place not stated EP 836

Rock throwing

While fishing a creek, companions had rocks land on them that they said they did not throw. On a later foggy morning below a ledge, rocks fell from above, one thrown back struck something solid, and a deep grunt was heard. The slope was described as too steep for a person to have run away unseen.

Rock throwingVocalization
Date unknown Oakridge, Oregon EP 841

Footsteps near Oakridge, Oregon

After losing contact for a time, the witness sat alone playing for about an hour with no response. He then spoke aloud asking for a sign if anything was there. Immediately he heard a twig snap behind him and a large branch sound out toward the meadow.

FootstepsTree break
on my birthday Oakridge, Oregon EP 841

Tracks near Oakridge, Oregon

After a quiet period with no activity, the witness returned to the back meadow area on his birthday. He found what he describes as hundreds of tracks spread over a large area, including smaller and larger sizes and one very large track with deep toe impressions. Whooping had previously been heard from the same spot, which he took as a welcome sign.

TracksWhoop
The third night Place not stated EP 841

Vocalization

The witness camped alone apart from the main camp during an expedition with two other people. He secured his tent against a thick bowed tree and brush because something seemed to be stalking him. On the third night about one o'clock, something pushed the tree down right behind his head, then released it to spring back up, while making sounds next to the tent.

VocalizationTree breakFootsteps
Date unknown Oakridge, Oregon EP 841

Rock throwing near Oakridge, Oregon

The witness says his only rock-throwing experience happened with a companion down in the swamp kitchen area. Small rocks were thrown as light intimidation, followed by twig snaps and a shrill whistle first on the swamp side then on the wooded side, making it seem like more than one individual moving around them.

Rock throwingWhistleFootsteps