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screaming or howling 1280a very tall figure 1104footprints 597growling 440knocking 419something walking upright 389whooping 237the feeling of being watched 216dogs reacting 212voices 187a dark figure 184footsteps 179wood knocking 164glowing eyes 144humanoid 136multiple witnesses 130

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The accounts

1972-08-01

Lake Milton, Ohio: Summer 1972 About the time my siblings and I were entering that turbulent period known as our "teens", my family had the great good fortune of having moved into a house flanked on either side…

voices · a triangle shape · vanishing suddenly

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I want to start with tonight, while it is fresh in my mind. My girlfriend and I let the dogs out to the bathroom around 1am. She instantly said she thought she heard something in the valley below our home, and…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

undated

The reason I never told anyone was because I found it hard to believe myself, much less what other people would say or think about me. I recently began working at an ARMY hospital and befriended someone who had…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly

1993-03-15

Upon my initial encounter, I did not think at all that I would be attributing it to something like this. However, the more I read, the more certain I am that me and my friends had a close encounter with a bigfo…

knocking · screaming or howling · growling

undated

The following on-site interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. Stan - How long have you been coming to this location? John - A couple months now. Stan - What typ…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

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Location: Taney County – 3 miles north of Forsyth – under-developed area comprising multiple 10-acre lots, heavily forested, served by a dirt/gravel road. Late summer (July/August) 1998 Time: 8:30-ish pm My wi…

screaming or howling · a beam of light · vanishing suddenly

2007-04-10

Hello, I contacted someone from your organization about a year ago regarding my encounter in central Florida back in the middle 80s. I was called away to work and was unable to continue with the call. With that…

knocking · screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly

1975-10-11

Late Friday night, Mr. and Mrs. Tallik called in a report to the Bonney Lake Police Department that someone was sneaking around close to their home. Office Hidenrick answered this call and searched the grounds…

screaming or howling · footsteps · voices

2007-09-28

On September 28th, 2007, my good friend and I were driving home from a show. We were driving out of Shady Springs through my grandpa’s farm, and like always, were watching for deer. This was a beautiful evening…

vanishing suddenly · something walking upright

2011-05-23

I am writing this for my neighbor Bill (not his real name). I interviewed Bill on December 25, 2010, and for additional details two times again. Bill said that when he was a teenager he went with a group of 11…

vanishing suddenly · rocks being thrown

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The time and date was Friday, Jan. 25th at around 5 or 10 past midnight. I was sitting at my desk which is on the same wall as my front door, maybe 1 foot away from my front door. I was actually playing an onli…

vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

1977-05-18

Case Report by Ron Schaffner Subject - Encounter with large "Ape-like" animal Date - May 18, 1977 Time - 8:30 PM Witnesses - Two 13 year-old boys whose parents request confidentiality Location - Preble County,…

vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure · dogs reacting

2012-09-23

Three of us went on a deer hunt that morning. We had a hunter at the top of the hill and he went up there in the dark before sunrise. At dawn my uncle and I went up the hill together parting ways half way up. T…

vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure · something walking upright

undated

I had two different encounters with in a week apart, within a mile of each other. I used to take walks in the afternoons when I would get off of work. There was an old logging road that made a loop about 3 mile…

screaming or howling · growling · silence

2005-04-13

My husband and I attended the BFRO expedition in West Virginia in Spring of 2005. The base camp was next to a river in the mountains near the Virginia border. On Thursday afternoon most of the people crossed th…

vanishing suddenly

2015-11-12

It all began with my father in law. He had an encounter of something huge and making an un familiar noise he said he had never heard before. He is a 70 year old man and great guy. I recall laughing and making f…

screaming or howling · growling · vanishing suddenly

1988-08-15

I was coming home from work one night in the summer of 1988 or 1989. It was about 8:50 PM, dark and there was a heavy fog on the ground. I had my low-beams on be better see through this ground fog which was abo…

vanishing suddenly · paralysis

2017-01-24

In 1953 I was a 10 year old girl living in George Field (Barracks), IL. George Field was a WWII air base for pilot training & the barracks housed airmen and brass. After the war the Barracks were converted to c…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · pilot witness

1985-02-15

This incident involved hearing and smelling what my brothers and I can only describe as Bigfoot. It happened on my Grandparents property when I was approx. 14 years old. Our Grandparents had given all three of…

vanishing suddenly · footprints

2008-09-20

It's taken me a long time to share this story (about 7 years). My family, friends and I use to ride atv's very often, usually on the weekends. I had the biggest 4 wheeler so I usually stayed in the very back in…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly

1997-05-15

I was camping once with my wife, two kids and my dog. Everyone had gone to sleep inside the tent. I was sitting outside with my dog watching the embers of our campfire die down. Suddenly a rock seemed to roll d…

vanishing suddenly · humanoid · repeated event

2010-01-14

On Jan 14th, 2010, I was taking my son to school on Hwy. 36, outside of Sanders. We were following a Ford Ranger and were probably 30-40 foot behind it. I noticed something run quickly in front of that truck. I…

vanishing suddenly · a dark figure

1975-09-10

Over, I think, 20 to 25 years ago, a woman in LaCresent was doing her dishes at night and looked up to see what was a large hairy faced man looking into her window that was over her sink. The police were called…

vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure · police witness

undated

In January of 2003 two friends and I were bobcat hunting in western Johnston County. It was a cloudy day, which increased our chances of seeing some cats. I enjoy hunting but was a little green behind the ears…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · dogs reacting

1986-10-01

I was in High School in 1986 and we just came home from an away football game and were cruising around town late one night, about 12:30 or so. My friend was driving and my other buddy was in the back seat in th…

vanishing suddenly

1997-11-20

My son and I were elk hunting in November 1997, and were standing on a ridge overlooking a semi-forested flat area below us. The ridge we were on was fir trees and heavy brushy groundcover, and the area between…

voices · vanishing suddenly

1977-05-22

We were hiking towards the west on a 45 degree slope of forest soil when we came upon four large prints. They ran from west to east towards the direction we had been coming from. Above the easternmost track the…

vanishing suddenly · something walking upright

2006-07-10

On June 10, 2006 I was driving with my brother on a back road (unpaved) in the Adirondack Park. We were heading for a trail head that led into the Hudson River Gorge. This area is almost dead center in the park…

vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

2013-09-30

Sept 30, 2013. Route 109 halfway between Hoquiam/Aberdeen and Ocean Shores Washington. I was driving back from Hoquiam to Ocean Shores where I live when a deer ran across the road heading south about an eighth…

vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

1996-11-17

This incident happened to me during the november deer hunting season of 1996. I was deer hunting on state ground that lies in back of our cabin in Iron county in Michigan's U.P. It is very rugged country with o…

vanishing suddenly · a dark figure

2006-09-10

In July of 1985 on a hot but clear afternoon I was driving home on County Rd. 21 about 1 mile from my home when up ahead I saw these dark figures approach the side of the road. They were standing there in close…

vanishing suddenly · hair static

2011-09-15

I am an avid outdoors man, I canoe and camp on a regular basis, mostly by myself (nobody spends any time in the wild anymore). On my most recent canoe/camping trip I had set up camp started a fire, and and had…

knocking · vanishing suddenly

2012-11-11

Observed a giant bi-pedal creature in the Cherokee National Forest in Unicoi County Tennessee near the North Carolina border. Creature was in the creek when I first saw it. The creature immediately sensed my pr…

knocking · growling · vanishing suddenly

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I am a fifty four year old man living in San Francisco. I have never had any interest in this subject until this week. An old friend of mine moved to Gold Beach, Oregon, and I was driving up to see him. I had n…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

2006-10-21

It was about 1:00 am on 10/21/06 when I was camping in the Palo Duro Canyon State Park for the Palo Duro Canyon trail run the following morning. I had gotten up from my sleep and was walking down to the public…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

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my sister and i were driving to school one morning a few years ago and straight up ahead we both saw something standing there in the road on two feet for sure, staring at us approaching. As we approached we cou…

vanishing suddenly · multiple witnesses

2021-01-30

We were coyote hunting and when we first sat down my buddy says “did you hear that” I said “hear what” then he said “it sounded like a wood knock” I didn’t think much of it and we went on to call for about 30 m…

knocking · wood knocking · vanishing suddenly

undated

I was walking home with my baby in my front pack and my dog through (edited) on Bainbridge Island around 6 PM last mid-May. The evening weather was warm. About 50 yards in front of me in the woods, I heard bran…

vanishing suddenly

2021-11-27

Saturday night I was driving at 10:30 PM in Central Illinois heading from Cass County to Tazewell County. A car was probably 3/4 mile ahead of me and I could see their tail lights. I saw a large animal jump int…

vanishing suddenly

1990-06-30

In 1990 + - I am not sure of the year I was going to the beach down hwy 220 south with my husband, he did not see any thing. As best I can remember we were close to Candor NC, where 211 toward Pinehurst and Abe…

vanishing suddenly

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