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Something in the woods

The moment the forest goes quiet


It is rarely a sighting. It is the woods going silent, wood knocked against wood, something moving parallel and out of sight, a smell that should not be there, and the certainty of being watched by something that is not a bear.

2,484
accounts in the record touch this. Each one was written by somebody who decided not to let it go.

What people describe

screaming or howling 1314a very tall figure 1124the feeling of being watched 222wood knocking 168a foul smell 121

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undated

This trip was, in actuality, an expedition my brothers and myself had planned into the mountains of Siskiyou county. Our rationale came from an obscure Californian document called which records one of the earliest Sasquatch encoun…

knocking · wood knocking · three knocks

undated

As a young person I vaguely remember hearing something about a creature called "Bigfoot". I suppose I thought he was something the Indians had conjured up. That is how others seemed to think. Then approximately eight years ago, my…

buzzing · heavy footsteps · a very tall figure

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 by a pair of brothe…

voices with no source · a triangle shape · vanishing suddenly

1979-10-01

My Big Foot Sightings over the years. My first introduction to Big Foot was about 1965. A series of articles appeared in the Portland Oregonian, the Salem-Statesman Journal, the San Francisco Chronical, and at least one other. I s…

growling · an unexplained boom · a very tall figure

1991-08-15

August 1991 Stark County, East Canton OH near to US Route 30 It's hard to say where these stories come from. When I was younger I had always read about them with a grain of salt. I mean you never really take anything serious that…

screaming or howling · whooping calls · sudden silence

2007-08-18

It happened close to midnight on August 18, 2007, on the last official night of a private expedition, east of Mt. Rainier in the Wenatchee National Forest, of Washington State. Out of respect for our WA-BFRO crew's primary Central…

knocking · screaming or howling · growling

undated

REPORT OF A FIELD INVESTIGATION by Richard D. McCuistion, Sr., Chilton Williamson, and Keith Foster Between 4 and 7 August 1998 we began a long term study in a drainage thought to be the summer range of the Sasquatch(s) described…

screaming or howling · glowing eyes · footprints

2012-01-15

I want to start out by saying that I have never discussed this with anyone except for one other person. I have not discussed it with my wife, my best friend, or any other person close to me in my life. I was fortunate to have a co…

a very tall figure · a hooded figure · a mark or residue left behind

2003-08-15

this all started when we were asked to be night watchmen for a logging company to watch the big equipment during the summer months of july and august. it was last week of july when we got there . first incedent we went fishing at…

knocking · screaming or howling · whooping calls

undated

"The Zoobies" -- 1992 interview with Sgt. Doug Huse, San Diego County Sheriffs Department MONEYMAKER: Okay, just go ahead and tell me about yourself, when you started working there and so on. HUSE: I started working the Alpine are…

knocking · growling · voices with no source

1972-08-15

This is the second in a set of chronological reports that I am submitting regarding a series of encounters I had between 1970 and 1983 in Nevada, California, and Washington States. I grew up several miles Northwest of Reno, Nevada…

screaming or howling · voices with no source · a very tall figure

undated

The Backpack trip Draft 9-8-2014 Background: Biologist at a major biotech company. No previous experience with Sasquatch or similar, but have seen a couple shows on television (1 episode of finding BF, and one episode of Survivorm…

knocking · buzzing · screaming or howling

1976-09-18

[ Note: The first names of the witnesses has been changed. ] Preface: This information is based on witnessed facts, and is as close to the events as I can recall. I am blessed with a near photographic memory. First is some backgro…

a low hum · screaming or howling · growling

2004-08-14

This is a compilation of experiences over a period of years in the same area (1988- 2009) - feeling of being watched, wildlife silenced, tree breaks, strong smell once, numerous late night vocalizations, rock knocking, things bein…

knocking · screaming or howling · whooping calls

When people reported it

1930s1
1940s3
1950s15
1960s49
1970s230
1980s215
1990s257
2000s785
2010s361
2020s69

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Where

Pierce County, Washington (34) · Skamania County, Washington (25) · Lewis County, Washington (23) · Snohomish County, Washington (23) · Tuolumne County, California (23) · King County, Washington (19) · Coconino County, Arizona (19) · Humboldt County, California (17)

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Other kinds of experience

92

Accounts where the world did not match itself.

468

Dark figures, seen clearly, with nothing to see.

378

Waking unable to move, with the certainty of company.

37

Hours that cannot be accounted for.