An open record of things people cannot explain

People who described growling

444 accounts in the record mention this, spread across 1940s to 2020s. It is one of the rarer things people report, which makes it worth more when two accounts share it.


1%
of every account in the record mentions growling. When two strangers both do, the engine weighs that heavily.

What else those witnesses noticed

screaming or howling 204knocking 78a very tall figure 77footprints 60the feeling of being watched 41animals reacting 40

Where it comes up most

Pierce County, Washington (7) · Snohomish County, Washington (5) · Clallam County, Washington (5) · Belmont County, Ohio (4) · Kittitas County, Washington (4) · Mason County, Washington (4)

When people reported it

1940s1
1950s2
1960s8
1970s40
1980s32
1990s37
2000s147
2010s81
2020s13

Counts follow reporting, not necessarily the world. More accounts in a decade can simply mean more people writing them down.

The accounts

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 Chronica…

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…

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"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…

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…

1972-08-25

This is the third 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. This third encounter…

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November 15-19. Witness: James Scott. HUNTING. Heard: During the night (whole trip) -Heard what appeared to be loud squirrel barks and trees being knocked down during the middle of the night. -Somethi…

2011-09-09

It was toward the end of summer in September 2011 that I had my sighting of a tall hairy bipedal creature. I went to bed around 9:30pm on September 5th and it was a warm summer night approximately 70…

2004-10-11

Upon request of Chris Bradley (BFRO investigator) I am submitting this report of what I believe to have been an encounter with a Bigfoot or Sasquatch. I Rodney Frank Williams (Rod) DOB 12/19/42 residi…

2005-08-11

I am new to this stuff, so I won't even try to cover everything related to this trip. That's for others to talk about. I can tell about what I observed and heard. There were about twenty five people a…

undated

My name is [TH], and I have lived in an old Mining Camp, in Northern California for the past two years. During that first fall I would hear a strange whistling call that would come from a Sequoia tree…

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