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People who described hair standing up

100 accounts in the record mention this, spread across 1950s to 2020s. It is one of the rarer things people report, which makes it worth more when two accounts share it.


0.23%
of every account in the record mentions hair standing up. When two strangers both do, the engine weighs that heavily.

What else those witnesses noticed

screaming or howling 51a very tall figure 18growling 17the feeling of being watched 13footprints 12knocking 9

Where it comes up most

Pierce County, Washington (3) · Washington County, New York (2) · Hood River County, Oregon (2) · Daggett County, Utah (2) · Jefferson County, Washington (2) · King County, Washington (2)

When people reported it

1950s2
1960s3
1970s7
1980s11
1990s12
2000s26
2010s14
2020s1

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

The accounts

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…

2011-06-23

I was just outside and my 3 yearold lab was spooked by somethig like I've never seen. Barking--in a fear sound-- and running in circles! Wind is in the west and that is the direction of her concern. O…

1999-11-15

In 1979 and '80 I was living in my grandparent's old homeplace on our family farm in Alabama. The farm has about 300 acres of woods covering an area of deep hollows leading down to sloughs off of a ri…

undated

Monday August 31 2009 was the 3rd day of Colorado’s archery elk season. The day before I was hunting a familiar ridge and noticed a remote looking hanging valley across from the ridge I was hunting an…

1960-11-15

In the fall of about 1960, while coon hunting with my grandfather and friend named Bill, we had an encounter with what I am now convinced was a Bigfoot. We had left our house, which sat atop a ridge a…

1973-06-08

I have never told anyone this, except my husband ( who never did believe me, he knows something happened but he can't wrap his mind around this possibility ) for fear of ridicule. I was alone when thi…

1976-01-14

The incident I'm going to describe took place back in January of 1976. It was on a Tuesday afternoon. It's stuck with me and has bothered me since then (I'm now 36 y/o). I've never discussed it with a…

1992-11-19

My father and I were deer hunting the WI gun deer season on 80 acres of land owned by my father's friend. The land was in the middle of the cedar swamp already mentioned. We had several encounters tha…

1999-08-01

This incedent took place in the mid to end of summer of 1999. We were in the woods south of town in the hopes to find the plant "gensing". The timber in the area is very old with dense undergrouth. No…

2006-11-13

Nov 13th, 2006: 9:00 pm, dark, rainy and cold. My husband and I had just put our oldest son to bed, and were settling down to watch TV in our living room. My husband heard "someone" screaming "bizarre…

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