Number of Witnesses: 3
Any Odor? If so, Description: Strong smell of wet dog or some type of wet animal. Very bad smell
Vocalizations Heard?: Yes
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
On two separate occasions I have gone up to New Hampshire to go hiking. The first time hiking this trail I was with my sister and step brother. We got about 2-3 min. into our hike when we all stop because we could smell this horrible odor. I can best decribe it was a wet animal. The smell seemed to go across the trail. So I had my step brother go on one side of the trail into the woods and I went to the other to see if we could maybe see what the smell had come from. As I came back out onto the trail I walked into the side where my brother was. As I reentered the woods my brother was about 25 ft in. As he walked back we could all hear something walking away from the direction he was walk toward. We all seemed a little freaked out but we decided to keep going. I have been hiking for years now and this was the first time I felt like something was watching us. We got about 15 min. in when it sounded like there was something following us. So we stopped for about 20 sec when we heard a loud scream come from deep in the woods. This wasn’t any of the local animals. We got about half way through when we came across the same smell once again. We ended up finishing the hike.
The second time I went back again with my girlfriend and my sister. I wanted to see if we could maybe see something this time. We got there about 9am. It was cold about 45 and there was an overcast. It had been raining and cold for about 2 days. We got about half way in when my sister and my girlfriend wanted to take some pictures of small pond that is back there.I kind of walked ahead of them when they yelled over to me “oh my god come look at this.” I ran over there and the was about a 13in footprint in the mud next to the lake. It looked like it had walked thought the shallow part of the pond. There was no way someone would have gone out there when it had been raining and very cold and took their shoe off and made it. There was no tracks in the mud on the trail that someone would have made by walking in. The track looked like it might have been a few days old and the rain washed out alot of details. We continued hiking and again there was that smell that I smelt about a year earlier.