Number of Witnesses: myself, everyone else was asleep
Length of Observation: maybe a minute
Vocalizations Heard?: yes
I was woken up in the middle of the night (had to pee) As I laid in bed deciding if I wanted to go or hold it out, I heard what sounded like a yell/scream. It was high and then medium pitched in sound lasting about 5-7 seconds. I heard it a second time, then a huffing or deep “whuoof” like a blowing at the end of the double scream. It sounded fairly close to the camp, maybe 50 yards or so, and right behind the outhouse. I decided to hold going to the bathroom till morning!

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: Ongoing events
Animal Description: Large and Black, very brief glimpse
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Vocalizations Heard?: Yes
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Physical Evidence? (hold Ctrl key to select more than one): Tracks
Recordings Made?: No
I was standing at kitchen sink washing dishes. Watching birds on feeder outside window. Window faces old abandoned rundown farm with multiple out buildings. Overgrowth is very thick just outside my property. Deer and bear path about 15-20 feet inside brush. All of a sudden there was a scream (for lack of a better word) like I have never heard before. I come from a family of hunters and did hunt myself years ago. We have always lived in this area and love the outdoors. My brother is a professional guide and oversees a private wildlife preserve with more than 6000 acres. they also harbor animals not native to this area such as elk and even had a mountain lion on property at one time. The only way I can describe the sound is that it sounded like a combination of a howl, a growl and a scream all in one, but what impressed me was the magnitude of the sound. It was HUGE and close. I have NEVER heard anything like it. I cannot shake the feeling it gave me. VERY unsettling. Such a big sound. I could see nothing in the brush lot in back of our large shed. My dog, a German Shorthair Pointer was going crazy and I was afraid she would go through the storm door. I ran and grabbed her and glanced out the door in time to see a flash of something going across the road and down over the bank. There is a wooded lot directly across the road from my house. This is where the animals cross to remain under cover as there
is a house on each side of the lot but the back of the lot opens into large woods. I could not see any shape to the animal just a flash of hair and color. It was large and tall. It was black/grey and very fast. It was gone from sight in a split second. I cannot impress how loud this was. My heart was pounding. I was so upset at what I heard I called my brother in law who owns the woods that borders the woods the animal went into and he was not at home. I was so moved by this that I needed to share it with someone. This probably sounds foolish getting so excited over a sound but even after 5 months I can still hear it. I went on line to try to find audios of animal sounds and have not found anything that even remotely sounds like what I heard. Also at this time (the days before and after), I was having a problem with my dog finding and rolling in feces that smelled human. My husband and I could not figure out or imagine where she would find raw human sewage. I know this sounds terrible but human feces smells totally different than animal feces. I remember saying that it was not hunting season for turkey or big game so I doubted that it would be a hunter that could not make it out of the woods. Again it was an extremely HUGE sound. I am sorry for taking up your time if you feel this is nothing.

Update: 8/08
Hi, I want to update you about what has taken place sinse we last talked. I am more convinced than ever that I heard and glimpsed a BF. I think it was about a year ago that I reported about. If these animals are migratory then that would perhaps explain what has been going on. About 3 weeks ago there were footprints along the road in the loose dirt. It looked like a human barefoot only larger and no arch. I saw these tracks for 3 days in a row in the same area where the animal I heard before crossed the road. I tried to take pictures with something to gauge the size in it. They did not come out very good. When I measured them they were approximately 15 and a half inches long. We were getting rain every day then so the tracks were washed away within a day. I did show them to my 16 yr. old grandson. Within a week of seeing these tracks my grandson heard some very loud sounds. When I questioned him he said it sounded like a growl and a scream at the same time. The next day my dog ran off again, something she hasn’t done in a couple of months, and came back covered in feces, and it smelled almost human again. That is what she did last year. Last night the windows were open in the kitchen and when I turned the lights off to go to bed I thought I heard what sounded like a series of grunts and growls all running together. I thought it was my imagination and went to bed. 2 hours later my grandson woke me up and said there was something crashing around outside the house and it was big. I got up and tried to see out but could see nothing. Now it may have been a bear or perhaps even deer as they can be quite noisy but I find it interesting that it is a year later. There is something else that I didn’t tell you because I wasn’t sure it was related, but last year when my dog was rolling in whatever feces it was, she was gone for about 4 hours. She has NEVER been gone that long. When she came home her collar was stretched out and all four of her canine teeth were broke off. She was lame and I was concerned about what could have happened to her. Everyone who lives here on the hill knows
my dog. From either driving by or walking by or the kids. When she was gone so long I searched for her and drove around and around the roads and had the neighbors watching for her so if she had been hit by a car I think I would have found out. Not only that we have worked with her continually trying to teach her not to go into the road, and she is very good about it. Some of the reports I have read about dogs having encounters with these creatures sound like it could have been. I hope I am not being foolish about this but it does make me wonder. There have been a couple of days this week when she doesn’t want to go outside and cowers, and this is VERY unusual as I usually have to coax her to come in. Again thank you for your time, and I hope I am not wasting your time with this.

Update 9/24/08: It has been very quiet lately. Last night (tuesday), my grandson woke me because
there were bangings, as he called it. It sounded very close and did not last very long. Only a few times but I haven’t heard any knockings in a long time and none this close. I can’t help but wonder,if perhaps it is something moving through the area. It would be very difficult for something to live in this area and not have more sightings. This area is hunted quite heavily for deer and turkey. My dog did come back the other day smelling VERY bad again so it does make me wonder if there is some activity, that is perhaps nomadic. I have been doing a lot of searching on line and reading and I find it very difficult to close my mind to the possibility of an animal that has yet to be discovered. I wish I had more news. Take care, Linda
Update: 1/09: I still don’t know what else it could have been that was out here that morning. Then last night I heard what you call vocalizations. Until then, I wasn’t sure that what I was hearing on line and television was the same thing I heard here, but there is no mistaking it now. I heard it late last night about 1 am. The sounds were just like the tapes I have listened to. The sounds were a ways off, but they were distinct. Everyone was in bed and I was the only one up and it was very quiet. I heard it from in the house with no windows or doors open. I did go out onto the porch and listen and it is amazing how far
the sound travels. Dated 1/6/09

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: 15 Seconds
Animal Description: Just past a lake about 1/4 mile, we saw something climb up from the bank of the brook as we passed by in our car. It was about 5 ft. tall and completely covered in mud & leaves… so we really couldn’t tell if it was hairy, but the arms were too long to be a person. It walked hunched over a bit and the hands were just below the knees. It turned is head, looked at us and kept walking up over the bank and into the woods. I’m not very familiar with bigfoot (of course I have heard of them), but don’t know if they play in the mud nor am I familiar with their habits. Animal walked bi-pedal; hunched over a bit and the hands fell just below the knees.
Aprox. Height: aprox 5 feet
We had driven to the end of a dirt road in Thurman and turned around to come back… it’s a dead end road. Somehow we ended up driving over a mountain with a brook that follows along side the road and driving slow because its an old dirt road and secluded. After getting home and checking a map, I believe we were on [location omitted]. At the top of this mountain is a large lake.

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: a few hours
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
we were camping with no vehicle on the top of a mountain in a very large wooded reforestation area in Schoharie county, NY. After dark we heard a large animal circling our camp just out of sight in very thick and dark woods. It started hitting trees with something as it walked around our camp almost like it was trying to scare us off. This continued for many hours until a large storm came in with lightning and thunder and heavy rain around midnight. Dispite the fact we were armed and had multiple fires burning the animal continued to circle the camp. From the noise of the trees being hit and the walking noise we could tell the creature was very large and strong. This was the second time I heard something strange in the area but this time it was close by and very unnerving. User never returned contacted, stated wanted to be anonymous

Number of Witnesses: 2 my brother and best childhood friend
Length of Observation: probably 1 minute but when I looked at it it was about 3 feet down from
where I was standing
Animal Description: Reddish brown hair. broad shoulders with a cone shaped head. the movement of
the thing seemed to be wild. it was “man like” but wild.
Aprox. Height: It was crouched down but because my porch ledge was over 6 feet high it was well
over 6 feet tall
Aprox. Weight: I would have to say between 300 and 400 pounds.
Head/Facial Description: Cone shaped head with red reflecting eyes.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
was on my front porch with my brother and best friend. I saw the shrubs moving that are located along side my porch. I looked over the edge to see what it was and saw what I described as a man covered with hair on its hands and knees. It heard me calling for my cat and looked up at me. At that point I had backed up fast and saw what looked like a large human hand covered with hair and long dirty finger-nails.

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: 1-2 minutes
Animal Description: Large, tall black hairy (ape like), standing still then crouched down and then
disappeared,
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
My nephew was helping my husband, his uncle clear our land to build our house on. They were standing around the bonfire they built to keep warm and cook on. After cooking their steak and began eating he glanced across the creek and saw a large, black hairy thing. He states it crouched down when it saw him look over and then disappeared. The strange thing is I personally saw something similar about a year ago when I brought my sister down to see the land we purchased to build our house on. At that time it was as cleared, I glanced towards an area of the creek and there was this huge black hairy thing, it ran up the small hill crouched over and then disappeared in the brush. My sister and I walked over towards that area but there was nothing there by the time we got close enough. We also weren’t able to cross the creek to investigate further.
I identified via map and satellite photos the witness’ closest town of encounter, Schodack, NY… The area is bordered by some small tracts of forest and farmland and is part of a developed section of the Hudson Valley just Southeast of Albany, NY. While an encounter at this location is possible, the likelihood is not very high in my opinion. The forested tracts of land in the immediate vicinity are small and broken up by significant development or large farm fields. Heading east about 15 miles is much better habitat with much larger tracts of forested land as the valley slopes upward into the Taconic Mountain range. The witness refused a request for a face or phone interview or site visit on this encounter. Couple that with the questionable encounter location and I believe this account to be questionable at best and likely not credible.

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: 45 seconds
Vocalizations Heard?: Moan-Howl, vocalization, Approximate duration of each sound: 2-3 seconds
Approximate separation of sounds: 12 seconds, evenly spaced Direction of source: East by Southeast (across rout 9N) Estimated distance of source of sounds: 75 yards, seemed to be moving to the North at a slow steady rate. While out grilling steaks and ribs last evening with my buddy Ralph, we heard three vocalizations at dusk. At 9:08pm Ralph and I were hanging out at the Alma Farm picnic area in North Bolton, this is at the intersection of Rout 9N and Padanarum Rd.. Our conversation was interrupted by a strange vocalization. This vocalization lasted for 2-3 seconds and captured our attention and sparked speculation, about 12 seconds after the first vocal we heard another which shut us up in anticipation of another which did occur about 12 seconds later, at this point we were listening with our full attention.
Sounds heard: Moan-Howl, vocalization
Number of sounds: 3 (three)
Approximate duration of each sound: 2-3 seconds
Approximate separation of sounds: 12 seconds, evenly spaced
Direction of source: East by Southeast (across rout 9N)
Estimated distance of source of sounds: 75 yards, seemed to be moving to the North at a slow steady
rate.
Terrain at source location: Swampy-Tangle
Approximate volume of sounds: 55-60(dB)
Background noise: Conversation at time of first vocal, utter silence for the next 2 (two) vocals.
After the third vocalization, it occurred to me that my digital camera records video with sound. I started recording for 2 minutes but no more vocals were heard. Ralph stepped to the side after the vocalizations to look and listen and reported hearing what seemed to him to be labored breathing, as if something had been running. We remained at the location for another hour in hopes of hearing more but nothing strange was heard. As this was a social outing and not research, Ralph and I were drinking beer, I drank 4 and a half 12oz bottles of Bass Ale over the course of 6 hours and I believe Ralph drank 5. As a further note, the location of this incident is squarely situated in what I consider to be an already established and documented prime research area.

Number of Witnesses: 4
Length of Observation: 5 Minutes
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Physical Evidence? : Scat Found
Scat Sample Collected
T’d off hole #6 . Upon approach to ball noticed a large Black Poop in fairway. Reported to owner of
Course & they called a person who came out & took pic’s & sample. His name was Paul. Said he was
sending sample to researcher in Wash. State.