BFRO #29612: Vocalizations recorded and possible footprint found near Sugar Creek

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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.Only other time I've seen this was 2 years ago when she was spooked smelling the air. I could smell it too.It was like the worst locker room smell mixed with road kill. It took her 3-4 days to settle down. TomThe witness first contacted the BFRO with this report on June 23, 2011. On July 19, 2011, I met with him at his house. I interviewed the witness that day and had him explain what types of things he had been experiencing. Since then, this location has been the site of an on-going investigation with a long-term audio recorder left in the woods near his house. I interviewed the witness again in late October 2011, and the content of the two interviews follows:The first name of the witness has been changed. Stan - When was the first time something happened that you didn�t understand.Tom � It was a year ago, so it was probably early June of 2010. It was a Saturday, a friend had stopped by. When I am outside my dog Lulu roams the property, sometimes she will go back into the tree-line but she usually stays close to me. At one o�clock in the afternoon we were in the shop talking and doing stuff. When he was getting ready to leave I called for her. She was real nervous, her tail was tucked. There was a light breeze from the south and she was facing towards the south and acting very unusual.Tom - I figured it was a deer, a coyote, something back there. I walked back a little ways and she wouldn�t move, she just stayed here by the side door, very nervous. I finally said, let�s go in. My friend had left. I opened the door and had to raise my voice to get her to come in, which was unusual because she always wants to stay right near me. So I raised my voice and she came in and she ran straight down the steps into the basement and hid. I first thought when she went down that she was looking for a toy or something. After ten minutes I went down and found her, she was hiding behind the furniture in an unused room, cowering, and I reached down and she wouldn�t come to me. I reached down to touch her and she was shaking.Tom - I made her come back up for awhile and then we went back outside and repeated the same thing five or six times to about 8 o�clock that night. We had Lady Asian bugs and I am apparently sinus sensitive to them and that night around 9 o�clock I got my sinuses cleared up and we stepped out that side door, still had a breeze from the south, and she instantly panicked and went into that cowering motion, still shaking and standing low, not up like a dog does.Tom - I stood there and thought about it for a little bit and got a good whiff of it. The best description I have is that it was like the worst locker room stench or sweaty clothes that sat in a hamper for two weeks mixed with maybe road kill, bloody violent. It stood the hair up on my back. I sat back and thought wow, the trees are two hundred feet away, what is back there that smells so bad. And at the time she laid down in the yard, facing the south and was real nervous. She would look over her should behind her and then she would get up and face the other way because the wind currents were changing and she kept doing that. So we went back in for the night.Tom - Next morning I got up and went to church and breakfast, came home, got dressed and walked back in there. She walked with for a ways and then she turned and ran back up here to the house.Tom � From that time on there have been few deer and coyotes around. Prior to that I could see deer most every morning out back or down the roads. I think I have only seen one deer on my property in a year. Last night was the second time I�ve heard coyotes in a year. And usually if I grilled chicken out they would be howling, they would smell it and they�d be singing.Stan � After that initial time did you smell it again last year?Tom � I never noticed it again. About a week before, my nephew called and said there are footprints in a subdivision south of Chatham. I said that bugs me because a few days ago she (Lulu) was out back behind the brown shed barking in defense and I stepped out to see what she was doing. She had her nose up, she was following the wind currents I think, because she was running in circles, tail was tucked and she was real nervous. And I called her and she looked towards me, like she was ready to come to me and then she would jump like something spooked her, an animal, like you through a rock at her. She did that for a couple of days when we were out. It was in the west that time and she was facing west.Stan � Have you ever felt like you were being watched?Tom � Yes, just about every time I see her doing something like that, a few times I�ve been outside, I get that feeling.Stan � Have you ever had anything thrown at you, like rocks or anything.Tom � No.Stan � What about sounds?Tom � Last nig

🔍 Circumstances

One working in my shop.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

6:30 pm sun is setting, weather is clear with a west breeze.

ℹ️ Additional Details

6:30 pm sun is setting, weather is clear with a west breeze.

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