Scary encounter outside a rural home

Witness Observation

I am about to graduate with a BS in Biology, and want that noted. The incidents began in the fall of 2004. It started out as hearing strange howling sounds in the evening. I never heard the vocalizations in the day time. In the fall of 2004 some friends and I went camping on my driveway. It was the middle of October, and around 2 in the morning I heard a loud grunting sound and trees snapping. The noises were so loud that they woke me up. It was a full moon that night and clear, and when I opened the window on the tent I could not believe what I was seeing. I saw a large dark figure with eyes that seemed to illuminate red in the moonlight.

It was beating something in the head which I found to be a deer come sun up. The creature drug the deer up to the top of the hill above the camp sight. It walked up on top of some big rocks and I could make it out perfectly. 8 to 10 feet tall and covered in hair. The one friend who stayed the evening saw the exact same thing. I watched it eat the deer. It pulled off appendages like it was nothing. Shortly after it started eating it noticed our tent. It walked right down to the side of the tent, and the smell coming off of it was intensely musky.

It knocked the frying pan out of the tree by the tent as it was walking by, and when it hit the ground, it ran back to the top of the hill. The deer carcass was gone, but hair and intestines were left behind. The liver, spleen, heart and lungs must have been eaten. We followed the drag marks from the carcass and found a mass of pine trees bent and broken into some form of shelter.

ALSO NOTICED: The trees were broke off around 6 ft off the ground in the direction that it ran off. I know what all of the animals in the woods sound like. Coyotes, owls, foxes, anything in the woods. I am not mistaking these howls for coyotes or owls. These howls are very deep, long, and you just know something big is doing it. The first time I ever heard it, and did not know what it was, the hair on the back of my neck stood up. It felt like some deep instinctual acknowledgement of danger.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: First sighting it was clear and cool. It was around 2 in the morning and it was a full moon.