BFRO #76760: Multiple family members mention multiple incidents on isolated property near the Canadian border

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December 18, 2023:A big storm blew in around 7 a.m. and didn�t move off until about 12:30 a.m. It knocked out power to our home sometime around 7 p.m. We have a chicken coop about 40 feet from our house. It is 2 feet off the ground and 12�x20� with an entrance door that used to be the front door to our home. It was about 8:30 p.m. (sunset is around 3:30 this time of year) when I was shining my flashlight out an upstairs window when I saw a dark silhouette standing in front of my coop. The top of its head was in line with the top of the coop door. It was very muscular, broad shoulders, long upper legs with proportionately shorter lower legs. It was too narrow at the hips to be a bear. We had a black bear and her cubs den near our house a few years ago, this was nothing like her shape. I moved the flashlight to try to get a better look and it disappeared from view. The chicken coop is covered in white siding. There is no mistake that this was bipedal. It was facing me when I first shined the light on it. It turned to run off just before I moved the flashlight. Given that an average door is about 7 feet high, and the coop is 2 feet off the ground, that would put it around 9 feet tall.What had me looking outside was a sound that I heard on the wind that alarmed me to my core. I had spent the day listening to the wind howl and moan, but this was different. It was guttural and within the sounds of the wind, but not in sync. It caused a physical reaction: my heart started racing and my stomach went into knots. I was tending to two of my grand kids that were playing with flashlights, mostly shadow puppets. I jumped to my feet and told them to hand me a flashlight and turn the other one off. To shine the flashlight outside through the window I must put it against the window or it just reflects back. To see out the window all other light must be off. One of our dogs was barking furiously. Before I could tell my daughters what I saw, they tell me what they were experiencing downstairs with the two younger children and the dogs. Because the power was out, my youngest daughter was charging her phone in her car. She said she went out to get her phone off the charger and felt that somebody was watching her. The feeling was so intense that she stayed in her car a few minutes to look around and see if she could see anyone. When she got out to head back into the house, she only got a few steps away from her car when she heard the same sound I had heard. She said she was instantly terrified and ran into the house. The dog was in the window barking as she was coming through the door.My oldest daughter said that when she heard the howl she saw her dog lift her head and look out the window, then stood up and started barking frantically. The dog was looking in the opposite direction than my youngest daughter, who had just started to run to the front door. Nobody wanted to charge their phones in the vehicles after that. This was not a mistaken identity about the sounds. We were in 30mph winds with 55 mph gusts and a downpour of rain in December. I don�t know of any animal, domestic or wild, that would be out in that weather.In the morning after sunrise, my oldest daughter went out to the trash bin that is next to the chicken coop. She found the heavy lid was lifted off the bin and set on the back of the bin OPPOSITE the direction the wind had been blowing. Two large bags of trash were missing and there was a trail of trash into the woods. The critters tear up the trash in the bin and pick out what they want. They DO NOT carry 55-gallon trash bags home with them. There are no tracks of any kind because we don�t have any soft mud spots. It�s either gravel or grass around that entire area of our property.

🔍 Circumstances

3 adults, 3 children, one of 3 dogs (a doberman). Power outage, children playing shadow puppets with flashlights before bedtime.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

8:30pm Massive storm high winds and down pour vary dark

ℹ️ Additional Details

8:30pm Massive storm high winds and down pour vary dark

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