This is two shorter stories because I believe they were caused by the same cryptid or creature.

Anyways, at my house, (which for reference is on top of a mountain in Tennessee, deep in the Appalachian mountains, with only a few houses along this road we live on, so it's pretty isolated), it's the middle of the night and we are working on renovating the house, and I hear a loud thud from the wall on the side of the house. I look out the window and nobody is outside, so me and my dad go to investigate. There is a chip/dent in the wall (it's made of wood so it's tough), and there is a cinder block laying next to the wall as if it had been thrown. It was originally laying on the ground about 10-20 feet away, so it had been picked up and moved, the ground is completely flattened where it was, it is next to a 5-7 foot tall dirt ridge and the gate to get in the property is still closed and locked as it was earlier in the night, so something had to climb (or step) down the ridge to get there, it was about 400 feet from the road or so and the ring camera in the driveway didn't see anything, so whatever did that must've been walking through the forest already. I didn't see or hear anything though, which makes it confusing, as that doesn't line up with common Bigfoot sightings. But I digress, it must've been Bigfoot or something or that nature, or maybe the Tennessee Wildman, or something along those lines.

This second encounter is more frightening than the first one in my opinion, so me and my family are hiking, there's 6 of us so it's a pretty loud group, and whatever cryptids are on the woods must not like that because my dad says "stop, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, it kinda looked like a bear" and we all turn to look and all I can get a glimpse of is some big fuzzy creature ducking behind a boulder up on a ridge 20 feet above us. At this point in our hike, we are in the middle or the path, miles away from any humanity, middle of the forest, no cell service, and to top it all off, too our left is the ridge we saw the bear on, to our right is a cliff, it goes on this way for miles (the cliff flattens out slowly but the ridge stays like that the whole way). We are keeping a diligent eye because it would be bad news if a bear was right next to us, eventually we see nothing after 10 minutes and let our guard down, that's when the weirdness starts happening. A rock flies from the ridge to the path behind us, we brush it off and keep walking, we all keep seeing something in our peripheral vision, to me it looks like a huge dark brown fuzzy thing, possibly humanoid, but keeps hiding when we try to get a better look at it. We have no choice but to keep walking so we do, we start hearing grunts coming from the ridge and sticks and rocks start falling/getting thrown more and more, none hit us luckily. But as we get close to the end of the path it dies down and eventually stops. In hindsight I think it was Bigfoot or a similar creature that was unhappy with our loudness, and tried to scare us away.

Bonus little thing, my dad and grandpa found a little native american burial artifact buried on our property and my grandpa took it and now he seems to have really bad luck, so that might be because he took it or a coincidence.

Anyways if anyone knows what the cryptid/creatures they were feel free to comment them, I'm curious to see what other people think.

Me 21f was doom scrolling in bed alone. Like every other night when I can’t sleep probably around 10pm my screen illuminating my face and some of the room I paused the video reading comments when I felt it my mattress dipping like something or someone was climbing into bed now I have a cat but she’s not heavy enough to make the bed dip under her my heart immediately sank I continued to scroll ignoring the sinking feeling then I slowly turned my head .. nothing no cat or person so i turned over on my side once again scrolling then I feel it again I froze again preparing to turn and maybe find my cat instead i turned and came face to face with a hand I shot out of bed and flipped on the lights.. nothing

So I was on the phone with my boyfriend when he says he had to use the bathroom and hung up. Not even five minutes later he calls me all panicked saying he had heard someone say “hello, can you come here.” In his father’s voice coming from the living room. His dad was in his bedroom.. I am wondering, could it have been a mimic trying to lure him out? I tried to do some research on his building but I couldn’t find anything on it.

Im gonna say it as im him
It was 2am i was up playing games when I turned the console off i was going to the bedroom but i saw something outside my door window it was tall black like the same height as the door when I noticed it it ran across the door i was scared I immediately left the house and got in my car but then i started hearing my dads voice saying where are you going get out of the car and sleep I immediately left full speed because my dad died 7 years ago i was terrified i took my stuff later that morning and sold the house im now in a new house but this time im living with my friends 30 minutes away from that house. Does anyone know what that thing was if so pls tell me

I was walking to meet my friends D and B. I was meeting them at the Jcc parking lot.
I was almost there when I passed a small parking lot with one black car in it. The car was facing the same direction I was walking.

The man sitting in the car called out to be. He asked if I was a model. I said yes and he asked me where I was headed and I told him I was meeting my friends. ( important later )

He asked me if he could take pictures of me. Suddenly a pit at the bottom of my stomach. I thought about stranger danger. He looked about 35-40. It’s extremely scary. I had nightmares

I said no and he pleaded with me to just take one picture. Suddenly I got a really bad feeling. I said I had to go home. I saw a woman watering her lawn back from the way I came and I said she was my mom.

He drove closer to me so I quickly apologized and and said the woman watering her lawn was my mom and I had to go. I ran the mile home and broke out in tears when I got home.

My mom took me to the police station. I was shocked to run into D and B. I blamed myself for that because I told him I was meeting friends at the Jcc.

We three made a composite of this man. He had a black hate and a salt and pepper red beard. There was another girl who he tried to kidnap.

They never found him which is really scary.

I’m not sure why I’m even sharing this but this event had stayed with me for years since my youth. I come from and Irish Catholic background on my Mother’s side and I went to church every week and even became an Alter Boy helping the Parish Priest perform Mass every week when I was aged around 10-15. I was a normal lad and was into football and music and drinking and going out but for some reason (probably pressure from my Mum) always stayed a practicing catholic until I left home at 20 years old and went away to Uni.
Anyway, my Mum was heavily involved in the Church and was involved in extra “prayer group” evenings and was on very friendly terms with our parish priest, along with a few other people in the church. When I was around 17 years old a family moved into our area, and started going to Mass in our local Church and were welcomed into the community. I wasn’t aware of them but my Mum and Sister would mention that the family had told the Priest and some parishioners that they were suffering from spiritual issues in the house. Classic Poltergeist-type stuff targeting the daughter in the household. I have to say at this point that some of the long established parishioners didn’t like this story and the attention this new family were attracting and the Mother was, unkindly in my opinion, given the nickname “Knock-Knock”. To cut a long story short - one evening the parish priest visited the house to check everyone was ok and I guess to provide some comfort. He then told my Mum a few nights later his story. Upon entering the house, he immediately felt uneasy but said a few prayers and from what I remember used holy water around the house. He was not there for long and then left the house and made his way home to his house which was close to the Church.

He told my Mum this story a few days later whilst they were both sat in the kitchen of his house at the kitchen table. He said that when he returned home after blessing the house. He had some food prepared by the housekeeper and then went to bed. Whilst he was trying to get to sleep he heard a knocking sound in the house and it gradually got very loud and when my Mum asked how loud he demonstrated by bringing both his fists down on the table with great force and this really shook my Mum. He said the banging was all around his bedroom and it lasted for some time until it stopped. He got the impression whatever it was had followed him from the family’s house. He was a very down-to-earth priest and not in my opinion given to theatrics or exaggeration. He was just a lovely local priest and everyone in the parish was very fond of him. There are a few other details which aren’t not important but suffice to say that I’m not sure he was ever the same after this incident. He retired soon after this happened and I believe the family moved away within a few years. The story stayed with me for many years and I often have recurring dreams of hauntings in houses where I am playing the role of an exorcist somehow trying to force the spirits out of the house. I’ve told a few people this story but I thought I would share here. I’m still not sure why…

I'm 13 BTW ,so there always 2 boys in my bus there a couple years older then me they ALWAYS sit behind me, I don't know them but every time I'm on the bus they whisper about me every time and you may be worried if I'm just paranoid, but I always hear my name and I'm a little worried .But I wonder if it's just paranoia