My friends and I decided to go camping around the end of September. We were all pretty low on cash, and looking for somewhere to cheap to go, and I found Bass River online. The first night there (which was a Friday) we were all tired from setting up the tents and went to bed around midnight. A little after I fell asleep, I heard footsteps around the campsite. I though at first that it was one of my friends or another camper who had mistaken our site for their own. Then I started to hear a very deep breathing, like after somoeone has run a marathon. My friend Liz and I were in a two room tent and our other two friends were in another smaller tent. I unzipped one of the tent flaps slowly and saw something that appeared to be very large in shape walking around our campsite. It looked in our two cars, and even approached the other tent. It started to come toward my tent and I nudged Liz to wake up, but she wouldn't come to. Then I heard a very high pitched keening noise, and the creature started to move quickly towards my tent. I freaked out and yelled for it to go away, and which point the creature quickly turned and ran away in the opposite direction. I have lived in NJ since 1995 and have heard the stories all my life. I am now 27 years old and I still get chills thinking about it. Why my friends didn't hear the commotion we could never figure out. They think I was dreaming but I was not. The next morning, we did find hoof prints but my friends swore it was deer.
The creature was well over six feet tall, long limbs, and had a long face. It didn't really look human or like any animal I have seen. It was very dark out but it also seemed to be very furry, espcially in the torso area.
