Horrible sound in the woods

[azshooter]

One night camping with the family - my brother was in the tent next to us.  We were camped on the border of a wilderness area and the boundry was the canyon we were camped up on the rim of.  About 2 AM I woke to a horrible screeching sound coming from the direction of the canyon.  At first I thought it might be my brother pulling some joke but after I get out of the tent .44 in hand then my brother who I suspected was behind it pokes his head out of his tent wondering what it was too.  It was not like a big cat definitly not a bird of any type way too deep.  Very hard to explain but a sound I will never forget.  We shined a light down in the canyon and could not see anything but it continued for about 30 min.

[Maine_Hound_Hunter]

Was it more of a screech like you said or more of a scream?

[azshooter]

Was it more of a screech like you said or more of a scream?

It was really loud - loud enough to wake us up but shining lights down there it was far enough away we could not see it.  It was fairly deep in pitch and gravelly. To be honest it was both like a screech and a scream - I have never heard anything like it before .

[1911crazy]

I have heard this in Vermont my camp borders on the national forest and its all by itself my neighbors are far away.  Its the type of sound that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up for sure.  And I'm not really sure what it is yet.  And its bold too it was right near me close by when it let the noise out too I was outside using the outhouse.  Its happened a few times to me now and its always around suppertime so i'm thinking that the smell of me cooking attracts it.  I'm sure the smell goes up the ridge along ways into the national forest. I could smell my woodstove smoke from far away when i'm hunting. But my neighbors have run into it while they were getting out of their tree stands too when it let out this screem type roar.   It just sends shrills up my spine when i think about it.  I may hang a piece of salt pork butt in an open campfire and wait for a visit this summer.                                  BigBill

There is also a report made by campers who were right near me camping who were runout of the woods by something making the same type of noise too its on the bigfoot reporting site BFRO.

[Dezertyote]

Bobcat

[1911crazy]

Bobcat

I've heard bobcat before and its not a bobcat.  I have a mountainlion that is nearby.  But I heard rocks being banged together about 1 or 2am.  I've also heard some sort of gibberish language at night too it woke me up.  I don't have a clue to what it is. The scream is so loud I never heard anything like it before.                              BigBill

[Specklebelly]

Bigbill

You have more guts than I do.  One weird noise like that and I am out of there. :eek:  :eek:  :eek:

I wouldn't be around for a second dose.

[azshooter]

There is also a report made by campers who were right near me camping who were runout of the woods by something making the same type of noise too its on the bigfoot reporting site BFRO.

Wow I did not know about BFRo before but the place we were camped was about 20 miles from this sighting in 2000.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=3482

[1911crazy]

Bigbill

You have more guts than I do.  One weird noise like that and I am out of there. :eek:  :eek:  :eek:

I wouldn't be around for a second dose.

For some reason I'm not afraid, I'm more interested to what it is.  It did rattle me the first time I heard it's scream.  Plus the magazine is always full ready to rock n roll just incase but it just stays out of sight. And for many years I have had something follow us while walking down the loggin road when we were hunting.  It stayed out of our sight but i could hear it making noise while its walking but when we would stop so would it too. I always told my brother who was with me something is following us.  I would scope the whole ridge but i never seen it.  I thought it was coyotes all the time until the screams started.  I'm never there without a gun with me now.                                                               BigBill

Here's the report that others made the Hancock border is right near my camp and the campers are not far away from me.  Its a short walking distance from my camp to where they were. I'm not the only one hearing this thing which makes me feel good that others are hearing it too.  Trust me its like nothing you have ever heard.
 go to; http://www.gcbro.com/VTaddison001.html

[1911crazy]

There is also a report made by campers who were right near me camping who were runout of the woods by something making the same type of noise too its on the bigfoot reporting site BFRO.

Wow I did not know about BFRo before but the place we were camped was about 20 miles from this sighting in 2000.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=3482

Rather odd some of our sightings go along with others who reported it??
                                                                      BigBill

[1911crazy]

Bobcat

Dezertyote;
Since Rochester isn't far from Chester maybe you want to do some camping and research sometime??  Are you ready for this?  Trust me you won't believe it too. I get off the highway at the Chester exit and go up to RT100 and head up.                                        BigBill

[Mikey]

I wonder if those critters are just trying to get to know some of us.  Most folks run like the devil is chasing them when they hear those noises, yet none of them have ever been attacked or hurt, unless they fell down and went boom all by themselves.  

What do you think would happen if some of us got together for a tailgate party or a camp-out in that area and brought along enough food to cook up for a couple of days (and feed some roving visitors) and talked back at them when they yelled or screamed at us.  What do ya'll think might happen if when we hear branches being whacked against trees (signal?) we did the same, or clacked rocks together?  Think we could call one in??

No infra red cameras or other stuff, just a couple of guys who might turn to one of those and say - hay, want a burger???  I dunno, whatcha think???  Mikey.

[1911crazy]

Mikey its been really close to me in the dark but just out of view in the low light.  I was talking to a gal on another forum and she lives in the northeast kingdom in Vermont which is farther northeast of me.  I explained what I'm hearing and she asked her dad who is a hunting guide and the first thing said with no hesitation was its a bigfoot.  So I figure he may have seen more than he wants to talkabout too.   I did a search for bigfoot in Vermont and many sightings come up one is from the 1800's.
Since most hunters don't go up into the higher elevations who knows what is up there??  There is still plenty of big open land in the mountains still untamed and will never be touched because its protected national forest so I'm sure it will survive for centuries to come too.         BigBill

I just want to see it once just to be sure.

[Airedale From NY]

I have a small farm that is surrounded thousands of acres of woods. I used to work the night shift ( 11 pm to 8 am ) and one night going out the door I heard some blood curdling screams coming from the woods in back of my house. I am a coon hunter and out in the night a lot but never heard anything like it. Sounding like it was not too far back in the woods I decided to take a quick look see. I grabbed a spotlight and  quietly eased toward the screaming which had not ceased. When I got close I realized that the sound was coming from up in a tall white  pine tree. I got to the tree and shined it and discovered a huge porcupine sitting up there making all that racket :shock: . Porkys are common around here and I see them all the time but have never heard one vocalize before. Later I was told they sceam like that during their mating season so they can locate each other. If you ever have the opportunity to hear one it will make the hair on your neck stand up.

[Dezertyote]

bobcat :-D

Bill,
I'll take you up on that offer this summer.
 
I do my best research hanging onto a ultra light fishing pole walking the brooks for those bright deep colored brookies :grin:
No better eating fish than a 7"-9" or smaller, spring feed mtn. brookie.
We could catch a bunch for eating and then tie a couple on a rope and drag them back to camp for a good scent trail for them critters to follow.
 I'll bring my bigfoot call with me. :eek:

[1911crazy]

bobcat :-D

Bill,
I'll take you up on that offer this summer.
 
I do my best research hanging onto a ultra light fishing pole walking the brooks for those bright deep colored brookies :grin:
No better eating fish than a 7"-9" or smaller, spring feed mtn. brookie.
We could catch a bunch for eating and then tie a couple on a rope and drag them back to camp for a good scent trail for them critters to follow.
 I'll bring my bigfoot call with me. :eek:

I know a place in the national forest where the white river begins to flow out of the mountains with native trout.                             BigBill

I also think a couple of ham hocks over an open fire at night would bring the company we are looking for too!!!!!

I'm starting to wonder if the person who sold me the property had the same visits too?  What ever it is in the daylite it will follow you down the loggin road.

[Walosi]

I've camped out most of my life, until I lost most of the use of my legs, and have heard many night-time grunts, groans and unexplainable sounds. Nothing near enough, however, to make me check the rifle for quick access. The only one I tracked down was on a five-acre patch we owned in eastern NC. At sundown, and at first light, a series of calls that I can only describe as "GRONK!!!". I'd cleared the front half of scrub, small oak and pine, and about 3,000 miles of poison ivy vines, but the back half was still jungle. I finally couldn't take any more "GRONK" wake-up calls, and cut a path in the general direction of the calls. After a couple of mornings, I located a huge nest of sticks and small branches, with three large crane chicks just beginning to get brave enough to walk out onto the tree branches. Never got near enough to identify them, and the overhead was too dense to get more than a glimpse of the parents as they flew in and out. Last time I saw them was when they did a family flyover (maybe just a last look at the old homestead), all five, in formation, headed east toward the marshlands.

[Mikey]

Walosi:  that GRONK you hear is also the favorite tune of the Gret Blue Heron.  It is almost pre-historic in its sound.  I wonder though whether all large or long necked birds make that sort of a sound?  I know that a long necked beer bottle makes more of a 'hoooooooooom sound (LOL).  Mikey.

[Walosi]

The "hrooooooooom" was a familiar enough sound out there, too The kids from town used to like to park in the area. Across the road (and most of the way into town) was a huge private game preserve, about a third of the way through a 500 year lease. I've counted as many as 50 deer in a clear-cut under the power transmission lines, and had visits from deer, black bear, and fawns that liked the warmth of the sand on my driveway, and had to be chased off before I could move the car. Wife loved the humming birds - kept up five feeders, filled two to three times a day. When they emptied, a handful of them would buzz the bay window in the dining room, back and forth, until one of their servants mixed a new batch and refueled them. Birds actually perched on the car antenna while the feeders were down for refill, three to four feet away. Never heard of anything like lions in the area. Saw one bobcat, but my Dobes probably kept them from getting too curious. Fierce, dangerous Dobes, too - the "old" breed, not the new kinder gentler species. First hint of bear stink in the air put them to scratching at the back door Nothing dumb about them, either. This area had just a bit too much population around it to support anything interesting, I think. Other areas of NC are different. My son has a quick snapshot he took when he and his wife were walking her moms' tobacco patch. The pic is looking down the rows, just before picking time. There is a section of white, with black triangles clearly visible. Plants were too heavily leafed out to get anything else. Daughter-in-law swears it was a HUGE pine snake. Son didn't see any definition, just saw tobacco plants on both sides of the row shaking as it went for the woods. Said the track in the soft ground was as much as 6" deep, with a 4" berm shoved up on the edges as it drove itself along.

[TScottO]

There is an owl called a “screech owl”. They make one of the most hair raising sounds I’ve ever heard. They are small birds about the size of a half grown chicken. Maybe that is what you heard. Just a guess.

Be safe,
Scott

[azshooter]

There is an owl called a “screech owl”. They make one of the most hair raising sounds I’ve ever heard. They are small birds about the size of a half grown chicken. Maybe that is what you heard. Just a guess.

Be safe,
Scott

Thanks for the post, after readnig it I went and found an audio clip of a screech owl here

http://www.cheekwood.org/nature/audio/screech.html

What I heard was not a screech owl - what I heard was a deep guttorial sound.

[WD45]

ya know a couple of other critters that have hair raising screams are skunks which sounds like a woman being killed and peacocks. My grandma had a pair of peacocks when I was a kid and they would make the most hair raising noise at night. They can be very nerve rattling if you never heard them before....
WD

[TM7]

BigBill and Desertyote,
   30 or more years ago I was camping with my wife-to-be in the Green Mtn National forest in a self-serve park called Moosalamoo, which is up in the mountains east of lake Dunmore and the Falls of Lana. We were alone in the area. About 10pm we heard the first of the blood curdling screams you described. It is hard to attribute such a surreal, loud, godawful scream to any creature in that forest. I can only say that it was loud, damn loud, and sounded like someone or some creature just had their guts ripped out in the most painful manner by the most fearsome creature there ever was. I'm not exaggerating. I've never heard such a noise before or after. We decided to leave the tent and sleep in the station wagon. If such a scream is attributed to some animal life, I would think it would have been well documented and common knowledge by now and Hollywood would have sound tracked it, but I could be wrong. I will never forget that scary, chilling scream.
   As a sidenote, I woke from a restless nonsleep about 230am and realized I left my fennwick rod on the rock shore of a pond we were fishing earlier. So, I started the wagon, with wife-to-be sleeping in back, and drove close to the pond and hiked the 300 yds out to get it. And I remember the moon was quite full. I did not have a firearm with me, but sure wish I did. I still have that rod.


..............TM7

[1911crazy]

TM7;   You were camping not far from my camp and you have heard what I have been hearing too and its unexplainable but GOD aweful loud and bad for sure.  It smells my viddles and I'm not in a sharing mood too.  Ever since I have owned the land when me and my older brother were walking down the national forest access roads something would follow us in and out of the forest and so many times I scoped out the ridge with my rifle I could never find it.   I'm happy I'm not alone in hearing this thing in my area.  My camp is the last place on the old town road where the national forest begins.  There is nothing around me for many miles to the north but wild forest.  Buddy there is something in the woods that i have never heard before in all my time in the woods loggin too besides hunting and fishing.  I've seen and heard bobcats, bears, coyotes and mountainlions and nothing comes close to what i have heard many times now.  You have to hear this thing when its closeby you too.                                                                 BigBill

I never worried about not having a gun with me during the summertime but i sure do now I'm never without one.

[mellow_1]

Just as a suggestion, you fellas should try to record it with a micro tape recorder.
Interesting stuff.

[TM7]

BigBill,,,,Yep, than I guess we heard the same cry/scream. Keep in mind, we heard this ard 30 years ago. Are you still hearing this noise?? We heard it in the summer starting ard 10pm. It was loud and repeated about every 20minutes or so. It was loud and was getting closer each time and was loud, even reverberating off that Moosalamoo cull. It almost sounded human, yet it was too loud and totally terror sounding, but it sounded beyond what any human could produce. Recording this cry may be a good idea but nobody, nobody, is going to believe it. Bill, any other locals or authorities have a theory on this noise???  I would also suggest keeping a firearm loaded and at the ready--something capable of punching big holes.
   Bill, keep us posted on this thing......

........................TM7

[1911crazy]

If you read my previous posts I have some strange stuff going on and i get frequent visits all the time.  Mainly right after I cook supper mainly bacon??  I have noticed since my camp is on the side of a mountain the smell drifts up the ridge for quite a long way.  What ever it is its getting bolder and closer all the time.  I agree with you what ever it is it sounds big to make a noise that intense and loud.  There is a lot of stuff in the wilds we don't have a clue about.  Or maybe we been far enough away from it for too long but this is out of the norm from what I have been hearing.  Like i said before i explained whats going on to a person in the NE kingdom and she asked her father who is a hunting guide and he said its a bigfoot right away and she said he never talked about a bigfoot before.  And she was shocked yet very interested at the same time like us.  I'm afraid to mention to the locals because when i told them I'm seeing mountainlion tracks many years ago they all laughed at me.  So all the doubters can bite me if ya know what i mean.  Now they tell me mountainlions are being seen by my neighbors more frequently now and all over town too as well as other areas of Vermont and still the local forest rangers say they aren't there??  Right now i have no deer at all nothing between the coyotes and mountainlions and what ever else i have there the deer are the main diet??  Someone said a bigfoot can run 50yds in a few seconds its that fast thats scary?  I'm sure if it wanted to hurt me it had the chance many times.  But i don't take any chances either i bumped up my camp gun from an sks 7.62x39 to a hakim 8mm now.  What ever it is if it does attack its not going to live thru a hail of 8mm bullets thats for sure.  I won't hurt it unless it tries to hurt me.  I'd rather learn more about it and research it how it lives and fools us so much. I really can't say what it is yet for sure.  I been tracking in the higher elevations for over 30 years now looking for signs of anything out of the norm and thats how i found the mountainlion tracks in the snow up where no man hardley ever goes.  Hunters tend to stay close to the dirt roads when walking and hardley ever go up high like me and my older brother did all the time.   I haven't seen any bigfoot tracks yet in the leaves or the snow or in mud either but most of the ground is very hard too and maybe i'm not looking in the right places for them if its that smart.      BigBill

If the misses wasn't sick this year I'd be up there right now researching into this to find out what it is.  But i think its time to record it and setup cameras and get into night vision and try to see this thing what ever it is.

[bullet maker]

There is also a report made by campers who were right near me camping who were runout of the woods by something making the same type of noise too its on the bigfoot reporting site BFRO.

Wow I did not know about BFRo before but the place we were camped was about 20 miles from this sighting in 2000.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=3482

hi azshooter
  I went to the link site, and read your report. Very interesting, It sends chills up your spine dont it? Once a person see`s one for their self, they become a believer for life.

bullet maker

[1911crazy]

Bulletmaker how have you been??  Anything new to report happen lately?
                                                               BigBill

[TM7]

There is also a report made by campers who were right near me camping who were runout of the woods by something making the same type of noise too its on the bigfoot reporting site BFRO.

Wow I did not know about BFRo before but the place we were camped was about 20 miles from this sighting in 2000.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=3482

hi azshooter
  I went to the link site, and read your report. Very interesting, It sends chills up your spine dont it? Once a person see`s one for their self, they become a believer for life.

bullet maker

Bullet maker and BigBill,,, I understand and accept some of the sightings of bigfoot, but have never read of bigfoot producing a terrorfilled death scream like  BigBill and I experienced. And I get it about the locals and authorities up there not knowing or fessing up about anything--too bad. Well, I guess you're on your own solving this mystery...but it could be real serious business, as you know, so proceed with caution. A part of me wishes I was up there to help get to the bottom of this thing. How often are you hearing this thing  these days BigBill?  And good luck with the recording and cameras.......keep us all posted.


...........TM7