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Class B First-hand BFRO #7823

Campers hear screams around midnight

July 1995 about 1 a.m. Cloudcroft, Otero County, New Mexico 2 witnesses

Account

Two campers were awakened in their tent around 1 a.m. by distant screams that grew closer as the source moved through the campground. The screams sounded like a woman or baby, with grunts and sniffing pauses between, and the source stopped very close to their tent before moving away and fading. The witnesses stayed inside the tent and never saw the source.

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What was reported

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Sounds

Scream Growl

Facts & provenance

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Date
July 1995
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, labelled fields: Year, Month
Time of day
about 1 a.m.
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Place
Cloudcroft, Otero County, New Mexico
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Nearest Road
Map point
32.9522, -105.7324 (± 15 km)
Geocoded BFRO report #7823 · gazetteer:place · read with 50% confidence
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Cloudcroft village (GEOID 3516280), matched from nearest town 'Cloudcroft'
Account type
First-hand
Derived BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Witnesses
2
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Witness was
camping
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witness's word for it
'animal'
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Source classification
Class B
Stated BFRO report #7823 · BFRO classification label

Evidence & investigation

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Follow-up

The next morning the witnesses asked the camp manager about the sounds and searched for tracks but found none, with the manager suggesting a cougar.

BFRO report, “Observed” section

Source timeline

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  1. BFRO report #7823 Primary
    Published 2004-01-21 Retrieved 2026-09-24 Version 1 1 image at source Hash 16f0635a4e89
    BFRO - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

The report refers to

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  • “A cougar cry sounds like this.”
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