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Scream
While camping, the witness and companions heard high-pitched screaming and other strange sounds attributed to normal forest sounds.
Vocalization
The party heard a loud canine-like woof from close below camp but found no dog or other animal.
Unidentified sound
Two members of the party heard deliberate rock bangs in series from the creek below camp, with four bangs after a whoop response.
Scream
The party heard a loud high-pitched prolonged scream from a different direction while standing outside the vehicle.
Vocalization
The witness heard a loud prolonged AHHHH sound from a low hill while stopped at an overlook, which companions did not hear.
Unidentified sound
A group camping overnight heard splashing, had pine cones and a large rock thrown at them, saw their dog flee, abandoned camp, and later found tents disturbed and a cooler missing.
Unidentified sound
The witness mentions having heard other less frightening sounds on prior unspecified occasions.
Possible vocals heard by family camping near Happy Camp
A family camping in a primitive riverside area heard an extremely loud, shrill scream from near their trash area about 50 yards away after paper bags flared up the campfire. The sound moved rapidly downriver for several minutes, fading to a deep growl, while the adult dogs whimpered and the family became terrified. The father packed up camp that night and drove the family home, and the family later felt the sound matched a purported Sasquatch vocalization heard on television.
Unidentified sound near Redding, California
The witness recalled only strange sounds around the mountaintop building in addition to thrown sticks and rocks.
Man recalls adversarial encounter with an unknown creature near French Gulch
During midnight rounds at an isolated school compound, the witness crossed a suspension bridge and heard something raiding trash cans by the cookhouse. He threw rocks toward a large dark figure under the eaves, which stood erect, stepped onto the bridge, dodged thrown rocks, vaulted the bridge cables and fled upstream on two legs. He noted glowing eyes and a foul stench, then returned to his trailer without anyone else responding.
Scream near Round Mountain, California
The witness and partner heard intermittent screaming above camp for about half an hour and later heard something lifting and dropping their ATV trailer before it moved uphill.
Footsteps
The witness notes having had many bears walk around their tent in the Thousand Lakes Wilderness Area.
Movement only
Another person in mountainous timber heard downhill crashing, then thrown debris, grunts and screams, later calls from multiple directions and a heavy brush clump landing in the truck bed.
Scream
Another person parked to observe, experienced silence then crashing, then screams from multiple locations with rocks and pine cones thrown, one striking the truck window.
Whoop
Another person stopped to photograph old equipment and over an hour heard hoots and screams, breaking limbs and thrown rocks from two directions before leaving.
Vocalization
The witness recalled an earlier visit with a parent to woods north of town, feeling watched and hearing eerie sounds.
Possible "Ohio howls" south of Shingletown (midway between Redding and Lassen)
While living at Manton from 1987-1989, the witness's family repeatedly heard strange howls in the evening 2-3 times a week. The sound was thought at the time to come from the cleared swath up the hill along the penstock or powerlines. Years later the witness and family heard the Ohio howl recording and judged it exactly the same sound.
Footsteps near Viola, California
The witness rigged a fishing-line tripwire to his trailer door and later heard the stick strike and break as something moved between the trailer and tent.
Howl near Viola, California
On a morning fishing trip the witness, his spouse and his adult son heard about ten loud yells or howls coming from multiple sides of the lake.
Unidentified sound
The witness mentions having heard the same strange noise on a previous occasion.