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Scream
The night before the gate encounter, the witness reports hearing continuous very loud guttural screaming for over five minutes from a wooded slope above a rented cabin at dusk.
Wood knock
The witness reports being awake in a tent around 3 a.m. and hearing loud, randomly timed wood knocks from a few hundred meters upslope that echoed down the canyon.
Howl
Local talk describes long howls sometimes heard, even from Courtright.
Howl
The witness was awakened by a low-pitched series of howls of varied short and long lengths.
Unidentified sound
The next day near camp the group heard pots clinking and later found table items shuffled slightly with nothing taken.
Unidentified sound
Two companions by the lake heard large splashing and thrashing in the water about 100 yards away while the witness slept.
Footsteps
While hiking toward Fleming Lake earlier, the party heard something moving through thick brush in the ravine below, breaking branches, which a companion thought was a bear.
Howl
The witness reported hearing a deep bellowing howl in the morning before the evening encounter.
Unidentified sound
Friends told the witness about similar noises they had heard.
Vocalization
On other riding outings the witness recalled hearing something like voices but not voices.
Footsteps
The night before the treetop sighting, the witness and companion heard wading-like sloshing steps in the river near the tent, then found nothing when searching with a light.
Scream near Sugar Pine, California
The witness's family hears scream-like calls most nights during yearly multi-day stays at Sugar Pine, described as two individuals calling back and forth.
Unidentified sound
Later that night the witness and companion heard a moving noise outside that the companion thought was a deer.
Wood knock near Georgetown, California
As a child camping in the same general area, the witness repeatedly heard knocking and whoop-like sounds.
Vocalization
About 12 years earlier the witness and a relative were deer hunting at daybreak when a strange-acting deer approached, they shot it, then heard a loud roar-growl turning into a scream, with branches breaking and limbs and large rocks thrown toward them until they abandoned the kill and left.
Footsteps
On a prior night at Dark Lake with a relative, the witness heard footsteps around camp and wood knocking all night.
Scream
The witness heard screams in the Desolation Wilderness area as a boy scout in the early to mid 1980s.
Vocalization
The witness reports hearing calls and screams while camping in the Sierra Nevadas and Desolation Wilderness since childhood.
Whoop
People in an adjacent campsite heard the same unidentified sound.
Wood knock
The witness reports making imitation calls roughly a mile and a half away three years earlier and receiving a single wood-knock reply.