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1 October 1983 Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Class B #56829

Hunters experience possible vocals, find nests, get screamed at over three-day hunting weekend north of Reydon

Three hunters camped in a river bottom over the opening weekend of bow season. Over several days and nights they reported heavy impacts, rustling, a skunk-like odor, red eyeshine, wood knocks, whistles, talk-like mumbling, a whoop-ending vocalization, and bent trees and branch structures. The most intense moment was a predawn episode with a deep guttural roar followed by a scream-like sound near camp. They left early after smelling the odor again near a plum thicket.

Unidentified soundMovement onlyOdorEyeshineWood knock +9
Summer 1983 Montgomery County, Texas Class A #4138

Two brothers have encounter while building house.

The witness and his brother were building a house on an undeveloped lot and sitting outside on the road at night after turning off lanterns. About fifty yards away, at least three very large animals began screaming, cackling, and babbling like primates. The witness tried to illuminate them with a motorbike headlight, but they were already gone and the night fell still.

ScreamChatter
October 1981 Tabernacle NJ, Burlington County, New Jersey Class B #14232

Possible Nightime Encounter In Wharton State Forest

When the witness was 14, he camped alone in a forested area and noticed something in the brush paralleling him as he returned to camp near dark. The presence circled the camp and later approached the tent, producing an extremely loud scream followed by growls and chatter, then retreated after the frightened witness yelled back. The witness stayed awake all night, left at first light, and never saw what made the sounds.

Movement onlyScreamGrowlChatterFootsteps +1
October 1979 Grand Rapids (largest), Kent County, Michigan Class B #35671

Bow hunter remembers possible intimidation behavior near Grand Rapids

The witness was bow-hunting deer alone from a makeshift blind at a clearing near a power-line cut. From inside the woods he heard loud branch and log breaking sounds together with strange slurred chatter-like vocalizations lasting a few minutes, then silence. He walked toward the area with bow drawn but could not penetrate the dense brush, and companions hunting elsewhere reported nothing unusual. Decades later he felt the vocalizations matched published Samurai chatter recordings.

ChatterTree break
1977 Arnold, California #469f1cca-9e52-44d4-9757-43bb47d1202c

Howl near Arnold, California (1977)

The witness and a companion were on a deer-hunting trip and had parked to sleep in the bed of a truck. Late at night they heard a loud howl followed by rapid gibberish and saw a dark shape in the road that stood and moved away with smooth motion. After returning to the truck and falling asleep, the witness was awakened by the truck rocking and heard something move alongside the vehicle before kicking scattered camp gear and walking away.

HowlChatterFull-body sightingFootstepsVehicle contact +1
1975 Oroville, California #3fb91ed8-671b-4aa4-891d-f46c90d44a22

Vocalization near Oroville, California (1975)

The witness had been sleeping in the back of his pickup at a secluded clearing after a late work shift. He heard loud, strange voices approaching rapidly through dense brush, smelled a strong foul odor, and sensed something large vault over the truck. He then saw a large dark shape moving away into the treeline while vocalizing, then drove away.

VocalizationScreamChatterFootstepsOdor +2
20 October 1973 Darrington, Snohomish County, Washington Class B #4323

Two hunters hear nighttime vocalizations near Darrington

Two people were settling to sleep in sleeping bags at a roadside camp late at night. They heard leaves and branches breaking and screaming from all around them and smelled a strong foul odor they did not recognize. Unable to see anything in the darkness without a flashlight, they grabbed their rifles, threw their bags in the car, and left.

ScreamChatterVocalizationOdorMovement only
26 August 1972 Medicine Hat, Alberta Class A #38116

A boy's summer encounter in a Saskatoon patch in Strathcona Island Park, next to Medicine Hat

In the afternoon after swimming, the witness ran ahead of the group on a winding trail back toward the campsite. Stopped by a strong foul odor, the witness noticed a large dark furry creature sitting among berry bushes a short distance away. The creature stayed motionless and made a quiet chattering sound, after which the witness ran away while hearing it crash away through the trees. No one else in the group saw or heard the creature.

Partial sightingOdorChatterFootsteps
BFRO YEAR: 1991 or 92 Lethbridge, Alberta Class B #15835

Possible Vocalizations heard in Southern Alberta

One evening in summer, the witness sat on the back deck of a home on the coulee banks and heard loud, garbled, female-like vocalizations from below the embankment toward the river. The sounds first suggested someone in trouble, then a mountain lion, but later the witness felt they closely matched a chatter recording. No creature was seen.

Chatter
BFRO YEAR: 1992, '93 Warren County, New York Class B #1598

At Sabbathday Point, Family Reports strange sounds near their cabin

Over two-week periods in 1992 and 1993, the witness repeatedly heard loud nighttime sounds near a lakeside cabin, described as whistling, chattering, screams and deep thumping lasting one to four minutes. The sounds seemed to move quickly from a mountaintop to the road area about 200 feet away, possibly involving two callers. The witness looked out with a flashlight but saw nothing and remained inside out of fear.

WhistleChatterScreamUnidentified sound
the previous morning (September 16) Churchton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Related account #12601

Chatter near Churchton, Maryland

The witness and his wife heard a brief gibberish scream in the same area the prior morning and dismissed it.

ChatterScream
on the morning of the 11th Sprucepine, Mitchell County, North Carolina Related account #450

Whoop near Sprucepine, North Carolina

The relative and the spouse heard the repeated whoops return around 3 a.m., ending in low monkey-like chattering.

WhoopChatter
around 7:00 p.m. Seneca Rocks, WVA, Pendleton County, West Virginia Related account #3826

Howl near Seneca Rocks, WVA, West Virginia

On the prior evening at camp, the witness heard brief howl-like and chatter-like sounds from three sources behind a hill while hound dogs barked in another direction.

HowlChatter
every year around April and will continue through the year until just after the firearm deer season ends on November 30th Bark River, Delta County, Michigan Related account #42967

Wood knock near Bark River, Michigan

The witness and family report recurring knocks, tree falls, howls and chatter on the land over about ten years, typically from April through late November.

Wood knockHowlChatterTree break
Date unknown Bark River, Delta County, Michigan Related account #42967

Chatter near Bark River, Michigan

The witness reports having heard strange gibberish sounding like someone upset in the woods.

Chatter
9/20 12:30am Mount Vernon, Washington County, Illinois Related account #24766

Vocalization near Mount Vernon, Illinois

The witness knocked and made guttural sounds and heard similar responses and chattering for a minute, then with a relative heard a loud branch break and later distant knocks.

VocalizationChatterTree breakWood knock
just after dark Hawthorne, Putnam County, Florida Related account #24893

Chatter near Hawthorne, Florida

A household member heard prolonged strange chatter from the woods direction while on the phone, also heard by the remote caller.

Chatter
Sometime around the month of February 2008 Oviedo, Seminole County, Florida Related account #24134

Chatter near Oviedo, Florida

In February 2008, the witness heard a loud metallic chatter near a neighbor's yard while on the patio, then heard it again seconds later from farther away and went back inside.

ChatterPossible misidentification
BFRO YEAR: 74-75 Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida Class A #414

Year long sightings by family

The witness describes repeated nighttime visits to a rural property over about a year by a family of large hairy creatures that ate fruit, looked in trailer windows, and once bit a penned hog. The witness reports seeing three individuals of varying heights, hearing frequent chattering, noticing odor, tracks and hair, and attempting to hunt them without driving them away. After about a year the visits stopped, believed to have ended when habitat regrew.

Full-body sightingChatterOdorTracksHair +1
Saturday, 11/21/09 Century, Escambia County, Florida Related account #26947

Vocalization near Century, Florida

The witness was hunting alone at dawn when he heard low guttural chatter-like vocalizations twice a few minutes apart.

VocalizationChatter