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Scream
While camping, the witness and companions heard high-pitched screaming and other strange sounds attributed to normal forest sounds.
Scream
The party heard a loud high-pitched prolonged scream from a different direction while standing outside the vehicle.
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.
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.
Scream
Occupants of a nearby campsite yelled, made noise and packed up to leave very early.
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.
Scream
The witness stopped a motorcycle at night at an overlook and heard loud approaching screams before leaving quickly.
Howl
A week or two earlier the witness and a friend heard similar distant vocalizations and an unfamiliar bullfrog-like sound that did not last long.
Scream
The witness stopped to check a topographic map and heard a modulated guttural scream without seeing the source in open forest.
Scream
Later that night after one of the later sightings, multiple campers complained of high-pitched screaming in the area.
Tracks
Over about a decade the household reported additional visits involving footprints, screams, and smells, sometimes multiple in one summer.
Scream
A friend told the witness that he heard a frightening scream in the backcountry and stayed awake the rest of the night.
Scream
In 2003 the witness and companion heard a strange apelike scream south of camp while processing a deer and felt watched in the dark.
Scream
Base and uphill companions heard a high-pitched scream from a distance about ten minutes after the main sounds stopped.
Whistle near Orick, California
Another person reportedly heard unusual whistles and screams in the same creek area on an earlier occasion.
Scream near Redcrest, California
On a prior hike on the same trail with only the witness's parents present, they heard a similar loud vocalization and reported a sense of being watched with movement in the brush.
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.
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.