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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.
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.
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.
Scream
Other community members reportedly heard screams and were familiar with the creature in the area.
Scream near Bear Valley, California
The witness and a relative heard terrible crying/screams in nearly the same location and found a deer with a broken-off front leg that they euthanized.
Scream
The witness recalls hearing a distant garbled scream in spring 2004 likened to a young mountain lion.
Scream near Walkerville, Montana
A relative reported hearing loud guttural screaming from trees beyond the fields about a week after the tracks were found.