I've heard bobcats that sound like a human scream and also like a woman crying/mourning.
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On Dec 7, 2011, at 7:19 PM, "Lila Ollmann" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was walking on Parcel 5 today at dusk, and I heard a VERY creepy
> screaming/wailing screech that was too close for comfort. I don't know
> whether it was a bird, mammal, human, or demon from hell, but I race walked
> the rest of the way back to the parking lot. My dogs wanted to chase after
> the noise, but I stopped them... having no idea what it was. I am fairly
> sure I heard the same sound in the woods around my own house which is about
> a mile from P5 a few nights ago, and it even gave me the creeps from inside
> the house, but again the dogs wanted to go right out after it. I've spent
> the last hour and a half looking up animal screams and haven't really found
> anything that much like it. I know red foxes are a common answer when
> people ask about a creepy noise at night, and I've heard foxes often around
> my house, and I'm fairly sure it was NOT that.
>
> I am sure a description probably won't help unless anyone has an idea
> already what it might be., but it only lasted about one second, and it rose
> and then fell. It had the quality of a human scream, clear and not at all
> husky. I wondered if it was a person hiding off the trail waiting to scare
> the hell out of the next person that came along, because it sounded like a
> noise someone MIGHT make to scare someone. It didn't sound like distress to
> me. It seems odd that I've never heard this sound before ever, and I've
> heard it twice in a few days, and only a mile away from each other.
>
> A couple creatures that occurred to me were a whitetail deer, though it was
> not the normal startled Chooof sound.. it was much clearer and human.. But
> I've read that occasionally they do scream, but there are no recordings
> that I could find online. Lots of the chooofing sound, though. Another one
> that I most recently found was Barred Owl screaming. There's only one
> recording that I could find, and a little bit of it sounds like that could
> be it, though it wasn't exactly the same, and it didn't last anywhere near
> as long.
>
> Does anyone have any idea? I'd really like to know out of curiosity, but
> also so I'm not terrified if I'm out there when the light is getting low!
>
> Side note, there's the biggest Pileated Woodpecker tree excavation I've
> ever seen out there. Its about 4 feet long and 6" wide, 4 inches deep, and
> looks freshly done. Large pile of fresh looking wood chips under it. Maybe
> the scream was a Pileated Woodpecker who has gone completely insane! (Not
> really considering that possibility)
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