Trying to identify something I heard...

[PJ 2005]

I woke up one night in the Shenandoahs to the strangest sound. It resembled a woman's scream, but had a metallic quality to it (like grinding two edges of sheet metal together) Whatever it was made this noise 4-5 times and seemed to be moving away from the shelter.

I want to say it was a Bobcat, because I know they scream, but I can't find an audio sample anywhere. I've heard screech owls before and I can't imagine that it's the same animal.

Has anyone else heard something like this? It was over three years ago, but I still remember it vividly.

[fiddlehead]

Possibly mtn lion???

[woodsy]

I asked this same question here quite some time ago and will refer you to that thread to wade through.
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13074

[NICKTHEGREEK]

I woke up one night in the Shenandoahs to the strangest sound. It resembled a woman's scream, but had a metallic quality to it (like grinding two edges of sheet metal together) Whatever it was made this noise 4-5 times and seemed to be moving away from the shelter.

I want to say it was a Bobcat, because I know they scream, but I can't find an audio sample anywhere. I've heard screech owls before and I can't imagine that it's the same animal.

Has anyone else heard something like this? It was over three years ago, but I still remember it vividly.

If you could make out the word alimony in the scream, it was my ex. Pretty sure Bobcat otherwise.

[PJ 2005]

Thanks Woodsy - good to know I'm not the only one who has heard something like this!

[Mother's Finest]

barn owl?

peace
mf

[Bob S]

If you could make out the word alimony in the scream, it was my ex. Pretty sure Bobcat otherwise.

LOL that was funny!!!

[OregonHiker]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-Germany.html


Several people in the small town of Linz, located on the Rhine river in western Germany, had phoned the authorities after hearing screams coming from a nearby forest.
Alarmed by the reports, the police station called for a helicopter search, which was carried out with special night vision to scan local woodland.
"Nervous residents rang the police station and said they had heard several loud, frightened screams of a woman in a forest nearby," said a police spokesman in Linz, known for its colourful wooden houses.
But after the helicopters had thoroughly surveyed the area, they discovered a far less murderous cause of the chilling cries than had originally been feared.
Instead of a violent maniac and his terrified victim, they discovered a number of romantically inclined badgers engaged in the pursuit of love.
"Subsequent enquiries found that the mating calls of a badger during the mating season in July and August are easily mistaken for human screaming," said the police.
"There's an overpopulation of badgers in this area," an official later told the German publication Der Spiegel.

[emerald]

Some time ago in another WhiteBlaze wildlife thread, it was posted that badgers occur on the A.T. I took issue with that notion after more than just a small amount of online research to corroborate my belief and discussed the issue off-line? with the individual who posted it.

Suffice it to say, we agreed the information presented was in error. Someone who expends the effort to look into the range of badgers will find they don't occur as far east as the A.T. Another mentioned on the list of A.T. species we concluded is incorrect is the armadillo.

[pedal]

Armadillos were seen as far north as Gainesville, GA about 3 years ago. I'm sure they are closer to the trail now.

SS

[Cuffs]

Try Barn Owl! I was startled awake one night by (what I later learned was) a barn...http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?gen...o&species=alba

[otterman]

I vote for Bobcat. The freakiest sound I have ever heard in the woods.

[greentick]

mountain snipe

[yappy]

cougars scream....creepy to hear

[Jaybird62]

mountain snipe

Yeah, but them things are sure a lot of fun to hunt!!!

[Sly]

Here's a cool site...

http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/...rary/index.htm

Try the cougar

[Nearly Normal]

Armadillos are as far east as the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.
I ran one over with the car last week.
Cumberland Island in Georgia is ate up with the things.

[cornflake]

Screaming during the night in the woods? I think I saw that movie!

[Bearpaw88]

Hey Bobcat (angewrite) were you stalking hikers again

[saimyoji]

Blair Witch.