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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
08-09-2008, 10:08
Possibly mtn lion???
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
08-09-2008, 10:40
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.
Thanks Woodsy - good to know I'm not the only one who has heard something like this!
Mother's Finest
08-09-2008, 11:31
barn owl?
peace
mf
If you could make out the word alimony in the scream, it was my ex. Pretty sure Bobcat otherwise.
LOL that was funny!!!
OregonHiker
08-09-2008, 16:08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2506289/Badgers-bloodcurdling-mating-cries-cause-helicopter-man-hunt-in-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.
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.
Armadillos were seen as far north as Gainesville, GA about 3 years ago. I'm sure they are closer to the trail now.
SS
Try Barn Owl! I was startled awake one night by (what I later learned was) a barn...http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Tyto&species=alba
otterman
08-09-2008, 21:54
I vote for Bobcat. The freakiest sound I have ever heard in the woods.
greentick
08-09-2008, 22:02
mountain snipe:eek:
cougars scream....creepy to hear
Jaybird62
08-09-2008, 22:15
mountain snipe:eek:
Yeah, but them things are sure a lot of fun to hunt!!!:banana:eek::banana
Here's a cool site...
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/sound-library/index.htm
Try the cougar
Nearly Normal
08-10-2008, 02:19
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. :eek:
cornflake
08-10-2008, 02:25
Screaming during the night in the woods? I think I saw that movie!
Bearpaw88
08-10-2008, 09:25
Hey Bobcat (angewrite) were you stalking hikers again :D
saimyoji
08-10-2008, 09:49
Blair Witch.
Flush2wice
08-10-2008, 10:23
Probably just mice.
CrashnburnBiker
08-31-2008, 23:19
I hear this at my home in Connecticut two or three nights a week. A local biologist identified the sound as a Fisher Cat... Search for a sound clip of the animal on the web. Terrifying noise. A fox can also make a similar sound.
halibut15
09-01-2008, 09:24
Armadillo roadkill has also now been seen in Habersham Co., Ga...which a tiny part of the Trail passes through.
bloodmountainman
09-01-2008, 09:30
Great horned owl.
Screech owl, we hear them often here.
Streamweaver
09-05-2008, 11:35
It could be a bobcat or an owl ,but if there are houses around it might have been somebodies pet Peacocks,they love to wander quite a distance through the woods especially at night and make a very eerie scream alot like a womans scream.
Bulldawg
09-05-2008, 11:43
Armadillo roadkill has also now been seen in Habersham Co., Ga...which a tiny part of the Trail passes through.
Really? I haven't seen any yet?
[quote=pedal;680237]Armadillos were seen as far north as Gainesville, GA about 3 years ago. I'm sure they are closer to the trail now. And now badgers are repatriating western and central Ohio. So what is not here today may very well be here tomorrow.
Dances with Mice
09-05-2008, 13:24
Really? I haven't seen any yet?They've all been made into tacos and burritos in Cornelia.