Is the fabled, but never found, creature making weird noises in the Blue Mtns. east of Pendleton?
The Wildlife News has discussed the matter of Bigfoot from time to time. Hint: search.
There are often things that look, and this time sound strange in the outdoors, and this time some think it is Bigfoot or Bigfoots making not tracks, but noises. Since November residents of an area north of the Wildhorse Casino on the Umatilla Indian Reservation Reservation, Oregon, have been hearing loud and seemingly inexplicable noises coming from a brushy swamp on the edge of the Blue Mountains.
The sounds are real. There is audio on-line. Bigfoot is just a hypothesis, if we can dignify the explanation of the sounds with a scientific phrase. Others have suggested fox which sometimes make unusual noises. We can add to the ideas by suggesting wolves because the relatively new Walla Walla wolf pack ranges down and perhaps into this area.
Is Bigfoot wildlife or a species of human, assuming it exists outside of our minds and as a myth (mostly of the Pacific Northwest)?
Here is a link to a web site interested in cryptobiology. Many more can be found with a simple news web search.
So we have accomplished a lazy news story for a Monday morning. 😉
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Call in Matt Moneymaker, Bobo, and the rest of the clowns at the Bigfoot “Research” organization–no doubt they’ll have definitive proof within a day or two of filming their so-called TV show.
The recording is of a fox. I’ve heard that sound many, many times but the recording quality on the website is terrible.
Even before I watched the video or saw yoru comment Ken, I thought that sound would be a fox. They make some unearthly sounds. They roam up and down the deserted dirt roads by the bay here. Its a mixed blessing, I love knowing they are out there but in the fall when they seem to be especially active and our windows are open, my dog hears them long before I do. It starts with a low grrrgrrr rumble grrr and ears erect. Then the pacing back and forth, then it erupts into a full fledged, I am on duty protecting my family from the foxes of the world, German Shepherd deep booming bark. My dog, Rue is close to 100 pounds and he runs from window to window rumbling and booming until I can calm him down. The fox, undeterred by the trapped inside loud mouth dog, continues his roaming and screeching. As the fox gets farther away Rue gets back to sleep…. until he hears the fox somewhere far away again. I hear the grrr rumble rumble start all over again knowing very soon I’ll hear the grumbling husband. I lean over and try and ssshh the dog. Too late, by then the husband wakes up and inevitablly says, “Louise the dog is barking”. I think to myself, your kidding that was a bark? ” Then he says, “Can’t you do anything”? That almost always makes me giggle. I mean really if I could do something would’nt I already have. Then as the fix gets nearer, we start the whole process again until the fox decides he has roamed enough and the screeching stops. My dog, humbled then by my reproaches, lies down for a good snooze and I am up the rest of the night. Foxes and screeching a part of life here. No big foot in sight
How do you know it’s a fox? Did you see it? Maybe what you’re hearing is a Bigfoot.
I’ve lived amongst foxes for years. I know what a fox sounds like. I am also a former student of Dr. Jeff Meldrum and I have had many long conversations with him about this subject.
It’s a fox.
My students and I saw a tooth fairy riding a unicorn when I was in Wyoming last summer…..wolves were in hot pursuit
Here are two of them!
http://www.borbay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Two-Feet0009.jpg
🙂 🙂
Only 63 satiring days left till April Fool’s Day.
Gotta go . Dang Yetis got into the root cellar again…
Best thing for getting rid of yetis is leprechauns–they hate yetis. But then you’ve got a leprechaun infestation, which requires a Loch Ness monster to get rid of, so you’re going to have to decide how badly you want to get rid of those yetis.
Take a listen to this. Much better audio.
Is Bigfoot/Sasquatch real? Eerie screams late night
Coyote
I would think these people hear coyotes all the time and can tell the difference. I know I have and this doesn’t sound like one to me.
I would think that people like to make hoaxes about this subject and fool ignorant people into thinking that something they’ve never heard before could be something exotic and different.
It is a coyote’s bark-yodel howl. It is a bark-howl for warning. Clearly coyote.
Different than a normal howl, that is why the man was confused…
One fall in the Winds, after Dickinson Park campground had been closed all summer and just opened for the last few days before, I drove up and camped at the trailhead. No one had been there all summer and I was alone with 2 dogs. That night I heard what could only be described as a pack of ‘screaming banshees’ (if you know what banshees sound like). They passed by at around 10pm, then came back through around 4am. Eerie and scary, the dogs pricked up their ears. I’d never heard anything like that before. When I went home, I listened to a lot of audio of animals and found that they were foxes. very very strange sounds though and I bet these Big Foot noises were foxes as well.
Ha! I hear them from time to time also, the first time I ever heard the screams on a summer night I thought it was a bird of some kind, but then found out it was a fox. We had a two of them in the yard.
Ok, so lets suppose they are foxes or coyotes. Like the guy said, they’ve had these animals around all the time, why all of a sudden starting in November are they hearing these noises? I mean this isn’t a bunch of crazy city people who don’t know anything about wild animals.
Foxes may be establishing new territories. Wolves keep coyotoes in check, maybe allowing foxes to make a comeback in some areas. It is a bizarre sound Leslie 🙂
Nancy, you are right. Old timers who have lived here for many years saw few foxes. But there are many more around now with the wolves in the valley. Three territorial carnivores in an area makes for an interesting study of competition. I have yet to hear that screaming banshee sound again in my lifetime.
Exactly.
The recordings (2) are of a fox and a coyote.
The foxes in my area make these screaming sounds when confronting racoons.
– and unless you’ve ever heard the screams that can emanate from a Cougar in courtship… makes the neighbor’s little Queenie in the alley getting schtucked sound almost tolerable. Carries for miles, too.
Add to list : Loons , and my totem Coyote. Up close and personal: talking Ravens doing ventriloquisms.
My wife’s Uncle raised a talking crow, his name was Mikey, and he loved to get up in the trees outside and start talking, Her uncle lived next to a bar, I am sure, there are many that stopped drinking after being exposed to him over the years!
One night I heard the weirdest screeching sounds. Looked out the window to two skunks copulating.
Didn’t your wife Uncle live next to MR. ED. Remember MR. ED the talking horse, that has been a long, long time ago.
My Wife’s Uncle lives in Lincoln.
🙂
-just spotted this at Wired.com
There is an online library containing 150,000 clips of the sounds made by over 9,000 animal and bird species.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/macaulay-animal-sounds/
The MacCauley Library at Cornell U.
CodyCoyote,
Thanks!
Let me see if I can follow the logic here:
We hear a sound in the woods that we can’t identify. Therefore, it was a bigfoot.
Flawless.
You got a better explanation that doesn’t involve mythical creatures? I’d like to hear it…
Hell, I grew up in Washington, hunting all around the areas they are suppose to live, ape caves, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, Trout Creek, and yes sometimes we heard really weird sounds at night and even during the day.
S.B
Have you ever heard a mountain lion screaming?
When I was a young boy we used to hike down into the Black Canyon of the Gunnison river in western Colorado to fish, it was awesome fishing back then. One night while we were fishing we heard this godawful screaming coming from the rim of the canyon and we were sure it was a mountain lion, I’ve heard them a time or to since then and was able to confirm that sound by the tracks in the area. Scary as hell, your with two other 14 year old boys and it’s dark. Sure made for a long night, I don’t think any of us slept a wink for the whole 5 days we were there. Lol
I don’t believe in bigfoot but I still like to read the Bauman story once in awhile. It’s best just before a wilderness backpacking trip.
May the gods forbid that something like big foot is real. It’s probably: Canadian; is, well, big; has parasites that are dangerous to humans; spreads CWD, brucellosis, toxoplasmosis,…; jeezo peezo!:-)
It is easy enough to find audio clips for comparison. I am not so quick to dismiss the possibility of any new species. We found new species all the time. Ken Cole, as a former student of Dr. Meldrum, surely you have heard the myriad of rationalizations. To me, the entire subject is intriguing. I have no problem with investigating sasquatch in general. I would just encourage people to do it with a scientific approach. I don’t doubt it is possible, but I can prove it is real. So what I have is, questions. I know very credible people who stand by it’s existence. Meldrum, Bendernagel and even Jane Goodall say it is possible. With experts like that being open to it, who am I to scoff at it?
Yes, I have heard many rationalizations. I think you have to be extremely skeptical about evidence for Sasquatch. With regard to the videos and audio we’re talking about here I think you have to use Occam’s Razor: “among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected”.
It’s a fox.
Ken Cole,
This is fox, no doubt. I was speaking in the general and nor on this recording. I wouldn’t discredit everything that is presented though. Chuckling, this is most certainly a fox.
Yes. You can hear it plainly in the attached video too. 🙂
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/23/animal-sounds-in-backyard_n_2934973.html?utm_hp_ref=green
Great Link Ida,
I have stored some other sites on my favorites bar. It isn’t often that I am unable to identify a sound just from years of experience. Every once in a while, I have to search though.