Posted on 01/22/2013 6:17:35 AM PST by JoeProBono
Baby foxes or Bigfoot?
The eerie late-night serenades began in November and emanate from a brushy swamp on the Umatilla Indian Reservation east of Pendleton. The cries range from high-pitched screams to basso profundo roars.
"It's causing an uproar around here," said Sylvia Minthorn, who lives in a tribal housing unit near the swamp, where she used to play as a child.
She's seen grown men's hair stand on end when the shrieks commence.
Colleen Chance, a tribal housing authority employee, keeps a recording of the howls on her iPhone.
"It's kind of spooky," she said. "Some say it's foxes, some say it's a female coyote and some say it's Sasquatch. I don't know what it is."
Daughter and mother Sylvia and Denise Minthorn have both heard the strange nighttime cries coming from the brushy wetland behind them. Denise thinks whatever is in the swamp is calling to another creature elsewhere on the 178,000-acre Umatilla Indian Reservation.
I used to deer hunt in that area as a kid and there’s all kinds of noises that you never want to hear out there. A bull elk tiptoed into camp one night and let loose a mating call. As I had never heard elk before all I could think was Sasquatch was going to rip off the top of the car and kill me. That bull elk is probably still giggling about that.
foxes...
For whatever reason the audio link wouldn’t work for me, but I wanted to testify I’m pretty sure I and a hunting partner heard Sasquatch while in southern Oregon. And if you’d been there at the time, you would have been pretty sure it was, too. No way it could be mistaken for any other animal, bear, moose, elk, owls, coyotes, rutting buck, no way, not even remotely.
Whatever it is, there’s definitely something weird out there.
Sounds like a green heron. Used to live in a swampy area in Oregon and remember almost hitting the ceiling when one did that right outside my open bedroom window. I don’t know how a noise that big can come out of something that small but it does!
Up until a couple of years ago, I'd have suggested that you might have had one too many. :-)
Then, a buddy of mine, Former Army, served on the DMZ in Korea, as levelheaded a guy as I know, says that he saw a Bigfoot while he was hunting. Scared the living crap out of him.
Now, the guy refuses to go out hunting by himself anymore. Not loudly...not "HELL NO, I'm not doing that again"..... when I asked, he just said "Meh, I just haven't had the time this year." Yeah, right. It's the first year he's skipped it since I've known him.
Sez me, why would he 1) Lie to make himself look (what he would have considered, prior to this event) foolish? 2) Give up something that he particularly enjoyed?
There's something out there. I agree with you.
Send Bobo and the crew up there to check it out.
Like the way they borrowed the town hall meetings from politics.
As one of the commenters at the site said, did she record that with a potato?
Not sure what that recording is, but I have heard the sounds of a raccoon being torn to pieces by a pack of coyotes - it lasted about five minutes and was bone chilling.
As one of the commenters at the site said, did she record that with a potato?
Sounds like a bird to me. But it could be any number of things, and none of them have to be Bigfoot.
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