Moved to the edge of a small rural community of about 500 people about 16 months ago. Hear lots of critters day and night and know most but this one was different. The first time I heard it, and it was pretty loud, It sounded like it could be a women's scream, roughly coming from the direction of my closest neighbor's house, little over 100 yards away. It made the hair on my neck stand up. About 10:30. I got up threw my pants on and took my 9mm and flashlight, went outside and walked the immediate area, looked and listened. Nothing. Houses all dark and quiet.

Heard it a few more nights around the same time. 6 or 8 times, 15 to 20 sec between each. Finally, I googled and listened to audio of all the Owls, Frogs and everything I could find that was native to Tennessee and finally found it tonight!

Fox! They call it "Vixen's Scream".
The exact thing I hear starts at about 40 sec.
Spooky if you don't know what it is!
https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM

Could you imagine camping in the middle of nowhere and just randomly hearing that? . Mother Nature can be a troll at times

One of the more interesting middle TN sounds is the unmistakable sound of a coyote ....... killing a cat.

Ahhh cat the other, other white meat.

Foxes will do that to you.

I lived out in the woods in the Adirondacks for a time and heard that frequently. Freaked me out for awhile too.

I used to hunt in south Alabama, one deer plot was called the panther plot. You would be sitting there and all of a sudden there was this scream, like a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. Kiled a lot of deer off of that plot, had the hair on the back of my neck at full attention many times while walking/dragging a deer out of that plot.

Mountain Lions have an interesting sceam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxo8X5uIWRE

I have a video from my game camera with a fox making that sound. Just the way they bark.

Yeah, and it drives my pup nuts! When the vixens scream starts my dog goes wild!

ARman

That's kind of the way I felt when I first heard what I later found out was a wild peacock.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
This explains it...

So it's an 'Oppa-Gangam-Style-in-the-woods' kinda thing? Got it.

I thought someone or something was being killed in the woods across the street the first time I heard it. When someone is here, that has never heard it before, they really "freak out" until I tell them what it was. The only other "woods" scream that has made me squirm is when something gets a hold of a rabbit. Rabbits really scream when they are being made into a meal.

Bobcat scream sounds like a baby crying out.
Many years ago scared my wife in the middle of the night when the windows were open!

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Originally posted by walkinghorse:
Bobcat scream sounds like a baby crying out.
Many years ago scared my wife in the middle of the night when the windows were open!

I agree. Probably a bobcat.

Middle TN you might see a cougar sometime.

TWRA confirms cougars in Tennessee

http://www.local8now.com/conte...ssee--413910373.html


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- At least nine cougar sightings have been confirmed. TWRA said they will be monitoring the natural expansion of the cougar.

All of the confirmed sightings listed are in Middle or West Tennessee. There are several possible reports in East Tennessee, but none confirmed by the TWRA.

Zoo Knoxville Director of Animal Care Phil Colclough said it could be several years before more cougars are in our area.

"Obviously they are coming this way there's a few scattered records here and there and I think they will be here at some point, coming down from the north. We obviously have a lot of deer in this area so the prey is here for them to have," said Colclough.

According to TWRA the cougar is native to Tennessee, but was extirpated because of hunting and habitat loss.

Colclough said the return of the cougars might be good for the environment.

"They could control the deer population. It would be huge, think about all the car accidents and the problems deer cause because of their over population," said Colclough.

According to TWRA cougars, once they establish a home range can be up to 150 miles. They can travel up to 600 miles or more to find that home range.

It is also illegal to hunt and kill cougars. The TWRA on their website state, "Tennessee law protects all animals for which no hunting season is proclaimed, the cougar is protected in Tennessee. It is illegal to kill a cougar in Tennessee except in the case of imminent threat of life and injury. Also, if a landowner is experiencing property damage made by wildlife, that landowner has the right to protect his/her property."

More information can be found https://www.tn.gov/twra/articl...sthash.UfFsHuFB.dpuf

A map of confirmed Cougar sightings can be found here. http://twra.maps.arcgis.com/ap...4896ad6200e5ed1ccbab

I used to listen to babies being beaten and tortured. It would go on night after night, and the police were never called. Eventually I found the den of evilness where they babies were being held while being killed.

It was in some tall eucalyptus trees that giant blue heron's inhabited.

My wife heard screams from our woods about 8 years ago early in the morning. She said it sounded like a woman screaming bloody murder. We went down to the woods and found "nests" and structures made out of woven twigs and branches built around several big trees.

I asked around and an acquaintance of mine who does a hunting show on the radio asked us to come over to his house to hear call and screams of wild animals he had recordings of. He played a alleged Bigfoot call and my wife said that's what she heard.

When I told him about the structures in our woods he came out and said it's what Bigfoot creatures make for their young. He said they follow streams, and we have a stream running through our acreage.

I'm not saying it was and I'm not saying it wasn't. It was a weird thing all the way around.

So see if you can find a recording of the Bigfoot scream just for kicks.

BTW we are in rural Ohio.