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19 years ago

I live in the western part of Massachusetts in the woods and we have been trying to figure out some unusual animal sounds. Mostly in the summer, we hear an animal that sounds like the combination of an owl, crowing rooster followed by some cooing/purring type sounds like a "chubacca" from star wars. What ever they are, there are usually many of them at night and the noises have woken me from a sleep. When describing the sounds to some neighbors, we were told that they were bears. But the sound bytes I have listened to online have not matched what we are hearing. Anyone know??

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
19 years ago
Bears tend to be diurnal, not nocturnal. Owls make a huge variety of calls, squawks, hisses, etc. What other kind of mammals do you have around there?
kentuck_8b
19 years ago
Are mountain lions/cougars in your area?

Raccoons can make some pretty strange sounds from screams to chattering to a type of barking noise. Ringtail cats supposedly make some unusual noises also.

Years ago when we spent a lot of time in the far south of Louisiana, we heard strange sounds which remind me of something like what you described. When we asked what they were, we rarely got an answer, as if they didn't want to speak of 'it'.

Those deep woods country folk had a name for the animal, which I cannot recall, but it was actually another name for the Sasquatch, as I later found out.

These people hunted among alligators and in the night by only the light of the moon, but when they heard that sound/scream, they quickly became nervous, and headed back home. Just a story, with no credibility, but I always wondered what actually made that scream.

Kt
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