Humboldt County, California · 2006-05-31 · from the BFRO archive
My friend and I were backpacking in the Redwood National Park, north of Eureka, on [a particular trail in the National Park]. We started hiking at about 3 in the afternoon, and hiked for a few hours. Then we walked off the trail up into a small canyon for about half a mile and made camp. Found bear tracks, started to get worried, so we hung our food from a tree. About this time (7 o'clock) we heard the first scream. It was short, and didn't repeat. We started to get a little freaked out, so we started a fire, and heard nothing for the next 3 or 4 hours. Then at about 10:30 11:00 p.m. the screaming started again, this time lasting for about 10 minutes. It sounded like it was about half a mile away on one of the surrounding ridges, a very eerie wail. It didn't sound human. I know what elk, coyote, and wolf calls sound like, and this was nowhere near... very similar to recordings I have heard of supposed bigfoot calls. We went to bed at about 2 a.m., and left the next morning without incident.
What stood out: screaming or howling
During the last week of June, my girlfriend and I decided to take the dogs on a long walk. We were driving up the coast planning on a beach walk when I decided to go to a area on redwood cre…
both described screaming or howling · 19 km away
This is to document my experience on Sunday, June 6, 2021. Something woke me up from dreaming. I was dreaming I was trying to sleep but there was noise outside so in my dream I got out of be…
both described screaming or howling · 24 km away
It must have been late 70’s; my family and I were camping in a very primitive area near Happy Camp, California on a friend of my fathers land. I was around 8 or 10. We were camped on a river…
both described screaming or howling · 85 km away
This incident happened 41 years ago when I was 19 years old. My friend and I were bear hunting up in Humboldt County on the Hoopa Indian Reservation. It was in March or April. Back then bear…
both described screaming or howling · 33 km away
Heard very unusual gutteral howling at dawn last week while camping in Humboldt State Redwoods. Howling lasted about 3 minutes. Then started up again several minutes later (but further up th…
both described screaming or howling · 99 km away
I have two distinct incidences from 1997 and 1998 in the Klamath National Forest. The incident from 1997 was more of a Class B incident on the Klamath River directly off of Hwy 96. The incid…
both described screaming or howling · 52 km away
I went on an overnight backpacking trip with my son. We hiked about 4 miles down the trail and then hopped off the trail and down a hill to a small lake off of the trail a ways. We setup cam…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
During the month of July of 1986, a friend and I wanted to try our hand at catching some Arctic Grayling in the Weber River drainage of the Uinta Mountains. The hike along Dry Fork was fairl…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
It was an unusually warm February that year and me and 3 other friends of mine decided to go out and spend the night in the strip mines to kind of get away from things and shoot guns and jus…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
There are thousands more like this in the record. Open one at random, or read the ones the most people recognise.
Read anotherMost recognisedOr if something like this happened to you, write it down and we will look for the others who saw it too.
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
This account was written by a member of the public and published in the BFRO archive. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request. Location shown is approximate.
Anomaly