Terrifying Sounds in the Forests of the Great Smoky Mountains
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- Part Roar - part Scream - this is perhaps the best recording of these mythical creatures! Hear cracking branches and these Incredible noises nearby in the dense woods alone and you will never forget it! Do you freeze or walk faster? Rarely ever seen in the thick steep trackless mountain woods they are both immense and largely invisible in heavy cover. These extremely detailed and close recordings are of a once-extinct giant creature that again roams the mountain forests of North Carolina captured over several days in late September 2018. Some people now want to kill these magnificent creatures all over again.....Why?
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If you watch the entire video you'll catch a glimpse of one of the creature's friends - not the one roaring. Recent research has found the process that makes these fascinating sounds is rather unusual.
I knew it was a moose mating call, but I did not know we had them here in our NC mountains
Fascinating
Rocky Mountain Elk are being transplanted in eastern states where they were once plentiful. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has been active in the program across many states including Pennsylvania, Kentucky, etc. Those are two bull elk calling to each other. You can also hear cow elk talking back. It's also common to hear the bull chuckle behind the scream to call his cows to him. Pretty cool to hear it's happening in eastern states. Hunting elk, and other large native animals of north america, is part of a larger conservation and management strategy. Each year hunters, anglers and shooting sports pour millions of dollars into wildlife conservation across America, more than all other Americans combined. Read up on the Pittman Robertson act and others like it.
There are alot of elk in gsmnp
princessncg1 fr cause I also live in NC
It’s not a moose!! It’s an elk
guy : *walks in woods*
Mother Nature : *AHHHHHHHHH, GET OFF MEEEEEEE EKSKWKDJSKDNAKBDJ*
😂😂😂
I only wish that would actually happen
Lol
🤣🤣😂😂
If you listen closely there does sound like a man in the distance screaming for help
Oh, that's sound is a male elk, no need to worry 😁👍🦌
@Proto The protogen The male elk that get super aggressive and impale on sight around that time of year? That's no need to worry?!
My first thought!
No deer makes any kind of noise like that. A loud 'metallic' kind of noise and a really eerie high pitch. No, this is something else. I think it's a Sasquatch. A Bear would not make noises like this, and nor would a Wolf or a Coyote. It's terrifying tbh.
I thought so
Aswell sound like wendigo
Having lived in the Rockies and done a lot of hiking and camping that sound is very familiar and quite beautiful. I love to hear it! It's of course a bull elk calling its cows. We had one of those bulls storm our camp one night while high in the Uinta Mts of Utah, bellowing and stomping. Pretty exciting! No one was hurt fortunately.
That's what I thought it was. An elf. I have been hiking in the High Uintas and the Appalachians and I don't think I have ever heard elk. But I did have a bad run in with a group of Sasquatch in the Pennsylvania wilderness and one almost killed me when a grapefruit sized rock whizzed past my face.
aren't those things aggressive
@@wrestlingfan4ever76 An elf?
@@ChocolateMilk.. LOL :) It must have been late at night. LOL
yeah, I could tell right off it's just an elk, those things are huge
That's just my ex-wife's mother complaining about the thermostat again
You win the internet today.
My brother, you made my day. 😂😂😂😂😂.
Omg 😂
I read this comment and I lost it 🤣🤣🤣
As a rock climber who didn't put nearly as much time into thinking about the encounters in nature I'd have, the first time I heard a bull elk call I was in the middle of a rock face and I thought this was it. My rock climbing mentor just started laughing when he saw my face. "That's a male elk calling his bitches, don't shit yourself."
Not gonna lie: at the first roar/scream I would have run like hell.
I don't blame you infact I would have been over taking you to get my butt as far away from that sound as possible. Lol.😂
Tracy Nickerson same here dude
Smart move,you would most likey survive than to investigate....as we all know curiosity kill the cats
(P.S I'd run like hell too.)
😂😂😂
Just Elk.....they turned a bunch loose it Tennessee, N Carolina, Kentucky and a few other states
I'm sorry
That was me stepping on lego.
Stolen
Voku I think ur not funny if u don't like it then don't even comment
Lol
Lucas Mata lol to who Andrew jine or Voko???
0:01 thats litterly me when i step on a needle or lego
From far away, it sounds almost mechanical... but still terrifying.
FloridaSuburbanNature lol i know what you mean it’s the actual audio of the video it’s almost sound robotic
Those damn transformers messin round in my yard again *plays banjo*
FloridaSuburbanNature it’s an elk bleating
It does have a mechanical tone to it for sure
Its the robots from Horizon zero down
What are the noises at 1:22 ?? If you put in earphones, you can hear it better. But it sounds like a person screaming as though he’s being mauled to death? Maybe I’m trippin but that gave me chills
You sir are NOT trippin!!! I heard it too. I had to turn it up and push my headphones to my ear to really hear and make sure. It's somebody screaming in pain!!!
ya'll are batshit craze
1:22 you can hear some man screaming constantly and faintly in the background deep in the woods, I heard the elk as well but when I reached that part of the video I had chills all over my body
Shit i never noticed that
That was where the Sasquatch joined in
Maybe a man injured and alone? Guess we'll never know...would have been interesting if he went to the same spot and looked around for possibly the corspe of the poor guy..
That yelling from a person was happening from the very beginning of the video if you listen closley
Sounds like he’s dead
If I didn’t know it was an elk I’d be goddamn terrified, especially with all the disappearances and weird stuff that’s gone down in the smoky mountains (all that missing 411 David Paulides stuff, not sure if you know what/who that is)
I don't , please explain.
Shahira Omar - Deorr Kunz Jr is a small boy who vanished from a remote camp in Idaho a couple years ago now. The parents took a lot of heat unfortunately but I’ve studied the case in detail and I don’t think the parents did it.
@@claymac7895 where in Idaho?
The other Archer there’s elk in the east again. Decades actually.
Wrong! Both Tennessee and Kentucky have elk recovery programs in progress and have for years in addition to Pennsylvania and I believe North Carolina does too a little further West the state's of Michigan and Wisconsin do and the village of Elk Grove Illinois has a small group.
Well, it scared the hell out of my cat.
I am with the cat on this one and would get the heck out of dodge. Lol.😂
@@PecanBaby... Yep. That's exactly what he did and he was quick about it, too. He finally came out, though.
Haaa! I love that! Too funny. Poor kitty was like... Oh, hell no!
Marlena Linne haha scardy cat
My dog really doesn't care
If you are in the forest and you know what is making the sound it's not so terrifying, but you don't know it's Elk it can scare the wee wee out of you. Woke me up this morning. Thanks for sharing 😄
I have to believe you.
There’s no elk in the Smokey mountains at all bro
Yes, an elk. You've seen plenty of nature shows where elk in Canada or in the US Rockies will make this sound. Well, WNC has elk too. Not many but I've seen one. It was a yearling, at least the person with me said it was. But it was huge. Far bigger than a full size deer. The one I saw didn't make any sound like this but that' the sound they do make.
We have them here in Michigan to have heard that call before.
There are no elk in north Carolina
@@brennansmith6474 Yes there are. Called the Eastern Elk. The original species was all but killed off over a hundred years ago. They re-introduced elk back into the region at some point, very few of them right now. Some on private land, some on public. And I've actually seen one. Sounds like a bigfoot story, right? Check out the wiki page.
@@brennansmith6474 Yeah, there are.
@@brennansmith6474 You don't have the slightest idea of what the hell you are talking about. Elk are in Cherokee County and Jackson County. Learn facts before you comment and make yourself look like a complete moron.
From the very beginning you can hear someone screaming in the distance. Sounds like they are in desperate pain
That's a bull elk in the rut. The mewing sounds are from his cows.
Someone has a brain, finally
@Kilted and Bearded. I recognized the elk but not the background sounds..Thanks for clarification👍🌲🐐🐿
I was gonna say elk too, but I have only ever heard them on t.v. I didn't want the believers to come after me...
There are no elk naturally in that mountains of NC/SC/VA. That's why it would be creepy because while they were reintroduced it is not common.
Elk were reintroduced to the area by RMEF in conjunction with the state department of wildlife resources. I was part of the committee pushing to expand elk herds into these areas. Even if it isn't a live elk but an elk call the face remains that that sound is without a doubt elk.
What's really spooky is what sounds like someone yelling in agony in the distance starting around 1:22 to about 1:33.
Wow, that is rather distinctly non-animal sounding too. It does sound like someone is mortally wounded or crying angrily and hysterically.
Maybe somebody was getting attacked by the elk!
It's a bear.
Good catch! Sounds like a really angry man lol. But it could be a cougar or something. It's so far away in the background it's hard to tell!
Listened to it a few times it sounds like a man screaming "get outta here! Get outta here! Rahhhhh!!! Go away! Go away!"
It's totally a Wendigo.
Jk it's a god damn elk.
No it's definitely a wendigo lol, they can shape into deer like creatures remember hahaha
Yes, but you both are missing the main point of this video
When you hear a foreign sound that scares the livin' shit out of you, the key to survival is knowing when to stay, or wendigo.
Ha!
@@mertmunson1417 good one my dude
I do not like creepy stuff and sounds ;-;"
@@laurab.9710 your thinking of skinwalkers.
At 1:22 you can hear like screaming. Scary😩😱😱
How did this guy not hear the poor man screaming for help at 1:20??!!
1:30 sounds like someone screaming help me over and over
Wait so there’s an elk east of the Mississippi? That would be absolutely fantastic to have elk or moose make a comeback over here.... I live in Mississippi and most of the native Black bear and Panthers have died off but there have been conservation efforts to restore their numbers.. Hopefully in my lifetime I will be able to see old native species like bear and panthers here and not bat an eye...
Nick Cruton yeah there are a few populations east of the Mississippi. Surprisingly I had an elk encounter in the woods of Kentucky of all places.
Nick Cruton I also have spoken with a few people who have seen mountain lions in the east after they were declared extinct. One of the people who saw one was backpacking in the Shenandoah’s. He saw it run behind a rock ledge while taking a breather. When he finished his hike he informed a park ranger who said, “yeah, they’re still around here”.
I've seen so many elk in the GSM that they had to close the road. Had two huge bulls going at it within 5 ft of my car in the middle of the road.
@@CarapaceClavicle yes I've seen a few mountain lions in Maryland. 2 where I expected to see one and another I did not. It was 25 miles north of Baltimore City in Baltimore county on Mt Carmel road. . I actually called it in and it was captured. It should have not been there as their is no mountains nearby. it was also kept on the hush-hush cuz I looked and did not see anything on the news afterward. They tried to tell me that someone had it as a pet but I knew they were telling lies. From Maryland to Pennsylvania and even more north and west they try to say that they don't exist on the East coast but I know people that have seen them including myself a few times. There is a nice population of them in Northwest Pennsylvania in the Allegheny mountains
There are elk east of the Mississippi, they're just very illusive.
Does anyone else hear a male scream in the background between 1:23 and 1:35? Kind of sounds like he’s saying “help me” in some parts.
sounds like another elk in the distance probably
Listen I know that’s an elk but if I was in the woods and heard this I’d still shit my pants
Elks sound as if they’re viscous predators, but they taste good 😋
0:02 that scared the hell out of me
It almost sounded mechanical, didn’t it? But it was an elk. Strange, ain’t it?
Elk
@@bobcat24 elk
This is sweet music to my ears, thanks to wildlife conservationists these majestic creatures { Elk } have been reintroduced to the Smokies! I live in the rural foot hills of TN, and hope they spread out my way in the coming years, hope I live long enough to see and hear them before I die. Thank you and God bless.
Thank you for loving nature and may God Bless you also!!
Howdy neighbor from Greene county
I thought it was a panther at first, until my husband yells from the next room asking why I'm watching Elk videos lol. I live in Haywood county NC so you'd think I'd be familiar with that sound but I live too close to town for those. Plenty of bluejays, cardinals and squirrels to keep me entertained. I did come across one on my way to a friend's house waaaay out in the boonies one night many years ago ... And lemme tell ya, those suckers are ENORMOUS and a lil bit scary looking when you turn a curve on a pitch black dirt rd and standing on the hill directly across from you is this huge beast!! Lol I had to hit the brakes and just stare in awe for a min!
I live near Kingsport, TN (north of smokey mountains). I just moved 6 miles away and the terrain difference is obvious. The former home was in an area where NO level spaces existed. My home was built on a steep area and the roads were treacherous in winter. Also, every form of wildlife was in that area (except elk) and could be seen almost daily. It's so odd that only a short distance away can make a difference in wildlife. I do live near a lake and state park now and have no clue if that makes a difference. We do see bobcats and herds of deer here that roam thru the planned community. The deer herds are 25+ strong and stop to eat many of our bushes. I LOVE Blowing Rock and Boone NC and visit often. It's a fairly short drive for me.
ok am i the only one hearing what sounds like a screaming man in the far backround for the first 2 minutes of the video
My kids would recognize that elk sound! They’ve seen “Polar Express”😂😂😂
Everyone else: Terrifying!
Me: I've been searching for these Elk noises! from Do You Copy? No? okay I'll leave-
If I didn't know that was a elk, I would've been out of there quick as hell
Your from north America how couldn't u not know
Where you live is so beautiful. I would love to live there.
I'm so jealous 😭
I bet you would love to wake up at 3 am to the sound of screams
I live somewhere better... the Yukon. Lol
It get frickin cold tho
Enjoy the wendigo's
The sounds of elk are my alarm tone for work 🤣
When I beat my little brother in Halo
My little brother: 0:02
This set off my fight or fight senses. I would flight
rebecca peterson fight.... or.... fight, no compromise huh?😂
Fight or fight? I guess I have no choice but to fight. Lol
@Mountain Chief You got that right Mountain Chief!
It's an elk, but it is an elk that's in a bad mood, so you'd be right to run.
Everyone gangsta untill you play this in the forest and something answers
The first one sounds like someone screaming into a tube 😂 nah It is an elk bleating
LuxuriousLuck so in other woods they got me on tape😬😬😬 lmao anytime a roll of paper towels runs out I’ll chase my dog around whilst yelling into the empty cardboard tube😂
Initially, I was going to say, that if you aren't able to identify the most obvious sounds, as being elk calls, then you probably shouldn't be out there, at all; however, then I listened for a 2nd time, with my volume up a bit more, and I could hear, what sounded like a human male, in distress, at various times, throughout the video. A good example of this begins at about 1:22, and a 2nd example of this occurs at 2:04.
I definitely hear elk but in the background sounds like a man yelling
This guy is hiding on the tree instead of running, to keep it simple, He is scared... XD
I love this channel 💕👍
We all heard the man screaming right?
Bro the scariest part is that i just heard this outside like 5 minutes ago ( its 3am for me )
You heard en elk?
@@dylan3488 yea did not know what it was but it scared me lol
That is a really creepy sound ... As someone mentioned here, it does sound very mechanical.. But many says its an elk too, which i hope is correct 😂
No elk in great smokies
@@ronbrock738 you can literally see the elk park way through the video...
@@ronbrock738 the smokies dont exist. 😆
It's 100% an elk
@@ronbrock738 Then why do I have pictures of them in Cherokee and Jackson Counties? They are also in Haywood County. Learn the facts before you comment, fool.
😨That's the nightmare
sorted for tonight.🎑👻💨
😧Thank you!
ELK.
@1:40 im not sureBIG BOY BEEN AROUND. You got very close?
OMG! sounds exactly like someone screeching into a megaphone. How about that.
Best thing about this video is that the guy recording isn’t talking 👍👍👍👍👍
I love this channel!
My cats do not like these sounds. Wondering if it is a bigfoot? Lol
An* Elk
@@shahiraomar4229 that was my thought the deer was calm, then thought it cud be a shapeshifting big foot, but i love that i found out its a elk ......... this earth and all she provides life for is truely amazing, magical and mysterious!! love this place and love you 'all!!!
Elk
Oh Thats an elk! He sounds pissed off 😂 mountain lions, dont get me started about them! Gosh, mountain lions sound like screaming crack heads sometimes.
💀That sounds like MR.BALLEN coming to tell you a bedime story💀
That sounds like wendigo man 😂 woo😮💨 You have lucky day 👍
A bull elk in rut. Hunted enough of these things. So glad they were introduced back in to the Smokies. Amazing animals.
Yes they are. I love hunting them to. But respect them.
I think The untrained ear would be pretty terrified if they heard this in the woods. Like myself
Interesting. I just moved to New Hampshire this past Spring, haven't heard anything like that yet, but maybe this fall. Saw a bear and her cubs just last week which thrilled me. Love me some wildlife sightings more than chipmunks and squirrels!
The closest Elk to you would be in Pennsylvania.
You never know though.😄
It could be a Sasquatch blowing a blade of grass between his thumbs, but I think it’s a bull elk😂
Wait what about that guy screaming help
Hey man you got pretty lucky you heard a elk bugle up close!
Why did he get lucky?
@@candacedaugherty885 usually you don’t hear elk bugles up close like that.
Thanks
That's a skinwalker mimicking the screams of its victims it killed
*Delete this.*
You made me question if i want to live on this planet
Itz_ Midnight who hurt you?
It’s very unbelievable how animals sound deer can roar that’s how unbelievable it is I was outside one day there was a whitetail deer it was yelling at me at first I was like what the and then I finally seen it and I was so like what the heck
I’m gonna be like that tool bag from finding Bigfoot . Ooooo you herd a Bigfoot . It was mimicking a elk . LOL
This is Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
ahh.. that’s me after my mum told me there’s food at home.. sorry to scare you
Well you dont have to be scared from a elk but man,that first sound............
Just a thought
What if it’s spiritual?
What if what's spiritual? The sound that elk is making? Lol
clifton james Yes, he’s praying to the Reee gods🙏
That's a ELK my friend. I have herd this same sounds at my House in Maggie valley, NC
The nuthatch at the end is cool. I've never been able to catch their little dance on video despite years of trying. 👍
I love Nuthatches. He had a couple in my yard this summer visiting the feeder.
Crazy! I thought I heard the Banshee here in Ireland...cats, having a go 💓☘
I heard this one night...scared me back into the house.
sorry that was me just having my daily anger issues cuz holly is raging
Best pla e to see them is near the Cherokee NC visitor's center. You can see them...but keep your distance. One was pit down due to a photographer thinking he had more right to their territory than the elk. The elk nudged him to move out and he didn't. The elk was euthanized for it.
Heard about that. They should have euthanized the idiot photographer.
0:20 "somebody help"
0:29 -1:00 more yelling "somebody please help me"
1:22-1:33 more yelling for help
My first thought upon hearing that would be "Run for the hills!"...which on second thought wouldn't do me much good being already in the hills.
Third thought...never mind.
How bout blasting the song run to the hills back at them!! Maybe EDDY will run out of the woods with an Ax!!
You:"Run for the hills!!!"
Me:takes one step to the side "Well.....that was easy... " 😆
I know it's an elk or moose but if you want to look at it from a mythical/horror POV, I'd say a Wendigo 😳
if there's a roar or growl sound with the elk sound. than yes it's a wendigo. but that's creepypasta. I bet it sounds different from what you get from those stories.
Elk calls are freaking terrifying but they are such cool creatures
Sounds like the scene from polar express 😂 😂 😂
I know that it’s an elk, but it actually sounds like a skill saw starting up and getting caught in a sheet of plywood! Lol
I feel like R2-D2's scream was inspired by an elk's scream.
It's a BIGFOOT 😱😱
0:01 That was my reaction when trump was selected to be president
I didn’t know we had elk in the smokies!? That’s badass, definitely would’ve shit myself hearing that first bugle out of nowhere lol
Greetings. I’m a wildlife researcher, and I can say with 100% confidence that it is a Rocky Mountain Elk’s calls.
when i was a kid, i always wonder what's that scary noises at night. later on in life i realized, it's just the animals. they do make weird noise and only people who don't know it will think it's something out of the world or monsters or aliens etc.
Ive been hunting 25 yrs and for sure Theres other things in these woods.. unexplainable to someone whos never had an encounter ..but what do YOU say to someone when theyre hearing and seeing something thats not even suppose to be real... i never wanted to see what i seen nor ever want to see it again...So i get the comparison. Until it happens to you .. its unrelatable.. and most people with these opinions.. ether dont leave the comfort of their home or theyre daily routine of work and sleep in inner cities and suburbs.
It’s just an elk they were reintroduced into the Smokey’s you can hunt them if you manage to draw a tag
It's like 2 different vocal boxes. 1 high pitched and 1 deep. That's shivers down your spine creepy.
I think one of them was me🤣 i Remer being in the wood screaming for no reason🤣🤣
Congratulations. You got scared by an elk.
*click click* looks like got some monsters to hunt lets boogie
Elk bugles are pretty unsettling if you've never heard one before
0:01
My broken vacuum cleaner
That’s an elk
Elk. Do the hardest Tarzan yell you can manage. LOL
It's always fun to see somebody who has never heard and elk bugle before,it almost always scares the crap out of them.To me though,it's a beautiful sound,bringing back memories of sitting by a campfire,in the Rockies and listening to the bulls bugle all over the place.Some of the greatest times of my life,and most relaxing,especially after a hard day hiking the mountains hunting for them.The release of the herd in the Cataloochee area was a wonderful thing,now I go to the Smilies just to watch them,I'm so happy they are thriving and expanding,even to the point of seeing them in the town of Cherokee.
An elk maybe?
Yes, that's an elk alright, but do you all hear the sound that's farther away from the elk? It sounds like someone is yelling or screaming, it sounds like a deeper sound. So there are two creatures, one is the near by elk, the other is I don't know what it is.
When you realize it's an elk it's not so scary.
Go on in there they won't hurt you