Quick tip for a situation like this that I learned while in Civil Air Patrol: Do not turn and run from something like this, that is the exact behavior a prey animal will follow, which leads to the other animal chasing you from instinct. Do not turn around to run, but instead slowly back away while still facing the sound or animal. If this is at night, keep the light you have with you shining in their eyes or the direction the sound came from so they cannot see you well, if at all, and do not panic. Situations like this are completely a psychological game. Don't make it a game of chase. Those creatures literally live for something like that, so your chances of surviving are slim if it becomes that. It should only be a very, very last resort, if you have to resort to that at all.
Good advice! If you ever encounter a wild predator, under no circumstances should you turn your back to it, and never run! Maintain eye contact, do not look away, and then begin to slowly back up without making any sudden movements, for sudden movement may surprise the animal, like a jump scare, and may cause an attack. Turning your back to the predator, or turning away from the creature, or even breaking eye contact may also lead to an attack. Yet, the most important thing not to do is run!!! Trying to run away, like shimo_96 mentioned, will trigger the animal's natural instinct to view such behavior as that of prey, and a chase will commence, a chase you are not likely to win! Also, do not crouch down nor bend over! Biologists surmise mountain lions (and other predators) don't recognize standing humans as prey, while bending over, or crouching not only makes you appear smaller, and less intimidating, but also makes you resemble four-legged prey! The larger your appearance, the greater the chance of the predator leaving you alone. If an attack seems imminent, lift your arms as high as you can, and spread them apart wide to make yourself appear as large as possible. If you can manage to grab some branches without looking away (breaking eye contact), and without crouching or bending over, do it, for these items can make you look even larger. If you are certain that an attack is imminent and the mountain lion, or other predator, moves in your direction or acts aggressively, then do everything in your power to appear intimidating! Raise your arms, with or without sticks, or branches, to appear as large as possible. If you are wearing a jacket, open it to make your body appear wider. Wave your arms slowly, and speak in a loud voice. If this doesn't scare the predator off, then (at least in the case of a mountain lion) without crouching, or turning your back, or breaking eye contact start throwing stones, branches, or whatever is available to you, towards the mountain lion. You don't want to aim for the animal, but instead aim for the ground directly in front of the predator as if these were warning shots. You don't want to injure the mountain lion, but you want to make it abundantly clear to the predator that you can defend yourself, and potentially hurt it. If these actions still fail to deter the predator, then begin throwing things at it with the intent of hitting it, but aim for its body, and not its head, for if you injure one of its eyes, then that predator will pose a greater risk to future visitors. Remain as large as possible in appearance, and attempt to be as intimidating as possible, continue talking in a monotone loud voice, but do not scream. Screaming may sound similar to one of their prey. Try to read the animal's body language. If a mountain lion is less than 50 yards away, and their ears are back, and their eyes fixed on you, then an attack is highly likely to occur, and you should be preparing to use anything nearby as a weapon. Maintain eye contact, and stay as calm as possible. Do not play dead! If an attack does occur, do not cower and cover yourself up, fight back and try to stay standing. There are plenty of examples of people surviving a mountain lion attack by fighting back with whatever they had available to them: one man used a rock to fend off a mountain lion that was attacking his son, while others have used sticks, caps, jackets, garden tools, and even their bare hands. Because a mountain lion usually tries to bite the head or neck, try to remain standing, and face the attacking predator. Further, should you have a backpack, you can position it to serve as body armor, or a shield.
One other piece of advice I would like to give regards behavior to avoid, behavior which I have witness too many times performed in my presence. This concerns Africanized Honey Bees, and the natural reaction humans have to swat at insects that are either flying around one's face, or have landed upon the person. Swatting at any bee can trigger an attack, and it only takes one bee to decide to attack, and release its alarm pheromones, thereby alerting, and calling, other bees of the colony to come help defend some perceived threat to the hive, to initiate a swarm attack on yourself. A single swat at a bee, could potentially call thousands of bees to attack! 100% of all the honey bees in my state have been "Africanized", you know, those Killer Bees! Africanized Honey Bees have entered my state, and managed to spread their genetics into all local colonies by way of hybridization a fancy term for interbreeding. The bees have been nicknamed "killer bees", not because they are more venomous than regular honey bees, actually, they are slightly less venomous. Ever heard of the concept of death by a thousand paper cuts? Same concept with killer bees, for their behavior includes being more aggressive in defending their hive. In other words, they will decide to attack much sooner than a regular honey bee would because it takes less of a perceived threat to trigger an attack. Couple this behavior with their willingness to give a pursuit for longer than regular honey bees, both in duration and in distance, and you have a hybrid of bees that are perceived to be deadlier because of their aggressive nature, and determination. Adding to the reasons for why Africanized Honey Bees have earned the moniker of being Killer Bees is the fact that when they attack, a greater number of bees aid in the attack than the number of honey bees that attack. This aggression and determination may be applied to multiple targets simultaneously, meaning they will target more than one person at a time! It is the sheer number of attacking bees that make Africanized Honey Bees deadlier than European Honey Bees. I couldn't find any consistent numbers concerning average population of Apis mellifera lingustica, or Italian Honey Bees, one of the most common in the U.S., nor could I find any consensus regarding the number, or the percentage, of a hive's population that will join an attack. Some sources of information alluded that Africanized Honey Bees had larger colonies, while other sources stated just the opposite. I guess there is solid logic to place more faith in a statement being true than one that is merely hinted at, without ever stating as a fact. So, even with the assumption that Italian Honey Bees have significantly larger colonies than that of the Africanized Honey Bees, the aggressive behavior with the sheer number of attacking bees is what makes them "deadlier". I saw estimates stating that with the Italian Honey Bees, only around 10% of the colony will join forces to attack a perceived threat to the hive, while in the case of the Africanized Honey Bees, the large majority of the colony will aid in the attack. So, even if the Africanized Honey Bees have a generally smaller colony than non-Africanized Honey Bees, they still attack in much greater numbers. One swat could earn you thousands upon thousands of attacking bees. Therefore, do not ever swat at a bee flying around your head or face, and don't swat at any insect flying around you until you have positively identified what it is, and that it is not a bee. The same holds true for bees crawling on your skin or clothes. Do not attempt to swat those bees off of your, nor try to brush them off with your arm or hand. If you really can not stand having a bee crawl on you, then the best method of getting the bee off of you with nearly no risk to triggering an attack is to blow on them. Just give them a gentle blow, and they will usually go on their way, or if they resist, just blow air out of your mouth with a greater force. I guess they must assume that it is just wind, or just natural conditions of the environment in which they live. Just don't ever swat at them . . . and if you have Africanized Honey Bees in your area, try to develop the habit of identifying every insect that flies around you before reacting with a blind swat, for doing so could be the equivalent of asking for a whole world of hurt and trouble, a request that wouldn't take much to fulfill. Only approximately 10% of honey bees will join an attack against a perceived threat to the hive Remember: one swat could equal well over a thousand bees coming for yer butt! It has been estimated that a 1,000 stings could kill a person Do you realize that Africanized Honey Bees are a manmade hybrid? Africanized honey bees were introduced into the Americas in the mid 1950's by way of Brazil. During this time, Brazil was looking for ways to improve their honey production and introduced honey bees from tropical Africa in an attempt to establish a more successful honey bee.
There is one exception to the do not turn and run rule. If you’re with someone that’s slower than you, and you don’t really care for them too much, then it’s ok to turn and run.
Lived in the sticks for years and years, walked trails at night when the moon was full, had bears in my campsite, seen rattlers fat as my arms, heard mountain lions scream at night, had wolves parallel me for a while once. The number one lesson is never run.
@@jonathannavarro9048 well usually if you run you tend to excite whatever it is that wants you, it’s just a good rule of thumb that you grab your nuts and stand your ground because if it wants to kill you it’ll do it anyway. Running will just for sure guarantee death or horrible injuries.
@@jonathannavarro9048 Why never run? Because it it is really something big enough and vicious enough to do you harm, you will only die tired. The only time it's advisable to run is when you are with someone else that you know you can outrun.
Def a blue heron. Born and raised in the Chesapeake bay. I passed out on a beach in high school (drunk) and woke up to one next to me at 4 am and it made this noise 3 ft away from me. Scared the fuck out of me lol
@@mandielou mountain lions do not sound like human women. Female foxes do and peacocks can, but not any of the big cats. I'm not sure where this got started but I've heard many of them and not once did they sound like a human woman screaming
@@kollington2380 It's a bobcat, and yes, mace is not going to stop this animal that is pure muscle. Never go out in the woods without protection, a 9mm is not going to save you. I'd recommend .45 +, if you can't stop it while it's charging at you, you're dead, even if you mortally wound it. You should "Honestly, stfu". I say that, because you won't even try to educate, you choose to be a pos responder to a troll...
@@blueskadoo1402 I am 66 years old. Don’t know what stfu stand for. Are you saying that I’m not allowed to at least have a weapon to protect myself? If that’s the case, you are pretty ignorant or high on something at the moment. No more correspondence with you. Not worth talking to because you can’t conduct a respectable conversation as a grown adult...unless I’m talking to an immature child. Don’t bother to keep this going. I don’t continue to keep conversations with people like you. I won’t open your reply to read it. Bye bye.
It's a blue heron. We have a whole colony in the back part of our property that nest in the dead oak trees. There was 23 breeding pairs last summer. Ours scream like nuts at night and I think its because a great horned owl pesters them on the nests trying to predate the chicks and eggs. I remember the first year they started nesting I would watch them in the day but never heard them scream. One day I was down by the pond kayaking and forgot my phone out there, I didn't realize till I got back and it was already dark. I started to walk out there and was about half way there when I hear this nasty screaming and screeching. Freaked the hell out of me. I ran back and ended up getting the car and driving down there, I only got out for a few seconds to quickly grab my phone but man the screaming was insane. It was terrifying and extremly loud and because there was multiple nests all being disturbed there was also multiple birds screeching at the same time. Truly terrifying when its pitch black and you have no idea what is making the sound. It sounds almost human or like some animal is being murdered but there are multiple and they just keep screaming. When I got home I searched up bob cat screams, couger screams, raccoon fighting snarls, everything I could think of and couldnt find anything that matched. The closest was a couger but still clearly was not that. That whole summer every night the screams would start and last all night. You could hear them from the house, if I left my window open while I slept some nights I would be woken at 3am by these screams. Late summer the great blue herons were done nesting and the chicks fledged, the screaming stopped but I didn't associate the two and was still clueless what could be making the screams. That winter a video popped up in my recommended, it was a video of a great horned owl attacking a great blue heron on the nest and the thing screeched like nuts. You can probably search great blue heron attacked by owl, nest cam, and find the video easily. It's been a few years now and the number of nesting pairs grows every year, they scream thorough the day too now, fighting over nesting space with eacother. And they scream even more every night. Its almost impossible to get used to but I know what it is now so it doesnt scare me anymore. Sure scares the hell out of visitors though, and I havent had any issues with trespassers during nesting season.
With the ease you wrote about the Blue Heron, just to make an explanatory comment on TH-cam. You should consider being a Writer, with Your Amazing Talent!
I love when they are in the tree above me and take flight screaming like that with a giant limb rustling above your head pre dawn before it's light out. It's just the best surprise ever
Yup, scared a couple out of a tree once. They made that sound and it was loud. Had never heard it before. The squak would have been startling and scary if I'd just been in the woods instead of in a canoe where I could see the source of the cry. Fun watching.
If its something bad you will know. Like you will get this absolutely horrible gut feeling. Its hard to describe, but its a mix of knowing something bad is about to happen, feeling watched and pure dread. I have felt it multiple times in my life and every time I did, something horrific or terrifying followed it! Always, ALWAYS trust your gut!
It's called infrasound. It can be projected through vocalizations and vibrations. Mammals such as big cat, dolphins, and elephant utilize it as active weapons. While humans can't technically hear the frequency, we can still feel. This is what triggers the fight or flight response.
@@reecerife7839 look up bear noises, they make this sound. But also, Don't challenge bears. I keep my crow call on me at all times, give a good long blowing into that, and it creates an eerie, loud scream, more help than my voice would ever be.
@@daughteroftheking5242 Either run, or play dead, depending on which bear is coming for you. Grizzly, you should play dead, or back away slowly, black bear, make yourself look very big and not worth it's time to hunt. Then run. Polar bear, loud noise.
This happened to me and my dad one time. We went to a mountain in Southern Oregon to do something, and we both heard an unexplained growl. Dad said, "what the f*** was that." I was like. NOPE, IM GOING IN THE TRUCK! It was not the wind, me and my dad didn't what was it and where it was. We were scared to look for the source of the noise. We just left when we heard it.
@NachoLibre34 we didnt know what it was, dad knew what mountain lions sound like and bears. It didnt sound like either of them. The weather was slightly windy but the sound was NOT from the wind. I was too scared to continue further. Like that day was the day we thought we were both going to die if it was a predator. But by today, we still don't know what made this unexplained sound. And we dont think it was a person making this sound to try to scare us. It could of been a species of animal that is not a bear or a mountain lion that could have made this sound to scare us away from their territory. Still, we don't know what the unknown sound was and what made this unknown noise. If me and my dad hear this noise again when go to the same area, we will do the dangerous thing to look for the source. Even if I doubt dad to not it cause there could be a BIG possibility for us both to be killed.
@Smokey Mafia That could be a possibility if it was Bigfoot, me and my dad could go back out at night to see if the noise happens again and to get a good possibility to see bigfoot, I was thinking that is a terrible idea cause we both could end up dead from anything that's not bigfoot. Me my dad will try it but there will be a chance for us both to be killed.
Google “ David Paulides” he’s a retired Detective who wrote the books as well as the Documentary “ Missing 411” about missing people from National Parks/Forests/Wooded areas. Trust me Bigfoot is real.! Also go on TH-cam and go to the channel “ Missing Persons Mysteries.”
A quiet relaxing walk in the woods is unfortunately a dangerous way to go. They say to sing or whistle as u walk to give wild life fair warning so they will clear the way.
You really do activate these indescribable senses when something bad is about to happen that you have never felt. It's like adrenaline that goes only to your legs, but enhances your mind with increased hearing when it's dead quiet.
I once heard strange noises like that near where I live. These noises were in woodland near a bread factory. I live in the UK, so there are a lot of foxes and badgers where I live, but that sound didn't sound like anything I have ever heard, almost like a cross between a feral hog and someone screaming.
Raccoons snort like a hog and scream when they're fighting. The snort is a warning followed up by the scream which is how they say " I seriously mean it."
The blue herons sound like what u think a dinasaur would sound like....my grandson thinks its a teradactyl....n we also have t rexs that talk to the teradactyls....ohhh gotta love thier imaginations....hes 3....
People might tease for running, but you know what? That's the reaction that keeps you alive. The guy who hears that and scoffs, "That's nothing! It's a northern coyote-wolf in rut marking its territory" That guy, him, they find his arms twenty feet apart, his legs another hundred feet along the trail and his head somewhere in the river. Good survival reaction.
You never run. Ever. If it's a predator they'll chase. Always. It's instinct for them. They literally live for it. Back away slowly and make yourself big. Make lots of noise.
2:33 the sound starts. It sounds monstrous, not really a scream but sounds more like a dinosaur roaring. Does not sound like a coyote or wolf, no high pitch. Its more a roar than a howl. It also sounds very large.
Sounds like a Blue Heron (which is a bird) lol fox's also make crazy noises lol pretty wild how some of the smallest/oddest animals can make such terrifying and intimidating noises.
Great Blue Heron... Had one fly over us as we were sitting on the porch watching the lake, drinking tea some years back...He flew over us, low, heading for the lake... Got our attention pretty quick! Loud and freaky! He sounded like a Terydactal (flying dinosaur)! I looked up, got excited! "It's a Blue Heron"! They're gorgeous ☺️ I love birds❤️
I was watching this. I saw that there was water nearby and when I heard the call I thought - Canadian Goose or Great Blue Heron. So I'll agree with all those saying Great Blue Heron.
Whenever I get scared out in the woods and I decide to do what you did, I swear it always feels like whatever made that sound is right behind me and is gaining... quickly. I would 110% do what you did there if heard something like that.
I have lived in the woods my entire life and never heard anything like that man and I am across the lake from you. There is stuff out there I have no doubt about it I have heard worse always around dusk or night fall and even recorded prints and made castings stay safe out there bud.
I heard a fox once, before I knew foxes made that sound. I was out in the woods at my friend's house at night, and I reacted similarly. I didn't look back though. Those things make some terrifying noises if you don't know what it was. Never felt my heart racing like that before, it felt like it was going to burst, and that I couldn't breathe.
We had a fox out back for years. He and his girl friend fox make noise like you wouldn't believe lol. He was hit by a car a few years ago. Then last night 3:30am the loud terrorizing sounds of 2 foxes in love woke everyone in the neighborhood lol. Looks like a new pair have moved in lol. All the dogs in our area went bonkers. Its like someone has gone insane and is strangling some purse dog.
When I was a kid in Costa Rica I hear a loud scream that escare me all the animals around me and my friend will never forget it it soun like in this video and I'm sure it was big foot and we run so fast back home
I go hiking quite often, when I do I use the trails least traveled. I also take an aztec death whistle and a sounding horn, just to fuck with people. It is amazing the myriad of animal noises that I create.
Shite. Becareful I've known people too get there heads blown off for doing stuff like that 😂😂 used too do the same until I had a gun held too my head at 15.
like a virgin....touched for the very first time, by birds, man. I live in the forest. don't go in if your scared of birds. You wont know how to deal with the claws and teeth part.
There are actually multiple animals that can scream like that. As someone mentioned below, various birds can scream similar to that noise like herons. Bobcats, as well as other cat species, and loons can scream in a way that's very similar to that noise. Bears can also make a screaming noise too.
@Dan - that reminds me of a story. An old Jewish guy has an ugly daughter that he can't marry off, so he goes to the rabbi for advice. The rabbi says "How ugly is she?" The old guy says "she's so ugly she looks like a herring !" and the rabbi says "What kinda herring she look like?" The old guy says "she looks like a Matjes herring !"... The rabbi says "Oy, shame ! If she looked like an Atlantic herring she'd stand a better chance !" ...
Blue Heron without a doubt. They are loud and do sound like what you would think a dinosaur would sound like. Sometimes they hang out in mating pairs in my backyard by my pond in Florida.
Hike a lot in and around the AT. Never heard any sounds that frightened me, but I have seen things that scared me enough to think twice about going back. One in particular you would not believe. Even wondered if I might be halucinating. Unfortunately I didn't have a phone or camera at the time.
Even though we never heard a Bigfoot scream during our 3 sightings, 2 of which were at our home in Connecticut, the other in nearby protected Watershed property near our campsite, I did hear an exact copy of my Father's whistle while I was in the woods one day, even though I knew he was at work. Our of the corner of my eye, I saw a dark stump where there wasn't one a few days ago. I knew I didn't want to look at it, so I just headed right back home.
The way the person was walking and filming, I got the sense that they were "waiting" for something to happen, expecting it. Also the noise reminded me of a bicycle horn. If it was an animal, I'd guess on it having been a bird.
Happened to me one time I was exploring an abandoned campground and suddenly i heard this similar scream which had frightened me and I don't know what it was? But I was scared, so I just ran out of there.
Was this filmed in Westland Michigan? I used to live there many years ago and this trail looks very familiar to me. If I recall correctly, there would have been an entrance to this park and trail on Cowan road. The trail ran behind an apartment complex at the end of Cowan. Does anyone else recognize this area? Please send a response soon. I'd really like to know.
Blue Heron or Sandhill Crane all day long. In the River it’s no question! Years of fishing with them on main lake points or on downed trees in the river I know that sound anywhere. It is a menacing sound for anyone not used to or expecting it.
@@Pelgram A Crawler is an alien, likely from the moon Titan, that has gray skin, is around 8 feet tall, and crawls on all fours except when standing still. They live mainly in sewer tunnels and forests, but sometimes are seen around houses. They look like pure human fear, but they will not attack unless provoked. Unusual ways to provoke them may include: traveling in a group of more than 2, and cornering them. They are only curious and have been known to befriend humans. They eat small rodents and mammals, including chickens, rats, and rarely (very rarely) humans. They are as likely to eat humans as we are to eat horses. I’ve been studying them for months, and I can send u some links to internet videos of them. They are NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH “Skinwalkers”, who are Mojavo Medicine Men, Native Americans. Thank u for ur interests. I have some links if u want them
@@Endermaster200 good stuff. Send me the links please. I believe I've seen them in a urbex hill video. You seem well informed. What other paranormal phenomena do you study
I've lived on the edge of 2 different cities in the Midwest and I mean the edge... anyways both places I've heard this type of thing either sitting outside or with the window open, I've even seen the creature that makes it. My mom heard it with me once, she just said it was a neighborhood cat getting eaten, to comfort me. Really changes my perspective on modern society, and makes me feel like I was born 1000 years ago. I feel like a viking warrior defending my house from a dragon, all the time. Once at night I hear a disembodied ladies scream, but the second time I heard it it just didn't sound human, sounded more like a lure... probably 100 yards from where I live currently. I think I'm slowly figuring out where and why they are in the woods, I don't think they want to hurt people... but they definitely don't sound or look very much like a cute little forest critter like a bunny
This is the case when fast and reasonable decision-making of the Hollywood type instantly disappears in consciousness, when the creepy becomes something more realistic and close, and even more so when you are alone in the wilderness and different thoughts make you tremble, which means that now is the time to run away... Your soul screams: run now...
I used to do a lot of riverside camping. Sounds like it might be a Heron bird. I think the largest Heron in North America is the Great Blue Heron or something like that. Correct name might be Grey Heron as well. I don’t remember. However those Heron’s make the devils own sounds. Especially cool when one flys just above the water at night and let’s loose one of those crazy squawks.
If i were on that trail and heard that, i wouldn't have thought twice about it, it wouldve been nothing to me, i know exactly what it is. I have heard it several times before. Its only scary if you have no idea what it is.
This bobcat call is one often described as sounding like a woman screaming or moaning in agony. It's not often heard by humans, but trust me, if you hear it, you probably won't disregard it. Hear the bobcat's wail and you may or may not recognize it for what it is. Regardless, it will capture your attention.Jan 12, 2019
Yeah, to a predator nothing says, “attack” like potential prey running away. Instincts kick in and they will chase you. But hey, you made it to the clearing and that is the “magical boundary” where whatever it is that may chase you will stop. You see it in the movies all the time, right?! LOL
We have blue heron here in KY, they sometimes make a sound similar when frightened, pooping as they fly away from you. I know sounds silly, hunting squirrel by the river, i have seen them do it.
Reminds me of the time i was hiking through the woods and something was rustling through a bush near me. scary experience for someone who doesn't usually go into the woods
What ever was screaming I would be smart and try to get out the quiet way because he has already gave away his position he is lucky he wasn’t lost in the middle of the forest
Definitely a heron I was fishing once at night my boat drifted up in some bushes where one was standing on a stump. When screeched and spread wings it looked seven foot tall cause of the stump near shit myself.
Quick tip for a situation like this that I learned while in Civil Air Patrol: Do not turn and run from something like this, that is the exact behavior a prey animal will follow, which leads to the other animal chasing you from instinct. Do not turn around to run, but instead slowly back away while still facing the sound or animal. If this is at night, keep the light you have with you shining in their eyes or the direction the sound came from so they cannot see you well, if at all, and do not panic. Situations like this are completely a psychological game. Don't make it a game of chase. Those creatures literally live for something like that, so your chances of surviving are slim if it becomes that. It should only be a very, very last resort, if you have to resort to that at all.
very good tip. luckily this sound is probably like a badger so he was safe around it
Good advice! If you ever encounter a wild predator, under no circumstances should you turn your back to it, and never run! Maintain eye contact, do not look away, and then begin to slowly back up without making any sudden movements, for sudden movement may surprise the animal, like a jump scare, and may cause an attack. Turning your back to the predator, or turning away from the creature, or even breaking eye contact may also lead to an attack. Yet, the most important thing not to do is run!!! Trying to run away, like shimo_96 mentioned, will trigger the animal's natural instinct to view such behavior as that of prey, and a chase will commence, a chase you are not likely to win!
Also, do not crouch down nor bend over! Biologists surmise mountain lions (and other predators) don't recognize standing humans as prey, while bending over, or crouching not only makes you appear smaller, and less intimidating, but also makes you resemble four-legged prey! The larger your appearance, the greater the chance of the predator leaving you alone.
If an attack seems imminent, lift your arms as high as you can, and spread them apart wide to make yourself appear as large as possible. If you can manage to grab some branches without looking away (breaking eye contact), and without crouching or bending over, do it, for these items can make you look even larger. If you are certain that an attack is imminent and the mountain lion, or other predator, moves in your direction or acts aggressively, then do everything in your power to appear intimidating! Raise your arms, with or without sticks, or branches, to appear as large as possible. If you are wearing a jacket, open it to make your body appear wider. Wave your arms slowly, and speak in a loud voice.
If this doesn't scare the predator off, then (at least in the case of a mountain lion) without crouching, or turning your back, or breaking eye contact start throwing stones, branches, or whatever is available to you, towards the mountain lion. You don't want to aim for the animal, but instead aim for the ground directly in front of the predator as if these were warning shots. You don't want to injure the mountain lion, but you want to make it abundantly clear to the predator that you can defend yourself, and potentially hurt it. If these actions still fail to deter the predator, then begin throwing things at it with the intent of hitting it, but aim for its body, and not its head, for if you injure one of its eyes, then that predator will pose a greater risk to future visitors. Remain as large as possible in appearance, and attempt to be as intimidating as possible, continue talking in a monotone loud voice, but do not scream. Screaming may sound similar to one of their prey.
Try to read the animal's body language. If a mountain lion is less than 50 yards away, and their ears are back, and their eyes fixed on you, then an attack is highly likely to occur, and you should be preparing to use anything nearby as a weapon. Maintain eye contact, and stay as calm as possible. Do not play dead!
If an attack does occur, do not cower and cover yourself up, fight back and try to stay standing. There are plenty of examples of people surviving a mountain lion attack by fighting back with whatever they had available to them: one man used a rock to fend off a mountain lion that was attacking his son, while others have used sticks, caps, jackets, garden tools, and even their bare hands. Because a mountain lion usually tries to bite the head or neck, try to remain standing, and face the attacking predator. Further, should you have a backpack, you can position it to serve as body armor, or a shield.
One other piece of advice I would like to give regards behavior to avoid, behavior which I have witness too many times performed in my presence. This concerns Africanized Honey Bees, and the natural reaction humans have to swat at insects that are either flying around one's face, or have landed upon the person.
Swatting at any bee can trigger an attack, and it only takes one bee to decide to attack, and release its alarm pheromones, thereby alerting, and calling, other bees of the colony to come help defend some perceived threat to the hive, to initiate a swarm attack on yourself. A single swat at a bee, could potentially call thousands of bees to attack!
100% of all the honey bees in my state have been "Africanized", you know, those Killer Bees! Africanized Honey Bees have entered my state, and managed to spread their genetics into all local colonies by way of hybridization a fancy term for interbreeding.
The bees have been nicknamed "killer bees", not because they are more venomous than regular honey bees, actually, they are slightly less venomous. Ever heard of the concept of death by a thousand paper cuts? Same concept with killer bees, for their behavior includes being more aggressive in defending their hive. In other words, they will decide to attack much sooner than a regular honey bee would because it takes less of a perceived threat to trigger an attack. Couple this behavior with their willingness to give a pursuit for longer than regular honey bees, both in duration and in distance, and you have a hybrid of bees that are perceived to be deadlier because of their aggressive nature, and determination.
Adding to the reasons for why Africanized Honey Bees have earned the moniker of being Killer Bees is the fact that when they attack, a greater number of bees aid in the attack than the number of honey bees that attack. This aggression and determination may be applied to multiple targets simultaneously, meaning they will target more than one person at a time!
It is the sheer number of attacking bees that make Africanized Honey Bees deadlier than European Honey Bees. I couldn't find any consistent numbers concerning average population of Apis mellifera lingustica, or Italian Honey Bees, one of the most common in the U.S., nor could I find any consensus regarding the number, or the percentage, of a hive's population that will join an attack. Some sources of information alluded that Africanized Honey Bees had larger colonies, while other sources stated just the opposite. I guess there is solid logic to place more faith in a statement being true than one that is merely hinted at, without ever stating as a fact. So, even with the assumption that Italian Honey Bees have significantly larger colonies than that of the Africanized Honey Bees, the aggressive behavior with the sheer number of attacking bees is what makes them "deadlier". I saw estimates stating that with the Italian Honey Bees, only around 10% of the colony will join forces to attack a perceived threat to the hive, while in the case of the Africanized Honey Bees, the large majority of the colony will aid in the attack. So, even if the Africanized Honey Bees have a generally smaller colony than non-Africanized Honey Bees, they still attack in much greater numbers. One swat could earn you thousands upon thousands of attacking bees.
Therefore, do not ever swat at a bee flying around your head or face, and don't swat at any insect flying around you until you have positively identified what it is, and that it is not a bee. The same holds true for bees crawling on your skin or clothes. Do not attempt to swat those bees off of your, nor try to brush them off with your arm or hand. If you really can not stand having a bee crawl on you, then the best method of getting the bee off of you with nearly no risk to triggering an attack is to blow on them. Just give them a gentle blow, and they will usually go on their way, or if they resist, just blow air out of your mouth with a greater force. I guess they must assume that it is just wind, or just natural conditions of the environment in which they live. Just don't ever swat at them . . . and if you have Africanized Honey Bees in your area, try to develop the habit of identifying every insect that flies around you before reacting with a blind swat, for doing so could be the equivalent of asking for a whole world of hurt and trouble, a request that wouldn't take much to fulfill.
Only approximately 10% of honey bees will join an attack against a perceived threat to the hive
Remember: one swat could equal well over a thousand bees coming for yer butt! It has been estimated that a 1,000 stings could kill a person
Do you realize that Africanized Honey Bees are a manmade hybrid? Africanized honey bees were introduced into the Americas in the mid 1950's by way of Brazil. During this time, Brazil was looking for ways to improve their honey production and introduced honey bees from tropical Africa in an attempt to establish a more successful honey bee.
There is one exception to the do not turn and run rule. If you’re with someone that’s slower than you, and you don’t really care for them too much, then it’s ok to turn and run.
And if you are going to run, make sure you are with someone who is slower than you, slightly slower is enough
Remember, if something in the woods screams, be polite, scream back.
Yass!😂
I tried that. It didn't work. The scream just got louder, angrier and creepier.
@@wrestlingfan4ever76 ooopp😳
@@wrestlingfan4ever76 yodel
Then something comes rushing out a bush at you!!
Mans was running while holding a camera and it still looked better then the people that record fights
LMFAOOO yes!
The people that record fights have low IQ, as do the people fighting.
and UFO's
Or sasquatch lol
Lmmfao
I know that sound all to well. However I had no idea my mother in law spends time in rural Michigan
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I laughed way too hard at this
Lmaooo mean as hell 🤣😂
Haha based
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2:33 you're welcome
Yea how many years till you go back to the woods
@@PhotosByPhoenix how was it?
@@PhotosByPhoenix RUN Pheonix RUN
Deer 🦌
Thanks homie.
Imagine if animals start learning that making scary loud noises can scare humans away.
Love this lmao
They do check out a jaguar scream
I don't have to imagine
I mean, people hunt cougar and lions
@@tydalrave2333 fake, there's a link in the comments to a Halloween soundboard with the sound on it
This guy knew that the camera man always survives
Erm...not if you’re in Blair Witch Project 😂
@@H.J.G *brings the cross with me*
@@joshuaisbored2449 😂😂
@@H.J.G im always prepared i legit have a cross in my room
@@H.J.G isnt that fake lol
Lived in the sticks for years and years, walked trails at night when the moon was full, had bears in my campsite, seen rattlers fat as my arms, heard mountain lions scream at night, had wolves parallel me for a while once. The number one lesson is never run.
Yeah, if you wanna die
Good advice
Why
@@jonathannavarro9048 well usually if you run you tend to excite whatever it is that wants you, it’s just a good rule of thumb that you grab your nuts and stand your ground because if it wants to kill you it’ll do it anyway. Running will just for sure guarantee death or horrible injuries.
@@jonathannavarro9048 Why never run? Because it it is really something big enough and vicious enough to do you harm, you will only die tired. The only time it's advisable to run is when you are with someone else that you know you can outrun.
Blue Heron makes a disturbing loud dinosaur like noise when startled , and one would never guess that noise would come from a bird !
Blue herons also known as duckling eater
Def a blue heron. Born and raised in the Chesapeake bay. I passed out on a beach in high school (drunk) and woke up to one next to me at 4 am and it made this noise 3 ft away from me. Scared the fuck out of me lol
Female foxes in heat scream and they sound exactly like a human woman screaming!
@@beverlybarnes3122 so do mountain lions. Have a gun at all times in the woods in Michigan.
@@mandielou mountain lions do not sound like human women. Female foxes do and peacocks can, but not any of the big cats. I'm not sure where this got started but I've heard many of them and not once did they sound like a human woman screaming
This is why you should never go through places like these alone-without a weapon!
MERICA
@@stewpidgrumpycat Honestly, stfu
@@kollington2380 It's a bobcat, and yes, mace is not going to stop this animal that is pure muscle. Never go out in the woods without protection, a 9mm is not going to save you. I'd recommend .45 +, if you can't stop it while it's charging at you, you're dead, even if you mortally wound it. You should "Honestly, stfu". I say that, because you won't even try to educate, you choose to be a pos responder to a troll...
@20jeep you're the exact type read about that ends up shat out of a bear as scat.
@@blueskadoo1402 I am 66 years old. Don’t know what stfu stand for. Are you saying that I’m not allowed to at least have a weapon to protect myself? If that’s the case, you are pretty ignorant or high on something at the moment. No more correspondence with you. Not worth talking to because you can’t conduct a respectable conversation as a grown adult...unless I’m talking to an immature child. Don’t bother to keep this going. I don’t continue to keep conversations with people like you. I won’t open your reply to read it. Bye bye.
It's a blue heron. We have a whole colony in the back part of our property that nest in the dead oak trees. There was 23 breeding pairs last summer. Ours scream like nuts at night and I think its because a great horned owl pesters them on the nests trying to predate the chicks and eggs. I remember the first year they started nesting I would watch them in the day but never heard them scream. One day I was down by the pond kayaking and forgot my phone out there, I didn't realize till I got back and it was already dark. I started to walk out there and was about half way there when I hear this nasty screaming and screeching. Freaked the hell out of me. I ran back and ended up getting the car and driving down there, I only got out for a few seconds to quickly grab my phone but man the screaming was insane. It was terrifying and extremly loud and because there was multiple nests all being disturbed there was also multiple birds screeching at the same time. Truly terrifying when its pitch black and you have no idea what is making the sound. It sounds almost human or like some animal is being murdered but there are multiple and they just keep screaming.
When I got home I searched up bob cat screams, couger screams, raccoon fighting snarls, everything I could think of and couldnt find anything that matched. The closest was a couger but still clearly was not that. That whole summer every night the screams would start and last all night. You could hear them from the house, if I left my window open while I slept some nights I would be woken at 3am by these screams. Late summer the great blue herons were done nesting and the chicks fledged, the screaming stopped but I didn't associate the two and was still clueless what could be making the screams. That winter a video popped up in my recommended, it was a video of a great horned owl attacking a great blue heron on the nest and the thing screeched like nuts. You can probably search great blue heron attacked by owl, nest cam, and find the video easily. It's been a few years now and the number of nesting pairs grows every year, they scream thorough the day too now, fighting over nesting space with eacother. And they scream even more every night. Its almost impossible to get used to but I know what it is now so it doesnt scare me anymore. Sure scares the hell out of visitors though, and I havent had any issues with trespassers during nesting season.
With the ease you wrote about the Blue Heron, just to make an explanatory comment on TH-cam. You should consider being a Writer, with Your Amazing Talent!
I thought the same thing...it's nothing to run from. It's a bird and not gonna hurt you!!
@@miemartine2216 could just be copy paste from google lol
@@Universal_Snowy. Could just be, you live in a fantasy world. And don't know anything, about nature or the real world. 🤪
@@miemartine2216 wtf 😂
"What a lovely day. The sun is shining an- aight time to go home."
“I know, awful isn’t it?” - Woodman
Lol. Yep. Blue Herron. Have heard hundreds of them.
Exactly what I was gonna say.
I love when they are in the tree above me and take flight screaming like that with a giant limb rustling above your head pre dawn before it's light out. It's just the best surprise ever
He heard a Herron so “he ran”
Yup, scared a couple out of a tree once. They made that sound and it was loud. Had never heard it before. The squak would have been startling and scary if I'd just been in the woods instead of in a canoe where I could see the source of the cry. Fun watching.
I like how you can tell he was terrified because of how he just froze in place and proceeded to back away and then sprint the opposite direction
If its something bad you will know. Like you will get this absolutely horrible gut feeling. Its hard to describe, but its a mix of knowing something bad is about to happen, feeling watched and pure dread. I have felt it multiple times in my life and every time I did, something horrific or terrifying followed it!
Always, ALWAYS trust your gut!
It's called infrasound. It can be projected through vocalizations and vibrations. Mammals such as big cat, dolphins, and elephant utilize it as active weapons. While humans can't technically hear the frequency, we can still feel. This is what triggers the fight or flight response.
2:33 "I almost dropped my croissant!"
"I dropped my hot pocket."
Congrats 100 likes. And poor hot pocket🍕🍕
Edit:101 that's me
It’s sad you lost your hot pocket and everything like that.
Lol..i literally just seen that video yesterday
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Yeh, I’m not trying to get “disappeared” either. Looked like a damn good spot to get snake bit as well.
He’s a runner he’s a track star 😍
Woah
no
He's smart, he's gonna go far
Like out of the woods back home because he didn't die investigating the weird demon noise.
If he was even an Olympian runner and that was a mountain lion scream, that would have been his very last competitive race.
Whenever you hear noises like that make a loud chuffing noise..larger animals make this noise and a lot of times it will scare a predator away
Chuffing sound?
@@reecerife7839 look up bear noises, they make this sound. But also, Don't challenge bears. I keep my crow call on me at all times, give a good long blowing into that, and it creates an eerie, loud scream, more help than my voice would ever be.
What about the other times?🤔
@@daughteroftheking5242 Either run, or play dead, depending on which bear is coming for you. Grizzly, you should play dead, or back away slowly, black bear, make yourself look very big and not worth it's time to hunt. Then run. Polar bear, loud noise.
@@ShatteredLament polar bear? You're dead
The most frightening sound that you would ever hear way out in the woods.....banjo music playing in the distance...
This happened to me and my dad one time. We went to a mountain in Southern Oregon to do something, and we both heard an unexplained growl. Dad said, "what the f*** was that." I was like. NOPE, IM GOING IN THE TRUCK! It was not the wind, me and my dad didn't what was it and where it was. We were scared to look for the source of the noise. We just left when we heard it.
@NachoLibre34 we didnt know what it was, dad knew what mountain lions sound like and bears. It didnt sound like either of them. The weather was slightly windy but the sound was NOT from the wind. I was too scared to continue further. Like that day was the day we thought we were both going to die if it was a predator. But by today, we still don't know what made this unexplained sound. And we dont think it was a person making this sound to try to scare us. It could of been a species of animal that is not a bear or a mountain lion that could have made this sound to scare us away from their territory. Still, we don't know what the unknown sound was and what made this unknown noise. If me and my dad hear this noise again when go to the same area, we will do the dangerous thing to look for the source. Even if I doubt dad to not it cause there could be a BIG possibility for us both to be killed.
@Smokey Mafia That could be a possibility if it was Bigfoot, me and my dad could go back out at night to see if the noise happens again and to get a good possibility to see bigfoot, I was thinking that is a terrible idea cause we both could end up dead from anything that's not bigfoot. Me my dad will try it but there will be a chance for us both to be killed.
Google “ David Paulides” he’s a retired Detective who wrote the books as well as the Documentary “ Missing 411” about missing people from National Parks/Forests/Wooded areas. Trust me Bigfoot is real.! Also go on TH-cam and go to the channel “ Missing Persons Mysteries.”
We all know what is in Oregon but they also have them here in Utah. My experiences were in Central Pennsylvania and one almost killed me.
@@LoweringMyProfile you trippin with your believes 😂
Very soothing walking and relaxing forest sounds
It did sound like a heron a little
A quiet relaxing walk in the woods is unfortunately a dangerous way to go. They say to sing or whistle as u walk to give wild life fair warning so they will clear the way.
It might be a cougar or a bobcat/lynx or different
You really do activate these indescribable senses when something bad is about to happen that you have never felt. It's like adrenaline that goes only to your legs, but enhances your mind with increased hearing when it's dead quiet.
Yeah
Couldn't have said it better myself.
"YOU AIN'T FROM MICHIGAN IF YOU'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE"
What ? Walk alone in the woods ? That’s normal over there?
@@jaimeperez8702
I walk alone in the woods all the time.
PEACE from Southwest Michigan!!!
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I once heard strange noises like that near where I live. These noises were in woodland near a bread factory. I live in the UK, so there are a lot of foxes and badgers where I live, but that sound didn't sound like anything I have ever heard, almost like a cross between a feral hog and someone screaming.
Nope not a fox i heard foxes all summer. Who knows what that was.
Bobcats make lot's of odd noises.
Raccoons snort like a hog and scream when they're fighting.
The snort is a warning followed up by the scream which is how they say " I seriously mean it."
I also live in the UK. Deer can make some very strange noises.
Great Blue Heron: Hey George, I just got another one. Should have seen him run. Oh well, back to fishing.
What's it does ng in the middle of the forest don't they hang out around water?
@@gnonymouse
There WAS water. When he looked to the right, just before he heard the sound.
I just looked up the call of a GBH and that's exactly it.
The blue herons sound like what u think a dinasaur would sound like....my grandson thinks its a teradactyl....n we also have t rexs that talk to the teradactyls....ohhh gotta love thier imaginations....hes 3....
People might tease for running, but you know what? That's the reaction that keeps you alive.
The guy who hears that and scoffs, "That's nothing! It's a northern coyote-wolf in rut marking its territory"
That guy, him, they find his arms twenty feet apart, his legs another hundred feet along the trail and his head somewhere in the river.
Good survival reaction.
You never run. Ever. If it's a predator they'll chase. Always. It's instinct for them. They literally live for it. Back away slowly and make yourself big. Make lots of noise.
I cant imagine how hard his heart was beating after that scream
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2:33 the sound starts. It sounds monstrous, not really a scream but sounds more like a dinosaur roaring. Does not sound like a coyote or wolf, no high pitch. Its more a roar than a howl. It also sounds very large.
Sounds like a Blue Heron (which is a bird) lol fox's also make crazy noises lol pretty wild how some of the smallest/oddest animals can make such terrifying and intimidating noises.
Imagine that happening in the Dark 👀
Great Blue Heron...
Had one fly over us as we were sitting on the porch watching the lake, drinking tea some years back...He flew over us, low, heading for the lake... Got our attention pretty quick!
Loud and freaky!
He sounded like a
Terydactal (flying dinosaur)! I looked up, got excited!
"It's a Blue Heron"!
They're gorgeous ☺️
I love birds❤️
*pterodactyl
The moment that your mind start imagine thing is the moment that you start to run
I was watching this. I saw that there was water nearby and when I heard the call I thought - Canadian Goose or Great Blue Heron. So I'll agree with all those saying Great Blue Heron.
I swear that sounds just like my wife when she gets out of bed every morning 😂
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@@PhotosByPhoenix 🤣
Thank you so much man. I needed this clip for a school project and ive been searching everywhere for a man running away in the woods🙏🙏
Bet bro. Use it as you will.
plot twist: knowing how me and my friends get sometimes when we go out it’s probably some crackhead kids screaming lmao 😂
You buddy just got 100 likes (ps your wecolm)
Whenever I get scared out in the woods and I decide to do what you did, I swear it always feels like whatever made that sound is right behind me and is gaining... quickly. I would 110% do what you did there if heard something like that.
That's called survival instinct my friend
Definitely sounded like a blue heron, we have lots of them around my place and they NEVER fail to startle me when they do that 😳
That sounds like a great blue heron. First time I heard one it blew my mind.
This guy had the same reaction that I would have had
I’m gonna say that was probably a Blue Heron calling for a mate. They sound like the most terrifying demon bird ever
2:22 do deers really make those sounds? I'm not familiar with these creatures...
Deers do scream but not like this.
I have lived in the woods my entire life and never heard anything like that man and I am across the lake from you. There is stuff out there I have no doubt about it I have heard worse always around dusk or night fall and even recorded prints and made castings stay safe out there bud.
It sounds like a bird. I hear this type of stuff in Michigan all the time. Especially by water. Could be a heron.
I heard a fox once, before I knew foxes made that sound. I was out in the woods at my friend's house at night, and I reacted similarly. I didn't look back though. Those things make some terrifying noises if you don't know what it was. Never felt my heart racing like that before, it felt like it was going to burst, and that I couldn't breathe.
Where I live there are loads of foxes they make a awful screaming sound sounds like someone’s being murdered
We had a fox out back for years. He and his girl friend fox make noise like you wouldn't believe lol. He was hit by a car a few years ago.
Then last night 3:30am the loud terrorizing sounds of 2 foxes in love woke everyone in the neighborhood lol.
Looks like a new pair have moved in lol.
All the dogs in our area went bonkers.
Its like someone has gone insane and is strangling some purse dog.
It was a Great Blue Heron...very cool birds with a terrifying scream!
When I was a kid in Costa Rica I hear a loud scream that escare me all the animals around me and my friend will never forget it it soun like in this video and I'm sure it was big foot and we run so fast back home
Alright two things
1: those are some smooth ass frames
2: ...
You went zoom zoom mode after that scream
Things that might be the scream:
Fox in heat,
A deer,
A bird
(It might have been a white-tailed deer warning call.)
2:44 what do you call a bear with no teeth a gummy bear
Something screaming:slaps tree branch ahh ahh ahhh
Sounds like a mountain lion. We hear them in the distance where we live quite often. You did the right thing by heading back
A large water bird, like a stork, crane, heron, swan..somesuch, most likely.
No it was a fox
Disgruntal beaver
@@jonjon3719 Discombobulated Bobcat.
This is how you know the video is authentic cuz the camera man bounces! Wise choice my friend & Chills brought me here. Much ❤️ from Boston
I go hiking quite often, when I do I use the trails least traveled. I also take an aztec death whistle and a sounding horn, just to fuck with people. It is amazing the myriad of animal noises that I create.
Shite. Becareful I've known people too get there heads blown off for doing stuff like that 😂😂 used too do the same until I had a gun held too my head at 15.
@@cod_casey_yt5744 so your not gonna give any backstory at all
@@wrestlinghe2638 nope. No need that was years ago.
I hope you're not allergic to poison ivy or velociraptors. 😆
This guy is like, he never been in the fores before. He's like.
First time in the wild.
like a virgin....touched for the very first time, by birds, man. I live in the forest. don't go in if your scared of birds. You wont know how to deal with the claws and teeth part.
There are actually multiple animals that can scream like that. As someone mentioned below, various birds can scream similar to that noise like herons. Bobcats, as well as other cat species, and loons can scream in a way that's very similar to that noise. Bears can also make a screaming noise too.
That sounded like a Herring. The long neck birds. They make a sound like that when you get to close
More likely a Heron, not a fish.
@@faustusTVR maybe it was just a loud ass fish lol
@@PhotosByPhoenix fish go brrrrrr
All good Dan. I knew what you meant ❤
@Dan - that reminds me of a story. An old Jewish guy has an ugly daughter that he can't marry off, so he goes to the rabbi for advice. The rabbi says "How ugly is she?" The old guy says "she's so ugly she looks like a herring !" and the rabbi says "What kinda herring she look like?" The old guy says "she looks like a Matjes herring !"...
The rabbi says "Oy, shame ! If she looked like an Atlantic herring she'd stand a better chance !" ...
Blue Heron without a doubt. They are loud and do sound like what you would think a dinosaur would sound like. Sometimes they hang out in mating pairs in my backyard by my pond in Florida.
Hike a lot in and around the AT. Never heard any sounds that frightened me, but I have seen things that scared me enough to think twice about going back. One in particular you would not believe. Even wondered if I might be halucinating. Unfortunately I didn't have a phone or camera at the time.
What was it
Even though we never heard a Bigfoot scream during our 3 sightings, 2 of which were at our home in Connecticut, the other in nearby protected Watershed property near our campsite, I did hear an exact copy of my Father's whistle while I was in the woods one day, even though I knew he was at work. Our of the corner of my eye, I saw a dark stump where there wasn't one a few days ago. I knew I didn't want to look at it, so I just headed right back home.
that was just someone who saw their electric bill. 🚴♂
The way the person was walking and filming, I got the sense that they were "waiting" for something to happen, expecting it. Also the noise reminded me of a bicycle horn. If it was an animal, I'd guess on it having been a bird.
That little pause he took before turning back was for critical thinking 🤣
Happened to me one time
I was exploring an abandoned campground and suddenly i heard this similar scream which had frightened me and I don't know what it was? But I was scared, so I just ran out of there.
It doesn't matter how out shape someone can be when they hear something they can't identify they gain speed they didn't know they had
What is the bird call starting about 1:10 ?
The moral of the story is to don't go deep on the trails.
Was this filmed in Westland Michigan? I used to live there many years ago and this trail looks very familiar to me. If I recall correctly, there would have been an entrance to this park and trail on Cowan road. The trail ran behind an apartment complex at the end of Cowan. Does anyone else recognize this area? Please send a response soon. I'd really like to know.
Blue Heron or Sandhill Crane all day long. In the River it’s no question! Years of fishing with them on main lake points or on downed trees in the river I know that sound anywhere. It is a menacing sound for anyone not used to or expecting it.
That’s clearly a Crawler. Very clearly. Good thing you ran away. They’re real.
What's a crawler?
@@Pelgram A Crawler is an alien, likely from the moon Titan, that has gray skin, is around 8 feet tall, and crawls on all fours except when standing still. They live mainly in sewer tunnels and forests, but sometimes are seen around houses. They look like pure human fear, but they will not attack unless provoked. Unusual ways to provoke them may include: traveling in a group of more than 2, and cornering them. They are only curious and have been known to befriend humans. They eat small rodents and mammals, including chickens, rats, and rarely (very rarely) humans. They are as likely to eat humans as we are to eat horses. I’ve been studying them for months, and I can send u some links to internet videos of them. They are NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH “Skinwalkers”, who are Mojavo Medicine Men, Native Americans. Thank u for ur interests. I have some links if u want them
@@Endermaster200 good stuff. Send me the links please. I believe I've seen them in a urbex hill video. You seem well informed. What other paranormal phenomena do you study
@@Pelgram Arl working on it rn
Im literally CRACKING the f up dude. The way he took like 2 steps back and was like, na this aint fast enough.
Heard 1 scream an dipped, finally a smart man
I've lived on the edge of 2 different cities in the Midwest and I mean the edge... anyways both places I've heard this type of thing either sitting outside or with the window open, I've even seen the creature that makes it. My mom heard it with me once, she just said it was a neighborhood cat getting eaten, to comfort me.
Really changes my perspective on modern society, and makes me feel like I was born 1000 years ago. I feel like a viking warrior defending my house from a dragon, all the time. Once at night I hear a disembodied ladies scream, but the second time I heard it it just didn't sound human, sounded more like a lure... probably 100 yards from where I live currently.
I think I'm slowly figuring out where and why they are in the woods, I don't think they want to hurt people... but they definitely don't sound or look very much like a cute little forest critter like a bunny
This is the case when fast and reasonable decision-making of the Hollywood type instantly disappears in consciousness, when the creepy becomes something more realistic and close, and even more so when you are alone in the wilderness and different thoughts make you tremble, which means that now is the time to run away... Your soul screams: run now...
Video starts at 2:32
Thanks
i mean i'd be scared too if i also heard someone from pennsylvania whisper like that
I used to do a lot of riverside camping. Sounds like it might be a Heron bird. I think the largest Heron in North America is the Great Blue Heron or something like that. Correct name might be Grey Heron as well. I don’t remember. However those Heron’s make the devils own sounds. Especially cool when one flys just above the water at night and let’s loose one of those crazy squawks.
Save yourself a lot of time…first noise is at 2:34 or so…the rest is a camera moving down a trail😳🥸
Perhaps an elephant never heard that sound come out of a squash, but I would of run to. Michigan
If i were on that trail and heard that, i wouldn't have thought twice about it, it wouldve been nothing to me, i know exactly what it is. I have heard it several times before. Its only scary if you have no idea what it is.
Man! I don't know what that was in the woods but I would have done the same thing lol.
This bobcat call is one often described as sounding like a woman screaming or moaning in agony. It's not often heard by humans, but trust me, if you hear it, you probably won't disregard it. Hear the bobcat's wail and you may or may not recognize it for what it is. Regardless, it will capture your attention.Jan 12, 2019
Yeah, to a predator nothing says, “attack” like potential prey running away. Instincts kick in and they will chase you. But hey, you made it to the clearing and that is the “magical boundary” where whatever it is that may chase you will stop. You see it in the movies all the time, right?! LOL
I like how he just casually glances at the only thing worth seeing, a 500 year old tree.
Lol must've been good Weed, that was a Bird that made that noise.
We have blue heron here in KY, they sometimes make a sound similar when frightened, pooping as they fly away from you. I know sounds silly, hunting squirrel by the river, i have seen them do it.
Reminds me of the time i was hiking through the woods and something was rustling through a bush near me. scary experience for someone who doesn't usually go into the woods
Great Blue heron sends you a runnin...Too bad you never experienced this at night like I have...
that more than likely sounds like a bear cub being attacked.
Ok.... it's 2:14 and we're still just lumbering through the woods.... crapola like this is why the internet is slow.
What ever was screaming I would be smart and try to get out the quiet way because he has already gave away his position he is lucky he wasn’t lost in the middle of the forest
@@PhotosByPhoenix your right but I would be quiet u don’t want to what ever was screaming to know u where their
I wouldn’t know how to analyze this for authenticity, but my gosh, I’ve heard this in some other Sasquatch videos. What did you think it is?
We here in Arizona never run away like that. You know why? Because we're allowed concealed carry without a permit. ;-)
Don't need a permit in a national forest (if this is where it was filmed).
@@TheAngryFishh Former Michigander now living in AZ. Mich is FILLED with woods, forests, lakes, streams. Amazing state and well armed.
Definitely a heron I was fishing once at night my boat drifted up in some bushes where one was standing on a stump. When screeched and spread wings it looked seven foot tall cause of the stump near shit myself.
Wendigo mating season seems to be going well.
😂
Sounded like a bloody dinosaur!
I live in Michigan (an upscale sub of Detroit) and I'm surrounded by woods and I've never heard anything like that!
Its the wailing of the banshee
You just got scared by a great blue heron.
It has a similarity to several things together. Who the hell knows. All speculation since we didn’t see it. Good video.. Idda ran too!!
I’m hearing that sound constantly non stop right now in nsw Australia. I live in a caravan park and it’s dark 😮
Only those who dare to go beyond the boundary find out just how far it goes.