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Me, my mother, mother-in-law, and my wife and three year old son were sitting on a screened porch on the back of our cabin talking after the long drive up from the Twin Cities. My in-laws built this cabin about three years ago and we've spend many evenings out on the porch listening to the sounds of the forest.
At about 9:00, during a pause in our conversation, we heard what sounded like a whistling call in the woods adjacent to the cabin. Approximately six up-down sets of notes (hard to describe a whistle in writing!). My mother-in-law, a devout bigfoot skeptic, was the first to comment that it was a sound she had never heard before and one that did not sound like a bird. She's usually quite observant of the local wildlife and keeps several books around the cabin to help identify new birds, etc. Her exact words were that it sounded more like a person than a bird. We sat quietly for a moment and heard it again. It sounded fairly close, but exactly how close would be impossible to say. It didn't sound as far away as the road (approximately 150 feet) or the neighbor’s cabin (approximately 250 feet). After the second call, we were commenting on how unusual it was and not at all bird-like when I heard a return call in the distance. The return call was identical to the closer version, but was perhaps a bit shorter (maybe only four up-down sets of notes). After discussing it later, I found out my wife also heard the return call. After a short while, we heard the whistle for a third and final time with no return call I could identify.
None of us have ever heard the whistle call before nor did we hear it again the following two nights we were at the cabin. We speculated that the whistling could have been the neighbor calling his dog in, but we later found out he was not home that weekend.
The following night was unusually quiet. We didn't hear any noises whatsoever, even from the wetlands to our east. Usually, we can hear ducks, loons, frogs, crickets, etc. We all commented on the unusual quietness of that night.
Also, our dogs were unusually reluctant to go on walks for the remainder of the weekend. Especially the older one who had to be dragged off the front porch and who continuously pulled back in the direction of the cabin.
At about 9:00, during a pause in our conversation, we heard what sounded like a whistling call in the woods adjacent to the cabin. Approximately six up-down sets of notes (hard to describe a whistle in writing!). My mother-in-law, a devout bigfoot skeptic, was the first to comment that it was a sound she had never heard before and one that did not sound like a bird. She's usually quite observant of the local wildlife and keeps several books around the cabin to help identify new birds, etc. Her exact words were that it sounded more like a person than a bird. We sat quietly for a moment and heard it again. It sounded fairly close, but exactly how close would be impossible to say. It didn't sound as far away as the road (approximately 150 feet) or the neighbor’s cabin (approximately 250 feet). After the second call, we were commenting on how unusual it was and not at all bird-like when I heard a return call in the distance. The return call was identical to the closer version, but was perhaps a bit shorter (maybe only four up-down sets of notes). After discussing it later, I found out my wife also heard the return call. After a short while, we heard the whistle for a third and final time with no return call I could identify.
None of us have ever heard the whistle call before nor did we hear it again the following two nights we were at the cabin. We speculated that the whistling could have been the neighbor calling his dog in, but we later found out he was not home that weekend.
The following night was unusually quiet. We didn't hear any noises whatsoever, even from the wetlands to our east. Usually, we can hear ducks, loons, frogs, crickets, etc. We all commented on the unusual quietness of that night.
Also, our dogs were unusually reluctant to go on walks for the remainder of the weekend. Especially the older one who had to be dragged off the front porch and who continuously pulled back in the direction of the cabin.
I was waiting to post this until after I had a sense for what the BFRO was going to do with it. After speaking to the local BFRO guy this morning, I have a feeling the non-specific nature of the report will not warrant it a 'B' rating, which is fine. They're the experts, not me. MN Bigfoot did post it, however. All I can add to this is that I eventually did raise the possibility that it could have been bigfoot related to my mother-in-law. She adamantly refuses to accept bigfoot, but could offer no other explanation for the whistle. None of us who heard it thought it was a bird. I retrospect, however, that is the only other possibility as there were no people around to make the sound.
At this distance from the time of the report, I don't really know what to make of it anymore. I post it here to get all your reactions...
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its on the florida bigfoot site under sounds/scream.
)Bipto what I've come to terms with and I think alot of people have(maybe I'm talking out my @ss here)only we can make the decision on what we've seen or heard.sometimes it takes a day sometimes years or more,but its the fact that all of us here keep open minds about the posibbilities and what ifs?that makes this such a great place/group.some who've had sightings here know what they saw.some (like me)may never really know.but alot of times its the questions that keep us going.if I absolutely knew everything what would be the point?wheres the challenge.only you can decide what you did/didn't hear out there.
