My wife (girfiend at the time) and I were on vaction, It was a Bigfoot's lovers dream. We stayed at Crater lake, The Dalles, Mt.Hood, visted Carson, Mt St.Helens, and made our way back down to the Redwoods around Cresent city,Ca. The day after we left Mt. St. Helens we had a night of no paticular destenation. I we finally after driving most of the day came across a forest service station in a yown named Hebo, Orgeon. There was a sign indicating a lake up in the mountains above. I can't remember how many miles up the dirt road, but I think it was about 10 miles. We get to the campground next to the lake and I felt cheated because it's not a lake it is a little pond. Hebo lake my ass! But any how the campground had 16 sites and pit toilets, there was just one other group of people camping there. By the way this is in late july, 1998. Well that night as we went to sleep in the tent at about 10:30 this loud noise I mean loud coming from the behind us not any where close to the other campers. It sounded like a baby crying but a little diffrent. I don't know if mountain lions make a similar noise but other than that I don't think it could made by any other than a mountain lion or bigfoot. Anybody have a opinion.

I had to run off and do something so I didn't get to put all of the info the first post. I have always thought it a possibility that it might have been the other campers somehow making the noise, but I do not think so because when noise stopped I heard one of them say what was that. I wish I could say that the next morning I went out to look for tracks but I didn't because I was sleeping in a Salem Holiday Inn. I have to admit that was a little freaked but my wife was alot freaked. We packed our stuff up and left not before stopping and asking other campers what they thought it was. They said something about a pig in the area,I don't know if they meant wild or Babe. I guess I should have asked, but I was already throwing out the information that I have heard it said that Bigfoot is said to make a similar noise. The guy I was talking to kind of looked at me a little funny and I heard a few of the other campers laugh. So I said my good bye then and tried to find a motel that was open and finally found one Half way through the state. It started to pour rain shortly after we left so that is the one good thing about the Chicken Run.

black bear cubs also make a very unnerving baby crying sound at times. I once heard it at a dump in Ontario, and untill we figured out the source of the sound, we though we may be looked for an abandoned child!
Mama bear suddenly appeared, the "baby" then came scranbling out of a pile of rubbish, still making the sound!

Thanks for the reply, It could have been a bear cub. I guess over the years I have always clung to the hope that it might have been a bigfoot. It was loud and definently something I had never heard in the woods before. I think I will try to find if there is a sound wave file of a cub. Maybe it will be the same noise. Thanks for ruining it for me. I think I will go hang myself now.

I camp up in Bancroft,Ontario all the time. When I was A kid we used to hear that all the time. Once I asked my grandfather waht the cries could be and he bluntly told me they were from a moose. though I have never seen moose scream like that.

Can't say about that exact sound, but big cats make some weird sounds. I was walking home from my trapline once as a kid, at night, with the aid of a flashlight. I heard something that sounded like electricity discharging (jacob's ladder). Flashlights in those days put off pitiful little light, and I never saw what made the noise. There is not a power line in miles of that spot. When I got home, my father and uncles told me it was a Lynx. Pretty weird, methinks. Not that I am at all sure what you heard was a wildcat of some type, but it could be.
BSF

When a preditor catchs its prey...the animal being killed will let out a weird scream....I have heard that sound...before...and if you did not know what it was it would prolly spook you a bit....

Roadkill,

Try this site for sounds:

Black Bear Sounds

Black bears can make some really weird noises that most people would not associate with them. Check out the cub distress and the warning audio clips.

This is the homepage address of the above site:

Wildlife Research Institute (Bears)

Thanks for the links , didn't sound like any of the cub ones they had. That does not mean that it was not a cub. This might sound funny but I have heard one sound that sounded almost dead on similar. On Saturday Night Live in a skit they had about a Christmas decoration Baby Jesus that cried and cried throughout the holiday's so you could share in the memory of the event of Baby jesus. It had a diffrent than normal crying sound. It was a show from the late 80's or early 90's. I hope saying Baby Jesus does not get me banned or this topic closed.

Don't worry Roadkill I believe you. Your not crazy saying you heard Baby jesus coming from the woods. I have been checking the Saturday Night Live Websites and have found archives for every commericial parody (which it was) and can not find it. So maybe I am crazy.

I've herd a moutain lion befour and man they are weard. I doubt that it was actually the big guy. Never the less write the encounter down in your journal or whatnot. It will make a great story for your kids and grand kids. Mostly your grand kids though I don't think you want your kids to spend the next six monthes sleeping in your bed! But it dose make a great story. In the eveil deep dark woods of the pasfic nothwest a long time ago befour you were born.


R

cougars can make some very scary noises. actually, several sounds that i have thought to be from a bigfoot have turned out to be from a cougar.

Whatever it was it was loud!

Deer make a loud bawling noise when distressed or injured. Fawns particularly will bawl when lost. They sound very pitiful.

Come to think of it, just about any animal makes a crying noise. Rabbits, cats, coons...I've even heard a dog bawl.The most pitiful I ever heard was a raccoon.

I heard a dying raccoon bawl one time and it was so pitiful, it broke me from coonhunting for many years. I couldn't take it. It sounded just like a human baby.

Animal Sound FX! Some interesting stuff here!

spend a couple of hours there and you could probably reproduce the Sierra Sounds Cd......

(check out the sea lions..especially!)