I have lived at the same house for the last 15 years on top of a mountain in Warren County. I am used to having deer, bear, fox, groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks, snakes, vultures, crows, etc as neighbors. Several nights this summer I have heard a sound coming from the woods like I have never heard. It almost sounds like a combination of shriek and a bark. It will go on for a few minutes then stop. Sometimes I won't hear it again for a week or 2. One time at dusk it started up so I went to investigate. It stopped as soon as I got close but I got a glimpse of a small brown animal running away.

 

I know from experience it is not a coyote or fox. I have heard them before and can recognize them. Do raccoons make noise? How about weasels?

 

Anyone have any ideas what may be lurking in my woods this summer?

 

Thanks,

Greg

Ever read the book "The Watchers"? Why, it's The Outsider of course.

Might be a baby bear...although we don't have brown bears here in NJ.

 

A few years back after I got out of college I was living in a converted garage/apartment that had a 500 acre field with a stream that backed up to a mountain. One night in the middle of summer at about 2 in the morning I started to hear what sounded like a baby crying out in the field. It sent goose bumps up my spine and still does to this day. I went out to investigate (against the voices in my head screaming at me to stay put) and found nothing. A couple nights later I heard it again and started having thoughts of Children of the Corn, etc... I inquired to a couple of people that lived near me and they said it was the baby bears. The mother's would lead them down to the stream to drink and into the fields to raid the corn. When they got separated they would cry and it sounds like a baby...totally freaked me out!!

Chupacabra!!!

Sounds like a raccoon. They can shriek pretty loudly.

it is the imfamous mother inlaw.

I don't think it's raccoons. Raccons make a chittering sound...

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Coyotes make more of a shriek..

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Bobcat ???

 

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/mammal_info.htm

 

heres a link to the sounds and if I was in the woods I would think the devil was coming for me :?

 

http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Bobcat_sounds_audio.aspx

Its a raccoon. I have heard them before in a live trap and they can scream pretty loud. Exactly how you describe it. Its a barking scream.

Chupacabra!!!

That was my first thought

jackalope

Manbearpig

 

As for coyotes, gosh, I freaked for a second the other night when I thought I heard some (turns out it was a couple foxes). Still, nothing more annoying then a swarm of prairie dogs. Good thing we don't get that infestation here.

on a serious note, you would be surprised at what migrates to the NW part of the state. There was a Moose quite a few years ago.

Fuck that, just shoot it

Chupacabra!!!

 

I guess it was only a matter of time till the jersey devil got replaced by a cheaper immigrant.

Chupacabra!!!

 

I guess it was only a matter of time till the jersey devil got replaced by a cheaper immigrant.

 

 

I just wet myself

I grew up with woodchucks in my backyard and never heard a noise from them...until one day when I got close to a bunch of babies and the mom popped out of a hole and screamed at me. The scream sounded like a woman with her thumb in a vise. Anyway, could be a hurt animal that you didn't even know made a noise.

Chupacabra!!!

 

I guess it was only a matter of time till the jersey devil got replaced by a cheaper immigrant.

 

 

hahahahahaha that was good

 

 

i was going to suggest its the jersey devil though. guess ill just have to second that it is manbearpig.

I knew this would be entertaining! It is close to that baby raccoon sounds but it is much more abrupt and deeper like a bark.

I don't think it is an injured animal, since we have heard it 5-6 times over the summer from different locations in the woods. I'm thinking maybe it is adult raccoon that is being threatened.

 

It scares the $#@* out of my wife. My dog wants to go get it. I'll try and record it next time.

thanks,

Greg