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#1 ·
Anyone else hearing strange noises at Westbranch?
 
#3 ·
Yea, I've heard them before, that why I don't camp west branch anymore.

We were camping years ago, had tents pitched, boat tied off to a tree, everyone went to breakfast except for me and ruby (100# Doberman) I'm laying on a cot in the tent, ruby is laying just beside me, I'm napping and I get woke by an ear piercing screaming roar.. then it happened again.. I was a little hung over but I know it happened because ruby crawled under the cot whining.. could be something at the base across the road (which I think it is) or it could be something we know nothing about.. boooooohooooooo
 
#4 ·
Yea, I've heard them before, that why I don't camp west branch anymore.

We were camping years ago, had tents pitched, boat tied off to a tree, everyone went to breakfast except for me and ruby (100# Doberman) I'm laying on a cot in the tent, ruby is laying just beside me, I'm napping and I get woke by an ear piercing screaming roar.. then it happened again.. I was a little hung over but I know it happened because ruby crawled under the cot whining.. could be something at the base across the road (which I think it is) or it could be something we know nothing about.. boooooohooooooo
bigfoot
 
#6 ·
Myself and others heard the absolutely ear shattering and out of this world sounding roar/scream on night in southern ohio, while backpacking. It was real close too.VERY CLOSE. It sounded like a freight train grinding to a halt, combined with a gigantic roar that ended in a giant troll/human sounding screaming fit. The area we were in has a history of this sort of thing. It was one of the most insane things I have ever experienced.
 
#13 ·
Camped out on the banks of Hinkley creek. Kept hearing wood knocks and strange wooping noises. Every morning all my rubbish had been rooted through. Something was hungry. Strange goings on down there. Also the smell of skunk was present in the late evening hours. Although that could've been from me, unsure.

As far as the fishing goes, had to sift through the skis in order to get my limit on craps. The skis were all over the shallow brush. Must've been their mating season as I saw them rolling on the banks. Rooster tails and tube jigs were the ticket.
 
#16 ·
At our camp at Clendening one night, (rather early morn) we were cat fishing and heard a very loud belering or low frequency yelling sound. Almost like a man with a deep voice was yelling for help. We knew it wasn't human, but that's kinda what it sounded like. After building up the nerve, we walked a big field of high grass and kept getting closer to it. Finally, after what seemed like a mile walk through woods and weeds, we saw a bull on the other side of a fence that was under a small tree. It was squatted down low to the ground and hollering something awful. It didn't sound like any hoofed animal that I've ever heard. My bro in law knew the land owner and called him in the middle of the night to tell him something was wrong with his bull. We felt bad for the thing because it was obviously in a lot of pain.
Had we not made the walk and found it, I would be telling a different story of some mysterious creature. Lol! We had no clue what it was!
 
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Me and my best friend seen a no doubt ufo above clendening one night while we were frog gigging. This thing was huge and seemed to just pace back and forth very very slowly. I've spent many a night on lakes and rivers and swamps and have never seen anything like it. Just a pale yellow color solid in color too. We watched this thing for had to be 40 or 45 minutes just pace back and forth over what was probably a 4 or 5 mile horizontal distance in the sky.

Sometimes it would get lower and sometimes highed but always stayed the same line left to right left to right the entire time then it just rose in elevation till it disappeared. And no we were not drunk or stoned!
 
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Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary near Berlin Lake will definitely get your attention, especially if you are up Mill Creek in the early morning hours. You will hear lion roars along with other intimidating sounds. I'll admit that I kept that info to myself for a while one time when I had my wife out there. She was convinced it was coming from the woods!

Having said that, Saturday morning around 9am on Berlin while I was fishing in the Walnut Creek/Fewtown area there was what sounded like a huge transformer explosion. The noise started out as the loudest "shocking" sound, much like what you would expect an electric chair to sound like. "Bzzzzzzshshshzzzshshshzzzzz" that went for about 10 seconds. Extremely loud. Then it went POP and nothing more. I was waiting for smoke to start rising over the horizon in the direction of the noise but never did see any and no sirens were heard. Very strange.