On Wed. 8/17/11 my family went camping in Okanogan County, Washington near the town of Conconully, WA.
We arrived around 4:00 p.m. at the Salmon Meadows campsite. We checked out several sites and picked the one nearest the meadows, we were the only ones at this campsite. We went for a hike and got back to the campsite. There were numerous range cattle in our area. After hanging out at our site we heard a strange howl yell down in the creek bed the sound repeated 2 or 3 times, we were about 40 feet above the creek bed, we went down to take a look, we thought that an animal had injured itself. We found a young cow on the other side of the cattle guard. We opened the barb wire fence and tried to herd it to the other side, but it wouldn’t go. We put the fence back up and went back to our camp. That night I woke up many times, thought I heard something and tried to see if anything was there in the full moon light illuminated meadows and forests. Our dog didn’t react so I fell back to sleep hoping for morning. We woke up to some howls down in the creek bed below us.
We had a video camera and tried to catch some of the howls on tape. We got 5 clips with the howls as they moved further away. I will email the best one after I submit this report. We tried to follow the sound away from us but it moved too fast, and our son was still sleeping in our campervan. We went back to camp and didn’t hear or see anything else. We went to a bakery in Okanogan, WA and told of our experience and explained where we camped and all three people working said they had heard of this kind of activity around where we were. I have spent a lot of time in the woods and wild places, don’t hunt or fish, and have never heard this kind of sound before. When we got home I sat down and wrote down a more detailed account, feeling like this was something significant.
Steven B
Hard to tell with the echo…but it could possibly be a hound.
joe r
i am wondering steven if that 2 part i am hearing is the echo or is it like the waning end of the call? the headphones definitely give it a little different sound.
Christopher c
Steven B.,I am thinking the exact same thought it might be a hound down the canyon a ways but due to echo it is very hard to distinguish .
JOHN E
Yes Steven I Am with you on this one.
Stacy F
Yup!
joe r
I heard this and thought the same thing and then i tried it with the headset and now i am not so sure, with the headset i am picking up more of a 2 part vocal, unlike a hound, it’s hard to say.
Steven J
These are similar to the calls I heard near Skookum Meadow in 2000. They are a little deeper or lower in tone, but still similar. Those sounds were MUCH farther distant than mine, so its hard to tell if they are actually much closer to what I heard but distorted somewhat for distance and terrain.
They are not an exact match, but the construction of the calls, the way they appear to be pronounced or vocalized, is the same type of pattern. These just sound deeper somewhat.
Steven J
Headphones make a big difference….
robin c
Can anyone tell me how to place a picture to my account? Thanks
Steven B
@Robin – go to gravatar.com and sign up for an account there and with WordPress by following their instructions. Once you’ve done that, you upload your photo to your profile and then specify the URLs you wish to associate the photo with. It’s all automatic after that. 🙂
Darrell O
Hmmm……
Kathy E
Hi,
First off i want to make it very clear i am not a sasquatch expert in any since of the word. So please do not take offense…
I listened to the recording many times to be sure, with 2 types of headphones and from the speaker directly to be sure i wasn’t missing something.
I have personally heard this sound many times as i live in the country and believe i can shed some light.
Simply put, it sounds exactly like a cow in heat.
Hope this helps.
K.eagles
Jeffrey E
Possible BF encounter in the same area summer 2020. My kids and I were hiking around near the stream past the bridge north of Kerr campground. I was making noise (whooping) and my son heard something moving around in the brush. While walking back to the campground on the road my son was hit in the back of the neck with a small rock. The rock fell to his feet and we kept it as a souvenir. My daughter was also a witness. The rock came from a parallel angle (not from above). I took a picture of the red mark on the back of his neck. I visually scanned the area and could not come up with a logical explanation and no one else around. We have not been camping since.