A listener writes “I am 60 years old a retired teacher, a business owner, and, after returning to school later in life, now a paralegal.
My interest in unexplained phenomena began with a personal experience from my childhood in southwest Michigan, where I grew up on a farm. One night, I witnessed strange lights in the woods, and around the same time, I heard something I have never been able to explain.
When I tried to tell my parents about it, they dismissed what I heard as a deer caught in the electric fence. I trusted their judgment and never mentioned it again. Still, I have never forgotten the screams. At the time, I was certain someone was being murdered.
Over the years, I’ve heard foxes, bobcats, cougars even rabbits scream. I’ve searched endlessly online, listening to recordings of nearly every animal and bird I could find, trying to match the sound I heard that night. Nothing has ever come close.
The experience was deeply unsettling. The sound itself seemed to paralyze me with fear. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t speak. I felt physically sick to my stomach. There were only three screams, spaced out over time. The entire event lasted roughly twenty minutes and occurred in the middle of the night during the summer, sometime in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, because I tried so hard to forget it as a child, I no longer remember the exact year.
The lights are another part of this story. I saw them multiple times first as a teenager, again in my twenties, and once more in my thirties. Each time, they appeared as bright white lights hovering just above the treetops, completely silent. Strangely, I always seemed to know when they were there. I would run out onto the deck and watch as they traveled from east to west, moving out over the lake and then disappearing into the woods on the far shore.
These experiences have never left me. They have lingered quietly in the background of my life, always present. For most of my adult years, I’ve tried to understand what I witnessed and what I heard.
I was hoping you might be able to recommend reliable reading material or research sources. I truly want to understand what those screams were and what those strange lights might have been.”
Charles R
Those screams are generally associated with a Bigfoot. I have heard one scream at my buddies house 3 am on his 10 wooded acres in Mt. Haley Township of Midland County, MI. Sept 1 1996. It scared the heck out of me and Mike and we talked about it often. At that time we did not know what it was, only knew with all his guns, we were not going out to investigate. Something you never forget.