Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:
December 01, 2015
DATE: 03/31/1984
06/10/14
TIME: 8:00 pm
LOCATION: Allegany
County, Maryland
TERRAIN: Wooded
OBSERVED: My
encounter happen many years ago. I was with a group of
friends. we were camping at Green Ridge Forest for opening
day of trout season.The weather was cold with snow on the
ground. This is a primitive camping area.I am pretty sure we
were the only campers there. Some day time traffic but none
at night.Green Ridge is around 47,000 acres and back in the
day seldom did you see anyone there in bad weather except
hunters in season. Our group of 5 was cooking dinner over
the fire around 8:00 in the evening when we heard a loud
call about 200 yards away. The call started out somewhat
soft and got louder. It was a single call that lasted maybe
ten seconds. the best way that I can describe the call is it
sounded like a inhale exhale call like an agitated gorilla
would make. We all looked at each other and laughed and said
what the hell was that. Although we were all in our mid
twenties collectively we had about more than seventy years
of hunting and outdoors experience. To this day I do not
know of any native animal that make a sound like that. I can
still hear the call like it was yesterday(it happened thirty
years ago). I have been an avid hunter and outdoors man for
over Forty five years and still can not explain that call.
With the day and age of the computer I have found that there
were reports of bigfoot sightings in the early eighties
there. I have also found two other that have reported the
same sound that i heard that were accompanied by sightings.
Once again I question myself what the hell was that I heard
that could snowy night?
Additional Things:
N/A
Activities of Witness:
We were all sitting around the
fire eating and talking.
Description of Creature: We
never saw the animal.
Other Notes: I
can not explain what I heard that night. As far as I know
there are no animals that make a call like that in the USA.
Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General
Area) Notes:
Yes a flurry of sightings during that time frame have been
reported.
Additional Notes and or Follow up
Comments: N/A