BFRO #46624: Seasonal visitor to a rural farm south of Lexington

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📝 Description

I want to start with tonight, while it is fresh in my mind. My girlfriend and I let the dogs out to the bathroom around 1am. She instantly said she thought she heard something in the valley below our home, and shined a flashlight down into the valley. I looked, and my German Shepherd was looking across the valley as well. I figured it was probably a deer, and we walked on out into the yard. I notice the German Shepherd was sticking close to her and her little dog. He seems to think it is his job to protect them both, and does quite well. So it isn't so unusual for him to follow them, but it was just a little odd at how close he was staying to them. I had forgotten to close the shutters on my chicken coop, (I have shutters that close over the wire) so I walked over to my garage and went behind it to the coop. As I was walking around the garage I heard this loud call/howl. I can not, in any way, shape, or form, even remotely able to describe it by typing this out. I can still hear it in my head, but would be lucky to even try to mimic the sound. It called out once, kind of low, then so loud it filled the area, but with the same vocalization both times. It was so out of place that my girlfriend instantly went into the house with her little dog, and I came back to the yard to check on them. She left the little dog in the house and came back out. She told me the little dog actually ran to the door and wanted in the house when he heard it. I downplayed it to a point, so as not to frighten her any more than she already was. We went back into the house and I got my other dog, and put his leash on him. He is kind of a problem dog, and I have to take him out separate from the other two. He sometimes goes wild on the leash, jumps, pulls and tugs etc... trying to get to our cats (which were no where to be found tonight) and it is just a lot easier to take him out alone. He behaved perfectly tonight, and just kept looking for something out in the darkness. He actually acted as if he didn't even want to go out at first. Just a few minutes after taking him outside, the calls started again. This time they were a little further from my home. The first time they were on the hill opposite my home, maybe a hundred yards away. The second time they were maybe two hundred yards away, and I could hear the cattle in the field closest to them calling out for each other and sending out their alarms. The calls kept up for a good two or three minutes, and quite frankly sounded like some sort of challenge. One of my neighbors has a bunch of hunting dogs they keep outside. They normally bark and go off at anything and everything. Tonight, you wouldn't have any idea they were even there. Not one of them made as much as a whine. They were completely silent.We have coyotes all over the place, and I hear them pretty much every night. A couple times a week I will even hear them in the day time. I'm "very" familiar with the sounds the Eastern Coyote makes, and this was no coyote. I am an "avid" outdoors type, and have spent more time in the woods then most. I know most of the sounds or calls any of the local wildlife make, and I have never heard anything like this in all my life. I'm well aware that a small animal can sound much bigger then it is in the quietness of night, but this thing was un-mistakenly large. Just the amount of lung capacity it would have to have to make that vocalization would dictate that it was fairly large. You may think I'm crazy to make such an issue about some sounds in the night, but had you heard these calls, I would imagine your mind would be spinning much the same as mine. As I said, I am an avid outdoors type. I've sat on a river/creek bank with no one around many nights, alone and in the middle of the night. The only thing I ever worry about is maybe someones dog running loose and running into it in the middle of the night. There are times I've sat out alone every night for a week straight. There are times I have gone into the woods five days a week for a month straight. Yet this thing tonight made me nervous to even step back out onto my deck to grab a paint-brush I had left in paint on the porch. There are some other things that have happened, and I will get into those now. I just wanted to describe all this first, while it is fresh in my mind.I live in East Jessamine County. This is one of the highest areas in this part of the state, and very lowly populated for the Central Kentucky area. I have a few neighbors, but only one that is fairly close. Our home sits at the top of a mountainous region made up of about eight peaks that look like hilltops. I think the area is fifty feet too short to be a mountain, but it is pretty much the same thing. My home sits right in the middle of those peaks. You go almost to the top and turn down my driveway and drive down to the house. The home sits on a flat area and over-looks part of the valley area between the hills/summits. There is a creek that runs through the middle

🔍 Circumstances

My girlfriend saw/heard it as well. We were both outside with our dogs.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

Many different times. The one sighting was at night, but I had both moonlight and lights from my house to see. Weather was clear.

ℹ️ Additional Details

Many different times. The one sighting was at night, but I had both moonlight and lights from my house to see. Weather was clear.

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