BFRO #28487: Possible vocalization heard near Lake Cushman and Dow Mountain

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📝 Description

One�summer night in 2008, I was sitting on the back deck with our dog Icy at about 1 in the morning, because it was�too hot to sleep. It was totally silent -- which it normally is around here at night -- and as I sat there on the wooden steps, with Icy sitting on the deck about 3 feet away from me, I heard what at first sounded like a distant siren, seemingly�from the north-north-east. (The only thing in that direction from�our house is Dow Mountain, with no roads except for dirt logging roads).�Icy's response to sirens is invariably the same: he lifts up his head, pricks his ears, listens intently, and then begins�howling, usually in the moment�just after the siren becomes inaudible to my human ears.�That night, though, his response was completely different. He came quickly to my side and pressed himself against me, sort of hunching himself into�an extension of my body. As I listened, I viscerally "knew" that what I was hearing was NOT a siren, although it did seem�very, very similar to a siren sound. �I remember I was holding my breath -- and my impression was that I didn't start breathing again until the sound had completely stopped -- and I can only hold my breath for about 50 seconds, so that's the amount of time I would guess the sound went on. �The same instinct that told me that I was not listening to a siren also told me that�I had never heard this sound before.� Another -- to me -- validating aspect was that my own response to it was out of character, just as Icy's was. Normally I would have sat there for another hour or so, hoping to hear it again.�It was so amazing -- and I usually can't get enough of that kind of interesting mysterious stuff. But when the howling ended and I started breathing again, my first impulse was to get inside the house, quietly and fast.�I went online and Googled every kind of indigenous Pacific Northwest animal I could think of: elk, fox, coyote, deer, bear, rabbit, moose, cougar,�various owls, other birds -- even wolf, which we purportedly do not have in this area -- and couldn't find any WAV file that�even came close.�On a chance, I looked up Sasquatch WAV files, and listened to the ones that I could find --�I think there were five -- and one of them, the "Ohio�Howl", was a dead ringer.�When I heard it coming through the headphones, chills started running up my back.�That was the sound I'd heard.

🔍 Circumstances

No other witnesses.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

Approximately 1 a.m. The lighting was virtually complete darkness, perhaps some starlight. The air was warm and still.

ℹ️ Additional Details

Approximately 1 a.m. The lighting was virtually complete darkness, perhaps some starlight. The air was warm and still.

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