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Posted: Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 07:14 am |
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Here are the links to the new recordings we made.
http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/bigfoot/sounds/Talk5Oct2007Cut1.mp3
Here is the long version of the recording.
http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/bigfoot/sounds/LongVersionOct5.mp3
It is a 1.68 MB mp3 file. On this one you can hear the truck just as we drive into the area. The first thing I say as we pull up there, to pick the recorder up, is: "I thought I saw lightning or something back in there" it is muffled a little because I am in the truck..but the windows are down. We are still behind the dish and stay that way until I walk up there and turn it off.
The next thing that is said by "US" is the other researcher saying "prob-ley did". Then we get out of the truck and start walking toward the dish. We hear an owl..I say "listen" pause.."you hear that?"..reply from fellow researcher.."heard a owl".
Anything else you hear on this recording was NOT said by us.
Note: As soon as we opened the doors and stepped out..all talking "STOPPED".
There also might have been a short whistle as we were coming in..before the talking started.
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What I hear is something like "don't hold back" and then the loud voice says whatever it says and then I talk and then it sounds like "theres a cheeseburger in here". There is also something else there that is faint and in with all the noise we are making getting out of the truck. Not sure but "(something) back" and then just as we step out "ho". Then all back to normal and then the owl call.
On the 29th of Oct. We set the recorder out and did the same thing as before. We left and went around to the other site. There were a few knocks and strange noises, but all were faint and in the distance. No voices..no talking.
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http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/bigfoot/sounds/OwlsoundWP29Oct2007.mp3
These recordings were made at the other site. We are right next to a creek and some of the background noise is the water running in the creek.
We got the owl call in response to a call we played. One of the fellow researchers said "that was no owl, I have heard too many of them and that was no owl."
We had heard something moving around in the woods right before we heard this and it did not sound as if it was in a tree. It was maybe 20 to 30 yards from us in the thick bushes and I could not see anything with the nightvision. There was also a light knock between the hoots.
http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/bigfoot/sounds/CutsWP29Oct2007.mp3
Just a few interesting sounds we heard. There were some light knocks coming from the same area the deer was blowing/snorting and when whatever that was that was yepping at us. We thought at first it was a coyote but we didn't see it..so don't know for sure what it was.
Edited: to add more info about the recordings.
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Posted: Mon Nov 5th, 2007 08:12 am |
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| MIKE, THAT OWL DOESNT SOUND NORMAL .VERY INTERESTING SOUNDS. I NEED TO GET A GOOD RECORDING SYSTEM GOING UP HERE. SOME SOUNDS ARE JUST WEIRD.
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Posted: Mon Nov 5th, 2007 08:45 am |
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Mike, these are GREAT recordings! Especially the first one. That one is downright baffling. The voice - though I don't understand a word - is eerily human. And the series of raps after the vocalization seems to rise up the scale. Your details will be most welcome!
Also, could you possibly post a link to your previous recording in which one of them seems to say that you and your wife were 'hunting' them?
Absolutely fascinating! Many thanks.
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Posted: Tue Nov 6th, 2007 05:49 am |
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JayB wrote: Mike, these are GREAT recordings! Especially the first one. That one is downright baffling. The voice - though I don't understand a word - is eerily human. And the series of raps after the vocalization seems to rise up the scale. Your details will be most welcome!
Also, could you possibly post a link to your previous recording in which one of them seems to say that you and your wife were 'hunting' them?
Absolutely fascinating! Many thanks.
JayB
JayB,
Go to the main website and look down the home page. You will see "Listen to recordings we have made"
Or you can click here and look for the "2005 collection of sounds (WHATTHIS).
Its a little long but has many of the strange and un-explainable sounds, knocking, and voices. Near the end..you will find the "him and Ruby hunting us" and the last one is "get your junk and leave"
There are some great recordings of knocks on here. One of the best we have recorded.
Let me add this..this is not us talking..but something sure is.
http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/bigfoot/reports/Recordings.html
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Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2007 06:51 am |
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Many thanks, Mike, for the amplification. The 'longer version' page 'could not be found'. I'm certain it will come up later.
Some of the 'speaking' vocalizations are a bit subtle and I must listen intently to pick them out. Not so for the 'which way?' and the one from Oct. 5th. Those two, I heard with my BAD ear! Fascinating!
For some subjective reason, the 'which way?' sounds to me like a female. The Oct. 5 one is certainly different. Not the deep tones heard in the 'Sierra Sounds'. More like an adult human. In these two as well as some others, I think I detect some kind of Indian dialect.
Keep up the GREAT work! And thanks again!
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| My wife has some familiarity with native american language. She doesn't claim to be able to speak any of them, but she does know a few phrases, etc. I had her listen to the "whatthis" recording. She said it doesn't sound like Navajo, but she does think it sounds like a native american dialect.
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Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2007 06:03 pm |
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I have the link to the long version fixed.
Some have said it sounds like Cherokee and other say it might be Choctaw but, no one has any idea of what is being said.
I refer back to some history of these creatures here in Alabama.
The Native Americans had a name for these creatures and here is the one I find most interesting: lofa (smelly, hairy being that could speak) - Chickasaw
Maybe it is some form of Chickasaw? I have no idea. Wish someone that knew that language could listen to it and see if they can make anything out of it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2007 06:16 pm |
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JayB,
Yes there are several of the voices that sound female. One thing I have noticed about these voices..the number of words or phrases ..in most cases are short and usually around 5 words. The "get your junk and leave" is an example. "Went down the creek sir" is another one. "Him and Ruby huntin us" is another.
If someone could explain that..I would sure like to hear it..LOL
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Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 03:54 pm |
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watch1 wrWhat I hear is something like "don't hold back" and then the loud voice says whatever it says and then I talk and then it sounds like "theres a cheeseburger in here". There is also something else there that is faint and in with all the noise we are making getting out of the truck. Not sure but "(something) back" and then just as we step out "ho". Then all back to normal and then the owl call.
A cheeseburger, huh? Right now there's a BF reporting to his fellows: "Human didn't take the bait. Next time let's try, "Hey, y'all! Free Budweiser!" 
Good recordings! Interesting that your wife was mentioned by name in a recording. Do you think they were mimicking something you said on an earlier occasion? Very, very strange... My fascination with BF is growing by the day.
I, too, think some of what they say sounds very much like Native American language. I wonder if they are using the words as language among themselves, or could it be an attempt to communicate in the language of men. It sounds as if they're using it among themselves in some recordings I've heard. Perhaps it's a Native American language that goes back to an earlier period, perhaps the Woodland period. Or, if BF spread across North America from the West and has been using the language for a while, perhaps it has its roots in very early Native American language, such as Athabascan.
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Posted: Fri Nov 9th, 2007 02:46 am |
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There is a story behind the name calling. We had picked up on the fact that they were watching us in this one location that we were going to. We went there about 3 or 4 nights in a row. After the first night..it was almost as if they were waiting on us. We would hear them walking up in the bushes and they would start what sounded like small rock clicking. There was this group that came and watched us and another group out there on the move. We would hear the dogs at a few homes way over in a location and they would be having a fit. We would hear a knock every once in a while and we could tell they were moving and we said " they are going down the creek. Several nights we would hear them and someone would say "They going down the creek again or they are going down (the creek name)." One of the researchers had hunters ears and when a knock was heard she would point in the direction it came from and say "this way".
At one time we heard an unsual sound and she said "come on big boy"
Now if you put all those together "went down the creek sir, come on big boy, this way" You have what we recorded one night. I know..it is not any of our voices saying this. We never said anything like that ..at one time. But as you can see..it was a mix of some of the things we said..but how did it have the intelligence to put those things together and make some sense out of it?
Because of this and the other things we had heard..we decided to play with them a little. We started calling each others name. We did this several times and I even joked about one of them going to call one of the others names and we would all be out of there..LOL
Well..as it turned out..after listening to the recording..I wasn't far off.
Now..about the cheeseburger
A few mouths ago I had some more land clearing done and had 2 men working. I had ask one of them if they wanted a hamburger or a cheeseburger because my wife was going to come down there and she said she would go by and get everyone whatever they wanted. One of them said "just get us a cheeseburger and fries". When she got there we broke for lunch and one of the men didn't know she was bringing cheeseburgers and I said "there's a cheeseburger in here" and asked if he wanted it instead of whatever he had in is lunch bag.
So..here we are recording a few months later and we have something saying what I said a few months earlier.
If this is the case..then we had something out there watching us while we were working and close enough to hear what I said.
The question is..is it just a mimic or what?
That is the rest of the story.
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Posted: Fri Nov 9th, 2007 06:48 am |
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Sounds like you have your own group of human watchers. It's fascinating that they were able to recall phrases you used months before. Perhaps they were just playing, but it's tempting to think they were trying to initiate a little communication with you. On the other hand, one has to consider that their amazing ability to mimick is probably a hunting skill (that second group of BF wasn't trying to flank you, was it? j/k).
Have you tried pairing words with items when they're talking near you? If you use food as bait, perhaps you could repeat the word as you put out a particular food item: popcorn, apples, peanut butter, etc. It would be interesting to see if they would pick up a word and later use it to communicate a desire to you. If it worked, it might open the door for more communication.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11th, 2007 07:24 am |
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I have given this some thought and we are going to try something and see how it goes. I talked to Tal last night and he said I should come up with something that makes no sense at all and something no one would commonly say and see if we ever record it.
I think I can add a little more to this experiment.
At the different locations we go .. use a phrase and only use it there. If we hear/record it some place else..then we really got something interesting. This will require me taking a few notes and keeping track of this but this might prove very interesting in the long run.
Me and the wife worked down at research area 1 today. I finished doing some tractor work and we had a pile of roots, limbs and sticks we had piled up to burn and I set fire to this. We stayed late..after dark watching the fire burn down and listening. We started hearing a lot of owl calls and noticed that every time an airplane flew over we would hear an owl. My wife also said she heard what sounded like a knock and when I parked the tractor and shut it off (it was getting dark..had to turn the lights on) she said she heard the sound of something hitting metal/tin.
I have been on vacation and have worked harder than I do on the job working down there leveling up some washouts and planting rye grass and just about everything else you can plant for the game. I have it finished and all I need now is some gentle rain. Not 6 to 8 inches in a few hours like we got last time..LOL
Here is a photo so that everyone can see the area and see what I been working and spending time and a lot of money on..more than I need to.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12th, 2007 06:37 pm |
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Anything is worth a try.That field you are working on looks like a good spot for watermelon patch.LOL
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Posted: Tue Nov 13th, 2007 05:09 am |
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This land has just been cleared. It was a mess of nothing but water oak bushes, vines and biars. A tornado went though the place a few years back and just about blew every tree on the place over. What could be cut..was cut. The rest of the mess just grew up into a big thick mess. I did just about the only thing I could do with it. Had it pushed, I burnt and then had them dig a few big holes and pushed the stumps and whatever did not burn..into the holes and cover it over. The soil is real sandy and a lot of small gravel in it. Not the perfect soil..thats for sure. I have planted it with rye grass, wheat, oats, clover and some winter peas. My big concern is to try and get some roots in the ground and something that will help hold the soil. Everything was so dry and the soil was just like powder from being worked like it has been. When the got the first rain it was a flood and I had several of my big terraces to brake and BIG washing problems. It took a few days work just to try and pull back into place what had washed down the hill.
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Mike,
What kind of equipment do you use to record your audio? I thinking maybe I could make some sort of autoscanning parabolic microphone... maybe if I can't photograph em I can tape em!
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Posted: Mon Nov 19th, 2007 03:46 am |
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Bamabigfoot,
Here is a link to my recording set-up: http://picasaweb.google.com/bamabigfoot/MySoundRecordingDish
At the time I put all this stuff together it was a low cost alternative to some expensive gear.
I wanted something small, portable and a dish that would be OK if it got bounced around in the back of the truck. It has been bounced around and everything is still working.
There are newer recorders with longer record time and better recording. The price has come way down on some of them.
You could start out with a simple tape recorder and see if you can get anything that way.
What I wanted was a way to get the recordings into a wave or mp3 format without a lot of trouble. The newer recorder ..the Olympus recorder has a USB port that will let me transfer the recording strait to my computer. This makes things a lot easier.
Let me know if you have any questions.
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so you are using a bi-focal (2 sat) satellite dish as the refector?
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Posted: Tue Nov 20th, 2007 04:07 am |
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All I can say about the records is WOW and take me next time. Like Sat. 24th
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Posted: Tue Nov 20th, 2007 03:43 pm |
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Bamabigfoot wrote: so you are using a bi-focal (2 sat) satellite dish as the refector?
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I think that the dish was one of the first dual LNB DirectTV sat. dishes. It really doesn't matter if it is a single or a double. Neither one of them is a true parabolic dish..but it works.
Here is the best place I have found for true parabolic dishes. I plan to get one or 2 of them in the future.
http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp?pn=3053875&bhcd2=1195568322
They would be light weight and I would think the 18 inch would make a great hand held unit that you could hold and point in any direction.
Here is a website that has a lot of information about outdoor recording. There are links to other websites as well: http://www.naturesound.org/Welcome.html
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not to rain on the parade, but maybe it is possible with the improvised gear, that you are catching stray radio transmissions, maybe sideband or something? it's awfully easy for poorly shielded electronics (especially audio gear) to pick up stuff like that.
On the other hand, pretty eerie that very similar phrases were spoken before in the same place, like they were trying to announce their presence by mimicry (mim-ick-ree, doesn't look right), but cautiously?
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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 03:54 am |
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That idea has been beaten to death by some on another forum..which I won't mention.
The skeptics had a field day at my expense about my claims that these creatures can and do talk. Someone with far more electronic equipment knowledge than I said..with the recorder that I used..NO WAY that it was anything (electronic signal) from the air. Pure sound. They looked at the spectro-graph of the recording and everything else.
At first..I thought the same thing. I ran my on tests. Different recorders, digital and tape. Different brands of digital recorders were used with the same results.
Sorry if you don't believe it possible but it might surprise you to know the number of folks that have heard this talk..with their own ears..no recorder needed.
They can and do talk.
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watch1 wrote:
They can and do talk.
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And that is a dead certain fact.
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Granpa heard em outside the window, and my friends heard em out back too.... heck, Granpa never ever used the internet and he described it just the same as everyone else here.....
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This is what blows my mind!
People will admit, 85% or more, that this creature uses wood/stone knocks as a primitive form of communicating. For the knocks to be efficient there must have been some type of communication to determine what the different number of knocks/code means. This not only shows pre-arrangement between several parties but an understanding for when the actual event happens. These creatures are intelligent enough to already know, which is logic, that a certain number of "knocks" means a certain fact/idea compared to a different number used in response. If this was not the case then why knock? So, unless they are all born with an innate sense of knowledge in respect toward inheriting the exact, correct number of "knocks" used with what it apparently means then they have to communicate in some form.
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| Not trying to discredit the idea at all, I didn't know if any audio spectrum testing had been done, just trying to throw that out there. I certainly believe they could mimic any sound they want, their regular communication through knocking, other animal sounds proves they are more than capable of communicating any way they wish. Maybe being that they were mimicing language they associated with your group means they were trying to communicate, maybe somewhat cautiously, with you?
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I think we have been entertaining one another a few times out there. They are curious of people and that is the one thing we have going for us. If they weren't..most likely we would never get anything while out there.
Most try to go in all stealthy and this puts them on alert. You have to act just like you are out there and everything is normal. Don't be scared to talk to one another at times. Don't try and hide from them. Put yourself right out in the open so they can see you and set down and listen. You will be surprised at what you might hear.
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The only time people have herad or seen them on my place (other than Granpa at 3:00 am outside the window) was when people were back there doing some kind of work for at least 3-4 hours..... I think they watch you and determine you are harmless, then they decide to have some fun with you.... it is good entertainment for them. However, if you start to get too close, they charge off thru the bushes like nothing's business... they must be great big scaredy cats!!!
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