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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 08:50 pm |
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This sent in by Dixie Banshee
"The Alabama T-Rex Scream" A number of posters on this forum have heard several of us talking about the "T-Rex Scream." This was recorded outside Red Bay, Alabama, several years back when a few of us went there to determine if BF frequented the area. We were not there long enough to set-up a camper and a few tents when Catamount did one of the vocalizations that we use while researching. The response was immediate. It was so sudden only one of our party had his recorder on at the time (Thank Man Above that he did).
This recording is copyrighted and it is only for the private use of this forum's posters. It comes with a warning: Don't play it loud on your speakers. FIRST.. Please use the earphones, then decide if you want to play it on your speakers. If you have any dogs, watch their reaction. If you have a wife, their reaction may find you in divorce court. All joking aside, if you are located in an area that BF resides in, it may be smart to just play it with your earphones as it may be interpreted as a challenge. I do know that it is territorial in nature. Several of the posters on this forum were there at the time, so if anybody has any questions, please ask. The scream happens very fast as the person recording had just turned on his recorder. First you will hear the scream, then you will hear my big mouth, then you will hear another BF vocalizing what we term as a "Looting" call.
http://www.alabamabigfoot.com/bigfoot/sounds/Trex.wav
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SkunkApe
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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 08:56 pm |
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Dang!
I better check my shorts after that! 
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Posted: Fri Feb 29th, 2008 02:35 am |
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| Hey DB, Thanks alot for posting this scream. I've been asking to hear it for a while. Really gets the adrenaline pumping---I can only imagine what it was like "LIVE" !----He must have been an 8 or 9 footer!----Thanks again----TNC-----------------------
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Posted: Fri Feb 29th, 2008 02:39 am |
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| "Anybody got a Ricola? He probably needed one after that scream. I have never heard anything like that close up. I am jealous. I just wondered if your hair was blown back. There was some awesome lung power in that scream. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.
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Catamount
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Posted: Fri Feb 29th, 2008 09:05 pm |
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| Holey Moley!! That STILL gives me goose bumps to hear that! I'm the one that made the call to which this PO'd BF responded. I was more or less just playing around and didn't really expect a response, so it REALLY surprised all of us. He was so close and so loud that it about blew our hats off our heads. And it was broad daylight. We had just arrived and hadn't even started setting up camp yet. It may be that my call surprised him as much as he surprised us.
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e7454
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Posted: Sat Mar 1st, 2008 03:51 am |
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| The screams that I heard in this same location were not exactly like the t-rex scream, but similar. The first time that I heard it, I was fishing alone, about thirty yards upstream from the boatramp. It was just after daylight and it sounded like it came from the hill above the boatramp close to where the road turns toward the ramp. But it is hard to tell on the water the way the terrain is in that area. I played the t-rex for my wife as I had told her about the screams that I have heard there and she told me that she wasn't going back to that place, she didn't care if the fish were jumping in the boat. lol
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Posted: Sat Mar 1st, 2008 02:12 pm |
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I am glad you posted the recording. There was a report from a hunter who was chased two miles out of an area by two creatures with the larger one making this same exact sound the whole time. This is the sound he described. He said he one walked up to the tree he had his deer stand in and pushed one of the lower branches back and looked right at him. He said he went higher in the tree and waited until he thought it was gone. He slowly climbed out of the tree and took of his saftey harness and dropped it to the ground. The harness hit the stand with a "tinking sound" and he said it was on. The big one made the T rex sound and charged him. He was bow hunting so the only choice he had was to cover his ears and run.
It was getting dark fast and he kept going. The small one would cut ahead of him on the left side stop and then wait on him while the big one kept pushing him forward. He said at one point in time he just stopped and turned around to shine his flashlight at the big one and said if you are going to kill me go ahead and get it over with. He said it held his hand up to block the light and stepped back into the tree line. He had a radio with him and he had called his partners that were hunting in an another area and told them to meet him at the end of the trail at the river. Funny thing is, his partners had already been run out of the areas they were in by bigfoot. They had already made it to the boat and was in the water. This was a coordinated effort on the bigfoots part. He made it to the end of the trail without being harmed but bailed over the bank of the river and landed in the boat on his stomach. They heard a huge splash around the bend of the river and then they took off. All of them scared half to death.
Great recording and I hope you get some more. Great job.
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Posted: Sat Mar 1st, 2008 03:36 pm |
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This sounds like a good place to spend the night in a tree stand, with a thermal imager and recording gear, oh an extra pair of shorts too. Dixie, hook me up!
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JayB
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Posted: Sat Mar 1st, 2008 04:45 pm |
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Hey, Catamount -
What did you SAY to this dude to cause all of the displeasure? You must have insulted his manhood - or his mama.
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NDTerminator
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Posted: Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 04:21 pm |
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I was there and the 41 Magnum I habitually carried in the bush back in those days felt pretty darn small on my hip. Not too long after I stopped carrying that and turned to a 45-70 with hot handloads as a security blanket, and still feel somewhat undegunned.
Let me tell you, it really shakes your belief system to the core when something lets go a squall like that in the pitch dark. For me, it was all pretty academic until that night. If anyone could have seen me in the dark, I'm sure they would have seen my jaw drop to my feet like cartoon. I mean you could literally feel it in your chest, like when a kid comes by with his car stereo cranked.
Unless there was an escapee from the nearest major zoo's, primate house, I have absolutely no question we were in the proximity of a very large, very angry off primate, with backup. In extremely rural north Alabama. Cripes...
There was a second critter that wasn't raising quite the ruckus the bigmouth was. You can hear the second critter "hooting" or "whooping" after the main scream (there were a couple screams and I managed to erase the first from my recording trying to play it to my mom over the phone a couple nights later). You also can hear DB saying, "that ain't no owl" (just yanking my chain a bit) and my response of "that's the second one". I always thought of the second vocalist as the bigmouth's "backup"...
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BBray34
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Posted: Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 04:40 am |
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I've listened to this recording a few times, wondering how I didn't hear it because I don't live too far from where this was recorded. I think I would have ran back in the house if I had.
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NDTerminator
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Posted: Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 02:46 pm |
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We had a couple interesting events while we were out there and during that week in general. As usual, I will begin with my disclaimer that as I didn't see the source of the events, I cannot say it was BF related. That being said, I can't come up with any other logical explanation for the following......
The next evening just after dark, DB and I walked about 75 yards or so out of camp into the bush (BTW, my compliments to you Alabama boys on the thickness of your bush. Be nice, now...) as he was going to show me some wood knocking.
DB hauled off & whacked a stick against a tree a couple times, and from across the bay/river came a response that sounded pretty much like a chimp cutting up in the zoo. It happened so fast that I didn't even get a chance to hit my recorder, but it was obviously fairly distant and no where near the volume of the bigmouths the night before, so I may not have gotten it anyway.
This was a distinctly primate/higher ape kind of sound. The critter chattered a few seconds then shut up and wouldn't open his mouth again. I got the impression it was almost an involuntary response to an unexpected sound, like a turkey shock gobbling...
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Posted: Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 09:37 pm |
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Well, I THOUGHT I had my sound down far enough... when that hairy critter sounded off, all four of my dogs went to howling and barking. I was inside, but when I went to quiet the dogs, I looked outside and I didn't have a single cat in sight! I normally trip over them when I walk out onto the porch.
Trust me, if I EVER hear anything like that around here, I'm putting out the "FOR SALE" sign and heading toward civilization!
Had I been with the group that experienced this sound, it wouldn't have just been the BF that was stinking up the woods. Thankfully, the ones around me grunt, huff, make a sound similar to total frustration, and one that sounds like "Predator" on the movie. That's bad enough. When they get too rowdy, I holler out, "You guys are scaring me! Hold it down!" and sure enough, they do. :-) Nice neighbors, huh?
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NDTerminator
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Posted: Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 11:22 pm |
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Timex1954 wrote: Well, I THOUGHT I had my sound down far enough... when that hairy critter sounded off, all four of my dogs went to howling and barking. I was inside, but when I went to quiet the dogs, I looked outside and I didn't have a single cat in sight! I normally trip over them when I walk out onto the porch.
Trust me, if I EVER hear anything like that around here, I'm putting out the "FOR SALE" sign and heading toward civilization!
Had I been with the group that experienced this sound, it wouldn't have just been the BF that was stinking up the woods. Thankfully, the ones around me grunt, huff, make a sound similar to total frustration, and one that sounds like "Predator" on the movie. That's bad enough. When they get too rowdy, I holler out, "You guys are scaring me! Hold it down!" and sure enough, they do. :-) Nice neighbors, huh?
Now you can see why I have a somewhat dim view of the critters. Between being run off a bear stand twice and this one being the first I heard open his mouth, it kind of colors a guy's perceptions...
My labs have heard this so many times over the years they don't even look up when I play it. Josie (my oldest lab) is sleeping by me and didn't wake up when I played it just now....
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Posted: Wed Jun 4th, 2008 02:33 am |
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| The first time I listened to this, wife was on the couch, needless to say she wasn't there for long.
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Posted: Tue Jun 10th, 2008 05:06 am |
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NDTerminator wrote:
... Unless there was an escapee from the nearest major zoo's, primate house, I have absolutely no question we were in the proximity of a very large, very angry off primate, with backup. In extremely rural north Alabama. Cripes...
There was a second critter that wasn't raising quite the ruckus the bigmouth was. You can hear the second critter "hooting" or "whooping" after the main scream (there were a couple screams and I managed to erase the first from my recording trying to play it to my mom over the phone a couple nights later). You also can hear DB saying, "that ain't no owl" (just yanking my chain a bit) and my response of "that's the second one". I always thought of the second vocalist as the bigmouth's "backup"...
This is precisely why I chose the screen name, escAPEe.
When confronted with physical evidence like this audio recording, it irks me when experts and skeptics want to explain it away as proving nothing more than that some specimen escapee from a zoo or circus was on the loose.
We all know that what we are dealing with is not an escaped specimen of any known species-- but something new and different.
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