In the latest episode of "Finding Bigfoot" they went to Oregon.  At the end of the investigation, they set up a fancy-schmancy sound system with speakers and piped out some "known" Bigfoot yells.  The experiment reminded me of something that I've meant to do for a while…find a website with particular animal sounds.

The point?  I am not a ranger, a biologist, or a zoologist (although I did consider that path long ago…which may explain my position in past arguments here at SV).  Some of the claims that we hear on these paranormal shows, both cryptozoological and ghostly, feature weird and unusual sounds.  I needed a baseline.  Something I could compare things to.  I found a starting point:

http://waterandwoods.net/2008/…..und-bytes/

It's nice, clean, and extremely interesting.

Let's start with some screaming that we hear about on shows like GH, GHI, and GA.  Check out the Fox Yell.  If I were in a dark warehouse at night and just heard the back-end of that…sure…it would sound like a human scream to me.

How about some moaning?  You know, the typical "And when the moon is full, you can hear the fateful moan of lady in white (there's always a lady in white…)."  Listen to the Bobcat Cries.  If you didn't catch the very beginning, the "m" sound…it could definitely pass for a human moan.

A baby crying?  Go to Fox Kit Cry.  Put some distance between you and the sound and add a touch of echo…it could be a dead-ringer for a baby crying.

And for the Bigfoot yells…check out both the Elk Bugle and the Moose.  Why are those options completely dismissed when considering what is making those sounds?  When I hear those sound bytes and think back to the show…it's extremely hard for me to tell the difference.

Anyway…I've been wanting to post something like this for quite a while.  If anyone else has some interesting sound bytes or video featuring various sounds, feel free to throw them out there.  Perhaps if we build a large enough library, instead of just letting a show get away with "Did you hear that?  It's was a ghost!"…we can actually intelligently counter with valid alternative possibilities.