About 3-4 minutes later the whippoorwills started in and the "night sounds" came back to the woods. After the 4th vocalization (which seemed very close to each other and farther from me) all the vocalizations and tree banging stopped. There were 3 loud bangs from close to me and then three (almost answering) bangs from the vocalization farther away. Between the 2nd and 3rd vocalizations I heard a banging like a board was being smacked against a tree. Each time the vocalizations got closer together and the one closest to my cabin got farther away towards the southeast. About 30 seconds later there was an answering vocalization from quite a ways off and to the southeast.
DENT COUNTY ANIMAL S SERIES
About 4-5 minutes later I heard a series of 2-3 "whoops" and then an incredibly loud, low rumbling screech or scream come from somewhere close and from the southwest of my "farm/hunting cabin" (probably within 200-300 yards at the most). I had just gone to bed (about 10:30PM) on Friday night when I heard the "night sounds" completely stop.
DENT COUNTY ANIMAL S CRACKED
There was a 3/4 moon out and the nights were very clear and somewhat cool (about 48-52 degrees on Friday & Saturday nights) but I had the window cracked as I like to go to sleep to the "night sounds". I was staying overnight at this "farm/hunting cabin" of mine on the weekend of 15-17 April 2005. I have also heard the banging of wood on trees in the woods around me at night. I know what bobcat, coyote, screech owls, barred owls and most other "forest animals and birds" sound like and these vocalizations don't sound like any of these. I have heard the same or similar sounds or "vocalizations" on this website. I have heard some strange vocalizations since buying the property over 3 years ago. There is a pine forest on the northeast side where an old logging road is our entrance to the property. My property is mostly oak forest with about 10 acres of open space that was once used for grazing cattle. On my property there is a wet weather creek that almost always has a little water in it. The rest is all National Forest on all sides of my property. I am bordered on the southeast 40 acres by a farm and on the northwest 40 acres by a farm. I own 80 fenced acres of private property in the Mark Twain National Forest in Dent County Missouri. I know the animals that inhabit the woods in Missouri. I have been hunting for over 30 years as well. I have been camping for most of my life and was an Adult Boy Scout Leader and Trainer for approx. First a little background on me: I am 60 years old and work for the U.S.
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Bigfoot: Dent County Missouri, sounds heard that were frightening 2005.