Who Is Watching My TV?

I am always amazed at how “close in” sasquatch appear to come to people, whether it is in campgrounds, vehicles or homes.

Summer 2006 – Mason County, Illinois

The summer of 2006 I was contacted by a witness who lived close to the Illinois River in Mason County, Illinois.  Her husband worked evenings and nothing unusual happened at her home until after her husband would arrive at home.

Clipart courtesy clker.com

They liked to watch TV in their bedroom before they retired for the evening. They started to hear movement and unusual sounds coming from outside their bedroom window.  This would happen periodically and went on for several months.

One evening they became aware of something outside their window again. So, the husband slipped out to the kitchen and on cue he flipped on the outside lights as his wife looked out the window. They saw the culprit, a very large seven foot bipedal animal quickly moving away from the house.

Their answer to the problem was to put aluminum foil completely over the window, preventing any light from being seen outside the window and also prevented any peeping Tom’s from looking in.  It was their opinion that the TV, which hung on the wall of the bedroom was an attractant.

October 2011 – Chatham, Illinois

I was contacted early Summer 2011 by a witness who felt that he was having occasional bigfoot activity. Odd smells, odd sounds and a frightened dog were part of the scenario. I started a recording project at his home and advised him that finding a good footprint would be the best evidence.

In October 2011 he contacted me again. He was very excited and related to me how he believed something was outside his living room window. He had Venetian blinds, the vertical type, and believed something was watching his TV. From where the witness was sitting in his living room he could not see out the window. The next morning he found a large (18 inch) footprint in his freshly worked flower bed outside his window. Please see – New Footprints Along Sugar Creek.

November  -  December 2011 – Central Illinois

I have lived in my present home since early 2009. Although I have heard lots of unusual vocals I had never heard anything up close until recently. However, that all began to change mid-November.

Please see the following posts for all the files:

Voices In The Woods – Pt. 1 

Voices In The Woods – Pt. 2 

Voices In The Woods – Pt. 3 

This past year we had a sliding glass door installed on our deck and had three windows replaced with much larger units. It opened up our view but also made our living room very visible to anything that is outside doing the nighttime. My wife now laughingly refers to our home as the “Tree House”.

The sounds that I think are the most remarkable are:

Soundclip # 1:  this sounds like someone laughing. Actually I wonder if something is mimicking me watching sitcoms on TV.

Soundclip # 2: another laughter, this time in the rain.

Soundclip # 3: this sounds like a muffled conversation. Again I am wondering if this is mimicking of what is on TV.

In all these cases we have something that is approaching a house and appears to be interested in what is going on in the living rooms while the families are watching TV. One family had  a sighting, one family found a footprint and the last family recorded sounds.

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2011 – The Year In Review

I assembled a couple of charts to show both sounds that I have recorded and a chart showing comments I have received from others in Illinois thought to have experienced some type of sasquatch activity during 2011.

The first chart, is strictly my recordings of possible sounds or experiences.

2011 – The Year In Review – My Sounds, etc.  

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The second chart is comments of possible activity from Illinois. A lot of them are 2nd hand reports or Class C reports. Sorry if I missed anyone’s comments, you can send them to me at stancourtney@hotmail.com.

2011 – The Year In Review – Illinois submitted comments

 

 

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Voices In The Woods – Pt. 3

Unusual sounds continue to be recorded behind my home.

This sounds like laughter in the rain recorded at at around 6:00 p.m.

Recorded the 20th of December, 2011.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 1 

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 1

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A moaning vocal recorded also at around 6:00 p.m. the next evening.

Recorded the 21st of December, 2011.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 2 

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 2

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A sad vocal recorded at 3:15 in the afternoon.

Recorded the 23rd of December, 2011.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 3 

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 3

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And at 9:00 in the evening.

Recorded the 23rd of December, 2011

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 4

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 4

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Illinois Screamer – Pt. 2

A year and a half ago I recorded a series of very pitched screams here in Central Illinois.

Please see:  Illinois Screamer – Pt. 1

In that post I posted Red Fox screams to illustrate the difference.

Woods behind my home.

This past week I have recorded what I think is similar screams. I also have a friend who lives about 1/2 mile from me. Just as it was getting dark he heard what he described as a very long loud high pitched scream. It was only about 75 yards from his back door and he did not investigate. He heard only one scream not a series. I emailed him my recording and he thinks it matches what I recorded.

Click here to listen to the 22nd December 2011 sound clip:  Scream 1

Waveform view and spectral view of Scream 1.

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Click here to listen to the 24th December 2011 sound clip:  Scream 2

Waveform view and spectral view of Scream 2.

I am not sure what this is, I don’t believe it is a Red Fox but possibly it could be a Bobcat or a Cougar.

 

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Falling down

This past summer there was a lot of work going on at the earthen dam near my home. Workers had been cutting down small trees and mowing a large area. The morning  of the 30th of July 1011 when I went outside I noticed this small tree (still with green leaves on it) had fallen onto the narrow roadway leading to the dam.

Although the tree looked old there was not a breeze last night, it just makes we wonder if something gave it a push and perhaps intentionally blocked all traffic on that small access road. Nothing dramatic but with the vocalizations I have heard this year and the rock throwing that both my wife and I witnessed I thought I best take a picture and write a short note.

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Voices In The Woods – Pt. 2

I have been running two recorders at home each about 200 yards apart. I have attempting to get a idea of the direction that the sounds are coming from and hoping the outer recorder will have less of Belle’s barking. On the 16th of December, 2011 from my deck I recorded this far off  ”yahoo” vocal which I think was perhaps 500 yards away.

The view looking up the small valley from where the distant voices are coming from.

The first recording using Sound Devices 722 field recorder and Telinga Parabolic Microphone.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice  1 

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 1

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My drop recorder recorded the same sounds. However, the dog barking (not Belle) is less pronounced. It gave me an idea of where the yells are coming from. Poor quality recordings because of the distance but it helps figure out the direction of the vocals.

The second recording using a Sony PCM-M10.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 2 

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 2.

 

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Voices In The Woods – Pt. 1

For some time now I have been aware that there is something in the woods behind my house that once in awhile makes strange sounds.

The leaves are off the trees now and the woods in the daytime are fairly transparent. Deer are easily seen on the hill behind my house. I live on a small lake at the end of a spur.  I do have a few neighbors up the road from me but none next door.

At night everything changes dramatically.  It is extremely dark as I do not use any security lights or leave outside lights on.

The small valley behind my home.

I am doing audio recording 24/7 with a Telinga parabolic microphone.  The parabolic is mounted on a tripod and located on a covered patio which is covered by a roof and surrounded by three walls. Microphone cables go through a hole I created in my basement wall and then feed upstairs to my Sound Devices 722 recorder.

I live in a very quiet area. At night there is almost no vehicle traffic. The greatest problem I have getting good recordings is wind in the tops of the trees.

In the last month I recorded strange sound three different times.

I propose no explanation to the sources of the sounds only that I can verify that no one is wondering around in the woods behind my home at the late hours of the night. The rustling of leaves that is heard is my dog Belle running up closer to the house.

The 1st sound almost sounds like a low moan.

Recorded the 15th of November, 2011.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 1 

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 1.

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The 2nd sound sort of sounds like someone laughing.

Recorded the 17th of November, 2011.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 2

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 2.

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The 3rd sound resembles voices similar to a GPS audio or a TV.

Recorded the 11th of December, 2011.

Click here to listen to sound clip:  Voice 3

Waveform view and spectral view of Voice 3.

One could certainly wish to have better quality recordings but with the wind and distance it is not possible.

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Troll Under The Bridge, Comparison Sounds

It has been a year since I recorded some unusual sounds at what I call the Troll Bridge. This bridge is located in rural Greene County, Illinois.

Painting (1915) by John Bauer -  Wikimedia Commons

To familiarize yourself with the incident it would be best to read the three posts from last year.

Troll Under The Bridge, Pt. 1 

Troll Under The Bridge, Pt. 2

Thoughts on ‎”Troll Under The Bridge”

The discussion has centered around whether the sound that was recorded:

1. Is the sound bipedal or quadrapedal?

2. Is the sound that of a dog, a horse or unknown?

It must be remembered that I was unable to record either a dog or a man running across the bridge in that neither was heavy enough. I weigh 240 lbs and the recorder did not pick up any sounds at all as I ran back and forth the bridge. It is assumed that whatever was running across the bridge was very heavy. I was unable to find anyone living close to the bridge that raised horses. Therefore, I was unable to record a horse galloping across the bridge. However I found a couple of horse sound samples on the net.

Although I can not the answer the question as to the source of the recording  I can provide several other recordings for comparison, (Copyrighted horse sound clips courtesy of  Soundrangers.com)

1. The Troll Under The Bridge, the original recording of 24 Nov 2010.

2. Belle, my Karelian Bear Dog, running up the wooden stairs from my patio to my deck.

3. Horse galloping # 1

4. Horse galloping # 2

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The original file (shortened to 13 seconds) showing just the running sounds.

Waveform and Spectral View

Click here to listen to sound clip:   The Bridge Runner – 24th of November 2010

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Clip # 2 – A recording of my dog Belle running up the wooden stairs between the deck and patio of our home.

Waveform and Spectral View

Click here to listen to sound clip:   Belle_Running_Up_Stairs

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Clip # 3 - A recording of  a horse galloping on dirt.

Waveform and Spectral View

Click here to listen to sound clip:   Horse Galloping on Dirt # 1

Copyrighted sound clip courtesy of  Soundrangers.com

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Clip # 4 - A second recording of  a horse galloping on dirt.

Waveform and Spectral View

Click here to listen to sound clip:   Horse Galloping on Dirt # 2

Copyrighted sound clip courtesy of  Soundrangers.com 

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Just Passin’ Through, Pt. 2

Two days ago ( 15th of November, 2011) I recorded an unusual sound in the woods behind my home.  Please see:  Just Passin’ Through, Pt. 1

Last night at 6:30 P.M. I recorded another strange sound.

The picture above illustrates the sound in both waveform view and spectral view.

With the wind and distance it was tough to get a decent recording. Recorded using a Sound Devices 722 field recorder and Telinga Stereo Parabolic Microphone.

Click here to listen to sound clip: Voice 20

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Just Passin’ Through, Pt. 1

I have mentioned before how I believe that something comes close to my home and makes unusual sounds from the nearby woods. I have always thought the purpose of this is to test or tease my Karelian Bear Dog, Belle. Last night, the 15th of November, 2011,  was one of those nights.

The woods behind my home. The sound was recorded at about 10:20 p.m.

Belle was barking at something that was about 200 yrds north of the house and up in the woods on the hillside. In this recording you can hear  the odd sound at the 2 second and 9 second mark. Belle is also running and rustling in the leaves.

The picture above illustrates the sound in both waveform view and spectral view.

With the wind and distance it was tough to get a decent recording. Recorded using a Sound Devices 722 field recorder and Telinga Stereo Microphone.

Click here to listen to sound clip: Voice 19

It sort of reminds me of the Jason Aldean song lyric “it’s your world, and I’m just passing through.”

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