Comments on: Camera Shutter?

By: stancourtney

stancourtney — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:56:58 +0000

I do think the sound was within about four feet of the recorder.

By: earl

earl — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:23:31 +0000

Another thought, Could it be the sound of someone or something climbing into the stand, and what we are haring is the sound of the stand taking the weight. If the gamecams were removed, it could be curiosity wondering what the recorder was.

By: earl

earl — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:18:22 +0000

Stan, what intreged me was the background noise. It sounded like running water, not the wind. Some old pieces of farm machinery could sound like that. Hard to tell. Interesting

By: stancourtney

stancourtney — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:58:42 +0000

Trudie, I was unable to hear any sounds of walking.

By: G. de La Hoya

G. de La Hoya — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:12:53 +0000

I agree. If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears or sees it does not mean that Bigfoot did it.

By: Trudie

Trudie — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:18:16 +0000

Stan, I'm guessing this recording did not contain the sounds of someone/something, bipedal or otherwise, walking around the tree, right? If so, that makes this mystery even more perplexing.

By: stancourtney

stancourtney — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:07:17 +0000

Thanks Marc,

I don't have any knowledge about the early gamecam mechanisms. Be interesting to know what they sounded like.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:37:16 +0000

That is very interesting. I don't think it's an SLR, past or present, because the sound isn't anywhere near matching. The closest thing it reminds me of is a toy plastic machine gun that I had when I was a kid. There was a mechanism that would create a "machine gun" sound if you kept pulling trigger repeatedly. Don't know how the mechanism worked exactly, but I always suspected that it was rotary in nature and it sounded very similar when winding down. With the squatches power of mimicry, though, who knows what is possible. The Lyrebird can create stunningly accurate imitations of mechanical sounds.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:43:42 +0000

Sounds too mechanical to be imitation. I'd bet someone was out on a walk or watching birds and took a picture with a SLR camera.

Gary in Texas

By: stancourtney

stancourtney — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:24:14 +0000

Many birds can imitate, but usually other birds. I am not sure about proven imitation of sounds by primates.

If you go to the bottom of my BIgfoot Sounds page you will find a list of recordings of possible sounds that are imitations.