Bigfoot / Sasquatch Sounds

I previously labeled this page as My Unknown Sounds but the various search engines would not pick up the sound files and label them correctly. Therefore I will label this page Bigfoot / Sasquatch Sounds although the origin of these sounds is unknown. I do not know of any sounds on the internet or on any CD’s in which any sasquatch was videotaped while making a vocalization. I get many folks who email me with sounds and ask me to make a statement as to their origin. No one is able to identify sounds without seeing and videotaping the animal making the vocalization.

Please if you do record an interesting sound please contact me and I will at take a listen and can post them on the Guest Unknown Sounds page.

The purpose of this page is to allow feedback, comments and discussion. Recording conditions in the field can be challenging. My situation is living near a sewage treatment plant with its continuous hum. I wish that these files could be cleaned up with no hum, background noise and other extraneous sounds. The answer is being closer to the animals with better microphones and recorders.

For recommendations on sound equipment see the following page:
Sound Recording Equipment

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File #75 – 2009.08.17_01_H-2

File #74 – 2009.08.17_01_670

File #73- 2009.08.15_05_722

File #72 – 2009.08.15_04_H-2

File #71 – 2009.08.15_04_722

File #70 – 2009.08.15_02_H-2

File #69 – 2009.08.15_02_670

File #68 – 2009.08.15_02_722

File #67 – 2009.08.04_02

File #66 – 2009.08.04_01

This series of recording were recorded by me on two trips to Colorado. The first two were recorded on the 4th of August 2009, and the last set were recorded at the same location during a four night expedition from the 14th of August thru the 17th of August, 2009.

For a complete discussion of these sounds please see:
Colorado Howl – Pt. 2 and Colorado Howl – Pt. 3

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File #65 – 2009.05.07

File # 64 – 2009.05.04_08

File # 63 – 2009.05.04_06

File # 62 – 2009.05.04_05

File # 61 – 2009.05.04_02

The evening of the 4th of May, 2009 I was accompanied by Dennis Pfohl of Colorado to my “Main Research Box” here in Central Illinois.

Unusual hissing sound recorded several times, each time the sound had relocated. I did an all night recording two nights later and recorded the last sound file.

For a complete discussion of these sounds please see: A Walk in the Woods and That Strange Hissing Sound

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File #60 – 2008.09.20_02

File #59 – 2008.09.20_01

The 21st of September 2008 I spent the night in a remote campground in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana. This is one of my brother’s favorite campgrounds and I had camped here with him in 2005.

Starting at about 4 a.m. the recordings do show that something was close to my car. Now I can not say whether it was a deer, perhaps a black bear or some other unknown visitor.

The first clip appears to be some type of a grunt close to my car. The second clip sounds like something (perhaps a small rock) bouncing off my car headlight.

For a complete discussion of these sounds please see: Old Hag vs Infrasound vs Unknown

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File #58 – 2008.08.15_02

I camped in Colorado Friday the 15th of August,2008 at the same campground where I heard Tahoe Screams in June of this year. I placed the microphone next to my mirror on the driver’s side and ran the mic cord inside the car and had the recorder on the dash. I covered the little red light with a piece of paper so it hopefully couldn’t be seen. I fell asleep immediately and I had a rather restless night,
which is unusual for me.

1 – at 4 sec and 7 sec you hear me moaning in my sleep.
2 – at 23 sec you can hear the latches on my car door being tried.
3 – at 25 sec you hear a mumble or grumble from outside the car. This sound appears to be very similar to some other sound clips I have heard. This is the first recording I have of this type.

And now you know why I sleep in my car instead of a tent.

For a complete discussion of these sounds please see: Who’s that knocking at my door?

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File #57 - 2008.07.26_02

This sound clip was just before daybreak on Sunday morning. There were a lot of sheep on the hillside near our camp. At 5 sec. there is a loud vocalization I believe designed to stir up the dogs and the flock. I can’t really describe the sound, not a howl, just strange. Then at 50 sec and 53 sec two words were spoken.

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File #56 – 2008.07.22_01

The evening of Tuesday, the 22nd of July 2008 I was in Colorado. It was almost dark when I arrived at the site on Tuesday evening. I was concerned about driving down the rutted dirt road with my Toyota, not knowing for sure if I was at the correct locati on. So I drove back down the road and slept in my car at a small gravel pit. These sounds were picked up at 0330 a.m.

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FIle #55 – 2008.07.12_01

The evening of the 12th of July 2008 I was in Southern Illinois where I was invited to join a fellow researcher as part of my 48 in ‘08 project. After leaving the trail I recorded this most unusual sound. It is my opinion that perhaps it is a sound in the environment being mimicked.

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File #54 – 2008.05.18_01

File #53 – 2008.05.18_02

Three return calls done in response to soundblasting.

For a complete discussion of these sounds please see: Unusual Calls.

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File #52 – 2007.08.17_01

File #51 – 2007.08.17_02
Not sure if this is wood on wood or rock clacking. The knocking is heard at 10, 20 and 42 seconds with a whistle coming at 52 seconds.

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File #50 – 2007.05.02
Another distant call. Coyotes are again heard joining in.

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File #49 – 2007.04.30
A very distant call. Although the coyotes are also heard, the initial howls do not sound like your typical coyotes.

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File #48 – 2007.03.20_01

Unfiltered

File #47 – 2007.03.20_02

2nd pass filtered

File #46 – 2007.03.20_03

high end filtered compressed

File #45 – 2007.03.20_04

high end filtered

This was recorded at 03:35 in the morning. Various chattering and grumblings. Located one mile from the nearest dwelling.

The sound clips above was filtered using three different methods by DB Donlon.

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File #44 – 11.13.2006_02

unfiltered
This was recorded at 10:14 in the evening. Starts out with very low grumblings, then moves into parrot-like chattering, barks and calls.

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File #43 – 2006.11.13_01

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This was recorded at 10:14 in the evening.

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File # 42 – 2006.05.24_03 ( unfiltered long version )

File # 41 – 2006.05.24_02 ( unfiltered version )

File # 40 – 2006.05.24_01

File # 39 – 2006.05.18_03 ( unfiltered long version )

File # 38 – 2006.05.18_02 ( unfiltered version )

File # 37 – 2006.05.18_01

File # 36 – 2006.04.12_03 ( unfiltered long version )

File # 35 – 2006.04.12_02 ( unfiltered version )

File # 34 – 2006.04.12_01

File # 33 – 2006.04.07_03 ( unfiltered long version )

File # 32 – 2006.04.07_02 ( unfiltered version )

File # 31 – 2006.04.07_01

File # 30 – 2006.04.04_03 ( unfiltered long version )

File # 29 – 2006.04.04_02 ( unfiltered version )

File # 28 – 2006.04.04_01

For analysis, discussion links and other items associated with the Illinois Howl please see: Illinois Howl.

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File #27- 2006.03.10_01

More whoops. This was recorded at 9:30 at night. The distance was too great to allow any identification.

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File #26 – 2006.03.10_01

Whoops – Unfiltered

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File #25 – 2005.12.01

This was recorded at 2 a.m. I really don’t know what to make of this call, is it a bird or mammal?

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File #24 – 2005.11.19_02

Recorder left overnight in a oak and hickory forest. It sounds like coyote pups and then a yelp.

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File #23 – 2005.11.19_01

Oak and hickory forest. Sounds like feral hogs with an unknown whistle.

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File #22 – 2005.11.05

Oak and hickory forest. Unknown source of the only whoop recorded that night.

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File #21 – 2005.11.02

Screams followed by dogs barking.

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File #20 – 2005.10.30

One lone howl followed by a whistle.

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File #19 – 2005.10.29_04

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File #18 – 2005.10.29_03

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File #17 – 2005.10.29_02

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File #16 – 2005.10.29_01

Another series of voices.

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File #15 – 2005.10.27

A typical howl followed by dogs barking.

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File #14 – 2005.10.04

Ten hours of recording for 2 seconds of a single call.

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File #13 – 2005.09.26

A very strange sound, descending three notes.

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File #12 – 2005.09.26

Another typical moan howl followed by dogs barking .

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File #11 – 2005.08.28

Howls or calls are heard first and then the loud speaker from a church event in town followed by dogs barking.

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File #10 – 2005.08.27

I spent the night near Seneca, Illinois in my van and kept the microphone on the roof. I heard about fifty whistles and then the rock knocking. Several local hunters assure me that this is not a barred owl’s call. After the call it does more rock knocking. Comment received on the file – a baby barred owl. Then theres another jr that responds to it?

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File #09 – 2005.08.25

I definately have not heard anything that sounds like this before.

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File #08 – 2005.07.28

My brother believes that he had a visit by a bigfoot while camping in Jul of 2004 in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana. His unpublished report is in the database of the BFRO labelled as Likely Misinterpretation. BFRO Report 9339 non-public. My wife and I camped with them the summer of 2005 in the same campspot. We were the only campers. The third night this is what I recorded at 11 p.m. It is my opinion that it is a large biped walking past our two motorhomes. When my dog growled from inside the motor home the animal walked away. Even though I had the night-vision next to my bed, by time I got up and looked out the window the animal was gone.

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File #07 – 2005.07.09_03_02

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File #06 – 2005.07.09_03_01

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File #05 – 2005.07.09_02_02

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File #04 – 2005.07.09_02_01

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File #03 – 2005.07.09_01_2

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File #02 – 2005.07.09_01_1

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These three sounds were all recorded within a five minute period at about 11 p.m. It took my wife and I several weeks to digest exactly what these sounds were. I certainly never would have believed that these animals were going up and down the creek behind my house.

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File #01 – 2005.06.25

This was recorded at 11 p.m. on a three man hike through the woods. Other than the barred owl calls there was definately some animal about 60 yards up the hill from us that kept breaking branches and walking back and forth.