What kind of thing SCREAMS at night?

[slightlyscrambled]

The female cougar/puma/mountain lion will scream to let males know she is in heat. Check out the second video on this sight.
http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/Mountain-Lion-Sounds.html
I know that they can and will come into populated areas as a few years ago one came right into the middle of town in St. Paul Ne. It was stalking the kids at the school and the police had to shoot it.
http://theindependent.com/articles/2001/12/15/news/20011215-archive3.txt

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

Screech Owls make an awful scream. Could have been an owl making the noise and you also happened to hear something rustling on the ground.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Female deer scream like a woman in distress- that is their mating call.

 

[Lunachick]

Wow, it could have been almost anything! Will I ever find out? This is going to drive me crazy! If Mr Bunnyrabbit doesn't show up this spring, I'll know what it was

Even if he enjoyed part of my garden, it was only one rabbit bothering my flowerbed, I didn't mind. I'm still thinking it was a rabbit screaming.........anything bigger than that - I'm gonna be worried. But I wanna know.......especially since I have my chickens to think about.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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As a past cat breeder,they can make screaming sounds of different pitches and volumes when breeding.

 

[TigerLilly]

I know it probably wont apply in your case, but I have heard cows scream like a woman. Never would've believed it, but I heard it myself. Husband warned me the first night I stayed at his house by myself. Out in the middle of nowhere with cows behind his property. Strangest thing I've ever heard...

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

Foxes, cats, rabbits, etc all have slightly different screams (and variation among individuals). Guess it will take video evidence to settle the question.

Could you set up a game camera?

 

[ivan3]

Mating raccoons sound `like a woman screaming'. Only know this as I hear it, over the coop monitor, on occasion, and then wander out in the general direction the sounds are coming from with the rifle.

Sometimes `screams' are accompanied by yowls and growling.

 

[chkn]

I've heard of a thing called the vixen scream.

 

[patman75]

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Screech Owl was must first guess.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/sounds