What's out there?! Scary noises curious & nervous

[Matejka]

There is not enough information to even guess on this beyond it being a vertebrate or possibly a constipated alien.

I am leaning towards alien.
Seriously, I guess I have never heard a fisher cat; not sure we have them here in Texas. A screaming bobcat sounds like a baby crying/kid in trouble.






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[Craig Cowan]

Fox. - they sound like someone’s being tortured

 

[Tre3hugger]

Porcupine mating.

during mating season, both males and females make these sounds, along with wails, shrieks, and siren-like screaming

from northernwoodlands.com

 

[Jrios58]

OK this is more curiosity because before when I've posted on the predator site it was because of the loss. So I'm glad this isn't on such a gram note but this morning on the opposite side of the property from the chicken coop I heard the most frightening noise. Very much sounded like a young girl getting killed. But I could tell shortly after obviously an animal. I've always lived in the rural areas and used to having to worry about coyotes foxes raccoons in the occasional bobcat. I've heard the coyotes howl at my old property before but this was a sound unlike no other. But I have moved to a 17 1/2 acre property surrounded by conservation area.
So just curious and the coop is prepared for predators but what screams such a spine wrenching scream at 4 AM ?!

Maybe a peacock?

 

[El Paso Linda]

Apparently rabbits scream when they are being attacked? Don't trust me on that, though.

Yes, rabbits scream, but probably not that loud.

 

[mdquilts]

Fischer cat, they are horrid

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Apparently rabbits scream when they are being attacked? Don't trust me on that, though.

This is true. I had rabbits and one got out and was being chased by my dog. It was a very unique scream. Chilling.

 

[Sharkspeare]

Maybe a peacock?

This was my first thought too. I remember hearing the sound of what I swore was a child screaming in the woods. I put my shoes on and RAN - it was a loose peacock that got away from someone's farm! I had never in my life heard such a terrible, blood-chilling noise.

I would love to raise peacocks, but I think it would be upsetting. They really sound like an animal or child being hurt and it is distressing to hear if you don't know what it is.

 

[jROBERTg]

Bob cat mating sounds like screams.

 

[Birdsong 82]

After looking up fisher cats I m not quite close enough to the mountains I think. Never seen or heard of them near by
Definitely not a peacock. It was from the woods line and there's nothing but woods from that point for acres till you hit the creek. One of the several places the deer wander over from. No houses near
Listing to different and calls (or screams) I'm thinking bobcat. No others were really as loud and startling