Mysterious ‘whoops’ and screams heard in small Connecticut town that’s a hotspot for Bigfoot sightings

In a small town in Connecticut, mysterious ‘screeching’ and ‘screaming’ were heard, which some believe came from the long-rumored but elusive creature Bigfoot.

The terrifying episode, reported by a New England visitor from California, did not sound like a “bobcat/fox/coyote,” according to the witness, who came forward because the calls resembled previous cases of alleged “bigfoot whoops” online placed.

“I am very familiar with coyotes, bobcats and cougars and their sounds,” the witness said. ‘There was quite a bit of power behind this voice.’

The “short-lasting screams” and “prolonged screeching” were said to have been heard just after midnight, about eight miles from Collis P. Huntington State Park, an 883-acre nature reserve east of New Haven.

The Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO), which obtained the witness’ report, categorized it as a “Class B” case, meaning it was a second-level sighting below “Class A,” but a credible report despite the lack of supporting evidence.

“All the dogs in the area started barking at once when the noises stopped,” the witness report said.

‘Normally there are a lot of owls in the area and if I had gone outside earlier I could hear them.’

‘When I got the [alleged Bigfoot] When the vocalizations ended, it was probably a good ten minutes before I could hear the owls again.”

The “brief screaming” and “prolonged screeching” are said to have been heard just after midnight on October 17, 2023, about eight miles from Collis P. Huntington State Park – an 883-acre wilderness area east of New Haven (the red pin above provides coordinates for the event)

While no committed skeptics have addressed this particular case, many have previously criticized alleged Bigfoot audio cases, such as even some well-known Bigfoot believers such as the late anthropologist Dr. Grover Krantz of Washington State University.

‘Temperature, wind and geographic features like canyons’ can all change animal sounds from a distance, making them sound stranger, according to noted skeptic and author Benjamin Radford.

But solutions to the earwitness case in connecticut filed on october 20, 2023 and published by the BFRO are still missing – and the mystery resurfaced this week with reporting from the local ABC affiliate WTNH News 8.

News 8 noted that this was not the region’s first encounter with Sasquatch, citing reports starting in 2018 in Hartford County, Litchfield County in 2022 and Middlesex in 2019.

“New London Counties in 2019 and Windham County last reported seeing a bigfoot in 2009,” the news network said.

‘The sound direction seemed like this [if[ it was from the Northeast of coords,’ the witness wrote. ‘Vocal pattern would be roughly 10 seconds of vocalization then stop.’ 

‘This repeated four or five times that I was aware of. It may have been going on prior to me noticing it,’ the witness continued. ‘This went on for about five to ten minutes.’

By the witness’s best estimated, the strange whoops and screams were originating from ‘two klicks’ or about 1.24 miles to the east, away from the state park toward New Haven, home to Yale University. 

But, the BFRO — which also hosts a page of sound recordings believed to be Bigfoot as well as audio of coyotes for contrast — did not post witness audio in this case.

DailyMail.com has reached out to the BFRO to inquire about what specific Bigfoot ‘vocalization recordings on YouTube’ were heard by their witness, leading them to believe that their Connecticut ‘whooping’ case resembled past reports.

Claims of apelike creatures, glowing orange orbs and car engines suddenly giving out in the area are now rife at Leominster State Forest over in Connecticut’s neighbor, Massachusetts. Pictured is a cast of a ‘humanoid print’ found in the Leominster forest in 2010

Above a map of Collis P. Huntington State Park in Connecticut 

Serious proponents for the existence of an undiscovered North American primate, like Idaho State anthropologist and primate anatomy expert Dr Jeff Meldrum, have taken increased interest in animal call recordings that might prove to be ‘Sasquatch.’

The most compelling acoustic case, according to Dr Meldrum, is the 1970s ‘Sierra Sounds recording,’ captured by businessman Ron Morehead and journalist Al Berry.

Audio analysis of the Sierra Sounds by an electrical engineering professor at the University of Wyoming, Dr Rodney Kirlin, concluded that these bizarre ‘abnormal whistles’ might be ‘a unique observation of Bigfoot in his natural environment.’

But further evidence is still being sought to confirm any link between the unusual harmonic acoustics in that Sierra case and last October’s Connecticut ‘whooping.’

Two years before Connecticut’s ‘Class B’ case, Idaho State’s Dr Meldrum spoke publicly about the ‘Sierra Sounds’ alleged Bigfoot audio, which he argued was ‘head and shoulders’ above other acoustic evidence for the popular cryptid.

The primate anatomy expert focused on 1980 research into the audio, conducted by Dr Kirlin and fellow electrical engineer Lasse Hertel and anthologized in ‘Manlike monsters on trial: early records and modern evidence‘ after their work had been presented at a conference held by the University of British Columbia.

A sculpture of a mother bear and cubs at the entrance to Huntington State Park in Redding, Connecticut – 8 miles from the alleged Bigfoot audio event. In 2023, bears were reported from people in 165 of the state’s 169 towns and cities, according to a state FAQ

‘Kirlin and Hertel,’ Dr Meldrum noted, ‘they’re not linguists or biostatisticians, but they have skills in sound analysis.’ 

While stopping short of claiming the audio is proof of Bigfoot’s existence, Dr Meldum noted that some of the harmonic tones on the tape, which were reported to be heard from a distance, resemble those of certain great ape species.

‘That was fascinating to me because that actually suggests the potential for some, extra laryngeal air sacs in the Sasquatch, which wouldn’t be unexpected at all because they’re present in the other three groups of great apes,’ Dr Meldrum said.

‘They’re seen in chimps and gorillas, to the greatest extent in the orangutan, to the least in the chimp,’ Dr Meldrum told the podcast Strange Phenomenon. ‘In humans, they’re very rare, but they do pop up every once in a while.’

Describing the ‘abnormal types of whistles’ found on the audio, Dr Kirlin and Hertel noted that ‘very short vocal tract lengths were estimated.’ 

‘These whistles could either have been produced with some kind of a musical instrument or by the creature using only a part of its vocal tract,’ the duo wrote.

All three researchers, as well as Bigfoot skeptics, have noted that the creepy audio heard on the Sierra Sounds may instead derive from a noise much closer to the microphone creating a saturation error effect.