Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:  July 1, 2005

DATE:    April 15, 2005
 

TIME:     10:30 pm
 

LOCATION:   Dent County, Missouri
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    I don't know what to think about this "encounter".  I have visited this web site a few times (I usually go to the XXXX web site and have posted this there).  I have to also post this here for everyone else to see.

First a little background on me:
I am 60 years old and work for the U.S. Government.  I have been camping for most of my adult life and was an Adult Boy Scout Leader and Trainer for approx. 20 years.  I have been hunting for over 30 years as well.  I know the animals that inhabit the woods in Missouri.

I own 80 fenced acres of private property in the xxxxxx .  I am bordered on the southeast 40 acres by a farm and on the northwest 40 acres by a farm.  The rest is all xxxx on all sides of my property.  On my property there is a wet weather creek that almost always has water in it.  My property is mostly oak forest with about 10 acres of open space that was once used for cattle grazing.  There is a pine forest on the northeast side where an old logging road is our entrance to the property.

I have heard some strange vocalizations since buying the property over 3 years ago.  I know what bobcat, coyote, screech owls, barred owls, foxes, whippoorwills, crows and most other "forest animals and birds" sound like and these vocalizations don't sound like any of these.  I have also heard the banging of wood on trees in the woods around me at night.

Here is what happened recently:
I was staying overnight at this "farm/hunting cabin"; of mine on the weekend of 15-17 April 2005.  There was a 3/4 moon out and the nights were very clear and somewhat cool (about 48-52 degrees on Friday & Saturday nights) but I had the window cracked as I like to go to sleep to the "night sounds" of the woods at night and have a little breeze blow in my face.  I had just gone to bed (about 10:30 PM) on Friday night when I heard the "night sounds" completely stop.  About 4-5 minutes later I heard an incredibly loud screech or scream come from somewhere close and from the southwest of my "farm/hunting cabin" (probably 200-300 yards at the most).  About 30 seconds later there was an answering vocalization from quite a ways off and to the southeast.  This repeated 4 different times.  Each time the vocalizations got closer together and the ones closest to my "farm/hunting cabin" got farther away towards the southeast.  Between the 2nd an

On Saturday night it was very much like the night before except there were no vocalizations or tree whacking, just the "night sounds"; ceasing and about 3-4 minutes later the window right next to my bed (on the outside of the cabin this window is about 4 feet from the ground to the bottom of the window and the window is 2' wide and 3' tall) went completely dark as if something stood outside and blocked out the moon and stars at the window.  This "blackout" only lasted for 2-5 seconds.  I don't know exactly how long for sure as I was practically holding my breath and trying to be as quiet as possible.  I even reached for my pistol just to be safe.  I had the window slightly open and DID NOT smell anything special like I have read about.  I did smell what smelled like a wet dog and there were no dogs around that weekend.  I should know what a "wet dog smell"; is like as I have 2 Labrador Retrievers and a Rottweiler, none of which were with me that weekend.

I don't know what this was but if someone wants to call me they can.
 

Activities of Witness:   N/A
 

Description of Creature:  N/A
 

Other Notes:    Each night this happened right after I shut out the lights and went to bed.
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.

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