BFRO #15835: Possible Vocalizations heard in Southern Alberta

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During the summer of 1991 or 92, I made a call to our local fish and wildlife to ask what could be making these noises I had heard in the coolies near my home. I was told it most likely was a mountain lion, for there are sightings of them here; and they have been known to snatch dogs from people who live along the coolies following the river banks of the Oldman River here in Southern Alberta. Being that I can believe everything I'd heard about the mountain lions being here, even seen news reports about the cats spotted here, I also believed that it was one of these cats who made the noises I'd heard.Until recently when I listened to the "Samurai Chatter" recording on your sight. Now that is closer to the sounds I heard. I was sitting out on the back deck of my home, which at the time was on the coolie banks near Lethbridge. It was evening but not yet dark. I heard what I first thought sounded like a woman, sounding somewhat angry, somewhat screaming, words that I couldn�t make out. Listening harder because the first sounds made me think someone was in trouble, they came again. This time I listened for words but did not hear anything but the garbled sounds similar to your recording. Because of the breaks between the sounds, and possibly articulation, it seemed to be a language. The voice I heard sounded female, it first caught my attention for it sounded urgent, like some female had been attacked or grabbed or struggling and was fumbling for words as they yelled out. It came to me shortly afterwards that the voice I heard had such volume, I heard it so clearly that it was hard to believe a person in the coolies could have made them, and so I believed it was a wild cat.Then again shortly afterwards, during that same summer, because I lived on the coolie banks, friends would often bring out their dirt bikes for these were some of the few places where we have hills for climbing around here and from my yard there was access to the coolies without trespassing. I lent a friend my bike one day that summer, but he returned without it for he couldn�t get it started again once down there and needed a hand getting it back up the hill. After dark another friend and the first went back down to the river to get my bike. Hard enough to walk alone up the long steep embankment, both men where pushing the bike when they heard a close range roar. It absolutely scared the crap out of these two (grown men), and it was all the talk as soon as they got back inside. I told them about there being mountain lions in the area, but they said this was no mountain lion. I assured them that these cats probably do make the strangest sounds for I had heard it myself, but they said the sound they heard was definitely no cat. No one thought of bigfoot at the time, but they did joke about there being some sort of scary sounding monster down there and neither of them had a better answer to what they had heard. Myself, I was amused that something had scared these guys that badly.

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🌤️ Weather Conditions

Early evening

ℹ️ Additional Details

Early evening

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