Number of Witnesses: 4
Length of Observation: Brief
Vocalizations Heard?: It began almost laughingly like a hyena or dog and let out a blood curling wail
that I can best describe as similar to some of the Ohio recordings. The vocalization was so load that all of us stopped. All of us were terrified and were in disbelief of what we heard. Nobody could tell what it was. It sounded so completely foreign to anything we could even imagine. We argued over what we heard for a second. My friend could only explain it as perhaps a large bird like a crain. Everyone else had no idea. It was honestly like nothing we had ever heard.
In high school I was with a group of four friends and we were looking for a place to party. We decided to go to a site where we usually hung out on weekends. It was a 1/8 -1/4 mile stretch of gravel road that had been closed for a number of years. There was an old wooden bridge that stretched across a creek. Creek ran north about 5 miles into the Kansas River and south into Olathe Lake. We referred to the place as it was commonly called Dead Man’s Bridge. Rumors circulated that a man had hung himself, another rumor that someone had jumped off the bridge and committed suicide, and lastly that a group of campers had been brutally murdered in their tents in the area. However, where the name originated nobody really knew. I guess we just assumed typical high school lore. We just new it was a place were we could park our cars and drink without being harassed by police. Often we lit camp fires and hung out until late hours.
Anyway on the night in question a group of us (4) were planning to walk down the road from the closed sign to the bridge as we had always done before.
My friend at the time grabbed a pellet rifle out of the back of the car and I was carrying a four pack of
wine coolers in a brown bag. I believe someone else was carrying beer or more coolers.
As we approached the bridge between 10 PM and 11 PM walking down the road to the South of a was a tree line Behind the treeline was a pond and a little to the west the creek. As we approached the treeline around 100 ft -150 ft in front of us in the woods we suddenly heard something that nobody had ever heard before. It began almost laughingly like a hyena or dog and let out a blood curling wail that I can best describe as similar to some of the Ohio recordings. The vocalization was so load that all of us stopped. All of us were terrified and were in disbelief of what we heard. Nobody could tell what it was. It sounded so completely foreign to anything we could even imagine. We argued over what we heard for a second. My friend could only explain it as perhaps a large bird like a crain. Everyone else had no idea. It was honestly like nothing we had ever heard. He fired his pellet rifle at the top of a fence post expecting something to fly away, but nothing happened. No movement in the trees. There was just a several seconds of silence and I have to tell you my heart was racing. I distributed wine coolers as fastly as possible so everyone had something in their hands to defend themselves and we hastily walked backwards not turning and running back to the car..and then sprinting the last stretch. It was the last time we went out there. Last year I sent a link to one of the Ohio recordings to one of my friends who was with us that night. I hadn’t spoken to him in years having to make contact through his brother. I also sent him a link to a call sound made by an owl having a similar vocalization. Ironically I was doing research on bigfoot as more or less a spectic when I noticed several reports in OK, KS, and MO all referring to a similar description in the BFRO database, which brought back memories. One individual described the vocalization similar to the Ohio Recordings and I explored the link and sure enough. I was convinced that is what we heard that night. I also heard that a certain type of owl could make a call some people said could be similar to the description so copied a link over to him of both sounds.. one the owl and the other the Ohio recordings to let him hear and compare what he thought he heard. I wanted to know if his opinion would be similar to mine. I will copy text over at his response:
OMG!!!!! the Ohio recording,,,,,, Chills,,, That’s it,,, the background stuff no,,,but the howl in the
background YES! The owl isn’t even close. There was a group of guys that I knew from Highschool who claimed they saw a bigfoot in Ernie Miller Park, which is about 1 mile East of where our sighting occurred. There incident was a year or two before ours. Also along a similar creek basin about 15 miles due South in Spring Hill I know a group of my great uncles where hunting at night years ago playing back animal noises from their truck and had rifles. They are all deceased now, but the story goes they were blaring recordings when they heard something that terrified them and left the area. I believe this happened on my grandparents farm, which sat back along Hillsdale Lake in KS. My uncle reports that he heard screams at night coming back behind the farm house that sounded like a woman screaming. Probably a cougar as there have been sightings in the area. I have noticed certain things like rabbit hides hanging in trees and animal fur/dead animals on top
of 6 ft bails of hay. Again something I have a general assumption of cougars.