Hi All,
Don't know how to describe what happened to us the other day but here goes.
My wife and I were out around the outskirts of Mareeba the other day about an hour or so outside Cairns heading up towards Granite Gorge.
We pulled up at an outlook on the top of a hill to take some photos and as we got out of the car we suddenly hear this enormous scream coming from the bush below us that sounded like a cross between a man yelling, a cow being strangled and a horse with its legs broken, with the sound of the scream changing in that order as it got louder, and it sounded like they were all trapped down in a hole as it echoed or resounded. But you could tell it all came from the one animal / beast. It definitely didn't sound human whatever it was. It sounded like some large animal of some sort. It sounded big, mean and angry.
We were on a hill and it echoed all around us but definitely came from out in front of where we were standing.
Thats the best description I can give you for whatever it was. It was loud, really loud and it was a long scream, this was followed by the same scream but not quite as loud off in the distance a couple of minutes later.
Following that we hear this knocking noise as if someone was whacking a log against a tree down the hill somewhere in front of us.
Then straight after the knocking stopped there was silence, I mean nothing, the birds who were chirping just a few seconds before just stopped for a few minutes, the only noise was the wind, just silence. It was just weird haven't heard birds just stop singing like that before, it was as if you had switched off a recording it was that quick.
We looked down the hill but couldn't see anything because the bush was so thick.
After about 5 minutes the birds started singing again just as if nothing had happened and we didn't hear any other unusual noises.
We took our photos of the scenery and decided after a couple of minutes more that we had better not hang around and got in the Troopy and hightailed it out of there.
We have never heard anything out in the bush like that scream before and hope we never do again. I know we wont ever forget the experience.
Has anyone else experienced something like that out in the bush or know what animal could have made a scream like that?
Regards,
Grant
Don't know how to describe what happened to us the other day but here goes.
My wife and I were out around the outskirts of Mareeba the other day about an hour or so outside Cairns heading up towards Granite Gorge.
We pulled up at an outlook on the top of a hill to take some photos and as we got out of the car we suddenly hear this enormous scream coming from the bush below us that sounded like a cross between a man yelling, a cow being strangled and a horse with its legs broken, with the sound of the scream changing in that order as it got louder, and it sounded like they were all trapped down in a hole as it echoed or resounded. But you could tell it all came from the one animal / beast. It definitely didn't sound human whatever it was. It sounded like some large animal of some sort. It sounded big, mean and angry.
We were on a hill and it echoed all around us but definitely came from out in front of where we were standing.
Thats the best description I can give you for whatever it was. It was loud, really loud and it was a long scream, this was followed by the same scream but not quite as loud off in the distance a couple of minutes later.
Following that we hear this knocking noise as if someone was whacking a log against a tree down the hill somewhere in front of us.
Then straight after the knocking stopped there was silence, I mean nothing, the birds who were chirping just a few seconds before just stopped for a few minutes, the only noise was the wind, just silence. It was just weird haven't heard birds just stop singing like that before, it was as if you had switched off a recording it was that quick.
We looked down the hill but couldn't see anything because the bush was so thick.
After about 5 minutes the birds started singing again just as if nothing had happened and we didn't hear any other unusual noises.
We took our photos of the scenery and decided after a couple of minutes more that we had better not hang around and got in the Troopy and hightailed it out of there.
We have never heard anything out in the bush like that scream before and hope we never do again. I know we wont ever forget the experience.
Has anyone else experienced something like that out in the bush or know what animal could have made a scream like that?
Regards,
Grant
