YEAR: 1998

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: July

STATE: Washington

COUNTY: Kittitas County

LOCATION DETAILS: from Cle Elum, drive ten miles northwest on highway 903, then turn west on forest service road 112

NEAREST TOWN: Cle Elum

NEAREST ROAD: highway 903

OBSERVED: I saw the story about the BFRO on animal planet's Animal X show and the tape recorded "calls" you were using to attract Sasquatch was exactly what I heard about while camping on Lake Cle Elum in central Washington state.
My Mom and i had gone camping for the weekend and Saturday morning she claimed she heard the most terrible screaming sound the night before that lasted a few hours.I'm a heavy sleeper so I told her to wake me up if the sound continued that night as well. Around four in the morning she woke me up and told me to listen. It wasn't long before I heard the screaming that sounded like nothing either of us had heard before. It was also very very loud. We left the tent and everyone around us in all the other campsites was awake too.The sound was exactly what I heard on your recording. A chill still runs down my spine when I hear it.

ALSO NOTICED: There were also gunshots with the screaming.

OTHER WITNESSES: The only other witness I was in contact with was my mother.Although,There were many other people in the campsite.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was dark, the night was clear and cool.

ENVIRONMENT: Thick pine forest surrounded by mountain ridges.

Follow-up investigation report:

Witnesses were camping at the Wish Poosh on the north end of Cle Elum Lake. They were not the only ones at that spot that evening, there were an estimated 30+ people.

Around 0400 hours in the morning the witnesses were awakened by a sound that never changed pitched, and was to be estimated to be the only one in the area. As the two came out of their tent, they noticed some of the other campers around them were trying to figure out the sound.

The incident lasted around five minutes with each scream lasting in the neighborhood of about 6 seconds. According to mother, it was nothing she has heard before or since.

Q&A
Q: Do you camp at that area anymore?
A: "No, we haven't been back to that spot since it happened. We usually go camping that time of year, but won't go back to Wish Poosh Campground."

"Sound was comparable to a woman screaming in pain and a cougar, I have heard cougars scream before and there was no way it was a cougar."

Q: What direction did the scream originate?
A: “It was to the north I believe, not coming from across the lake, but up on the hills above us."

Q: You think there was more than one?
A: "No, it sounded like it was the only one, the pitch sounded the same every time, it screamed several times, don't know how long I was asleep and it awakened me."