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Geographical Index > United States > Pennsylvania > Beaver County > Report # 65880 Report # 65880 (Class B) Submitted by witness on Monday, August 3, 2020. "Ohio howls" heard not far from where recording was obtained in 1994 (Show Printer-friendly Version) YEAR: 2020 SEASON: Spring MONTH: April DATE: 11 STATE: Pennsylvania COUNTY: Beaver County LOCATION DETAILS: DO NOT POST LOCATION PLEASE. I do not want the landowners bothered. NEAREST TOWN: Raccoon Township NEAREST ROAD: I-376 OBSERVED: The Saturday night before Easter 2020, I was sitting outside by a crackling fire, all alone. Was about 11:30 at night, and I had some music playing low on a small Bluetooth speaker. From way deep in the valley below me, and I mean it’s a huge expanse of woods back there, a couple miles to the next road, I heard a bone chilling ethereal howl. Then I heard it again. Turned my music off, and listened intently. I heard it three more times over the next minute or so. Too faint to record but loud enough to hear beside a crackling pine fire. Each instance was three or five seconds long, sounded “WHOOOOHRRRLL”. Started soft, picked up in intensity, then tailed off. Whatever it was it was very loud, very powerful, almost resonated like a train whistle does from a distance. I could also tell the sound was projected in different directions on a couple of the howls. ALSO NOTICED: One other evening a couple months later (June 2020), a neighbor and I were sitting around the fire out back and we were suddenly overcome by a putrid smell. He at first said "Skunk!" then quickly said "no, what the h*ll is that?" It was almost like rotting flesh mixed with river bottom muck and animal musk. Very rank. Lasted about 30 seconds then was gone. Checked area with a flashlight. Didn't see or hear anything (or any further smell). We decided maybe someone's septic was outgassing and just carried on fireside conversation (which then turned to my earlier sound experience). OTHER WITNESSES: No one else, just me. OTHER STORIES: Through a couple Facebook groups, I've heard that there have been supposed sightings and sign found on a large reservoir property less than a mile from where I heard these sounds. TIME AND CONDITIONS: 11:30 pm, 40 degrees, clear, crisp, no wind. ENVIRONMENT: This is a fairly uninhabited and uninterrupted area of deep timbered hollows, rolling down to the Ohio River. There are a couple dirt roads that cross the area, and Interstate 376 is one border. The hillsides are steep, valleys are deep, roads and trails are scarce, hills are covered in hardwoods and the bottoms are choked with hemlock. Several small creek draws all spill into Raccoon Creek and eventually the Ohio River. Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker: About BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:
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