Unsettling Screams Turn Out To Be...

Some people in Maryland are hearing some strange screams and cries coming from the woods. Could this be the answer?

A report by The Wildlife Trusts says people typically hear the “pained cry in the dead of night” and it is “often answered by the ‘hup-hup-hup’ bark of the dog fox.”

“Vixen calls” have long been linked to myths and urban folklore, because the sound “will chill your blood,” National Geographic reports. Some have even attributed the screams to Bigfoot, the legendary ape-man some claim roams the state’s forests, according to a Skeptoid.com.

“The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has a call like Jack the Ripper is roaming the streets. The screams of this wild city-dweller can seem disturbingly human,” National Geographic wrote 2018.

More than 100 commenters have responded to the state’s Facebook post, including a woman who admits she mistook the screams for a panther.

“If you do not know what you are hearing, it can freak you out for sure,” Francine Chrusniak said on the state’s Facebook page.

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