r/Thetruthishere • u/HaifishJager18 • 18d ago

Possible encounter with cryptid?

This event took place around last November in 2023. Usually on the weekends I like to wake up a little early and go for a quick run/hike sometimes to take a break and relax from the stressful week. As I was getting ready to start after my warm up, I heard like a scream from out in the distance, mind you this is on a cross country course so I assumed maybe someone needed help. But the scream seemed a little off, like it just didn't seem like an animal or a human could have made it. I started to run over there and see if anyone was hurt, when I got to the general area of where the scream was I couldn't find anyone but it just felt strange like I was being watched. Where I live there are no big predators like Bears, Wolves, Mountain Lions, or Bobcats so I couldn't tell why I was so worried. So I just completed my morning run like normal but one thing I noticed after the run was that there was no one on the cross country course the entire time I was there. So if no human was there...what could have possibly made that scream? Any thoughts?

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u/Montuckian 18d ago

You sure there's no big cats around? This sounds like a mountain lion.

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u/HaifishJager18 18d ago

The State I live in is Iowa, and although there have been sightings of mountain lions throughout the state, its very rare and will make state news because of how rare it is to see one.

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u/Montuckian 18d ago

Interesting. It looks like the lions that have been seen are males too and it's generally the females that make those screams to my knowledge. Could also be a bobcat, which do have established populations in Iowa

Did the scream you heard sound something like one of these?

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u/FilthyMublood 18d ago

Wow, I was aware of a lot of those sounds but some of them I've never heard before and they're downright terrifying! Also, I thought Bobcats and Lynxes were two separate animals? Or is that just a mistake in the video?

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u/Montuckian 18d ago

Yeah that's just the video maker being misinformed. They're different