Two Howls Over Diamond Bay: A 70-Year-Old Bowhunter Reports Sounds at Lake Norfork That Were 'Neither' Coyote Nor Wolf

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (Sept. 28, 2026): It was 7:30 on a Monday morning on Lake Norfork, in Arkansas, just south of the Missouri line. The air was 60 degrees, the sun was out and there wasn’t a breath of wind. A 70-year-old bowhunter sat alone among the hardwoods and cedars on a point in Diamond Bay.

Then, he says, the silence broke. Twice.

“Heard 2 howls 15 seconds apart while bowhunting this morning 7:30 am,” he wrote that same day. “I am 70 years old and have been hunting all my life, i have heard coyote’s and wolfs this was neither.”

✓ What we know

On the record: documents, statements, dates and places. Sources below.

• The report. The account was submitted to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, and posted in its database as Report #82619. The BFRO lists it as submitted by the witness, Donald Anderson, and classifies it as Class B.
• The place. Diamond Bay on Lake Norfork, in Baxter County, about 9 miles east of Mountain Home, according to the report. The nearest road is listed as Highway 342. The location is described as the “south main lake point in diamond bay.”
• The conditions. “60 degrees 7:30 in the morning sunny and no breeze i could hear a pin drop,” the witness wrote. He described the environment as “hardwoods and cedar along the lake.”
• Alone. Under other witnesses, he wrote: “no witness hunting alone.” He reported no other stories from the area.
• The pickup. On Oct. 1, the radio station website 101 The Eagle wrote up the report, quoting the hunter’s own words and noting that the area is “just a hop, skip and a jump from the southern Missouri border.” The station gave the distance as approximately 8 miles east of Mountain Home.

? What’s claimed

Accounts, testimony and theories, as told by the people who tell them.

• The sound. The hunter says he heard two howls, about 15 seconds apart, and that they matched neither coyotes nor wolves, sounds he says he knows from a lifetime of hunting.
• Where he’d heard it before. “I have heard the sound before on tv or utube on bigfoot shows that people have recorded,” he wrote.

The investigator’s view

The BFRO report includes a follow-up by Matthew Moneymaker, the organization’s founder and director, who has co-hosted Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet.

“There are several large, slow moving, lake-like rivers near the border between Missouri and Arkansas,” Moneymaker wrote. “There are many deer in this region and many bigfoot reports near these rivers. This area next to Lake Norfork (a dammed river) is the type of area where howls like this would occur, or at least be noticed, at this time of year.”

He added that howls like these “carry for a long distance,” so if they happen again in the coming days, “they will be audible from anywhere near Diamond Bay in Lake Norfork.”

A request to anyone nearby

Moneymaker’s follow-up is also a call for help. “It would be great if someone around there could get a recording of these howls,” he wrote. “Just record video with your phone to get the sound. Aim it in the direction of the sounds.”

The first time, he wrote, a howl catches people by surprise: they listen hard, trying to work out what it is, rather than thinking to record it. “It’s a different matter on the second occasion,” he wrote, adding that “this particular bow hunter will be more prepared to do that next time.”

“These howls were heard yesterday,” Moneymaker wrote, “so there’s a good chance they will occur again over the next few days or weeks on this side of Lake Norfork.”

As of Oct. 3, 2026, no recording from Diamond Bay had appeared with the report. Anyone at Lake Norfork this fall with a phone in their pocket now knows what the BFRO is hoping to hear.