Submit a story

Cryptids

Eight to Ten Seconds of Whoop: A First-Timer in Nantahala Near Cashiers

A camper about four miles north of the Old Iron Bridge in Nantahala National Forest says they heard a huge, high-pitched scream with bass they could feel, lasting 8 to 10 seconds around 11:30 p.m. No recording. Owls and coyotes remain the default.

CASHIERS, N.C. By Dead of Night Dispatch

Location Nantahala National Forest near Cashiers, North Carolina

Illustration: dense Appalachian forest ridge at dusk near Nantahala, mist between hardwoods, a distant dark upright blur among the trunks

CASHIERS, N.C. (about Oct. 26 or 27, 2026): The sound, if you take the poster at their word, lasted eight to ten seconds and had enough low end that they said they could feel it. There is no recording. That is the whole case in one breath.

Where it started

The original social media post

  1. u/BigShmack2506

    I’m staying about 4 miles north of Old Iron Bridge deep in the woods of Nantahala NF. Two nights ago, around 11:30-11:45 I was sitting on the deck of my Airbnb and I’ll just say it - it sounded like a huge man screaming in a high pitch, but I could still feel the base or mass behind the thing making the noise.

    Verified against the live Reddit selftext and top replies on Oct. 31, 2026. No recording on the post.

    View original on Reddit

    From the conversation

    • u/PFRockMysteries

      I would give anything to experience what you heard that night.

    • u/esthbt

      I'd believe it. I worked in Cashiers for awhile and I've visited the iron bridge, its fairly remote back in there and certainly a weird place.

    • u/Paranormal-A-R-Team

      the length of the vocal and the power/volume you "can feel" is quite typical.

    See the full thread on Reddit →

Posts shown as originally published; we don’t verify individual comments. Retrieved .

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, u/BigShmack2506 posted to r/bigfoot from an Airbnb deck about four miles north of the Old Iron Bridge, deep in Nantahala National Forest near Cashiers, North Carolina. They said the sound had come “two nights ago” around 11:30 to 11:45 p.m., which puts the event on the night of Monday, Oct. 26, or Tuesday, Oct. 27, local time. They described a huge, high-pitched scream with heavy bass. They said they have camped in Canada, Vermont, Idaho and Utah, and that this was not bobcat, fox, owl or coyote.

What we know

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

  • Post time. Oct. 28, 2026, about 1:50 p.m. Phoenix time.
  • Place. Roughly four miles north of Old Iron Bridge, Nantahala National Forest, near Cashiers.
  • Window. About 11:30 to 11:45 p.m., two nights before the post.
  • Media. None attached in the opened thread. Audio-only memory.
  • Experience claim. OP lists prior camping regions and rules out common night singers.

What’s claimed

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

That the vocalization matches reported sasquatch whoops: long, powerful, physically felt. That claim is the poster’s. BFRO and other catalogs do list Macon County and surrounding National Forest reports, which commenters linked, but a catalog entry is not this night’s proof.

What readers said

  • u/PFRockMysteries wrote: “I would give anything to experience what you heard that night.”
  • u/esthbt wrote: “I’d believe it. I worked in Cashiers for awhile and I’ve visited the iron bridge, its fairly remote back in there and certainly a weird place.”
  • u/Paranormal-A-R-Team wrote: ‘the length of the vocal and the power/volume you “can feel” is quite typical.’

Belief on a forum is not a spectrogram. The useful replies are the ones that stay falsifiable: remote terrain, known report density, and the absence of a file.

The owl problem

Eastern screech-owls, barred owls and coyotes produce sounds that startle people who do not live with them. A long, odd call at midnight in Nantahala has a high base rate of being an animal science already named. What the poster adds is duration, felt bass, and a personal exclusion list. Those details are how whoop reports earn a second look. They are still not a recording.

How we are filing this

First-hand tone, specific geography, no media. That is a clean audio-only, unverified cryptid lead for a prime evening slot, not a confirmed encounter. If someone else on that ridge the same night heard it, or if a trail cam audio unit was running, the story changes. Without that, Cashiers keeps its quiet and the whoop stays a story told from a deck.

What’s next

A phone voice memo, even a bad one, would move this. So would a second independent witness from the same night. We will update if either appears.

Sources

  1. Whoop from the woods near Cashiers · r/bigfoot (Reddit) u/BigShmack2506, Oct. 28, 2026. Sound described as two nights earlier around 11:30 to 11:45 p.m. No audio attached.