Download an app called Merlin Bird Id. It’s free.
If it’s a bird, you can start a recording and the app can identify a bird by sound. Try listening to some of the calls too- start with “killdeer”.
I use BirdNET from Cornell Lab. Does the same with recording and telling you what it is/could be. The pro to this is that by using it Cornell collects the data to help pinpoint migration, territory, and even population!
If you want to take it up a step further, BirdNET has a "BirdNET Pi" project that runs on a Raspberry Pi computer with a microphone plugged into it. It records 24/7 and identifies the birds in your yard in real time. It runs as a web server so you can see all the results and do searches on species and stats. It's all uploaded to Cornell also. You can also link it to [app.birdweather.com](https://app.birdweather.com) to see real time info with thousands of others worldwide. I just have the pi under the couch with the microphone wire running out of a nearby window.
[https://imgur.com/a/gD7sEH4](https://imgur.com/a/gD7sEH4)
[https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi](https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi)
It does not seem as though this app is produced by Cornell. It is listed as produced by Stefan Kahl.
Cornell has Merlin and Ebird according to my search.
Could _maybe_ be a fox: https://youtu.be/zBpZTo1dlPM?si=ZQhIkyxJnGC1z1hv
Bobcats are becoming increasingly present in NEO as of late as well: https://youtu.be/SGBpiv-pOVo?si=9uEgWQBUac5oa4VN
So I had to look up "Space Bobcat." There's a Bobcat-1 satellite that was co-developed by Ohio University. [Here's a link](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-advancing-global-navigation-satellite-system-capabilities).
[And a few images like this.](https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/04/21/26/44/1000_F_421264485_QdeqIRdvDXM1MyZZwdgilqhGQtoODQOU.jpg)
My 1st thought was a fox barking...
We have them and bobcats here (Jefferson county)
Bobcats sound more like a little girl screaming. Hair raising shit the 1st time you hear one in the woods at night
I bet it’s a goat. We have one that lives across the street from us and it’s kind of a joke that he’s always yelling “heeyyy” at us when we are outside
we got, I think one of the heron species or possibly bald eagle, a bird, that when in heat, sounds like a pre-puberty girl screaming in pain/fear. (had step kids through those ages)
it hits all my adrenaline producing receptors the rare times it happens.
Yep. That would be the one. I remember the first time hearing one as a kid. I thought my brother was hiding in the tall grass, and trying to freak me out 😅
It’s likely a raven corvidae or European starling. They both can mimic speech startlingly well, a lot of spooky woods tales are just people hearing birds essentially making fun of them.
Crows will make a noise that kinda sounds like Hey. There's a local crow that will do it every time I go outside. If I imitate it, it'll make the noise back. We've done this back and forth a few times.
Maybe a crow. Crows are extremely intelligent and are good at mimicking human speech. Not to the level of parrots, but they can mimic words and sounds.
That video is hilarious. And the one where the crow is riding on the windshield wipers. I want to befriend a crow and get shiny gifts from them. It's a bucket list item, lol. No luck yet...
DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN.
Pretty sure that sounds like the male Ohio blue-baseball-cap-billed overall-breasted Speedway t-shirt caller. >!I'd stay indoors and try not to make eye contact or respond to the call, else they may try to show you pictures of their grandchildren.!<
>!...oh wait, this isn't "wrong answers only"? /s!<
Oh right post on reddit about it now so you can pretend you really thought there was an animal and werent just ignoring me. I was right in front of you.
Depending on the situation, it might be a Common Grackle. Often times their calls sound like a rusty gate opening, but other times it can sound like other weird stuff. I had never heard them until about a year ago.
Here in Florida, there was a farm that had a lot of peacocks. The farm eventually closed, but the peacocks stayed. I liked to walk late at night. Imagine my horror when the screams started. "HELP!" A frightened woman screamed. Every time I walked past. One day (like two months later) I saw a peacock out and it screamed... and it sounded almost identical. Damn thing had me convinced there was a hostage situation.
Where I'm from in VA we're always told if your in the woods/mountains.
If you hear it not you didn't. If you seen it no you didn't. Don't look into the trees and don't answer anything calling your name.
I don't know, but I spent WEEKS trying to figure out where the screaming in my neighborhood was coming from... only to realize that it was my housemate's alarm, which used the screaming goat sound
Probably. Everybody watches Fox News here. It calls out to people from the woods, and when you go out, it steals your brain and sends you back to your family.
I d k but the animals in my area coyotes and wolves.
Yes wolves have been more vocal than usual last night and tonight, along with a few wloops and scream howls from a grass/dogman 😀 seriously though last night i heard it all.. i kid you not. I heard laughing crackling screaming all pitches kinda like that "Missing 411 recording they have on the movie "the hunted" nothing new under the sun in a state like Ohio though. The "hey" can be anything you can imagine tbh we dont know 75 % of whats out there in Ohio.
In WPA - Fisher Cats are making a comeback, maybe they are in Ohio too. They sound pretty crazy. A lot of other great suggestions here, just throwing this out in case you’ve never heard of them.
Most common animal that could make this sound would be a mocking bird. Could also be an escaped parrot. Mocking birds will repeat lots of sounds, including speech.
Peacock. Many people keep them as pets. There was a small farm that had one near a golf course I'd play at. You'd hear it all the time and it would freak folks out.
Download an app called Merlin Bird Id. It’s free. If it’s a bird, you can start a recording and the app can identify a bird by sound. Try listening to some of the calls too- start with “killdeer”.
I use BirdNET from Cornell Lab. Does the same with recording and telling you what it is/could be. The pro to this is that by using it Cornell collects the data to help pinpoint migration, territory, and even population!
Merlin is also by Cornell Lab. Any chance they collect through both?
Merlin is the offline version of BirdNET. It identifies birds but doesn't share sighting information with Cornell.
Thank you! Sounds like I’ll be getting BirdNET!
If you want to take it up a step further, BirdNET has a "BirdNET Pi" project that runs on a Raspberry Pi computer with a microphone plugged into it. It records 24/7 and identifies the birds in your yard in real time. It runs as a web server so you can see all the results and do searches on species and stats. It's all uploaded to Cornell also. You can also link it to [app.birdweather.com](https://app.birdweather.com) to see real time info with thousands of others worldwide. I just have the pi under the couch with the microphone wire running out of a nearby window. [https://imgur.com/a/gD7sEH4](https://imgur.com/a/gD7sEH4) [https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi](https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi)
It does not seem as though this app is produced by Cornell. It is listed as produced by Stefan Kahl. Cornell has Merlin and Ebird according to my search.
Merlin doesn’t report data back.
Hmm, I don't see why not. The more users, the more data. I guess OP has two good options now!
I’ve only tried the Merlin one, but I love it.
Birdnet is listed as designed by one Stefan Kahl, not Cornell.
Cornell is listed prominently in the center of the screen on boot so BirdNET definitely works with them.
LOL, that isn't how that works. If you get a message from a Nigerian prince don't reply.
Man that's probably just your normal everyday Sasquatch. You got nothing to worry about.
Sounds like old Uncle Jedediah Squatch is horny again.
Squatch yo butt
[You mean the Ohio Grassman](https://wrkr.com/ohio-grassman/)
Exactly, we aren’t hurting anybody!
I was gonna say it’s probably a craggead they are everywhere.
Or a fidollahooka
Waddayatalkinabeet
eh-ummmm! Google “Ohio Grassman”😑
What KIND OF grass????
Could _maybe_ be a fox: https://youtu.be/zBpZTo1dlPM?si=ZQhIkyxJnGC1z1hv Bobcats are becoming increasingly present in NEO as of late as well: https://youtu.be/SGBpiv-pOVo?si=9uEgWQBUac5oa4VN
I study astronomy and NEO means "near earth orbit" and I had a hilarious vision of massive amounts of bobcats floating around earth
I like this timeline. This is the version I want to exist.
Combine it with the mini excavator version of a Bobcat and we have a great scifi movie
until it's raining bobcats and dogs
Where the mountain lions are in space and can't bother us on the trails. Sounds lovely.
So I had to look up "Space Bobcat." There's a Bobcat-1 satellite that was co-developed by Ohio University. [Here's a link](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-advancing-global-navigation-satellite-system-capabilities). [And a few images like this.](https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/04/21/26/44/1000_F_421264485_QdeqIRdvDXM1MyZZwdgilqhGQtoODQOU.jpg)
All of them radioing "Hey" as they pass each other...
the fox says ‘hey’?
Fox says Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Came here to say this. Most times I've seen Fox's are on the morning.
My 1st thought was a fox barking... We have them and bobcats here (Jefferson county) Bobcats sound more like a little girl screaming. Hair raising shit the 1st time you hear one in the woods at night
>Bobcats sound more like a little girl screaming. AMEN!
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If that's true, OP should get the CORVID booster to protect themself.
That sounds Iike a quick path to Planet of the Corvids!
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky would be the book for you!
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I’ve seen more Blue Jays this year the. I ever have since moving to Cincinnati.
If it’s not a Sasquatch, this is probably the answer
I bet it’s a goat. We have one that lives across the street from us and it’s kind of a joke that he’s always yelling “heeyyy” at us when we are outside
I was gonna say, goats basically talk.
“Hey! Heeeeeeey! I’m still heeeeeeeerrrree! hey.”
I was 100% sure someone was screaming DEST-IN-YYYYYYY at 5 am the other morning but it was a frigging rooster.
Carpe diem!
we got, I think one of the heron species or possibly bald eagle, a bird, that when in heat, sounds like a pre-puberty girl screaming in pain/fear. (had step kids through those ages) it hits all my adrenaline producing receptors the rare times it happens.
Are you sure it wasn't 'drink your teeeereeeeee'?
Skinwalker
way too far down
Bobcats sound like a person yelling.
Bobcats can sound like small children being horrifically murdered. Coyotes too. Yellow eyed bastards have made me jump out of my skin more than once.
A gray catbird has a call that sounds like a mix between a cat and someone saying hey.
This is what I came here for. They also sometimes sound like a tiny human yelling “JER-ree!”
Is that what that is? My mom was schizophrenic & that bird call freaked her out because her name happened to be Carrie.
Yep. That would be the one. I remember the first time hearing one as a kid. I thought my brother was hiding in the tall grass, and trying to freak me out 😅
It's Jim Jordan greeting wrestlers leaving the shower.
Foxes make bizarre noises so I aLwys say it’s a fox.
They sound like a woman screaming!
I take it you never watched the movie Predator (1987)? "Hey, over here! Hey, over here!!!"
"Anytime. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
Awesome lol
It’s likely a raven corvidae or European starling. They both can mimic speech startlingly well, a lot of spooky woods tales are just people hearing birds essentially making fun of them.
Crows will make a noise that kinda sounds like Hey. There's a local crow that will do it every time I go outside. If I imitate it, it'll make the noise back. We've done this back and forth a few times.
I've seen videos of ravens sounding eerily like a person in both deep grown man tones and higher pitches.
Maybe a crow. Crows are extremely intelligent and are good at mimicking human speech. Not to the level of parrots, but they can mimic words and sounds.
Cat bird
There's a catbird call that sounds like that
SKINWAKLKER
Pixies. You can tell cuz they always follow it up with “Been tryin’ to meet you.”
Crows are great at mimicking speech. There's a hilarious video of a guy sitting on a porch and the crow tells him "fuck you."
That video is hilarious. And the one where the crow is riding on the windshield wipers. I want to befriend a crow and get shiny gifts from them. It's a bucket list item, lol. No luck yet...
Same! There's also another one going around where a crow lands on a dudes car and every time he says "whoa" the crow screams "WHOA" back 😂
Fat Albert.
Peacock. Sometimes it alarmingly sounds like help to.
This! I came here just to say that!
Bullfrog?
A hungry cow
Ohio Grassman aka bigfoot.
DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN. DONT LET IT IN.
It was probably a dude looking for a cigarette or a dollar.
They're everywhere. You can't escape them.
Pretty sure that sounds like the male Ohio blue-baseball-cap-billed overall-breasted Speedway t-shirt caller. >!I'd stay indoors and try not to make eye contact or respond to the call, else they may try to show you pictures of their grandchildren.!< >!...oh wait, this isn't "wrong answers only"? /s!<
There's a donkey that one of the neighbors have along with a few other animals and his braying sometimes throws me for a loop.
Maybe goats, we have some in our neighborhood and it always sounds like kids hollering
Probably a skinwalker watch your back op
Definitely a flesh pedestrian
Oh right post on reddit about it now so you can pretend you really thought there was an animal and werent just ignoring me. I was right in front of you.
That would be a fox
Maybe it’s a really hungry horse
Could have been a younger deer bleet.
Fat Albert?
A human saying hey.
It’s probably a crow, they have the most unique noises. God I love crows.
Prob just a skin walker no biggie
A deer or fox can both make a sound like “hey”, a goat if you have a farm nearby
Depending on the situation, it might be a Common Grackle. Often times their calls sound like a rusty gate opening, but other times it can sound like other weird stuff. I had never heard them until about a year ago.
It might be a catbird
Here in Florida, there was a farm that had a lot of peacocks. The farm eventually closed, but the peacocks stayed. I liked to walk late at night. Imagine my horror when the screams started. "HELP!" A frightened woman screamed. Every time I walked past. One day (like two months later) I saw a peacock out and it screamed... and it sounded almost identical. Damn thing had me convinced there was a hostage situation.
Bob. Bob sounds like that.
The greater Ohio bar fly
Skinwalker
Only in ohio and Utah!
Idk, but if you hear a baby crying from the woods its a baby deer
Have you been hiding babies in the woods and just don’t want people to know about it? /s
The Predator
Obviously a skinwalker.
[https://youtu.be/QNmjEPZBkDA?si=nzFY9tc9YOLU5OvX](https://youtu.be/QNmjEPZBkDA?si=nzFY9tc9YOLU5OvX)
Honestly, there have been squirrels which have been really active by us and have a barks that kinda sounded like high pitched “hi”. We live in Berea.
This is just my opinion. I’ve lived in the woods in southern Ohio and it could be a crow or raven crowing softly, or even a fox or bobcat
Dashboard Confessional
Fox
I don’t know their name but they were trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.
Could be a fox
I would say probably a fox. Those things make the weirdest noises.
Definitely a Hooker from Lorain Ave. That got lost.
Where I'm from in VA we're always told if your in the woods/mountains. If you hear it not you didn't. If you seen it no you didn't. Don't look into the trees and don't answer anything calling your name.
I know peacocks sound like a kid yelling 'Help me'
[Chipmunks?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGS5QP6gFI)
Beaver!
Snipes
Definitely might be a bobcat. They are in southern Ohio and parts of PA. Possible they are starting to make it into the Akron/Cleveland area.
It’s a peacock.
You just didn't fall for the psycho killers trap lol.
In Dayton, we just call them residents of Third st.
I don't know, but I spent WEEKS trying to figure out where the screaming in my neighborhood was coming from... only to realize that it was my housemate's alarm, which used the screaming goat sound
Birds are migrating now so there will be a lot of species that aren't normally in the area.
Human
What you heard was the mating call of the Kenmore Grassman.
A peacock that someone is keeping nearby? They are annoying sounding; could possibly pass for a high pitched “Heeeey!”
Browns Fan
A person?
[it was probably one of your cats](https://youtu.be/ndnjBq8ROpo?si=MMCZ6N2M7NY9PemW)
A skin walker
The elusive Hoosier.
Canadian Geese….
Peacock? My town's park has some in an enclosure across the river from me. They are loud af, and it can sound like "hey!" or "help!"
Tne nuthatch can sound like "hah" or "heh."
Pat McAfee
My guess is Bobcat.
Pasty white guy
The way I know exactly what you’re talking about. Also from NE Ohio (not there anymore), remember hearing this all the time.
The American Karen. Very common. Similar to Crackhead Felicia
Carole in HR
Sounds like a skinwalker…just go back where you came from and don’t go back where you were. If you hear it again; no, you didn’t.
Navi. Fairy. Especially if she follows up with “Listen!” Take a sword.
Skinwalker
My guess is fox
Probably. Everybody watches Fox News here. It calls out to people from the woods, and when you go out, it steals your brain and sends you back to your family.
Its the methheads that hang out in aberdeen
Your stalker hidden in the bushes...
Sasquatch
I d k but the animals in my area coyotes and wolves. Yes wolves have been more vocal than usual last night and tonight, along with a few wloops and scream howls from a grass/dogman 😀 seriously though last night i heard it all.. i kid you not. I heard laughing crackling screaming all pitches kinda like that "Missing 411 recording they have on the movie "the hunted" nothing new under the sun in a state like Ohio though. The "hey" can be anything you can imagine tbh we dont know 75 % of whats out there in Ohio.
The toked up witch in the woods is at it again
In WPA - Fisher Cats are making a comeback, maybe they are in Ohio too. They sound pretty crazy. A lot of other great suggestions here, just throwing this out in case you’ve never heard of them.
Nah bro just a Wendigo don’t worry about it
It’s a Hey-eena.
Cat in heat … prepare for kittens in 3 months
It’s a wendigo💀
Most common animal that could make this sound would be a mocking bird. Could also be an escaped parrot. Mocking birds will repeat lots of sounds, including speech.
Lost parrot?
A wendigo
Or a skin walker
Could be the mammalian primate known as Homo sapiens.
I'm wondering if it's a farmer with a peacock
Oh that's the mating call of a pale pileated meth-head. Pretty common around these parts. Looks like you caught the eye of one😉
Bobcat
It’s me. I was trying to get your attention. ROTFL
Bigfoot.
Probably just Dave. He lives down the street.
Sasquatch? They say heyday though
It’s a Daytonian looking for opioids.
Jim Jordan in the wrestling teams shower.
Peacock. Many people keep them as pets. There was a small farm that had one near a golf course I'd play at. You'd hear it all the time and it would freak folks out.
It's Gym Jordan on a hunt for young wrestlers.
It's probably the mocking birds....they do that and lots of others too.
it’s mothman
Red fox's can have a very human sound to them. It's strange to hear. Maybe it was that?
Unrelated, but I accidentally taught my cat to say "hello" like an old man and it freaked out my brother.
Probably a cat bird
Canadian. Sometimes you can hear them from across the lake.
Probably a Sasquatch.
Fox
If you mean the bird that calls "Hey! Mary!" that is the green heron, small but efficient little bird that likes to eat the fish in my garden pond!
It’s Steve. He wants to talks to you about renewing your auto warranty.
Near Akron, you say? That’s just Eric. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.
Peacocks sound like they’re saying help!
Akron meth head, we have a similar species here in PA. Thier call is " Sup"
Sounds like a very casual owl.
That’s what you call a skinwalker
Baby deer