A 12-Year-Old Heard Something Scream Near Forks—Then Everyone Started Leaving
September 23, 2026
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5 min readA 12-Year-Old Heard Something Scream Near Forks—Then Everyone Started Leaving
In August 2024, a Midwestern family on vacation in Forks, Washington, found themselves at a rental house bordering dense forest. Over two nights, they experienced a sequence of events—an unidentifiable high-pitched scream, stones thrown at windows, a barricaded window that was forced open from outside, and impressions in the dry lawn that suggested something had walked the perimeter of the house, stopping to look into windows. The guest, Joel, told host Jeremiah Byron that he and his son—both experienced hunters—had never encountered anything like it.
The Scream and the Stalking
Joel's family arrived at the rental on a Wednesday. The property was new and well-maintained, but Joel noticed something odd immediately: a roughly eight-foot-wide gap in the blackberry bushes at the back of the yard, where the grass was matted and stamped down, leading into the woods. It didn't look like a deer trail.
On Friday evening, Joel, his wife, and his son were sitting in the hot tub around 8:30 p.m., just after sunset. The jets were off. Suddenly, they heard an extremely high-pitched male scream from somewhere in the woods. It happened twice. A neighbor's dogs, about 75 yards away, began barking frantically. Joel and his son got out to listen but heard nothing more.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:30) **Show Introduction & Guest Joel's Arrival** - Host Jeremiah Byron welcomes Joel, a Midwest tourist whose family vacation to the Olympic Peninsula took a strange turn at a rental house in Forks, Washington.
- 2 (07:04) **The High-Pitched Scream and the Dogs** - While relaxing in the hot tub at dusk, Joel and his family hear a piercing, unnatural scream from the woods, causing the neighbor's dogs to erupt in barking.
- 3 (08:44) **Watching the Fence Line** - After the scream, the family stays in the hot tub, staring into the pitch-black woods, and begin to see ambiguous movements along the fence line.
- 4 (14:27) **Son's Fear and the Unlockable Window** - Joel's son, visibly shaken, sees a large shape fill the gap in the woods and then "shoot back" into the darkness.
- 5 (19:37) **Stones Thrown at the House** - As the family tries to sleep, they hear the sound of something hitting a window, which they initially mistake for a family member getting water.
- 6 (27:00) **Morning Discovery: Stones and Impressions** - The next morning, Joel's son finds three small stones on the back porch, confirming the previous night's activity.
- 7 (33:26) **Analyzing the Tracks** - Joel describes the tracks as being in a straight line, rather than the side-to-side gait of a human, and estimates the creature was the size of a large man.
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Show Notes
In August 2026, Joel and his family heard piercing screams behind their rental home. Nearby dogs erupted, movement appeared along the fence, and stones struck the house after everyone went inside. Morning revealed disturbing physical signs around an unsecured window.
Kuyler takes us back to 1994, when he was 12 years old at a Hoh River campground. A trembling dog, powerful unidentified vocalizations, and trees breaking in the darkness triggered a reaction throughout the campground.
These witnesses describe what they heard, what they found, and the questions that have followed them ever since. Listen to both complete firsthand accounts on Bigfoot Society.
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