Cooing Sasquatch and Mysterious Sounds Captured on Barb's Security Cameras
Posted Saturday, June 20, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's this audio clip making the rounds that has the Sasquatch community buzzing, and honestly, it's the kind of thing that makes you stop and really listen. A researcher named Barb Hartman over on her YouTube channel recently shared a recording captured on her newer Arlo home security cameras, and the vocalization on it is... well, it's something else.
Barb has been documenting activity around her property for a while now, and she's mentioned before that she's had way more success capturing audio than video. That tracks with what a lot of researchers report, honestly. Sasquatch seem far more concerned about being seen than being heard, which makes sense if you think about it from their perspective. They've been avoiding human contact for centuries, and visual evidence is obviously more "proof-worthy" to skeptics than audio. So a lot of serious researchers focus heavily on vocalizations, knocks, wood knocks, and those strange ambient sounds that get picked up on trail cams and security systems.
What Barb captured is described as a higher-pitched vocalization, and one of her friends who also has experience with Sasquatch in their area identified it as likely a female. What's really interesting is that Barb's husband had previously heard a "cooing" sound near their carport, going off every 15 to 20 seconds, but the moment he tried to record it, it stopped. That's such a classic pattern with these encounters. They seem to know. There's almost an intelligence to how they operate around recording devices.
Now, here's where it gets really intriguing. Barb mentions that along with the vocalization, there's this bizarre ambient noise that sounds almost like a vacuum cleaner running. She wonders if the Sasquatch have developed some new way to manipulate sound, or if it's just that the newer camera technology is picking up frequencies the older ones missed. There's also mention of what sounds like a male voice with an almost transatlantic accent, reminiscent of those old 1950s and 60s science and history film narrators. Some researchers have theorized for years that Sasquatch can mimic human speech patterns, and there are old accounts from loggers and Native American traditions describing exactly this kind of phenomenon.
Barb also touches on something that a lot of researchers have noted, the idea of clan structure and leadership. She mentions there might be a new clan elder in the area, which would explain changes in vocalization patterns and behavior. Family group dynamics among Sasquatch are something that's been reported across multiple regions, with different researchers noting distinct "signatures" from individual family members. The idea that each clan member might have their own identifying vocal pattern is fascinating and would actually make sense if these are intelligent, social beings with complex family structures.
One thing Barb pointed out that really resonated is the frequency issue. She notes that many women seem to be able to hear these higher-pitched vocalizations while men often can't. This isn't just anecdotal, it's actually backed up by science. Women generally have better high-frequency hearing than men, especially as they age, and there's a whole range of sounds in nature that fall into that higher register. If Sasquatch are communicating partly in frequencies that skew higher, it could explain why so many of the vocalization reports come from female witnesses.
The audio itself is worth checking out, especially with headphones or earbuds. Barb specifically recommends them because some of the frequencies might be hard to pick up on regular phone or laptop speakers. And honestly, if you're into vocalization research at all, this is the kind of clip you want to sit with, maybe run through a spectrogram yourself and see what jumps out.
Barb also mentions that the Sasquatch in her area haven't yet figured out how to hit the camera in a way that produces that distinctive "plink" sound some researchers talk about, which is supposedly a way Sasquatch can interact with or even disable recording equipment. The idea that they might be aware of cameras and even test them is something that comes up a lot in witness testimony.
If you're into audio evidence and vocalization research, this is definitely worth a listen. Barb comes across as someone who's genuinely just trying to document what's happening around her property, and she's not afraid to admit when she doesn't have all the answers. That kind of honesty is rare and refreshing in this field. Check out the clip and see what you think. Sometimes the audio tells a story all on its own.