Student hears vocalization near the Cuyahoga River witnessed in Portage County, Ohio

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I lived at the Kent Village Apartments as described in Reports #4967 & #7832 around 1985-86. At that time there was a small wooded patch between a residential road that led back to a small housing development and the road that led to the apartments. I would often walk from the Music and Speech building at KSU late at night after play rehearsals and cut through a little path in the trees as a short cut home. It was a warm night and very foggy, I walked home with another student who had been in rehearsal with me. We joked about the creepy weather "nice night for a murder" and chatted about this and that as we walked along. We walked throught the patch in the woods and halfway through we heard the most unearthly shriek. We looked at each other and bolted out of the woods to the parking lot of the Giant Eagle grocery that was there at the time. I was so scared a remembered the incident for years. Although I put it down to some animal, like a wildcat. I discovered the website and rea...