Hunters have strange night experiences near Groundhog Meadow witnessed in Tuolumne County, California

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My son and I arrived at the horse corral near Groundhog Meadow late on a Friday night in early September 1978. We spent all Saturday building two deer blinds with the intent on coming back to the area to hunt later that year. The area, at that time, didn't receive very much recreational activity, and we saw no one else while we were camping. Saturday night, three strange incidences occurred. First, early in the evening, my son and I heard two screams. The first scream was located near the horse corral. The scream sounded like it was from something very large. It was very loud and low-pitched, sort of like a very large angry man. I have heard mountain lions in the past, since I have hunted all my life, and this was nothing like that. A few minutes later, we heard another scream, just like the first, but it came from the east, like from the Emigrant Wilderness. We both acknowledged that we had heard the screams, but neither of us knew what it was. My son checked the horse corral and d...