Hear a Fisher Cat Sound and Audio – Sounds it Makes
When New Hampshire resident Duke Smith first heard the cry of a Fisher cat he thought he heard a baby dying slowly. The shrieks were constant, high pitched and their resemblance to human voice was really eerie. Several nights and a few missing cat notices later other residents of the neighborhood confirmed that these were the sounds of a Fisher cat.
Fisher cats are ferocious predators belonging to the weasel family and are known for their eerie screams and liking for house cats.
The sound of a Fisher cat is very shrill and resembles someone calling for help. The shrillness lends a certain high pitch to the sound and makes it sound like a woman or a child. Most people who hear the Fisher cat call for the first time are fairly convinced that they are hearing a human calling out for help.
The Fisher cat is a nocturnal animal and the fisher cat cry is sometimes a hunting cry and at others the Fisher cat call is just a mating call. It is well established that the Fisher cat makes the sounds to mate and attract other Fisher cats but people have also noticed the Fisher cat animal scream out just before or after a kill.
There is a lot of eeriness associated with the Fisher cat call and most of it is to do with the ferociousness of the animal and the creepy sound of the Fisher cats screech, compounded by the fact that it is found in the wilderness and can be heard mainly during nights. For example picture yourself in the place of this family that are going through this lonely wooded area in the dark and hear this lady like screech in the distance.
While you can’t be sure whether this is a person or the fisher cat animal, you can be sure that being in such environs and hearing such a scream will run a chill down your spine.
Fisher Cat sounds are usually constant and you can hear them at a regular interval like in this video
In the video you can notice that the animal screams out every few seconds and the pitch and the volume is constant. While the animals do not prey in the day time they can still be spotted moving about. The sounds are much more prominent during the night and people have witnessed these animals screeching on for hours and hours together. More often than not the Fisher Cat sounds are going to be constant and it will become a haunting experience. The Fisher cat sounds especially weighs on the minds of people who have pets like rabbits or cats. This is because Fisher cats are really dangerous and have the reputation of pretty much killing all small animals in the surrounding areas that are not kept indoors. While much of this sound like old wives’ tales the incidents that happen every year across United States give real evidence that the animals are deadly predators.
Usually the one off sound means that the Fisher cat animal is either closing on a hunt or has already killed its victim.
Next time you hear these haunting sounds make sure that all your pets are indoors and that you comfort your children and not let them get too scared by the sound.
Are these sounds from a Fisher Cat or Red Fox screech?
Fisher cat screeches are often mistaken for red fox cries. Here are two different examples as pointed out from one of our readers:
August 15th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Where can I hear the sound I don’t hear anything!! I thought I would be able to hear it!!!
August 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am
You can hear it on this page: http://fishercatscreech.com/fisher-cat-sound-and-audio/
There are brown links in the page body where you can listen to the sounds a fisher cat makes.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
You people obviously are not woodsmen. That’s obviously a Bobcat. Fishers make very little sounds
tom
April 19th, 2009 at 7:36 am
we have those in our woods found 10 dead deer in the past week!
April 29th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
That sounds like a house cat, not a fisher cat.
May 14th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
when fishers make a sound it sounds like someones getting murdered in the bush
May 26th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I heard a noise last nigt that had many different sounds it started like a small dog getting hurt to almost monkey sounds and a couple of snorts. It freaked out the house.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I hear almost the exact same sound as in the “Screeching Sound in the Woods” clip every single night for… the past week and a half. My neighbors told me there was a fisher cat living in the neighborhood, but there is also a family of red fox (vixen and two kits) living in a den just off the back of our property, so I wasn’t sure which I was hearing every night. General knowledge question for all: do fishers hunt wood chucks? There were a bunch sniffing around early this spring, but I haven’t seen one in a while. I’m hoping that the fisher has eaten them. That would be excellent! I can have a garden again.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Clip one \Weird noise behind my house\ is the sound of a red fox adult male. This is the territorial sound they make at night.
Clip two \Screeching noise in the woods\ is definitely the sound of raccoons fighting over food.
The final audio clip…is that of a regular house cat mating call.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Clip three is a male domestic cat. I should know, I have 3 of my own.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Clip three is definitely a male domestic cat. I have 3 of my own.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:27 am
The \Screeching Sound in the Woods\ is actually two Barred Owls. You can hear one making the crazy \Hwah-hwah\ sounds (most likely the male) while the female does a high-pitched coo-ing sound. You can hear them both at the same time at approx. 21 seconds into the clip.
I hear barred owls all the time and get a huge kick out of the crazy sounds they make at times.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
The first video is a fox, and the last video sounds more like a cat. By the way, these animals are called fishers, not `fisher cats`!
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
The last is a cat. No doubt about that.
First is probably a fox. The sound is a terrible indicator of size. We have small cat sized foxes that sound like they are terrier sized.
Fishers make a scream sound, but it’s only in the spring when mating so far as I know. I found a baby Fisher with a broken leg today, saw it’s dad a few months ago, big animal, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t hear fishers on any of the tapes. It’s a more childish scream, assuming that’s what I’ve heard out back.
Wild turkeys can sound like the neighbor is strangling his wife. Those are the ones that keep me awake some nights. I’ll have to get a tape of them one day.
June 24th, 2009 at 9:21 am
These are all mostly fox sounds. A fox makes many different sounds. The female makes the scream. The male will respond to her scream by barking to let her know he is on his way. the fox has about 5 or 6 different sounds.
The final recording here that claims to be a Fisher sounds like either a bobcat or a domestic cat.
Bobcats can also scream like a fox but it is a much deeper screem so it sounds even more like a woman being murdered.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Wow. Spooky stuff. This helped me because I heard a strange noise, definitely not your typical cat fight. Fisher cats are in my area but I had never heard one before. We do have a lot of cats in my neighborhood and thank god mine was inside!! Thanks for helping.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
well, The fox was creepy, I really didn’t like it to be honest. The first video/audio sounded like a husband and wife in a fight and the husband was beating her. And that’s all I have to say because i didn’t see the “fisher cat”/ fisher in any video exsept the third one and you could barely see it.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:16 am
i was just woken up by mewlings/cries at 3:50 a.m. i thought it was my cat in pain. i found him okay in the kitchen. the yowlings kept going. over and over. i turned on outside lights and found a fisher cat eating one of my hens. YES they DO make this sound. yes it sounds like a house cat. but louder and deeper. i tried to rescue the hen but too late. i was 3 feet away from the fisher. s/he was not very afraid of me.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:07 am
About 20 minutes ago i heard crazy screeching, like a demented LOUD deep cat scream, but all up n down n crazy. They ran across my yard.. they sounded BIG when they were in the woods in my back yard, running/walking/jumping in the brush. Then I heard a few other noises, then saw 2 animal silhouttes from the side shadowed from the moon WAY up in a tree face to face making so many different noises.
I heard:
grunting
growling
crazy screaming
some raspy low barking literally “woo woo woo” noises
and snorting. friggen SNORTING
These animals just sound insanely demonic. And they’re LOUD. I don’t see how anything that weighs 4-15lbs can make those noises.
I don’t know if they were mating, or if it was 2 of them fighting after 1 killed something, but whatever it was, it was effed up.
I went outside because one of my cats wasn’t in the house, and I saw her hiding in a tree in my front yard, thank god. She ran right to me and purred when i picked her up and brought her inside.
I want to go outside and make crazy human noises back at these animals and show them whats up ahahah. Really though, for something as small as people say they are.. they sound extremely intimidating.
July 10th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
After researching and hearing the audio on ‘Screeching sounds in the woods’ I realized it was a Fisher Cat that came right up to my decks this morning @ 10am, July 10th. First I heard the noise and realized it was going after my cats. Thankfully I was able to start hooting and hollering before it did any damage. He/she ran off into the woods. Really gnarly looking animal!
July 12th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Paralyzingly frightening sounds from the woods “out back”. Undecided after listening to these audios, as to whether they are Fisher Cats, or Red Fox. Continuous screeching though, deep in the woods in the darkness…creepy.
Turned on all the lights, on the Southside of the house, and the screeching now seems to have abated….what drives them off??? Horrors!
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:07 am
I was hearing the noises such as the first video several times a night for about a week. I often allowed my cats to go out at night until my 1 year old didn’t come back…. A few days later I saw what looked almost like a combination of an overgrown long haired cat/weasel slowly walking up my driveway and into the woods – it kind of sauntered and walked almost like a beaver would. My St. Bernard barked at it several times, it stop and seemed to have no interest and continued into the woods…. It has been almost a year and I haven’t heard the sounds nor seen the animal since…perhaps they move through certain areas and only stay a short period. VERY scary noises, makes you really creeped out. The fox, however, does make similar noises, and could easily be confused with the Fisher, but fox doesn’t seem to make the noise with such avengence .
July 24th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I just right now experienced a thing were as there were two “cats” sitting on my wall although one of them was crying and was very large in size with pointy ears and was gray. We thought this was the fisher cat because we have had past experiences had this animal start crying as if a baby were crying.
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Hey fellas im 16 years old and one day me and a couple of my friends were laying down around 2 am in my room than i then heard for the first time a FISHERCAT so me and my pals walked outside and we walked down the street..then it stoped for some reason so we walked back home then layed down. about 30 mins later i was the onlny one up..i heard that scary fucking sound again i was really freaked out because i didnt know what a fishercat was but now i know there in my nieghborhood one of my cats havent come home in 5 days i think a fisher might of gotten him my mom said she heard horrible noises i wanna find those sons of bitchs and kill em all!!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
The “weird Sound Behind My House” IS A FISHERCAT. I heard this every year now for some six years, between late April and July. Much more intense than the recording here. It is sporadic, goes on for anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or longer. Several times the fishercat and its eerie and haunting screech has been within 100 feet of my back porch.I have been mesmerized by its cry, almost like that of an unfinished cry of a baby. My two daughters have also listened with me since they were 10 and 15 respectively. We have never seen it, in daylight or at night. But we have listened awed and speechless for lengthy periods as the cries, not howls, not owls, not fox, not feral cats (which have interestingly diminished in the past few years) either moves toward or away from our small yard that enjoins the extended wooded area.
Our urban neighborhood buffers some 24 acres of immediate woods, with hundreds of connected acres through several smaller suburbs, all with thousands of acres of woodland, rocky cliff areas and sliced by I-84 Interstate. But there are numerous overpass areas that lead to heavily wooded, uninhabited acreage. We have numerous hawks, deer, two fox dens, the source of the Quinnipiac River with a very active stream flow in spring and heavy rains. Coyotes are also numerous, as are wild turkeys in the Fall. We see these fauna regularly throughout the entire 12 month of any given year, and have lived here for some 15 years. When you realize that there are about a quarter of million people in a 20 mile radius of where I describe, the urban/suburban wooded areas of CT are teeming with wildlife. Only this Spring a moose came through the immediate area. Bear sitings are annual as close as a mile from the site of this fishercat. I have no doubt that in the deeper wooded environs of the Northwest and Northeast corners of CT, where, bear are plentiful, not only are there fishers, and bobcats, but the elusive mountain lion/puma.cougar sitings are very real no matter what the Wildlife/EPA folks say. After hearing the fishercat, anything is possible. I can’t wait to spot one.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:04 am
i HEARD ONE BEHIND MY MOMS HOUSE LAST MONDAY NIGHT. nEVER SAW IT THOUGH
August 14th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Here is the real sound of a fisher, I saw it the other day near our house then we all heard it one night later http://www.owlcam.com/soundlib/sounds9/grief30517b.wav
September 21st, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Tom:
obviously you are not a woodsman. fisher do make a screeching, screaming sound that is extremely loud at night. They enjoy domesticated cats, rodents and like to fish.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Geez- this video is like watching the freakin’ “Blair Witch Project” (which was terrible the first time).
I need help with what the Hell is making the horrific howling that almsot sounds like maniacal laughter- seriously. Anyone? How ’bout you, ‘I’m a Woodsman’? Please.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Sorry- I meant “almost” sounds like.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
The first 50 seconds of \things that scream in the woods\ is a pair of Barred Owls. I am not sure about the rest of the recording- but it’s my impression that the recording is a selection of scary animal sounds edited together- not the sound of a single animal.
Here’s a great page demonstrating the variety of sounds of the Barred Owl- listen to them all! The third features crazy almost monkeylike \laughter\ http://www.owling.com/Barred.htm
November 29th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
i heard this sound about 200 yards from the house in a creek bottom where i saw some bobcat tracks a week or so ago. sounds more like a bobcat to me. i also saw and heard a fisher cat, once climbing out of a persimmon tree right next to my house (i live in the woods). both times i saw it, it took off like a grayhound. then out in the darkness i heard the screem like a child, similar to the red fox i heard on the internet. we have no fox around here i am aware of. i’m always in the woods hiking or deer hunting, and have never seen a fox here.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:56 am
That very first noise sounds like something I’ve heard out behind my house off and on for the past two years at night and never could figure out what it was! I live in the woods also and have persimmon trees. Coming home tonight I saw an animal running up the side of the road and couldn’t figure out what it was, but on researching am pretty sure it was a fisher. I saw paw prints out back earlier today that I couldn’t identify either. Lately, I’ve been hearing an animal up in my walls and on my roof, and it sounds like it’s tearing off pieces of the roof! Could this be a fisher also?? Seems like it would be too big to get into the walls. Any other ideas if not a fisher? It’s way too big to be mice. I can’t get to the roof to see any damage, but I threw some rat bait blocks up there earlier and under the house also (mobile home).
December 27th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Thank you for the website. A nice confirmation of what I thought I was hearing. Wonder how they do up against a coyote that is out back as well. lol
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