Scream Heard in a Cypress Swamp outside Ft. Myers witnessed in Lee County, Florida

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I will tell you about an experience that I and a friend of mine had back around 1982 or 1983 mid summer time in Lee County, Florida. I have lived in Florida since I was 9 years old. I am 44 now. I have roamed all over the woods down here and so has my friend Bill. We are both well acquainted with the noises that the native animals make, what we heard that night while camping was not anything that either of us had ever heard before. I am not in a hurry to ever hear again. The location of the vocalization was approximatley 15 to 20 miles from I-75 going east on SR 82. I lived off of Shawnee trail back then and hiked the cypress swamps every chance I got. I knew the area well back then having hunted deer and hog all over that area. I still live in unincorporated Lee county near the Hendry county line. Bill and I had gone camping on a weekend during the wet season. We had to wade quite a bit of wet area to find a suitable dry place to set up camp. I lived about 1 and 1/2 miles ...