Strange, loud animal howls heard by resident near Gnesen witnessed in St. Louis County, Minnesota

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Sunday night. I came out of the house to smoke a cigarette; it was an exceptionally cloudless, cool evening. As I entered the yard I was immediately aware of a loud din coming from the woods about 1/3 of a mile off. The sound of barking dogs is not unusual and is often accompanied by wolves, but this night the barking/howling sounded frantic. Above all of this noise was a loud wailing like nothing I had ever heard before. The source of this wailing held its position for about two minutes and then proceeded to move northeast around the lake covering a long distance in a very short time with great disturbance to the underbrush followed by a violent crushing of ice which seemed to indicate that whatever it was tried to cross a part of the frozen lake. Each cry was quiet powerful and the duration I would estimate at about 15 seconds. After changing positions the sound did not die out but simply stopped at the edge of the lake. Immediately the dogs stopped barking and the wolves howling. De...