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Howard Dean visiting Ohio?
Hat tip to Tim Blair. His title, too.

LIBERTY, Ohio -- An unusual and noisy mystery has people in a small town north of Middletown on edge, worried and asking questions, News 5’s Brian Hamrick reported.

Liberty, Ohio, is a quiet little community, except for one thing -- the scream.

Jamie Young told Hamrick she heard it while she and her husband were walking one evening.

“It scared me. I didn’t want to finish my walk,” Young said.

But instead of running into her house, she said she recorded the noise and sent a tape to the local newspaper. It sounded kind of like "Yeeaaaaaarrrrrgh!"

With a sensitive microphone and some special peril-sensitive sunglasses ghost-hunting goggles, Hamrick went hunting for the haunting sounds, traipsing boldly into the most likely spots -- from a graveyard to an old church where flea market dealer Walt Wilson sells some truly frightening things. But he’s not worried.

“I don’t think it’s going to wind up grabbing any of us and running off with us,” Wilson said.

Residents have no shortage of ideas about what’s making the sound, from cats to owls to something even scarier. Like, gulp left-wing Democrats.

Townspeople said they called in an animal expert, who told them the noise didn’t come from an animal.

So until the 2008 Iowa caucus for now, the scream remains a mystery.

Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=127375