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[–] Dorkyd68 7 points 2 hours ago

Living by yourself in rural areas is wonderful. However every now and then you'll hear a noise at 2am and not sleep right for a week. Only downside really

[–] Letsdothis 1 points 2 hours ago

Don't be a puss anon...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Cougars in heat sound like a woman being murdered. Bigger louder sound than a fox. Terrifying if you don't know what it is, and a bit terrifying if you do.

[–] Buddahriffic 1 points 1 hour ago

I was thinking about rabbits, too, that get very vocal when a predator catches them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I thought you were talking about women that like younger men, and that was confusing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] psycho_driver 9 points 6 hours ago

Their screams can vary in pitch and intensity.

[–] psycho_driver 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I had a similar experience last week and it turned out a neighbor kid had shot himself with a flare gun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

On Halloween night...

[–] sicarius 37 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I was sat at home alone one night, have my first joint in months. Sat at back door looking out into the woods and think I can hear a girl sobbing. I must be stoned as hell. Then I clearly hear some girl shouting help me! In my pyjamas and Crocs I up and run off into the woods.
While running through the woods my stoned brain says to me if I were planning an ambush, this is what I'd do.
Shut up brain.
Find a young woman sobbing in the pitch darkness off the path in the woods.
Calllm her down. She had an argument with her boyfriend and he took her phone and left her in the woods, she doesn't know where she is.
I offer to drive her to the hotel she says she's staying at.
Halfway there I see the cops coming out of the station and flag them down, they were just on their way out to look for this girl.
I tell them what happened and they said I could be on my way.
Thank fuck as I was too high to be talking to cops.
Turns out that girl and her boyfriend work at the hotel with my mate, he says this happens once a week, her boyfriend had in fact not taken her phone she had it all along, he just walked off when she started causing drama again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

That ended much better than initially anticipated. Thanks.

[–] Shard 50 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Cougars have a freaky roar as well. Some say it's where the banshee wail came from

[–] kemsat 5 points 9 hours ago

I’d say cougars inspired the folktale of La Llorona.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You might be thinking of foxes, there aren't any cougars in Ireland.

[–] DokPsy 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Avalynne O’Brien is pretty close

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[–] [email protected] 204 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

I'm going to bet fox.

Those mofos sound like someone is murdering a 13 yr old girl.

[–] GraniteM 1 points 54 minutes ago

I describe fox noises as sounding like a combination of shock and pain, like someone getting unexpectedly stabbed in the back with a fondue fork at what was up until then a nice party.

[–] OhmsLawn 1 points 2 hours ago

They regularly use them as a sound effect in murder mysteries.

Midsummer Murders, in particular, used the fox cry so often that I had to look up what the hell it was

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah we have a bunch in our neighborhood and when they start going off it's terrifying.

[–] Wooki 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You ain't heard shit until you've been camping around koalas alone. It's not okay.

Not quite as long as they get but its women screams:

https://youtu.be/0cPg7_nyoBc

Mating call is satanic:

https://youtu.be/PlxnXMWO-jk

[–] Sylvartas 9 points 8 hours ago

I'm going for the timeless classic : a cat in heat. In my experience they produce a wide variety of "kid getting murdered" sounds

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 62 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Rabbits sound fucked too...

Coyotes too occasionally...

Or wanton murder. Someone has to be a statistic lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Dude. rabbits!

Did not know the horror until family visited and their dog caught one and was playing with it. So terrifying!

[–] NegativeLookBehind 4 points 7 hours ago

I’ve heard coyotes while trail running through the woods. That sound will definitely make you fucking run faster.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rabbits sounds like screaming babies! Nearly had a heart attack when one got stuck in the spokes of a decorative antique bicycle in the garden and the neighbour's cat was swatting at it. My mom was out there crying, trying to pull it out.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Must awaken something deep in the mammal brain. There was a video of a wildlife cam where a hawk or something grabbed a rabbit which started screaming, and a deer came running and absolutely stomped the life out of the bird.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Thank you for sharing, I had not seen that. Fucking hell. Nature is scary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

There really isn't that big of a difference between our brains! Well, apart from them all dying in agony without any real understanding of what it means to die. Like a trillion babies mauling each other to death every hour. Sweet dreams and be happy we are human!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

Dude. That's Bambi 😬

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

I live in a small city but fairly close to the edge of wooded hills. All sorts of critters venture down around my house. One day, a fox was running around, maybe 50 yards away. It looks at me, runs away a bit, stops and looks back, does it again. I’m on my front porch, near my door. It turns to face me and we lock eyes. Staring contest. We’re having a moment. Suddenly it barks, a gritty high pitched chirp. Felt like an ice cube slid up my butthole.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

As far as I know they go by pipiripipi pipiripipi ahu ahu ahuuu

[–] blazeknave 2 points 4 hours ago

What does the fox say?

[–] psycho_driver 6 points 6 hours ago

I heard they go hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Anon doesn't know what a wild fox mating call sounds like and is a dumb fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

If you are curious how that sounds like, here's a helpful video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, just let it in and mate with it. What a rube

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It’s not unusual to have brief hallucinations right before falling asleep. It’s happened to me on occasion. That’s another possible explanation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What sounds like a scream could also be an episode of "exploding head syndrome" (the most hilariously dramatically named relatively mundane sleep phenomenon)

I've experienced it a handful of times in my life and it is very startling! Especially the 2 times where it sounded like someone shouting my name from inside my skull. Brains are so weird

[–] shalafi 2 points 2 hours ago

Just got one the other night, first time in ages. Sounds exactly like a shotgun going off.

[–] SennheiserHD600 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

what? I've never heard of that can someone put a study or something please? (btw ik this sounds rude but I'm actually curious)

[–] ChocoboRocket 21 points 15 hours ago

I've heard rabbits being carried off by owls in the night also sounds like a child being murdered

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FahrenheitGhost 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I go camping late in the year and am often the only person in the entire campground in the middle of nowhere. It was mid November in Illinois and I was at a campground that you had to drive 20 minutes of heavily forested winding dirt trail to get to the site. There was already a strong creep factor. Around 2AM I'm laying awake and freezing my ass off when I hear a scream from the woods the sounded like something out of a 1950s horror film. Scared the living shit out of me. Stayed the rest of the night in the car with a shovel and a big fuck all knife.

I'd never heard an owl screech before. I didn't know they did that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

yup they do be doing that. never actually heard one myself irl but it's probably the most otherworldly bird call (or actually animal call period) i know. there's other weird ones (look up three-wattled bell bird) but nothing compares to the fucking barn owl.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was hanging out in a park by a river one night with some friends, just grilling and watching the stars, chill night in nature. We heard a sound like a sorority group laughing and walking around near our camp. At first we didn't think too much of it since we were in a public park near a college town.

I got up to grab something out of my truck and saw the glowong eyes in the dark and quickly realized that was not a group of college girls but a pack of coyotes scoping out our food/cooler/us. We packed up the truck and noped out pretty quick after that.

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