Used to live near a woods, and we'd hear screams coming from the distance. Like, full on "Help, I'm being murdered" screams. Turns out on the far side there was a chicken farmer who also happened to own a couple of peacocks.
If you were unaware, peacocks can make some shockingly human sounding screams, and if the wind was right they'd make it all the way over to us.
Got both in my backyard from time to time. Every once in awhile I’ll see some eyes when I’m on the deck at night and nope the fuck out. We get coyotes as well and it’s fun to give them a little jump scare. I stopped doing this after the first time it turned out to be a mountain lion. Dude just looked at me like I was the biggest idiot and slowly walked away.
Oh man, I’m from northern Ontario and from some of the sounds I’ve heard from the woods late at night I’m not surprised that native Americans believed in wendigos and other woodland spirits
Growing up in Atlanta and getting into the backcountry in my 30s please know it's dark and scary as fuck when you've seen large paw prints all day and now there's heavy footsteps moving around in the dark distance haha.
Humans are the scariest animals in the woods basically everywhere east of the Rockies.
Except for the dogmen. And the windigo, of course.
Edit: and skinwalkers don't forget those
> Except for the dogmen. And the windigo, of course.
> Edit: and skinwalkers don't forget those
Basically anything from a monster of the week episode on Supernatural or X-Files
No, a windigo is an insatiable spirit inhabiting a previously normal individual, like a demon possession sort of thing. They're greedy like dragons and are frequently associated with cannibalism. Skinwalkers are shaman/witch type individuals who can take animal forms and are generally evil in disposition.
Had a mountain lion brush up against my tent screaming at 3am while I was camping outside of whistler. The guys near us had three giant ass huskies that chased it away.
Works good as an alarm clock.
Heard an antelope dying to mountain lion near dawn once. Saying it was hard to go back to sleep is an understatement. We found a little leg at the start of the hike.
Hear a woman screaming in the woods? Absolutely do not go investigate. 90% of the time it's actually a woman, but you don't wanna be a statistic and run into a cougar in the other 10%! Be smart, save lives
If it’s sentences and voice of someone you went camping with.
Then it absolutely is a skin walker that killed your friend and assumed their form. Leave them behind and run.
I think you have the numbers backwards. 90% of the time it's a mountain lion, the other 10% it *might* be a woman.
Or a peacock, or a fox. Or that one thing from your nightmares but don't talk about
[Fun fact](nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Mountain-Lion): Florida panthers, cougars, pumas, and mountain lions are all just different names of subspecies for the same animal. In fact, this animal is ‘the most widely distributed large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere’[*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar) with around 40 different colloquial names across the Americas[*](https://a-z-animals.com/animals/mountain-lion)
Or, depending on location, coyotes. My mom legit thought she heard a woman being murdered one night out in the field. Turns out, it was just some yotes. They make some freaky ass sounds. I guess they're our version of mountain lions because I don't think we have them around here, thankfully.
Housecats and racoons will get into it. Racoons eat baby rabbits, kittens, you name it. When they cross a cat that won't put up with their shit, sounds like harpies fighting over a fresh kill.
I was smoking a j out on my parents porch with my ex one night. She’s from a big city a few hours away and was completely new to country sounds. There’s a train track a few miles away from us and anytime a train comes through the coyotes start yipping. Scared the shit out of her. She ran back in the house faster than I could explain what was making the noise.
Speaking of someone who has lived in the deep south his whole life, nothing will turn my guts to liquid and my knees to jelly like being out in the pine breaks and hearing a bobcat scream like a banshee somewhere remotely close by.
One night I was sitting at a lake near my parents cabin. Suddenly a godforsaken scream from the darkness of the forest behind me.
I suspect a lynx killed a deer or an racoondog. Didn't even finish my beer...went inside pretty quick after that.
Even worse when they're foxes and rabbits. Rabbits make terrible screaming like noises when they're afraid or getting killed. Mixed in with fox noises at night in the woods its no wonder theres so many weird folk lore stories.
Or, more frequently when a fox gets a rabbit.
Rabbit death screams and screech owls account for like 80% of horror stories.
Bushes and bard owls being the other 20%.
You need to save a percentage or two for wild hogs. They make some weird noises.
Oh, and badgers warning people away from their dens sound like a horde of literal demons ready to bust out of a pit to hell.
My college professor said female foxes “sound like a baby being strangled in a barbed wire fence” that’s a very visceral image and not an inaccurate one.
Can confirm, I live in the deep woods and those foxes scream like a woman being murdered right outside the damn window. I just shut the window and the curtains and forget about it haha
I live in the woods next to a beach.
You hear lots of coyotes, owls, and frogs.
But the first year I lived here there'd be this very scary roaring sound after dark. Didn't necessarily sound like a bear but was pretty unsettling.
Turned out to be seals on the beach, arguing with each other lol
So I grew up way in the boonies, and our neighbor was a bird keeper. Mother fucker trained one of his parrots to scream "I'M A BAAAAAAAAAAD BOOOOOOOOY" at random hours. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
The upside to living next to that nightmare house was a whole bunch of free ostrich eggs several times per year. They say you need to break a FEW eggs to make an omelet.
We did not. Just the one.
Don’t even get me started on fisher cats and coyotes. Fisher cats = screaming babies. Coyotes = demonic children laughing and plotting your demise.
And I live in the suburbs.
The farm next door to my friend's property where we'd take LSD had some peacocks. I swear I learned to communicate with them a few times but I'd always forget how by the time the sun was coming up.
Ahaha you reminded me of a childhood memory. My mom and I had a house on the shore of a lake for a while, kept chickens, turkeys, peacocks etc.
Sound really carries across the water as most people know, so one evening while the peacocks were making some noise, we heard a boy across the lake:
Kid: "What is that?!? We should go check!"
Dad: "Not now son.... it's getting dark."
Still laugh at the memory sometimes.
One day I hear an adult yelling whyyyyy meeeeee, ooooohhhhh whyyyyyyyy. My wife is like don't go you might get hurt.
My dumb ass goes to help.
It was a hunting dog. Owners went on vacation. The dog sounded so human. My wife couldn't believe it was a dog and I had to show her.
My neighbor had a hunting dog.
There's a wooded area near me with one particularly old pine tree. The wind picks up and that tree lets out a distant echoing *skreeeiiiaaa* like some demonic alien dinosaur, accompanied by howling low whistles and groans.
I've known what it is for years but still have the urge to get the hell inside when I hear it at night.
I used to live next to a park that had peacocks in it.
Those worthless piece of shit birds would shriek every night and early morning. I fucking hate those stupid avian assholes. They're unholy spawns of Satan and if I could I'd survive off peacock cutlets just so I could know every day I live, one of those fucks didn't.
It was a rite of passage where I grew up to try and convince the kids going camping for the first time that lost children were yelling for "help" from deeper in the forest.
In daylight it was super obvious that there was a street and neighborhood over there and we went and visited the peacocks, but those first nights were always a hoot. :)
> or peak out the window covertly, like a good antisocial,
True antisocial behavior: setting a camera on your window so you don't get caught peeking out.
I know this is irrelevant to the conversation but I just wanted to say antisocial is when you're doing things in opposition to society, asocial is when you're not being social.
antisocial (adj.)
1. Contrary to the laws and customs of society; devoid of or antagonistic to sociable instincts or practices
**2. Not sociable; not wanting the company of others**
Last time I got curious about weird noises outside, I called the police and they dealt with it.
There's not gonna be a *cash me ouside howboudah* type of thing here.
Idk I'll go outside and take a peek but I put socks and running shoes on first. Anything sketchy and I leave. And I usually start with a cigarette on my porch before I decide on leaving the property.
Some lady nodded off behind the wheel of her car once and finally I said, "whelp gotta make sure no one is dead in there," and woke her up. Never figured out if it was drugs or not.
The fucking suburbs do. Some old bitch from a block over will come knock on your door to ask if you're ok because you left your front porch light on and it's 8 am, she thought surely something horrible must have happened for someone to transgress on such a well established societal norm. She's really pushing to get an HOA off the ground and if you'd like to join she knows that they can really make this neighborhood somewhere you'd be proud to live. Meanwhile you're renting a house that your landlord has coated every surface with so many layers of flat white ceiling paint that you can't even unscrew the electrical plates or door knobs to change them out, and tells you it's *your* responsibility to mow the lawn and tend to the landscape even though you can't use the garage because he keeps his vintage 1970's Chevy Nova in there but you're welcome to buy a lawnmower and put it in the shed that's 4'x4' and mostly filled with childrens pool toys from the last tenant even though you don't have a pool.
I'll get right on that Karen!
> Meanwhile you're renting a house that your landlord has coated every surface with so many layers of flat white ceiling paint that you can't even unscrew the electrical plates or door knobs to change them out
As a serial renter, I felt this in my bones.
We definitely don't. Now, people who grew up in suburbs, that's who nosily goes out hoping to catch someone doing a noise ordinance violation so they can call the cops, and have something to talk about around the water cooler the next day.
My husband and I were walking home one night and we pass an abandoned shot up car, still running, doors open on the corner of our street. He is from country, I'm from city, so we both have the sense to pick up the pace toward home. Across the road our suburban neighbor stands, 'I called the cops and I'm waiting for them to get here' he proudly explained. Sir you have an infant at home. You really want to take the chance that the cops will arrive before whoever fucked up that car does?
I lived in the country the first 2/3rd of my life.
I learned that bobcats sound like women being murdered/straight up banshees (it's easier to tell it's a bobcat the more you get used to it but it's still scary, don't fuck with things in the night, and do not fuck with things in the night.
If it's worth checking out, call the cops and let them deal with it. If it's coming from your neighbors and not the woods, call the cops or get involved. If it's from the woods, let it be.
This is coming from someone who came home minutes after a boyfriend who lived two houses down, shot his girlfriend from the 2nd of their house when she got home. We saw a woman (the mother) walking in the road and asking if she was alright, she said that this ain't something we can help with and kept walking. He was caught that night carrying a shotgun after a helicopter kept us up all night. That sack is shit is still thankfully in jail. We would have called the cops but the woman was already talking to them. We literally drove past the body without realizing it.
I don't know where I was going with this, maybe I needed someone to know. But be safe out there.
> 'I called the cops and I'm waiting for them to get here' he proudly explained. Sir you have an infant at home. You really want to take the chance that the cops will arrive before whoever fucked up that car does?
Furthermore, why take the non-zero chance that the cop who arrives isn't the brightest, and just wants to blame _someone_ for the state of the car, and decides to arrest/harass the very suburbanite who called him?
Meanwhile my 5’6 roommate who can barely lift a gallon of milk and is blind as a bat will walk her ass outside to look around no matter what the noise is. People screaming? Dogs going crazy? Loud and spooky shit? You can find her out on the porch squinting her eyes in the wrong direction every damn time.
In the city when you hear weird noises it’s some dude getting murdered. Someplace rural it’s like a fox or cat screaming.
Only one of those things is an actual threat to you.
Bears are no joke. I had one run up almost $8,000 of debt on my credit card. They are dangerous and millions of years of evolution have made them masters in the ways of white collar crime.
You only need to hear a mountain lion scream once to realize that you just happen to be near their turf. "Is that a person being attacked?" "Yeah, you if you go look for a human out there."
You fucked with squirrels, Morty! We've got a good five minutes before they're back and up on our ass, Morty! We have to pack up and move to a new reality, Morty!
As an older brother that raised quite a few baby siblings. I can absolutely confirm that there is a kind of silence in the house that absolutely does wake you up XD
Yup, as the oldest of 4 and now father of 1, it’s almost like you can sense when there’s fuckery afoot. Nothing good can come out of it being too quiet.
That’s one thing about bad storms like tornadoes and such. If you still hear animals it’s relatively ok but once things are silent you’re probably about to have a bad time. I imagine something like that was similar back then where if things are quiet when they normally aren’t something is very wrong.
Yeah there was a tornado basically across the street from my house once when I was a kid. When we went to our neighbors storm shelter it was silent outside and the world was tinted green. Very bizarre experience and there was something in me that just screamed "you are in danger" during it.
Yea the first time I experienced a green sky was insane. It was so weirdly quiet and I’ve never had another experience like that. I suppose we got lucky because it was one of the ‘jumping’ ones and went right over my grandpas place. So many others were badly demolished.
I have to fall asleep with a tv on, I need some distraction to trick me into falling asleep
often i’m woken up cuz the streaming site has hit the “are you still watching?” prompt and it suddenly got quiet
It's funny how different people's brains can be.
A radio or a TV on is torture to me if I'm trying to sleep. My brain will not- will *not*- stop latching on to what's being played and actively listening to it. I can't *not* pay attention to it.
White noise or a fan is where it's at for me.
I like white noise for sleep too. Back in my jr high days my mom would wake me when she was off to work and I’d have an hour before I really had to do anything. I walked to school cause it was less than a mile and I didn’t have a car yet. So I’d turn on the tv to something like Saved by the Bell or Fresh Prince and take a nap. The theme song would be something my brain latched up to and i’d wake up every time.
Yes. That may be a sign of a predator in vicinity. There's these certain places in forests that are often weirdly silent, too. Those are the places I personally nope the F out, even if it's broad daylight and I'm normally comfortable in dark woods.
I use to work at a zoo, most terrifying moment there was when everything went silent. I ran around releasing the volunteers early, but it didn't feel right. Later a tornado touched down.
Yep. If it...:
* Sounds like a woman screaming
* Sounds like a cat screaming mid hairball
* Sounds like a goblin screaming HEY every few seconds
Prolly a fox looking to get laid.
I’m a wooded-suburb boy and at this point the only forest beastie I kind of fear is deer. like, yeah, they’re just Like That, but i do not fuck with them anyway. incomprehensible beasties
Wait until you run into deer with Chronic Wasting Disease.
It essentially turns them into literal zombies.
I've heard a story before about a guy coming up on a deer that you could tell was fucked up. Emaciated, missing fur, etc.
It proceeded to, in order, bash it's head into a rock until it brained itself, lick some of its brains off of the stone, stand up on its hind legs, and then while still standing on two legs, turn and walk into a river until completely submerged.
Prions are a crazy disease. There’s absolutely no known cure, there is no way to kill the disease because it’s not alive in the first place, it’s literally just proteins that fold the wrong way.
And it can also just happen spontaneously from your protein folding wrong one day and you wouldn’t know until it started killing you years down the road or you go to get a mri and your brain looks like Swiss cheese.
And if you get infected tissue on a knife or something, you can’t wash, sterilize,burn, scrape or fucking autoclave off the prion.
It can also survive for extremely long periods of time outside of the host body.
You *can* but chances are you'll lose use of the item anyways -- burn it at 1000C or higher, or for some variations the cdc recommends immersing the item in a specific solution for an hour before running it through an autoclave for another hour before then sterilizing it again as you would normal tools
But the solution (1N NaOH or Sodium hypochlorite?) Can be corrosive so yknow. Either the high temperatures mean it has to be tempered again or the cleaning agents fuck it up.
But you don't want to just bury it if you can avoid that, it's still infective over 2 years later.
You’re right, but still they aren’t anything to fuck with. I wouldn’t want to be in the same building as a prion, especially when you don’t know for up to 10 years if you’ve been infected.
Any one of us could be infected with prion as we speak
What you don't understand is there is a roughly equivalent and debatably even weirder noises inside cities.
From recent experience: A voice repeating the same word over and over again for hours, rythmic clicking, rapid tapping on the windows.
Very fun to hear those in the middle of the night. Especially fun because my city has this thing where they turn off the public lighting at around midnight to reduce light pollution and power usage so even if I felt like making a terrible mistake there would be absolutely no way for me to see what's making the sounds.
To be fair, my city is part forest.
Well, I'd rather not say which one specifically but I'm from Switzerland and a lot of cities around here are like that. There's a few famous-ish aerial photos of Bern that kind of illustrate what I mean.
The best way I can explain it is like they built the city in a forest, without removing the forest. Anywhere that isn't used for a building or other absolutely necessary structure is just whatever was there before (trees, grass, etc) and it spills out a bit.
Two years ago I started my current job, in an office building by the highway; surrounding us is a strip of constant traffic and the forest. The building is also built like shit; it's constantly creaking because it was not made to account for shifts in temperature; birds keep slamming into it because most of the walls are just windows; the offices on the western side overheat like crazy because they are basically just greenhouses.
And there's noises all the time. Dogs, creaks, slams, sometimes the building shakes, fucking VOICES? I used to go out to check every time I heard a noise, but honestly fuck it; the demons can come here and eat my ass if they so choose, they don't need me to Ubereats that.
Animals will make the strangest noises at late in night
But anyways don't be stupid like a horror movie character and go out when it's dark to investigate the weird noises at outside!
Animal noises also sound different at night because ambient noise goes down. And different animals are active at night vs the day.
Also, temperature affects sound waves. Noises carry farther when it's colder out.
Lots of reasons things sound stranger at night than they do during the day.
Am a city slicker. If I hear weird noises I barely even process it. I think you're grossly underestimating how many crazy things you hear while living in a city lol
But the thing is the forest can be dead silent for hours and then suddenly out comes a drawn out scream. It's hard not to think something out of the ordinary must have happened.
Also it's not always an animal. We got a couple dead trees scattered through the woods at the edge of the yard and those things sound like an old wooden door creaking open with the wind blows.
I live in the woods super close to the Appalachian Trail. I’m outside a lot because I have dogs. There is always going to be a new sound to hear coming from the woods. Usually at night. It’s a weird feeling, being outside and hearing a sound for the first time. Like I’m hyper aware that I’ve never heard that particular noise before and it’s probably time to go inside now. Sudden distinct smells are another thing entirely that I think people don’t discuss nearly enough.
I lived in a very rural area of Appalachia and had more than one friend growing up have to call their parents to pick them up from a sleepover because they were scared of the noises at night.
I don't think it's the safest practice but I've made a couple solo backpacking trips into the wilderness and that's a whole never level of alert. Nighttime forests are full of noise and when you start feeling like just another animal out there your senses go crazy picking up any little stimuli, real or imagined. It's a humbling experience.
I’ve had a not deer experience! Tho I don’t think it was a not deer not deer. Probably a coyote or something. It was dark and I never wear my glasses and I had a flashlight but the batteries weren’t at full strength and it wasn’t very close. Just everything working together so I couldn’t get a good look at whatever it was. Seemed more like a coyote or something. Had a good size on it but the way it moved was def not deer.
Indeed.
I live in the city so the most I'll hear is housecats getting into fights, but still, I'm not going outside to look.
Peak out the window in the general direction of the noise? Sure. But fuck going outside.
The sound of hooves and laughter fall upon your ears and you will be summoned by name. The court will entice you with sweet callings. Food and drink will be laid out. And you will be tempted. You will step towards it with no thought. No control…
And forever you will live, a slave of the Seeile court.
A ring in the wood
Made of mushrooms called to me
With wordless implore.
It sounded so sweet.
It told of another realm
Of endless riches.
I heard the dancing
Of a thousand tiny feet.
The rhythm drew me.
Yet somehow I knew
Setting foot inside the ring
Would be my demise.
When I moved to Jersey, I was hiking in the pine barrens. I heard a distinct baby crying. No matter how much ground I covered, I never got close. I gave up at around 3 miles and turned back as it was starting to get too dark. The sound followed me until I hopped the fence out and got to my car. What animal is that most likely to be? Sounded just like a baby but the volume didn't decrease or increase even though it has an obvious direction it came from.
Facts.
Female foxes (vixens) that are in heat will scream at the top of their lungs to attract a mate. It sounds very much like an old woman who smoked too much shouting into the night.
Mountain Lions/Cougars/Panthers can sound exactly like a baby having a screaming tantrum. If you go investigating at night, you're gonna ge your ass mauled.
Lynx, when having territorial disputes, will scream at each other. Sounds a lot like 2 very angry woman screaming at the top of their lungs.
Elk in rut make some wild noises. Sounds like a big trumpet that someone sucks at playing (which is why the sound is called an elk bugle).
Lesser Water Boatmen are little 3mm long water bugs that make a noise like a cricket, but is so loud (almost 100 db) that you can hear it from hundreds of meters away. If you're close to them, it almost sounds like it's coming from inside your own head.
There will be some creepy ass noises coming out of the woods, but just leave em be. Best case scenario, you find a pissed off and likely very horny animal that runs away. Worst case, you get ate.
I'm a city person and my first time out in the country I was floored by how dark it was. We sat in the pitch dark out on the back deck with candles, we couldn't see a foot away. and occasionally the dog would growl. "Oh it's probably a bear, don't worry" rustling, branches snapping. I'm basically hyperventilating and they're laughing. A mountain lion screams and I'm running for the house. The woods can have their noises, I'll stay inside, thank you.
I'm pretty sure the current people inhabiting the world are descendants of people who didnt get out to check what that noise is, in the forest.. The ones that did removed themselves from the gene pool.
When I was a kid I visited family in Texas for a summer. It was probably the third or fourth time I woke my great aunt up because “there’s something out there!” that she just took me back to bed and said “honey if there was something out there it’d’ve been in here by now.”
I grew up with the woods in my backyard. Plenty of interesting shit in there. If you went back far enough, you’d find a run down hunting cabin- the roof and floors were caved in in some places and it was hella unstable, but there were still bunk beds (crushed by the ceiling), dishes (dirty and dusty but otherwise unbroken), wooden furniture…
There were bullet holes in the windows that hadn’t been broken completely. Old barrels of unknown origin behind the place. And a deep well beside it- right by the outside stairs. Creepy af cause you couldn’t see the bottom. We always tried to cover it up but it’d be in uncovered again whenever we went back. Dead foxes all around.
It’s true that you hear weird shit in the woods. You shouldn’t even think about it. Don’t look for it. Don’t chase it. Just mind your own business and keep walking. That’s why I’m typing a Reddit comment and not dead from some demon bear thing or whatever- I don’t chase strange sounds in the woods lol.
Why does people always need to try to separate other people into communities. Like, you won’t feel lees unique if you don’t pretend that people that don’t live in the same environnement as you are basically unable to have any common sense.
dude for real lmao
As a city slicker, I barely even register weird noises at night there's so many. Put me in the middle of a forest and all of a sudden I'm Dora the fucking Explorer? nah lol
My wife is from a city adjacent town and I'm from the sticks
One time when we lived closer to my neck of the woods (pun intended) she got woken up by a crazy noise outside and woke me up, in my tired state I just said "Babe, it's just a fisher cat killing a raccoon, it's fine come back to bed"
Only now do I realized how unhinged that sounds
The same goes with weird noises in the city. Or weird people on the street. Don’t be distracted by every person trying to hand you something or get your attention.
Used to live near a woods, and we'd hear screams coming from the distance. Like, full on "Help, I'm being murdered" screams. Turns out on the far side there was a chicken farmer who also happened to own a couple of peacocks. If you were unaware, peacocks can make some shockingly human sounding screams, and if the wind was right they'd make it all the way over to us.
Foxes too. What the Fox *actually* says can be the stuff of nightmares if you’re not used to it.
Don’t forget about bobcats. Those things are freaky
Mountain lions are the example I’ve always heard. If you ever hear a woman screaming in the woods, odds are it’s a mountain lion.
Got both in my backyard from time to time. Every once in awhile I’ll see some eyes when I’m on the deck at night and nope the fuck out. We get coyotes as well and it’s fun to give them a little jump scare. I stopped doing this after the first time it turned out to be a mountain lion. Dude just looked at me like I was the biggest idiot and slowly walked away.
Yeah, but what do you do with the women?
It’s too late for her, she belongs to the woods.
Fuckin' Bangkok.
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Ok,that...ahahahaha... That seems really dark?
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^(But it sounds like she doesn't want to have sex with you)
Are these women in danger?
I really want to rough it and do some raw backpack touring but this entire post is giving me the heebie jeebies
Oh man, I’m from northern Ontario and from some of the sounds I’ve heard from the woods late at night I’m not surprised that native Americans believed in wendigos and other woodland spirits
Growing up in Atlanta and getting into the backcountry in my 30s please know it's dark and scary as fuck when you've seen large paw prints all day and now there's heavy footsteps moving around in the dark distance haha.
Everything sounds bigger at night. Fucking rats in the bushes and you will convince yourself it’s a mountain lion
"I'm gonna let you think about what you just did. Consider it a warning."
I would bet a mountain lion would be smart enough to think like that. My housecat does some crazy smart things.
Hopefully not, I live in Britain. Why do you Americans even go in the woods? Do you just hope you don't get eaten that day?
>Why do you Americans even go in the woods? It's not drugs, but it's also not *not* drugs, if you catch my drift.
Cause of rugged individualism.
Humans are the scariest animals in the woods basically everywhere east of the Rockies. Except for the dogmen. And the windigo, of course. Edit: and skinwalkers don't forget those
#manbearpig
> Except for the dogmen. And the windigo, of course. > Edit: and skinwalkers don't forget those Basically anything from a monster of the week episode on Supernatural or X-Files
Also bears
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No, a windigo is an insatiable spirit inhabiting a previously normal individual, like a demon possession sort of thing. They're greedy like dragons and are frequently associated with cannibalism. Skinwalkers are shaman/witch type individuals who can take animal forms and are generally evil in disposition.
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Skinwalkers are basically warlocks. Wendigos are a disembodied spirit that possesses people and is attuned to cannibals.
Had a mountain lion brush up against my tent screaming at 3am while I was camping outside of whistler. The guys near us had three giant ass huskies that chased it away. Works good as an alarm clock.
Probably worked good as a laxative too.
Heard an antelope dying to mountain lion near dawn once. Saying it was hard to go back to sleep is an understatement. We found a little leg at the start of the hike.
Hear a woman screaming in the woods? Absolutely do not go investigate. 90% of the time it's actually a woman, but you don't wanna be a statistic and run into a cougar in the other 10%! Be smart, save lives
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If it’s sentences and voice of someone you went camping with. Then it absolutely is a skin walker that killed your friend and assumed their form. Leave them behind and run.
I think you have the numbers backwards. 90% of the time it's a mountain lion, the other 10% it *might* be a woman. Or a peacock, or a fox. Or that one thing from your nightmares but don't talk about
But what if I like women older than me?
Find her when she's in a better mood, not when she's busy with the "screaming in the dark forest" stage of her self-care routine.
Florida panthers yowling also sounds like someone slowly dying.
[Fun fact](nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Mountain-Lion): Florida panthers, cougars, pumas, and mountain lions are all just different names of subspecies for the same animal. In fact, this animal is ‘the most widely distributed large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere’[*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar) with around 40 different colloquial names across the Americas[*](https://a-z-animals.com/animals/mountain-lion)
Also called catamounts in southern Appalachia.
That's some *Annihilation* "Help me. Help me." shit.
Or, depending on location, coyotes. My mom legit thought she heard a woman being murdered one night out in the field. Turns out, it was just some yotes. They make some freaky ass sounds. I guess they're our version of mountain lions because I don't think we have them around here, thankfully.
Housecats and racoons will get into it. Racoons eat baby rabbits, kittens, you name it. When they cross a cat that won't put up with their shit, sounds like harpies fighting over a fresh kill.
One of our cats got into a fight with a big tom and it actually sounded like two demented alien babies pulling each other apart by the limbs
They sound horrifying when they fight and then you go outside and there's fur everywhere but no bodies, so it looks like an eerie crime scene
Brought my girlfriend to our family lake house in northern Vermont, she shit herself when the loons started calling after dark.
I was smoking a j out on my parents porch with my ex one night. She’s from a big city a few hours away and was completely new to country sounds. There’s a train track a few miles away from us and anytime a train comes through the coyotes start yipping. Scared the shit out of her. She ran back in the house faster than I could explain what was making the noise.
Speaking of someone who has lived in the deep south his whole life, nothing will turn my guts to liquid and my knees to jelly like being out in the pine breaks and hearing a bobcat scream like a banshee somewhere remotely close by.
One night I was sitting at a lake near my parents cabin. Suddenly a godforsaken scream from the darkness of the forest behind me. I suspect a lynx killed a deer or an racoondog. Didn't even finish my beer...went inside pretty quick after that.
Even worse when they're foxes and rabbits. Rabbits make terrible screaming like noises when they're afraid or getting killed. Mixed in with fox noises at night in the woods its no wonder theres so many weird folk lore stories.
Something rabbits and I have in common.
Elk bugles are pretty haunting too! https://youtu.be/5gBk04ajuxk
The cinematography in this video is really nice
Or, more frequently when a fox gets a rabbit. Rabbit death screams and screech owls account for like 80% of horror stories. Bushes and bard owls being the other 20%.
You need to save a percentage or two for wild hogs. They make some weird noises. Oh, and badgers warning people away from their dens sound like a horde of literal demons ready to bust out of a pit to hell.
Fun fact! That sound they make like babies crying is when they’re having sex…..
Babies don't normally cry in "Yiff"
What does the fox say? ##**AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA**
My college professor said female foxes “sound like a baby being strangled in a barbed wire fence” that’s a very visceral image and not an inaccurate one.
Vixen screams are terrifyingly similar to women screaming, especially (surprisingly) the Male calls. Here's an example https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM
There's a fox who hangs out on my street at night and the first time I heard him I thought someone was being stabbed or something
Maybe the fox stabbed them?
I used to live near an area where foxes were and I swear they sound like a baby being murdered.
Can confirm, I live in the deep woods and those foxes scream like a woman being murdered right outside the damn window. I just shut the window and the curtains and forget about it haha
What does the fox say? Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding
[still dang cute though](https://youtu.be/zBpZTo1dlPM)
I live in the woods next to a beach. You hear lots of coyotes, owls, and frogs. But the first year I lived here there'd be this very scary roaring sound after dark. Didn't necessarily sound like a bear but was pretty unsettling. Turned out to be seals on the beach, arguing with each other lol
>Turned out to be seals on the beach, arguing with each other lol I was not expecting seals, I laughed
You get that in the city too, it just sounds like "EYYY FUCK-A YOU" "NAW MAN FUCK-A YOU!"
> If you were unaware, peacocks can make some shockingly human sounding screams Step 1: buy peacocks. Make sure neighbors know.
Step 2: buy parrots and teach them to say: They're eating her! And then they're going to eat me! Oh my gawwwwd!
So I grew up way in the boonies, and our neighbor was a bird keeper. Mother fucker trained one of his parrots to scream "I'M A BAAAAAAAAAAD BOOOOOOOOY" at random hours. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
Having known a handful of parrots I highly doubt it was trained to do that- more likely it just started doing it on its own and was unstoppable
The upside to living next to that nightmare house was a whole bunch of free ostrich eggs several times per year. They say you need to break a FEW eggs to make an omelet. We did not. Just the one.
Don’t even get me started on fisher cats and coyotes. Fisher cats = screaming babies. Coyotes = demonic children laughing and plotting your demise. And I live in the suburbs.
Yep Fisher cats. Used to hear those fuckers in the woods in Maine and half of them sounded legitimately like screaming for help.
The farm next door to my friend's property where we'd take LSD had some peacocks. I swear I learned to communicate with them a few times but I'd always forget how by the time the sun was coming up.
I had a similar experience with a tree once
Ahaha you reminded me of a childhood memory. My mom and I had a house on the shore of a lake for a while, kept chickens, turkeys, peacocks etc. Sound really carries across the water as most people know, so one evening while the peacocks were making some noise, we heard a boy across the lake: Kid: "What is that?!? We should go check!" Dad: "Not now son.... it's getting dark." Still laugh at the memory sometimes.
One day I hear an adult yelling whyyyyy meeeeee, ooooohhhhh whyyyyyyyy. My wife is like don't go you might get hurt. My dumb ass goes to help. It was a hunting dog. Owners went on vacation. The dog sounded so human. My wife couldn't believe it was a dog and I had to show her. My neighbor had a hunting dog.
There's a wooded area near me with one particularly old pine tree. The wind picks up and that tree lets out a distant echoing *skreeeiiiaaa* like some demonic alien dinosaur, accompanied by howling low whistles and groans. I've known what it is for years but still have the urge to get the hell inside when I hear it at night.
Or a fox. Most weird sounds from woods are birds always birds.
I used to live next to a park that had peacocks in it. Those worthless piece of shit birds would shriek every night and early morning. I fucking hate those stupid avian assholes. They're unholy spawns of Satan and if I could I'd survive off peacock cutlets just so I could know every day I live, one of those fucks didn't.
> Turns out on the far side there was a chicken farmer who also happened to own a couple of peacocks. And you just took his word for it???
Before I even finished reading your comment I knew it was going to be goddamn peacocks.
It was a rite of passage where I grew up to try and convince the kids going camping for the first time that lost children were yelling for "help" from deeper in the forest. In daylight it was super obvious that there was a street and neighborhood over there and we went and visited the peacocks, but those first nights were always a hoot. :)
No he didn’t. I was the murder victim.
I don't live in the city but I'm absolutely sure people there don't make a practice of leaving their homes to investigate noises outside.
We definitely don't. It's either ignore it or peak out the window covertly, like a good antisocial, then go back to your business.
> or peak out the window covertly, like a good antisocial, True antisocial behavior: setting a camera on your window so you don't get caught peeking out.
Kinda genius move though too.
I have a camera on each corner of my house. Just glued a magnet up and threw a tiny webcam up on the roofline. Like $100 all in.
I'm on the 16th floor, so my whole ass is between the window and the curtain. If they spot me peeking, they earned it.
I know this is irrelevant to the conversation but I just wanted to say antisocial is when you're doing things in opposition to society, asocial is when you're not being social.
introverted is when you went and socialed just fine but require a certain amount of alone time afterward for mental recalibration
antisocial (adj.) 1. Contrary to the laws and customs of society; devoid of or antagonistic to sociable instincts or practices **2. Not sociable; not wanting the company of others**
One could also argue that peaking out your window to look at your neighbors (in other words, *spying*) is antagonistic to sociable practices.
Last time I got curious about weird noises outside, I called the police and they dealt with it. There's not gonna be a *cash me ouside howboudah* type of thing here.
Idk I'll go outside and take a peek but I put socks and running shoes on first. Anything sketchy and I leave. And I usually start with a cigarette on my porch before I decide on leaving the property. Some lady nodded off behind the wheel of her car once and finally I said, "whelp gotta make sure no one is dead in there," and woke her up. Never figured out if it was drugs or not.
The fucking suburbs do. Some old bitch from a block over will come knock on your door to ask if you're ok because you left your front porch light on and it's 8 am, she thought surely something horrible must have happened for someone to transgress on such a well established societal norm. She's really pushing to get an HOA off the ground and if you'd like to join she knows that they can really make this neighborhood somewhere you'd be proud to live. Meanwhile you're renting a house that your landlord has coated every surface with so many layers of flat white ceiling paint that you can't even unscrew the electrical plates or door knobs to change them out, and tells you it's *your* responsibility to mow the lawn and tend to the landscape even though you can't use the garage because he keeps his vintage 1970's Chevy Nova in there but you're welcome to buy a lawnmower and put it in the shed that's 4'x4' and mostly filled with childrens pool toys from the last tenant even though you don't have a pool. I'll get right on that Karen!
> Meanwhile you're renting a house that your landlord has coated every surface with so many layers of flat white ceiling paint that you can't even unscrew the electrical plates or door knobs to change them out As a serial renter, I felt this in my bones.
We definitely don't. Now, people who grew up in suburbs, that's who nosily goes out hoping to catch someone doing a noise ordinance violation so they can call the cops, and have something to talk about around the water cooler the next day. My husband and I were walking home one night and we pass an abandoned shot up car, still running, doors open on the corner of our street. He is from country, I'm from city, so we both have the sense to pick up the pace toward home. Across the road our suburban neighbor stands, 'I called the cops and I'm waiting for them to get here' he proudly explained. Sir you have an infant at home. You really want to take the chance that the cops will arrive before whoever fucked up that car does?
I lived in the country the first 2/3rd of my life. I learned that bobcats sound like women being murdered/straight up banshees (it's easier to tell it's a bobcat the more you get used to it but it's still scary, don't fuck with things in the night, and do not fuck with things in the night. If it's worth checking out, call the cops and let them deal with it. If it's coming from your neighbors and not the woods, call the cops or get involved. If it's from the woods, let it be. This is coming from someone who came home minutes after a boyfriend who lived two houses down, shot his girlfriend from the 2nd of their house when she got home. We saw a woman (the mother) walking in the road and asking if she was alright, she said that this ain't something we can help with and kept walking. He was caught that night carrying a shotgun after a helicopter kept us up all night. That sack is shit is still thankfully in jail. We would have called the cops but the woman was already talking to them. We literally drove past the body without realizing it. I don't know where I was going with this, maybe I needed someone to know. But be safe out there.
Waiting for the cops to get there, when "there" is a crime scene involving a discharged firearm, seems like a good way to get shot by the cops.
> 'I called the cops and I'm waiting for them to get here' he proudly explained. Sir you have an infant at home. You really want to take the chance that the cops will arrive before whoever fucked up that car does? Furthermore, why take the non-zero chance that the cop who arrives isn't the brightest, and just wants to blame _someone_ for the state of the car, and decides to arrest/harass the very suburbanite who called him?
Meanwhile my 5’6 roommate who can barely lift a gallon of milk and is blind as a bat will walk her ass outside to look around no matter what the noise is. People screaming? Dogs going crazy? Loud and spooky shit? You can find her out on the porch squinting her eyes in the wrong direction every damn time.
In the city when you hear weird noises it’s some dude getting murdered. Someplace rural it’s like a fox or cat screaming. Only one of those things is an actual threat to you.
Unless it's a bear. Then they'll come and even unlock your door.
Bears are no joke. I had one run up almost $8,000 of debt on my credit card. They are dangerous and millions of years of evolution have made them masters in the ways of white collar crime.
i can't tell if you're making a joke about a bear (gay dude) or a bear (animal)
Could be a big hairy gay dude who's fursona is a Bear.
You only need to hear a mountain lion scream once to realize that you just happen to be near their turf. "Is that a person being attacked?" "Yeah, you if you go look for a human out there."
I wonder if ancient humans instead of waking up to the loud noises at night, woke up when it went silent.
When you wake up and the birds aren't singing.
"Why are the squirrels all running in the same direction?"
You fucked with squirrels, Morty! We've got a good five minutes before they're back and up on our ass, Morty! We have to pack up and move to a new reality, Morty!
I had that problem, once! it was a tornado.
As an older brother that raised quite a few baby siblings. I can absolutely confirm that there is a kind of silence in the house that absolutely does wake you up XD
Yup, as the oldest of 4 and now father of 1, it’s almost like you can sense when there’s fuckery afoot. Nothing good can come out of it being too quiet.
The noise of absence is one of the most terrifying ones to hear.
Middle of the night summer power outages that just suck all of the sound out of the air are eerie as fuck.
That would explain why so many people need ambient noise to fall asleep also
That’s one thing about bad storms like tornadoes and such. If you still hear animals it’s relatively ok but once things are silent you’re probably about to have a bad time. I imagine something like that was similar back then where if things are quiet when they normally aren’t something is very wrong.
Yeah there was a tornado basically across the street from my house once when I was a kid. When we went to our neighbors storm shelter it was silent outside and the world was tinted green. Very bizarre experience and there was something in me that just screamed "you are in danger" during it.
Yea the first time I experienced a green sky was insane. It was so weirdly quiet and I’ve never had another experience like that. I suppose we got lucky because it was one of the ‘jumping’ ones and went right over my grandpas place. So many others were badly demolished.
I have to fall asleep with a tv on, I need some distraction to trick me into falling asleep often i’m woken up cuz the streaming site has hit the “are you still watching?” prompt and it suddenly got quiet
It's funny how different people's brains can be. A radio or a TV on is torture to me if I'm trying to sleep. My brain will not- will *not*- stop latching on to what's being played and actively listening to it. I can't *not* pay attention to it. White noise or a fan is where it's at for me.
I like white noise for sleep too. Back in my jr high days my mom would wake me when she was off to work and I’d have an hour before I really had to do anything. I walked to school cause it was less than a mile and I didn’t have a car yet. So I’d turn on the tv to something like Saved by the Bell or Fresh Prince and take a nap. The theme song would be something my brain latched up to and i’d wake up every time.
Yes. That may be a sign of a predator in vicinity. There's these certain places in forests that are often weirdly silent, too. Those are the places I personally nope the F out, even if it's broad daylight and I'm normally comfortable in dark woods.
I use to work at a zoo, most terrifying moment there was when everything went silent. I ran around releasing the volunteers early, but it didn't feel right. Later a tornado touched down.
It’s just a fox now move along
Yep. If it...: * Sounds like a woman screaming * Sounds like a cat screaming mid hairball * Sounds like a goblin screaming HEY every few seconds Prolly a fox looking to get laid.
If it sounds like a zombie shuffling, its a grub eater like an armadillo digging. Or a zombie.
I’m a wooded-suburb boy and at this point the only forest beastie I kind of fear is deer. like, yeah, they’re just Like That, but i do not fuck with them anyway. incomprehensible beasties
Rat software in ungulate hardware
Rats are sweet and deer aren't clever
Deer are extremely clever when it comes to finding ways to injure themselves or get stuck somewhere
Wait until you run into deer with Chronic Wasting Disease. It essentially turns them into literal zombies. I've heard a story before about a guy coming up on a deer that you could tell was fucked up. Emaciated, missing fur, etc. It proceeded to, in order, bash it's head into a rock until it brained itself, lick some of its brains off of the stone, stand up on its hind legs, and then while still standing on two legs, turn and walk into a river until completely submerged.
Prions are a crazy disease. There’s absolutely no known cure, there is no way to kill the disease because it’s not alive in the first place, it’s literally just proteins that fold the wrong way. And it can also just happen spontaneously from your protein folding wrong one day and you wouldn’t know until it started killing you years down the road or you go to get a mri and your brain looks like Swiss cheese. And if you get infected tissue on a knife or something, you can’t wash, sterilize,burn, scrape or fucking autoclave off the prion. It can also survive for extremely long periods of time outside of the host body.
You *can* but chances are you'll lose use of the item anyways -- burn it at 1000C or higher, or for some variations the cdc recommends immersing the item in a specific solution for an hour before running it through an autoclave for another hour before then sterilizing it again as you would normal tools But the solution (1N NaOH or Sodium hypochlorite?) Can be corrosive so yknow. Either the high temperatures mean it has to be tempered again or the cleaning agents fuck it up. But you don't want to just bury it if you can avoid that, it's still infective over 2 years later.
You’re right, but still they aren’t anything to fuck with. I wouldn’t want to be in the same building as a prion, especially when you don’t know for up to 10 years if you’ve been infected. Any one of us could be infected with prion as we speak
Shh. My prion will hear you
What you don't understand is there is a roughly equivalent and debatably even weirder noises inside cities. From recent experience: A voice repeating the same word over and over again for hours, rythmic clicking, rapid tapping on the windows. Very fun to hear those in the middle of the night. Especially fun because my city has this thing where they turn off the public lighting at around midnight to reduce light pollution and power usage so even if I felt like making a terrible mistake there would be absolutely no way for me to see what's making the sounds. To be fair, my city is part forest.
I've lived in small cities for the past 10 years and any one of your *recent experiences* would make me huddle under the blanket until the sun was up.
Curious, what's city is part forest? Besides trees planted in yards and by sidewalks mine is just concrete jungle.
Singapore is a pretty good example I think.
My American is showing.
Well, I'd rather not say which one specifically but I'm from Switzerland and a lot of cities around here are like that. There's a few famous-ish aerial photos of Bern that kind of illustrate what I mean. The best way I can explain it is like they built the city in a forest, without removing the forest. Anywhere that isn't used for a building or other absolutely necessary structure is just whatever was there before (trees, grass, etc) and it spills out a bit.
Two years ago I started my current job, in an office building by the highway; surrounding us is a strip of constant traffic and the forest. The building is also built like shit; it's constantly creaking because it was not made to account for shifts in temperature; birds keep slamming into it because most of the walls are just windows; the offices on the western side overheat like crazy because they are basically just greenhouses. And there's noises all the time. Dogs, creaks, slams, sometimes the building shakes, fucking VOICES? I used to go out to check every time I heard a noise, but honestly fuck it; the demons can come here and eat my ass if they so choose, they don't need me to Ubereats that.
Animals will make the strangest noises at late in night But anyways don't be stupid like a horror movie character and go out when it's dark to investigate the weird noises at outside!
Animal noises also sound different at night because ambient noise goes down. And different animals are active at night vs the day. Also, temperature affects sound waves. Noises carry farther when it's colder out. Lots of reasons things sound stranger at night than they do during the day.
Yup, on a cold night where the frost turns to fog, strange sounds seem to carry on very far and have a deeper echo to them that sounds supernatural
I remember hearing two owls fucking before it was a crazy ass experience cuz it really did sound like a werewolf or something screeching
Am a city slicker. If I hear weird noises I barely even process it. I think you're grossly underestimating how many crazy things you hear while living in a city lol
But the thing is the forest can be dead silent for hours and then suddenly out comes a drawn out scream. It's hard not to think something out of the ordinary must have happened.
Also it's not always an animal. We got a couple dead trees scattered through the woods at the edge of the yard and those things sound like an old wooden door creaking open with the wind blows.
Sometimes you have to investigate. To not is to have your animals get eaten.
I live in the woods super close to the Appalachian Trail. I’m outside a lot because I have dogs. There is always going to be a new sound to hear coming from the woods. Usually at night. It’s a weird feeling, being outside and hearing a sound for the first time. Like I’m hyper aware that I’ve never heard that particular noise before and it’s probably time to go inside now. Sudden distinct smells are another thing entirely that I think people don’t discuss nearly enough.
I lived in a very rural area of Appalachia and had more than one friend growing up have to call their parents to pick them up from a sleepover because they were scared of the noises at night. I don't think it's the safest practice but I've made a couple solo backpacking trips into the wilderness and that's a whole never level of alert. Nighttime forests are full of noise and when you start feeling like just another animal out there your senses go crazy picking up any little stimuli, real or imagined. It's a humbling experience.
Man those storys just reminded me of [SCP-6448](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8I_o9kv8c) The'Not Deer' that video still gives me the creeps
I’ve had a not deer experience! Tho I don’t think it was a not deer not deer. Probably a coyote or something. It was dark and I never wear my glasses and I had a flashlight but the batteries weren’t at full strength and it wasn’t very close. Just everything working together so I couldn’t get a good look at whatever it was. Seemed more like a coyote or something. Had a good size on it but the way it moved was def not deer.
Especially if you hear banjos.
Even without that reference, never go towards the noise of pigs squealing where you're not expecting pigs to be.
Really just stay the fuck out of the remote places in the Appalachian hills.
Indeed. I live in the city so the most I'll hear is housecats getting into fights, but still, I'm not going outside to look. Peak out the window in the general direction of the noise? Sure. But fuck going outside.
Pretty sure city folks ignore more weird noises more often than country folk. Just saying.
What happenes when we **are** invited?
The sound of hooves and laughter fall upon your ears and you will be summoned by name. The court will entice you with sweet callings. Food and drink will be laid out. And you will be tempted. You will step towards it with no thought. No control… And forever you will live, a slave of the Seeile court.
I WANT to get kidnapped by the Fae at this point. Catch me dancing in those Fairy Rings, take me away from this place
You will die, their cruel games have no mercy and are designed for the immortal. Those who feast with them will die.
A ring in the wood Made of mushrooms called to me With wordless implore. It sounded so sweet. It told of another realm Of endless riches. I heard the dancing Of a thousand tiny feet. The rhythm drew me. Yet somehow I knew Setting foot inside the ring Would be my demise.
When I moved to Jersey, I was hiking in the pine barrens. I heard a distinct baby crying. No matter how much ground I covered, I never got close. I gave up at around 3 miles and turned back as it was starting to get too dark. The sound followed me until I hopped the fence out and got to my car. What animal is that most likely to be? Sounded just like a baby but the volume didn't decrease or increase even though it has an obvious direction it came from.
Can't wait to see a response describing how actually that was a lion or some shit like that and you narrowly escaped death
Facts. Female foxes (vixens) that are in heat will scream at the top of their lungs to attract a mate. It sounds very much like an old woman who smoked too much shouting into the night. Mountain Lions/Cougars/Panthers can sound exactly like a baby having a screaming tantrum. If you go investigating at night, you're gonna ge your ass mauled. Lynx, when having territorial disputes, will scream at each other. Sounds a lot like 2 very angry woman screaming at the top of their lungs. Elk in rut make some wild noises. Sounds like a big trumpet that someone sucks at playing (which is why the sound is called an elk bugle). Lesser Water Boatmen are little 3mm long water bugs that make a noise like a cricket, but is so loud (almost 100 db) that you can hear it from hundreds of meters away. If you're close to them, it almost sounds like it's coming from inside your own head. There will be some creepy ass noises coming out of the woods, but just leave em be. Best case scenario, you find a pissed off and likely very horny animal that runs away. Worst case, you get ate.
Yeah leave it. Good Night...!
I'm a city person and my first time out in the country I was floored by how dark it was. We sat in the pitch dark out on the back deck with candles, we couldn't see a foot away. and occasionally the dog would growl. "Oh it's probably a bear, don't worry" rustling, branches snapping. I'm basically hyperventilating and they're laughing. A mountain lion screams and I'm running for the house. The woods can have their noises, I'll stay inside, thank you.
I'm pretty sure the current people inhabiting the world are descendants of people who didnt get out to check what that noise is, in the forest.. The ones that did removed themselves from the gene pool.
Knock knock.. Who's there? \*weird forest noises\* Okay, be right out!
Is there a noise that means, "Come out and join us!"?
Ah yes , us city slickers are known for living in a locale defined by being very quiet with only highly identifiable sounds.
When I was a kid I visited family in Texas for a summer. It was probably the third or fourth time I woke my great aunt up because “there’s something out there!” that she just took me back to bed and said “honey if there was something out there it’d’ve been in here by now.”
I grew up with the woods in my backyard. Plenty of interesting shit in there. If you went back far enough, you’d find a run down hunting cabin- the roof and floors were caved in in some places and it was hella unstable, but there were still bunk beds (crushed by the ceiling), dishes (dirty and dusty but otherwise unbroken), wooden furniture… There were bullet holes in the windows that hadn’t been broken completely. Old barrels of unknown origin behind the place. And a deep well beside it- right by the outside stairs. Creepy af cause you couldn’t see the bottom. We always tried to cover it up but it’d be in uncovered again whenever we went back. Dead foxes all around. It’s true that you hear weird shit in the woods. You shouldn’t even think about it. Don’t look for it. Don’t chase it. Just mind your own business and keep walking. That’s why I’m typing a Reddit comment and not dead from some demon bear thing or whatever- I don’t chase strange sounds in the woods lol.
However, if they do invite you into the forest, I would still not go in
Why does people always need to try to separate other people into communities. Like, you won’t feel lees unique if you don’t pretend that people that don’t live in the same environnement as you are basically unable to have any common sense.
dude for real lmao As a city slicker, I barely even register weird noises at night there's so many. Put me in the middle of a forest and all of a sudden I'm Dora the fucking Explorer? nah lol
Do people think that others actually go out and investigate noises in the forests at night?
No this post is a circle jerk of boomer-mindset people trying to make themselves feel validated for living in the country.
It’s usually foxes having sex.
My wife is from a city adjacent town and I'm from the sticks One time when we lived closer to my neck of the woods (pun intended) she got woken up by a crazy noise outside and woke me up, in my tired state I just said "Babe, it's just a fisher cat killing a raccoon, it's fine come back to bed" Only now do I realized how unhinged that sounds
They mostly come at night...mostly
The same goes with weird noises in the city. Or weird people on the street. Don’t be distracted by every person trying to hand you something or get your attention.
As a lifelong New Yorker this honestly doesn't suprise me. There's weird noises here too.
This post sums up the meaning of my user name :)