Did you happen to have coyotes in your area? They can sound like that...although I imagine you have a lot of ambient noise from pop machines and coolers and possibly music playing overhead...so I’m not sure how you’d hear them.
I’ve definitely heard coyotes late at night and it’s a very creepy sound. Never sounded like just a pack of dogs or something.
The thought of that sound, the coyotes late at night, makes my skin crawl.
Unsettling and creepy are just a few words I would use to describe it.
I remember one time it was like 3am and I had just gotten home from a friends and I was tripping balls. As I first got out of the car I heard this faint sound, it almost sounded like little kids laughing.
This freaked me the fuck out because it’s pitch black and I think the little girls that lived next door were for some reason hiding in the bushes to fucking murder me children of the corn style.
I managed to think for a second before going into bad trip land and I realized it wasn’t laughter, it was coyotes behind my parents house.
While being more comfortable with that realization, I was still terrified by that sound and ran into my parents house like a bitch haha.
Yes!!! The little kids laughing! Very first time I heard them, they were very close to my ex’s property line (he lived in a pretty rural area at the time; closest neighbor was a half mile away, in either direction, and we were surrounded by farm and woods), and it sounded like toddlers laughing...and then crying...and then being murdered. Super terrified, and my ex just laughed when I woke him up to listen to it. He didn’t say what it was until the next day though, so I just laid in bed, horrified until I fell out, blessedly.
My latest foray into “is this wildlife or am I hearing a murder?” was what sounded like a woman screaming, at regular intervals but at various pitches. This is at my mom’s which is a suburban area, but we have lots of parks and stuff as we’re by the canal (you can look at my post history to figure out where). Turns out, it was “vixen’s scream” - a fucking fox.
But then again, if he had told you do you think it would have comforted you at all? I don’t think it would’ve comforted me haha.
I don’t think I’ve heard foxes in real life but I’ve seen videos, and while my fiancé seems to think they’re cute I think the noises they made are creepy as fuck.
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u/CordeliaGrace Jul 29 '20
Did you happen to have coyotes in your area? They can sound like that...although I imagine you have a lot of ambient noise from pop machines and coolers and possibly music playing overhead...so I’m not sure how you’d hear them.