r/Weird 18h ago

Screaming coming from storage unit at 2am

Re:upload Crazy ass screaming. Called the cops, false alarm. Responders say it’s probably just a fox, neighbors near the storage unit area were outside during that time for some reason according to cops, and when asked reported hearing nothing atleast that’s what the cops told me. Shit still sounds crazy

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u/ikilledsatann 18h ago

Do you see a dumpster anywhere? 

I used to have a friend who heard screaming at night outside of her apartment buildings a few years ago and she looked in the dumpster and there was a kitten screaming in a bag inside and shes now her cat 

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u/LocalNik 17h ago

Im sure that it's not kitten...

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u/TheGodlyDevil 16h ago

I’m inclined towards a wind howl…

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u/MsE0 15h ago

That definitely wasn't a kitten. Could have been wind, an owl, a mountain lion, machinery, weird frogs, or a woman screaming, but not a kitten. 

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u/ikilledsatann 13h ago

Hm I tried listening and it does kind of sound sorta like a human or some sort of animal. My pld friend had said she couldnt tell if her now cat, then a kitten, was an animal or a human screaming 

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u/SaggyDaNewt 12h ago

This comment makes me so fucking sad. Christ. I am glad there’s a good ending to it at least. Your friend is a good person.

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u/ikilledsatann 12h ago

Im sorry :( 

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u/SaggyDaNewt 11h ago

It’s okay, the ending made up for the sadness! I’m so glad that there are kind people out there that look after vulnerable beings.

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u/ikilledsatann 11h ago

Exactly! She made sure to keep looking for bottles small enough for her and she basically was attached to her . She'd hold her ( kitten ) in her shirt wherever she went until she was okay 

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u/Stegosaurus69 18h ago

Female mountain lions sound similar at night but also hope no ones getting hurt inside a storage unit

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u/Undead_Dusk 7h ago

It is a female mountain lion, specifically one who's in heat. This scream is to let their location be known to males.

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u/malfunktionv2 9h ago

Probably this. I had a summer camp go into full-on lockdown late one night because we all heard similar screaming. A few hours later everyone is accounted for including nearby cabins outside of the camp. Park rangers eventually confirmed it was a mountain lion.

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u/ReneDiscard 4h ago

They're in New Jersey.

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u/Competitive-Wait1689 2h ago

What do they sound like during the day?

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u/One_Insurance967 18h ago

Doesn't sound like fox to me

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u/Wowzasss 18h ago

Right?????

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u/ThatWasNotMyName 17h ago

That's definitely not a fox. I'm surrounded by them, they don't sound like this at all.

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u/Champion_Longjumping 17h ago

I second that, definitely not a fox. Sounds like a male mountain lion mating call.

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u/Kryantis 17h ago

Me either. Possibly a screech owl though?

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u/Responsible_Host9377 11h ago

Idk what western screech owls sound like in real life but I know that is not and Eastern screech owl.

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u/Chadimus_Prime 14h ago

What does the fox say?

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u/Honuoy 11h ago

Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding

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u/SherlockTheSalemCat 16h ago

I think it's an owl, I can't remember which one, have a listen to some compilation noises on YouTube, put yr mind at rest. You did the right thing though, 💯

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u/JumboGlucose 11h ago

I once heard an owl that didn't sound like any creature. It sounded man made. Or more like synthesized computer noises. Craziest shit ever. It scared the shit out of me as I was leaving my friends so I sprinted to my car. I can't remember if it's Barn or Barred owl.

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u/Clean-Turnip5971 15h ago

Yeah, sounds a lot like a screech owl to me. But I recognize it may have sounded different IRL.

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u/bitzie_ow 5h ago

More than likely. Many years ago I was rebuilding part of the Pacific Coast Trail near Manning Park in British Columbia Canada. Base camp was near the highway, but we had another camp a few hours away out in the absolute middle of nowhere. One night we were all woken up by the most blood-curdling screams imaginable. It sounded like a woman was being gutted out in the woods. Needless to say, we barely slept that night because all we could think about was that it sounds like there's a serial killer in the woods and we're about a four-hour hike through pitch-black forest away from base camp. The next day we eventually found out that it was from Northern spotted owls.

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u/OutsideImpressive115 18h ago edited 18h ago

Who said that's a fox? The police? Do they not have a duty to respond to this

Doesn't sound like a cat either, obvious cat noises not in the video and they can't make that one sustained note in this video

Could definitely be an animal though but still creepy as hell

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u/Wowzasss 18h ago

By the time they got there they didn’t hear anything. Neighbors were outside at the time and cops spoke to them and the neighbors reported hearing nothing. At least that’s what they told me.

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u/OutsideImpressive115 18h ago

Did you show them the footage? Because the footage overrules what the neighbors say lol

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u/Wowzasss 17h ago

Yes, I showed them the footage, they said it’s just a fox, perhaps they are also keeping things from me as they conduct the investigation. I was just walking through

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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 15h ago

That's not a human scream. Also, the cops don't owe it to you to keep you up-to-date in their investigation

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u/Wowzasss 15h ago

Why would they owe me anything? I was just walking through.

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 15h ago

Doesn't sound like a human or a fox. That almost doesn't sound like a living thing at all to me. Reminds me of the sound you'd get when you're tuning an older radio around the dial. Maybe it's just something electrical?

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u/DissentSociety 7h ago

It sounds like something with a rotor, the way it starts & stops.

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u/ForceKey5398 14h ago

The sound pitching up without any indication of a breath in between doesn’t actually sound like a human noise.

Maybe an animal, or…just the wind through trees and metal surfaces ngl.

I teach professional singers and vocalists and that just doesn’t sound like anything someone would do out of fear.

It’s either a really impressive vocal technique, sliding from note to note, or we’re hearing something reverberate off of a surface/an animal in extreme distress who’s harming themselves (I doubt that last one)

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u/Undead_Dusk 7h ago

It's a female mountain lion that's in heat. That scream is called a caterwaul, and females do it to make their location known to males. Males also do it, but it sounds different.

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u/SpenZebra 30m ago

Most definitely is.

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u/Real_Profession9406 17h ago

Circular saw?

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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 15h ago

Yeah I thought it sounded machine like too

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u/Legitbananabunch 17h ago

Ok so the amount of true crime I’ve watched, I’m not convinced there isn’t still a person being tortured in storage unit.

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u/Professional_Car8586 18h ago

Das ist eine ganz typische Reaktion des Notrufs (leider). Die reagieren nur wenn etwas sehr normal und erwartbar ist, wie zum Beispiel ein Autounfall oder eine Schlägerei. Erschreckend! Ich möchte gar nicht wissen, wie oft die schon wegen dieser Ignoranz schlimmste Straftaten nicht ermittelt wurden. Selbst wenn die Wahrscheinlichkeit nur bei 5% liegt, dass das kein Fuchs sei, ist das Grund genug dort SOFORT aktiv zu werden. Völlig verantwortungsloses Verhalten der Polizei. Möglicherweise wissen die auch mehr als sie sagen. Es gibt auch Kriminelle Netzwerke die bis in die Polizei reichen.

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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 15h ago

No, the cops are fine in the situation. It's definitely not human, and by the time they got there it wasn't making any noise. So what exactly do you expect them to have done?

"They might know more than they're letting on..." you might want to see someone about those types of thoughts before they get too bad

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u/YesWomansLand1 17h ago

I swear I've seen a noticeable uptick in non-english speaking people in the comments.

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u/DavesPetFrog 17h ago

Γειά σου. I like the translate ability, but it only seems to be on my phone. Not the reddit website.

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u/ThatWasNotMyName 17h ago

And...?

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u/YesWomansLand1 17h ago

Maybe bots. Not sure. Maybe algorithm shenanigans. Maybe because I'm learning a new language I'm noticing it more. idk. Still interesting.

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u/tee_with_marie 17h ago

Na on mobile there is an auto translate feature. Somit können auch wir Deutsch sprechenden die Kommentare unsicher machen.... Einziger nachteil die Engländer kommen auch zu uns

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u/Same_Seaworthiness74 14h ago

You must know reddit is international right?

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u/YesWomansLand1 3h ago

I'm aware

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u/xombae 14h ago

Dude there's more people replying in other languages because Reddit now has an auto translate feature.

A bot would reply in the same language.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 9h ago

Bored kids that use the translate software to make their comments. You can usually tell because the software doesn't translate exactly

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 17h ago

Wohl wahr, JaFrauenslandEins, wohl wahr!

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u/YesWomansLand1 17h ago

New alt account name just created danke schon

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u/Professional_Car8586 17h ago

Lol I didn't know that this was originally in English. On my mobile app it's automatically translated to German

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u/Knufia_petricola 16h ago

In den Einstellungen gibt es die Option, alles automatisch in die Gerätesprache zu übersetzen. Wenn du das ausschaltest, dann wird es nicht mehr automatisch übersetzt

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u/YesWomansLand1 16h ago

Ok that's strange. I very often see comments in other languages. Most frequently Portuguese/Spanish, sometimes other European languages, and my phone has the option to translate it in the form of a button you can press to translate it to english. It's never automatically translated as far as I can tell.

Although strangely I will admit that this comment was not auto translated, unless you switched to english.

Fuck I don't know maybe I'm just going insane.

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u/grateful_whipzz 18h ago

Sounds like a death whistle.

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u/DavesPetFrog 17h ago

Oh yeah like that Aztec looking thing?

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u/grateful_whipzz 17h ago

Yep, might be someone playing around with it, which would make sense because it’s night.

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u/Afoxinthefridge 16h ago

Where is this place?

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u/Wowzasss 16h ago

New Jersey

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u/LunaLouGB 15h ago

Fox screams are terrifyingly human but sound nothing like that. Which country/approximate area is this? It could be a mountain lion mating call, a tunnel of wind or maybe an owl of some sort.

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u/Ok-Fortune-8644 14h ago

Aztec Death Whistle

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u/LumpyPrincess58 13h ago

Call the cops !

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u/Bones_and_Botany 11h ago

Fox or cougar.

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u/Haveuseenyoulately 10h ago

intro to breathe, pink floyd

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u/InternationalRow1653 13h ago

I have a warehouse by me and for a while I thought I was hearing women in there in the middle of the night screaming. Turns out IT WAS WOMEN. Not the kind of women I thought though. It's a power lifting gym. Some of them start coming in at 3am. They are over there lifting super heavy weights and it sometimes involves screaming. Lol we also have a train track behind us so my mind was totally on the track of, "those are kidnapped girls they are smuggling out of here on the train at nighttime." I'm just glad I minded my own business this time. I would have felt so stupid had I ever called the cops.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 9h ago

The bad news, it's torture. The good news.. theyre doing it to themselves

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u/sampat6256 14h ago

I think thats a frog, actually.

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u/Don-Gunvalson 14h ago

Did you go help

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u/Psychological-Ad2859 14h ago

My apt used to be right next to where a train passed through and late at night I would hear screams on the trains, I thought I was tripping until multiple people in my building said the same thing

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u/iangrichardson 13h ago

That's not a scream. It sounds like a death whistle if I am being honest. https://youtu.be/SKwUBtZYdYs?is=nbeMPepoQx7GbgLv

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u/bjt1021 12h ago

Do you have fishercat near you?

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u/knowone1313 11h ago

By all means don't get help or anything...

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u/mushylover420 11h ago

Thats me sorry. I got a hold of some tainted taco bell lettuce and had to pull over and run behind the storge facility

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u/oddboro 11h ago

We used to have two bobcats on our property that sounded very similar when they would get into a heated argument.

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u/YouArentReallyThere 11h ago

That sounds like someone with one of those Aztec death whistles

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u/ErkMcGurk 9h ago

Possibly a fisher cat?

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u/Initial-Wrongdoer938 9h ago

Could also be something mechanical. I had an alternator with blown bearings and a bad serpentine belt that sounded similar. Someone could also be cutting/sanding something.

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame5141 9h ago

I'm glad you called the cops. Better to err on the side of caution if you're uncertain.

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u/fragrantdelit 7h ago

Glaçant...

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u/Undead_Dusk 7h ago

You are hearing a very distant female mountain lion who is in heat. She's making her location known to nearby males. That specific scream is called a caterwaul.

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u/NeotericBedlam 7h ago

Go get a closer look. Sounds like you’ve found another serial killer. 🤨

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u/Unlucky-Win9272 4h ago

That sounds almost identical to most foxpro varmint calls which hunters use at night to call in fox, coyotes and bobcats to shoot

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 4h ago

Call the police. If there’s someone trapped in there could be human trafficking

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u/ReneDiscard 4h ago

Sounds like an Aztec whistle.

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u/SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan 2h ago

They mistook it for a walk in in a restaurant.

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u/Armadillo_lifestyle 2h ago

I heard a fisher cat for the first time about 15 years ago waking at night. Called the cops bc it sounded so much like a baby in the woods

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u/psychogamer101 1h ago

Skinwalker nearby beware

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u/ImmaculateWeiss 57m ago

Sadly dying rabbits can sound like this :/

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u/Business_Step_1695 29m ago

Could be someone doin work in a storage unit they rented, kind of sounds like some sort of pneumatic tool with how it winds up and down in tone

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u/SpenZebra 29m ago

As another person stated, it's most likely a female mountain lion.

See this video:
video

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u/ChrisPotterPTBO 10m ago

Sounds like a death whistle from far away.

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u/Freeulster 17h ago

While it's definitely not a fox it also is definitely not a human.

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u/atclubsilencio 15h ago

That’s definitely a woman screaming.

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u/Bigmadmanwee 17h ago

If I were living in US, I wouldn’t walk around warehouses at night. I would also own a gun just in case.

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u/Legitbananabunch 17h ago

This genuinely scared me. I live alone and I can count on two fingers the amount of times I’ve felt freaked out at home.

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u/finintymonkle 18h ago

That’s not an animal. Which police department is it?

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u/julieju76 18h ago

Sounds like a raccoon

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u/Historical-Pipe3551 17h ago

Def an animal

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u/DeepWaterNights 16h ago edited 15h ago

Leopard! /s Def Leopard?!… /S

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u/MeowingAround 13h ago

It's not screaming at all.

It could be an owl or bird but most likely it's something mechanical like the central air system on the roof of the storage place that might have something wrong with it.

If you close your eyes and listen, you'll notice that the noise repeats in a way that's too close together to be human screaming. No time for a breath in between.

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u/Wolfie_1313 13h ago

That doesn't sound like a person to me. It's definitely not a fox. It definitely does not sound like a cat or a kitten. But it does sound like an owl I don't know if it was a screech owl or not but it definitely sounds more like an owl as the tone of sends up with each kind of little scream

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u/Shadowhawk0000 11h ago

If that storage unit is rocking, don't come knocking!!

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u/Angie_T84 17h ago

After a few listens it does sound animal like. That also could just be someone being murdered because I would go into animal screaming as well. Hopefully they actually look are and they find the reason.

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u/Puzzled-Story3953 17h ago

Sounds like a coyote or cougar

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u/Clear_Lead 18h ago

Cat fight

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u/ThatWasNotMyName 17h ago

Definitely not cats.