A scream in the night

That image is amazing!

In Australia we have the curlew. It's rumoured to cause death to anyone who hears it and has it around. It screams like a woman being murdered and also sounds a little bit like a small child being murdered too. The Aboriginals tell stories of massive deaths occuring when the curlews appeared.




Friendly lookin' buggers.... eh?

Yup. There is something about being snuggled up to another, covered with nice warm blankets/quilts, your window open a smidgen so you are breathing that fresh cold air, temp hovering around -20 degrees outside, the wood beams and frame of your house putting out occasional loud CRAAACK. Makes for a great night of sleeping.

woodsy, that is an awesome pic!

night screams I hear around here usually are fox.
magpies make a sort of quiet scream as they approach in daytime.

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Oh shut up!

Seriously though, I wasn't at Reliant but that was an east wind Saturday and it had quite a bite to it. I kept thinking the thermometer had to be wrong. I bet WIHH remembers what it's like. It's a bone-chilling wind......must be the moisture coming in off the bay. BRRRR!

You didn't have a Cabin Fever brand bedwarmer in Texas

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Those screams could have been owls. I think yall heard myDW when I accidentally woke her, or those misplaced Texans steping out of the car.

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There was no one near us who had peafowl when I was young. When I was about 27 I was at a friends farm that had them, helping him put hay up in the barn. Heard the most awful scream, and thought his wife was being murdered..... grabbed a pitchfork and headed outside, only to look back and see him rolling on the ground laughing so hard snot was shooting out of his nose.

I think it was the most blood curdling sound I ever heard........

When it's that cold the trees in the woods that surround us contract and emit loud crack-booms at night...and that'l get one's attention. We too have plenty of barred owls and they sure do scream...but..they also will answer you if you can fake a good "Whoooo cooks for you? Whoooo cooks for youall?" and that's fun!
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Whoooo cooks for youall?????? Must be one o' those barred owls from down south.

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Around here that is usually a wildcat or bobcat. I have been out camping in teh middle of nowhere before and heard something similiar and it just makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand straight up. (Talking about the woman screaming the middle of the night sounds that is).

All depends on what you are used to. When you're used to 90's and 100's, 46 is darn cold.

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Yeah but, Texans - at least the ones I know - turn their air conditioners on once it gets to be 80ºF outside. They're used to year-around temps of 74 to 78ºF....except for when they run between the car and the mall.

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The cold is so much colder in Texas.

We were both raised to sleep with the heat off and the windows wide open even at 20 below zero and thus we do it still and even when it gets to 40 below zero. I can't imagine even being able to sleep without fresh air. But then we have night silence where we live. The sound of the dog breathing is LOUD. Any time we have spent in the city drives us both crazy - all the noise.

I love lying awake and listening to the wind and the trees cracking and have even come to recognize the sounds of snow changing when a warm wind comes in. Most nights we hear the wolves in the valley behind us either just talking or gearing up for a hunt. Sometimes we hear the end of this as well. As my Mom used to say - there there are a lot of "crimes" committed in nature under the cover of darkness.

Don't always assume it is an animal if it is possible that it could be someone needing help. A long time ago a neighbor heard a woman screaming, and swore it was from our house which was right next to theirs. She called the police. They came and looked around, but insisted it was an animal and didn't checked the house to make sure everyone was OK. It was me screaming. I had night terrors that caused me to scream at the top of my lungs for quite a while (not a great 2am wake up for my husband). I was fine but I was REALLY mad when I found out the neighbor called the police and they didn't check on me. If I was screaming because I needed help it would suck that they didn't believe the neighbor had heard screaming and didn't check on me.
That said, Peacocks also sound a bit like a screaming person. We have them at the zoo-and it is really pretty creapy to hear at night.

When I arrived at my first ship, I became friends with another E-4. He was a pretty solid Baptist who was married to a very yound girl. We were in our mid 20's, but she was in her mid to late teens. When the ship returned from the float, she divorsed him. He then began a decline into the Twilight Zone. He stopped going to church and began meeting with Wiccans, and drinking heavily. He also started seeing married women while their husbands were deployed. He even started living with one of the women while her husband was on a six month med cruise. One day he came up to me on the ship and told me that he was living in a haunted house. He told me that at night blood dripped from the ceiling and that they could hear screams in the back room from a girl that died years gone by. He also thought his girlfriend's cat was possed by an evil spirit, because it had started hitting his pentagram necklace. He was convienced that the cat was posessed by evil forces that recognized the power of it. I think we all know that I am not inclined to with hold the correct answer to the problem, as I see it. I told him the first thing he needs to do is stop shacking up with married women, lay off the liquor and return to church, then start dating normal women. I also asked him what he thought cats belonging to other people's wives do with necklaces? I'm not kidding. The guy really did come up and claim this. I also told him that a heavy laquer paint will do wonder for the blood, which he had claimed magically dried itself off each morning, and that weather sealing the back windows may help the dead girl find peace and quietIf it didn't ease her tormented soul, they could at least insulate the room so her screams don't have to keep everyone else up worrying while they commit adultry.

The first video posted is a baby barred owl begging for food. You shouldn't be hearing that this time of year but the adults can make a huge array of calls and noises. You can actually build next boxes for them, I did and have a resident pair that uses them.

I've heard this too and it was creepy.....and then the noise of them running though the pasture next door. Kind of a thumping noise that got less as it ran away....

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