Spooky sounds in garden at night- which animal? Also now a "voice"

I'll never forget the first time I heard foxes at night in London - I told my mum to call the police because a woman was being attacked! After that I knew what to expect. They were extremely noisy.

Up north, no foxes here that I've heard, but badgers, deer and owls are very local to us as we live on the edge of a county park - the other night an owl started hooting at 2am and it scared the living daylights out of me. SO eerie.

There is a plethora of animals which your noise can be attributed to. Hope it doesn't scare you too much! I know how something can sound at 1am which you wouldn't bat an eyelid at during the day.

Definitely foxes. We have them making all the same noises here

Yes, aural paredolia (the perception of apparently significant patterns or recognisable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines) is definitely a thing. Danny Robins did an experiment on Uncanny demonstrating this.

It really is amazing how the brain uses skimpy bits of information to build a scenario that makes sense.
Apparently some people with brain injury caused speech impediments are heard as having foreign accents. They don’t, but our brain associates the difference and leaps to the conclusion that they are French, for example.

DS used to have conversations with someone behind me, got anxious and fearful and said ‘It’s coming, it’s coming!’, and generally scared the pants off me. He spoke to weird people who stood in the corner of his bedroom, watching him.

As a result, we never had Santa come in the kid’s bedrooms. He left their goodies on the sofa, like a well behaved, DBS checked kids’ worker!

Who could forget the dog on the Walls advert that could say “sausages”.

My money is on randy foxes 🦊. They're waking us up here a lot atm. But the resulting cubs in early spring are cute!

Hello could be an owl calling at a distance?

Yes, but small children see things adults don’t, for completely non-supernatural reasons. I thought there was a witch in my bedroom for years (dressing gown hanging on the back of a door which looked spooky at night) and my sister used to talk about the ‘hidden man’ looking at her. Turned out it was a pattern of flaking paint that looked vaguely like a bearded man, on the underside of a shelf, so visible to a toddler and not visible to an adult.

OP, this will be owls, muntjac, foxes or cats. You are not being menaced by phantom spirits.

Possibly an owl saying Twit Twoo?

@daughterof Here's a cute video if a cat's meows being turned into a very catchy song, including the word hello

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C9hegTqpX/

Many years ago my university linguistics lecturer played a short video of a cat miaowing.

She asked what we had heard and we said a cat miaowing. She then quite gently suggested the cat was saying something like (can’t remember exactly), “hello how are you” and replayed it.

It suddenly was literally all we heard! The whole room would have sworn the cat was actually saying that. It was quite incredible. We tried it on our friends in halls and after a slight suggestion you couldn’t unhear it.

The human brain is a magnificent thing constantly Roladexing to assimilate things we experience to things we know - not always getting it right

I think foxes or badgers too.
My neighbours cat does a very good 'hello' as well.

Aww my old boy cat used to meow “harro” when he wanted in 🤗Sounded like hello.

Foxes, noisy and very human sounding.

We live right by the woods and a new family moved in next door. They had moved from a very noisy busy place that also had trouble with teenagers hanging around. I remember seeing them after their first week and I asked them how they were liking the area. The neighbor said that it was quite quiet which they weren’t used to but loved and their only concern was a kid playing in the woods late at night pretending to be an owl. I had to say, that no that was actually a real owl who lived there and that in the Spring a woodpecker also lives there. They were amazed that you could actually hear a real owl. It makes me smile every time I hear it. By the way we live in the middle of a town but just happen to luckily have a small wood outside our front door.

I mean, she could have meant a ladybird or anything. My dd was also speaking in full sentences at that age but she still often got words mixed up. You can read Woo into anything if you want to, but why would you want to? Living with that kind of vague fear is no way to live

Another vote for foxes. I love nature and wildlife and having them in our gardens but I swear to god if these randy fuckers keep it up much longer I'm going to perch at the window with a catapult and some water balloons and put a damper on their night time activities so I can get some sleep!!

This is probably foxes. I once heard a really eerie noise like a baby crying in the garden and that was a fox. They sound particularly creepy when they’re fighting with one another.

Failing that, I’m going to say it’s a parrot. Has it ever asked for a cracker?

My dog sometimes makes a sound like he’s saying “I know”

Ooooooh I love this!

Probably is just animals sounds, and you may be hearing a nightjar, (bird) if there are strange low-pitched warbling sounds.

Cool and exciting to think it may be something to do with something woo though!

My cat yells "hell-O" up the stairs every bloody morning. Repeatedly, until he is fed.

It's either a cat or a fox. They are noisy gits too. Foxes having sex is a sound I never want to hear again as long as I live.

years ago a friend of mine heard some weird sounds in their garden in the middle of the night and in the middle of a housing estate. When they looked out of their windows they saw their garden full of druids celebrating something! Apparently their garden was on a set of laylines!!! They left peacefully when challenged but her parents had said that if they had been asked beforehand they would have totally given them their permission for their ceremony. It just freaked them out at the time 🥴

Foxes
Screech owls
Cats

Unfettered Tom cats can sound like crying babies when they get the scent of a female in heat.
Foxes sometimes sound a bit similar

Trail cam. I’d also be curious to find out the culprit, probably a cat though.