What is the worst noise you have ever heard from your home?

[ThatGreatNavyHedgehog]

A loud bang looked at and the house across was on fire.

The oil refinery explosion sounds terrifying.

Another one was when I was about 6/7 playing just outside my house and I heard this blood curdling scream. Didn’t really think much of it until later that day or the next day we found out a girl I knew had been stabbed to death around the corner from us.
I felt sick that I didn’t tell anyone - not that she could have been saved. Still haunts me.

I once nearly called the police because I could hear a baby screaming and it sounded hurt.

It was a fox in heat. If you haven't heard it before, it freaky as hell.

It was - and considering we were a bit of a distance it shows how loud it was. We could feel the rumble of it as well

The cat chucking up a hairball , and knowing it's very likely to be on our bed !

It's nothing compared to some of you and I am so sorry to hear the terrible things that have happened.

My window being smashed by a ball in the flat I used to live in. A guy had tried to climb through my ground floor bedroom window a month or so before,plus there had been a literal wanker out the front a few months before so I wasn't very comfortable living there anyway. The sound of the single glazing smashing made me jump out of my skin.

In my lovely house the windows are not very good double glazing. One of the external panels just cracked all the way down one day for no apparent reason. Again, the sound scared the bejesus out of me!

pinkypup that is tragic. Poor girl. How hard it must have been to hear that at such a young age. I don’t think it would be possible to forget that and at 6 would have had no awareness of how to tell anyone I imagine.

The sound of the shelving units in the kitchen crashing to the floor and smashing lots of lovely things to smithereens, along with a huge bottle of olive oil to just top it off.

Absolute fucker who had owned the place before us had hung them with wood screws straight into plasterboard. Don't know how they'd even lasted the few days that they did.

It was a huge wall hung shelving unit. He must have kept it completely empty.

Not from my own home but my grandmother’s, it was the day of the Flixborough Disaster and there was a constant stream of fire engines and ambulances heading north from other areas to assist. I was 10 and the adults were watching coverage on the news as there was a constant wailing of sirens.

is a block of flats about 4 houses down and across road.one of the 3 sunshine summer days my ds2 and i were off for icecream,i shut our front door and heard kdooomf.(No idea why,but )was unmistakeable sound of a person landing-having jamp out the window(5th floor).

Doing a 2 minute DIY job that ended with me drilling most of the way through my hand with a power drill.I didn't cry. The pain was utterly unbelievable. I dropped to the floor in a curled up ball and made a weird noise like an injured animal. I was alone at home. I thought it would be gushing with blood but it actually bled very little . Its still numb after 2 years.

A massive explosion when a nearby business blew up in the middle of the night. All the neighbours on that side of the road got evacuated. Sirens galore. Nobody injured and the site now has lovely houses there which has made our view better (it wasn’t me)

A few summers ago when we were in the grips of a heatwave all windows open late one night, a couple were having a bit of a shouting match. The woman screamed at her husband

‘why don’t you just stand in front of your fucking fish tank and have a wank like you do every other fucking night’

took me forever to not see that image in my head every time I saw them.

My own scream/yell when I found my son after one of his suicide attempts. I thought he was dead. I cannot tell you the sound I made, it was awful and took me a few seconds to realise it was coming from me.

@Scutterbug sending many many hugs the sound is apparently called Keening it's so very awful and you never want to hear it again. I do hope your son is in a place that he doesn't have dark thoughts.

The sound of a peacock that had escaped a neighbouring farm and decided to take up residence on our roof - the noise was like nothing I’d ever heard or want to hear again

Second would be the newly installed kitchen cupboards coming off the walls due to DH not using correct fixings

That’s really funny

Oh God, I can remember trying to write my MA dissertation during Covid while they were building a new estate over the road from my house. The pile driving was horrendous. It got so bad I'd get my laptop, drive to an empty car park and sit there for a break!

@SinnerBoy assume nobody was on the phone … hope everyone was ok!

MissCherryCakeyBun · Today 21:52

I miss my dad so very much I was always a daddy's girl and the loss of him 13 years ago still hurts

Oh now, how awful for you.

Storm Arwen - the giant sycamore behind the house falling. It sounded like an explosion. It took 30 man hours to clear the debris, but miraculously nothing was damaged. We were in the middle of trying to book a transatlantic flight at the time, so we didn't stop to look until the booking was made!

This will be massively outing but fuck it - when I and my also young teen siblings were home alone, and the tv had just had a “we interrupt this broadcast” with the news that Serial Killer of Teenage Girls had escaped from custody and was heading in the general direction of our house. Followed by a lot of commotion and police sirens.

Please tell me you are joking

When I was living with my mum during lockdown, we kept hearing a strange noise coming from the attic. It always happened between 1-2am, right when we’d be up late watching movies. The sound was eerily similar to someone using a handsaw, and every time we’d open the door to the hallway that led to the stairs, it would stop. Even when we whispered, the noise would stop, almost like it could hear us.

One night, we were in bed when the noise started again. It was coming from directly above my mum’s bed, and she had been lying there, frozen, listening to it the whole time. I got up and went to her room, and as soon as I opened the door, it stopped. At first, we thought it might be rats, but that didn’t add up—when we checked the attic during the day, there were no droppings, no birds, nothing. It was completely unexplainable.

We were actually convinced our neighbor had killed his wife and was cutting her up in his attic, which joined ours since we lived in a terraced house. It only happened for three days, then never again. I’ve honestly never experienced anything like it. Even my mum, who’s usually tough, was shaken by it. We later found a video online with the exact same sound—I’ve attached the link here.

Thehouse was about 70 years old, and to this day, we have no idea what caused it.

If anyone can offer an explanation, that would be great! Lol

DH's leg underneath him as he fell from bed, and then his cry. He was at home on end of life care after a stroke put paid to his mobility, some of his cognition and the chemo he'd been having for his cancer. He had lost his speech at this point too, life was a fucking nightmare at that point. We had next to no support as it was lockdown and I still feel like I failed him massively that day, I should've done better.