Screaming from across the fields tonight..

[anaom]

Hello,

So I'm currently in bed trying to get to sleep, but all I can hear is an awful, almost human like screaming coming from across the fields.
We live in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by fields.. only one immediate neighbour.

It sounds awful, like someone or something is in pain! I've never lived around so much open space before so totally not used to the sounds. It's really loud..

Would I be unreasonable to go out and see what it could be? I'm scared someone or something is in danger?

I cant exactly explain the sound.. it's just strange and weirdly haunting looking out the window trying to locate it, and my eye literally can't see past the fence at the end of the garden. It's SO dark.

‘My’ fox brought two juveniles out the other night and sat watching impassively while they brawled in the street. Reckon he was sussing out who was going to be the toughest 😂 I love seeing and don’t mind hearing them but I know I’m in a minority. DH regularly rolls over and mumbles ‘shut your bloody foxes up’

Was just coming on to say foxes

Foxes. When they don't sound like a woman being murdered they sound like a toddler having the mother of all tantrums.

It was bin day here today so they went absolutely wappy last night going through the bags people put out. The screeching at 4am was something to behold.

Where we are the lambs have just been taken away and the sheep are crying out for their babies. It’s a loud, slightly wailing, sorrowful but alarming sound, very eerie- could it be that?

@Bananapuppy

I always naively assumed lambs were only taken once at the age they’d naturally leave mum.

We have 3 of them who regularly visit us. Woke the whole road up last night with their screaming. We all ran out thinking someone was hurt (this time the screaming was particularly human-like) but it was one fox watching the other two fight. The screaming is horrendous. It sounded like something out of a slasher movie! I’m watching Fear Street on Netflix anyway so I was proper freaked out

@HocusPocuss do you live on my road?!

When I first moved to a rather rough part of London as a naive country girl I was woken to the sound of what I was sure was a woman being murdered. I woke my boyfriend in a panic and he just shrugged and said it's foxes, you'll get used to it. I was this is London, it's more likely someone being hurt surely

When I realised it happened multiple times most nights, even my naive country self couldn't fathom a murder rate on one street to be quite that high

Probably foxes, it really scared me the first time i heard it.

a fox or an escaped husky because those dogs make the weirdest half human sounds I have ever come across (my neighbour has one) it is very disconcerting.

Foxes scream their heads off all year round. They do it more during mating season, but not exclusively then.

It's awful. We got up one night, the first time we heard it, and ran up the road toward the noise in our pyjamas, convinced that someone was torturing a child. We couldn't get to where the noise was coming from (school car park, behind gates) and were about to call the police, when some random bloke walked past and said 'It's foxes, that.'

It still unsettles me now, and often sounds like a woman screaming for her life. Bloody horrible.

I live in front of open fields. Theres always weird noises and they wake me up sometimes. You get used to it, its just wildlife

That will be muntjac deer, they always sound like someone being murdered!!

Blood-curdling, that's the word.

So if your blood has, in fact, curdled, it's most likely foxes

I remember being in uni halls and hearing foxes, never heard them before and thought omg someone being murdered. I opened my dorm window and popped my head out to see another 15 or so confused students heads doing the same. Until someone said it’s foxes.

The first time I heard a frog scream was also a shock and I went running into the garden, to see my cat cornering one.

So it’s animals. That or a wendigo!

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Foxes don’t shag at this time of year.

More likely an owl.

You should come and tell the foxes round me that then, cause they are still going here

Frogs…scream?

@youshallnotpass9 have you actually seen them at it then? Breeding season is January or February. Loads of other reasons why they make noise though. Unless they’re just shagging for fun

@HamsterHelp

Frogs…scream?

If you find a pair of frogs mating, and you poke them... they do make a peculiar sound. I did ponder if you could find a bunch of shagging frogs and line them up to make a "frogamaphone" sort of instrument.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Foxes don’t shag at this time of year.

More likely an owl.

Oh yes they do!

I could video them for you, but it seems a bit Pervy 😳

@AlmostSummer21 blimey, kinky buggers. They’re miles off breeding season.

Frogs do indeed scream.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

It will not be foxes shagging!! Territory maybe yes but they are miles off breeding season.

Best you come & tell them them