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Screaming from across the fields tonight..

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anaom · 21/07/2021 23:17

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.

SadSad

OP posts:
AlmostSummer21 · 22/07/2021 00:03

[quote SmidgenofaPigeon]@AlmostSummer21 blimey, kinky buggers. They’re miles off breeding season.[/quote]
Maybe they've read 'The Joy of Sex'?

(You might be far too young for that reference?)

SmidgenofaPigeon · 22/07/2021 00:04

@AlmostSummer21 😂

Fox sex is awful for the female though, which might explain the noise. Barbed penis.

NoYOUbekind · 22/07/2021 00:04

@Bananapuppy

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?
Actual worst sound in the world, that.
TheAwfuITruth · 22/07/2021 00:05

Another vote for foxes.

If they don't sound like someone being slowly murdered, they sound like an orphaned baby who needs fed.

Horrible.

Maggiesfarm · 22/07/2021 00:07

I think foxes. I don't live in the country but we have a lot of foxes coming into the garden and in the road outside at night, they make dreadful noise which sounds like someone being murdered. A few nights ago I heard it right outside my French doors! Hedgehogs also make noise, especially if one is not happy with another - or several - invading its territory. They have great verbal fights. We've had that too.

TheFormidableMrsC · 22/07/2021 00:07

My Dad once ran into the woods behind our house with a shotgun as he thought a woman was being raped and murdered. It was foxes. Also owls make some terrifying noises as do deer.

TheFoundations · 22/07/2021 00:09

@XenoBitch

I did ponder if you could find a bunch of shagging frogs and line them up to make a "frogamaphone" sort of instrument

Wow. Like a kinky frog-chestra. That's just... My brain has stalled.

chorizoTapas · 22/07/2021 00:10

@anaom

Thank you all! I think it must be an animal! Yes, it does sound like a woman screaming for her life...! 😣🥲 really terrified me!! I wonder if it's just that I've never heard it before as usually we close the windows but with it being so warm, I've left them open tonight.

God..
I was so close to considering calling the police! It sounds horrendous!!!!

It could be a peacock they sound like women screaming
Holothane · 22/07/2021 00:11

Fox it is a dreadful noise and can chill you to the bone, it sounds like surgery with no anaesthesia.

millerpie · 22/07/2021 00:14

I live in the middle of nowhere, took me a long time to get used to the muntjac screaming. It’s a terrifying sound.

XenoBitch · 22/07/2021 00:16

[quote TheFoundations]@XenoBitch

I did ponder if you could find a bunch of shagging frogs and line them up to make a "frogamaphone" sort of instrument

Wow. Like a kinky frog-chestra. That's just... My brain has stalled.[/quote]
Now, don't be shy. You are thinking about what tunes you could play with such an instrument too Grin

BiarritzCrackers · 22/07/2021 00:19

The owls here were making some really weird noises tonight, nothing like usual. It started off just as normal owl sound, but then kind of morphed into something akin to that agitated squirrel sound with occasional screeches mixed in , like some terrifying, woodland-based chimera.

HamsterHelp · 22/07/2021 00:23

Why would you poke a shagging frog? 🤨

TheFoundations · 22/07/2021 00:23

@HamsterHelp

Why would you poke a shagging frog? 🤨
Might as well, if it's being poked already...
NoProblem123 · 22/07/2021 00:24

Shagging foxes.
Screaming lambs/foals.
Peacock are also weird.
And hedgehogs can make a strange din too.

WrongWayApricot · 22/07/2021 00:28

When I first heard it as a teen I shouted at my mum that blood is on her hands for not letting me call 999... I now know it's foxes 🤦‍♀️😂

NoSquirrels · 22/07/2021 00:29

@Sparklfairy

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 Hmm this is London, it's more likely someone being hurt surely Confused

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 Grin

Haha! I’ve seem more foxes up close in London than ever growing up & now living rural - you’re totally more familiar with fox sounds, behaviour and habits as an urban kid than as a rural one.
XenoBitch · 22/07/2021 00:30

@HamsterHelp

Why would you poke a shagging frog? 🤨
It was years ago and we were all on various substances at the time Grin
sfeirical · 22/07/2021 00:31

[quote reannneeee]@Bananapuppy

SadSadSad

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

They never naturally leave their mums, sheep are very social animals, and like to stay in their family and friend groups that's why it's so unnatural that it happens. Sad

But to answer OPs query, I'll join everyone else and say it's a fox claiming their territory. It's not breeding season at the moment, and mum's will be taking their Cubs out now for the first few times so she will be making sure everyone knows she is in charge of this area! Smile

XenoBitch · 22/07/2021 00:32

@NoProblem123

Shagging foxes. Screaming lambs/foals. Peacock are also weird. And hedgehogs can make a strange din too.
I didn't realise hedgehogs even made a sound until one night, I heard this weird grunting snuffling sound.. from under my bed. There was a hedgehog there! He must have got in through the cat flap and made his way up the stairs. He got into my house a lot for a few years. I knew it was the same one as he had a a bit of one ear missing.
OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 22/07/2021 00:34

@NoProblem123

Shagging foxes. Screaming lambs/foals. Peacock are also weird. And hedgehogs can make a strange din too.
Foals scream? Bloody hell thank god I missed that!

I did used to do a good peacock impersonation however.

I knew about the foxes, but hedgehogs 🦔?

BrozTito · 22/07/2021 00:44

This is making me think of silence of the lambs before bed.

EKGEMS · 22/07/2021 00:44

I thought someone was trying to murder a neighbor and it was a flock of turkeys on my land one cold morning!

MrsMackesy · 22/07/2021 00:45

The most likely is a fox. If you are in any doubt and are worried that someone was being hurt, and as some time has passed, call the police on the non-emergency number and talk it through with them.

MrsMackesy · 22/07/2021 00:47

Sound does carry and amplify in the open countryside at night, especially with windows open. You will get used to it.

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