Hi- this will sound really weird but really hoping someone can help!
I’m often awake at in the early hours of the morning because I can’t sleep or because I sit on TikTok for too long haha. But I’ve noticed for a few months that I sometimes hear screaming. At first I thought it was cats fighting because from a distance they sound scarily like normal screams, and sometimes it is cats because then I hear them actually meowing etc during the fights but other times I’ve definitely heard human screams and shrieks. But it sounds so faint that I have absolutely no idea which direction it’s coming from. So faint that if I had my window closed and I was typing on my phone I would miss it. But when I stop and listen I can hear it. It’s not every night but it happens regularly. The police have checked it out but with hundreds of houses and absolutely no idea where it’s coming from or what direction they can’t do anything and in fairness it’s not constant screaming so it could easily be missed. I still live with my parents and I’ve woke them up before to hear it but it’s on and off so you have to sit and listen for it and they couldn’t hear anything so just went back to bed. I started to think I was just going crazy and it was all just cats fighting but it sounds so human sometimes, but we also live quite close to a motorway so my parents said maybe it’s cars screeching im hearing. then last night there was screaming again but it was so faint, it honestly sounded miles and miles away but I know I heard it. I had my window open and I could only hear it when I sat and listened for it because it was so faint but I know I heard it. Then I heard a voice which seemed closer than the screams and 2 huge thuds, not like gunshot type thuds it was more solid than that, but 2 big loud thud and then a car sped up our street and did a turn and went back down. I wanted to look out the window but I didn’t want to draw attention so I decided to wake my parents and call the police. It’s weird though because the screaming was so faint and far away but the cat definitely was close by and went up the street but then it drove back down and went away. it was not a car that’s usually in the street (I could tell by the sound of it, it sounded like something was loose and falling apart because it was making a sound). The screaming stopped after this. There was nobody or nothing lying about either as we checked. It’s not the police’s fault but they can’t do much because the screaming doesn’t happen constantly so they don’t always catch it in the moment and we have no idea where it comes from. I posted on the town Facebook page and nobody else has heard it as they said they are usually all asleep at that time but they said it might be neds out drinking in the fields (less than a mile from our street) as there is an old abandoned farm house that apparently is a popular hang out place. Maybe that’s what I’m hearing but it’s do unsettling at 3am in the dark and i hate to think of someone screaming and not getting help
I’m almost inclined to go out Nancy drew style with a torch and follow the screaming when I heard it and see what’s going on but I’m too much of a chicken. Does anyone have any advice?