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

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For a while I have been hearing unsettling animal noises at night in my back garden, it's hard to describe them but I haven't been able to identify them online by listening to recordings of British wildlife. We have hedgehogs visit sometimes and there are loads of cats....

I haven't been too fussed but last night in addition to the noises, there was a "voice" on and off over and hour or so sounding like it was saying "hello" really clearly but not quite saying the word properly. It came from outside our house and didn't sound human.

Rational me really hopes for an explanation as DH works away more than he is home and its just me and DC here.

Woo me is adding that according to maps, a ley line passes through the house 10 doors down from us and DD1 had experiences when she was a toddler here which she now doesn't remember.

Probably foxes, they sound a bit creepy sometimes when calling to each or fighting.

The hello noise could be a cat (my cats meow sounds very much like that!)

Also some types of corvids, like crows and ravens can mimic human speech as well as other weird sounds that are very uncanny and might explain the other sounds you've heard. I can 100% say there isn't a ghost in your garden saying hello over and over though!

The cats in our neighborhood sound very human like at times

I'd be putting the house on the market right now.

Was also gonna say cat for the hello. My neighbours cat yowls hello every time he wants in.

Another vote for foxes and corvids here. Unnatural sounds sometimes.
Don't worry OP 🤗

One of our cats used to say/meow hello. It would be creepy if you heard it in your garden.

Hopefully you don't have to notify about leylines in the searches.

Has anyone around you got a Siamese or similar breed of cat? They can sound almost human when they're yowling to be let in, or in heat. Foxes sound like human screams, badgers and hedgehogs make unholy noises when they're snuffling about.

I doubt very much it's anything paranormal, more likely you are misunderstanding what you are hearing because you are suspecting something supernatural.

It'll be foxes I bet. Foxes make such alarming sounds because it's a similar pitch to a human woman or child. So it sounds like a woman/child yelling in pain for a moment before you realise what it is. We have a family of them on our road and they're always yelling.

I heard some really scary noises in the garden the other night, really other-worldly. I got my adult son to go check it out - but we both guessed "fox" - really freaky though.
Cats can make really strange noises too - one round here sounds exactly like a crying baby.

Foxes do their mating in January so they’re shouting out hoping for a liaison. It is a strange noise. muntjac also made a strange noise.

Just reread the op and chuckled at this:

Woo me is adding that according to maps, a ley line passes through the house 10 doors down from us and DD1 had experiences when she was a toddler here which she now doesn't remember.

Op, most people don't remember stuff that happened when they were toddlers!

Mating season for cats starts around February. They can make a right racket when calling for a mate. Goes on until September. Right now I'm listening to a real loud whine but it's the wind outside my new house!

Look up sounds of mating foxes, frogs and toads, muntjac deer and roe deer - we had something that sounded like the Tuscan Raiders from Star Wars …. I think it was mating foxes 🦊 … I hope!! 😳😉

Muntjacs out the back of my house had me waking up in the night thinking my son was outside and calling ’help’. Sleep brain!

They’re noisy bastards!

I thought it was the experiences the dd had that were strange not her forgetting them.

They’re so creepy at night.

My cat says the word hello in a non human way. So it's probably a cat.

OK I see, that makes more sense.

Still, a toddler reporting an experience is the ultimate unreliable narrator, surely!

When my dd first learnt to talk she addressed every man as Daddy.
Was she recognising them from past lives...?
No, she just thought Daddy meant "Man"

Backing onto woodland we get muntjac, roe deer, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, cats and owls so pretty much the whole orchestra!
A vixen screaming still makes my hair stand on end 😵‍💫

Hi, so to give more info if you're interested. She could speak in full sentences by 18 months and would talk endlessly. Once I was sat with her in our then lounge, and I felt unsettled and she started pointing at the ceiling saying "there's a lady there" repeatedly. She then wouldn't go in the room for over a week because "but the lady is there".DD2 had similar things but not in our home.

I agree.
sometimes it sounds like a child. Worrying when you hear it then you realise it is only a fox.
There’s a legend about the banshee in Ireland. It can only be heard by people whose surnames begin with Mc or O’ ( as in O’ Connor etc ) and it signifies a death about to happen.
My father is convinced he heard it as a young boy playing with his friends.
The friends’ father had died unexpectedly.
His surname begins with Mc and his friends were O’ Sullivans.
I’m convinced it was a fox they heard.

I agree
When I first moved to a flat, where there were lots of back gardens close by, and a quiet side road (belonged to the flats) and first heard foxes I truly thought it was a baby been abandoned out there ! I had heard them before, of course, but we were higher up then with no gardens close
Terrifying at first.

There are SO many 'spooky stories' about people hearing screams in woodland and rushing over to find - nothing there!

I bet they didn't look in the bushes, where a pair of mating foxes would be keeping their heads down.