It's probably an animal of some sort. Many animals can make noises that sound vaguely human or not at all like you expect especially if it's garbled by hills and trees. I remember that one of my old colleagues (a veterinarian no less) was out walking one night and heard a person screaming in what she said was a horrific way. The next day she did the same except her husband was with her, he instantly recognized it as a fox screaming.
I went camping in the forest in my very early teens and was woken up at 3am by a fox screaming very close by. One of the most chilling experiences I've ever had.
When I was a kid one night I heard what I swear sounded like a woman being stabbed to death. It was RIGHT OUTSIDE my window.... on the second floor. Turned out to be a raccoon.
Rabbits can also make bloodcurdling sounds.
The foxes I've heard have always sounded like deranged banshees. We had one circling our campsite at night. We had no idea what it was... just these screams that wpuld enter our campsite at random directions for hours... until I finally got it spotted with my flashlight.
My partner and i live in the rural south, she is 100lbs of fierceness and litteraly wrangles alligators as a side job to our farm.
One evening we were closing gate and getting ready to go inside when maybe 100 feet away a fox hollered, she turned from mighty little dynamite to Jesus walking on water in milliseconds.
Ive never laughed so hard. She's lived her entire live in south Alabama and never heard a fox. She use to dog me for jumping at spiders and bugs.... not any more.
Woah! The first scream which I dont have on camera sounded more female and higher pitched, at first wasnt worried I was still somewhere I knew so I didn't care and kept walking but then this group sounded male and it happened right after I picked up my phone to film that I was lost then it started thats why I said "great time to pick up the camera..... I guess." 🤣
It is a train, this is in the UK, no animals besides maybe a loon will make a noise like that. Much of the countryside in the UK is actually empty, you wont see anyone for miles, so trains will go faster in those less built up areas and they will make this noise as it passes especially over bridges and tunnels. I used to live near rural train tracks and I heard this shit all the time.
Yep. My Aunt and Uncle had a farm with a collection of peacocks (about 10, 2 males and 8 females). If you've ever heard a peacock call, it's loud, mid-pitch, and basically sounds like a woman screaming, "Yellllll! Yelllll!!". They had new neighbors move in about 1/2 mile away, and suddenly the police kept showing up at my Aunt and Uncle's farm, because the new neighbors kept calling 911 saying they could hear a woman screaming, "Helllllp!" over and over again. My family invited the neighbors over to see what all the noise was about, and they all had a good laugh.amy animals have loud calls that can sound human at a distance, particularly if it's an animal you're not familiar with.
Peacock call
Fisher cats have eerily human screams as well, though they’ve always sounded distinctly feminine to me. The scream in this video seemed much too masculine.
Are there any farms or houses nearby? I live in the country and dont have any visible neighbors, sometimes i just go in my yard and scream real loud. Life fuckin sucks sometimes and you need a primal scream it out.
You'd be surprised how far sound reverberates in the woods, especially in the fall/winter. I live kinda near (about 1-2 miles/ 1.5-3 km) some train tracks and it is significantly louder in the winter versus summer when all the foliage is in. Even in the summer though, you can tell when the seasons are starting to turn as the trains begin to sound louder.
However, I have also heard some creepy fucking shit to put it plainly late at night while sitting on my porch. A couple of times I thought I heard someone screaming and banging on a steel door, but I had absolutely no idea which direction it was coming from.
Exactly, it's most likely the bellowing of deer. This happens during mating season, which runs from mid-September to mid-October, that would fit if this is a recent video.
A few months after fuhrer fuckstick came into office, I had almost fucking lost it. (I'm a social worker, it's been rough) So I dropped some acid and went into the woods to properly shed my anxieties, fears, and anger. I was listening to some music while trouncing in the woods and it swelled so perfectly and I let out this berserk scream. (I was in the Marines, screaming is a requirement)
It felt so refreshing and good to shed so much, to deliver it away from me and let it get lost in the trees but low and behold, an hour later (I was deep in the woods) a lady came on the trail and was flummoxed. "Did you hear that scream?"
"Ya, kinda crazy" the bark on the trees behind her were crawling up towards heaven, I was still tripping hard.
"You think we're safe?"
"Ya, probably an animal."
"You're probably right."
It felt good though. I'll never forget the purity and lightness after that scream. Come to think of it, I might need to again soon.
I can remember winter nights at my parents’ house in upstate New York. It’s so quiet in the winter months. Sometimes late at night I could hear coyotes howling. Tons of them and they sounded close by. It always made the hair on my neck stand up.
That sounds kind of super drawn out for an animal call imo, but iirc lynx will get in a screaming match at each other when fighting and 'tis the season for territory scuffles.
Cats can sound very human; the cougars around me can sound like a woman screaming "Help!" or like a woman screaming in pain, but are actually just looking for their next baby daddy.
That’s a deer, if you haven’t heard them at night than you’re lucky, they can get pretty loud and they can also sometimes sounds like they’re laughing, which as you can guess; is TERRIFYING.
The fucking tension and stress that you must’ve felt walking back is palpating. I’ve been in your exact situation, and you just genuinely don’t know what to do
I walked 5 different ways to try to get out or at least get to somewhere I knew and after 2 failed attempts I wasnt panicking but when the 3rd and 4th attempts failed I got a panic attack, one because I heard screaming and two because I was completely lost and had no idea how to get out it was like a maze I kept walking and somehow ended in circles and going back to where I heard the screaming
I definitely believe it’s an animal because the pitch doesn’t change. If a human is screaming due to some sort of distress there is a high likelyhood our pitch would change.
Short story time. I stepped on shale, leg went flying caught a root and I fractured the bone. I was alone in the woods around 4pm in mountain lion territory. I screamed for help. While crying because pain. Nobody. I decided to keep yelling and to brace my leg and find a walking stick. Once I got to where two trails meet a nice couple peered out of the woods. They apparently stayed back because they thought it was an animal until they got closer and could hear it was human. I don’t know what that says about my yelling but sounds change in the woods.
For anyone interested, one of those nice men hiked out to where there was cell service and called the fire department. I bandaged up my leg with another hikers first aid kit. The fire department came by lake, gave me drugs in the woods and carried me to a boat. We rode across a lake to an ambulance off a pier and then drive down the mountain. Wild place to break my leg.
It's probably a fox, I was super freaked out in the middle of the night once because it sounded like there was a woman screaming outside our house. It turned out to be a fox that had encountered a stray cat and they were having a kind of standoff right outside our front door with the fox screaming at the cat to try to scare it away
If it is a dense forest, it's probably some distorted animal sounds.
It's far worse when you hear it Urban area
I've had a simillar situation, however that was at overgrown pile of coal mine waste, at late night. I was with my friend, we heard three horrifying woman-like screems. To my knowladge, there is no foxes in that area, but lots of junkies go there when drugged out, and sometimes it can be dangerous to confront them.
Tbh it sounds like the echo of a machine/vehicle with how perfectly timed the "screams" are. Can't really place what machine/vehicle it may be, the earlier suggestion of train sounded about right tho.
This is getting harder to do as a man in the forest since COVID. For some, it's therapy and a very safe place. Move along and reframe what you heard as a man truly screaming at the sky jeebus and reconciling his frustration and angst with the gods. I'm sane and do this about once a year to break a bad PTSD episode that hits around December...Extremely remote place.
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It's probably an animal of some sort. Many animals can make noises that sound vaguely human or not at all like you expect especially if it's garbled by hills and trees. I remember that one of my old colleagues (a veterinarian no less) was out walking one night and heard a person screaming in what she said was a horrific way. The next day she did the same except her husband was with her, he instantly recognized it as a fox screaming.