You wake up suddenly in the middle of the night by an unknown noise. What would be the scariest sound to hear after waking up?

dseag2 said:
If I heard a guttural grunting in my bedroom when I woke up in the middle of the night I would also be terrified! :LOL:
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Yes, I might have been afraid as well, if it was in my bedroom.
I was deep in the bush alone. For the life of me I could not work out what it was.
I went outside the tent and stood listening to this noise for more than 15 minutes.
I was not afraid because I know there is nothing in the Australian bush that would attack me, unprovoked.
Dingoes do, but there are no Dingoes this far south
 

My hearing is extremely sensitive and at night I need complete silence to sleep. Any kind of sound will have me up quickly. One time, early morning, I heard some noise coming from the fireplace and realized it was a bird up in the chimney because of the fluttering sound. When I clapped my hands, it became quiet. I think I heard it fly away, but then I heard another sound after a few seconds. It must have been a pair of birds. I clapped my hands again. Then it was quiet. Every morning for a few weeks, I would awake to the same sounds. I wonder if they had built a nest up there. After awhile, it became quiet. Haven't heard the birds in months.
 
Ruthanne said:
The scariest noise I could hear would be my door breaking down! Like if the police had the wrong apt. and had guns drawn!:oops::oops::unsure::oops:
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That would be very disconcerting. Because there would be very little time to react. How would someone react in that situation?
If they were yelling, "Police" then I would stay where I was with my hands in the air.
Letting them know I was not a threat.
 
Over decades I've backpacked in wilderness a few times each summer where there are black bears. Where one is tented in a public campground around many others, the type of bears that visit at night looking for food tend to be easily scared off because of habituation. On the other hand, 2 days into wilderness where there are no trails, one may meet bears that have never encountered a human that are another thing altogether. A bear is used to being the largest most powerful creature in their world except for larger bears.

This little earth monkey has met some that seem to understand that. If one is solo backpacking in areas where there are no other people for miles, it is natural in the dark of night for deep ancient fears our ancestors frequently experienced to well up in we humans. Scariest situation is on a windless quiet moonless night alone in a deep forest. One cannot see anything even a few feet away. One can hear for significant distances the sound of wood debris on forest floors creaking crunching if any large animal is walking. Some bears make a low woofing huffing guttaral sound that kids would rate as the most frightening monster like sound. And then being quiet feeling around inside my tent, I cannot find my headlamp or flashlight...
 
Bretrick said:
When I was camping alone once I was awakened by this incredibly loud, guttural grunting. Really spine chilling noise.
The only thing I could put it down to was Kangaroos mating.
This is the noise that woke me.
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Interesting sound, thanks for posting. When we were camping in September in the mountains, I was awakened at night and a bit startled at first by elk bugling, the sounds echoed. Once I was awake, I knew what it was, and we were hearing it nightly. Also an elk at night that sounded like deep barking from a dog, likely a female, I never heard that in the past. Here's kind of what it sounded like, you don't have to listen to the whole video.

 
My retired paramedic wife was in the ambulance service for thirty years. In the first few months, whilst still a rookie, she experienced her first deceased. Not an easy experience, more so when you are not quite sure if death has occurred, so you check for heartbeat and/or pulses. Then the deceased farts, you may chuckle, but it's actually quite common. However my rookie missus was out that room and gone.

Years later she was involved in the setting up of another rookie, a young man of a very arrogant nature. The noise was that of a human voice. The rookie had been sent to the morgue on some spurious errand, once there he saw a body on the slab covered in a white sheet. As he set about his errand "the body," reached out and gabbed his arm."Gotcha!" Said the dead body. That rookie was out of there like an Olympic athlete.
 
palides2021 said:
My hearing is extremely sensitive and at night I need complete silence to sleep. Any kind of sound will have me up quickly. One time, early morning, I heard some noise coming from the fireplace and realized it was a bird up in the chimney because of the fluttering sound. When I clapped my hands, it became quiet. I think I heard it fly away, but then I heard another sound after a few seconds. It must have been a pair of birds. I clapped my hands again. Then it was quiet. Every morning for a few weeks, I would awake to the same sounds. I wonder if they had built a nest up there. After awhile, it became quiet. Haven't heard the birds in months.
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I too have extremely sensitive hearing... and co-incidentally we also had on several occasions birds in the chimney, even tho' we had a cap on the chimney sometimes the baby birds fall down , and they haven't the strangth to fly up and out again...so we have to take the whole fire out to rescue the birds.
 
Years ago when I lived in the city I woke up to a strange noise in the wall. I didn't want to wake up my husband so I started walking around the house listening to all the walls. Finally, I opened the basement door and a bird flew out and scared the heck out of me. It seems that the bird had flown through the chimney and landed in the basement. When I opened the door the bird flew around the living room until I opened the front door and it flew out.
After that, I couldn't go back to sleep. I was always afraid of birds.
 
hollydolly said:
I too have extremely sensitive hearing... and co-incidentally we also had on several occasions birds in the chimney, even tho' we had a cap on the chimney sometimes the baby birds fall down , and they haven't the strangth to fly up and out again...so we have to take the whole fire out to rescue the birds.
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Wow! Glad you thought about rescuing the birds! I haven't seen any birds (or baby birds) fall down in mine.
 

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