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35 Extremely Disturbing Sounds People Heard But Really Wish They Hadn’t
Sound… How important a role it plays in our lives. Or rather, not even the sound itself, but what it conveys to us. From “I love you!” to “You’re fired,” from “Here are your keys” to “OMG, he dropped the ball…” It is sounds that fill our lives with meaning, both good and bad.
Okay, today we’ll talk mostly about bad sounds, or more precisely, sounds that send shivers down our spines. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be some heartbreaking scream. You’ll agree, sometimes simple silence on the phone can be much more terrifying… So, here’s a collection of such stories from netizens that may well make you feel uneasy.
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#1
When I was living in my first apartment, I woke up at probably 2 am to the freakiest sound I have ever heard coming from outside. It sounded like a bunch of babies crying or kids screaming. I almost had a heart attack. I have since come to find out that this is the sound foxes make, but darn, I I did t know id think there was some weird ritual going on out there.
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#2
A husky screaming after losing its owner in a DV situation. I worked EMS at the time. (Also was friends with the victim, she worked in healthcare too) I still hear that dog and it was at least 6 years ago.
#3
Had to have my molars cracked to get them removed. Hearing your teeth break from inside your skull is horrifying.
A significant portion of the stories we’ll tell you here are somehow related to other people saying something. Mostly, something scary or disgusting. Well, speech remains the primary element of our communication, despite a recent alarming study showing that people have been speaking fewer words each year since 2005.
According to a study by psychologists from the University of Arizona and the University of Missouri at Kansas City, we’ve spoken an average of 338 fewer words per year since 2005. While that might not seem like a significant figure, it turns out that each year we speak 120K fewer words than the previous year.
What’s the reason for this? Primarily, it’s the proliferation of mobile technology. Now, watching reels on a smartphone is easier than talking to a neighbor, and Google Maps will plot a route in an unfamiliar city far more accurately than a local stranger… Oh, and that’s yet another scary story somehow related to sound.
#4
The heart-wrenching wail my stepmom made when my dad’s coffin was put into the incinerator. I’ve never heard someone cry out in such pain like that irl.
For context it was a Sikh funeral and they cremate the body immediately after the service. And there is a viewing room with a window for the family to go into to say their final goodbyes.
Sometimes it’s not the timbre or volume of speech that’s frightening, but actually its content. A terminal diagnosis from a doctor, a dismissal notice from a boss, a confession from a loved one that they truly don’t love you… Sometimes even the simplest silence is far more terrifying than words. And our selection today contains many such stories.
Yes, speaking of silence. It happens that ominous silence, when everyone around you realizes something very bad is happening, that can be the eeriest. That’s why we’re sometimes still afraid of old horror films. When directors didn’t have any special effects at hand, they had to resort to psychological tricks to scare the viewer.
#7
Coyote taking out a rabbit outside my tent in the middle of the night. I do not recommend.
#8
A man screaming put for help in a painful desperate way late at night. Once my boyfriend and I had located where the screaming was, before we could approach and before he could see us the homeless man got up, grabbed his stuff and walked away. The screams were eerie and definitely did n o expect him to just get up and walk away.
#9
Walked outside for a smoke one foggy morning and heard ice cream truck music in the distance. Noped my tushy back inside quick. I've seen enough horror movies to know what's up.
And, for example, I will never, as long as I live, forget the quiet, barely heard sobs of an old lady, my classmate’s grandmother, at his funeral right after his first high school final exam. Ironically, I was perhaps the last of his friends to see him alive.
We were walking home from school after our first exam, stopped by my porch, quickly discussed the NBA Finals, which were on at the time, and he moved on. The next morning, it turned out he’d gone into a transformer box a few steps from his house for some reason… His grandma was almost 80, and he was her only grandson.
She’d lived through WWII and seen her share of grief, so she didn’t cry out loud. She just sobbed quietly, and you know, that old woman’s sobbing still gives me the creeps, many, many years later.
#10
The sound of a bone being reset rather... forcefully.
#11
I don't even know how to explain it and my dad heard it too. But you know how in those Jurassic Park movies, there's a few scenes where it gets quiet and then you hear the unmistakable sound of heavy foot steps? Like the T-Rex is coming? It sounded like that. It was so weird, I was getting ready to leave my parents house and go back to my place. I went outside and started walking to my car when I heard loud and heavy "footsteps". It was like 10PM. It really freaked me out.
#12
That weird silence right before a whole room realizes something is seriously wrong. Not even a loud sound, just that instant shift in the air that makes your stomach drop. I think that feeling stays with you more than the actual noise.
So-called “sounds of nature” are invariably popular among those who want to concentrate on work, but in reality, the sounds of nature are more than just the trickling of water, rustling leaves, and beautiful birdsong. It’s also the predatory growl of a coyote after catching a rabbit, the screams of a cougar in the night, or the howl of a pack of wolves.
It all sounds eerie, even with headphones, in the middle of a busy metropolis, but now imagine being in the middle of nowhere at night, with the only thing separating us from all these “sounds of nature” being the canvas wall of a tent. Well, now we can try to concentrate on work, right?
#13
The sound my son made when he had his first seizure. He was napping in his bedroom and my husband and I heard a sound that sounded like a cat was hurt. We bolted up and started looking for our cat. Then we saw our cat searching for the source of the sound too. We followed Kitty to my son's bedroom and he was definitely seizing. The sound was caused by all of his muscles clenching up at once and squeezing the air out of him. I called an ambulance. He's ok now, but that was horrifying.
#14
My grandmother shrieking my name saying my grandfather was d***g. He was throwing up tons of blood and was passed out. I was able to wake him up and get him to cough up the blood he was choking on and the ambulance took him to the hospital. He ended up needing triple bypass surgery on his heart. my grandfather is still alive, and I handled the situation well at the time, but I heard my grandmas voice screaming my name for the next few weeks.
#15
Unexpected peacocks on the roof.
If you know you know.
However, no description or text can truly replace the stories and tales of netizens. Simply because they share their own experiences, fears, and disturbing sensations, all somehow connected to a particular sound. So now please feel free to read these stories to the very end, and maybe add your own in the comments below!
#16
Listening to a man, who was talking to me, d*e on the phone with me. Listening to an 11-year-old cry as I walked her through CPR on her mom as she o*’d. (I am a 911 dispatcher).
#19
The scream of a mother at her 13 year old sons funeral. I was only around 11 at the time, I still remember it so clearly. It was gut-wrenching.
#20
Chicagos tornado siren. Sounds like the end of the world.
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At my sister's old apartment, the town's fire siren was DIRECTLY outside her living room window. And I swear to Cthulhu, every goddąmn time I stayed over on her couch, that siren went off in the middle of the night.
#22
Was a 911 dispatcher. Had a trainee I was training take a call from a woman in a DV situation. She was being chased in her car by her ex. He pushed her off the road. She got out of the car to run. Last words before he shot her were very frantic "Tell my kids I love them, tell my kids I love them", few gunshots, it was over. Baked into my brain.
#24
My daughter was born 11 weeks premature. While she was in the NICU a baby d**d. Listening to the mother cry and wail will hands down be the worst sound I will ever hear.
#25
I was on a motorcycle when I hit a deer while I was going about 90 kmh. I'll never forget that sound followed by the deafening silence.
I was fine. The deer, not so much.
#26
At a restaurant where I worked one of the employees had a very sick parent. The parent was on their d****bed and the employee said that they needed to go out of town to be with the parent. The manager said that if they left they needed to fill their shift no matter what. The employee was unable to fill their shift and the unreasonable manager threatened to fire the employee. They had to work. 2 hours into the shift the employee walked out the front door with their partner. All I heard was that great big bass voice shouting "NOOOOOOOOO!" And that awful manager made do for the rest of the night, short-staffed. The poor guy missed the last chance he would have ever had to be with his father. And that manager never showed an ounce of remorse after.
#27
Koalas trying to get busy. Sounds like demons snarling at each other.
#29
The scream I heard when I came home to a domestic violence incident happening next door to ours. It was the scream of a woman who really did fear that she was going to d*e. Still to this day so glad we phoned the police because he went on to be wanted and arrested for similar crimes further down the line.
#31
I worked in child protection for many years, the sound of a newborn baby withdrawing from substances is absolutely horrendous and heartbreaking at the same time.
#34
The sound of 2 litres of my blood splashing onto the ground as my baby was born. Followed by the Drs voice saying *can someone get dad out of the room*
It still haunts me.
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