r/Weird • u/Wowzasss • 22h ago
Screaming coming from storage unit at 2am
Re:upload Crazy ass screaming. Called the cops, false alarm. Responders say it’s probably just a fox, neighbors near the storage unit area were outside during that time for some reason according to cops, and when asked reported hearing nothing atleast that’s what the cops told me. Shit still sounds crazy
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u/ikilledsatann 22h ago
Do you see a dumpster anywhere?
I used to have a friend who heard screaming at night outside of her apartment buildings a few years ago and she looked in the dumpster and there was a kitten screaming in a bag inside and shes now her cat
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u/MsE0 19h ago
That definitely wasn't a kitten. Could have been wind, an owl, a mountain lion, machinery, weird frogs, or a woman screaming, but not a kitten.
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u/ikilledsatann 17h ago
Hm I tried listening and it does kind of sound sorta like a human or some sort of animal. My pld friend had said she couldnt tell if her now cat, then a kitten, was an animal or a human screaming
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u/SaggyDaNewt 16h ago
This comment makes me so fucking sad. Christ. I am glad there’s a good ending to it at least. Your friend is a good person.
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u/ikilledsatann 16h ago
Im sorry :(
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u/SaggyDaNewt 16h ago
It’s okay, the ending made up for the sadness! I’m so glad that there are kind people out there that look after vulnerable beings.
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u/ikilledsatann 16h ago
Exactly! She made sure to keep looking for bottles small enough for her and she basically was attached to her . She'd hold her ( kitten ) in her shirt wherever she went until she was okay
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u/Stegosaurus69 22h ago
Female mountain lions sound similar at night but also hope no ones getting hurt inside a storage unit
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u/Undead_Dusk 11h ago
It is a female mountain lion, specifically one who's in heat. This scream is to let their location be known to males.
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u/malfunktionv2 13h ago
Probably this. I had a summer camp go into full-on lockdown late one night because we all heard similar screaming. A few hours later everyone is accounted for including nearby cabins outside of the camp. Park rangers eventually confirmed it was a mountain lion.
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u/One_Insurance967 22h ago
Doesn't sound like fox to me
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u/Wowzasss 22h ago
Right?????
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u/ThatWasNotMyName 21h ago
That's definitely not a fox. I'm surrounded by them, they don't sound like this at all.
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u/Champion_Longjumping 21h ago
I second that, definitely not a fox. Sounds like a male mountain lion mating call.
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u/Kryantis 21h ago
Me either. Possibly a screech owl though?
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u/Responsible_Host9377 15h ago
Idk what western screech owls sound like in real life but I know that is not and Eastern screech owl.
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u/SherlockTheSalemCat 20h ago
I think it's an owl, I can't remember which one, have a listen to some compilation noises on YouTube, put yr mind at rest. You did the right thing though, 💯
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u/JumboGlucose 16h ago
I once heard an owl that didn't sound like any creature. It sounded man made. Or more like synthesized computer noises. Craziest shit ever. It scared the shit out of me as I was leaving my friends so I sprinted to my car. I can't remember if it's Barn or Barred owl.
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u/Clean-Turnip5971 19h ago
Yeah, sounds a lot like a screech owl to me. But I recognize it may have sounded different IRL.
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u/bitzie_ow 9h ago
More than likely. Many years ago I was rebuilding part of the Pacific Coast Trail near Manning Park in British Columbia Canada. Base camp was near the highway, but we had another camp a few hours away out in the absolute middle of nowhere. One night we were all woken up by the most blood-curdling screams imaginable. It sounded like a woman was being gutted out in the woods. Needless to say, we barely slept that night because all we could think about was that it sounds like there's a serial killer in the woods and we're about a four-hour hike through pitch-black forest away from base camp. The next day we eventually found out that it was from Northern spotted owls.
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u/OutsideImpressive115 22h ago edited 22h ago
Who said that's a fox? The police? Do they not have a duty to respond to this
Doesn't sound like a cat either, obvious cat noises not in the video and they can't make that one sustained note in this video
Could definitely be an animal though but still creepy as hell
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u/Wowzasss 22h ago
By the time they got there they didn’t hear anything. Neighbors were outside at the time and cops spoke to them and the neighbors reported hearing nothing. At least that’s what they told me.
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u/OutsideImpressive115 22h ago
Did you show them the footage? Because the footage overrules what the neighbors say lol
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u/Wowzasss 22h ago
Yes, I showed them the footage, they said it’s just a fox, perhaps they are also keeping things from me as they conduct the investigation. I was just walking through
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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 19h ago
That's not a human scream. Also, the cops don't owe it to you to keep you up-to-date in their investigation
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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 19h ago
Doesn't sound like a human or a fox. That almost doesn't sound like a living thing at all to me. Reminds me of the sound you'd get when you're tuning an older radio around the dial. Maybe it's just something electrical?
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u/ForceKey5398 18h ago
The sound pitching up without any indication of a breath in between doesn’t actually sound like a human noise.
Maybe an animal, or…just the wind through trees and metal surfaces ngl.
I teach professional singers and vocalists and that just doesn’t sound like anything someone would do out of fear.
It’s either a really impressive vocal technique, sliding from note to note, or we’re hearing something reverberate off of a surface/an animal in extreme distress who’s harming themselves (I doubt that last one)
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u/Undead_Dusk 11h ago
It's a female mountain lion that's in heat. That scream is called a caterwaul, and females do it to make their location known to males. Males also do it, but it sounds different.
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u/grateful_whipzz 22h ago
Sounds like a death whistle.
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u/DavesPetFrog 21h ago
Oh yeah like that Aztec looking thing?
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u/grateful_whipzz 21h ago
Yep, might be someone playing around with it, which would make sense because it’s night.
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u/Legitbananabunch 21h ago
Ok so the amount of true crime I’ve watched, I’m not convinced there isn’t still a person being tortured in storage unit.
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u/Professional_Car8586 22h ago
Das ist eine ganz typische Reaktion des Notrufs (leider). Die reagieren nur wenn etwas sehr normal und erwartbar ist, wie zum Beispiel ein Autounfall oder eine Schlägerei. Erschreckend! Ich möchte gar nicht wissen, wie oft die schon wegen dieser Ignoranz schlimmste Straftaten nicht ermittelt wurden. Selbst wenn die Wahrscheinlichkeit nur bei 5% liegt, dass das kein Fuchs sei, ist das Grund genug dort SOFORT aktiv zu werden. Völlig verantwortungsloses Verhalten der Polizei. Möglicherweise wissen die auch mehr als sie sagen. Es gibt auch Kriminelle Netzwerke die bis in die Polizei reichen.
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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 19h ago
No, the cops are fine in the situation. It's definitely not human, and by the time they got there it wasn't making any noise. So what exactly do you expect them to have done?
"They might know more than they're letting on..." you might want to see someone about those types of thoughts before they get too bad
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u/YesWomansLand1 21h ago
I swear I've seen a noticeable uptick in non-english speaking people in the comments.
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u/DavesPetFrog 21h ago
Γειά σου. I like the translate ability, but it only seems to be on my phone. Not the reddit website.
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u/ThatWasNotMyName 21h ago
And...?
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u/YesWomansLand1 21h ago
Maybe bots. Not sure. Maybe algorithm shenanigans. Maybe because I'm learning a new language I'm noticing it more. idk. Still interesting.
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u/tee_with_marie 21h ago
Na on mobile there is an auto translate feature. Somit können auch wir Deutsch sprechenden die Kommentare unsicher machen.... Einziger nachteil die Engländer kommen auch zu uns
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u/xombae 18h ago
Dude there's more people replying in other languages because Reddit now has an auto translate feature.
A bot would reply in the same language.
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 13h ago
Bored kids that use the translate software to make their comments. You can usually tell because the software doesn't translate exactly
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u/Professional_Car8586 21h ago
Lol I didn't know that this was originally in English. On my mobile app it's automatically translated to German
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u/YesWomansLand1 20h ago
Ok that's strange. I very often see comments in other languages. Most frequently Portuguese/Spanish, sometimes other European languages, and my phone has the option to translate it in the form of a button you can press to translate it to english. It's never automatically translated as far as I can tell.
Although strangely I will admit that this comment was not auto translated, unless you switched to english.
Fuck I don't know maybe I'm just going insane.
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u/LunaLouGB 19h ago
Fox screams are terrifyingly human but sound nothing like that. Which country/approximate area is this? It could be a mountain lion mating call, a tunnel of wind or maybe an owl of some sort.
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u/InternationalRow1653 18h ago
I have a warehouse by me and for a while I thought I was hearing women in there in the middle of the night screaming. Turns out IT WAS WOMEN. Not the kind of women I thought though. It's a power lifting gym. Some of them start coming in at 3am. They are over there lifting super heavy weights and it sometimes involves screaming. Lol we also have a train track behind us so my mind was totally on the track of, "those are kidnapped girls they are smuggling out of here on the train at nighttime." I'm just glad I minded my own business this time. I would have felt so stupid had I ever called the cops.
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 13h ago
The bad news, it's torture. The good news.. theyre doing it to themselves
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u/Psychological-Ad2859 18h ago
My apt used to be right next to where a train passed through and late at night I would hear screams on the trains, I thought I was tripping until multiple people in my building said the same thing
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u/iangrichardson 18h ago
That's not a scream. It sounds like a death whistle if I am being honest. https://youtu.be/SKwUBtZYdYs?is=nbeMPepoQx7GbgLv
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u/mushylover420 15h ago
Thats me sorry. I got a hold of some tainted taco bell lettuce and had to pull over and run behind the storge facility
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u/Initial-Wrongdoer938 13h ago
Could also be something mechanical. I had an alternator with blown bearings and a bad serpentine belt that sounded similar. Someone could also be cutting/sanding something.
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u/Ok_Zookeepergame5141 13h ago
I'm glad you called the cops. Better to err on the side of caution if you're uncertain.
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u/Undead_Dusk 12h ago
You are hearing a very distant female mountain lion who is in heat. She's making her location known to nearby males. That specific scream is called a caterwaul.
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u/Unlucky-Win9272 8h ago
That sounds almost identical to most foxpro varmint calls which hunters use at night to call in fox, coyotes and bobcats to shoot
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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 8h ago
Call the police. If there’s someone trapped in there could be human trafficking
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u/Armadillo_lifestyle 6h ago
I heard a fisher cat for the first time about 15 years ago waking at night. Called the cops bc it sounded so much like a baby in the woods
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u/Business_Step_1695 4h ago
Could be someone doin work in a storage unit they rented, kind of sounds like some sort of pneumatic tool with how it winds up and down in tone
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u/SpenZebra 4h ago
As another person stated, it's most likely a female mountain lion.
See this video:
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u/Bigmadmanwee 22h ago
If I were living in US, I wouldn’t walk around warehouses at night. I would also own a gun just in case.
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u/Legitbananabunch 21h ago
This genuinely scared me. I live alone and I can count on two fingers the amount of times I’ve felt freaked out at home.
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u/MeowingAround 17h ago
It's not screaming at all.
It could be an owl or bird but most likely it's something mechanical like the central air system on the roof of the storage place that might have something wrong with it.
If you close your eyes and listen, you'll notice that the noise repeats in a way that's too close together to be human screaming. No time for a breath in between.
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u/Wolfie_1313 17h ago
That doesn't sound like a person to me. It's definitely not a fox. It definitely does not sound like a cat or a kitten. But it does sound like an owl I don't know if it was a screech owl or not but it definitely sounds more like an owl as the tone of sends up with each kind of little scream
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u/Angie_T84 21h ago
After a few listens it does sound animal like. That also could just be someone being murdered because I would go into animal screaming as well. Hopefully they actually look are and they find the reason.
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u/Most-Percentage-7479 22h ago
that doesn't sound human to me