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[–] [email protected] 226 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I'm going to bet fox.

Those mofos sound like someone is murdering a 13 yr old girl.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Rabbits sound fucked too...

Coyotes too occasionally...

Or wanton murder. Someone has to be a statistic lol.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rabbits sounds like screaming babies! Nearly had a heart attack when one got stuck in the spokes of a decorative antique bicycle in the garden and the neighbour's cat was swatting at it. My mom was out there crying, trying to pull it out.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Must awaken something deep in the mammal brain. There was a video of a wildlife cam where a hawk or something grabbed a rabbit which started screaming, and a deer came running and absolutely stomped the life out of the bird.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Thank you for sharing, I had not seen that. Fucking hell. Nature is scary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

There really isn't that big of a difference between our brains! Well, apart from them all dying in agony without any real understanding of what it means to die. Like a trillion babies mauling each other to death every hour. Sweet dreams and be happy we are human!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Dude. rabbits!

Did not know the horror until family visited and their dog caught one and was playing with it. So terrifying!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I’ve heard coyotes while trail running through the woods. That sound will definitely make you fucking run faster.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As far as I know they go by pipiripipi pipiripipi ahu ahu ahuuu

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I heard they go hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I live in a small city but fairly close to the edge of wooded hills. All sorts of critters venture down around my house. One day, a fox was running around, maybe 50 yards away. It looks at me, runs away a bit, stops and looks back, does it again. I’m on my front porch, near my door. It turns to face me and we lock eyes. Staring contest. We’re having a moment. Suddenly it barks, a gritty high pitched chirp. Felt like an ice cube slid up my butthole.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You ain't heard shit until you've been camping around koalas alone. It's not okay.

Not quite as long as they get but its women screams:

https://youtu.be/0cPg7_nyoBc

Mating call is satanic:

https://youtu.be/PlxnXMWO-jk

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I'm going for the timeless classic : a cat in heat. In my experience they produce a wide variety of "kid getting murdered" sounds

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They are the ghost of a murdered 13 year old girl.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah we have a bunch in our neighborhood and when they start going off it's terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They regularly use them as a sound effect in murder mysteries.

Midsummer Murders, in particular, used the fox cry so often that I had to look up what the hell it was

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Cougars in heat sound like a woman being murdered. Bigger louder sound than a fox. Terrifying if you don't know what it is, and a bit terrifying if you do.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought you were talking about women that like younger men, and that was confusing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Their screams can vary in pitch and intensity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

¿Por qué no los dos?

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anon doesn't know what a wild fox mating call sounds like and is a dumb fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fisher cat was the Animal of the day or whatever on pbs kids today. I've seen the same 30 second blurb about them several times. Now I've seen this comment and a lemmy post about the Animal. Real red car syndrome thing happening for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw this post minutes ago, finished reading this thread, then backed out and continued scrolling.

Five posts down I saw a post linking to the Wikipedia article for Fisher cats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They say this is how it starts...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly, just let it in and mate with it. What a rube

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was sat at home alone one night, have my first joint in months. Sat at back door looking out into the woods and think I can hear a girl sobbing. I must be stoned as hell. Then I clearly hear some girl shouting help me! In my pyjamas and Crocs I up and run off into the woods.
While running through the woods my stoned brain says to me if I were planning an ambush, this is what I'd do.
Shut up brain.
Find a young woman sobbing in the pitch darkness off the path in the woods.
Calllm her down. She had an argument with her boyfriend and he took her phone and left her in the woods, she doesn't know where she is.
I offer to drive her to the hotel she says she's staying at.
Halfway there I see the cops coming out of the station and flag them down, they were just on their way out to look for this girl.
I tell them what happened and they said I could be on my way.
Thank fuck as I was too high to be talking to cops.
Turns out that girl and her boyfriend work at the hotel with my mate, he says this happens once a week, her boyfriend had in fact not taken her phone she had it all along, he just walked off when she started causing drama again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That ended much better than initially anticipated. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It’s not unusual to have brief hallucinations right before falling asleep. It’s happened to me on occasion. That’s another possible explanation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What sounds like a scream could also be an episode of "exploding head syndrome" (the most hilariously dramatically named relatively mundane sleep phenomenon)

I've experienced it a handful of times in my life and it is very startling! Especially the 2 times where it sounded like someone shouting my name from inside my skull. Brains are so weird

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cougars have a freaky roar as well. Some say it's where the banshee wail came from

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You might be thinking of foxes, there aren't any cougars in Ireland.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Avalynne O’Brien is pretty close

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I’d say cougars inspired the folktale of La Llorona.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Living by yourself in rural areas is wonderful. However every now and then you'll hear a noise at 2am and not sleep right for a week. Only downside really

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I've heard rabbits being carried off by owls in the night also sounds like a child being murdered

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had a similar experience last week and it turned out a neighbor kid had shot himself with a flare gun.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Probably a fox

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was hanging out in a park by a river one night with some friends, just grilling and watching the stars, chill night in nature. We heard a sound like a sorority group laughing and walking around near our camp. At first we didn't think too much of it since we were in a public park near a college town.

I got up to grab something out of my truck and saw the glowong eyes in the dark and quickly realized that was not a group of college girls but a pack of coyotes scoping out our food/cooler/us. We packed up the truck and noped out pretty quick after that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Used to live at a place with a massive coyote population. We got em here, too, but nothing like that. Nightly they'd yip as they ran around our yard, dozens of them. Every single night. You'd sometimes see them like a whirlwind, literally circling the house and making the craziest loud group noise. It didn't last long, as there got to be more human activity at the house (it had been empty for a while, and then occupied by a lone meth head who never went outside) they found other grounds up in the woods. But for the first several weeks we were there it was terrifying to even consider going outside past dusk. If you left something in the car, you just had to wait til morning for it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Brah! Just enjoy the beauty of all your ancestors sacrificing everything so that you have a bunch of big-ass walls to protect you from scary shit. Life is great* now!

*Ymmv

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Just coexist with (super)natural horrors, they are not that bad once you get used to them, def not as bad as humans.

That's is why they are more afraid of you than you are of them, humans can and will outclass any horror beyond our comprehension, like for fun or sport.

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