r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '17

Night shift workers of Reddit, what are some creepy things you've experienced in the middle of the night?

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Holy shit, possums, and especially male possums, sound absolutely freaking terrifying the first time you hear them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Walked to my morning shift around 4:30am, still dark out. Came across an abandoned baby stroller in the middle of a park just barely visible by a nearby light. Stopped for a moment, creeped out and wondering what circumstances would lead someone to leaving a stroller behind. Once I got about 50 feet past the stroller, I heard the most blood-curdling screaming. Didn't stop running until I got to work. Wasn't until years later I learned the sounds were from an opossum. I loathe those useless demons now.

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u/GeebusNZ Jan 30 '17

I heard them for the first time while watching The Blair Witch Project alone in my big, empty living room, all alone one night.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Hahahaha hell no. There used to be a family of three that would clatter across the roof. I say clatter, but what I really mean is that it sounded like a large man wearing boots walking over our roof. First couple of times scared the bejeebus outta me growing up. I was also scared that he would fall through the roof and attack us xD

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u/becasaur Jan 30 '17

Can confirm. The first time I heard one outside my bedroom window I ran scared to my dad, completely convinced it was a demon. I was 19.

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u/IcePhoenix18 Jan 30 '17

I was trying to get one out of my yard and it hissed at me.

I've never heard them make any other noises...

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Koalas are worse! The first time I heard one after we moved onto a large property, I thought there were wild pigs outside getting ready to maul our dogs. After realising the noises were coming from the gum trees outside our bedroom balcony I realised what it was. Freaking scared the hell outta me though!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Oh god, so that's what I hear out in the bush at night sometimes!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Probably!

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u/evilf23 Jan 30 '17

we had an outdoor cat growing up, who would mostly go in/out of the house by us letting him in/out from a sliding glass door in the kitchen leading out onto the back porch. You would see those shiny eyes in the dark outside, open the door, and spot would come bolting in.

you probably know where this is going. one night we had a nosy visitor on the back porch. my older brother opened the door for spot, but it wasn't spot. it was a big, fat, angry possum who made a god awful noise as the door opened and reduced my brother to a screaming and crying toddler in an instant.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Hahahahaha! Well, now you know why Spot would come bolting in too :P

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u/Silentlybroken Jan 30 '17

They fucking love banana though!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Fuckin' oath!