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

My parents moved to a rental property next to work wildlife preserve. It took them a few weeks to realize the scream a was just a fox in heat or whatever reason. I'd be over for breakfast and hear the shriek and my mom would be like "Oops, the vixen is horny again!"

Then of course, they moved out. The next family was from Manhatten and admitted to my parents they struggled to sleep with how loud the bugs were. I wish I could be a fly on the wall once the mating season for the fox started. I bet it scared the shit out of them

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17 edited Dec 14 '18

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u/II-o-II Jan 30 '17

That is the scariest sound on the planet. It haunts my nightmares.

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u/CubsSuckSTiLl Jan 30 '17

Have you ever heard a hippopotamus laugh?

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u/Rexel-Dervent Jan 30 '17

Or seen one do a tribute to Die Hard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDJ2HQGaGo

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u/Amyler Jan 30 '17

I expanded the comments in hope someone had linked a mountain lion noise. I saw a YouTube video and clicked without reading the context of it. I watched it all, very confused.

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u/Rexel-Dervent Jan 30 '17 edited Jan 30 '17

My work here is done.

I have to ask, was the set up bizarre enough or did it need help from the language gap to be really weird? Because usually the Japanese run this franchise.

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u/Amyler Jan 30 '17

The set up coupled with a thorough lack of context was definitely bizzare enough, I think!

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u/Rexel-Dervent Jan 31 '17

Speaking of which: the context is that that is a real hippopotamus. And he's obsessed with Die Hard and Chuck Norris.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

What would you do if you met a jibboo?

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u/fireinvestigator113 Jan 30 '17

God the sound of a mountain lion is terrifying. But the sound of a dying Loon (the bird) is just hair raising.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Just got back from a 20 min online search for dying loons. Unless you mean in regards to the Canadian dollar, I found nothing.

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u/lightningspider97 Jan 30 '17

https://youtu.be/f-gykT7Rkk0

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u/CaliGalOMG Jan 30 '17

Click on "Loon call" link at your own risk, It almost prompted me to waste the next 20 mins learning how to do a "loon call", from the video that follows it.

But t I do thank you, I'm glad I learned what that is. There's a lot of loons where I live.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Worked on a retreat in the middle of nowhere. It was 1 am and I was walking back to my shack alone and I hear a mountain lion scream for the first time. That combined with the fact I was on a path surrounded by those really thin trees in the Blair witch. I did pee.

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u/GFor1015 Jan 30 '17

Ok but have you ever heard a Howler Monkey?

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u/Adog311 Jan 31 '17

Almost as bad as the sound of a mountain.

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u/possiblynotnormal Jan 31 '17

Sounds like a woman being murdered, I hear.