# WTF did I just hear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299 "2005-03-26T01:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/1 "2005-03-26T01:33:22Z")
It’s ten to two in the morning. I just heard an odd, creepy noise come from somewhere outside my open bedroom window. The only factors I can use to narrow the sound are that it was human, vocal , probably male, and probably adult. Other than that I really don’t know how to describe it. The closest I can come is that it sounded like someone being sick and saying ‘raaa’ at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/2 "2005-03-26T01:52:14Z")
Close & lock your window! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/3 "2005-03-26T01:54:59Z")
It was just me. Sorry. Bad falafel for dinner. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/4 "2005-03-26T02:08:38Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Close & lock your window! If it were me, i’d run outside wearing only a loincloth and brandishing a golf club. It’s usually enough to scare off intruders. ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/5 "2005-03-26T02:13:21Z")
It could have been a possum. They make this spooky weird, human sounding noise that is tough to describe, it sort of sounds like a a really heavy raspy gurgly breathing. Scared the hell out of me first time I heard one late at night outside my window ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/6 "2005-03-26T02:19:19Z")
Possums having sex on your bedroom roof are the worst. 😉 But isn’t **Lobsang** in the UK? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/7 "2005-03-26T02:23:15Z")
While the Isle of Man isn’t part of the UK, for all intents and purposes I am in/from the UK. As far as my knowedge carries me - Possums do not exist outside Australia or New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/8 "2005-03-26T02:25:23Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > While the Isle of Man isn’t part of the UK, for all intents and purposes I am in/from the UK. As far as my knowedge carries me - Possums do not exist outside Australia or New Zealand. We got 'em all over in the US, too, from out here in Cali to the deepest heart of Dixie. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/9 "2005-03-26T02:26:37Z")
Possums are all over North America, they’re not the same possums as the Aussie kind. They’re really nasty and ugly and toothy. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/10 "2005-03-26T02:27:49Z")
Um, I do know that the Isle of Man is not in North America, in case my previous post was unclear. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/11 "2005-03-26T02:38:17Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > It’s ten to two in the morning. I just heard an odd, creepy noise come from somewhere outside my open bedroom window. > The only factors I can use to narrow the sound are that it was human, vocal , probably male, and probably adult. You’ve just heard the mating call of the lovesick Gore Vidal. For Og’s sake, close the windows and lock yourself in a closet! On second thought, maybe a closet is not the best place. Perhaps there is an available bathroom? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/12 "2005-03-26T03:44:48Z")
Cats in heat make some ungodly creepy noises. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/13 "2005-03-26T04:10:43Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > You’ve just heard the mating call of the lovesick Gore Vidal. For Og’s sake, close the windows and lock yourself in a closet! > On second thought, maybe a closet is not the best place. Perhaps there is an available bathroom? Thanks a bunch, Shibb. I nearly coated my monitor in a nice thin coat of fruit smoothie when I read that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/14 "2005-03-26T16:18:08Z")
A drunk on his way home maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/15 "2005-03-26T16:25:47Z")
We have something in our neighbourhood that comes around once in a while and screams like a cross between a devil-possessed banshee and a yowling, scalded cat. Wanna trade? (In all seriousness, maybe you did get a drunk on his way home. Or a possum. Or a drunk possum.) ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/16 "2005-03-26T16:34:59Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Possums are all over North America, they’re not the same possums as the Aussie kind. They’re really nasty and ugly and toothy. We get the second-hand possums. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/17 "2005-03-26T23:03:42Z")
Urban foxes have a sound like that, I know there’s a fox in my local area 'cause I’ve heard it at night and I saw it once running across the road, also while staying at my Aunt’s house in France the same noise appeared every night around… 2 AM, I could head it through the hole in my wall. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/18 "2005-03-26T23:14:34Z")
Jeez, all this fanciful talk of possums and Gore Vidals… Has no one considered the very real possibility that it may simply be a monster? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/19 "2005-03-26T23:48:44Z")
> [@SlickRoenick](#): > > If it were me, i’d run outside wearing only a loincloth and brandishing a golf club. It’s usually enough to scare off intruders. It’s _also_ enough to get you bludgeoned by a cop. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299/20 "2005-03-27T00:25:05Z")
Time was… on the way home from a night of heavy drinking… a friend would hang his head out the window and put forth some sounds rarely heard. We referred to this as “Calling Ralph” Raalph! RAAALLLLPPPPHHHH! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-did-i-just-hear/296299.md?page=2)