Creepy sounds skin#

Or feral hogs, as we call them in the parts of Florida and Georgia where I grew up. Shortly thereafter, the lights in every house in the neighborhood were turned on as a very large raccoon snarled, growled and screamed as it savagely mauled a much smaller raccoon, leaving it lying paralyzed in a neighbor’s yard. I recall one summer evening when sounds of a low, rolling growl sounded outside my bedroom window. Territorial males occasionally engage in battles that include heavy breathing, grunting and the kinds of screams you hear in horror-movie torture scenes.

Creepy sounds skin#

This is not a pleasant sound, and more than once I’ve been scared out of my skin when I’ve surprised a raccoon during an evening walk or fishing trip.īut that twittering shriek is nothing compared to the sound of a full-on raccoon fight. Sometimes, you’re the one who inadvertently alarms them, resulting in a shriek that has been likened to a high-pitched pig squeal. But they actually make an array of sounds, particularly when agitated or alarmed. They don’t call out across the night like many animals on this list.

Most people don’t think of raccoons as particularly vocal animals. They’re now one of the most wildly distributed carnivores on Earth. Read more about red foxes and their wily ways. In fact, it’s so sensible that the Maryland Department of Natural Resources regularly posts stories on Facebook assuring people that the screams, cries and shrieks they hear are red foxes, not people being assaulted in their backyards. Which, I assured her, locking herself in a room, and calling the police was a completely understandable and sensible reaction to one’s first encounter with red fox screams shattering the night. I ended up sending her a link to a YouTube video of the scream to convince her to come out of the room where she’d locked herself in with her kindergartner. “That’s a fox? That’s not a fox! Are you sure that’s a fox?” Clearly audible through the phone and from the woods between our yards. “A woman’s being stabbed in our woods! I’m calling the police!” anything halloween related.As I remember, the late-night call with my new-to-Maryland neighbor went something like this: “Do you hear a woman screaming?” she sounded breathless and a little frantic. my dream would be for people to play this on their porch to scare the shit out of trick or treaters, or at haunted houses or parties. there was a lot of thought put into every sound created.Įvery single sound on the recording came from a guitar- albeit a very processed guitar, but 100% guitar.

in other words, it's not just me hitting record and then farting around on my pedals. it was important to make this recording a conscious and focused effort. i'd heard lots of 'halloween sounds' recordings over the years. i worked the seasonal shift at party city for years- into my late twenties- surrounded by clueless 16 year old first-jobbers, just to be inundated with the spirit of the holiday. on the surface it sounds silly to feel stressed out over recording some weird sounds and then stringing them together, but for me it wasn't an easy process.

there have been a couple times that i've started working on the idea but either got distracted with other musical things or just overwhelmed with the thought of actually finishing the project and being happy with it. I've wanted to do a halloween themed, guitar-based ambient record for a long time now.