nyuk, on 11 August 2011 - 11:38 PM, said:
Could you be tempted to elaborate on the one experience you had which was different to all the others ??
Sure. Though.....be aware that my friend and I rarely tell anyone about it for the obvious reasons that they either don't believe you, or come out with a number of things they personally think it was, and I've yet to hear one which explains it to my satisfaction. Im a pretty rational person, and always look for the logical before leaping to conclusions, but have yet to find anything that would describe it.
Anyhoo, my best friend and I were both about 17 at the time. Her parents live in a big, old fashioned house in the middle of the country (we're in Norfolk, England), tons of land around them, lots of woodland etc. I've always found the house creepy at the best of times because its so silent and pitch dark at night. Well, her parents had gone away for a week, and my friend had to stay home to look after the dog, so I said I'd stay with her for a few nights to keep her company.
We had a few drinks, and I stress only a few on the night in question, perhaps one or two shots each, so were in no way drunk (because thats something people love to use as proof that you didn't experience anything at all, you were just drunk. Neither of us were drunk.)
We decided to do a ouija board at around midnight, as we'd done several times before, but never in that house.
We really went to town, made it all up, lit candles, turned all other lights off, and commenced.
Like your typical teenage girls, we had a bit of a giggle first, but then tried to settle down and take it seriously.
About 5 minutes into doing it, with nothing having happened at all, the planchett (or whatever it is, pointy thing!) moved sharply. I did, and still think I do, attributed this to either me or my friend just moving it by accident.
But then the sound happened.
It was the most horrific sound I've ever, ever heard. It was like a very low, human-like (but not completely), moan that continued on in one, long note for probably about 10 seconds in total. But what was most shocking about it, and what made me wonder to this day what it was, was the volume.
It was incredibly loud.
It was like whatever it was was standing right outside the window with its face pressed up as close as it could get. This wasn't something in the distance. Was it too loud to have been made by a human? Possibly not, if you really went for it, but it was far too 'fluid' and controlled to be human, in my mind, and went on longer than a human calling at that volume could sustain without getting out of breath, unless he was a trained opera singer.
But that wasn't the only weird thing.
The sound started very definitely at the window to my right. In fact, the curtains in this house never completely closed properly, there was always a gap of about 3 inches between them, meaning if I'd just moved my head to the right, I could have seen outside. But I was frozen, and could not actually move.
I kid you not, I've never been that scared, never been scared into seizing up before or since.
So it started to my right, outside the window, then sailed up and over the house and away into the distance on my left.
It were as if whatever it was had just leapt or flown up and over the house, taking its godawful moan with it.
My friend tells me that when it happened, she originally thought I'd become 'possessed' because I'd frozen up, my mouth was open, and she tells me my eyes went 'red' but says they probably just went bloodshot through fear. She still laughs about it when we talk about it now and says 'I remember just honestly thinking the sound was coming from you, because you had your mouth open'.
I believe I whipped my hands off the pointer as the sound started, though I can't actually remember if this was true. I'll have to check with my friend.
To this day, neither of us have any idea what it was.
You tell people, and they suggest the following: an owl (no, british owl species tend to either hoot, or screech, not make moaning sounds from the pits of hell, particularly not of that volume)
a cow (the nearest cows are a good mile away up the abandoned railway line, fenced in, and I think we'd notice if one had sauntered into the garden, there'd be more clues than just one horrific moan at midnight. Not to mention.....I know what a cow sounds like, I worked with them. This was eerily human)
A human being messing with you (I discount this for several reasons. We were in the middle of nowhere, there are hardly any other people around, and I just can't see someone making a visit to the house, randomly (no-one knew we were there alone) just to make a stupid noise outside. I think if people were trying to mess with us, they'd carry it on beyond that one thing, probably begin banging windows and such, but that noise was the ONLY thing that happened. Also....just the volume.....I don't think it would be impossible for a human to make that volume, but even if so, how did it travel over the house? And unless I've got really messed up ears or something, the sound definitely faded away over the roof).
The other thing people suggest was the dog.
It was an irish wolf hound. However, she never EVER howled or made noise, she was elderly, and very quiet, and she was in the kitchen at the time, not where the sound came from. Added to which, I've worked with dogs extensively for my entire adult life, in rescue, veterinary work and race tracks. I've heard every possible sound that can come out of a canine, in every context from pain to joy to aggression, and even death, and this was not the sound of a dog.
Once this sound disappeared, nothing else particularly notable happened that night. We were both shook up, and I didn't sleep well that night, but that was the only odd thing that happened on that particular night. Since then, other odd things have happened at that location, primarily noises we cannot recognise, which I don't mind going into either, but my friend's parents don't notice anything amiss.
It's only us. And when we tell people, they have that 'yeah, suuuure' look on their face. And I don't blame them. If it hadn't happened to me, I'd think the same way, so I don't blame anyone for not believing, or thinking we just misidentified something normal.
And Im still not sure what it was. Neither of us are. I really wish there WAS a logical explanation that I could go 'Oh of COURSE!' to, but nothing. Im a huge animal lover, I know all the wildlife in this area and what noise it makes, and where it tends to reside.
Nothing makes any sense to me.
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Oh, and the Ouija Board is real, don't play it! 
