Right-ho! About a month before the current date, I experienced a noise of blood-chilling.. Blood chillingness! Was sitting around, as I often do, in front of this computer that I type at, it's located in my room, which has glass doors on the far wall. Now, it should be noted that under my bed is a cutout in the wall, which leads to what was once designed as a garage, however not used as such, as it opens up into a garden. Now, it should be noted that my house is in a very rural neighborhood out near the Hood Canal Bridge in Washington. So this is pretty much wilderness.

But, on to the noise, I hate describing sound, and I know what I say probably makes no literal sense.. But ...It was kind of a leeching sound. Like, gurgly and dark. Kinda like what an evil child eating muppet would sound like. Really sudden, and far too loud. Especially for my cement walls, I really don't hear noises down here, it's almost a sound proof room, even with the glass wall. But, it was night, and It came, a gurgling burble.. Like a goblin from LotR. Just.. Wierd, and so loud... I'd think I hallucinated the sound, but my dog woke up, and was looking around the room in a panic.

Doing what any self-respecting paranoid male alone in the dark would do, I slid a stripper clip into my Mauser, cocked the bolt, fixed a bayonet, and stood, wide-eyed and pale for a couple hours.

Umm, and something else happened I thought needed mentioning... I was walking with my friend, being two bored males, we passed by this high fence, and he heard a single, heavy 'thump'. About two hours later, on the way back, we passed by.. and heard once again, this single, heavy thump. Just.. Wierd.

Honestly I don't know what to make of either noise, the first was just not right, especially for the wildlife.. I've heard our Coyotes make some pretty bizarre noises. (Gurgle barks and goblin-screams, best way to describe them) But you could always tell what they were. Same with the kind odd gurgles and screams of the Raccoons.. only noise that's hard to tell are dieing rabbits, which always sound like a little girl screaming in terror... But.. It was such an unexplainable noise, and it disconcerted my dog.. and he's a very easy-going sort...

And the second noise... Was wierd, because it was a single heavy thump, we waited and waited, but never heard it again.. Kinda like... Imagine a one legged bigfoot jumping out a tree. Err... As far as the kind of noise it was, single impact, smalish area, very heavy. Like a single strike from a Thumper from Dune. Would have just been odd, had it not happened each time we passed the house...

Really... Any ideas..? I've got no idea why these two events struck me as being so spooky...

Oh, and while I'm making a thread... I'll throw this in here, a friend of my friend (yeah, I know how bad that sounds. But I've verified that the friend of my friend who this happened to actually exists, and it happened to him.) He had an imaginary friend, who was apparently a real entity, it appeared only to him, as a pair of red glowing eyes. That moved, and spoke to him. This entity was... Inhuman, to say the least. (Well, maybe not inhuman.. I've got a bipolar manic depressive aunt who acts like it... But are such 'people' human?) It acted with intense emotion, with a wide range of sanities. It apparently got angry at him, and was threatening to kill his little sister, but after the kid's pleading, just broke the light in the refrigerator and turned the gas on in the oven. Apparently this.. 'thing' was with him until he was about eleven, when it got angry, and left.

Any ideas..? I think some kind of demon, or... The kid's completely insane.

Errrm.... weird.

Could the first sound been of sevral animals all making a noise/dying at once? Rabbits+Cayotes etc

The second could have been just a huge coinsidence that it happened the second time u went by but other than that......

Has anything else slightly weird happened since then?

Eh, lots of odd things happen, but nothing that felt completely unnatural. That's why these stuck out, something about them felt completely and totally unnatural.
(oh, sorry for the edit of the first post, the second story was supposed to be there, but I bumped the 'post' button)

was your or your cats tummy growling? im half joking. once i spent the night with my sister and i was walking past her bedroom and heard a weird loud noise comming from her bedroom but then i realized it was my stomoach

creepy. Maybe somone was playing a joke on you?

Meh, way too late in the morning, and I'm really out in the outskirts, the the only people who aren't old folks are a half mile off, and don't even know I exist.

But yeah, I was mostly wondering if anyone else had similar noise-like experiences... Sound is always the most difficult witness to work with... Oh well.

(edited for clarity)

did it sound like this?(evp of a gremlin sound)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAGpzwa_0lM

also you mentiond under your bed there a path that leads to the garden? maybe there was some animal inside near the entrance near your bed that made the sound while trying to get in?

or could been you or you dog stomach growling,which sometime make like a gurgling sound.

or could be some activty of ghost,or something else..

also could be from a add on the computer,since some of them make noise when you pass by one on some sites that have these sound adds

No... Not like that.. Gremlin noise, actually that sounded more like my foot getting stuck in a swamp.. and pulling it out.

Much deeper, less of a 'gush' and more a 'Garooorrn'. Actually, if you've ever heard the sound bite, the joke website about the 'Dropbear' of Australia's soundbite is kind of similar. But not quite... (Sorry no idea what the website was called)

I'd also think that it would be in the area between the walls, except that they're so small, a cat can barely squeeze through, and my dog turned his head, with great distresse towards the window/wall, not in the direction of the hole under my bed. But that would explain why it was so loud, if something was possibly trying to get in the kittydoor in the garage, it could have made such a noise.

Still, I have no idea what.. It sounded like no local animal...
Ghost.. Possibly, but I'd think my dog would be a bit more unnerved. Then again, I don't really have experience with ghosts.

Also, deffinatly not the computer. I had the internet off, and was playing Mechwarrior 3 (ah, the nostalgia...) Which has no noise vaguely similar.

Well if it matters I've had a run in or 2 with spirits. They come in all different forms and spiratual energies. The lower level ones just kinda drift around...you proubly brushed by some and never noticed. They pretty much leave us alone unless you make it known that you can see them. Then they just want you to pay attshion to them. I usually just ignore them until they go away. Second levels (to me) are more solid in apperance but more or less the same as 1st levels. (I've made my own level grid from my experances so if you have had any for yourself the levels may very.) Anyways to make a long story short the higher levels can cause a lot of mischief and mayham. I can fully belieave that your friend did have to experance such a thing. Spirits seem to be attracted to children more the adults. I've come to the conclusion that this is because they are more open to the unknown because....well...they just don't know mentally that it's not soposto be the unknown.

As to the fact of the noises that you are hearing it could be the remains of an incident that happened at those places. Sort of an echo of the past that you are experancing when you walk by. These are said to be located in certain areas and when you pass through them you are catching little quips of them. This can also explan the experances that you have in your room. It doesn't necesslary have to happen every night...just when you are mentaly open to them, or on cetain days that have signifance to the spirit/echo.

When I move into my mothers new home (years ago..I've since moved on my own) I had some very unpleasent experances of my own. No one else seemed to experance them but myself. I saw arguments between the woman that used to live there (I would see her clearly) and someone/thing else. One night I was caught up in a reactment in my room. I was held down and sufficated while the woman was screaming her head off in the door way. The lights were on (in my vision) and all I could see was a dark (I felt evil) enity above me. I could feel his hands around my neck and I felt his presence as a pressure on my chest. My mother fortunatly heard me gasp and gurgle for air and came rushing into the room. When she entered the vision started to disapate. She grabed my shoulders and ripped me out of the very disturbing event. Afterwards I clensed the room and started to learn how to use the gifts that I was born with to defend myself against such attacks in the future.

Anyways I'm sorry I started to ramble. Well you get the picture.
I hope this information helps you in some way!

Do you have anything in your room like water pipes? I'm thinking maybe the noise could have been from that? Either that or as others have said, it could have been an animal in the "cut out" and it sounded different because of echoes? Maybe your dog co-incidentally saw something go past the window at the same time as the noise happened?

The second story about the thump... I really can't think of anything apart from maybe someone playing a prank and making the noise on purpose when you went past?

The last story. I do believe that some children's "imaginary friends" are in fact spirits. My son had one aged about 3, although he described her as "the lady in the corner". He used to chat away to her and when I asked who he was talking to he'd look to one side and say "I'm not allowed to say" - that used to send chills down my spine lol anyhows he grew out of this "phase" after about two years, and now he's 10 he claims to not recall anything about it. I personally think your friend's friend has a bit of an overactive imagination, and while not saying he didn't have an imaginary friend, I think he may have embellished the details slightly. Most parents know about their children's IFs and to be honest if my child was describing this I'd seek outside help, be it medical or spiritual.

I'm not refuting your stories at all, I'm just trying to think up any logical explanations that could apply

Hi, Werescrib,

Interesting stories. I was going to suggest that a bear might have sounded like that, but it seems like you would have thought of it. Other than that, I didn't have any ideas.

Yes, are there any drain pipes in the walls? Or maybe a gutter outside your window? Could it have been a pipe that was stuck suddenly coming unstuck and the water rushing down it? As for the thump, I've no idea. Maybe Thor striking the earth with his mighty hammer????

That's what came to my mind, or sewer/septic pipes or the tank maybe? Is there a crawl space under the house where an animal could get in?

We lived in and renovated an old historic house that made all kinds of funky noises. The strangest one to figure out started as kind of a tapping noise in one area in the wall in the kitchen. Then it became more frequent and turned into scratching now and then. Eventually it was obvious - a squirrel built his home IN the wall! He was timid at first, then drove us nuts until we found where he was getting in and patched the area, of course we waited until he had left his hideout.

I... Don't think a sewer pipe. The main problem with that idea, is my floor is cement. I'm in a basement, that's half underground. (the house is built into the side of a hill) Also, our Septic tank is about seventy yards away in a grove. The only pipes are on the opposite side of the room, and their actually above me.

Although, as stupid as it sounds Boorite, you may actually be right. I hadn't thought of a bear, as we've not seen any for the past decade. I personally have never heard a black bear make a noise, are they really gurgly and slimy?

To the noise being made by an echo of a ancient event, I... Don't know. I still can't imagine what would make it, and as generally malevolent events 'stick' to places. The region, while reasonably near the famed Pig War, isn't the right area. It's also the wrong area for Coronel Slaughter's campaign (Why do all the local battles sound so wierd..?). The only thing that happened out here were bootleggers during the depression, and they were by the streams, about seven-hundred yards away.

As for the imaginary friend of...the friend's friend, I think I agree with the general consensus, spirit of some sort. (If I was their parents, I'd have been disturbed by the kid's stories)

(Oh, on a side note! I know about scratching in the walls.. I've got mice in my walls)

I think they can be, if they're gurgling around in something slimy.

Mice are even harder to keep out than squirrels, what a hassle! This squirrel was stealthy though, for a month I could not figure out what the heck was going on. The house was a high ceiling two story with an attic. The walls were plaster and clapboard with spanish moss insulation. When it would tunnel down, the plaster would fall, but usually only for an inch or two then it would get caught up in the moss. So instead of sounding like falling plaster it sounded like random knocking all over the wall. I think the noise spooked the squirrel so it only happened occasionally. We had a few people asking if our house was haunted.

The bear theory is interesting. Thinking back to old nature documenteries, I do recall them making kind of a low guttural rumbling noise.

Off topic: The Hood Canal rocks!

Maybe it's as simple as a bear then? Then again with the information I have.. We could be dealing with The Creature From The Black..Uh... Mountain stream!

Actually though, the possibility of it being a bear does put my paranoia partially at ease. Thanks for the suggestion Boorite.

Also, on that off topic note: The Hood Canal does rock, yes. But let us not digress into a gigantic off topic fest that degrades into a discussion about the ethics of Tacos, as such things have a tendency to do.

I'll go out on a limb here and say, "bigfoot". My second choice is a weredemon.

I still say it was a big loud icky tummy growl

Interesting stories Geisha, I'd like to hear more..

I don't live in the suburbs or in some little town, I live in the COUNTRY. There's always some animal or sound you can't identify. You just get used to it. As to haints, probably the more attention you pay, the more they want...if you get my drift. You've got a Mauser, good deal. You need something shorter and handier for quick protection in your house. The Mauser will be good if you have to scare off some Bigfoot out around that 'crick you're talkin' about or some such. You need a good old Marlin or Winchester 30-30 to prop beside your bed. If you ain't got kids or others like that in your house, you can fill the mag and be completely safe but relatively ready to rock. Just lever one in and you're good to go. A good Ruger Security Six or GP-100 357 Mag. in your bedside drawer with a couple of speedloaders filled with 110 grain JHP's will ease your mind even further. For warnings outside the house, you ought to get a couple of coon dawgs. They are friendly fun dogs to have but are very protective and can be fierce fighters. Maybe one of those Black Mouthed Curs (like in Old Yeller) for an even fiercer fighter. This stuff will protect you from everything but the haints.

Well, I don't live in a small town or suburbs, I live on the outskirts of the outskirts. Although on aforementioned off-topic topic, I prefer my 98 over a lever. Besides, for close in combat you can't beat a 12-gauge trench shotgun. Which is the other weapon which is rather easy to reach. Two rounds of shot, two of buck and two slugs. Drop anything that moves.

Well... I guess if I had an old 3-gauge shotgun... That'd really drop anything. Bloody hand-falconet.

What I'm getting at here is that the simplest reason is usually the cause. That said, there are plenty of things in many peoples' environs to hurt them. I will not fault your weaponry. I would add some sort of handgun when you can afford to do so. The dogs can serve a lot of purposes. I would think about them too.

I suggest a Colt 1911A1, or a Bersa .380 compact.