okay so i used to live in a pretty creepy place. the neighborhood durin the day was beautiful during the day but always so creepy at night. a little over a year ago, i went down there to visit [id moved out a year and half prior] and i stayed out here pretty much the whole weekend. one evening, we went to this old warehouse behind the hood for kicks. i didnt think much of it. id seen some creepy stuff out there
but i wasnt gonna let it bother me. we got to the warehouse and chilled for a while but when it got too dark to see much we decided we'd better start walking home. teh trail back is never a pretty sight. even during the good season, it looks desolate and is often littered with bones [hopefully not human >.<] and rotting logs. i had this weird feeling tho like something was following us. naturally being the paranoid one, i hung back a minute so i was sure ev1 was there then i kept walking. about halfway thru it [near where the woods thin out] i stopped cuz i heard a strange noise. it sounded like a bird cry and metal ripping at the same time. it sent a cold chill down my spine, i looked at my friend [who had also heard it] and we ran, our other friends took a cue and ran with but i never really got down to finding out what it was. anybody got something?

Maybe some kind of wild animal ?? I don't know about birds though, it had to be something nocturnal cause birds sleep at night......I think.....

yeah i'm aware that most do aside from owls but those were a rare sight back there. and it was loud. it seemed to come from every direction too.

Astral projection!!!

You said it sounded like metal ripping? I don't know if this is realated or not, but, some years ago, I heard something simmilar. It happened about ten years ago, me and two of my friends where heading back from shooting at an issolated sand pit. I was driving, it was warm out and just heading from dusk into night. We were all talking, and were having a good time. This kind of sound hit then, and yes, it did seem to be very close and sounded like it came from all around. It was a long and erie screach, very high in timbre that had a very distinct "metalic" quality about it. Yeah, we all stopped talking, nobody was having fun anymore, and cats did crawl up all our spines. Here we were, armed to the teeth, all of us very familiar with being in, or around the wilderness, and we were all scared to death. Hell, nobody even mentions it anymore, it ruins fun. I have never heard anything like that before, or since, and I spend a great deal of time in the woods.

Good Journey.

Kyle Rajasthan.

Maybe it was a robot chicken being torn in half. Is that Davey Havok in your picture?

Sounds like a Macaw. They make damned awful noises, and a metal-tearing noise is one I've heard. Try to find out if any of your neighbours have Macaws.

A macaw? No I think I would have noticed a parrot flying around. and I doubt theyre that loud. Besides, exotic creatures [even as pets] aren't common around there. its mostly trailor parks and farmlands over run by kids and wild dogs.

thnx for the input kyle.

and yeah that is davey havok in my avatar, back when he didn't suck

Yeah, birds and noise... I lived in the East Bay and was into the local punk hardcore scene so I went to all the same shows Davey went to. I still like AFI because it's good to see them do well. He says he's not gay, but I remember one time he showed up at the gilman in a long purple fur coat... noises and birds.