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Forest Calls: Local Paranormal Investigators Are Confusing THESE Animals As Ghosts · Paranormal Lens - A Crossroads Of Curiosities, LLC Production

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jesus coming up a child getting murdered basically
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nine years ago we launched the afterlife road
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haunted michigan web series that's how we started
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back in college and the very first episode of
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this web series out of like over 200 episodes
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came out 300 locations the first episode was
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called forest calls which was a pun because we
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were in the haunted forest and all of us got
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a phone call from each other at the same time
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but no one rang the phone and there was just
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like heavy breathing on the other end of the
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phone call like out of a horror movie um that's
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creepy yeah um but anyway that actually happened
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wait yeah yeah that was the very first thing
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i ever filmed for paranormal stuff that's wild
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yeah yeah and um Flash forward nine years later,
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we have a dumb podcast called Paranormal Lens,
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and we're going to talk about Forrest calling
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others through, like, real shit. Like, screams
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and stuff. Because back in the day, ghosts couldn't
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call you on the phone. They had to scream to
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get your attention. Oh, yeah. I guess, like,
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Bree here is the, um... What's the word for,
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like, outdoors experts? Like, there's a word.
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self -proclaimed outdoors woman okay so brie's
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a self -proclaimed outdoors woman even though
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i proclaimed it but you know let's not get into
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semantics um so today brie is going to break
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down for us some common screams and sounds that
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people hear in the forests in the woods that
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some may say are spirits beckoning you in to
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then get lured and lost and or trapped by demonic
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beings uh or more likely it might just be owls
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or some shit which might be scarier in angela's
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opinion yeah welcome to our podcast where we
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take deep dives looking at various topics through
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a paranormal lens i think if i because brie you
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sent like a series of audio clips to me i think
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if i play them we'll all be able to see what
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they are on our end so it won't be like a a thing
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where i can be like guess what this is yeah but
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we can at least hear it and then say what we
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think it sounds like like try to like close your
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eyes and put yourself in the middle of the woods
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at night and if you heard this sound what would
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you think it is ang what would you think these
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sounds are okay i think angela is going to be
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the biggest person to like guess like listen
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to this because i mean I picked the noises out,
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and you're playing them, obviously. I haven't
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heard them before this. Like, Brie sent them
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to me to play, so Brie knows all of these. And
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she would be able to identify them by ear anyways,
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because she is a self -proclaimed outdoors woman.
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Let's get into some of these sounds, and pretend
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like you... Well, actually, you can't really
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see what this one is, so... You shouldn't have
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any... I shrunk it on my end, so I can't... It'll
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come into frame, so you will be able to see what
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it is. Okay. So just close your eyes a little
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bit, Ange, and... I can't see what's playing,
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though. Okay, but an animal. She's saying an
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animal will come into the frame. So, close your
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eyes, and... Well, I guess I spoiled it. But
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anyways, is this a real animal or a fake animal?
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Ghost? Banshee? Alright, let us know. Jesus,
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how long is that thing going on? What the heck
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is that? So since I already said it was an animal
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by accident, Ange, what animal do you guess this
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is? Sounds like a distressed beagle. A distressed
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beagle. A distressed beagle? No, it's got like
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a purr to it. Is this some sort of cat? It is.
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Look at you go. It is a bobcat. A bobcat. Okay.
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Yeah, it's actually, like, I mean, but if you
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can imagine hearing that late at night in the
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middle of nowhere in the deep, dark woods. Definitely
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be a little off. Bobcat is not the first thing
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on your brain sometimes. So after hearing that,
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maybe it should be. Yeah, it does actually cut
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like it starts off like a purr and then kind
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of the way it ends like roar Kind of sound like
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if you only hear the end bit It's actually just
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again distance and like yeah at a distance. You're
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not gonna hear that like yeah almost purr sound
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to it Yeah, the the rolling to it. You're just
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gonna hear that screaming. Mm -hmm. So We sound
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like a guy just And this is just one video. I
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mean, they can sound different than this, but,
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like, this was the shortest, most, like, immediate
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sound that you could hear in the video, so. Anyways.
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Wait, the video says Bobcat screams for a mate?
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Yeah, it is like their mating call. Oh. Yeah.
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Oh. So you'll typically hear this during, like,
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mating season for Bobcats. So, like, springtime.
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Spring, maybe, yes, I would say springtime. Interesting.
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I would, if I heard that in the woods, I would
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run away. I would not. Yeah, you probably should.
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Yeah. So it's not my kind of a mating call. All
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right. And this next one is going to be really
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enlightening. I'm intrigued myself. Is that a
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bunny? No. I did actually look for a bunny because
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bunnies do make screaming sounds, but I could
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not find a good video of rabbits screaming. I
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never heard one, but I've heard bunnies sound
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like a child getting murdered. Yes. Yeah. So,
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I didn't know. Without his game going on. I mean,
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it's kind of obvious it's probably an animal,
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but to me it does sound like a banshee. If you
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were to say, what does a banshee sound like?
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Probably something like that, just like longer
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screams. You said it sounded like a child getting
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murdered. If you heard that without any context
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of this dumb game we're doing or whatever, would
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you think it was a child? It sounds like a toddler
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screaming to me. So if you heard that in the
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woods, would you think someone was in trouble?
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I don't know. If I heard this in the woods and
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didn't... I mean, I have... like i'm thinking
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of animals you know so if i just heard this randomly
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in the woods i don't know what i would have thought
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yeah well that was a fox oh okay yeah so the
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age -old question of what does the fox say it
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screams no it doesn't go like the song uh no
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Not accurate at all, actually. It's not accurate
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at all. That's how the song went, I think. Well,
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unfortunately, the song is not accurate, and
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I feel like if the song was accurate, it probably
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wouldn't have become as popular. It would have
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been banned on the radio. Probably. Probably
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would have caused a lot of car accidents. If
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you're in ghost mode... Do you envision yourself
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ever letting your guard down and thinking that
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might be something or would you? So that is a
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really good question because I feel like no matter
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what in an outdoor location, anytime we're outdoors,
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I am always wildlife and nature like. explanations
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first before paranormal i was gonna say like
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i feel like you're automatically gonna go to
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like i'm i'm autumn yeah i'm automatically outdoor
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mode like what could explain this i'm not automatically
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oh my gosh that was a ghost screaming for me
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like um But, yeah. That's weird when they put
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it. We don't ever ask, can you scream for me?
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If I hear that child getting murdered, I'm not
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thinking, oh, a child's getting murdered screaming
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for me. Yeah. But, I mean, that's, like, the
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big thing with, like, screaming forests. So,
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I, that. The folklore and everything behind them
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is so interesting. It mainly originates back
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in England or European areas. There's famous
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screaming forests or haunted forests. And a lot
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of them, I mean, most of the animals I have on
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this list are American animals. There's definitely
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different ones in Europe that could make screaming
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noises. most of them can be explained by wildlife
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and like you have these folklores and histories
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and like just these urban legends of the someone
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got lost in the woods one day and they could
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hear them screaming out in the woods so someone
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went out to go find them and never returned and
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you can still hear them screaming calling out
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trying to come home but they can't find their
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way and that's that's it it just is such an interesting
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concept i mean there's there's so many different
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folklores and legends and stuff especially in
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those european continents of like uh the fey
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and uh hauntings and because everything's just
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so much older over there you made me think of
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like you know all the city folk who are just
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like yeah i don't believe in ghosts because like
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it's all just like old houses creaking but that
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one time i heard that screaming in the woods
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that might have been a demon it's just like that's
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your equivalent of i'm not a city folk i don't
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know about the creeks in the old building but
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i know that that's that's the fox yeah yeah yeah
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exactly it's like i i i may know that like, that
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creaking door squeaking of the house might just
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be it settling, too. But I also know that that
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scream is definitely not supernatural. I know
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a couple weeks ago at one of the events we had
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gone to, someone was like, oh, I caught this
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scream and played this audio clip for me. And
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I'm like, that's 100 % an owl. And they're like,
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what? And I'm like, Yeah, I'm so sorry to tell
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you, but that's actually an owl. Like, I was
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trying to find the audio clip, and that day I
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couldn't find it. And while I was looking up
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the audio clips for this video, I finally found
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it. And I think it was the Eastern Screech Owl,
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which I didn't include in this, because they're...
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They have a lot more chirps. So you typically
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hear their chirps in their hooting before the
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screech. And in their video or their audio clip,
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you could just hear the screech. So it wasn't
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a good example of like screaming things in the
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forest. But yeah, it was it was. But that's that
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kind of goes back to what I talked about in some
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of our previous. podcast episodes is like we're
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not all experts in the paranormal there's no
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paranormal experts but we're experts in our own
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different fields if only when that person had
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the scream that they thought was a ghost and
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they showed it to you and you're like it's actually
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an owl you could have showed this podcast episode
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but yeah yeah that's but like i said it's not
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this owl because this owl it just go ahead and
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play it what is this owl It's not the crickets,
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obviously. Taben's excited, though. Cricket sounds.
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Jesus. Wow. It's called the goat's owl? Yeah.
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I don't know why it would be nicknamed a screech
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owl when a screech owl is literally a species
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of owl. For the people that can't see the video,
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the more than five people that are watching this
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and the many more that are listening, a text
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came up on the screen saying ghost owl. So I
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don't know. This one sounded the most animal
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to me out of the bunch just personally. Yeah,
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I feel like you can tell this is like a bird
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squeaky. Yeah, I mean, yes, yes, definitely.
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But it is that unsettling thing because barn
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owls, I mean, you typically find in like structures.
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like old barns you'll find them in so it's that
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sense of you're walking into a building or an
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abandoned structure you're not into like you're
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thinking maybe there could be something there
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but like you aren't exactly anticipating it and
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then you hear this shrieking sound yeah it would
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put me off edge the first time exactly but then
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once you hear it then you're like oh okay hang
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on that is actually a barn owl and not something
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else so Alright, here's a question for you, Brie.
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The thing for me that made it sound, I guess,
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more bird -like was after the first one, I was
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just like, okay, that's a bird. Okay, that's
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a bird. Okay, that's a bird. A lot of these recordings
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that people share, like in that example you shared
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last year, someone played an audio recording.
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It was just one single shriek. It wasn't like
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in that video where there's multiple in a row.
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Is it common for... birds or animals to just
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let out one call like that i mean so it depends
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on the circumstance like i mean definitely if
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they're spooked there might they might just make
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one and then fly away or um any really any animal
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like if they're getting spooked they might make
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one sound and walk away or fly away or get away
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whereas like if they're just out in the wilderness
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and you hear them from a distance It might be
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several in a row. Honestly, if I were to put
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myself out of this, like, space and into, like,
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a cemetery, if I heard one of them, just, like,
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with no context, just, like, one, I would be
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like, what the fuck was that? But if I heard,
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in the span of a minute, seven shrieks in a row,
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I'd be like, what is that? Oh, that must be an
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animal type of thing. Yeah, yeah. And I think
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that's the unsettling thing is, like I said,
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especially with, like, barn owls or really owls
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in general they aren't wanting i mean no wildlife
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wants human contact so when you walk up on an
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owl or surprise an owl they're gonna make a sound
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to alert the others and also you that it's there
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and then fly away like it's not gonna stick around
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so that's that's kind of the the thing that can
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be unsettling is like you're not always going
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to hear repetitive sounds over and over again
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and also you got to think about these audio clips
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are exactly that they are audio clips like a
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lot of them were purposefully captured with clarity
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that you don't always hear out in the woods so
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sometimes it's it's distorted by walls like if
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you're in an abandoned building or the trees
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or it could be actually miles away but it sounds
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closer than it actually is or hills valleys like
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it's all going to distort the sound and make
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it sound a little different and just having that
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that nighttime essence is going to make it sound
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even scarier than it actually is especially if
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you're intentionally using a shitty recorder
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like a dr60 because you think that shitty recorders
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catch more ghosts yes yeah absolutely Okay, no
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shade. Let's continue here. We got some more
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audio clips. Three more. Cougar? Yeah, yeah,
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no, it is a cougar. Yeah. Mountain lion. Yeah,
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mountain lion cougar. Jesus. Oh, I can recognize
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that. I mean, that's a good one to be able to
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recognize. Yeah. Like, you definitely don't want
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to be in the vicinity of a mountain lion or a
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cougar. No. I recognize that one. I'd be so scared
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if I heard that one out in the wild. I'd be like,
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oh, this thing is near, and I do not like that.
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Yeah. Yeah, reasonably so. One thing that that
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also reminds me of is like almost elk calls.
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I didn't put elk on this list just because most
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people know what elk sound like. Or maybe they
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don't. I don't know. I actually don't think I
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really know what elk sounds like. They kind of
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make a whistling shriek. Especially the bulls
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make a whistling shrieking sound. Okay. But,
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I mean, I don't know. It doesn't sound human
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or all that scary to me. I don't know. This is
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also an opinionated list. Right. Alright, let's
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continue. Let's continue. Okay. This one I just
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threw on there because it's not necessarily one
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you're going to hear at night, but it is one
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that most of us are going to recognize, but if
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heard in the right circumstance, it would probably
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catch you off guard. Sounds like witch -like,
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almost. Like, if you're in a haunted house and
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you heard that, you might think it's like a witch
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sound effect. Mm -hmm. It makes me think of Mulan
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when the when the falcon is coming down the mountain.
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That would be because it is a red -tailed hawk.
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Yeah. So. Alright, last one. Okay, this one.
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Jesus, sorry. It's pretty cute, honestly. It's
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called a limpkin. I had not heard of this bird
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before, but it actually is, I guess. So I'm not
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an idiot. No, no, you're not an idiot. I've never,
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I've never heard of this bird before. I don't
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think it's native to Michigan, but I think it
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is like in the surrounding states. So I kind
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of did mostly just like Midwest animals. I didn't
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include like the elk. I didn't include birds
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or creatures from other countries or continents
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because there's also other ones out there that
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sound terrifying to hear in the woods. But I
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just picked the ones that I knew we would be
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more familiar with. I almost put elk on there,
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but I decided not to. Deer do make really weird
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noises. They don't necessarily make screams.
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um they make a lot of weird grunting and gurgling
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sounds and that can sound like a man like making
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sounds out in the woods well i'm wondering what
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the heck did i hear when i was like i i've told
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you guys this story before of this like what
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sounded like someone screaming in the woods and
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my parents place in the woods like it Wasn't
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any of what we just heard. I don't know what
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it could have been. You haven't shared it on
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the podcast. What exactly did it sound like?
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Oh, I haven't shared it on the podcast. I don't
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think I've heard this story before. Yeah, is
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this near the not deer experience where the deer
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stood up on its legs and stared at you? It was
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in my teenage years. But it's like nearby that
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spot? Yeah, I mean, it's all in that general
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area, you know. but it's basically what yeah
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we determined her a not deer experience for this
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deer stood up stare at her with red eyes and
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ran away might have been on two legs what was
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it david legs douglas douglas douglas the kangaroo
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yeah but it i don't know it was late at night
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it was definitely past 10 for sure and uh all
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of a sudden we just heard this like screaming
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coming from the woods and we're like what the
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heck is this because it sounded like it was like
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a woman almost yelling for her life saying help
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like it almost sounded like help in the back
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and it wasn't just us we heard i think the whole
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the whole houses on our road heard whatever was
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making this sound and our neighbors even came
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out on their um in their backyard and was like
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yelling to ask if like anyone needed help back
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there or whatever and it went on for like a good
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like 15 minutes i mean is it possible it could
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have been someone yelling like help because it
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sounded too much like a mixture of a woman screaming
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for their lives and some sort of animal I don't
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know how to describe it. Like I said, this is
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only a small list that I compiled. There's a
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lot of animals out there that make some weird
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noises. I mean, not even getting into domestic
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things, like dogs and cats can make some weird
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noises. Raccoons can make some really weird noises
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too. They can make some screaming noises, but
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I feel like... They're pretty identifiable as
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raccoons. Yeah, I was going to say, I've heard
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raccoons before. Let me see. What I didn't add
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on the list, and I almost did, because I'm like,
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it's a domestic animal, but a lot of people don't
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think of it as domestic animals and may not recognize
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the sound as peacocks. Peacocks. Because they
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do make a weird... But it's more of a honking
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noise. I don't know. It's a scream honk. Yeah,
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I know what you're talking about. We've all heard
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peacocks make sounds at zoos and stuff like that.
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Yeah. So, I mean, the list goes on and on and
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on of things that can make noises. And that's
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why I'm always like, when you're outside, you're
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doing an investigation outside. You're hiking
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outside. You don't even necessarily have to be
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doing a ghost hunt. You're camping. Like, there
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are so many things that are out in the woods
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that can make weird noises. And you never know.
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It could just be someone with a death whistle
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in the background. Yeah, it could be someone
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with an Aztec death whistle. We did that once.
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And we scared the fuck out of a group nearby
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once. So I found a peacock. I played this. It
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sounds... insane so let's uh let's listen to
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this peacock together what do you say go for
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it that doesn't mean that's actually that's actually
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a pretty tame peacock sound yeah like I thought
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it sounded funny, but it makes it look insane
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and funny. Yeah. But, I mean, most of the time
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when you hear some sort of weird noise out in
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the woods, it's a safe bet to never expect that
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it's actually something paranormal. It's usually
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some sort of animal or creature making a sound.
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Unless you're getting like some sort of class
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A EVP that has actual vocal tone and words to
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it. I must say, majority of the time, it is something
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out in the woods making a noise. And you just
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don't realize that that animal's there because
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it's dark. Do possums make sound? Yes, they do.
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Is that any weird? Yeah, their noises are pretty
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weird. I couldn't describe to you what they sound
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like. Awesome. I'm curious. Yeah, look up possum.
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I'm curious. They don't... I feel like they don't
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make sounds very often. I was gonna say, I never
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heard a possum make a sound. I don't know that
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I've ever heard, but I know, like, doing, looking
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things up earlier, like, one of the things said,
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like, possums, raccoons, and skunks can make
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weird noises. And I'm like... Yeah, I guess.
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So... Alright, there's a whole video. Best of
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possum screams and noises. Or hissings. And hissings.
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Best of possum screams and hissings. That's the
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bark. You got a possum fact? What? Oh, Jesus!
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Oh, my God! Two -headed possum? Or is that two
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of them on each other? What's going on here?
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That's two baby possums together. Knocked, like,
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a joint or some shit. I'm so confused. Sleepyhead,
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time to wake up! I thought it was Angela. Jeez!
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Like, I feel like this isn't loud enough for
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anyone to be concerned about if they hear this.
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Yeah. They're horrifying! They sound like a jester,
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like... I've heard this, and this is scaring
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me. Okay. So, the scariest one. That music. Oh,
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the intro music? That was good. Can I have that
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be the outro music this time? Yes. Is it bad
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that, like, I found possums to be scarier sounding
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than mountain lions? If I heard a possum in the
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woods, I'm running before I hear a mountain lion.
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Yes, that is very bad, actually. Yeah. Oh, gosh.
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Because possums aren't going to try too actively.
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eat you no so a cougar will a cougar will a cougar
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will stalk you down and you won't even know it
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yeah it will pounce on you yeah yeah buddy oh
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yeah and we're not talking about like cougars
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as in like older women we're talking about like
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actual like mountain lions i mean if you put
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it like that Half the ghosts we talked to are
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cougars. Yeah. I mean, you're not wrong. And
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