So.... imagine this... you're out cold (in a nyquil coma) and you are startled awake by the loudest blood curdling scream(ish) noise. that was my night.
What was it? you ask.. I have NO IDEA. it sounded like a squeak styled scream.. imagine a rat squeaking repeatedly at the top of its lungs over and over and over.. there was a sense of harm and pain in the noise, it was an insanely unnerving sound. I looked out the window, only to see it had woken my neighbors as well... one was on her back deck with the light on trying to figure out what this screeching was and i hear another say "a raccoon must've gotten something". I couldn't see anything but i could hear the noise and a strange deep panting breath. Ewwww. I didn't think I'd be able to go back to sleep..
THANK GOD the cats were in!
I almost left Sagan out because of his refusal to come in (i wanted to 'teach him a lesson' Hmmm am i a Bartlett or what?!?!)
I looked at my back deck today after work to look for a corpse of some sort... and you'd never guess what i found... a dead lizard?!?!?!? Since when do we have lizards in swampscott? Maybe someones pet got away? It's prob about 8-10" long, on its back and in a crunched up position.
Could that possibly have been the croaking scream?
The nerd that I am looked it up. lizard noises sound like some form of a croak and that the croak becomes a screaming croak when it is threatened. http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/lizards/ Scroll to the bottom and listen to the barking gecko.
Then again someone told me there is a fisher cat problem around here... and they scream like a human being killed.... what the?!
I don't know. All i do know is that i NEVER want to hear that noise again.. and i see a dead gecko.
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OH MY GOD!!!!! That's the noise Lindsey and I heard one night that woke us up from a dead sleep. We spent so long up, ridiculously scared, like, checking the house because we had no idea what it was. We felt like such babies, we closed all the windows and were huddled in the hall, afraid to go back to sleep. It was Horrifying. Funny you should mention the fishercat, because Lindsey said it sort of sounded like one, but we dismissed it because we didn't think there were fishercats around there. Wow. The lizard part is just plain weird.
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