Ever since I arrived here I have been hearing weird sounds at night. Not weird sounds so much as a single weird, recurring sound. I have hesitated to say anything about it to anyone, including my roommates, but tonight I got the nerve up to track it down.
So I am walking down the street at midnight. My shirt is off, as I got sunburned pretty badly today, and in one hand I have my PDA. The noise seems to emanate from behind a hedge that is too tall to see over. I raise my PDA on high and begin recording this thing while lightning flashes mutely in the distance. I am a little scared that as I'm about to round one of these hedge corners a ferocious-looking man in a bear suit will pop around it silently and then disappear again and I will pass out, like in Mulholland Drive.
But I get the recording. Listen to it yourself, listen very closely because the recording is much much quieter than this thing is in real life. It keeps me awake at night sometimes it's so loud.
I can only make wild guesses as to what it is. Is it a monkey of some kind? A parrot? A weird German owl? At one point its screechings were so plaintive that I would have sworn that some demon-child was being tortured nightly in my neighbor's back yard.
What do you make of it?
Posted by Alan at June 24, 2002 01:25 AM