ShadowMan
Designated Grumpy Old Fart
So.....early this morning a little past 0400 there is this TOTALLY weird sound outside. We sleep with a window cracked for fresh air and our bedroom is on the second floor....."SOMETHING" was outside, slowly moving around out in the front of our place. OK...here's the weird thing....the sound. It was NOT an animal. I've heard a lot of animal and ambient sounds at night out in the forest, city, suburbs, jungle, desert, middle of the ocean, etc., etc., etc. and never heard anything like this.
To me is sounded like a kind of electronic "fuzz" with voice like modulation, just barely audible and slowly moving from right to left in front of our cabin. My DW thought it sounded like some form of water going down a drain, but....not water going down a drain.....? It wasn't like anything either of us have ever heard before. The closest thing to something I've heard before was like the electric buzz around high tension power lines when you have a heavy heavy fog....however, we didn't have either of those in our area, no high tension power lines in our immediate area, nor was there any fog last night or this morning. The air is actually pretty dry at the moment as we have Santa Ana Winds coming out of the desert......usually dry & hot.
We live on the lee side a mountain ridge at approximately 5,600 feet surrounded by National Forest in Southern California. We have all the usual wild critters you'd expect here. We've seen Bobcat's, Coyote's, Fox, Raccoon's, Coyo-dogs/wolf and our neighbors have seen Mountain Lion and Bear in our immediate area as well as a fair amount of birds....this was none of those possibilities.
It lasted for over five minutes, maybe ten and then as I crept around to different windows to look out to see if I could locate the source, the noise just suddenly faded away. Didn't see anything with nigh vision. TOTALLY WEIRD!! Oh...and none of our motion lights were activated?!?
Perhaps.....little green men?
To me is sounded like a kind of electronic "fuzz" with voice like modulation, just barely audible and slowly moving from right to left in front of our cabin. My DW thought it sounded like some form of water going down a drain, but....not water going down a drain.....? It wasn't like anything either of us have ever heard before. The closest thing to something I've heard before was like the electric buzz around high tension power lines when you have a heavy heavy fog....however, we didn't have either of those in our area, no high tension power lines in our immediate area, nor was there any fog last night or this morning. The air is actually pretty dry at the moment as we have Santa Ana Winds coming out of the desert......usually dry & hot.
We live on the lee side a mountain ridge at approximately 5,600 feet surrounded by National Forest in Southern California. We have all the usual wild critters you'd expect here. We've seen Bobcat's, Coyote's, Fox, Raccoon's, Coyo-dogs/wolf and our neighbors have seen Mountain Lion and Bear in our immediate area as well as a fair amount of birds....this was none of those possibilities.
It lasted for over five minutes, maybe ten and then as I crept around to different windows to look out to see if I could locate the source, the noise just suddenly faded away. Didn't see anything with nigh vision. TOTALLY WEIRD!! Oh...and none of our motion lights were activated?!?
Perhaps.....little green men?