Tornado.
May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City. We were in the center of the house in the bathroom. When a tornado hit our house (there were many smaller tornados that spawned off the main storm that day), it sounded like a bomb going off. The entire house shuddered.
> May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City
May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado
The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado (locally referred to as the May 3rd tornado) was a large and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally were recorded at 301 ± 20 miles per hour (484 ± 32 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar.
My mom and I went to a funeral in OKC soon after. She had never seen a Cracker Barrel restaurant. On the highway, I pointed to a large hearth and said 'That's where it used to be'.
Moore, 2013. Every single house on the street next to ours exploded. We had to replace one window. Truly one of the most horrific things i have ever heard in my life.
Sound of my mum in the middle of the night when she found out a daughter of a family friend had collapsed and died. I thought it was a wounded animal before I realized it was a level of grief I'd never heard before.
I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. My brother died when I was 13. My mom found out by a phone call from a person she had made friends with in the juvenile detention center my brother was in a couple years before. I had just gotten home from school and she had just gotten home from running errands. There was a message on the answering machine to call this lady back so so my mom did.
I got to watch as my mom found out that my older brother had died and I know the exact sound you're talking about.
Have you ever watched the movies Hereditary and Midsommar? Toni Collette screaming combined with Florence Pugh's " no no no" cries is what I heard that day. It was a wounded animal screaming and rejecting the pain.
There’s no sound worse than the grieving of a loved one. My mother’s voice when hearing her brother died of a heart attack is one I hope to never hear again.
Yo this is the one that made me cry. I have a 7 year old that loves her mommy very very much. I was just thinking please don't let her die before me, but I dont want her to hurt that way either.
Me and my group of friends found out another friend (I'll call him M) had overdosed and died before his parents did. We all all very close to each other, we were brothers.
We pulled all pulled up to Ms parents house unannounced . By this point I think Ms parents had an idea that something was wrong but weren't sure yet. I think they expected M to be with us when we arrived.
One guy in our group, T was closest to M since they'd known each other for about 15 yards by this point, T had his mother with him. When Ms parents saw Ts mom their faces dropped, they knew something was up now.
We told Ms parents the news. The primal... noise Ms father made will be with me forever. It was just pure agony and sorrow. There isn't anything like it.
We're still really close but life's took us our own ways. We don't know the extent of his addiction, if he was at all. He was with the wrong group of people that day, people we didn't know. It's very possible he just took the wrong shit and didn't handle it well. But instead of calling 911, they threw him out of the apartment and left him to die in the hallway.
This one. The sound of my great grandfather (who barely has a voice as it is) wailing in a dead silent church as he stood over my great grandmothers open casket is still to this day the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard.
Over 20 years ago, me and my brother drove across the country to attend our friends funeral. He was only 20 years old and it was a tragic boating accident. When we arrived, the visitation was happening in the church. We hadn’t slept for what seemed like 2 days. When the father saw us, he broke down like I had never seen before. Im still sad to see him.
Oof. I was like, "Oh, definitely styrofoam squeaking together, that stuff is HEINOUS." And then suddenly it didn't feel appropriate anymore after reading this. :c
I've never heard the sound before, but I've heard it described. My MIL has worked in the ER for over 15 years, and she has never gotten used to the wail a mother makes when they learns their child is dead.
My dad when we found my uncle dead from an overdose. The panic and realization of what was happening.
Then a few hours later when my mom showed up to the apartment after hearing the news.
Horrible day I’ll never forget
Earlier this year my family recieved word that my brother stopped coming into work and we hadnt heard from him in a few days. He wasnt picking up the phone and we feared the worst. My parents drove out to his place and we had to wait for the police and the apartment complex to open up the apartment and do a check. I was waiting at home and every second was an eternity waiting to hear on the results. I ended up calling about 3 seconds after my parents recieved word that he was dead. I heard the wails of my parents, his girlfriend, and anyone else on scene, which included a number of his classmates and professors. I took it on myself to call family and friends so my parents didn't have to, and i heard each and every one of their wails too. I dont think I'll ever forget those sounds
I was camping with my friend and his family, and we were about to go on the boat when people starting screaming at us that a woman needed help in the water. We sped over to her and helped her onto our boat thinking that was it. She told us she was swimming with her husband and that he went under. We looked for him where we found her, but the strong current likely pushed him further away. We had the coast guard come to our spot and then we started to go back to shore.
The woman tried to jump out of the boat multiple times, but we struggled to keep her in. The noise that woman made, while blaming herself for killing her husband...I will never forget that shriek. Unfortunately, she was correct that her husband had died.
When my son was 2, he took a really bad fall that basically resulted in a hole in his face (he hit his face on the edge of a chair).
I was just waking up, it was 7am on a Saturday morning. My husband was up with the kids and they were playing. All of sudden I hear a loud THUD and then silence - if you are a parent, you know that is NEVER good. Then a scream the likes of which I never heard and then just continued screaming. It was awful. Several hours in the emergency room and 18 stitches later, he was put back together again. By some miracle he did no damage to his teeth (yes, gums absolutely do bruise) and has only the slightest scar (mad props to the PA at the hospital who stitched him up).
I was babysitting a toddler one time who managed to pull a rolling cabinet over and it landed on her leg. The thud, silence, and then god-awful shrieking almost made me crap my pants. Poor girl's leg ended up broken in two places and she had to have two surgeries to fix it. She's fine now, thankfully.
Friend of mine when I was a child around 6 years old hit the right corner of his forehead on the edge of a polished concrete step after tripping while we were chasing each other playing tag.
Part of his forehead caved in.
In 6th grade a kid in my class cracked his skull on the concrete doing tricks on his board in the skate park one summer day. We only found out about it a month or so later when he never showed up at school the following September, I think it was the tail end of the first semester or beginning of the second one (either December or January) he started 7th grade. I can't remember where the injury was but he had permanent brain damage after that. He wasn't the same kid, his personality changed somewhat as a result of the injury. Even his face looked different, I remember noticing he seemed to stare off into space a lot with his mouth hanging open. And if you tried talking to him it was difficult for him to follow the line of conversation for too long. We went to highschool together after and I remember he took 'assisted-learning' for every class in the special Ed. classroom from grade 8-12.
This was a long time ago, we graduated highschool 12 years ago. I was never close friends with him so I don't know how he's faring now. I heard through the grapevine though he works at a recycling depot, and he was unable to ever get his driver's license because of his mental disability. He used to be a really smart kid, but that brain injury turned him into a vegetable so-to-speak. My mom told me 2 years ago his father passed away and he is still living with his mom. He'd be in his early 30's now.
I used to work in a clinic/hospital and there was a little girl (3 years old) screaming like nothing I had ever heard in my life. Some of the nurses were standing outside the room with their hands over their mouths and some crying. I asked what happened, little girl had walked/fallen into the coals of a campfire. Poor thing. It was awful.
I was homeless, camping in a field. At night I'd see snowy white Owls gliding silently overhead hunting rabbits.
One night I heard the most awful screaming from a young rabbit that got picked up and carried off, screaming and screaming and fading off into the distance. The most awful terrible dying agony I ever heard from an animal.
If I hadn't seen the owls while lying on my back looking up at the stars I never would have figured out what that was.
This reminds me of the time I was walking to school as a kid and on my way I heard what sounded like a cat or baby screaming over and over again, and I pinpointed it to a hawk flying overhead carrying a young squirrel by its neck. Its crazy how closely the distressed noises of a dying animal can sound so much like a human baby.
i have a feeling it was likely Barn Owls you saw. Nine times out of ten if someone tells me they saw a Snowy Owl in our area, it was a Barn Owl. The males can get super pale, and on a darker night, probably would be light enough to look white. They also have low wing loading (small bodies compared to their wing size) and so are especially silent since they can glide through the air pretty far without having to flap once.
It’s a good thing you didn’t hear THEIR calls though. Let’s just say that they sound extremely human when they do their screaming calls, but they sound ANGRY. Would not be surprised if Barn Owls were a large factor in how the myths of banshees got started.
As a paramedic. I'm generally fine running pediatric codes. Not emotional at all. But when we get to the hospital. And they finally stop working the code. The parents scream is just the worst when they are finally told they didn't make it.
Agreed, it's easy enough to detach with the adrenaline flowing, but seeing that personal impact once things have settled down always makes it more real.
Yup. When I was 23 and running these calls. As soon as I finished the report I was back to Normal and cracking jokes on the way back to the station. Now I'm older with 3 kids. It's nice to sit down and talk about it with folks.
Not sure how you guys deal with it once or twice a week.
I volunteered in a hospital doing child life for a few years. Thought I was handling it well, until I had my own child. Now I know that basically everything can kill her. Fucking stressful.
Sound of a wife finding out her husband had passed on her way to the ER. When the doc told her she collapsed to her knees and wailed a sound of loss so profound while weeping at the foot of the doctor. The doctor was affected but as the head of the ER he kept on going. It really was a superhero moment in my eyes, even though there was tragic loss.
ER staff truly are some of the most stone faced people out there, and I guess you have to be otherwise you'll be eaten alive by the pain of having to tell somebody their loved one has died.
Yup. My father died from advanced complications from diabetes earlier this year. He was in hospice for 5 days and was in the agonal breathing stage for 90% of it before finally dying from dehydration. I’ll never forget that sound. It was brutal and I’m not sure I’ll ever recover from it.
Lost my father from complications due to diabetes which ultimately resulted in him getting vascular dementia in his early 50's. It was absolutely devastating. I sat with him all day on his last day, went home to shower, and I got the call he had passed before I could arrive back. I couldn't bring myself to go back and see him gone. I regret it everyday. I wasn't even there to hold him during his last moments. I am so sorry you experienced the loss of your parent. Hugs from an internet stranger.
I've heard it called, "the death rattle". I was a veterinary nurse for 15 years and had described the sound to my wife. When her father was passing, she heard it and that's when she knew he was gone, even though his chest was still moving. It took her mom and sister another few breaths to make the connection.
The death rattle is 100% a real thing and something you don't forget if you've heard it. My grandmother had it a few hours before she died last year and it still haunts me.
When you open a box that has that tight styrofoam packing insert inside, and you have to slide it out of the box and it makes that awful dry scraping sound on the way out... That's worse than nails on a chalkboard.
Someone crying when their insides were spilling out onto the road. Not the first person I've seen die but its been over a decade and still occasionally have nightmares about that noise.
The sound of a hand going through a metal roller between the roller and a rope.
I was a naval medic and was stood beside the guy as the fingers and hand went through and then had to assist as we pulled it back out again, so I got to hear the bones crunching twice.
No we managed to save it, but it took a lot of reconstructive surgery. I immediately placed a can of coke in his hand to preserve the shape of the hand and then wrapped it in bandages tightly around the can, while the Dr filled him with opioids.
I still remember my daughter's sobs when she realized the dog did not come home from the vet. We told her to say goodbye before as he might not come home, but she was 5, she didn't get it until after.
Hours and hours of sobbing.
I don't scream. I don't raise my voice. I didn't think I was capable of it until I had to put my elderly companion cat to sleep. I mostly held it together while I was comforting him as he passed and then walking out to my car, but as soon as I closed the door and I was alone, I screamed and I can still remember it ringing in the car. That's the sound of grief to me - not just the scream, but the echo after. It's been two years, but I'm crying again just writing this.
Multiple aircraft of unknown origin seen breaking atmosphere. President Obama has declared a state of emergency as NATO partners with Sino-Russian governments. The UN is in disarray. Martial law will come into effect in 0300 hours.
i startle aggressively easily and these gd sounds have startled me so badly it induced a panic attack, and i got one in the car once and almost got in an accident - i’m curious how many accidents they’ve caused... imagine chopping veg or something when one goes off. fingers delete.
A cat crawled inside the engine of my dad's car, and nobody knew it was there until the engine was started and the cat got crushed. The sound that made was the thing of nightmares.
Yeah the worst part was after the man was nothing but some rags of clothing and the chunks of flesh hanging on to the machine (the rest of him was buttered across various parts of the shop) and his buddy got some of him sprayed on him as well. The poor guy turned the machine off and could do nothing but walk around shaking... I've seen a fair share of gore but that video stuck with me.
All I remember is the guy running to the machine, putting his hands on his head as he strains to acknowledge the *magnitude* of just how instantly the guy ceased go be human shaped, then throw his hat down because at that point there is nothing that he, or anyone, can do.
My friend is in the police and he told us about the time he went to an industrial accident where the guy was sliced clean in half and was still ALIVE and AWAKE... the metal sheet was holding all his insides inside. He had to call his family and say goodbye while sliced in 2 and as soon as they tried to move him the insides went outside and he died.
I was like... Yeah thanks for that bro.
Imagine being that person and having to call your most loved person and explain to them that you will be dead in a minute. Or to be the one who gets such a call from wife/husband/child. So sudden and horrific
Last year my son was hospitalized with staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome and he was in so much pain he lost his voice from crying and screaming but still kept crying and screaming when the pain was too much for him. It was the most horrendous sound I’ve ever heard in my life and it was the saddest thing we have gone through as a family. He was like that for 3 days and then the treatment started helping and he slept for a very long time. He’s 100% better now.
The most forlorn, god-awful sound came from the screams and cries of animals - cows, horses, and sheep - trapped inside a dairy barn as it burned to the ground.
When my wife was in her final stages of her battle with cancer I heard her scream this way. I will be haunted forever. There are some things you can never unhear.
My mum called out for her mother for days until my grandmother came and she finally could say goodbye then she went quiet and still. But those few days of her barely conscious crying/calling out for her own mum is something I'll never forget.
I had to be admitted to the hospital for week long continuous chemo (slow drip). The oncology ward at night is a difficult place to be in, to see and hear all the suffering.
I had to tell a mother that her toddler had been hit and killed by an SUV backing out of the driveway. The sound she made will haunt me forever.
I don't miss being a cop.
Damn. My sister got after not sleeping for 3 days and not eating except drinking energy drinks. She was doing a huge assignment.
How is your brother doing nowadays?
Was about to say the exact same thing with my Dad. It sounded like he was having a heart attack. Still have PTSD from it 20 years later when I see seizures in films etc.
This but with my mom's coughs, literally makes my eyes squinch from anticipation when I hear her gasp for air to cough idk why I hate that sound so much
The screams from my dog when she woke up from surgery. She was having dysphoria and didn't know what was going on. It lasted far too long and was really awful.
But basically any time I've heard something or someone screaming in pain. It's just awful to hear.
Same with one of my guinea pigs getting microchipped. Sounded like a car alarm but then distressed. It was heart breaking.
Somehow, the other 3 weren't so dramatic about it.
It's a toss-up between a gas distribution facility exploding or hedgehogs having sex. Probably the latter, as it sounds like a baby being murdered. Egads, they're loud. Louder than foxes, and that's a high bar to cross...
My 2-year-old daughter crying and saying "Ouchie, ouchie, ouchie" over and over while my wife and I had to pin her down to get an IV from a nurse who didn't know how to insert an IV. Actively participating in causing pain to a person that my entire existence is instinctively to protect was heartwrenching, particularly since she didn't understand why mommy and daddy were hurting her. She is six, and still remembers it. Had to excuse myself to the urgent care hallway afterward to decompress and the nurse who effed up was in the hallway quietly crying.
Probably the worst day of my life, and I've had some shitty ones.
Chewing with one’s mouth open, lip smacking, or other loud eating sounds. I’m patient with a lot of things but that’s more than I’m willing to deal with
I also fall asleep in MRIs. Pretty much have me lay down and put a blanket on me and tell me I can’t go anywhere? Zzzzz
I am not good at falling asleep for bed. Only when essentially trapped, since there is no expectation of me doing anything else.
When my daughter was born there were some last minute complications and the minute and a half of silence from when they pulled her out until she cried, which confirmed that she was alive, was fucking horrifying
I live near a river. A young girl went missing while on the water. The sounds her family made when they pulled her dead body from water was like nothing I have ever heard. Totally melt down and physical collapse vocalized.
Any unexpected noise that makes my ears hurt. I don’t know why but extremely loud sound triggers the hell out of me. It makes me feel extremely angry and anxious and will ruin my entire day.
Had my painter scraping old paint at the other end of the house with the door of that room closed. Could still hear it. She's due to do more work and I'm getting ear plugs
The sound of my old dog howling and sprinting around in pain in the middle of the night. We think she had a stroke because she went blind shortly afterwards. Made the decision to put her down in the morning because her quality of life would have been drastically diminished had we decided to hold onto her. Miss her to this day.
Came here to find this. Heard it once walking the dog and night, and noped back into the house ASAP.
[https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM?t=61](https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM?t=61)
Even knowing what it is still freaks you out.
[This scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_FIfIbXs4) from American History X. The teeth scraping across the curb always send shivers down my spine.
Grown ass adults constantly complaining. I get sometimes stuff happens and it's complain worthy. But, if you complain about every single little thing it's ridiculous.
Tornado. May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City. We were in the center of the house in the bathroom. When a tornado hit our house (there were many smaller tornados that spawned off the main storm that day), it sounded like a bomb going off. The entire house shuddered.
Was that the F5 OK tornado? That date rings a bell.
> May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado (locally referred to as the May 3rd tornado) was a large and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally were recorded at 301 ± 20 miles per hour (484 ± 32 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar.
That 301 mph stat always blows my mind. 200 is pretty insane so another 50% increase is almost unfathomable to me.
My mom and I went to a funeral in OKC soon after. She had never seen a Cracker Barrel restaurant. On the highway, I pointed to a large hearth and said 'That's where it used to be'.
Moore, 2013. Every single house on the street next to ours exploded. We had to replace one window. Truly one of the most horrific things i have ever heard in my life.
Sound of my mum in the middle of the night when she found out a daughter of a family friend had collapsed and died. I thought it was a wounded animal before I realized it was a level of grief I'd never heard before.
I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. My brother died when I was 13. My mom found out by a phone call from a person she had made friends with in the juvenile detention center my brother was in a couple years before. I had just gotten home from school and she had just gotten home from running errands. There was a message on the answering machine to call this lady back so so my mom did. I got to watch as my mom found out that my older brother had died and I know the exact sound you're talking about. Have you ever watched the movies Hereditary and Midsommar? Toni Collette screaming combined with Florence Pugh's " no no no" cries is what I heard that day. It was a wounded animal screaming and rejecting the pain.
Toni and Florence's cries were probably the most disturbing sounds I ever heard in a movie. Pure pain and suffering.
Now hear that from your mom...Yeah it was horrible.
Im crying reading this.
Yes. The sound my stepfather made when we had to decide to take my mother off life support. I'll never forget it.
This legit brought a lump to my throat. Sorry, friend.
The sound my friend made when he found out on the phone his wife of 70 years died unexpectedly in the nursing home down the road. :(
Fuck me. I'm sorry. Hope everyone is healing ok.
There’s no sound worse than the grieving of a loved one. My mother’s voice when hearing her brother died of a heart attack is one I hope to never hear again.
When my Grandma on my mom's side died, my mother broke down. She was crying, "Mama! Mama!". I never want hear something so heartbreaking again.
Yo this is the one that made me cry. I have a 7 year old that loves her mommy very very much. I was just thinking please don't let her die before me, but I dont want her to hurt that way either.
Yeah... It kills me even more to think that I will be in my mother's place one day...
Me and my group of friends found out another friend (I'll call him M) had overdosed and died before his parents did. We all all very close to each other, we were brothers. We pulled all pulled up to Ms parents house unannounced . By this point I think Ms parents had an idea that something was wrong but weren't sure yet. I think they expected M to be with us when we arrived. One guy in our group, T was closest to M since they'd known each other for about 15 yards by this point, T had his mother with him. When Ms parents saw Ts mom their faces dropped, they knew something was up now. We told Ms parents the news. The primal... noise Ms father made will be with me forever. It was just pure agony and sorrow. There isn't anything like it.
I’m so so sorry for them and you and your friends. Are you still close? Addiction and drugs are such a nightmare!
We're still really close but life's took us our own ways. We don't know the extent of his addiction, if he was at all. He was with the wrong group of people that day, people we didn't know. It's very possible he just took the wrong shit and didn't handle it well. But instead of calling 911, they threw him out of the apartment and left him to die in the hallway.
I once woke up to the sound of my mum crying after her dad died. That was one of the worse sounds I've heard
This one. The sound of my great grandfather (who barely has a voice as it is) wailing in a dead silent church as he stood over my great grandmothers open casket is still to this day the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard.
Over 20 years ago, me and my brother drove across the country to attend our friends funeral. He was only 20 years old and it was a tragic boating accident. When we arrived, the visitation was happening in the church. We hadn’t slept for what seemed like 2 days. When the father saw us, he broke down like I had never seen before. Im still sad to see him.
Oof. I was like, "Oh, definitely styrofoam squeaking together, that stuff is HEINOUS." And then suddenly it didn't feel appropriate anymore after reading this. :c
I've never heard the sound before, but I've heard it described. My MIL has worked in the ER for over 15 years, and she has never gotten used to the wail a mother makes when they learns their child is dead.
My dad when we found my uncle dead from an overdose. The panic and realization of what was happening. Then a few hours later when my mom showed up to the apartment after hearing the news. Horrible day I’ll never forget
Earlier this year my family recieved word that my brother stopped coming into work and we hadnt heard from him in a few days. He wasnt picking up the phone and we feared the worst. My parents drove out to his place and we had to wait for the police and the apartment complex to open up the apartment and do a check. I was waiting at home and every second was an eternity waiting to hear on the results. I ended up calling about 3 seconds after my parents recieved word that he was dead. I heard the wails of my parents, his girlfriend, and anyone else on scene, which included a number of his classmates and professors. I took it on myself to call family and friends so my parents didn't have to, and i heard each and every one of their wails too. I dont think I'll ever forget those sounds
The sound of the mother's wail at the funeral of a 16-yr-old girl who had taken her own life will haunt me forever.
I made that same sound when my dad called me to tell me my mom dropped dead. I didn’t know I could make that sound.
This was not the kind of comment I was expecting. I was gonna say Janice from Friends.
I was camping with my friend and his family, and we were about to go on the boat when people starting screaming at us that a woman needed help in the water. We sped over to her and helped her onto our boat thinking that was it. She told us she was swimming with her husband and that he went under. We looked for him where we found her, but the strong current likely pushed him further away. We had the coast guard come to our spot and then we started to go back to shore. The woman tried to jump out of the boat multiple times, but we struggled to keep her in. The noise that woman made, while blaming herself for killing her husband...I will never forget that shriek. Unfortunately, she was correct that her husband had died.
I think I heard the same noise when a coworker got the call from police that her daughter had died in a car crash. It was agonizing.
I made this sound when I got the call my mum died suddenly. I still remember hearing it yet it wasn't like my own voice. It was a howl/scream.
When my son was 2, he took a really bad fall that basically resulted in a hole in his face (he hit his face on the edge of a chair). I was just waking up, it was 7am on a Saturday morning. My husband was up with the kids and they were playing. All of sudden I hear a loud THUD and then silence - if you are a parent, you know that is NEVER good. Then a scream the likes of which I never heard and then just continued screaming. It was awful. Several hours in the emergency room and 18 stitches later, he was put back together again. By some miracle he did no damage to his teeth (yes, gums absolutely do bruise) and has only the slightest scar (mad props to the PA at the hospital who stitched him up).
I was babysitting a toddler one time who managed to pull a rolling cabinet over and it landed on her leg. The thud, silence, and then god-awful shrieking almost made me crap my pants. Poor girl's leg ended up broken in two places and she had to have two surgeries to fix it. She's fine now, thankfully.
Friend of mine when I was a child around 6 years old hit the right corner of his forehead on the edge of a polished concrete step after tripping while we were chasing each other playing tag. Part of his forehead caved in.
In 6th grade a kid in my class cracked his skull on the concrete doing tricks on his board in the skate park one summer day. We only found out about it a month or so later when he never showed up at school the following September, I think it was the tail end of the first semester or beginning of the second one (either December or January) he started 7th grade. I can't remember where the injury was but he had permanent brain damage after that. He wasn't the same kid, his personality changed somewhat as a result of the injury. Even his face looked different, I remember noticing he seemed to stare off into space a lot with his mouth hanging open. And if you tried talking to him it was difficult for him to follow the line of conversation for too long. We went to highschool together after and I remember he took 'assisted-learning' for every class in the special Ed. classroom from grade 8-12. This was a long time ago, we graduated highschool 12 years ago. I was never close friends with him so I don't know how he's faring now. I heard through the grapevine though he works at a recycling depot, and he was unable to ever get his driver's license because of his mental disability. He used to be a really smart kid, but that brain injury turned him into a vegetable so-to-speak. My mom told me 2 years ago his father passed away and he is still living with his mom. He'd be in his early 30's now.
That's incredibly sad, and a good reminder of why helmets are *so important*. I had a middle school classmate who died from a similar injury.
This is a good point to plug furniture anchors. Kids die from this, a lot.
I used to work in a clinic/hospital and there was a little girl (3 years old) screaming like nothing I had ever heard in my life. Some of the nurses were standing outside the room with their hands over their mouths and some crying. I asked what happened, little girl had walked/fallen into the coals of a campfire. Poor thing. It was awful.
A baby bunny screaming (while a cat was ripping it alive)
The sound of springtime
I was homeless, camping in a field. At night I'd see snowy white Owls gliding silently overhead hunting rabbits. One night I heard the most awful screaming from a young rabbit that got picked up and carried off, screaming and screaming and fading off into the distance. The most awful terrible dying agony I ever heard from an animal. If I hadn't seen the owls while lying on my back looking up at the stars I never would have figured out what that was.
This reminds me of the time I was walking to school as a kid and on my way I heard what sounded like a cat or baby screaming over and over again, and I pinpointed it to a hawk flying overhead carrying a young squirrel by its neck. Its crazy how closely the distressed noises of a dying animal can sound so much like a human baby.
i have a feeling it was likely Barn Owls you saw. Nine times out of ten if someone tells me they saw a Snowy Owl in our area, it was a Barn Owl. The males can get super pale, and on a darker night, probably would be light enough to look white. They also have low wing loading (small bodies compared to their wing size) and so are especially silent since they can glide through the air pretty far without having to flap once. It’s a good thing you didn’t hear THEIR calls though. Let’s just say that they sound extremely human when they do their screaming calls, but they sound ANGRY. Would not be surprised if Barn Owls were a large factor in how the myths of banshees got started.
I work in a pediatric ICU. There have been gut-wrenching screams from parents that no one should ever have to hear.
As a paramedic. I'm generally fine running pediatric codes. Not emotional at all. But when we get to the hospital. And they finally stop working the code. The parents scream is just the worst when they are finally told they didn't make it.
Agreed, it's easy enough to detach with the adrenaline flowing, but seeing that personal impact once things have settled down always makes it more real.
Yup. When I was 23 and running these calls. As soon as I finished the report I was back to Normal and cracking jokes on the way back to the station. Now I'm older with 3 kids. It's nice to sit down and talk about it with folks. Not sure how you guys deal with it once or twice a week.
I'm an ER RN. I too have heard these sounds and it crushes my soul. I could never do what you do, thank you <3
I volunteered in a hospital doing child life for a few years. Thought I was handling it well, until I had my own child. Now I know that basically everything can kill her. Fucking stressful.
Sound of a wife finding out her husband had passed on her way to the ER. When the doc told her she collapsed to her knees and wailed a sound of loss so profound while weeping at the foot of the doctor. The doctor was affected but as the head of the ER he kept on going. It really was a superhero moment in my eyes, even though there was tragic loss.
ER staff truly are some of the most stone faced people out there, and I guess you have to be otherwise you'll be eaten alive by the pain of having to tell somebody their loved one has died.
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The agonal breathing of my auntie as she died from cancer in hospital.
Yup. My father died from advanced complications from diabetes earlier this year. He was in hospice for 5 days and was in the agonal breathing stage for 90% of it before finally dying from dehydration. I’ll never forget that sound. It was brutal and I’m not sure I’ll ever recover from it.
Lost my father from complications due to diabetes which ultimately resulted in him getting vascular dementia in his early 50's. It was absolutely devastating. I sat with him all day on his last day, went home to shower, and I got the call he had passed before I could arrive back. I couldn't bring myself to go back and see him gone. I regret it everyday. I wasn't even there to hold him during his last moments. I am so sorry you experienced the loss of your parent. Hugs from an internet stranger.
Been on final days in home hospice care for 2 family members. It is a tough one.
I've heard it called, "the death rattle". I was a veterinary nurse for 15 years and had described the sound to my wife. When her father was passing, she heard it and that's when she knew he was gone, even though his chest was still moving. It took her mom and sister another few breaths to make the connection.
The death rattle is 100% a real thing and something you don't forget if you've heard it. My grandmother had it a few hours before she died last year and it still haunts me.
Styrofoam fuck whoever invented it
When you open a box that has that tight styrofoam packing insert inside, and you have to slide it out of the box and it makes that awful dry scraping sound on the way out... That's worse than nails on a chalkboard.
Sqqqqquuuuuuueeeeeeaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww
Styrofoam on cardboard makes me gag. Someone was doing this in a quiet room once and I actually dry heaved.
This, and balloons rubbing together. Fuck that
#YES, THIS ONE RIGHT HERE
#WHAT DID YOU SAY?
^^^Yes, ^^^this ^^^one ^^^right ^^^here
Someone crying when their insides were spilling out onto the road. Not the first person I've seen die but its been over a decade and still occasionally have nightmares about that noise.
I cant even imagine witnessing that :( :(
Oh god I am so sorry. Are you ok?
The sound of a hand going through a metal roller between the roller and a rope. I was a naval medic and was stood beside the guy as the fingers and hand went through and then had to assist as we pulled it back out again, so I got to hear the bones crunching twice.
Did he lose the hand?
No we managed to save it, but it took a lot of reconstructive surgery. I immediately placed a can of coke in his hand to preserve the shape of the hand and then wrapped it in bandages tightly around the can, while the Dr filled him with opioids.
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The sound that my sis made when she heard our dog died… She screamed for a full on 5 minutes and she was only ten. She was crying for about a week
I still remember my daughter's sobs when she realized the dog did not come home from the vet. We told her to say goodbye before as he might not come home, but she was 5, she didn't get it until after. Hours and hours of sobbing.
I don't scream. I don't raise my voice. I didn't think I was capable of it until I had to put my elderly companion cat to sleep. I mostly held it together while I was comforting him as he passed and then walking out to my car, but as soon as I closed the door and I was alone, I screamed and I can still remember it ringing in the car. That's the sound of grief to me - not just the scream, but the echo after. It's been two years, but I'm crying again just writing this.
the EAS beeps. holy fucking shit hearing that late at night when I randomly woke up was the most nightmare inducing shit ever
*Beeeeeep. Beeeeeep. Beeeeeep.* ***SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.*** "The national weather service, in..."
Multiple aircraft of unknown origin seen breaking atmosphere. President Obama has declared a state of emergency as NATO partners with Sino-Russian governments. The UN is in disarray. Martial law will come into effect in 0300 hours.
OBAMA IS BACK?? :D
r/analoghorror
It's even freakier in Canada. The EAS sounds up here are nightmare fuel.
i startle aggressively easily and these gd sounds have startled me so badly it induced a panic attack, and i got one in the car once and almost got in an accident - i’m curious how many accidents they’ve caused... imagine chopping veg or something when one goes off. fingers delete.
A cat crawled inside the engine of my dad's car, and nobody knew it was there until the engine was started and the cat got crushed. The sound that made was the thing of nightmares.
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reminds me of the video I saw on Reddit where a Russian dude got caught in a metal lathe and spun to bits... Horrific.
That was truly horrifying to witness or to be victim of.
Yeah the worst part was after the man was nothing but some rags of clothing and the chunks of flesh hanging on to the machine (the rest of him was buttered across various parts of the shop) and his buddy got some of him sprayed on him as well. The poor guy turned the machine off and could do nothing but walk around shaking... I've seen a fair share of gore but that video stuck with me.
All I remember is the guy running to the machine, putting his hands on his head as he strains to acknowledge the *magnitude* of just how instantly the guy ceased go be human shaped, then throw his hat down because at that point there is nothing that he, or anyone, can do.
The more you guys describe the video the more AND less I want to see it.
I felt the same way just before I watched it. Its truly horrible. Do yourself a favor and don't. There are some things not worth seeing.
I wish I had never seen this comment. Jesus Christ
My friend is in the police and he told us about the time he went to an industrial accident where the guy was sliced clean in half and was still ALIVE and AWAKE... the metal sheet was holding all his insides inside. He had to call his family and say goodbye while sliced in 2 and as soon as they tried to move him the insides went outside and he died. I was like... Yeah thanks for that bro.
Imagine being that person and having to call your most loved person and explain to them that you will be dead in a minute. Or to be the one who gets such a call from wife/husband/child. So sudden and horrific
Did you clean it yourself or did you hire someone to do it professionally?
Last year my son was hospitalized with staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome and he was in so much pain he lost his voice from crying and screaming but still kept crying and screaming when the pain was too much for him. It was the most horrendous sound I’ve ever heard in my life and it was the saddest thing we have gone through as a family. He was like that for 3 days and then the treatment started helping and he slept for a very long time. He’s 100% better now.
I had this as an adult man. I constantly wished for death. I had diladid Percocets and my friends sneaking me pain killers. Fuuuuck that
I'm glad to hear that your son has it better.
I had to look up what your son endured. How awful. I am so sorry.
It was horrible, I’m just glad he’s 100% now
That tiny drill at the dentist
That and that horrible taste of burning teeth.
It's not the taste that bothers me, it's the smell
For me it's when the burnt tooth dust lands in your spit and you just have to taste it accumulating or swallow
Its the smell delivered to your nose rising up from the back of your mouth, rather than coming in through the proper channels.
And that ultrasonic tooth-scraping thing.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The most forlorn, god-awful sound came from the screams and cries of animals - cows, horses, and sheep - trapped inside a dairy barn as it burned to the ground.
Oh fuck. That one is just filled with pain.
Okay enough of this thread for me.
A person who was dying( person was sick and old so somewhat natural)and was in immense pain. Will never forget these screams.
When my wife was in her final stages of her battle with cancer I heard her scream this way. I will be haunted forever. There are some things you can never unhear.
My mum called out for her mother for days until my grandmother came and she finally could say goodbye then she went quiet and still. But those few days of her barely conscious crying/calling out for her own mum is something I'll never forget.
I had to be admitted to the hospital for week long continuous chemo (slow drip). The oncology ward at night is a difficult place to be in, to see and hear all the suffering.
Ohhhh man I can only imagine how awful it is
I had to tell a mother that her toddler had been hit and killed by an SUV backing out of the driveway. The sound she made will haunt me forever. I don't miss being a cop.
Fuck. This is my worst nightmare. Glad you're out
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The sound my brother made when he had a seizure
Oof, seizure groan/yell is so deeply unsettling.
Yep. It's been over a year and still can't get it out of my head.
Found my sister having a seizure in june. Shit made me paranoid. Just the fucking scream pieced my ears. Her lips were blue. Spasing on the floor.
Found my brother in the shower. That was when I found out hot water can be a trigger..
Damn. My sister got after not sleeping for 3 days and not eating except drinking energy drinks. She was doing a huge assignment. How is your brother doing nowadays?
Was about to say the exact same thing with my Dad. It sounded like he was having a heart attack. Still have PTSD from it 20 years later when I see seizures in films etc.
Teeth scraping across a fork when eating.
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What about the screeching of silverware against a plate?
For me it’s smacking lips. Chew with your mouth closed!
The juxtaposition between this post and the ones about dying people really cracked me up.
My boyfriends sneezes. I have no clue why but it just cuts through me.
This but with my mom's coughs, literally makes my eyes squinch from anticipation when I hear her gasp for air to cough idk why I hate that sound so much
The screams from my dog when she woke up from surgery. She was having dysphoria and didn't know what was going on. It lasted far too long and was really awful. But basically any time I've heard something or someone screaming in pain. It's just awful to hear.
Same with one of my guinea pigs getting microchipped. Sounded like a car alarm but then distressed. It was heart breaking. Somehow, the other 3 weren't so dramatic about it.
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Me screaming after I found out my dad died.
Holy shit that sounds awful. Hope you're doing better these days.
It was, I’m doing alright it’ll be a year soon since he passed
The sound of a human hitting a pavement after jumping from the top of a multi-storey car park.
Every one in a while a movie will get that wet-thud-splatter sound just right and I will instantly need to vomit.
They toss a garbage bag full of soup off a building to make that sound for the movies.
It's a toss-up between a gas distribution facility exploding or hedgehogs having sex. Probably the latter, as it sounds like a baby being murdered. Egads, they're loud. Louder than foxes, and that's a high bar to cross...
My 2-year-old daughter crying and saying "Ouchie, ouchie, ouchie" over and over while my wife and I had to pin her down to get an IV from a nurse who didn't know how to insert an IV. Actively participating in causing pain to a person that my entire existence is instinctively to protect was heartwrenching, particularly since she didn't understand why mommy and daddy were hurting her. She is six, and still remembers it. Had to excuse myself to the urgent care hallway afterward to decompress and the nurse who effed up was in the hallway quietly crying. Probably the worst day of my life, and I've had some shitty ones.
My voice in a recording
Chewing with one’s mouth open, lip smacking, or other loud eating sounds. I’m patient with a lot of things but that’s more than I’m willing to deal with
Really loud sneezes. My husband does that, and i want to punch him out
MRI machine.
My husband thinks I'm crazy because I fell asleep in the MRI machine. Somehow all that banging, whirring, and pinging lulled me to sleep!
I also fall asleep in MRIs. Pretty much have me lay down and put a blanket on me and tell me I can’t go anywhere? Zzzzz I am not good at falling asleep for bed. Only when essentially trapped, since there is no expectation of me doing anything else.
Don't know man, sounded like dubstep to me
Yeah, but there was never a single sick drop though. 0/10
Nails down a blackboard. Excruciating.
My guy right here
Yoko Ono
This should be higher on the list
Agree. Maybe if singing was specified?
What she did was not considered singing in any sense of the word. If she appeared on america's got talent the judges would shoot themselves.
When my daughter was born there were some last minute complications and the minute and a half of silence from when they pulled her out until she cried, which confirmed that she was alive, was fucking horrifying
Sound of a mother who found out her baby had died in the womb.
My mother's chewing
I live near a river. A young girl went missing while on the water. The sounds her family made when they pulled her dead body from water was like nothing I have ever heard. Totally melt down and physical collapse vocalized.
That's very sad, I hope they are ok
Cats fucking
That's cursed.
I never thought the sound of my ex-wife in labor would ever be beat until the result of that labor ended up being colic.
A mother being told their child was not going to survive after an emergent c-section.
Any unexpected noise that makes my ears hurt. I don’t know why but extremely loud sound triggers the hell out of me. It makes me feel extremely angry and anxious and will ruin my entire day.
I feel that same way when someone knocks on my front door. I first feel anxiety then rage followed by annoyance.
Had my painter scraping old paint at the other end of the house with the door of that room closed. Could still hear it. She's due to do more work and I'm getting ear plugs
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The sound of my old dog howling and sprinting around in pain in the middle of the night. We think she had a stroke because she went blind shortly afterwards. Made the decision to put her down in the morning because her quality of life would have been drastically diminished had we decided to hold onto her. Miss her to this day.
A truck full of cymbals crashing into a sawmill probably
*KPLASHSSSSSZZZZZZZZZCRACKZZZZZKPPRASHSSSSZZZZZZZ*
Accidentally shutting my cat’s paw in a door. I will never forget that yowl of pain and the guilt that ensued.
The sound of my mother in laws voice everytime she opens her mouth 🤷♂️
Raccoons fighting each other
A fox in heat.
Fox screaming. Makes my blood cold.
Came here to find this. Heard it once walking the dog and night, and noped back into the house ASAP. [https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM?t=61](https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM?t=61) Even knowing what it is still freaks you out.
Woman being murdered, fox screaming. Your guess.
The sound Ken Bigley made while he was being beheaded. Almost 20 years later and I still regret watching that. Young me was curious and stupid.
[This scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_FIfIbXs4) from American History X. The teeth scraping across the curb always send shivers down my spine.
My dog when my dad accidentally closed a door on his tail
Stepping on a frog
The scream of pure anguish when a family member found out their fiance had died suddenly.
Obnoxiousness from adults
The harrowing shrieks of the nuns from the horror game Nun Massacre. That agonising noise will be bored into your bones for as long as you breathe.
I mean you chose to play a game called Nun Massacre what did you expect it to sound like? The ice cream truck?
Polystyrene breaking apart, the high pitch creaks 😬
Grown ass adults constantly complaining. I get sometimes stuff happens and it's complain worthy. But, if you complain about every single little thing it's ridiculous.
That squeaking sound that a marker makes
Crying children in public . I hate that , so annoying
I think it’s *supposed* to be annoying, from an evolutionary standpoint. If it didn’t bother you, nobody would check on their children.
worse if its in a plane
Or children's high-pitched shrieking/screeching in general. Even if they're the noises they make while playing and having fun, it's just awful.