gattino
Justified & Ancient
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Ok, this is insanely weird! I don't know whether it deserves a separate thread of its own...
Last evening I showed Tom, one of my repeat Airbnb guests, the video of the ghostly baby cry in the hotel room. He suggested it sounded a bit like a pheasant to him. As I've never encountered or heard a pheasant in my life, and he lives in the countryside this could be a disappointing explanation to the mystery. So when I went to bed last night I looked up videos on YouTube to find out what a pheasant 's call sounds like. Its nothing like it! I forgot to mention it to Tom this morning before he left.
Mentally rehearsing the conversation that never was I found myself quietly imitating to myself the pheasant call I'd found online as best I remembered it. Well...I've just looked out of the garden window ( where there has never been any bird bigger than a pigeon or magpie in all the decades I've lived here) and was startled to see what I assumed to be a large hawk or falcon on the lawn. Until I zoomed in and it started walking about . Is this....? It can't be!...can it?
What the hell has just happened?! Was his suggestion of a pheasant a precognitive/clairvoyant flash on his part.....or did i ...well...summon it by imagining its call? (the actual sound i was making couldn't have physically summoned it, surely, as even i deluded myself it was a good aproximation of the real thing, it was hours ago and too small a sound to conceivably penetrate brick walls and across fields!)
Last evening I showed Tom, one of my repeat Airbnb guests, the video of the ghostly baby cry in the hotel room. He suggested it sounded a bit like a pheasant to him. As I've never encountered or heard a pheasant in my life, and he lives in the countryside this could be a disappointing explanation to the mystery. So when I went to bed last night I looked up videos on YouTube to find out what a pheasant 's call sounds like. Its nothing like it! I forgot to mention it to Tom this morning before he left.
Mentally rehearsing the conversation that never was I found myself quietly imitating to myself the pheasant call I'd found online as best I remembered it. Well...I've just looked out of the garden window ( where there has never been any bird bigger than a pigeon or magpie in all the decades I've lived here) and was startled to see what I assumed to be a large hawk or falcon on the lawn. Until I zoomed in and it started walking about . Is this....? It can't be!...can it?
What the hell has just happened?! Was his suggestion of a pheasant a precognitive/clairvoyant flash on his part.....or did i ...well...summon it by imagining its call? (the actual sound i was making couldn't have physically summoned it, surely, as even i deluded myself it was a good aproximation of the real thing, it was hours ago and too small a sound to conceivably penetrate brick walls and across fields!)
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