I just wanted to relate something that happened on Saturday evening and see whether anybody had any idea what the cause was.
I'm certain it's nothing supernatural or unearthly, I'm just intrigued as to what it is, anyway, here's what happened.
I live in rural Suffolk (in the UK) in a quiet location , although there are other houses in the area, we only have one set of neighbours. We have a large garden surrounded by open farmland, so it's pretty quiet and secluded.
Now on Saturday evening I went outside to feed our cat. The cat lives outside in a large wooden outbuilding (it's like a really big wooden shed, but with properly insulated walls, roof and floor, quite nice really).
The shed is about 25-30 feet away from the back door of the house, towards one corner of the garden. This corner of the garden houses a large woodpile, the boundary being made of hawthorn trees, a plum tree and some blackberry bushes in a hedge.
On the other side of the hedge are two fields, one partially made up of corn and grasses. The other field made up of tall grasses, no crops.
It was about 8.30-8.45pm, so it had just gotten dark. I began to walk towards the shed when the cat appeared out of the darkness and trotted upto me. I stopped to stroke him, then began to walk to the shed again.
Suddenly, I heard a very loud hissing noise, I assumed the cat had seen something and was hissing, I then heard the cat purring, I thought that's odd but carried on.
I then heard it again, it seemed to be coming from the hedge, it was very loud, the point it was coming from was about 20 feet away and I could hear it clearly.
I stopped and listened, it hissed again, then about 3-4 seconds later it hissed again.
I was quite intrigued and shone the torch on the spot it was coming from (there is no lighting at all apart from a small outside light on the house, so it's pretty bloody dark) I couldn't see anything at all.
Now the hissing sounded very strange, it was very loud and it certainly wasn't a cat. It sounded almost like a throaty hiss, like a giant snake would make I imagine.
I carried on listening, the hissing carried on about every 4-5 seconds. I decided to throw a stone at the hedge to see what would happen. The stone hit the hedge but the noise continued, Odd, I thought.
After a few minutes, I heard something moving in the hedge and the corn, the hissing then began to move away, although it kept repeating every 5 seconds or so.
It carried on moving across the field until it had reached a barn about 200 feet away. I could still hear it clearly even at that distance, after another 5-10 minutes it began to move back.
I waited until it got a bit closer then threw about 5-6 large stones at the noise which did absolutely nothing, it just carried on.
I called my wife to listen to it too, she also had no idea what it was, she said it sounded too wierd and retreated back to the house.
I stayed for another minute or two then decided I wasn't going to find out what it was and went back into the house.
I popped out later on and I heard it hiss once again.
Has anybody any idea what this was?
Our garden is beginning to get a little wierd and I'd like an explanation, I've given up on trying to explain the pair of glowing eyes that I saw in the field last year, although I put that down to light reflected from a deer's eyes.
Anyway, any ideas?
I'm certain it's nothing supernatural or unearthly, I'm just intrigued as to what it is, anyway, here's what happened.
I live in rural Suffolk (in the UK) in a quiet location , although there are other houses in the area, we only have one set of neighbours. We have a large garden surrounded by open farmland, so it's pretty quiet and secluded.
Now on Saturday evening I went outside to feed our cat. The cat lives outside in a large wooden outbuilding (it's like a really big wooden shed, but with properly insulated walls, roof and floor, quite nice really).
The shed is about 25-30 feet away from the back door of the house, towards one corner of the garden. This corner of the garden houses a large woodpile, the boundary being made of hawthorn trees, a plum tree and some blackberry bushes in a hedge.
On the other side of the hedge are two fields, one partially made up of corn and grasses. The other field made up of tall grasses, no crops.
It was about 8.30-8.45pm, so it had just gotten dark. I began to walk towards the shed when the cat appeared out of the darkness and trotted upto me. I stopped to stroke him, then began to walk to the shed again.
Suddenly, I heard a very loud hissing noise, I assumed the cat had seen something and was hissing, I then heard the cat purring, I thought that's odd but carried on.
I then heard it again, it seemed to be coming from the hedge, it was very loud, the point it was coming from was about 20 feet away and I could hear it clearly.
I stopped and listened, it hissed again, then about 3-4 seconds later it hissed again.
I was quite intrigued and shone the torch on the spot it was coming from (there is no lighting at all apart from a small outside light on the house, so it's pretty bloody dark) I couldn't see anything at all.
Now the hissing sounded very strange, it was very loud and it certainly wasn't a cat. It sounded almost like a throaty hiss, like a giant snake would make I imagine.
I carried on listening, the hissing carried on about every 4-5 seconds. I decided to throw a stone at the hedge to see what would happen. The stone hit the hedge but the noise continued, Odd, I thought.
After a few minutes, I heard something moving in the hedge and the corn, the hissing then began to move away, although it kept repeating every 5 seconds or so.
It carried on moving across the field until it had reached a barn about 200 feet away. I could still hear it clearly even at that distance, after another 5-10 minutes it began to move back.
I waited until it got a bit closer then threw about 5-6 large stones at the noise which did absolutely nothing, it just carried on.
I called my wife to listen to it too, she also had no idea what it was, she said it sounded too wierd and retreated back to the house.
I stayed for another minute or two then decided I wasn't going to find out what it was and went back into the house.
I popped out later on and I heard it hiss once again.
Has anybody any idea what this was?
Our garden is beginning to get a little wierd and I'd like an explanation, I've given up on trying to explain the pair of glowing eyes that I saw in the field last year, although I put that down to light reflected from a deer's eyes.
Anyway, any ideas?