Visitors

On Friday, my boyfriend and I jolted awake in the middle of the night to horrible unearthly chattering sounds just outside our window. It sounded like a small child frantically crying out in pain or something. It was weird. It was disorienting and terrifying. But I knew at once it must be the aliens, finally come to invade the earth, starting with our home.

However, as I started to legitimately wake up, #1) I remembered where I was and what kind of creatures lived around us and #2) I realized that there was nothing we had that the aliens could possibly want -- except for maybe our recent shipment of wine, but we'd already drank most of it by then, and don't you think the aliens would have found a far superior way of knowing that already?

"It's the coyotes," my boyfriend muttered before rolling over and throwing his pillow over his head.''

"Is someone murdering them?!" I shout-whispered at him.

"I don't think so." (Barely audible through the pillow.)

"Are they murdering someone?!"

"Maybe."

A while later, the chatter died down, and I was finally able to fall back asleep without thinking of the Discovery Channel-worthy animal attack which had probably taken place just outside my bedroom window.

Living in Oklahoma, I heard coyotes all the time, but I always heard them howling, never yelping to the point that they sounded like they were screaming like this. It was eerie.

I listened to several audio files and videos to see if I could find an example for you, and I think this video comes the closest. You cannot imagine how loud and weird this is going on right outside your window.