Night Crying

[cryptobotanica]

Hey all.

My current home has a very large and ancient stone feature tucked in to the crook of the ridge behind it... like a large rocky outcrop (actually my avatar shows the lower face of it nicely) but behind it, is a very large "drop" between the hillside and the rocky outcrop of perhaps 5 stories in height. I have not scouted the bottom of the hole yet, but will get around to it.

Local people have a few garbled tales of rooshooters throwing dead wives into it, these are confused though as they often feature (in the telling) aspects of the famous Chamberlain case (rust for blood , etc). Legend has it, a bloke that usedt o have this place took in a few foster kids and two of them ended up necking themselves on trees nearby. I have found and photographed a few old lenths of rops dangling from trees, but then, that's a little chicken and the egg isnt it?

Anyways... when we first moved in, I would often hear crying from that spot - maybe 8 minutes walk up the hill. It's a very private, unsealed road. The trees are very gnarled thanks to wind stress, the house itself is very old in the classic lutheran style of southern qld and the sheds are positively funky. Most visitors report a "spooky vibe" but based on the scenery, I'd think that too. Truth is, the house itself is one of the most psychically dull places I have ever lived in - more weird stuff in homes in Brisbane.

It was very much just...crying. Not a nightbird noise, which I am familiar with (my body clock runs a bout three hours late... I'm up listening much of the night), not trees creaking or branch friction as I know what that sounds like.

Not a panicked crying, not a painful crying... almost a... regretful crying. Coming from those rocks and further up the hill. I tried many different theories to make it sit better but really, it was just somthing crying up there.

After a week or two, it stopped. Haven't heard it since, and this was almost a year ago.

I have heard very similar sounds in a few out of the way spots, interestingly when it happens all the frogmouths and microbats stop moving around or making a sound, until it stops, then they come back to life. My good ol dog, despite being a bit of a sook is fairly ballsy and when this would go on, he'd get a very concerned "head tilting" expression... dog owners know the expression I mean. When it would stop, he would relax.

No houses up there, and noone can get up there without passing my place... no possibility of being humans on a night trip, or one of the neighbours... the nearest of them is over a k away, and ther eis 2km of road before you even get to our place.

Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this phenomenon?

[Dion]

Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this phenomenon?

I haven’t encountered it no,

If your story’s are correct and two children necked themselves I wouldn’t be surprised if they were still wandering around on this plane of existence. I know that if a person commits suicide they wander the earth plane until the time is right for them to pass over or perhaps a psychic impression was left by them. I also believe that when the anniversary of a death is near especially for those that have committed suicide their spirit becomes a little more close to the physical plane, that’s why people only see an apparition of a ghostly spirit once around the same time of the year.

Whatever the case your story sounds creepy.

[cryptobotanica]

Thanks for the reply Chewy, and the housekeeping too , hah.

Yeah it was a little disconcerting. Had a few looks up there since, no sign of anything much apart from being an inherently strange little corner of the world. A few tales from other people about the spot and the house but personally I find most of the place to be almost boring, as far as weird sensations go. Any odd happenings are more like echos, or impressions than active or conscious behaviour or intent ... if that makes any sense. Almost every other house I've ever lived in has had more going on.

Haven't heard it since but then, it's entirely too cold at the moment to go loitering around my back steps just on the offchance. Let you know in a couple of months when the bbq weather starts again . May rug up and have a listen sometime sooner.

On my last visit, I saw something black, more matte than glossy, and around 1 metre long or wide (about 800m away, looking down at a patch of fig-forest and regrowth from say 450m elevation) kind of flap and then crawl it's way around a hefty branch at the top of a very large fig tree. Had my dog with me, he's pretty casual about the local wildlife but he was VERY interested and kind of on guard, and 20 minutes later when we got going he was still looking back at the spot. Often goes nuts sniffing the track up that way too.

Looked like a large crow flapping it's wings at first,have a few beauties around here but it wasn't shiny enough (sun was bout 10 minutes off setting, clear skies, good visibility),after accounting for distance and angle it was just too big, it didn't make a sound or fly off, just sort of slinked/oozed it's way around the farside of the branch until it was out of sight. Smooth movements, not scrabbling or hopping. Whatever it was didn't have any pronounced limbs or features visible at that distance, just looked like a big black elongated sack moving around. The tree would be around the 20m mark, quite advanced and no doubt has a few hollows up top.

My cat (typical tom) has come home pretty chewed up a few times, but they are always standard feral sized wounds, vicious but not especially deep or wide.

Who knows.

[Shazzoir]

Sounds like it could have been a disturbed flying fox to me, especially the matte black thing. Just a thought....

Shazz

[cryptobotanica]

Thanks shazz, yeah we get a few passing by but they don't roost here , they have a couple of big haunts a little while away. I'd have noticed it being a lot smaller, fuzzier and cuter in between the big black bits Well, I hope so. I think our microbat colonies kind of displace the other ones for some reason? Not sure.

Will go up for a scout around sometime soon, the dog certainly had a very odd reaction to it and he's very much used to the usual suspects. Maybe he was having an older moment, hah

Have found a few bits of old smashed china and glassware up that way, bout an inch down. Old, thin, cheap stuff though there was some goldleaf stuff a little further down the hill.

I hunt for stone tools, among other things and some weird things do turn up.

Thanks for the idea though, it did have that sort of light-absorbing quality similar to batwings viewed from below, but I got a general impression of possible furriness as well.

I'm thinking flying monkeys

[Scott]

Hey crypto,have you tried talking to any local aboriginal elders about the place. Just a theory but it sounds like other places I've read about and experienced in Oz and overseas that have been used for rituals that usually involve offerings of some type. Typically these places have an unexplained creepy feeling about them,every now and then there is like a spike of activity and then it goes back to being unexplanibly creepy.Again just a theory.