25 of the Most Unsettling Sounds People Have Had the Misfortune of Hearing

Snap, crackle, pop
25 of the Most Unsettling Sounds People Have Had the Misfortune of Hearing

Horrifying sounds have an equally horrifying way of burrowing their way into your eardrums. No other sound can drown them out, and they continue to rattle around in your head well after the fact.

For one Redditor, this sound is a blaring alarm that went off mid-excursion while exploring the depths of the ocean in a submarine. It signified that the submarine’s shaft seals had failed and basically meant that anyone aboard could drown at any given moment. The sub managed to make it back above sea level, but that didn’t make the alarm any less scary or any less etched into the Redditor’s mind for the rest of their days. 

Other Redditors have shared the unsettling sounds they can never shake, including an elk’s mating call, a tornado siren during an otherwise calm day and a landline ringing in the dead of night.

Bloobeard2018 10mo ago Brush tail Possum mating calls in the dead of night. Also Koalas. Terrifying. 94 Share ...
HatlyHats 10mo ago We have coyotes in the suburban apartment complex where I live. A few times a year, | hear them take down a cat. It is noisy, prolonged, and the outcome is inevitable. Cats scream in pain like children crying. They sob. And | see so many lost cat posters. - 137 Share ...
Spongebubs 10mo ago The sound of carbon fiber cracking while imaging being on board a submersible 3km underwater and quickly sinking further and further into blackness 178 Share ...
pizoisoned 10mo ago Bar none the most unsettling sound I've ever heard was the sound of my wisdom tooth being removed. It was a sharp bone snap that reverberated up my jaw into my ear. - 234 Share ...
Nikmassnoo 10mo ago Ice on a lake breaking up, moving... it creaks and groans and rumbles. The eeriest sounds 255 Share ...
wrongbutt_longbutt 10mo ago I heard the screams of someone discovering their roommate's murdered body. When someone screams in actual terror and panic it is a completely different and chilling sound than what actors do in the movies. 295 Share ...
per-severance 10mo ago when you can hear a roach crawling around somewhere while it's dark in the room, and you can't tell exactly where 321 Share ...
brodmofo 10mo ago A fox in the middle of the night 441 Share ...
86missingnomes 10mo ago The sound of all those sirens going off after the collapse of the towers. Knowing that it's the body alarm system of hundreds of firefighters' uniforms that go off when a fireman is down. 488 Share ...
KP_Wrath 10mo ago Probably either a death rattle or the sounds of parents screaming on an emergency scene. The sounds of someone that broke their femurs are a bit behind that. 521 Share ...
Entity417 10mo ago The utter silence of your furnace heating system on a below-zero winter night. 549 Share ...
johnperkins21 10mo ago My cat crawled under our bed while I was sleeping and made a cry that sounded so human it freaked me out. Не was in obvious pain and we took him to the hospital immediately. Не had a stone in his urinary tract and it was blocked. He's ok now after surgery, but I was so scared for him when I heard that cry. - Share 964 ...
Warrior_White 10mo ago Owl screeching at you when you walk into a pitch black barn in the middle of the night. They do not hoot like cute little cartoon owls. That sound is some strange organic version of fingernails on a chalkboard. And it is absolutely horrific to hear it right above your head in a pitch black barn..... 1.2K Share ...
 10mo ago | have paranoid delusions and one night I vividly heard people break into my house. They were taunting me outside my door for hours. My dog sleeps at the foot of my bed and she wakes up when the roomba turns on at night so it helped me to rationalize but it was still extremely terrifying and | called my psychiatrist the next day. - 1.5K Share ...
max-in-the-house 10mo ago Mountain lion, somehow raises the hair on your neck even when you've never heard that sound before. 1.6K Share ...
wagadugo . 10mo ago | used to work in news on tragic events... there's a certain sound parents make when they learn their child didn't make it. It's universal, distinct and it's awful. 2K Share ...
oldatheart515 10mo ago When multiple dogs in the area start barking in the middle of the night. It always makes me feel like something is out there that shouldn't be, even though it's probably just some other animal wandering around. - 1.7K Share ...
deraser 10mo ago Tornado siren when there was no wind or thunder. Minutes later, all hell broke loose. - 2.8K Share ...
sweetperdition 10mo ago blood-curdling scream, sharply cut off in the middle of it. don't know what happened to the person, was in a bad area and the place was flooded with cops afterwards. - 3.3K Share ...
10mo ago XRaysFromUranus I was wilderness camping in Wyoming with my boyfriend. Just the two of us. Many miles from civilization. At dawn, very near our tent, an elk bugled and that's when I learned that fear can knock the breath out of you. I'd never heard an elk before. - 3.6K Share ...
Maleficent_Scale_296 10mo ago My dog howled the night my husband died. I have no words to describe it. - 3.8K Share ...
Scribe625 10mo ago . Edited 10mo ago The sound of the landline phone ringing in the middle of the night. You know it's never a good thing or a wrong number at that time of night.
dougglatt e 10mo ago | was on a submarine, our shaft seals failed at a deep depth. The alarm/announcement that followed was heart attack scary. 7.6K Share ...
INSCButNotThatNSC . 10mo ago The wails of a parent who's lost a child. Absolutely soul crushing. 7.6K Share ...
FlipperTDerp 10mo ago If you've had to do CPR before, you'll note that during the training you have to push SUPER hard down onto the dummy in order to properly do it, and on an actual person you're more than likely to break their ribs if you press down with the proper amount of force if you're applying the same amount of force if done properly. That sound of ribs breaking is VERY distinct and very uncomfortable/unsettling - 2.2K Share ...

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article
Forgot Password?