Something wicked this way comes, with our playlist of scary natural sounds to accompany your Halloween celebrations?!
Spare a thought for the brave earth.fm recordists these sounds come courtesy of who ventured into nighttime forests, marshes, and down rivers in shaky canoes – in areas populated by wolves and howler monkeys and masses of bats. Oh, my! 🎃
Enjoy… if you dare!
#Title
Location
Habitat
Duration
1
Love Songs of Frogs, Boobook Owls and Koalas in a Valley Forest of Eucalypti Trees
Khristos Nizamis
Australia
Forests
27:16
2
Lone wolf howling in Arizona
Christine Hass
USA
Forests
02:38
3
Wolves and Owls
Melissa Pons
Portugal
Forests
10:54
4
Wolf Pups Howling
Marcus Eldh
Sweden
Forests
04:38
5
Black Howler Monkey at Night
Fintan O’Brien
Belize
Rainforest
03:59
6
Sealions at Iquique
Felix Blume
Chile
Sea & coast
01:31
7
Great Horned Owls
John Hartog
USA
Grasslands, tundra and heath
03:00
8
Cano Negro
Andreas Bick
Costa Rica
Sea & coast
05:36
9
Bats Leaving the Roost
Felix Blume
France
Forests
02:01
10
Midnight loons
Curt Olson
USA
Wetlands
12:00
11
Intense Red Deer Rutting Through the Forest
Jocelyn + Melissa
France
Forests
08:28
Listen to these Halloween sounds, perfect for the spooky season! Scary, creepy, horror? It’s up to you.
This excerpt from a recording made by Khristos Nizamis between midnight and first light in Montacute Conservation Park, in southern Australia, features our favorite creepy sounds. 👀
Comprising several creeks and valleys forested with tall eucalyptus trees, the park is a home and a haven to a remarkable variety of both mammals and birds (including emus). Though made in just 2019, Khristos is doubtful that he would now be able to make a recording with such little anthropogenic noise. Sadly, he believes that all nature field recordists would accept the following equation: “As the drive for profit relentlessly increases, so does the consequence of human noise.” Now that’s really scary.
A distant lone wolf howls near a canyon rim in eastern Arizona, in this recording by Christine Hass. A classic horror staple that never fails to chill the blood. 🐺
Recorded by Melissa Pons in a beautiful corridor of autumnal forest, around 10 Iberian wolves call in the early night , accompanied by tawny owls and Eurasian eagle-owls: a classically gothic combination.
Recorded by Veljo Runnel in Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve – the largest wilderness reserve in Estonia – the forbidding howl of a lone wolf fills the summer air. ☁️
John Hartog recorded this hair-raising and unlikely exchange between predator and prey in John Day River Basin, Oregon. Great horned owls (Bubo virginianus) and a western screech-owl (Otus kennicottii) call during pre-dawn stillness, as a distant wind blows forlornly though juniper and over rugged terrain. 🦉
Andreas Bick was in a canoe on the river Caño Negro, Costa Rica, when he recorded these howler monkeys’ atmospheric calls echoing off of the surface of the water, spider monkeys climbing through the trees, and the singing of a Montezuma’s oropendola bird. To add to the fear factor, a caiman jumps into the water, too. 🌀
This track, recorded by Curt Olson in Wagner Lake, Minnesota, features the haunting calls of the common loon, while the ambient ‘roar’ of an unnerving night breeze passes through large red pines nearby.
This recording by Jocelyn and Melissa took place long after midnight, when red deer seemed to be at their most active. Through their unholy, distorted-sounding calls, the underlying, chilling silence of the forest is revealed in the very cold, very dark dead of night. 🦌
What’s your favorite scary sound…?
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