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By holycow - 22/02/2010 09:28 - United States

Today, I was awakened, in the middle of the night, by the sound of crying coming from outside. There's a mile in between houses where I live. FML

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By Deborah - 27/10/2011 06:41 - United States

Today, I saw my upstairs neighbor outside getting the mail. She asked how my day was, and then apologized that the sound of her baby's crying through the walls kept me up last night. Apparently she heard me when I yelled at 2am for her fucking demon spawn to shut up. FML

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By MALICEG - 26/05/2012 07:00 - United States - Oklahoma City

Today, there was a knock on my apartment door. It was the man from next-door, who sarcastically asked if I was alright, because he said he heard me screaming in agony. I was singing. FML

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By sleepy - 01/07/2019 02:10

Today, I was trying to fall asleep. Unfortunately, my next-door neighbor's baby began to cry. I closed the window and rolled over, unable to hear the crying anymore. My dog's hearing is better than mine, and so he started barking. Goodbye, good night's sleep. FML

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By LostSleep - 24/05/2016 21:54 - United Kingdom

Today, I was woken at 4 a.m. by the sounds of someone crashing down the stairs. I scrambled out, still half-asleep, to find out that nobody was in an agonized heap at the bottom. The walls are so thin in my house that I could hear the neighbour falling down HIS stairs. FML

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By scaredshitless - 10/04/2019 18:00

Today, at 2:30am, I heard my baby crying on the monitor. As I got out of bed, she stopped crying and started laughing. There's nobody else in the house. FML

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By elle - 23/05/2011 10:17

Today, I found out that the peaceful rain I'd been listening to all night was really a broken water-main flooding my entire yard. FML

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By tireedddddd - 25/11/2011 16:24 - United States

Today, I was woken up at 6am to the sound of my mother on the back deck of the house hooting like an owl. FML

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By WTF - 07/03/2011 09:19

Today, I was awoken by my neighbor pounding on my back door at 3 am, only to look outside and see my car engulfed in flames. FML

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By frenchpop1960 - 23/02/2009 21:58 - United States

Today, I was over at my boyfriend's house and I heard a strange sound. I laughed and said, "It sounds like a dog throwing up!" He listened for a second and said "That's my mom crying downstairs." FML

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By AAAAAAAAAAAAA - 11/07/2022 07:00 - United States - Steele

Today, I heard a scream that sounded suspiciously like my cat when he's just had a nightmare or is otherwise in a state of extreme distress. I found him chilling on my couch, so I walked back to my room, when I heard the scream again. I ran back and he was still chilling. It was my neighbor's son screaming outside. FML

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mcicycool 0

Monday 22 February 2010 16:04

that's just creepy.. I say gtfo of there

MoonyIce 0

Monday 22 February 2010 16:20

It was likely just some animals having sex. When they're mating, a lot of animals - foxes especially - can sound rather horrifyingly like a human in distress.

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CallMeHush 0

Monday 22 February 2010 20:55

Ajjas, have you been out in the woods again?

scrapytiger3 0

Monday 22 February 2010 20:56

whoa. I really wanna know what happens next

Compass 0

Monday 22 February 2010 21:05

People just never learn anything from horror movies. You're not supposed to live in the middle of nowhere, even small towns. If you have neighbors, they can hear your screams and call the cops. The sheriff is usually one of the first or last to die, that's why nameless big-city cops are better.

iRobynM 0

Monday 22 February 2010 21:22

this isn't really an fml, it's pretty creepy though…

Zazeezoo 0

Monday 22 February 2010 21:23

There have been attackers/murderers before who will prey on women (even though this was a man) by playing a recording of crying (usually of a baby) outside their window/door and when the woman comes out to investigate, they will attack or gain entry into the house.

aedeckert 0

Monday 22 February 2010 21:24

question- people keep saying things like "OP should've..." what's OP?

jikanganai 0

Tuesday 23 February 2010 0:32

Original Poster

gunta 0

Monday 22 February 2010 21:45

the real question is: where do you live?

crukestal 1

Monday 22 February 2010 22:03

That is a coyote my friend. We live out in the sticks and hear the same thing. Either that or there is a crazy stalker outside/inside your house. You wouldn't be visiting Dwight Shrute on his beet farm would you?

annoying_ppl_suk 0

Monday 22 February 2010 22:12

Why would anybody even want to live a mile away from the closest neighbor? Are you a farmer or just some sort of society recluse? That scares me more than the screaming.

Lov3r 0

Monday 22 February 2010 22:15

wow I'd move. lol maybe ur imagination. I always imagine like scary weird faces on my wall/door etc even tho I don't want to

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