A whip-poor-will calling

[machinegunmolly1]

I'm reading The Dunwich Horror and Lovecraft often mentions the whip-poor-will calling when someone is dying in the book. They don't sound at all like I thought they would. I was expecting a deeper richer sound.

[touchtoomuch1000]

This reminds me of my cottage in Myles Standish. I'd hear them almost every night, never got to see one yet.

[logtechnology]

now thats a whipoorwhill...used to hear those in western Kentucky at night calling from the woods on the hillside above my uncles house.

[rayunseitig]

Nice.

[mrtheoden]

do not disturb the locks and guards, lest you invite those in from outside

[Octagonapus97]

THAT'S a whip-poor-will? I may have heard that before. I thought a solid "whip-or-will!"

[WonderfulWiiviews]

My cockatiel mimics these sounds

[EricBBrandon1]

my favorite sound in the world at night, next to the June bug. But it has become so developed around here...they're gone, except for the june bugs.

[EricBBrandon1]

my favorite sound in the world at night, next to the June bug.

[Marmalade000000]

I always wanted to see those things!!

[Vspears]

did he uh.....hit you right between the eyes?

[jackyor1]

yo fuck these god damn birds to hell

EVERY.GOD.DAMN.NIGHT.

[TortillaChip521]

H.P. Lovecraft, FTW!

[paladin1352]

There's one of these outside my house. Right outside my house. I want to shoot it. It does this stupid call from 4:30am to 8:00am and 8:00pm to 9:30pm. It wakes me up. If I can see it, I'll shoot it

[Sabre503]

I used the video to call in one next to my house in Florida. It was the battle of the whippoorwills

[BlizzardBeaches]

I wish we had those near me . . . I love their call . . . so peaceful

[Hedhnter]

So i had read The Dunwich Horror and heard some Old Wive's Tales... I expected this to be some sort of haunting eerie call... but no. it's just regular. For once superstition has disappointed me.

[666wickedjack]

@Hedhnter im also reading the dunwich horror and was wondering what it sounded like. sounds pretty normal, but in the story there are huge groups of them. it would probably be pretty creepy if there was a a hundred of them all calling out on the same rhythm

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

It is vowed that the birds are psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling breath. If they can catch the fleeing soul when it leaves the body, they instantly flutter away chittering in daemoniac laughter; but if they fail, they subside gradually into a disappointed silence.

[MurasakiFujiwara]

I just finished reading 'The Dunwitch Horror'! This made my day!

[Ebony2448]

@sdrawkcabgnipytmi too much lovecraft for you! :)

(im reading him now)

[Adventchild8]

black spiral dancers much?

[Imptheshrimp]

Did it capture a dying man's soul?

[RatmotorMike]

I haven't heard a Whip-poor-will in 30 years. I miss it.

[littlenaitch2]

@RatmotorMike I think that they might be going extinct.

[littlenaitch2]

@RatmotorMike The Whippoorwill's call is the most beautiful of all bird sounds.

[lordino4]

@RatmotorMike probibly havnt heard a whippoorwill in such a long time because there an endangeded species

[chriscrimson98]

COOOOL! LOVE IT! :)