Unusual animal sighting!

Question

woken up around 3 30am to noises i can only describe as loud pitch screetches!

seem like a animal was being chased! the screetching was distant then close!

I decieded to get out of bed and take a look from my first floor bedroom window! my first sight was what i thought to be a young fox! but he had long legs! he was frozen to the spot and was looking up at me! i shouted out loud! and the next thing i see was defantly a fox!

he was aware of my presence! but kept running the lenth of my bush down below and seemed like he wanted to get behind it! next thing i see was this animal slip by bushes out into communial area then disappeared! i heard a one off squeell! nothing bad!

I found it hard to sleep all night! WORRYING about that animal i didnt reconize! and questioning! on the noise this ? aniamal made!!!"

Anyone any ideas? im open to any thoughts you may want to input!

Answer 1

It was a coyote. The best way to identify a coyote is by it's long legs. They can also make a lot of loud high pitched noises

Answer 2

The fox probably caught itself some dinner in the form of a plump, juicy rabbit.

Answer 3

Some people mistake foxes for people screeming/screeching. This could be what you heard.

Answer 4

I believe it was just a fox calling for another, but it it seemed like it was a fox chasing something and if that youtube clip doesn't sound familiar it must have been a rabbit.

Rabbits give off a chilling scream when they are afraid or in pain.  It almost sound human. They are also a prey item of a fox.  

Read this.  Hope it helps, and I hope the rabbit made it ;)

Answer 5

It sounds exactly like a young fox, it would look a bit lanky/ long legged, they make a weird eerie shreiking noise when mating season is happening. This is what it sounds like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cPg7_nyo...

Answer 6

I think the other animal, was infact a fox, they were calling to each other, they do that at night time, its a territory thing they do, i first thought a woman was being attacked when i first heard it.

Answer 7

i really think it's just a fox or a coyote, don't terrify yourself, it was at night you can't really recognize anything. and try not to believe those legend because you will get no answer but to scar yourself more.

Answer 8

Well, it was dark and your were obviously sleepy.  It sounds like you might have seen a fox chasing a jack rabbit.  In the dark, the jack rabbit might have llooked like something else.  

Answer 9

Sounds normal for a young fox.

Sorry but I PMSL over the comment "kept running the lenth of my bush down below"

The mind boggles ???

Answer 10

Hmm, ?it was wanting to get behind your bush down below. I should take care, not with the animal but with your English ;-))

Answer 11

it was "el chupacabra"

Answer 12

One early dark  morning while i was walking to work i heard a high pitched shrieking noise that scared the shite outta me lol

wheni looked up i could see the silloette of two foxes on a mound in the distance

so mabey thats what it was

Answer 13

Probably a rabbit...they squeal real loud believe it or not....

Answer 14

could have been a coyote  

Answer 15

Do not know where you live but its either in Europe or up north, I bet. Coyotes will chase down and eat a fox but I would think the fox would not stop to look at you if a coyote was after him. Therefore, I concure with those who beleive the fox was chasing a rabbit or another fox.

Answer 16

woww thats creepy 0.o

any local legends you know of? x)