Things that Go BUMP in the night!
I am asleep. Suddenly, I'm wide eyed in the dark. Outside of the tent there is one helluva racket. Screaming, growling, yelping noises from lower down in the field. Not that far away. They would not abate; if anything becoming more intense as the minutes passed. Sounded at first like a cat being tortured, then turned into a small snarling yelping dog. As the seconds ticked by it became louder and faster. Someones pet is being attacked! I look at my clock. It is 02:30. Get out of the tent Wayne and make it stop! But oh no. The cries and the wails were becoming frantic. There's a monster out there doing its worst to some poor creature. To hear an animal screaming for its life is proper scary. I'm in my sleeping bag. My heart is beating fast. A fight or flight reaction I guess. Anyway it went on and on and on. Five if not ten minutes of HELL! Slowly the screaming abated...