A bird expert has offered a surprising explanation for the spooky sounds that can be heard in a dark forest – and it’s most likely not a murderous poltergeist.
While spooky ghost stories lead many people to believe that woods are full of all sorts of spooky creatures, bird expert Amy, who lives in Scotland’s Angus Glens, has revealed there may be a more innocent source of scary noises. .
On TikTok, the bird of prey expert shared his insight into the uncanny ability of crows to imitate almost any sound, including speech, breathing, and even the sound of someone knocking on the door.
In a video with nearly 14 million views, Amy said the first thing she thinks of when she hears chilling ghost stories with spooky sounds is crows.
“I often hear people talk about stories, usually ghost stories, that involve hearing something in the woods that they can’t see or place that moves in the dark,” he said.
A bird expert (pictured) has offered a surprising explanation for the spooky sounds you can hear in a dark forest.
In a video that now has nearly 14 million views, Amy said the first thing she thinks of when she hears spooky ghost stories with spooky sounds is crows.
“And the first thing that always comes to mind is crows, like Fable just showed you,” he said, as his crow, Fable, made a strange pecking noise.
The bird expert also works with birds of prey and other animals at her home in the north of Scotland.
Her channel includes dozens of videos of Amy cuddling with her pet crow, named Fable.
Appearing alongside Amy in the video, Fable seemed to evidence her claims during the clip, mimicking several of the things she said in a surprisingly human tone.
He continued: “All corvids, so crows, rooks, magpies, jays and crows, can imitate. And they imitate much better than parrots.
While speaking to the camera, Fable the crow interrupts to say “hello” in a surprisingly human voice.
“That’s why I often think that with parrots, it sounds quite robotic and you can tell it’s a parrot,” Amy said.
But with crows it sounds the same. He sounds like a person and Fable probably has 100 things he can say.
The bird expert also works with birds of prey and other animals at her home in the north of Scotland.
“She says certain things with me all the time because that’s what she likes to say, but when I’m not around, she practices saying all kinds of things, she practices making all kinds of noises.”
And crows can’t just reproduce human noises, according to the bird expert.
As Fable demonstrates, crows can imitate any sound,
‘It could be the sound of a drop of water, or someone knocking on the door.
“She can talk like me, she can talk like other people.”
Setting the record straight, Amy said she’s convinced that the spooky sounds people think they hear in the word are actually crow sounds.
“So when I hear these stories of voices in the woods and all kinds of creepy creatures, I can’t help but think that what you’re hearing are crows.”
Amy then paused to give the menacing looking raven a kiss on the head. Meanwhile, the huge black bird perched on his shoulder and nibbled on the straps of his breastplate.
“You’ll even hear then, if you go back, that she made the breathing sound before she made the ‘mwah’ sound.”
The crow then quickly burst into a human kiss that sounded ‘mwah’, proving that birds are capable of making all kinds of sounds.