Things that go bump in the night

[S42N8]

“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
“That was the curious incident.”
— The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Sir A.C. Doyle.

Holmes’ quote applies in at least two ways: the traditional evidence of absence, and Daisy’s lack of response. The video is likely insects (at a concert with tiny lighters), or aliens. Since Daisy didn’t bark, it wasn’t a substantial alien incident... or Santa tossed her some treats

 

[Rustyt1953]

Swamp gas.

 

[NFrameFred]

 

[Rodan]

All joking aside, I'd guess Faulkner's 'creature' is a spider or moth close to the camera. We caught a spider on one of our motion cams a while back and it looked the size of a small car in the video!

I got woken up last night by these four trespassers on our property...

 

[JohnRippert]

Did not read all the postds to see if anyone else agrees with me, but it's a snail with the eyestalks all the way out.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Did not read all the postds to see if anyone else agrees with me, but it's a snail with the eyestalks all the way out.

See Rule 3's post (#9) I wondered about that, too, then thought, "What's a snail doing up there?" But not being a snail, I wouldn't know.

 

[ameridaddy]

Biggest garden slug I ever saw! Must be at least 18 lbs. Call a French restaurant and get rich quick.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Couldn't help thinking of this:

 

[lihpster]

I always liked this one.

 

[30-30remchester]

Living in the country, we always had animal noises. Elk, coyotes, foxes etc. One night I was awoken by someone trying to get in my kitchen window. I grabbed my 1911, safety off, I prepared to open the curtains and catch the perpetrator. Just then one of children's proximity toys exploded, lit up and took off across the kitchen floor. Neary blew the coffee maker away. The noise stopped but my heart was racing. Minutes later the noise under the kitchen window resumed. I threw back the curtain, with my 45 pointed directly at the perp. Instead of a burglar it was a mule deer buck that was using my house to rub the velvet off his horns.

 

[twodog max]

That is a genuwine begota. Be go to heck if I know what it is.

 

[30-30remchester]

After a practically long day at work a good night's sleep was all I wanted. In the early hours of the morning, I could hear something downstair on the porch making odd noises. My wife said she would go look. My last words to her were to not open the door and go outside because we had been having quite a few bears of late. A few minutes later I could hear the door open. She never has taken my advice, don't know why she would this time. Then I heard her trying to shoo away some animal, lawn chairs crashing and all kinds of commotion. Then words I didn't want to hear. In a load voice she yelled, "Steven, get your gun". I flew downstairs, 1911 in hand, ready to do mortal combat with a bear, or mountain lion or even a bigfoot. I did not know what. As I exited the house onto the porch, I saw my petite bride swinging a lawn chair at the offender. Seems a baby porcupine was trying to eat his way into our living room. He had already ate away a football sized chuck of our cedar siding. The wife would whack it with a lawn chair, and it would come back for more dinner. No matter what she did it always returned. I gave it a size 13 boot and launched it several yards across the forest, yet it still returned. Not wanting to, I retrieved my Colt Woodsman and sent him to meet his ancestors.

 

[oldbrownhat]

This was crawling over one of my cameras during the day. I hope it's not trying to find a way inside via the wiring or I'll have to be armed. Any idea what cailber is recommended for thagomizers?

 

[Rustyt1953]