What is the worst sound you ever heard?
 

I imagine we all have experienced some situation where there was a sound that could give us some nightmares.

The screaming of one of the guys whose brother and friend were hit by a car right in front of our house, as they were riding bicycles to the country store, when I was about 10 or 11? The friend died. We knew the guys, and he came screaming into our house "I've got to call my mom I've got to call my mom."

The worst thing I've ever heard.

That sounds pretty bad. I can only imagine.

The neighborhood gang played in the street in front of our house all the time. I was in the backyard when I heard screeching brakes one day. The entire neighborhood ran out to see what happened and watched a poor dog die in the middle of the street. He was yelping and lying on his side with his legs running in the air and a pool of blood forming underneath him.

Then when he was still, his owner picked him up by the collar and carried his limp body behind their house.

I'm sure the driver felt like an ass with 20 people standing there staring at him.

That was pretty bad, but was probably nothing compared to what you heard. I can only imagine.

I don't know how the guys I was asked to help with their computer problems came by that recording. They were an insvestigation team.

During the whole time I was in their lab, they decomposed the sound at various speeds. It was the impact on a concrete slab of a 20-stories jumper. They were trying to determine if he jumped by himself or had a bit of help. The worst thing was probably the comments. Nothing funny, just clinical, describing each piece of sound : ankles, knees, hips, etc... breaking one after another...

As long as you don't know what it is, a sound is just that, a sound. When you know...

Before my dog Bean died, he had a few seizures, and he would make this terrible blood-curdling howl with all his breath.

Other people up chucking...especially my brother - he sounds like he is fighting to keep his stomach from going inside out.

Oh and a baby screeching.

The screams of a family trapped in an SUV as they were burned alive

that's horrible! i bet you have a lot of examples from your line of work.

edit: forgot to say, a child screaming that got hurt on a go-kart at work.

Oh God.

And here's another thread I'd like to put on ignore.

I heard a wild animal getting mauled to death in the middle of the night out in Wyoming. Just a horrific screaming/yelping/moaning noise echoing off the hills.

The hiss of a cockroach climbing into my ear.

pigs being butchered--those suckers are loud.

I'm with Cloud. Worst sound ever.

Nagging wife kills me every time. It's just too horrible to talk about. No, seriously, the worst sound for me is the sound of a loved one crying. Not the fake crying children are good at, I'm talking the heart wrenching, soul moving cry of someone in pain that you can't do anything about.

Hard to say , could be hearing my Mom had 3 Months to live ,
or a few Months later the sound of the EKG going BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
or the sound of a jeep and trailer Rolling end over end down a Mountain side with a friend inside

Hard to say

All the sounds of the hospital when Momdigr had a brain aneurism. ICU for 52 days. Popdigr didn't go home til Momdigr did.


[Drift] Great big fucking kudos to the brain surgeon (literally:p:). He was in his street clothes going home after emergency surgery, when they got the call Momdigr was on the way in. He had just operated on a teenage guy who went out the rear window of his barrel-rolling pick-up and had his head caved in by a shock mount. Eleven hour surgery they said. Then he goes right back in to work on Momdigr for six-seven hours. About two hours after he's done with her (he's still with her!), a little girl who fell through a stair railing onto a tile floor came in. He picked chunks of her skull out of her brain for several hours. The fucking man is a machine.[/Drift]

ETA: He holds 'reunions' occasionally. All three in this story are still here.

My Rhodesian Ridgeback farting. Every night.

The sound of a car accident victim with half his skull crushed in, trying to breath through the blood that was pouring out of his mouth and nose, and hearing the groans and moans coming from deep inside his body as he came towards consiousness.

He survived. He is one of my neighbours. We've become friends since he got out of hospital almost exactly a year ago now.

MB's panicked yell when he nicked his finger on a spinning table saw several years back. He doesn't shake easily, but he's also been known to throw caution to the wind (for example, leaving the guard off the saw)...so the sound was disturbing while not exactly surprising. It was very weird, to say the least.

In all seriousness, I would have to say the sound of a vehicle beginning to break, the screech of the tires, and the crunching of metal in a severe auto accident would rank high.

The sound of bones breaking. Particularly my own.

Seconding the various sounds of death. I was in the bedroom when momwolf took her last few breaths, figured out later that it was agonal breathing. Listened to her last couple heartbeats. Home hospice has it purposes, it's far better for the patient, but let me tell you, it sucks for the family caregiver.

The phone ringing at 5:23am

The sound of a car/not starting

I have heard lots of dogs die I am glad I was there to hold and comfort them when they passed. I worked in a vet's office and you would not believe the number of people that will put their pet to sleep but will not be there to comfort them when it happens. [/morbid]

The day my daughter died... I was trying to do CPR and when I pushed on her chest it forced the air out of her lungs and she made a really strange noise. It made me think that she was still alive and that I was helping...but she was not and I was not.

Sometimes I still have nightmares about that sound...brrrr.

@wolf

Yep...I have broken 15 bones so far and you are right...there is a distinct sound...lol.

I'm sure a lot of that may be "can not" instead of "will not", there is no way I could make it through that with Slick.:sniff:

Shit. Now I'm sad.

I was present when we put Beau, my cat of 13 years, to sleep. It was heart wrenching.

Me too.

My phone rang at 5:16AM at least 5 days a week for almost 6 years until my nephew started school. His mom goes to work at 5:30AM, and his dad works at night. They woke me up to bring the kid over so the mom can go to work and the dad goes to sleep. The phone ring was only really bad when I had just gone to sleep, like at 4 or sometimes 5. :neutral:

My ex broke his hand practising martial arts with his friend. He twisted his hand wrong in a hold and his hand broke in two places (on the back of his fist). He laid his hand on the ground and pulled his fingers out (away) from his hand to try to "set" the bones. The noise he made, a sound of agony, the only time I've heard anything like it, was chilling.

What is the worst sound you ever heard?