A commotion woke me up very early this morning, something louder than the humming of my humidifier. I squinted at the clock and saw that it was 4:14 am. What was that noise?
I hopped out of bed, switched off the humidifier and the sound of a man's voice immediately revealed itself. Or were there two of them? In my sleepy haze I pulled back my curtain and imagined I saw two college kids sitting out on the fire escape. I told Hubby as much.
"There's nobody sitting on the fire escape," Hubby determined. I put on my glasses to get a second look and he was right. So I was seeing things, but there was definitely someone talking. Ordinarily I would take this opportunity to scream some choice nighttime obscenity out my window, but something stopped me. This voice was disturbing, you see; this voice was upsetting. This voice was...laughing. Laughing maniacally.
It was the kind of laughter that shows up in bad 80's horror flicks; a high pitched, hysterical falsetto. Whatever it was this dude was laughing at, once he started he didn't stop. As I mentioned earlier, I couldn't get a look at him, but for some reason I pictured him wearing clown makeup. Or at least smeared lipstick.
Now, I'm a bit of a scardie cat. Shrill laughter emanating from outside my window in the middle of the night is undeniably the stuff nightmares are made of. And this particular cackle rated extra high on the creepy weirdo meter. Obviously this person was high on something very special, to be standing outside in the freezing February air unable to stop cackling.
It was then that I decided; this laughter was probably, no, definitely the scariest sound my two ears had ever heard. Even in the moment I knew this to be true, and stood there in awe and admiration. It was a perfect storm of sorts; so terribly eerie, so perfectly frightening and horrendous that I almost wanted to congratulate the sick bastard.
Well done, hysterical clown man; well done.
You know it was probably some Renissance faire nerd practicing his evil laugh.....Or maybe E.Hightower was outside you window?
Posted by: Weinerdog | February 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM