Revealed: The real reason you hear spooky sounds in the woods at a night

A bird expert has offered a surprising explanation for the eerie sounds you can hear when you’re in a dark forest – and chances are it’s not a murderous poltergeist.

While chilling ghost stories lead many people to believe the forest is full of all kinds of creepy creatures, bird expert Amy, who lives in the Angus Glens of Scotland, has revealed there may be a more innocent source of scary noises.

Via TikTok, the bird of prey expert shared insight into ravens’ bizarre ability to mimic virtually any sound, including talking, 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 creepy sounds are ravens.

“I often hear people talking about stories, usually ghost stories where they hear something in the woods that they can’t see and can’t place, and it’s moving in the dark,” she said.

In a video that has now been viewed almost 14 million times, Amy said the first thing she thinks of when she hears chilling ghost stories with eerie sounds are ravens.

“And the first thing I always think of is ravens, like Fable just showed you,” she said, as her raven, Fable, made a strange pecking sound.

The bird expert also works with birds of prey and other animals at her home in the north of Scotland.

Her channel features dozens of videos of Amy cuddling with her pet raven, named Fable.

Fable appeared alongside Amy in the video and appeared to prove her claims during the clip, mimicking several things she said in a shockingly human tone.

She continued: ‘All corvids, so crows, rooks, magpies, jays, ravens, can imitate. And they imitate much better than parrots.

As she talks to the camera, Fable the crow interrupts her to say “hello” in an eerily human voice.

“So I often think with parrots it sounds quite robotic and you can tell it’s a parrot,” Amy said.

‘But with ravens it just sounds the same. It sounds like a person and Fable probably has 100 things she could say here.

The bird expert also works with birds of prey and other animals at her home in the north of Scotland

“She’ll say certain things to me all the time because that’s what she likes to say, but when I’m not there, she’ll practice saying all kinds of things, practice making all kinds of noises.”

And it’s not just human sounds that ravens can imitate, according to the bird expert.

As Fable proves, ravens can imitate any sound,

‘It could be the sound of a drop of water, someone knocking on the door.

“She can talk like me, she can talk like other people.”

To set the record straight, Amy said she is convinced that the eerie sounds people think they hear in the word are actually the sounds of ravens.

“So when I hear these stories about voices in the woods and all kinds of creepy creatures, I can’t help but think that what you’re hearing is ravens.”

Amy then paused to kiss the menacing looking raven on the head. Meanwhile, the huge black bird sat on her shoulder and nibbled on the straps of her dungarees.

“If you rewind, you can even hear that she made the sound of breathing before she did her ‘mwah’ sound.”

The raven then promptly burst into a human pillow sounding ‘mwah’, proving that the birds are capable of all kinds of sounds.