Comments on: Strange noises last night in Armley

By: Janitor

Janitor — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:56:01 +0000

I heard this last night in Bramley. Woke me at 2am and haven’t slept since!

Could see the engine on the tracks but couldn’t make out what it was doing or why all the noise so thanks for clearing it up!

By: Peter hite

Peter hite — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:56:19 +0000

This perhaps is the culprit. I now live in Canada and have seen these in action, they use them during the day here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp8NxbgjsiY

Check out the railway to see if there is any fresh scarring.

How did I get to this page anyhow?

By: john

john — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:05:29 +0000

Thanks Steve, I’m seeing if I can find any more details.

By: Steve Frost

Steve Frost — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:28:06 +0000

I think I can shed some light on what was causing the noise.

There is a device that network rail use to remove trackside trees that makes an incredible din, it’s basically a huge set of metal teeth attached to a swing arm using a chain, they attach it to the top of a tree trunk and it eats it way down to ground level, reducing the tree to shreds.

They were using one near me last year and it made the same noises you were describing.

By: john

john — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:13:53 +0000

J.D: I heard the same thing the next night (last Thursday) up in Armley! Just like ice-cream van chimes playing backwards, yes, perfect description!

Then the metallic roaring. It sounded to be coming from down from the canal or the train tracks. It wasn’t as loud as the first time I heard it back in 2005 and it didn’t seem to be be moving around, but basically the same sound.

I’m assuming this is some kind of machine works down there, but as to why they only seem to work in the middle of the night…

By: J.D

J.D — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:57:17 +0000

This happened last night in Kirkstall. it was around half 2 maybe and this freaky sound like the chimes on a ice-cream van going backwards, it seemed like it was moving around the area. Then it changed into this epic and terrifying metallic alien roaring which seemed to be coming from down in the valley where the river is, possibly near the abbey.
I really want to know what it was.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:05:45 +0000

After reading your blog i feel i have to reply.
This happened to me tonight aprox 9.40, i was walking home on my own across a lane, i was out in the light and next to a hill when i heard this metalic/alien noise (as you described it) the best way i can explain it is that it sounded like a cross between a metal dectector and when a walky talky is changing the frequency. The noises followed me all the way to the bottom of my street but it stayed on the lane (my esate is surrounded by lanes and hills) this freaked me out so much and i’ve been googling this noise ever since!

By: Tim Wainwright

Tim Wainwright — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:39:48 +0000

Last night I heard a noise very similar to what you describe (I have read this article before and decided to locate it again after my experience). I live in a town called Sawley in between Derby and Nottingham. My apartment is situated on the edge of the town and overlooks miles of fields. There is a freight train line about 300 meters away but I’m almost certain this was no train and sounded much closer.
Firstly I’d just gone to bed around midnight (this may be of no relevance to the noise but I though I’d mention it) and I was awoken by flashing blue lights outside. I had a look through my blinds and there was a police car and also what I believe was an unmarked police car both stationary across the road as if they were looking into the fields. After a couple of seconds they both pulled off fairly quickly in opposite directions.
At 02:30 I was awoken again – this time by, the best I can describe it; as a noise like a steam roller driving over broken glass and metal. It was very loud and seemed to pass right by the road outside my apartment. As it faded into the distance I heard two shot gun like noised (again in the distance) then pretty much silence. I was so unnerved by the whole situation I got up, open the blinds and made a cup of tea staring out of the window for about an hour but I saw or heard nothing. Very bizarre!

Tim Wainwright

By: JB

JB — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:07:42 +0000

Reading this is really strange, because a few years ago I heard a similar unexplained, almost weird and ungodly (as you put it!) metallic noise on the other side of the Pennines in Ashton-u-Lyne. This noise was the strangest thing I’ve ever heard. It was almost that it was pervading everywhere, like it had no source that I could make out. It really chilled me.

I forgot about it after a while, and then a few weeks later there was a personal advert in the local paper asking if anyone had heard strange noises around the Tameside area late at night.

By: Louisa Parry :: Journal » Scotland - Friday

Louisa Parry :: Journal » Scotland - Friday — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:27:29 +0000

[...] Realising when it went dark, it would be REALLY dark, we headed back to the hotel before it got too late, and read in our room until nothing could be seen out of the window apart from blackness and stars. The bed was big and comfortable but I didn’t sleep too well: my brain, now accustomed to screeching tires, car alarms, unwarranted shouting and FREAKY noises, obviously found the silence too suspicious to relax. [...]

By: neuro

neuro — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:52:25 +0000

Sorry, just to clarify, I don’t live anywhere near you :)

By: neuro

neuro — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:52:01 +0000

Years ago I used to hear a metallic noise, sounding like someone dropping a pipe onto a metallic surface, a sort of “bong, ga-lang, ga-lang” noise. It came from the direction of both a railway and a pipeline running adjacent to each other. Perhaps you and I were hearing the noise of railway workers hitting stuff into the tracks?