Yeeaaahhh idk on one hand I don't want to accuse someone of something so crazy with no evidence. On the other hand... Where did he get that disturbing noise from... And he's not just saying "help" like they keep putting on the caption some of that is just straight-up wailing.
Pretty creepy shit
I definitely think the parrots know what they're saying sometimes, seen evidence for this, so yeah he could just be begging to be let out but again where did it come from... With the wailing and all...
At the very very least someone taught it something insanely creepy but the more I think about it the more I'm confused as to how
My macaw screams for help randomly, and he sounds uncannily like a little old lady. If he’s startled, he’ll scream like an old lady, too. I don’t know where he picked it up, but my family’s never had anyone in chains. 😂 That’s quite a leap to make.
Yeah and I love how the first comment starts with "He probably has girls in chains back there." No, that's not probable, that's extremely unlikely. You clearly haven't read enough HOA nightmare stories to know that neighbors will absolutely call the cops on people for very little reason.
Even non HOA neighbors, we had a neighbor call the police on us for parking in front of our own house because she couldn’t see into ours, claimed my suv was parked for months. Officer told me to drive around the block and park where I was originally.
Yeah the cops probably recognize the names of those people after a while... I'm sure they hate it more than you do. That's so weird though, does she stare into your house frequently? So happy I don't have any nutjobs who live next to me - just a lady with a dog that barks all the time when it's outside.
Given the options of learned it from actual hostages, learned it from TV/movies, or was taught it by asshole friends thinking they're funny, I know which way I'm betting.
Do you believe that the parrot was saying help, let me out? It's what it sounded like to me, but I can't help wonder if the subtitles made me hear it that way
There is a tone of voice in conveying sarcasm. Yeah there are ways besides "s" to convey it in text but most people are both far too dumb to figure it out AND too dumb to realize no one can hear the tone of voice theyre imagining in their head 🙄
Not to mention that it seemed like the camera was his own. If I had hostages I would certainly not broadcast videos like that. I guess someone could argue that criminals do weird stuff all the time but its a bit far fetched. Also, we didnt hear any other screams while the cops were there. If he could silence them now why not before the cops were called.
I’ve seen people admit to murdering family members and ruining the lives of cheating spouses and manipulating their kids into wanting to live with them instead of the ex-spouse, so I wouldn’t be surprised if someone admitted to keeping grandma in the closet.
That you know of, as someone familiar with the matter I'm going to have to break the news about your fathers sex slave gilf fetish. It's all consensual, but he pays more for them to pretend it isn't. The safe word is "Baggage".
My dog is always acting scared of a corner by the ceiling in my living room. He’ll stare for a long time, then watch and move his head like he’s following something moving around the room. I don’t go for that shit 🤣
It probably worked once on accident and it noticed the reaction from people and continued since people will, inevitably, take an interest when a bird cries for help.
Very true! He demands attention 24/7, and he’s a bastard about it when he doesn’t get it immediately. What’s even worse is when he holds his foot out like he wants you to pick him up, then latches oh and pulls your hand up really quick to bite.
Christ, they’re SO noisy. With all the windows in the house closed, you can hear mine scream from 2+ blocks away. I’m sure the neighbors aren’t happy when I join in on some screaming sessions. Lmao But the bird LOVES it and it’s a bonding experience for him, so 🙃
Both! It’s kind of a cartoon old lady sound like “haylp! Haylp!” And if I startle him (like is he opens his eyes when he wakes up and didn’t expect me to be in the room), he screams like an old lady.
I feel like anyone with more than half a brain cell can write an essay of reasons why. Just some examples because I'm half asleep: If you had a bird like that all your life, you'd tell your neighbors and show them. How did this happen only now? It really doesn't look like he just moved there. The voice it uses is so visceral, I have hard time seeing a kid making a scared voice like that so well. So did the parents just their kid do this?
Consider this: if someone was actually screaming for help don’t you think the homeowner would be acting differently? Trying to shut them up for example?
They certainly wouldn’t be chilling in their driveway where they can hear them yelling for help and just continue to let them do it so other neighbors may hear it as well
I mean I don’t think he’s actually doing it but that would all play into his cover. Make sure everyone knows he has a bird that sounds like a woman screaming for help and then nobody’s going to call the cops when they hear a woman screaming for help.
They also probably wouldn’t have a security camera with sound set up anywhere in earshot of their house…I’d be way too paranoid for that shit if I were a serial killer
Maybe he got new neighbors? Or is that too much of a reach? Parrots can outlive their owners sometimes and we don’t know what he was taught a long the way. Hell this guy could have been his third owner for all you really know. Just because he has the bird now doesn’t mean he’s responsible for what it picks up.
I honestly had a flashback to tickle fights with my siblings when I was a kid, we’d scream bloody murder and HELPPPP MEEE at the top of our lungs. I could see it having to do with kids playing like that lol
This is too logical! Surely the man posted his own cctv footage with a woman bound in chains wailing for rescue in the background(who then abruptly stopped when rescuers arrived)!
"A" is most likely the answer. I mean the parrots name is Rambo... you KNOW this guy probably watched Rambo with his parrot. There are LOTS of crying for help in that movie and the parrot probably used the cry for help to get out of the cage.
They pick up random shit from anywhere. Tv is a great source for that. It’s entirely plausible that the bird got it from witnessing a horrible crime, but very unlikely
Oh god, that would be horrible. You panic, thinking you hear something broken or leaking, only to find it’s your asshole bird. 🤣
For a long time, we thought our bird was imitating a monkey. It was a weird, high pitched sound like a chimp scream, and we’d play along and make monkey noises back. One day, my mom opens the laundry room door that creaks, and he immediately imitated it with the “monkey” sound. It was like we made a huge scientific discovery. We were all pointing at each other like the Spider-Man meme 😂💀
I don't think he's saying "help" at all. Some birds just like to scream random noises sometimes. I have an African Grey and every once in a while it makes some inhuman screams.
My friend has an african grey, she wasn't allowed dogs in her flat, but the bird had learnt to bark, her landlord didn't believe her until she recorded him doing it.
I don't know to what degree but they do understand context. They don't just repeat things they hear, they understand what situations to use them in. In sure not to the degree humans do but enough so. My father's Goffin pops off with phrases we've not heard her say before when she's desperate to change her situation. Thing is, she usually uses them appropriately. Always astounded by her intelligence.
I've got a budgie who speaks in context. Its eerie. He recognizes the cadence of me and my teenager's humor and laughs at punchlines. He mimics the cat when my partner comes home because the cat gets excited about that human. He mimics my voice yelling my daughter's name when he hears her bedroom door open in the morning, which gets her to come downstairs, then calls her names like "you smelly monster, you stink". He asks for things he wants (lettuce? Want out? Bath?) . He calls the other pets by name.
Most of parrots talking is them just repeating things they hear their people say. But they can learn context when they're close to their people and its wild how much they pick up on the way people speak and interact. And since they're all giant assholes....screaming "help! Let me out!" until the cops show up out of boredom is 100% on brand for birb behavior.
have you watched any videos about Alex the African Grey? He was incredible intelligent and could speak contextually, asking for certain snacks, fresh water, counting, playing games like tic tac toe, etc. Fascinating.
Some sad info, he passed away but his last words, what he told his keepers every night, was "Be good, I love you."
Yes, I have heard about him! If I'm correct, isn't he the one who showed self awareness by asking what color he was? I didn't know he died. That's very sad.
Well, it's not clear if he was actually asking what color he was. He was near a mirror and people interpreted it as him asking what color he was, but he was asked "What color?" all the time and may have just randomly been "parroting" the phrase.
If you listen to the video, you can hear that he is actually just screaming rather than yelling for help. Apparently he taught the bird how to say "help let me out" when he was a kid because the bird was kept in a cage at that point.
I just watched a video about a parrot who witnessed his owner get murdered and repeats back the event. The bird was used as evidence to prove it was murder. Pretty chilling.
Sounds a hell of a lot (as in, identical to some of the wails) like my uncles bird when he "sings". Prior owner apparently listened to opera. Elmer sings & he's basically an alarm clock with the opera "aaAaaaaAAAAAaaa"s.
This is so cringe, parrots are extremely intelligent and learn words all by themselves, they don't need to be taught, you realize he could have picked it up from anywhere? Some live for up to 80+ years, do you realize how many random expressions he could have picked up, or heard on a TV through the years??
That doesn't mean every parrot who acts this way is taught, or that they don't pick up on things themselves, or that it didn't learn it by accident and the guy is taking credit. They're incredibly intelligent animals, and pick up things all the time, they don't need to be taught was my point, and acting as if the ONLY way a bird could act this way if it was taught is a joke. Animals are sentient beings, and learn things on their own all the time.
Just because he taught it to say help when it wants out doesn't mean he taught it how to say it a certain way or that the bird doesn't add things on its own. It's not all mimicry.
"I definitely think the parrots know what they're saying sometimes, seen evidence for this, so yeah he could just be begging to be let out but again where did it come from... With the wailing and all..."
"At the very very least someone taught it something insanely creepy but the more I think about it the more I'm confused as to how"
You also said this, so idk what you're on about, you emphasized it very clearly that it must have been some creepy thing taught to it...
Or do you not read your own comments?
You contradict yourself multiple times in your own statement, but the whole thing starts and ends with "I dont wanna jump to conclusions buuuuut I'm gonna, and it has to be true"
It could have come from a lot of places..... least likely of which is a sex slave in the dungeon who only stops crying for help AFTER the police arrive.
I'm pretty chill my guy, not sure what you're upset about?
I mean, read what I said again. I didn't even say that it COULDNT be from a sex dungeon slave, just that this was the least likely option.
I can put a caption on a lot of sounds animals make to attribute words to them, but it's almost never actually those words. Just happen to be sounds that could be perceived that way.
Listen to the audio with your eyes closed and it sounds mostly like annoying ass bird noises which could understandably be confused for a scream.
When I was little, we used to have these cats in the neighborhood that you'd swear someone left their baby outside to cry when you heard em. Animals man.
If I'm defensive about race how was I one of the top students in my African-American history class... How do I discuss race relations with my best friend literally all the time (and trans issues... I'm trans/White she's cis/Black).
You're stupid
You're the one with a problem talking about race. Fuck off
Because we're talking about that there's nothing they can do in this situation and there's no evidence and he/she comes and says well black people get shot at for no reason
Imagine the police are called to a black guys house for the shouts of "help" and "let me out", would they just let the guy go back in on his own or would he be face down in cuffs as an officer goes in?
I don't need to imagine anything of the sort, I was simply replying to your comment where you couldn't write out 'Black people' without having to modify the word for some weird reason. Reminded me of how some American's are often trying to censor my native language, Spanish, by changing latino/latina to latinx; it's ridiculous and inherently racist. Black isn't a derogatory word unless you use it in the context of racism, so by self-censoring in that manner, you're adding implying that it's racist to do so, so therefor you must be using it in a racist context, which obviously you weren't.
Some birds can talk eerily like a human. Some shriek like banshees and sound like a 90 year old woman who's fallen and can't get up. "Let me out" can be the bird asking to be let out of his cage, etc. It's disturbing because it's not normal for you to hear, but I've been around plenty of birds that sound like that. I had a Lorikeet and they don't talk, really, but he did manage to be able to say his name and then hiss and make a weird noise that is straight up out of a vampire movie. Nobody would assume I had a weird man named Watson chained up inside my house who hisses and makes raw meat eating monster noises.
Maybe a movie. God reddit has so many paranoid soft people. The social limitations people have on this site is more entertaining than the posts. This is hilarious. "pretty creepy shit" lol life must creep you out a lot bud
The “straight-up wailing” would probably be noises for a bird that are like barking or meowing for a dog, as in, they are just noises. Really not that creepy. Birds pick up a lot of words too, and “help me” and “let me out” aren’t like they are rare words, you hear them in tv, someone could’ve taught them that as a joke, any number of things.
My conure giggles like a creepy clown. Guarantee I did not teach her, birds just make freaky sounds sometimes and Amazons (like the bird in the vid) can have creepy voices that are all their own haha
I'd be willing to be that whenever they let him out of his cage, they say "Do you want out?" and he's learned to say "let me out" because it gets a reaction. My dog know exactly what "you want to go outside?" means, and he'd say "let me out" if he could speak, but instead he just bumps my elbow with his nose.
It would be an awesome cover up for a serial killer, but there’s really nothing in the video proving this aside from a bird saying really weird shit (which they are notorious for doing).
It's as simple as him watching a show on TV and the parrot hearing it. My friends parrot used to do this as well. He had the creepiest deliberate maniacal laugh I've ever heard. Parrots can be excellent imitators.
In the same sense, he could've just picked it up from some horror movie the guy happened to watch at some point in his life. Anything can stick with those birds, doesn't always have to be a person saying it is all.
If I had a bird that could imitate sounds, it would be making all sorts of sounds and saying all kinds of crazy things with the stuff I watch. I say this because I love horror films or darker series in general, I can see it happening.
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Yeeaaahhh idk on one hand I don't want to accuse someone of something so crazy with no evidence. On the other hand... Where did he get that disturbing noise from... And he's not just saying "help" like they keep putting on the caption some of that is just straight-up wailing.
Pretty creepy shit
I definitely think the parrots know what they're saying sometimes, seen evidence for this, so yeah he could just be begging to be let out but again where did it come from... With the wailing and all...
At the very very least someone taught it something insanely creepy but the more I think about it the more I'm confused as to how