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[dreamer_easy]

Jon and I were catapulted from bed last night by a hideous hissing-growling-grunting-snoring noise, which after a panicked search of the premises was discovered to be coming from somewhere on the roof near the front door. By the time I went out, armed only with a dressing gown and a torch, the perpetrator had vanished. A little Googling turned up this description:

Look, have you ever heard an Australian possum? They sound evil! They look cute, granted, but possums sound like pissed-off-cynical-resurrected-satanic-spirits.

... confirming my initial diagnosis.

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[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

I once mistook a possum's noises for a dangerous gas leak.

But, yes, fundamentally unsettling. So are koalas, for that matter. They sound for all the world like a pig eight times their size.