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monkey screech on 8th and union (possible ghost) — Brooklynian

monkey screech on 8th and union (possible ghost)

monochrome
monochrome
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Hi, I live on 8th avenue and Union. Every day, throughout the day, my girlfriend and I hear someone or some thing screeching like a monkey. Can anyone help us get to the bottom of this?

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  • veets
    veets
    What is the name of that bird that imitates other sounds?
    Last year this time I thought I was hearing car alarm sirens.
    Turned out to be a bird.
  • msteachersd
    msteachersd
    veets wrote: What is the name of that bird that imitates other sounds?
    Last year this time I thought I was hearing car alarm sirens.
    Turned out to be a bird.
    mockingbird
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    African Grey parrots that I've known have been amazing mimics. I knew one that could do the phone ring so well its owners ran to answer it every time. Maybe somebody has a parrot that watches animal planet :)

    Also, have you ever heard cats in heat (or whatever it's called for cats)? They make some disturbing sounds.
  • veets
    veets
    Or could this be a monkey?
    Nothing is impossible in the magical world of Park Slope.
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    Someone practices the violin in the back of the tall buildings on the corners of Union and 8th. Not much today.
  • rosweed
    rosweed
    I bet it's this: http://www.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=2356 I have one and it emits the loudest monkey screech. It scares small children. Guaranteed hours of fun!
  • MOD
    MOD
    "Screams like the souls of the damned stretching on the racks of Hades"
    LOL!!
  • joehill
    joehill
    I heard this on Tuesday night on 2nd St between 6th and 7th! near the 321 playground, also! I could have sworn it sounded like a monkey.
  • drunken revival
    drunken revival
    It's Julius Orange masturbating.....
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    rosweed, I HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT re: woot monkey. :lol: =D>

    I have several myself, but I don't live near there.
  • rosweed
    rosweed
    They make great gifts. It's universal. They annoy everybody.
  • MOD
    MOD
    Drunken Revival wrote: It's Julius Orange masturbating.....
    Let's just move on, there's no need to ask for confrontation. Just sayin'
  • drunken revival
    drunken revival
    No need? How about no possibility of confrontation...

    1) JO is banned from this message board...
    2) This is a Message Board not a bar room, living room, dark alley or high school locker room.
    3) Sticks and stones might break my bones, but nasty hate filled emails from JO, mod warnings, and a general hatred toward me on this message board... oh whatever

    .. oh whatever
  • brokechick
    brokechick
    it's probably a parrot. i lived with one for a while, and i could hear the damn thing shrieking its rotten feathery head off from the end of the block.
  • richard
    richard

    Subject: Monkey Screams

    Through the top most window facing Union, in the house on the NW corner, now shrouded for pointing, I used to see a monkey - 25-30 years ago.
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey

    Subject: Re: Monkey Screams

    richard wrote: Through the top most window facing Union, in the house on the NW corner, now shrouded for pointing, I used to see a monkey - 25-30 years ago.
    Post of the day IMO, thanks for sharing. =D>
  • slope4-35yrs
    slope4-35yrs

    Subject: Monkey?

    Yes, I can confirm what Richard posted above.

    Sometime in the 80s, the person who had the apartment in that corner building at 8th & Union - where the scaffolds are now - the apartment with the little side balcony, they had a monkey who'd sit on the railing.

    I still think of that every time I pass that corner.
  • veets
    veets

    Subject: Re: Monkey?

    Slope4-35Yrs wrote: Yes, I can confirm what Richard posted above.

    Sometime in the 80s, the person who had the apartment in that corner building at 8th & Union - where the scaffolds are now - the apartment with the little side balcony, they had a monkey who'd sit on the railing.

    I still think of that every time I pass that corner.
    Love it!
    That monkey is part of Park Slope Folklore or Legend or whatever but not an "urban myth." That monkey really lived there and screeched.
  • MOD
    MOD
    ...... and to this day you can still hear the wailing cries of the ghost monkey!! :shock: :pale:
  • monochrome
    monochrome
    Hey everyone,

    Thanks so much for your monkey input. Today I saw a guy walking with a parrot on his shoulder, he was on president and 8th. Can't imagine this bird could shriek as loud as what we hear, but it's awful suspicious.

    Maybe this intersection is still some kind of wacky monkey habitat...
  • brokechick
    brokechick
    monochrome wrote: Hey everyone,

    Thanks so much for your monkey input. Today I saw a guy walking with a parrot on his shoulder, he was on president and 8th. Can't imagine this bird could shriek as loud as what we hear, but it's awful suspicious.
    believe me, it can. it can and then some.
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