A sinister recording of “It’s raining, it’s pouring” left a town in England terrified for over a year.
The “eerie”-sounding nursery rhyme, which ended up being a nearby burglar alarm, was first heard by a woman in Ipswich in September 2017.
“It was waking me up in the night, it was absolutely terrifying,” the mother-of-two told The Ipswich Star. “I heard it at all times of the night – 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m. – it was sporadic, sometimes it would play once, other times it was over and over.”
She added that the Freddie Krueger-esque song left her stressed and questioning whether she was imagining things.
After several months of paranoia, the woman finally began calling her local authorities in July. But each time they responded to the call, the horrifying singing stopped upon their arrival.
Finally, on September 10, the county’s rapid response team caught the recording and tracked the sound to a warehouse a few hundred yards away.
A spokesperson for the property said the sound was actually an alarm that uses motion sensors, which were triggered by spiders crawling over the security cameras.
“The sound is only supposed to act as a deterrent for opportunistic thieves that come onto our property, and it’s designed only to be heard by people on our private land,” the spokesperson told the Star.
The warehouse is now working with the woman and other local residents to adjust the speaker volume so no one else will be left petrified by menacing singing children.
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