Hey, here’s an incredibly fucked up story for you, from the deeply haunted island that is Great Britain: spiders have been blamed for a bizarre, creepy nursery rhyme that has blared over parts of Ipswich in the United Kingdom.
“Excuse me?” you may well ask. Well, here are the basics: a “tormented” mother told the Ipswich Star that she had been woken on a nightly basis by the distant strains of a weird rendition of the classic kid’s nursery rhyme It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, which played repeatedly. Here’s a recording of the song as recorded by another concerned Ipswich local:
Yes, it’s fucked.
The woman called the council about the music, and the next time it played workers tracked it down to a nearby industrial estate, where the music was playing through a loudspeaker. Here’s a statement from the council:
This is unique in our experience – it was difficult to believe a nursery rhyme would be playing in the middle of the night.
But we do take all complaints extremely seriously and asked the residents who contacted us to let us know when it was actually playing so we could investigate properly
We took a call around midnight and immediately went to the Bramford Road area to find out more – we did hear the nursery rhyme playing from an industrial premises and it sounded very eerie at that time of night. We appreciate that people living nearby would find it quite spooky.
So why was the owner of this industrial premises blaring some insane Hereditary shit over their loudspeakers? They say it’s an automated system to deter thieves, and that it was being triggered by spiders crawling over the motion sensors:
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. We are now aware of the problem – the motion sensors were being triggered by spiders crawling across the lenses of our cameras and it looks like we’ve had it turned up too loudly. We’ve spoken to the resident who brought it to our attention and adjusted it so this shouldn’t happen again.
Well, that’s just about the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Thanks, England!
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