I’ve been watching videos of ravens speaking for like half an hour now. I’ve never heard this used as a way of debunking ghost stories in the woods but this is way better than standard skeptic material
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Your petrified homie: a raven spoke to me 
The virgin Humean: ah, but what is more likely? that something which violates all our background knowledge truly occurred, or that you were in error or simply telling a lie?
The virgin Humean: ah, but what is more likely? that something which violates all our background knowledge truly occurred, or that you were in error or simply telling a lie?
If someone heard “hello” or any of the full sentences as clearly as I heard in these videos, audio pareidolia would seem like a pretty poor explanation. It’s the kind of thing that would convince a skeptic but not anyone who’d actually had the experience.
When it comes to asking the creator, this is in the top 100. Why have birds be able to mimic sounds? Especially human voices.
More common explanation of those stories is people not recognizing what foxes sound like.
Edgar Allen Poe was absolutely lucid when he wrote The Raven, wasn't he...
Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.
remember what you were saying about logical explanations for ghost stories?
Jack Limpsy was building a pool for the summer when he heard a 'clink' while digging. He bent down and dusted off the mud. It was a chain. It didn't look too old, but it'd been buried for some time.
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I will never forget, during the Covid lockdown in Madrid, hearing the neighborhood magpies (a species from the corvid family) imitate children laughing & babies crying, outside the window of our bedroom. Also the sound of playground swings.
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I also wouldn’t discount the innate corvid desire to play pranks, if a raven saw that a person freaked out if it said something it would absolutely just add it into the repetoire
i had a conversation with a hidden raven this summer while hiking in scotland. it was concealed in dense foliage and making funny noises which i was imitating and we were going back and forth for a while
When I studied primatology, we referred to corvidae as 'feathered apes' based on their intelligence and communication skills.
If you haven't taught that bird to say "nevermore" you've really missed an opportunity.
mynahs are better than parrots at speaking as well. it creeps me out
She's on youtube too! She has a video of the Fable the raven talking & singing:
Jack Limpsy was building a pool for the summer when he heard a 'clink' while digging. He bent down and dusted off the mud. It was a chain. It didn't look too old, but it'd been buried for some time.
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I have a bird feeder by my back hedge and a couple of years ago I was startled to hear chickens in the croft behind the hedge. Sounded like 4 or 5 of them, took me an hour of searching before I realised it was Starlings mimicking my neighbours' chickens.
Struggling with the desire to have a corvid friend, and not wanting to disrupt their life in the wild.
Just a pair of Torresian Crows to follow me around and whisper to me the goings on of Midgard 
The Raven in Poe saying "Nevermore" probably happened, and in a woman's voice, driving him absolutely bonkers
but do they imitate people if they don't spend time with people? i've never lived somewhere ravens are common but i still get easily spooked in the woods, i think it's just spooky and our brains are primed to scare ourselves even more
Damn dude, someone could teach a raven to perfectly say "nevermore" and nothing else and then just let it loose in a city
I had one scream “Hey!” in a man’s voice multiple times at me late one night, some years ago. It was loud enough that it felt as if it was right next to me, it was only after the third “Hey!” that I was finally able to place where the voice was, and I saw a raven on a roof.
i’ve heard of people hearing eerie voices imitate them in the woods, like appalachia. I wonder how common corvids are there
Lyre birds and ravens (covids in general) are some of my favorite animals because they’re gorgeous, very smart, and can mimic so accurately they are indistinguishable from the real sounds.
Jack Limpsy was building a pool for the summer when he heard a 'clink' while digging. He bent down and dusted off the mud. It was a chain. It didn't look too old, but it'd been buried for some time.
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people of yore were far more connected to the natural world i find it doubtful they weren’t aware that ravens can mimic human speech
Not just ravens, we are overrun with crows in my area and I've come to realize they have a whole collection of vocalizations which sound not-like-birds. The ones who hang out in my pine tree have some pretty good human vocalizations going on.
Owls can also make a lot of different noises. Just heard one meowing last weekend. Have been down a deep rabbit hole ever since
I think the point of a ghost is that it is seen, either directly or through the corner of the eye. Bumps in the night and 'voices in the woods' are not ghosts in most stories. Ravens don't account for that.
Now I'm wondering if a human went into the woods and imitated a raven, would the ravens be equally creeped out
Do they learn to imitate in the wild?
I've only seen it when they are trained for it.
I used to live in an area with fairly personable ravens and, if any one of them ever said anything to me in perfect English I would not have been surprised in the slightest.
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now check out peacocks screaming lol i lived couple houses down from a person with one and everyday i would hear a woman screaming NOOOO! HELP!!! HELP ME! in the most blood curdling screams multiple times a day it was horrific lol
I love ravens. I wish they lived in my area, but we have crows instead.
check out the starlings too! I love their crazy alien voices when they mimic human speech 
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My neighbor had a talking crow! Scared the heck out of folks sometimes
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even butcherbirds can do this quite well, there used to be an australian magpie that lived on my street that perfectly imitated the sound of the dog next door's bark. very cute.
I have also heard "Mountain lions and Bobcats in heat" in this theory too. They sound like scary witch screams in the woods.
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