- ♫ ♫ It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man's snoring ♫ ♫
A sinister recording of a children’s nursery rhyme being played repetitively late at night tormented a woman for over a year before investigators solved the mystery.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nursery-rhyme-late-night-mystery-loudspeaker-ipswich-alarm-spiders-a8541746.html
Alice Randle was one of several residents who heard the creepy rendition of “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man’s snoring” coming from somewhere outside their homes on the outskirts of Ipswich.
Sometimes the tune played just once at 2am or 4am, but other times it repeated over and over again for hours.
“It’s sung by what sounds like a very young child,” she told The Independent. “It’s very haunting, people have said it’s like something out of Freddie Krueger.”
Council inspectors found the child’s voice was being played through a loudspeaker on a warehouse a few hundred yards away on the Farthing Road industrial estate.
The sound is only supposed to act as a deterrent for opportunistic thieves that come onto our property, and it is designed only to be heard by people on our private land” said the site owners.
“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.”
Spiders and other insects are said to be responsible for 30 per cent of false burglar alarms, according to a survey of homeowners by the charity Which? earlier this year.
