Funny or creepy ? You decide Once , when I was a kid and my family was camping , alone , in a remote fjord in Iceland , my dad woke up in the middle of the night and distinctly heard the postman from our village , who was an eccentric older man , tramping heavily round the tent and talking to himself in a sort of hohum kind of way . Turned out it was one of those dreams where you think you ' re awake . Another time , we woke up with the tent surrounded by very quiet sheep . That many sheep together , completely quiet , are quite eerie . Plus , they were all looking at us . The voice of an arctic fox in the night can sound like there is someone being tortured or like maniacal laughter , depending on what call it ' s making . Both are creepy .