I live in a very rural area and I keep hearing things I genuinely can't explain
I live in a secluded part of a country estate. There aren't many people around me, there are very few footpaths, and the back of my house looks straight out over open fields. My bedroom is at the back too, so it's basically just woods and fields outside my window. So it was around half 7 in the evening today, I was in my bedroom watching a creepy instagram video when I heard what sounded exactly like a group of young children and i thought it might have come from the reel but it sounded too real so i paused it and still heard the children. I leaned out my bedroom window and asked my stepmum if she could hear it to which she said yes and it got louder and came from the direction of some private fields nearby. Naturally, i was concerned because this is an estate where a lot of gamekeepers are shooting and pedestrians are restricted to walk down certain bits, and the nearest public footpath from where i live is about a mile and half away, far downhill. But undoubtedly, I could hear their voices. I could hear them laughing. And I could hear them singing. They were singing the melody of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” / the alphabet song, except they were just going “la la la la la…” following the melody, and laughing.
And I mean I genuinely heard children. It wasn't just some random noise that reminded me of children. I could distinguish multiple voices, the singing, the melody and the laughter. The problem is that there are no children living near me. I'm in a very secluded rural area, and there aren't any schools, nurseries or campsites for around 5 miles away. There isn't an obvious reason why a group of really young children would be wandering around the fields at such a time.
The sound seemed to be coming across the fields, rather than from inside or immediately around my house. It was also happening on and off rather than continuously. I'm obviously aware of the normal explanations sound travelling unusually far, echoes, someone playing a recording, wildlife, etc. But I've lived here long enough to know what the area normally sounds like, and this was genuinely bizarre.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this, especially hearing children's voices or singing somewhere there shouldn't be anyone?