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One time I was driving home from the airport with my wife, it was late, maybe 1am.

We are in the middle of nowhere, turning right at a junction. There were no houses, we were surrounded by fields. It was super quiet. Off in the distance, sort of behind us and to the right (so drivers side window) I could hear ... Bells. Distant ringing bells, not big booming ones like a church bell but like small hand bells or a wind chime. Didn't think much of it and kept driving.

Several miles later, about fifteen minutes of driving I'd say, we were coming up to another junction also in the middle of fields. I stopped to look both ways, and to my surprise I heard bells again. This time I switched off the engine so my wife could hear them too, which she did. Nobody else was around and we were far away from where I first heard them. Were we being followed by bells?

My wife was a bit freaked out, so she made me drive off instead of investigating. To this day I have no idea what it was. If the car was making the noise, well it had never made them before or since. We've also driven that road a few times again and never heard them.

My mostly-joking theory is fairies were trying to lure us into a trap. I don't know what else it could've been!