Years ago I woke up my family due to the heavy, booted steps sounding from the wooden veranda outside. Someone moved very slowly from window to window. Then we heard a very, very bad cough, and the heavy booted steps moved around the corner of the house to the backdoor.

When my father gripped something heavy (a firepoker, if I remember right)and illuminated the garden with the flashlight, we saw an old hedgehog... producing incredible noises...