Gate Creak Sound Effect

📝 Description

This Gate Creak sound effect is a garden gate groaning open on rusted hinges, a long uneven complaint of metal that rises and falls as the gate moves rather than holding one steady note. It is the classic sound of somebody arriving somewhere they were not invited, and it needs no visual support at all to do that job. Horror and mystery projects use it constantly, but it is equally at home in period drama and rural settings where an old property simply sounds its age whenever anybody walks through.

📊 Sound Details

Duration

0:07

Format

MP3

File Size

105 KB

Added

August 14, 2026

⚖️ License & Source

This sound is released under the CC0 license (public domain) — free to use in personal and commercial projects, no attribution required.

Original recording by recklessgoomba via Freesound. View original source →