WHAT is breathing in DS's room??

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

The other day, DS7 told us that he could hear something breathing in his room at night. He doesn't believe in ghosts (thank God) but is understandably freaked out.

He told me again tonight that he could hear it, so first I lay in his bed and listened, then we both did and held our breath. I think I heard something...Like very quiet breathing, a bit like when our dog is deeply asleep, but I couldn't hear it clearly and couldn't tell where it was coming from or what was causing it.

Checked DS room thoroughly, including under his bed, to try to reassure him, but it didn't work and he's now asleep in my bed for the time being.

DH and my best guess is it's coming from next door, as noise does carry from there. No idea what though. Ideas please!

Oh, and as I was writing this, DDog just howled in her sleep and scared the crap out of me.

Oooh that’s freaky! I was thinking the next door neighbour too or some noise coming from the pipes?

When did he first hear it?

Gas leak?

I hear breathing noises sometimes in my bedroom, but I think it’s the draught in the blocked up chimney breast that my beds next too. Do you have anything that could be letting air in?

This is really weird. I slept in my son's room last night as he was in our bed, and I had exactly the same thing. I concluded the that the noise was coming from outside - maybe around 50 yards from the house, but I have no clue what it was. Sounded exactly like breathing - same sound, same rhythmic pattern. Could it be the same thing as you're experiencing?

Was it leftover balloons from a birthday party, swaying in the draft under a bed?

Not that that has happened to me

Next door neighbours? Do you have windows open that are normally shut?

Could it be his bed moving every so slightly as he lies in it? His pillow/case moving against each other?
A clock or mechanism nearby that is supposed to be silent ?
The toilet cistern as it fills the last bit. Our takes ages to do the final few centimetres.
The combi boiler doing its own thing .Ours does a blow-off (cant think what else to call it) in the middle of the might and guaranteed to scare the crap out of the listener.

Well there is a blocked up chimney breast, but I don't know why he'd only be hearing it now. It isn't especially windy atm. It's not really a 'pipes' noise (and that made me think of that bloody ghostwatch halloween special!). Hard to say when he first heard it as DS's grasp of time is a bit unreliable, but he says a few days.

It’s not a picture of Rachel under his bed, is it...?

Air coming down your boiler flue? If the boiler cupboard is near your ds's room try listening in there and see if the sound is any louder.

I've heard something similar before but can't remember what it was or even if I ever find out (sorry not much help). Just to ease your mind about the gas leak you can google the sound effect to rule it out.

Curtains moving in a draught due to an open window can sound a bit like breathing. Could it be that?

Probably a troll

A fox in the distance?? I had this exact thing when I was a kid and it turned out it was a fox screeching far away. Horrid, creepy noise.

I had a 'silent' clock. I got rid of it because it made a noise, does he have something 'silent'?

We have thin walls here, but can't say I've ever heard my neighbour breathing. Any air vents or fireplaces in the room? Can you record the sound? Is it louder in certain parts of the room? Does it start at a certain time?

Do you have salt and holy water

This happened in our house. Something "breathed" in dd's room.

It was the wind turbines in the distance, think a few miles away. If the wind blew right, you could hear the rhythmic whum whum of them.

Sorry, cross post. Has it only recently started?

That ghost watch programme scared the crap out of me

Argh, posted something and it disappeared.

Sound's not loud enough to record.

Not a fox, unless it's living in the wall and trying very hard to remain undetected!

Checked for a Rachel when I was under the bed - nada

Unlikely, but has a neighbour got a lawn sprinkler? They can make strange noises, especially if they rotate. Presume you've not changed anything in your own house recently.

Could it be a toy with batteries running very low like a motorised train?

our freesat box makes a weird bubbly wheezy noise, I don't hear it from my seat, but dh does on the sofa. He was moaning about an odd noise, and I just thought it was something from ds2 in the next room on his computer, however I sat in dh's sofa the other day to do some knitting, and I could hear the weird noise so I tracked it down! I have no idea why it would do that!

Anything like that in his room??

I was freaked out putting the baby to bed a few nights in a row, by what turned out to be the curtains/blind swooshing across the windowsill. Having the windows open in the heat, but not being used to it, and didn't realise that the air swooses in and out like it does. Could it be that?

Soola I am NOT clicking on that just in case

Hard enough being the pragmatic grown up - even harder when your DC goes all Haunting of Hill House. If he starts talking about the Bent Neck Lady I'm putting him on eBay.

BTW when I was under his bed, he sneaked round behind me and poked me in the back, the little sod Could almost believe that he's planted some kind of noise maker.