Just heard footsteps...

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Eeeek! In the house with my dd and it's just the two of us and clearly heard footsteps running across the landing. Sounded like a child. Not neighbours as we are detached 😰

Its could be a cat that got it or a mouse. Or you have a ghost.

Freaky!!! Have you gone and checked? I’ve hung Halloween decorations up on our window and I keep walking into the living room thinking there’s someone standing at the window so I also have The Fear OP

Magpies on the roof, in my experience they sound just like someone moving around inside the house.

No! We were both sitting on the sofa. No pets and birds on roof doesn't usually sound like that.

Spooky👻

This happens in ours frequently. Once my dog looked at me as if to say wtf was that!!!!

I was going to suggest wood pigeons on the roof. They are so loud! Alternatively, rat under the floorboards?

I remember when I was a kid in our old house, always used to hear footsteps and banging.
My mum used to make up all excuses for what it may be but it was very odd

I saw a reflection of legs in our old black marble fire place walking past my living room door, which was positioned behind me a few years ago. Wasn't long after my ds2, who was about 2 at the time, had been playing in my bedroom (bungalow) while I was in doing the dishes. He ran into the kitchen terrified, telling me there was a lady in there. He was distraught. Wouldn't let me take him back in the room for a long time, and if I did carry him in he would hide his face in my shoulder. I eventually had to talk to the lady and pretend she was a nice lady and I was saying hello to her to calm him down.
There was a few strange things happened within a couple of months, including the fire guard banging off the wall in the living room. Just a couple of times one night. DP used to work away a lot and I had to get my mum to come and stay with me for a while 😂 I'm a complete shite bag when it comes to the thought of ghosts. I'm scared of nothing else. I know rationally, I should only be afraid of other people but I'm not, just the super natural.

Of course it would happen when I'm alone! Bloody typical! House is usually so noisy I wouldn't even notice.

I've experienced stuff in other houses I've lived in, but never this one. We sometimes get pigeons on the roof, but never hear them downstairs. The thing that freaked me out was that the floorboards creak in a certain place and heard that too. We are definitely the only ones in the house.

Well I'm upstairs now, may sleep with the radio on in case there's anything else!

Have you put your heating or hot water on this evening? Pipes under the floorboards can make all kinds of noises, particularly if there is air trapped in there. Equally, flooring can make a noise like footsteps- in many modern houses, the sheets used for flooring are often nail-gunned into place instead of being screwed down. The boards move down the nails when stepped on and then pop back up when it suits them (dependant on factors such as temperature, length of the nails, lardiness of whoever stepped on the floor etc).

Traditional floorboards also made footstep-like noise due to changes in temperature.

As PP have noted, rodents also make quite a racket.

‘Dead people’ are a long way down the list of possible causes, so don’t worry.