Do you hear noises in your house?

[alicejen]

I live in a semi - we can hear noises outside easily but I don't usually hear my neighbour. The attached house is split into 2 flats - upstairs and downstairs. Our hallway is what attaches us both.
They are Edwardian houses.

I keep hearing noises, they sound like they're in my house and sound like a phone. Either a chime like ring (twice) or a vibration noise. Sometimes I think I've imagined it but sometimes it's so clear I'm sure. It's just me and DP in the house. I hear it often when we are in the same room but I've heard it when he's out too. I always check all our devices to see if that's it - on two occasions it was our phones other times it hasn't been.

It's made me wonder if there's a second phone DP is hiding (with no SIM, not connected to WiFi and never gets charged )

It's driving me mad - has anyone else had this?!

Does he hear it? What does he say about it?

Are you upstairs or downstairs?

If downstairs it could just be your neighbours with their phone on the floor; old wooden boards can let things through very clearly.

Yes, I do. I lived alone here after my husband died until my adult kids moved back for the lockdown. I literally heard people walking around, talking and opening the fridge during the evening and at night. I live in a very rural, detached house with no nearby neighbours. The house is only 28 years old, and no, I don’t believe in the spirit world.

Yes our house creeks a lot and I can often hear/sense a general movement in the house but never a specific sound like a phone

Can dh hear it? How far back are you from the pavement, could it be a passer by?

We have the whole house - I've heard it both upstairs and downstairs. We've lived here almost 3 months which is when I began hearing it. Never heard anything in our old flat we lived in.

He doesn't usually hear it, no. On the two occasions it was my phone that rang he heard those. We were eating at the dining table and the vibration was heard from being on the wooden table in the study upstairs - so noise travels.

Today I heard two noises - one is the noise an iphone makes when sending a text (it was faint) - DP was sat next to me on the laptop working. Phone on the side.

The other was a vibration which sounded like it was at my desk but it wasn't - DP was on Zoom on a work call.

We have the whole house - I've heard it both upstairs and downstairs

Ah I see - I misread your OP, apologies!

Sound in old houses does travel strangely, but this would drive me NUTS.

I think it's probably from the neighbours. If he is keeping a secret phone surely he would have muted it/put it somewhere you wouldn't hear the vibration after the first time you heard it?

Also, bit of a coincidence that it started when you moved house, but never before.

If phones are on vibrate you can definitely hear them from attached neighbours - ours used to have his alarm as a vibration and it woke me up every day. Also whenever their landline rings I think it's ours- not quite the same I know. But we are terraced and rarely hear anything amazingly, so phone noises definitely seem to travel.

@NuffSaidSam that's my thought process. Also we are both home all the time - he is always in the same room as me so he would have to secretly charge the phone, secretly pay for it and never use WiFi (I am very concerned about security so monitor this as our speed is awful!) so it wouldn't make sense.

I also hope he's smart enough to mute the phone after the first time I heard it if there is a secret phone.

I feel insane. DP has poor sense of smell and hearing. He will occasionally go "I just heard it!" But it's my phone, or my watch or something.

It is driving me mad! I've gone through EVERY room in the house. I feel insane. The iMessage noise I heard today can't have been DP as I was looking at him as I heard it... he wasn't texting!

I have that where I work. I'm always checking my phone thinking I've heard it vibrate. I haven't worked out what it is, but I suspect it may be something silly like wind coming through the (not very good) frames or something.

If you've only just moved in, could it be a phone owned by the previous owners? In the loft, or maybe under the stairs?

Dont mean to be an arsehole and scare you but have you checked the attic?

We also live in an edwardian house and we can hear my neighbour's phone vibrate as I think they leave it on the floor at night.

Haha we have been on the attic - lots of crap up there. Any phone would have died by now as we've been here 3 months. Going to listen out for any noise today!

Just spoke to neighbour about it and they said they've never ever had phones on vibrate!