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Paranormal? Hearing ice cream van music at night

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Thisisscarystuff · 02/08/2023 19:40

Just wondering if anyone has experienced this, it’s very very strange and quite unusual and I don’t know what to make of it.

A couple of years ago my then 14 year old DD told me she would be lying in bed at night and would hear ice cream van music which would last a few seconds. She said it scared her a lot. I kind of dismissed it putting it down to any one of many rational explanations ie maybe someone was walking down the street and it was their phone, maybe it was our next door neighbours (we live in a semi).

Over the years she would tell me about this music which would play at random times but always at night. She said she would be crying under the covers she was so scared as the music was loud and came out of nowhere. Again I kind of dismissed it.

Until I heard it myself. DH, DD and I got home late last night about 1 am and we’re standing in the kitchen talking and all of a sudden this scary ice cream van music starts playing. DD is kind of paralysed with fear and starts screaming “did you hear it, that was the music I’ve been hearing in my room for years”.

Cant really think of a logical reason as to where this music was coming from. The neighbours are away on holiday so not them, we were in the kitchen so no one walking past with a phone etc.

Has anyone experienced this?

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whatamess100 · 02/08/2023 19:46

I've experianced several things over the years, child crying, foot steps up and down the stairs, bed shaking and in my new house ive heard a ladies voice call my childs name ( middle of the day) and a growl in my room. I've never heard random music. That does sound creepy. Did it sound like it was outside or actually in the house? I've not got any suggestions on what to do, but im sure others will be along soon.

Thisisscarystuff · 02/08/2023 19:52

It was definitely playing inside the house, like a loud blast of music which came from nowhere.

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Scousemousey · 02/08/2023 19:55

Some ice cream vans sound like baby mobile tunes. Are you sure none of your neighbours have little ones?

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Cosycover · 02/08/2023 19:55

Alexa?

EnthENd · 02/08/2023 19:56

It's the ice cream van. Only he's selling more 'interesting' merchandise. Didn't Vice City teach you anything? :-D

CFornot · 02/08/2023 19:57

It happened all the time when I was a uni. The ice cream man was also a drug dealer so worked at times you wouldn’t expect an ice cream van to be out and about.

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2023 19:57

I think your phone ringtone idea is a good bet. If you’re like us, you’ll have a window open somewhere atm, could sound like coming from indoors.

Utterlypeanuterly · 02/08/2023 19:59

We had this years ago. We could hear eerie music playing in the night. Turned out to be coming from a child's ride on toy car abandoned at the bottom of the garden.

Namechangedforspooky · 02/08/2023 19:59

Yep, drug dealing (or selling porn). Ours used to sell both apparently when I was a student

calmcoco · 02/08/2023 20:00

It is not the paranormal. It'll be someone's novelty doorbell or similar, only audible when the circs are right.

Cosycover · 02/08/2023 20:00

EnthENd · 02/08/2023 19:56

It's the ice cream van. Only he's selling more 'interesting' merchandise. Didn't Vice City teach you anything? :-D

😂😂😂😂😂

GarlicGrace · 02/08/2023 20:01

Random, but is there a church nearby? The one right outside my window (gahh) has a flaky carillon, which plays snatches of nursery tunes when it feels like it. I tune out the regular chimes, but the unexpected ones bore into my brain.

I'm gruesomely fascinated by the nocturnal drug-dealing vans!

XMissPlacedX · 02/08/2023 20:03

Bloody hell that sent a chill through me. Have you really never heard it before if it was that loud ? Your poor dd going through that, even if it is explainable it would still be scary.

XMissPlacedX · 02/08/2023 20:04

Just a thought, any weird neighbours around that would think it was a funny prank ?

Coffeaddict · 02/08/2023 20:05

EnthENd · 02/08/2023 19:56

It's the ice cream van. Only he's selling more 'interesting' merchandise. Didn't Vice City teach you anything? :-D

This was my thought. The ice cream van wharn I was in uni living in a student town was selling drugs. Most definetly only did the rounds at night

Limitedisall · 02/08/2023 20:07

Yes (some) ice cream vans are not only for ice creams!

In our previous house, our neighbours kept hearing a random tune at odd times. Was something like Oh Susanna.

They eventually worked out that their new doorbell was doing it - somehow it was being set off even when nobody was at the door.

That wasn't the tune it played at other times but apparently a number of tunes were programmed into it and it was being set off. Can't remember if they ever found out why it happened.

Theunamedcat · 02/08/2023 20:08

After watching CSI I have to ask any strange damp patches in your house? (There is an episode where the body had novelty boxers on it played a tune in the walls)

PandyMoanyMum · 02/08/2023 20:09

Do next door have a Ring doorbell? Ours chimes whenever it detects movement

Dombasle · 02/08/2023 20:11

Quite a few threads about it! 😱

Paranormal? Hearing ice cream van music at night
WunWun · 02/08/2023 20:12

An old music box/toy in the loft?

Cattenberg · 02/08/2023 20:13

Are you in Glasgow? I’ve seen ice-cream vans go round at 10 or 11pm there. I never found out what they were selling. The friend I was staying with forbade me from asking.

Thegrumpycup · 02/08/2023 20:14

Are you sure it's definitely inside the house? Agree that there are definitely ice cream vans selling more than ice cream at night in some areas.

It could also be an old child's toy going off. My kids have had a Hulk toy for years that seems to be cursed and goes off in the middle of the night.

Coffeaddict · 02/08/2023 20:14

Cattenberg · 02/08/2023 20:13

Are you in Glasgow? I’ve seen ice-cream vans go round at 10 or 11pm there. I never found out what they were selling. The friend I was staying with forbade me from asking.

Drugs, I went to uni it glasgow it was always drugs

Thekidsarefightingagain · 02/08/2023 20:18

I used to hear this at one of the houses. I lived in years ago and always wondered why an ice cream van was driving round at night! I had no idea it was drugs!