Weird noises you never quite find the real reason for — does your brain picture ridiculous causes for them?

[Raxacoricofallapatorian]

Does anyone else's brain fill in unlikely reasons for unidentifiable noises that intermittently happen around them?

I've just heard the reasonably frequent "someone dragging an empty yoghurt pot on a string along the pavement" noise from outside.

And I may never hear this one again, but my next-door neighbour who recently moved out used to sometimes make this sound that I swear was exactly like she was rolling snooker balls around, up and down, directly on the party wall. I suppose now she's gone, I'll never find out what it was.

It’s usually a mass murderer creeping around my back garden, or a massive water leak somewhere in the house. So not too disastrous!

Jesus, that sounds terrifying Dusty. I suppose I should be grateful my brain leans more towards the benignly absurd

Oh yes! Someone heavy breathing outside my living room window late at night. Absolutely convinced there's a peeping tom.

My ring doorbell doesn't pick anything up and there's no way they could climb silently over the fence/hedge between me and next door.

Not to mention, I've looked out of the window and there's nobody there.

It will remain one of life's mysteries

The heavy breathing will be a hedgehog. They are ridiculously noisy for such a small creature.

Are you absolutely sure you don't live inside a survival horror video game, Dino? <shudder>

Yes! I had an upstairs neighbour who caused this heavy thudding and dragging noise after midnight. My imagination said he's dragging a dead body rolled up in a rug across the room and the thud was from dropping their rigger mortis-ed legs!
In reality he was a shift worker working out with weight, shifts furnite around for space.

Oh! A hedgehog! I hope so There's gaps under the fence/hedge it could get through

Not that I'll ever be brave enough to go outside and check because the peeping tom might get me 😱 👀

Could be a pervert hedgehog.

I'm with @DustyLee123
Definitely a mass murderer lurking in the garden.
I'm such a fanny that I can't even look out of the window when it's dark.
My imagination runs riot if the dogs ears prick up.
The strangest thing for me is my ndn, single mum with a teenage ds, absolutely no noise from their house, no TV sounds, no radio, no sound of doors closing absolutely nada, complete silence plus you never see a light on, the only signs that the house is occupied is her car, see her leave and arrive home from work, occasionally see the ds and sometimes a window is cracked open.
You don't even hear a vacuum cleaner.
The garden is completely overgrown, I'm talking weeds higher than the 6ft fence.
The silence really freaks me out

Well, I have tinnitus following Covid,can hardly hear anything "out there" in my right ear. Nothing as exciting as you lot. Normally phones ringing, I checked, they hadn't. Often in the evening, sounds like an HGV nearby,there isn't one! Church bells,last night,in the middle of the night... church bells! Haven't limited hearing in the other ear, and twice recently, DH has asked "can you hear that". As if!!! Tells me it sounds like neighbours are drilling through the wall. We're detached,our neighbours don't even hang a picture. He has very acute hearing,so I reckon he can hear building work about a mile away.