To be really shitting myself? Think we may have a guest.

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To cut a long story short........ Moved to our lovely detached (this is relevant) house at the start of the year and everything has been fine and dandy, we have plenty of space, 3 large bedrooms, family bathroom, downstairs w.c. conservatory etc.... The house is 30s style with bay windows etc

Anyhoo, a couple of months ago dh were in bed on a sunday morning a lovely bright morning, birds singing outside etc and started to hear banging noises coming from the attic it was coming from both the outside wall where the bay window is and the wall opposite (next to dd1 bedroom) as soon as I sat up in bed it stopped immediatley. Then the following weekend it happened again, this time I kept myself laid down with my eyes closed and it carried on for a good 5/6 mins untill there was a loud bang that shocked me and I sat up, again it stopped and DH and I had the "what the fuck was that?" conversation.

We haven't really thought about it or spoken about it until now, we have been upstairs with DD I have been in the shower etc, DH waiting to get out of work overalls and jump in etc and started to play with DD and is jumping around, doing a silly little dance etc to make her laugh and the banging started again only this time really loud and was echoing DH's banging. This happened around half an hour ago, it went on for around 10 mins.

If this is not a ghost what the hell else could it be? I am at home during the day with DD and am now bricking it for tomorow and being home alone.

pipes... ghosts do not exist.

Don't freak out. It DEFINITELY isn't a ghost. This be for the fact that ghosties are nowt but fictional botty wipe.

It's probably likely to be caused by something heating, or an animal doing something. Get up there and get it checked!

You say echoing your dhs banging. what was your dh actually doing?

Who you gonna call?

Ghostbusters!

Its prob a trapped animal or you have a small person up there trying to get on the property ladder

I'm with those that say 'water hammer' - pipe problem. We had it, and it could sound absolutely unearthly. I don't think you have a phantom lodger.

Next time it happens, just ask out loud if there the banging is coming from a ghost. You will get your answer.

If the answer is yes, get your local priest round for an exorcism. They do them loads apparantly.

and I've also jsut remembered the time we lived in fife and heard noises which sounded like they were coming from the left hand corner of the living room ceiling - tapping and banging. So the contractors went up into loft and then said we had a "problem" and they would lay traps. Never did find out what it was, but sounded like hundreds of whatever it was having a disco!

I'm convinced, it must be a ghost or other phantomley apparition mustn't it? there is obviously no other explanation, especially as you husband has been up to check.

Probably a wobbly joist somewhere, we had this in our last flat it would bang and clank away.
You need to send Sarah Beany up there!

Maybe it's Tyrion Lannister

Yup. Pipes I reckon.

If you and your DH are at a loose end, you could get a long ball of string and loads of clattery things and mark out a grid side to side in the attic with the metal items hanging on the strings. Then keep the loft hatch open and wait for the trap to be set off!

Poltergeists . Mischievous buggers they are .

You need the wine oclock evening crowd - everyone is too sober rational at this time of day for this kind of thread.

It is mostly likely the water pipes, known as "water hammer". We get that here intermittently, though the sound seems to come from the cellar but could actually originate anywhere. From what I gather from our plumber and from reading d-i-y forums, plumbers hate water hammer because it can be so difficult to locate where it comes from.

I think (but I'm not an expert) that there can be intermittent differences in water pressure coming into your house depending on fluctuations on the pressure in the water main, which could be affected by whatever your neighbours are getting up to.

Don't be misled by the fact that your house is detached. Many years ago, a friend mentioned strange, intermittent, sounds in the house she'd just moved into, which was detached but in a row of detached houses. On talking with her neighbours, she learned that the contractor who had built all those houses, instead of putting down a separate concrete base for each individual house, had put down a single base spanning underneath several houses. The sounds she was hearing were muffled sounds from adjoining neighbours that were conducted through the concrete base.

Op, maybe you have a creeper?

Watch this

This is, seriously, as advised previously : pipes/ROUS (Rodents Of Unusual Size)/Odd temperature based creaking that oldish buildings perpetrate purely for the pant-pooping of their occupants/a random bloke living in your wall space like that short story I once read.

HTH

Seriously though, I doubt those long passed are venting their feelings via your roofspace. Investigate. Could be racoons.

We get magpies on the roof pecking at the moss. Unbelievable noise, like someone knocking to come in really loudly. Difficult to work out where the noise was coming from at first, it sounded like it was in the walls, but strangely human iyswim.

Squirrels.

Pontipines. Bastards. They get everywhere.

Can you ask the previous owners/tenants about it?

It could be aliens.. worth a thought.

best you call Ghostbusters.