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

180 replies

beatrixkitto · 28/09/2011 17:38

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.

OP posts:
TheBolter · 28/09/2011 21:00

One of the student houses that I once lived in had some strange goings-on in the loft. At random times of day, often early on a Sunday morning, my housemate could hear a dragging, shuffling sound in the attic above her room. I sat there with her listening to it once, was very strange. Sounded as if a body was being dragged across the floor.

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 28/09/2011 21:00

I know it's miles from Halloween, but was perusing youtube and just scared the crap out of me.

Georgimama · 28/09/2011 21:03

I know the OP's house is detached, but some terraced houses have communal attics so the noises may be emenating from another house in a terrace entirely. The OP clearly has some kind of pest in her attic or a pipe problem.

Is there a different between an attic and a loft, btw?

MissVerinder · 28/09/2011 21:07

Ah, this is serendipitous.

Today, DD has told me aaaaall about a scruffy man, called "Chomo" who jumps up and down the stairs.

I can only hope it is an imaginary friend, as the house is only 2 years old.

I'm sure your banging is the pipes or due to the warm weather, craneflies have been breeding up. They lay their little eggs in the moss on your roof, and the birdies land on it and peck them all out. Have you got a mossy roof? Bits of moss around the house?

Bet you've got a crow or something landing on there and pecking away at the little suckers.

My explanation for the banging in rhythm with the jumping is that LO was jumping hard enough to dislodge the critters, and the crow was eating them up as they fell out.

Case- closed.

BeerTricksPotter · 28/09/2011 21:09

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hormonesnomore · 28/09/2011 21:10

Smallbrownbird I read your post as "We get bagpipes on the roof pecking at the moss." For some strange reason Grin

That would account for some very strange noises I'd think.

MumblingRagDoll · 28/09/2011 21:20

MissVerinder my DH has a friend called Chomo! Could be him. He's a bit odd.

MaryPoppinsMagic · 28/09/2011 21:31

Grin at you crazzzy ladies!

OP i would most certainly say it is the pipes / floor boards.. Old house = weird and creepy noises coming from everywhere!

When the banging happens and your in bed has the water / heating recently turned off or been on?

when dh jumps it is more than likely the house and all its oldness responding to being jumped on.. how would you react if you were a 30's house and jumped on?

Jellykat · 28/09/2011 21:40

I vote pipes
Failing that i vote TV Aerial knocking in the wind
Failing that i vote Vermin
and if all else fails... Bah, it's just a ghosty 'tis all

MPM Not sure if i'd like to be jumped on by OPs DH, mind you if he's tall dark and handsome.. Who knows? Grin

TheLadyEvenstar · 28/09/2011 21:42

WTWTW.........Fuck you I just had a heart attack!!!!!!!!!

very funny though!

Strumpypumpy · 28/09/2011 21:49

"squirrels" are probably rats.... Scurrying about when you wake them with your activities. Try environmental health or ring the rat man.

Marshy · 28/09/2011 21:53

Yes, my first thought would have been a ghost, too Hmm

snowybun · 28/09/2011 21:59

omg just reading through this thread and Dh is watching rude tube they have just had a clip on where they added farts to clips of derreck and yvette just laughed so hard I need a wee.

Sorry doesn't help op but the timing was spot on

MrsJasonBourne · 28/09/2011 22:06

As I type this I am sitting here in my living room listening to rats or mice scratching and scuffling around in the roof of the single story extension bit of the room. It has a sealed in roof space so to get in and have a proper look would involve taking the roof tiles off and cutting through.

I'm fucking annoyed. I've got no idea how they're getting in. And we've just had all the wall cavities filled which we thought might stop them.

Little bastards. I can hear them gnawing away at something. God knows what they're destroying up there, the roof timbers I expect.

Do you think a ghost would get rid of them for me?

Deesus · 28/09/2011 22:06

WhereTheWildThingsWere Why why why why why did I click on that link. I am such a plant pot. Just about pooed myself, did my 'proper' scream, then started laughing at myself. And I'm sat in by myself. Not a great look...

madam52 · 28/09/2011 22:08

Next time send DH out for help/plumber/priest/whatever and be sure to lock yourself in behind him - in fact double bolt the door.

THEN TURN ROUND SLOWLY

GrinGrinGrin

[watches too many horror films]

ilovesprouts · 28/09/2011 22:08

maybe ya got jedward up there ShockWink

grumplestilskin · 28/09/2011 22:16

morning banging: is your heating on a timer/thermostat? if so its the heating kicking in when timed/when temp drops, so = pipes! last place i lived sounded like a building site in the morning when the heating/water heater kicked in

evening: same, you were in the shower!

Salmotrutta · 28/09/2011 22:37

I can't be bothered to read the whole thing.

It's your pipes.

OK?

Salmotrutta · 28/09/2011 22:38
cheekeymonkey · 28/09/2011 22:41

It's the DH with his 'loveglove' on Grin

manic · 28/09/2011 23:22

are you a) assessing people's reactions to the "unexplainable" or b) in the process of mapping out a plot to the book you are writing.....

Glitterandglue · 28/09/2011 23:34

I reckon it's Pipes. Not the pipes, Pipes the ghost from BBC's Ghostwatch.

CheshireDing · 29/09/2011 05:06

We had funny noises when we moved in to our current house 3 years ago, we couldn't work it out as it seemed random but not timed with bad weather/right time of year for critters etc.

DH was convinced it was squirrels, I was not.

Eventually to cut a long story short it turn out to be some guttering around the side of the house which somehow when the windows were open at night sounded like it was coming from the complete other end of the house.

libelulle · 29/09/2011 05:59

In your shoes i'd be hoping it was a ghost, as plumbers are expensive, whereas you could really leave a ghost to it, safe in the knowledge there was nothing wrong with your central heating. Shame ghosts don't actually exist, eh

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