aibu to be afraid to sleep in my own bedroom after what happened last night?

[Rebecca2014]

I have never believed in ghosts and everything that has happened to me I always thought there is a reasonable explanation, even if I can't think of one! Something happened last night which has really freaked me out and I really need to be talked down.

Since I moved into this house a year ago I have noticed strange things, for example a few times there has been a loud bang coming from upstairs. I always run up there, expecting to see something that has crashed to the floor but nothing...nothing to say why the loud bang happened and I always think "Well I am sure there is an explanation to why this has happened, its not a ghost!"

I seen things move in front of my eyes, the most recent was my daughter ride on toy which moved forward on its own. "It must be gravity or the wind?" Even though window closed and I was sat on the sofa.

What happened last night was the freakiest thing I have ever experienced in my life. I was alone in my bedroom at night, door closed. I was woken up by what sounded like a female snoring or deep breathing, it echoes. I just sat up in bed and thought my little daughter had come into my bedroom and was asleep on the floor, I looked at the floor and no one there. The sound is still coming from the corner of the room, I opened my curtain and the sound is not coming from outside. I start getting freaked out now and switch on the light, the sound is still coming. I open my bedroom door, ready call to my husband downstairs asleep on the sofa and the sound just stopped.

I think could this sound be coming from my husband snoring downstairs? but the voice was definitely female and when I went downstairs my husband is not snoring, just sleeping soundlessly like he usually does.

My husband will not be home till Sunday and I am so scared to be alone in my bedroom tonight. I am just thinking if it was a ghost then she was mocking me snoring? or was trying to scare me and if that was the case then that just makes me even more afraid. Can someone please talk me down? ghosts do not exist and there must be an explanation for that sound in my room? Has what I wrote sound crazy and I need to get over myself.

Im mid terraced and can hear people walking around on solid floors , moving furniture, going up and down stairs etc. Our houses are 60 years old and solidly built.

The construction of our houses did not include joined floors , lofts or chimney breasts but we can still hear these sounds quite clearly.

When our neighbour on one side was poorly we heard her banging on the floor from 25 feet and a floor away from where she was in her house.

Try to get to know your neighbours habits .Do they slam doors or do the kids use the bed as a trampoline ? Thus sort of thing can fause vibrations. Do they have animals ? Even small animals can make a tremendous amount of noise.

In other words try to discover what is at the root of these events and try not to scare yourself .

Go outside and look at your roof, have you got wasps going in and out of the tiles somewhere, if so, it's a nest in your roof. People often say the sound of a nest in the loft sounds like snoring.

Thanks for the replies. The most reasonable explanation is that it is the neighbours, I live next door to a block of flats. I have never heard such clear snoring before in my own bedroom but maybe one of the neighbours was having a bad night and the sound was coming through both our windows, the corner of the room is right next door to the window!

I think the mystery is solved and I feel better now. At the time though it was very scary.

For months and months I could hear a scratchy scraping noise at night and only at night in the bedroom. I told my husband and he poo pooed it saying I was imagining it. It sounded like it was coming from the walls and at first I thought it was cockroaches or something like that (we live in the Med) but husband said no cavities, poured concrete and so still didn't believe me.

Eventually he heard it and not long after we discovered that we had Borer Beetles in the door frame. Subsequently found them in every door frame in the house. Lovely.

Check for bugs OP.

Glad you're feeling better about it.

R.e the walker moving, could be something like the wheels being wound up and stuck on carpet.

My conservatory and all the doors have been expanding and clicking/banging really loudly in this heat. The noise still makes me jump sometimes.

I live in a terraced house and can hear the neighbours turning over in bed never mind snoring! Also when the hall side go upstairs quietly it sounds like they're creeping round my house. Took some getting used to. Heard a loud bang one day, shot upstairs to look and it was a house three doors down!

As it was a Friday night I'd bet on a neighbour having had a lot to drink to make their snoring louder than normal and then sleeping with the window open but yes, do check for wasps too.

Ghosts don't exist. If they did, I doubt they'd sleep. What with being dead and all. And even if ghosts did exist and you happened to be being haunted by the ghost of a homicidal maniac, he can't hurt you because apart from the fact ghosts (even if they exist, which they don't) have never hurt anyone, your ghost is apparently fast asleep.

I suppose you might be incredibly unlucky and become the victim of a sleepwalking ghost....

Ok stand in the bedroom and say 'you are welcome to stay here but please do not frighten me - you are not welcome to do that'.

Believe or not - it's meant to work so will do no harm anyway.

There is no such thing as ghosts. They do not exsist. However, feeling 'spooked' even if it's irrational, is totally normal. You can't always work out what has caused a noise but you can keep reassuring yourself that it definitely wasn't a ghost.

It could well be the neighbours OP. For some reason sound can carry strangely at times. I was playing some classical music in my room one afternoon, it was on low because I was studying but neighbour came around to ask me to please turn it down. When she realised she could barely hear it in my house she asked me if she could come up and see and then we went to hers. Because of where I had the laptop, somehow it magnified the sound in her room while still being quiet in mine.

Not a clue how it did it, we were both very surprised. I moved the laptop and all was better.

Perhaps where your neighbours sleep is flush to your wall, or something?

My husband's snoring can for sure be heard through walls, he has a big problem with it, and it disturbs neighbours/other people in the house. May be worse in summer due to hayfever.

I think the most likely explanation though is a door creaking. In this weather, we keep lots of windows open and I have been startled a couple of times by bangs/door creaking which doesn't sound like a door but that's what it's been when I have gone to investigate.

Hope you are reassured.

Sound can travel very weirdly.

Somewhere I lived: My neighbours' voices sometimes came out of the meter cupboard in my hall.