4 different people, all hearing the same creepy thing.

[applemousey]

Sorry, I did post this in health but got very little response. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this, or has any idea what it could be? (Spoken to neighbours, no church/shops close by)

My grandmother has been declining with what seems the beginning of dementia for a couple of years. She's now in palliative at home, (cancer) with my DF staying there.

She complained of 'church music' a few years ago every night, keeping her awake. Also the neighbours were 'having parties' playing 1920s music. It was assumed by family (and drs) it was the onset of dementia.

A year ago my aunt and uncle stayed there (they live overseas) and my uncle complained of the music keeping him awake.

My DF stayed a few months back and heard it himself. He looked everywhere and couldn't find it, it had woken him up.

The care nurse who has been staying overnight, unprompted said she had heard the music, she said it's quite common, she's heard it before in other dying patients homes as well as other nurses reporting similar experiences. Just wondering if anyone has had this before? All I can find online is audible hallucinations, but surely this can't happen with 4 separate people? And is there a logical explanation?

Perhaps the aliens are masters of disguise and they are indeed traipsing up the high st.

OP, you do realise you now nee to take one for the team and stay over there, in order to report back and satisfy the Mumsnet massive?
You will of course also need to check the bathroom for funny clicking sounds, and make sure the ironing board doesn’t go missing...

I am also usually very accepting of woo - but only when all other more workaday solutions have been thoroughly explored and ruled out.

Unless your family has a much higher than usual rate of sensitivity to 'woo' (also including the care nurse), I'd think it's unlikely to be woo. Far far more likely (using Occam's Razor) be to something perfectly rational that nobody has thought of yet.

It's the neighbours' niche music interests. It's as simple as that. As for the carer, who knows what she gets out of talking such bollocks.

I moved in with my parents a few years ago and would sometimes go into the garden late at night when I couldn’t sleep.

They lived in the middle of nowhere so it was peaceful other than the noise of cows and sheep occasionally

In the night on more than a few occasions I heard steam trains.
It sounded far away but it was clear as anything, including the whistle as the wheels on the track.

I checked and the closed train line was 8 miles away as the crow flies

But there was a discontinued train line just a mile away but the tracks had all been taken up so I assumed it couldn’t be that

I’d forgotten all about it until reading this thread

Does anyone know if sounds can travel 8 miles ?

The care nurse who has been staying overnight, unprompted said she had heard the music, she said it's quite common, she's heard it before in other dying patients homes as well as other nurses reporting similar experiences

They're NOT always auditory hallucinations.
Society has been so brainwashed to believe that only what we see- and we're told is true - exists.
Angels, ancestors and other Divine spirits (not demons) are always with us, especially when we're ill or dying.
I've heard what i call 'celestial music' and angels singing.....i'm not the only one.....and none of us 'hallucinate'.

also, parallel realities/dimensions exist....

Have you see 'The Ghost Train' Rebel ?

I don't know about exact distances but sound can definitely travel much further at night. Partly damp night air, partly everything else being so quiet. I hear church bells very clearly at night, that I don't in the day. Depends on wind direction too.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nursery-rhyme-late-night-mystery-loudspeaker-ipswich-alarm-spiders-a8541746.html

I could hear the city hall clock chiming when I let the dog out in the small hours. It's about two miles away as the crow flies. Don't ever hear it during the day.

Could it be distant wind chimes? Our's are bamboo and have a deep tone.

Any 'surveillance', monitors, fall alarms? Our babymonitor channeled pilots speaking with control tower.

Actually coming to think of it, it is not true, it was the radio channeling airtrafic, babymonitor was other monitors in the neighborhood.

Does anyone know if sounds can travel 8 miles ?

It can happen its IIRC a form of "ducting" a similar mechcansim to the effect you get when you can receive TV interfernce from another country.

There was a pub near here and some swore blind they coudl hear and see train carridges then someone recorded it and indeed it was a nearby train!!

Any 'surveillance', monitors, fall alarms? Our babymonitor channeled pilots speaking with control tower.

Yes perfectly possible, aircraft radios use "AM" amplitude Modulation that can very easily be received on things that arent inteneded for it! baby monitors due to the price arent the most well enginnered receivers inthe world and there are only so many frequncies that can be used for them, so easily possibel your sharing the same channel frequency as your neighbours!..

I believe it’s spiritual

Are there any small holdings or farm sheds nearby? My ex-FIL leaves a radio in with his chickens overnight to scare away foxes. Could be something like that.

@Tlollj

Perhaps the aliens are masters of disguise and they are indeed traipsing up the high st.

And if you've never seen them it shows what a good disguise they can produce.

Can you try to get it on tape?

Hello, I had this random music problem also. It was due to my having multiple Amazon Alexa Dots at home, the one in the spare bedroom would pick up my music requests and play!

Ever since we've had white noise machines for our babies/toddlers we all hear random music in the house when they are on. The fan and other standard white noise does it too now.

If you google 'white noise hear music' or something like that you can read the science behind it. I'd guess there's some white noise in or around the house that's causing it.

Different white noise causes me to hear different songs. It's pretty disconcerting. I don't believe in anything woo. I'm an ex medic so it's science all the way for me.

What a beautiful post.
I worked in care homes for many years. When anyone was end of life we often heard and felt a presence. A few people heard music playing.
Take it a sign that someone is looking over you grandmother Xx

This doesn't explain the four people but I had a ninety eight year old relative who started complaining about very loud music disrupting her sleep. She was very on the case and coherent up to this point soe we checked ourselves but there was no sound. The doctor told us it was an auditory hallucination brought on by small strokes. She declined quite quickly after that, seeming to develop dementia.

My DGF died afew years ago from pancreatic cancer but when he became very ill he was moved downstairs unto a makeshift bedroom in the old dining room
My DGM kept a baby monitor by her bed upstairs incase he awoke and needed her, One night she woke to her him speaking to my DF (who was sleeping in the living room) despite him not having spoke for days previously - My DF actually thought he had dreamt it until my DGM confirmed she had heard it too

Two nights later she awoke again to her him humming/singing along to his previous favourite “Church song” before falling silent again (again he had not spoken at all to anyone between this brief night time conversation with DF) he slept all day the following day before passing away in his sleep that night
His singing along to music only he could hear was the last time DGM heard his voice,

I’m not religious but DGM is and DGF was and I know she takes a great comfort in the idea he could hear the music

When we moved into our old house, dd used to hear "fairies" at night tinkling and laughing. Not every night but regularly. My mum then stayed over and said they'd kept her awake. I got up for a drink one night and heard it.

Turned out after much investigation that it was the wind turbines 2 miles away. With the right wind direction, the sound travelled and warped into the most peculiar melody. Our neighbours had been worrying for months that their house was haunted!

@1Morewineplease

1970s ghost/horror story en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Tape