Phantom baby noises on monitor

[troodiedoo]

My five month old dd has actually gone to sleep earlier than me for once so I'm using the video monitor.

I'm watching her sleeping soundly but every now and again hear a faint baby crying or making noise. Is this normal interference or do I have a ghost in the house?

Is it picking up a neighbours monitor? I've known this to happen before, especially in terraced/semi detached houses.

Well it's definitely not a ghost, so I think it must be interference do any of your neighbours have babies?
Also congratulations on the sleeping baby!

Haha this made me giggle.

If my daughter made noises when I turned it off. It would remember them and when I turned it back on it would make the noise again yet she would be fast asleep haha. Used to frighten me no end!

I'm sure it's just interference. Although sometimes I think having the monitors makes you think you hear them because you're listening for it.

It's even more freaky when you watch the video and little specs of dust fly past the camera! Imagination overload!!!

Be careful about what you say about your neighbours in the baby's room..someone else might be listening to you!!

I remember being careful about what I said in the nursery as my neighbour had a baby a few weeks before me. It will be someone else's baby OP.

I'm in a detached house and the one next door is empty. No other babies nearby that I know of.

I was joking I know rationally that ghosts aren't real. But it's quite unnerving!

peaceloveandbiscuits thanks! She's normally a night owl so nice to have time to myself.

Change the channel on the monitor and receiver.

This once happened to me when I was working overnight with a baby. In the middle of the night I woke up to hear a baby crying and a man's voice saying "shhh be quiet", I flew upstairs to see a peaceful sleeping baby, then realised that it was the next door neighbours monitor.

I've also had a weird thing happen when I've looked after a baby that's been crying and fussy a lot; when they've finally gone to sleep I can still hear the crying in my head as I'm trying to get to sleep.

NannyR that's terrifying!

Will look up how to change the channels, thanks all

Gem1010 that is frightening! It freaks me out when she wakes up and looks right at the camera. They glow in the night vision

I used to pick up taxis quite a lot until I realised you could change the channel. It freaked me out for ages though.

I still hear shouts of 'mum' when the boys are at school, I think sometimes your head goes a bit mad xx

Haha HabbyHadno

Tbh this is strengthening my resolve to keep her in our bedroom. I can't be doing with this kind of thing waking me up at night!

Our Baby monitor used to Pick up the Locsl shop 3 doors down. Every time someone entered the shop we would hear a loud doorbell Noise (they had one to let them know someone was entering the shop) and then a few seconds of people talking. Really creeped us out as it we Moved in when DD was 5 weeks old, we thought it was haunted at first, saw the funny side but Got a different one in the end!

Scoleah loving all these anecdotes!

troodie my parents got the fright of their lives when I was a baby (mid 80s) and they heard this big, gruff man's voice swearing over the monitor. It was picking up a taxi radio

I hear phantom baby noises lots. I kept thinking I could hear her today and she was at nursery (no neighbours with babies).

I think my brain is just hypersensitive an interpreting other sounds wrong.

AgentCooper gosh I bet they did!

gandalfspants I already have the baby brain this is not helping matters.

My monitor does this, makes noises like she is stirring when she isn't ( I quite often forget to turn it off after her naps and it happens when she is sat right in front of me so definitely can't be stirring upstairs!). I've got used to it now but it used to freak me out.

I live in the middle of nowhere so it's definitely not interference from another house. I suspect it's flies going past the speaker or interference from the wifi etc