Rrrrrrrrummmmble....WHAM!!!!! Holy Crap!!

Wow...just heard the weirdest thing. Sound asleep when all of a sudden I hear this (Rrrrrrrruuummmbbbbllee - WHAMMMM!!)

I shot up straight..."What...the...F#...was that????"

It was LOUD too!! About as loud as a interior door slamming right next to your ear in cross-breeze, maybe even louder. Except...no windows are open, and no doors are slammed shut.

Grabbed the 12 ga. and went outside for a look-see. Pitch dark. Nothin' out there, but a big ol' bat who buzzed me when I shined the light on the eve. Nothing on the roof. Nothing out of place that I can see. Went inside and down to the basement; nothing strange down there either. Doors are all locked, no smoke or fire I can see anywhere.

WTH????

I have no idea what the hell that was, but it was loud as hell!! No aircraft overhead, not this early (still curfew until 4am). Freaked the dogs out, that's for sure!

Never heard anything like that before!

Meteor maybe? It was definitely something in or on the house, that much I'm pretty sure of...not just something outside.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Firecracker season.

Something land on the roof? Something in the attic?

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

The crash could have been something striking your house, certainly. But the rumbling sound preceding it puzzles me. Was there perhaps a pressure increase or air bolus in your water pipes or a gas backflow from your sewer or septic system?

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Live alone?

I've had audio hallucinations before, it's a thing. Really loud sound out of nowhere they nobody else heard...

No, it was definitely a real sound because the dogs all alerted to it as well.

Sounds like the description of this phenomenon called thunder.

a reply to: HappyFisherman

No, it definitely wasn't thunder. Plus, I went outside to check it out and the sky was clear. I thought that at first too, so I actually checked for it.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

low flying military jet, sonic boom, it can sound very ground based when the sound waves collide with a house.

or maybe a sink hole had opened up beneath your room and your house foundation is all that remains plugging the hole, for now....

sleep well!

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk
Of late there have been may asteroids passing within a close range of Earth. I would say a chunk broke off and you heard mother nature destroying it before it did any damage. More commonly called atmospheric detonation.probably missed a good light show , but caught a good round of sound effects.

it sounds like auditory hallucinations you get when your in the state between sleep and awake. I've had similar things happen many times.

It's scary, and it does seem very real and very loud because it is happening right there inside your head.

I've heard a block foundation crack quickly along a seam and it is very loud. It could have been a small meteor exploding overhead too. It could have been an airblast from something caving in underground too, those blasts are very loud. Are there any old mines in your area?

a reply to: rickymouse

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That noise was your old lady hitting you over the head with a frying pan. Didn't you notice you had a headache?

a reply to: rickymouse

You mean a headache in addition to the skillet ninja old lady? Can you actually have 2 headaches at once?

Absolutely just kidding. I'm not insulting any potential lady of yours nor her cookware kung fu.

originally posted by: pfishy
a reply to: rickymouse

You mean a headache in addition to the skillet ninja old lady? Can you actually have 2 headaches at once?

Absolutely just kidding. I'm not insulting any potential lady of yours nor her cookware kung fu.

My wife would only hit me in the head with a frying pan if I had a spider on my head. Hopefully she would kill it on the first chack.

a reply to: rickymouse

Cajun women have the inborn ability to summon a cast iron melee skillet from the aether at will, with a 95% chance of success and no initiative roll required.