Since January 11 I have been hearing scratches above my bedroom at night. Loud enough it sounds like its in the room. I know you will say its mice or rats but I have been up in the roof, the beams are full of fiber glass an I have checked under it all for droppings or holes, any sign of animal and there's nothing there. I can hear things running along the room, but would birds be out at night between 11.00pm and 2.00 am?? I hear things dropping slowly down the side of the wall, my house is semi detached and my room is by the outer wall so what could be making that noise. There is a metallic noise coming from inside the room in the same corner, like a quiet light tinkery noise. It doesn't sound like anything you could imagine. Other strange things have happened, my cat was staring at a wall in the kitchen where the clock is, he darted out the catflap, and the clock jumped off the wall leaving the nail fixed in the wall tilting upwards, so now way it slipped off. A' game show' buzzer noise sounding loud in the kitchen. We don't have any definitive answers to what is going on, if anyone could offer an opinion.

It might be a squirrel or another rodent coming in on a night time it happens a lot in the UK.

but the clock thing is a bit spooky! is there a mirror near the clock that the cat might of seen its own reflection and got spooked mine used to do that

Originally posted by spooky1973
but would birds be out at night between 11.00pm and 2.00 am??

Yeah. lots of birds are up at night. I have this one bird that loves to sit right outside my bedroom window and chirp really loud all night long.

I know you said you didn't find any signs of animals, but for what it is worth, growing up we used to have squirrels in our attic. We never could catch them and we never saw any poo or anything. So there were no signs that they actually lived there.

The reason was because they would get inside the insulation and well... All the poo was hidden in there. Yes we had to buy all new insulation. It was destroyed. They nested INSIDE of it.

Try checking for any holes that lead from outside to the inside. No matter how small and cover them. You can buy this metal mesh stuff at any hard ware store and staple or nail it on.

That way no one can get in or out of those holes. If it is an animal, it will stop pretty quickly after that.

Now, I do believe in ghosts and what not, but we must first rule out the logical before we consider anything else. Try what I suggest and if the problem persists... Then we can move on to another possible explanation.

don't know if it's this but flying squirrels are active at night and cause many of the sounds you are encountering.

I've had squirrels, and a nest of raccoons once when I was a kid at my parents house in the wall right by my bed. It did freak me out till I figured out what it was.

Well, i live in Florida now and i have heard banging, slaming against my house, iron gates, iron sounds like locking of gates, huge loud knocks on the side of my house too.

We have a 3 bedroom house, not too large.Not too small. There are no iron gates anywhere here or anyone outside at 2am or 3- furthermore, we have motion detection lights and the lights never come on when this happens

It definately is coming from the outside of the house.

The other day my neighbor came to visit and he said he is being bothered by loud knocks outside his house (without me saying anything) so i said i had experienced it too.

Could be something *demonic* or could be some idiot throwing things or who knows.

We do get up and check and its a bother but we never see or hear anything. Go figure. Maybe its a Floriduh thing.