Causes Other Than Ghosts for Bumps in the Night
by Are bumps in the night keeping you awake and worrying you? You may be pleased to discover that there are several different reasons why eerie noises may be plaguing you.
All that rattles and rasps in the night may not necessarily be caused by ghostly goings on. Here is a list of sounds and their origins, that you may hear while clutching the duvet and trembling with fear.
Groaning
Providing that the offending noise isn’t coming from your beloved who’s laying beside you, the chances are that it is coming from pipes in your home. Old pipework can be cranky and if yours is attached somehow to your neighbours, then it may be them who is at the end of the trail of groans. When they turn on their taps, their pipes may make a long, drawn out groaning sound which is quite human in expression.
If this is the case, a plumber is needed.
Scratching
Ghosts are unlikely to make scratching sounds. However, mice and rats are. They may also be making nibbling sounds if you listen hard.
Rodents are especially likely to come into our heated homes during bad weather, and when they are thinking of nesting. If they make your home theirs to then you need to persuade them to leave pretty quickly if you want the scratching and nibbling to cease.
Rumbling
The sound of rumbling can come from a few different sources. One of course is your own stomach, or that of your partner or pets.
Another is from the weather, which can provide us with the sound of rumbling thunder from a long way off.
Yet another kind of rumbling can come from an elderly water pump, as water makes its way to and fro when someone in your building, or another person who shares your water system, flushes the toilet or runs a bath.
Footsteps above you
Depending on what type of materials you have on the floor of your loft, or your roof, footsteps can sound far larger than they are, and may well not be footsteps at all.
If it is windy then you may discover the a tapping or scraping sound isn’t little wee folk dancing on your rooftop, or witches scraping their broomsticks about in your loft. It’s probably branches, twigs and natural foliage which is being blown about.
Creaking
Old rafters love to creak. As do floorboards. In fact, in old houses virtually anything wooden is liable to creak. It may seem scary as you tend to only hear it at night. But is does happen in the day also, although you are less likely to take any notice of it then.
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