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Me and the missus have heard a loud bang from within our house, we just can't figure out what it is, or where the noise comes from. It only happens once a day, but not every day.
It has been happening for a little while now, not sure how long to be honest. We used to think it was the post person knocking on the door, but it was not. Then we thought it could be the radiators, and just sort of shrugged it off.

It can be different times of the day, but the noise only seems to happen once. But the strange thing is, when the bang happened on some occasions the missus has still been in bed, and she was convinced the noise came from the living room, while I was convinced the noise came from the front door, which is opposite the bedroom. It is spooky to think we are hearing the noise, as being at the front of the house from me when I am at the back, and at at the back of the house, when the missus is at the front.

I just heard the bang again about 7am, I think I am going to keep a log of when the noise happens. :thinking:

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I am one of those people that usually scoffs, at others who claim they have seen a ghost. But this one has us puzzled.
 
More likely to be due to the warmer weather and something is expanding. Double glazing makes a noise. Roof innards also make all manner of noises.

If it's 7 am every day then it will be something on a timer.
 
srichards said:
More likely to be due to the warmer weather and something is expanding. Double glazing makes a noise. Roof innards also make all manner of noises.

If it's 7 am every day then it will be something on a timer.
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No, sometimes in the afternoon, and happens in winter. It also happens when the heating is off.
 
Funny this is, the bang is never in the same room that we are in at the time of the bang, and it is the exact same sound.
 
Sound/noises can be 'funny' things and can transmit in odd ways.

Is your house semi-detached, if so don't discount the possibility that it is emanating from next door.

Have you bled your radiators, even if you don't think they need it you might find there is some air in the system.........see above re; neighbours radiators ?
 
Being an engineer type I'd go for something more physical and try and pin it down but how could be a problem as you can't be everywhere and pinning down a one off unrepeating sound could be... difficult. Best keep a log and look for patterns that may help, heat, cold, wet or dry weather, wind etc... Anything you can think of. That could help to pin it down.

My sister and her family suffered repeated crashing sounds coming from the bathroom and as the previous resident collapsed and died in that room that's what they put it down to and just got on with their lives. It faded over time and they eventually got the bathroom done but of course getting the bathroom done could have fixed a more earthly cause for the "crashing" sound.

I'd go for noting down anything and everything and looking for patterns before calling Ghostbusters.

BTW.
Just in case :D I read "The Poltergeist Prince" recently and a while ago "This house is Haunted." What a fascinating subject. But I still think the answer is very likely more structural or utility based. When this sort of thing happens I can't rest until I've sorted it. Good luck with it.
 
Has anyone seen a child dressed in Edwardian clothing peering out of any of your upper floor windows? Might be worth checking with the neighbours :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :wave:
 
srichards said:
Are there any trees near the house? It could be start of some structural movement. Worth checking for cracks etc.
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Yes, massive trees about fifteen feet away. I do know the roots have reached under the front garden, as when I was sowing the seeds at the front, I was hitting massive tree roots, while trying to turn the soil over. So yes, maybe that is it. :oops: :$ (y)
 
Box Brownie said:
Sound/noises can be 'funny' things and can transmit in odd ways.

Is your house semi-detached, if so don't discount the possibility that it is emanating from next door.

Have you bled your radiators, even if you don't think they need it you might find there is some air in the system.........see above re; neighbours radiators ?
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When we are in bed, in the rom that joins to next door, noise comes from the unattached part.
 
jonbeeza said:
Yes, massive trees about fifteen feet away. I do know the roots have reached under the front garden, as when I was sowing the seeds at the front, I was hitting massive tree roots, while trying to turn the soil over. So yes, maybe that is it. :oops: :$ (y)
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A ring of copper nails right around the trunk will sort that ;)
 
woof woof said:
Being an engineer type I'd go for something more physical and try and pin it down but how could be a problem as you can't be everywhere and pinning down a one off unrepeating sound could be... difficult. Best keep a log and look for patterns that may help, heat, cold, wet or dry weather, wind etc... Anything you can think of. That could help to pin it down.

My sister and her family suffered repeated crashing sounds coming from the bathroom and as the previous resident collapsed and died in that room that's what they put it down to and just got on with their lives. It faded over time and they eventually got the bathroom done but of course getting the bathroom done could have fixed a more earthly cause for the "crashing" sound.

I'd go for noting down anything and everything and looking for patterns before calling Ghostbusters.

BTW.
Just in case :D I read "The Poltergeist Prince" recently and a while ago "This house is Haunted." What a fascinating subject. But I still think the answer is very likely more structural or utility based. When this sort of thing happens I can't rest until I've sorted it. Good luck with it.
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If you had to pin me down and say, " Close your eyes and Guess the noise?" My reply would be, " someone slamming the loft hatch down loudly".
But it is not the loft hatch, as that is fastened with clip sort of fastenings, and I checked that it is secure, it does not budge.
 
I love a ghost story although in my experience, any potentially supernatural events of this type have so far, always turned out to have worldly causes. That said, nothing has been ruled in or out here. It's a subject I'm open minded about.

I do get uneasy in some situations, dark forests at night are prime examples for me, most of the time I'm fine, others I just feel unsettled and I'm not afraid of the dark. A few years ago (2014 actually) we had to move to emergency accomodation, to a house that was recently refurbished. It was big and old though, with 2 long passage ways and on one occasion, I was there by myself, it was getting dark and I was just about to leave through the back door and for some reason, I looked back along the passageway and the only light was a small fish tank, so it was quite eerie. I didn't hear or see anything to make me look back but I did fell very uneasy and I'm not sure why.

Our stay there was uneventful though apart from that house being quite noisy through the night. It had big old, oak beams for rafters and I think the whole house expanded through the day, then contracted in the cool of the night.
 
Dale. said:
I love a ghost story although in my experience, any potentially supernatural events of this type have so far, always turned out to have worldly causes. That said, nothing has been ruled in or out here. It's a subject I'm open minded about.

I do get uneasy in some situations, dark forests at night are prime examples for me, most of the time I'm fine, others I just feel unsettled and I'm not afraid of the dark. A few years ago (2014 actually) we had to move to emergency accomodation, to a house that was recently refurbished. It was big and old though, with 2 long passage ways and on one occasion, I was there by myself, it was getting dark and I was just about to leave through the back door and for some reason, I looked back along the passageway and the only light was a small fish tank, so it was quite eerie. I didn't hear or see anything to make me look back but I did fell very uneasy and I'm not sure why.

Our stay there was uneventful though apart from that house being quite noisy through the night. It had big old, oak beams for rafters and I think the whole house expanded through the day, then contracted in the cool of the night.
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I suppose it could be because I'm a bit... odd, obsessive, geeky, probably diagnosable as having something... when anything happens such as a noise, flash of light or whatever I have to investigate. Those scenes in horror films when someone goes to open the door and everyone shouts "Stop," it'd be me opening the door.
 
woof woof said:
I suppose it could be because I'm a bit... odd, obsessive, geeky, probably diagnosable as having something... when anything happens such as a noise, flash of light or whatever I have to investigate. Those scenes in horror films when someone goes to open the door and everyone shouts "Stop," it'd be me opening the door.
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That would probably be me too in most situations although depending on circumstances.

Although, on the above mentioned evening in the passageway, I was happy to close the door behind me and get in the car. I wasn't scared, it was just unsettling.

The house we currently live in, being relatively new (ish) is very quiet, the only creaking it does are the soffits and gutters, which are PVC.

I'm yet to experience anything I would beyond doubt call supernatural in an other worldy sense, which makes me think Jon's 'bang' is probably something exapnding/contracting due to temperature or humidity.

I am open minded though. (y)
 
Dale. said:
That would probably be me too in most situations although depending on circumstances.

Although, on the above mentioned evening in the passageway, I was happy to close the door behind me and get in the car. I wasn't scared, it was just unsettling.

The house we currently live in, being relatively new (ish) is very quiet, the only creaking it does are the soffits and gutters, which are PVC.

I'm yet to experience anything I would beyond doubt call supernatural in an other worldy sense, which makes me think Jon's 'bang' is probably something exapnding/contracting due to temperature or humidity.

I am open minded though. (y)
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It does not have that sort of a sound, like somethings expanding or contracting. It sound more like a cupboard slamming shut, or a loft lid banging closed loudly. It sound from inside the house, rather from the structure. It is a loud crisp clear sound, not a sort of muffled dull thud, you would expect coming from a wall etc.
 
Carl Hall said:
Has it ever happened when you've both been in the same room together? If not I reckon its your missus playing a really good prank on you :LOL:
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Yes, a few times we have heard the same loud bang while we have been in the living room. I have run to the door expecting the post, and there is nothing.
It can be any time of the day, so certainly not anyone banging on the door, as I would have seen them from either the living room or kitchen window.

We live in a bungalow, and it really is puzzling. The sound seems to come from the opposite direction of where we are, at any given time.
 
We are not scared in any way, as the house does have a nice happy feel to it. :)
 
Could be a rat. We had a very similar noise keep happening. I eventually pinned it down to a rat running through the upstairs floorspace and through a gap in the wooden boards that it must have been a tad to fat to fit through, causing the wooden board to "slap" back. You could hear it throughout the whole house and was very difficult to pinpoint. Was pure luck I had my head on the ceiling listening out for it when it happened.
 
Some 30 or so years ago we had a small guest house in rhyl , and virtually everyone that stayed in the smallest bedroom reported seeing a lady sat on the bed .to many different people mentioned it to be pure imagination , Never scoff weird things do occur
 
Do you have an extractor fans? We have about 4 in this house and when the wind blows in just the right direction one of them will give a clattery/bang sound, which I am assuming is a flap or something inside the system. It only ever seems to happens once a day and only one of the fans at a time. It's very random and took me a while to work out what it was.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Could be a rat. We had a very similar noise keep happening. I eventually pinned it down to a rat running through the upstairs floorspace and through a gap in the wooden boards that it must have been a tad to fat to fit through, causing the wooden board to "slap" back. You could hear it throughout the whole house and was very difficult to pinpoint. Was pure luck I had my head on the ceiling listening out for it when it happened.
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Somehow I don't think it is a rat or a bird, as there is no other noise. It is a bungalow we live in. It really does sound like a cupboard being slammed shut, and abruptly too.
 
the black fox said:
Some 30 or so years ago we had a small guest house in rhyl , and virtually everyone that stayed in the smallest bedroom reported seeing a lady sat on the bed .to many different people mentioned it to be pure imagination , Never scoff weird things do occur
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I did mention this to a neighbour this afternoon, he tells me he has heard noises within his house too. He told me some other neighbours have seen monk like figures, that walked passed their window, to disappear down a dead end. There is a lot of history of that sort of thing in the area, we live near Norton Priory.

But I have not seen any strange visions, or anything like that, only the un explained loud banging noises.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
Do you have an extractor fans? We have about 4 in this house and when the wind blows in just the right direction one of them will give a clattery/bang sound, which I am assuming is a flap or something inside the system. It only ever seems to happens once a day and only one of the fans at a time. It's very random and took me a while to work out what it was.
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We do have one in the bathroom, I have heard the little clatter that those flaps make. Besides, been in the bathroom when I have heard the bang, it came from the other end of the house. The bang is never in the room we are in, at that particular time.
 
Do you have wheelie bins, we had a neighbour that tended to leave a lid up and would bang shut at odd times, or it could be the wind lifting and then dropping one of yours?
 
mj4456 said:
Do you have wheelie bins, we had a neighbour that tended to leave a lid up and would bang shut at odd times, or it could be the wind lifting and then dropping one of yours?
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Yes we do, but it is not the sound of the plastic bin lid outside. The noise is most certainly inside the house..

Only thing I can think, it's a hungry ghost searching what cupboard the chocolate biscuits are kept in. :eek:
 
Easy answer - send me all the choccy biccies and see if either the noise stops or it starts here.
 
Not overly worried, we will start to worry if things start to move, and be re positioned in a different area. :eek:
 
We get sudden noises from laminate flooring as it expands/contracts; we also get 'clicks' from one of our outside walls, I reckon it's a wall tie cooling down
 
broc said:
We get sudden noises from laminate flooring as it expands/contracts; we also get 'clicks' from one of our outside walls, I reckon it's a wall tie cooling down
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But that would not make a noise like a cabinet / cupboard door being slammed shut.
 
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