Okay, my friend is getting seriously freaked by some happenings her house. I posted this is i could get some opinions on whether her house is haunted or not. I spent a night at her house and these re my experiences in order : around 1:pm, the livingrom was dark and no one was home except for me. I was in the living room watching Tv when i heard dragging and skidding noises in the hallway. It was not a rat or mouse, it sounded to big to be any small animal.Yhat same night, i was sleeping in her guest room, and i heard something sliding down the wall. It sounded large, like a human. What does this sound like to you?

heySM
Do you remember what kind of floor the hallway has? tiled? wood?.....and you have eliminated all rat/mouse/small animal potentials,so lets start with the house itself... ......B

Hello Sea_maid13,

I want to say that it was nice of you to post for your friend. You sound honestly perplexed by the experience.

Odd noises in an of themselves don't necessarily mean a haunting. You might want to relate some of the experiences that your friend has experienced. Why does she think that it is haunted?

The best place to start is try to rule out normal explanations first. Is the home old or new? Houses tend to settle with age and can pop rattle bang and thump. If the home is older and has been remodeled then there may be a conflict of materials. Example, plaster and lath walls in one room and drywall in the next or abutting it can cause strange sounds as the new wood and materials gets acclimated to the environment. Also loose lath sliding between the walls. The house cooling down or shift in weather effect a home as well. A spring or water source near a home can cause foundational shift in the home creating movement and noise.
Does it have a basement or crawl space? Never under estimate the sound of an live animal under a home. Groundhogs, rats, opossums, stray cats to name a few, can and do make a heck of a racket.

You may have been predisposed to experience an event if your friend told you she was hearing weird noises and suggested it might be haunted. Sitting in a darkened room watching TV by yourself then hearing a noise in the hallway (of an undetermined source) may have added credence to the idea. Later when you heard something sliding down the wall in the room you were staying in I can only imagine that I would be jumpy in a similar situation. Mice and squirrels can get in between the walls of a home and in a dark room and perhaps unfamiliar place might have sounded louder than it was. (even newer ones)

If something else has happened and you have ruled out natural causes then maybe you and your friend should do some leg work to find out the history of the home at the local library and/or courthouse. There may be a historical event connected with the house or surrounding area that could explain the trouble.
Warm regards, Mabon.

A recent vigile in my back yard revealed some long unexplained "roof thumping" noises to actually be a team of squirrel acrobatics....B









woodchucks and racoons are smart-aleks too!

BWHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA! *wipes tear from eye*

Yes we have some enterprising groundhogs around our house and my cats just love it! They (the cats, indoor) loose their minds when they (the groundhogs) play under the house. And I've encountered an evil garbage diving opossum or two as well. Nothing like open a door in the middle of the night after hearing an awful racket out side to encounter Willard, the giant-evil-opossum-of-doom gnawing on a chicken leg and when Willard decides to stand up to it's full height and hiss in a Linda Blair type fashion at you........ well nobody wants to see that in the middle of the night!

, Mabon.


To the OP! I am not making fun of you with this post. Some things if you don't know what they are can scare you silly until you find out what they are and then they scare you silly for an entirely different (natural) reason. To clarify this was the reason of my edit.

I lived in a house that had Rats. They moved through the wall spaces and through the attic and they sounded almost human sized at night....so I would initialy say you have a rodent problem there. Without hearing the noise it is hard to say for sure but rats do sound like they have big boots when they are in the attic especialy in the wee hours. Lay Rat poison/traps etc... There you may find some evidence.

Yea it does sound like rodents of some kind. I had a little birdnest in the eves of my bedroom roof and it led to quite a rude awakening one early morning it sounded like they were tapping on my ceiling lol

Is there a furnace or large air duct (vent) in the hallway? I know this can make dreadful noises even when it's not running.

Miss Sea Maid,

All sounds very creepy to me. I say call in the ghostbusters.

Jumping to 'paranormal' conclusions before thinking logically isn't the best way to go. If the lights start turning off and on, the TV starts channel surfing on its own and starts turning off and on... OR if you start hearing bangs on your wall and nobody is in the next room, then you can be freaked.

Yo AB
that may also mean that the house was wired by "Halfhand Electric".....B





halfhandshuffle:joan jett-crimson & clover
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9zvdL68ujKM

Hi sea! As a veteran of living in a haunted house for 4 or 5 yrs, i would suggest looking into the history of the house. See if anything bad happened inside or around it that would cause a haunting. Then u should check if it is the house it self. I can't remember what the name for it is, but the house might just be settling or something or it might be tilted a little. I hope that will help. Give me a message if u need anything else sea!

Its simple, your friend is bad at lieing.(Or she is completly insane!)

OMG bored child on holiday syndrome. Get a life kid.

Hall surfing rodents that enjoy furniture re-arranging sessions in the early hours.. Fascinating...
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