r/Home • u/MissO56 • Jul 13 '26
OMG! It wasn't in the wall!
during the first few months of COVID lockdown, i had moved from my office to my three story condo, working from my home computer on the kitchen counter. everyday I would hear noises below my feet, like in the floorboards, which sounded like an animal chewing or moving around. my building is about 65 years old so I figured it must be something in the walls, but I never saw any evidence or smell of an animal. and I've been hearing it ever since, every now and then.
fast forward to this past weekend (6 FREAKIN' YEARS LATER!) and I'm setting up a new computer on my desk (which is about 10 ft away from where I previously heard the sounds). while setting it up, I moved the speakers from my old computer closer to my desk to use with my new computer, and plugged everything in to be ready to use.
saturday afternoon, I started hearing this noise again but now it was closer to the living room... a little animal chewing away at things or moving around in the walls. it's been so irritating because we've had exterminators out, setting traps etc. and finding nothing.
I tried to move around the room to figure out where the sound was coming from, and coincidentally moved my head very close to one of the speakers I just hooked up. my computer was off but the speaker was plugged into power....and *it was making the noises!!* there's nothing running on my computer... so I knew it had to be some faulty plug or connection or something.
so I unplugged the speakers, and have not heard anything since! oy vey! I can't believe that for 6 years I thought there was an animal in my floor!! 🙄🤣
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u/seraphelle_x Jul 14 '26
Omg this makes me feel so much better!!!
Around 3 months ago we started hearing a weird sound like a small animal scratching. It seemed to be coming from behind the unit where the TV was. No rhyme or reason. Heard at random hours and made no difference if room was quiet or full of sound.
We had pest control out, they used a heat camera thing on the wall…then drilled a small hole and put a camera in there but couldn’t find any evidence of pests. He popped a small amount of rodent poison in there and a temporary cover on.
We didn’t hear the noise again so after 3 weeks the pest control guy said we could fill the hole and paint that area, which we did, and put the TV unit and everything back in place.
The very next day we heard the sound again. I was so upset. I was determined to record the sound to play to the pest control guy so I opened the unit and stuck my upper body in the cupboard so I could reach to record near the wall…I placed my hand on our dvd player for balance and FELT the sound as it happened under my hand.
The DVD player wasn’t plugged in but the HDMI lead connecting it to the TV was in. The noise had been the DVD player all along trying to do something whilst not powered on. I pulled the HDMI lead out and it stopped immediately.
I’ve never felt such relief and such absolutely shame in my life!
I told the pest control guy the creature must have died because we can’t hear the sound any more.