creeped out
There is something on my roof. I can hear it. It walked across my roof. A drops of something fell in from a leak but there is no rain, no water.
I heard it move from like directly over me across the room, over the kitchen towards anothing room.
It had been making noise for like thirty minutes. So I had enough and got my flashlight and got some shoes on and went outside. I was afraid that the dog would scare it away so I left the dog in the house. I went outside and you could HEAR it moving. It was like branches of a tree smacking across the roof but the wind was still and we cut back the branches.
I thought it might be racoons (as a couple times we hear the noise on the roof and then they appear in the damaged room) but they usually go to the damaged room and not across the whole roof. This was something new.
And it really freaked me out when I heard droplets of rain coming in or dripping as if a little block in the leak had cleared and it just comes in a line and then it drips the rest out. But there was NO RAIN in the sky. There was no DROPLETS either. I could hear it but I couldn't see it! To be fair there is a giant ass piece of plywood blocking me from seeing perfectly in that direction but - oh shit it started again. I moved around a bit of the plywood. still no leak. wtf?
It could be mist...or dew or something....but there is no evidence. Just the drip drip drip sound.
So after a while I went out to see what it was. I could hear it. But I couldn't see anything. It wasn't over the kitchen anymore. So I thought it was on the other room. So I looked around the pitch that I could see of the roof but there was nothing. Still that noise persisted. I should have seen something, right?
So I went to my car and got my big ass black metal cop flashlight - that damn dripping noise is still happening...only slower now. So I got my flashlight and I went around to look at the other side of the other room and still nothing. But still that noise persisted.
I was just about to get off the sidewalk in from of bend driveway (we have u driveway the first entrance is grass and the second is gravel).
Now I'm bit worried as I hear the noise and still can't see anything. What if it is a possum or something? I was trying to look in front me so I wouldn't step in any fire ant beds or snakes or mice.
I saw something in the corner of my eye. I thought it was a leaf in a spider web or something. I turned the flashlight and it was something flying. Okay maybe it's a moth or a butterfly. But it had glowy eyes from my flashlight. That means a bat right? It's a bat, right?
I continue on to look and I see nothing but I still hear that noise. As if something is pounding on the roof or stepping across it or...or scratching it. As if to get inside.
It's cold. 40 something in Texas is cold. I'm all alone in my pjs with two flashlights. Granted one of them could kill a person...or animal but still I'm alone with no real weapon and it's dark as pitch outside. After all it is 5:30 in the morning with the time change since daylight savings is over.
And the noise is starting to get to me and then there is that bat just hovering there in front of me (okay ten or so feet in front of me) just staring at me and it's the morning after Halloween. I freak and take off inside.
No more noise. Except for that damn dripping.
Got any ideas as to what it was?
I heard it move from like directly over me across the room, over the kitchen towards anothing room.
It had been making noise for like thirty minutes. So I had enough and got my flashlight and got some shoes on and went outside. I was afraid that the dog would scare it away so I left the dog in the house. I went outside and you could HEAR it moving. It was like branches of a tree smacking across the roof but the wind was still and we cut back the branches.
I thought it might be racoons (as a couple times we hear the noise on the roof and then they appear in the damaged room) but they usually go to the damaged room and not across the whole roof. This was something new.
And it really freaked me out when I heard droplets of rain coming in or dripping as if a little block in the leak had cleared and it just comes in a line and then it drips the rest out. But there was NO RAIN in the sky. There was no DROPLETS either. I could hear it but I couldn't see it! To be fair there is a giant ass piece of plywood blocking me from seeing perfectly in that direction but - oh shit it started again. I moved around a bit of the plywood. still no leak. wtf?
It could be mist...or dew or something....but there is no evidence. Just the drip drip drip sound.
So after a while I went out to see what it was. I could hear it. But I couldn't see anything. It wasn't over the kitchen anymore. So I thought it was on the other room. So I looked around the pitch that I could see of the roof but there was nothing. Still that noise persisted. I should have seen something, right?
So I went to my car and got my big ass black metal cop flashlight - that damn dripping noise is still happening...only slower now. So I got my flashlight and I went around to look at the other side of the other room and still nothing. But still that noise persisted.
I was just about to get off the sidewalk in from of bend driveway (we have u driveway the first entrance is grass and the second is gravel).
Now I'm bit worried as I hear the noise and still can't see anything. What if it is a possum or something? I was trying to look in front me so I wouldn't step in any fire ant beds or snakes or mice.
I saw something in the corner of my eye. I thought it was a leaf in a spider web or something. I turned the flashlight and it was something flying. Okay maybe it's a moth or a butterfly. But it had glowy eyes from my flashlight. That means a bat right? It's a bat, right?
I continue on to look and I see nothing but I still hear that noise. As if something is pounding on the roof or stepping across it or...or scratching it. As if to get inside.
It's cold. 40 something in Texas is cold. I'm all alone in my pjs with two flashlights. Granted one of them could kill a person...or animal but still I'm alone with no real weapon and it's dark as pitch outside. After all it is 5:30 in the morning with the time change since daylight savings is over.
And the noise is starting to get to me and then there is that bat just hovering there in front of me (okay ten or so feet in front of me) just staring at me and it's the morning after Halloween. I freak and take off inside.
No more noise. Except for that damn dripping.
Got any ideas as to what it was?
That's just about the only thing that makes sense to me. His keeping you awake was a political move against you. The dripping was little bits of moisture coming off of his flesh, and the reason you couldn't see him was the Star Wars defense program that was so ingrained in him, it's made him invisible.
*nods*
Well it's light out now, should I go check?
Seriously, I was freaked out. I thought it was little animals at first or bad wind or something but it was windless and there was no animals not to mention the noise was making should have been something much bigger than little raccoons.
There is a natural household sound that sounds like dripping water, but I can't remember what it is (possibly one of my cats snoring?) so sorry that I can't help, but believe me, I do feel your pain.