I'll just reiterate the main purpose of this post...my main goal is to try to find the reasoning for the sounds of footsteps that everyone in this house has heard. It has been going on since January. It has never happened prior to this for the past 20 years as I have lived here for that long. I have initially ignored these sounds for a time because I thought it was wind, settling, animals or simply something to not be remotely concerned about. These sounds are an organized chain of events. What I mean by this is, it is not a random grouping of sounds but sounds that travel together. Pressure applied to the wood beam above in the attic-20 seconds later another pressure-applied sound about 1-2 feet over-then this continues across the room within a time frame of 5 or so minutes.
My house settles pretty much every day. I hear it. I know this house in all its minute details. When its normally settling, it usually either pops or exhibits an occasional thud which is both in the walls and all over. When the wind blows, I can hear the house pop from the direction of the wind as it travels over the house. I have heard this house in severe thunderstorms, calm days and even earthquakes. When an earthquake happens, it's like an elephant ran across the attic. What I am trying to rule out as of right now, is this mysterious footstep phenomena. I bought the camera to honestly rule out obvious things. Until someone experiences this with their own senses, they will not understand how unique of an event this really is. Both my son and I need more proof of things then the average person but we are both believers now in regards to this being so far unexplainable and borderline creepy.
I mainly posted the two clips to show what sounds are coming from the attic when there is nothing on. It's only been barely 20+ hours I have even tried to look into true surveillance. There needs to be a much greater expanse of time before I start leaning heavily to one cause. I am not trying to get anyone to believe I am saying, "Look, see, I've got ghosts, I told you!" So far, I have observed this attic in both daytime and nightfall. The sounds could be absolutely nothing. As of now, I don't believe these sounds to be normal. There is no water flowing, no electrical relays, no power surges, no pipe expansion and if the wood was settling like the sounds I have been hearing, then this house shouldn't be standing. I have not posted everything that I have heard in regards to the loud bangs and the shuffling sounds.
As of today, I received a text from my wife who was home alone at the time and was texting her friend. She stated that she got a very cold feeling come over her and the hairs on her neck went up. I've been married to this beautiful lady for as long as I've lived in this home and she doesn't get a cold feeling and have her neck hairs stand on end. At this time, she simply wondered why that was happening and thought it strange. The next few seconds, there was a very loud bang above her head. 1:16 seconds later, a second bang was heard. The very first question I asked her is was she already feeling strange and scared herself since all this was happening? She said no, that she was texting and concentrating on that conversation and thought nothing of anything else. Plus, this house hasn't been too active in regards to sounds so far today. If you trust someone and they are extremely trustworthy and tell you that they felt a sudden surge of coldness and their neck hairs stood up followed by a very loud bang up above 5-10 seconds or so later, you're going to listen after all that we have gone through.
My idea of my posted clips is not to suggest the paranormal. It is to rule out natural things one by one until you are left with a narrowed list of available causes. With a combination of knowing this house, having everything turned off, knowing when the latest earthquake happened as well as ruling out background noise, wind, etc., I am getting the understanding that this MAY be something let's just say, very unusual. These types of sounds require further investigating as I and 2 other people have to live here and deal with this. If we never heard the footsteps across the ceiling in the extreme nature that we have found them to be and someone showed me a recorded clip of what I posted, I would think it strange but that would be it. It's as if you got routine blood work drawn and found a couple of things to barely be out of range but felt fine. You'd probably pay no attention to it. However, if you were ill and had the same readings, perhaps you'd be a bit more interested in wondering if these readings are affecting your symptoms.
With other things happening lately that are in addition to the attic noises, I have to piece them together to find a common cause...IF there is one.
