Ticking Noise in the wall?

is it consistent?

I hear that all the time, too. Same thing.. when you get close it stops. I always thought it was a pipe. Doing what? I couldn’t tell you. I just thought it was a “pipe.” I was never any more curious about it than that… but now you are making me wonder.

same time space between ticks?

yeah it’s faster than a clock….and very metronomic… the level is inconsistent sometimes it’s loud and other times soft… it’s so bizarre

@TheOnlyNeffie how could a pipe stop ticking when you got close, how would it know?
it makes me assume it must either sense heat or energy…. could it be a ghost?

It is either the house settling or something expanding from the heat or contracting. It depends which walls you hear ‘ticking’. If it is a wall to the outside, and you have siding, it is probably the siding expanding in the sun.

Is it the tell-tale heart?

if the time space is consistent it’s a bug. when you get close, like crickets, it stops. if you make a loud enough noise it will stop. if you tear up the floor boards it will run and hide.as for your mom not hearing it it’s probably to soft to here. i heard the same noise and saw a little beetle or cockroach come out of a hole in the wall

@Afos22 how does that account for my mum not being to hear it, and the way it stops ticking when i get close… doesn’t make any sense right?
I’m not crazy just so you all know.

@daytonamisticrip oh…. wow maybe that is it if you’ve heard it. how can it stop when you get close?
all this time i thought i was being visited by ghosts.

you have better ears than your mom

It doesn’t sound like a bug when I hear it. It’s louder than that. But I don’t believe in ghosts, so I always assumed my movement towards the “pipe” (or whatever it really is) caused it to stop simply by vibrations through the floor or pressure on certain floorboards. No clue what it really is.

it feels the vibrations when something gets close.

ya some can be pretty damn loud. i could here it when the t.v was on. my mom never here’s it either

Next time, don’t get close, it will stop regardless. Then, it will start again.

I asked the same question myself years ago and was told it is caused by Borer

mine doesn’t sound like a bug either… but it must be, it sounds more like a clock ticking but faster…. but bugs makes sense, i just can fathom that many bugs running around inside my walls.

In my garage carpenter bees make a clicking noises too.

clicking like a clock ticking….. or like a bug clicking – there is a difference… i’ve heard bugs click…

I hear the same noise that you are describing, @tan235 , it sounds like a clock.. only faster.

Edgar Allan Poe anyone? O_o
You said you hear the noise in various houses, I find that odd. How many exactly, and how many times were you with your brother when you heard it?

my teacher had us read one of his story’s in the sixth grade. the one where he killed the old man. and started hearing things

Every house or apartment that I have ever lived in has made noises, sometimes very idiosyncratic noises. Every time I have moved into a new house or apartment I have spent sleepless nights until I eventually get used to each place’s “noise signature.” I don’t, however, know of any kind of “clicking” noise that I have heard in all of the houses/apts that I have lived in. It always sounds exactly the same? Or do you here a variety of rhythmic noises? Houses and building “breathe,” sort of, they creak and moan and snap, crackle and pop, pipes make noises, animals make noises, the wind and the trees around them make noises…. it’s always exactly the same, in every house?

IT’S ME, I WANT TO GET YOUR ATTENTION, I NEED HELP, PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE!

It must be a timeshare residence.

Ha ha ha! Y’know it could be anything! I’ve experienced it!

@daytonamisticrip Tell-Tale Heart, one of my fav. stories

i too have had this happen all my life. sometimes others can hear it and sometimes not, same thing with moving to other parts of the room, many houses, many speeds of ticking, it has been an unsolved question so much so that i just googled it and found this…