Does anybody have an idea what this could be? In this apartment complex in recent months, I sometimes hear an odd noise in the silence of the wee hours: like an electric motor going up the RPM scale, and down. And then a thumping, like something being moved on a floor. These two things always go together, but there are variations in them. I've asked most of my neighbors, but nobody has even heard it.
And while I'm fishing for knowledge: once again while watching Friends, I notice how some of the wardrobe people for TV (Cheers too, markedly) find the most awesome clothes for their actors. Like shirts and sweaters with big, bright, colorful designs. I really want stuff like that, and I can pay, but it is notably absent in this English town. I fear I have to go to London to find some, or maybe even design it myself and have a tailor make it. But perhaps somebody knows a good place for it in, say, Manchester?
10 comments:
Could it be the refuse pickup? Some places that happens at night.
Good idea, but they come in the daytime, and I'm sure it comes from someplace inside the building.
I'm in the middle of eight other apartments. I've asked those above, below, and to both sides, I've not asked those "at the corners" as it were, some of those I hardly know, some of them I don't share a front door with.
You'd think somebody else would have at least heard it. But then I'm often awake late, and pretty sensitive.
Not enough information to really guess, but I had a heating system once that made similar sounds at night in the winter. It was a 'heat pump' system--essentially an air conditioner running in reverse. The sounds occurred when it went into a special cycle to clear ice that had accumulated on the coils of the system. Only occurred in the coldest of weather. Has it been very cold there? Could it be something like this with your heating system?
Next question: Do you have an elevator, and how close is it to your suite? Sometimes in the night, we can hear things we'd not notice during the day because of other noises covering them up.
There are no elevators.
It has only been cold in the last week or two, I've been hearing it for at least a couple of months.
Neighbours enjoying kinky sex perhaps? Some of those toys are
quite noisy. And they wouldn't
want to admit anything...
Hehe. Well, that sounds like a big-ass toy!
(Or maybe a big ass-toy.)
A sump pump?
Probably some of the noises associated with the underground drilling going on worldwide.
Not oil drilling, but huge tunneling machines than make tunnels from one part of the world to another.
Don't believe it? Research it.
If you ask our cleaning lady from SriLanka, she'll guarantee to you that it's the Looloos.
Translated: spirits, ghosts, that sort of stuff.
Our house's top floor is still under construction, which only progresses occasionally. She kept hearing Looloo sounds from it when there's nobody up there. I asked her about the logic of the thing: "Look, I've heard that Looloos haunt old houses, where somebody has died horribly, or such dramas. So, how could there be a Looloo in a house where nobody has ever lived yet?"
Anyway, like my buddy Ron Weasley might say, "it's probably just the ghoul in our attic".
We also regularly hear owls outside, in the forest at night.
I love hearing owls nearby.
Feels like there's a friendly spirit being our neighbor.
After all, owls eat rodents, and they'll be silent if there are intruders lurking nearby.
Right, Hedwig?
"I'm often awake late, and pretty sensitive."
You might have superpowers, man.
Have you read my blog post on Sonar Boy?
Say, do these sounds seem to be more intense in the... LOO?
Boo!
"things we'd not notice during the day because of other noises covering them up."
I know! Covering them up WITH A SHEET.
Which just MIGHT happen to be actually a shroud. }:-)
"Neighbours enjoying kinky sex perhaps?"
EEYAAAARRRRGGHHHHH! Stop it! Now you're really starting to scare me.
Really, it's not funny anymore, man. (chatter)
Uhm... does it go "bump", or more like "ooh, ooh, oooowh, oh yeaaah, ah, aah, AAAAAAAHHHHH! don't stop!"?
"(Or maybe a big ass-toy.)"
Yokes! Like, I'm outta here!
Scooby-Doo, wait for meeeeeee!.....
"Don't believe it? Research it."
Ah, yes, the famous, infallible, Research ink blot test!
I'm completely immersed in the reading of Watchmen these days. Man, what an awesome book!
But creepy, too.
Post a Comment