# Is this house haunted?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084 "2015-08-27T16:41:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084/21 "2015-08-29T06:56:50Z")

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Author Edith Wharton said: “No, I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them.”

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084/22 "2015-09-04T12:07:29Z")

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This older house… I know its in CA but by Any Chance… does it have radiator heat? :dubious:

Old wood timber houses… radiator heat… they’re always silent as the grave.

> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> :[whinny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9dDaJjjE4):

…never gets old… 😃

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084/23 "2015-09-04T15:24:18Z")

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> [@koufax](#):
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> Well, I have lived in many places and occasionally they would make sounds but this place sounds like an earthquake (we are in California) is hitting on a daily basis. I have never heard a roof creak like this place and it sounds sometimes like somebody is up in the attic.

> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Well, there’s you answer!

Don’t know if **Senegoid** was being facetious, but perhaps there is something in that? Earthquakes sometimes produce ultrasonic vibrations, and a small tremor might not be perceptible. I had a similar experience once as a child, when the screen door of our house suddenly and unexpectedly slammed shut. I later found out that the USGS registered a small earthquake about 150 miles away. “Ghost” explained.

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**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084/24 "2015-09-04T16:14:34Z")

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> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> Old wood timber houses… radiator heat… they’re always silent as the grave.

Have you ever had radiator heat? It’s far from silent.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-house-haunted/729084/25 "2015-09-04T16:20:55Z")

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> [@Kimballkid](#):
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> Have you ever had radiator heat? It’s far from silent.

Grew up in a house Exactly like that.

(…and I know that… and you know that… but does the OP believe in _Whoosh_?)

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