# Weird popping sounds in my neighborhood at night? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-popping-sounds-in-my-neighborhood-at-night/1003369 "2024-06-26T17:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-popping-sounds-in-my-neighborhood-at-night/1003369/6 "2024-06-26T18:30:51Z")
Because dogs are involved, I’d like to offer a WAG (Wild-Ass Guess): > As for the popping noise in the morning and evening, that’s a different mechanism. It’s thermal expansion and contraction. The sun hits your roof and heats it up. As the lumber expands, it moves, and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren’t moving at the same rate. This movement creates the popping noise. When the wood cools down after sunset, the same thing happens in reverse. [**SOURCE**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2017/04/11/how-to-fix-that-scary-roof-popping-noise/) Which makes some sense to me, based on my own personal version of your story: > [@My house is newly haunted -- help ID a weird noise?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-house-is-newly-haunted-help-id-a-weird-noise/986910): > > Weird sound – hoping to definitively ID it slight_smile On about June 15th, [I pulled the innards out](https://youtu.be/Ghi5eTrL1Es?t=306) of one of our Panasonic bathroom exhaust fans to clean it. It had been a decade or more. Everything went fine. Starting about three days later, while sitting in another part of the same level of the house, I heard a “WHOOP” sound. Over the next 20 days, I heard the noise 12 times. On the days I didn’t hear it, it may not have happened. I also may not have been in the house. The noise al… (Distant) Second option involves Witness Protection Program, you, and a visually impaired – but highly motivated – mob hit man… I’m gonna’ page @Tride and ask if he as any thoughts on this one, too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-popping-sounds-in-my-neighborhood-at-night/1003369)._