For those that stumble across this thread via google, the answer to this mystery is that the clicking sound originated from a psocid.
Killjoy.
Sure. That’s just what they want us to think. People, do not be deceived! Antechinus has been “managed” by governmental forces and will now say anything to bury the truth.
If it’s a ticking sound it’s obviously a tick.
What prompted this resurrection?
It’s a ticking time bomb.
Hi - I realise that these posts are from some years ago - yet I too have heard the soft tick tick tick sound in my home. Way way back in 1982!! It would wake my little 3 year old son during the night and scare him so much that he would race into our bed, wide eyed and shaking. My ex husband and I were renting a house for 18 months (we even asked a priest come and assist us) he was sceptical and although he did not hear it he did splash some holy water about…anyway - We decided to move into another home due to a job change within the same city. My sister moved in to help us with finances…We ALL heard the ticking about a week later. It moved from room to room and when one of us attempted to ‘track it down’ by stepping into the area of the ticking - the ticking would seem to move to the other side of our body - stop for a time and then start up again. It would stop for about 30 seconds - then start up again. It was just audible to record. We initially thought it may have been a metre behind the wall. But most definitely, the tick tick tick was the same noise level and timing as in the previous house. We started to get used to the ticking as it was not always about. It liked the evenings while we watched TV and usually during the early morning just before light. Well… it was some years later - 1988 and we were vacationing with friends on a farm. We pitched our tent and that night I was placing my 7 month old (number 3 son) down into his sleeping cot - and what do you know ‘tick tick tick’ right in my face as I bent to place the lad down onto the cushions. It freaked me out. I left the tent with the child and was most unsettled for the rest of the vacation. I never heard it again. Present day is 2016. I’m into another relationship of 22 years. I did hear sometime ago that my ex husbands sister started to hear the ticking in her home. She lived in another city kilometres away from us. Same description. Soft tick that moved when sort and when left uninterrupted - lasted for periods of 2 /3 minutes at a time. odd. comments?
A friend heard a tapping in her garage. She investigated and discovered a field mouse trying to crack open an acorn against an aluminum ladder. She caught the mouse, put it in a terrarium and had a fairly clean and quite pet for a number of years. And the beastie became fairly tame too, I understand.
Water dripping in a drain pipe can cause ticking sounds inside a wall.
Refrigerator ice maker!
Funny, no one else tried this remedy. :rolleyes:
Great material … I’m stealing this and putting it in my next newsletter …
This thread has been bugging people for some time now …
Don’t worry, no matter how long it takes there will be at least one second on the timer when you disconnect it.
I know the click and it does not sound the same as the death bug or whatever its called. it sounds more like a loose metal latch when a truck goes past and shakes the house. Its weird, not that into it
dumbledore!
I had the same thing going on when I bought my house 12 years ago. It was coming from a wall in the bedroom but I couldn’t figure out what it. Also, I typically only heard when lying in bed at night when the house was quiet. One afternoon I laid down for a nap and sure enough it started again… since it was daylight I decided to investigate.
I put my ear to the wall so I could pinpoint the source as best I could… went outside to see if a branch was hitting the house or if there was an animal digging around the foundation. Turns out the noise was from the little wiry padlock they put on electrical meters. The wind was causing it to oscillate and hit the box with a constant tick, tick, tick.
I keep wondering what the meter reader thinks when he checks the meter and see’s the lock covered in foam padding and duct tape.
I heard a ticking sound in my house for years, it was the house settling. The basement walls were slowly bowing in and the house was constantly shifting. That was not a cheap fix.
Older (or cheaper new) mechanical lamp timers start doing this after a while. I had some Intermatic rom the early 1990s that I finally had to retire because of the annoying ticking sound (about 4 per second). I tried to take one apart to see what was causing it and how they’re geared, but all the plastic bits just broke and the thing pretty well disintegrated.
QFT…Oh Mr. Mooo, where are you?