Floorboard TERROR
My dad was working alone upstairs one evening in our old house. His study was upstairs in what is a relativly large victorian semi detached house. While he was working, he heard the floorboards outside on the landing creak as if someone was walking down to his study. Now, knowing he was alone - my mum was out - this made him a 'little apprehensive'.

He checked the landing and made his way downstairs to check the rest of the house to make sure no one had decided to burglarize us. Sure that he was still alone, he attempted to rationalise the creaking floorboards by attributing them to wind, or 'house settling'. This done, he settled back down to his work.

A few minutes later, he heard the creaking again - he said he literally felt the hairs on his neck stand on end. After summoning the courage to look a second time due to him being pretty freaked out, he moved to the door to check the landing and as he did so, two things happened.

The creaking 'walked' up to his study - and he suddenly realised what had been causing the noise.

The other house of the semi detached building was a mirror image of ours - thier upstairs landing was the other side of the wall. The victorian builders had built it on one go, boarding both landings at once and putting the partition wall over the top. The creaking was our next door neighbour walking down thier landing, making our boards creak.

My Dad, freaked outness ebbing, got back to work.

Of course if Derek Acorah were there, it would be the restless souls of the dead rather than victorian chippies causing parasupernormal happenings.
(magictorch, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 15:18, 2 replies)

same situation
I share a large multi-story terraced town-house with several other people, the first time i was alone in it I went through just about exactly the same series of emotions and thoughts. Same reason.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 17:58, closed)

CF heating going on, copper pipes expanding.
Also old houses in general creaking a bit.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 12:54, closed)