You can imagine my fear as a lay there in bed as a child hearing what sounded like footsteps.
Sounds like someone running on my roof.
We ve been hearing this for a year and recently saw a rat on our patio.
We are trying to figure out if they are coming from out.
The ones that sound like someone is walking just above you.
Mine is the noises that come from the roof at night.
Raccoons are the largest of these animals so the sound is often heavy more like thumping or walking than the light scurrying of a rat.
I should also mention racoons birds and other animals make the same sound.
Squirrel on a roof is making noises running around and rolling nuts.
Very heavy sounding footsteps like someone wearing big boots.
Most of the noises seem to be coming from the top of the walls.
Had that problem recently.
At first i thought it was the house settling on like this.
Additionally raccoons are primarily nocturnal so the noises occur at night.
While it is impractical to cover the roof in anti bird spikes placing these on the ridge of the roof can help to stop pest birds from landing on your roof and causing problems.
Here are the concerns.
As i sit here in bed trying to get some sleep i cannot.
It is nearly every night that i hear what sounds like animals running on the ceiling.
The sounds give jun 21 2016 so basically i heard footsteps on my roof last night.
No i didn t live in an apartment but instead a two story house.
Hey just so you know i have footsteps on my roof at least 12 hours a day and sometimes at night it s called dem squirrels and if you want i can record it tomorrow morning lol.
It s not at the same time eachday.
Our situation ended up being raccoons in the attic.
Trust me i saw the builders building the roof and there were no kind of animals up there.
It literally sounds like someone punching sheetrock.
They might be from squirrels under the roof inside your house and attic.
Its not all in one area.
Should i ask the roofer to come back to the house and inspect my roof for any holes would they try to climb through a.
There are loud banging noises coming from our attic roof.
I used to hear them a lot as a child.
Squirrel is on the roof because it is actually entering and living in your attic.
I hear sounds like someone is running on my roof after dark usually at midnight.
We have snap trapped 3 rats.
How did you guys get to remove the racoons.
A cat or a raccoon will never sound like a human running with the someone is running across my room and portal jumping.
Anonymous january 24 2017 at 3 23 am.
Right now it is 8 degrees f outside.
My cat can hear it.
It s quite scary reply delete.
Go back to the main how to get rid of wild animals page for more information about animal on the roof and what types of noises or sounds they make.
I also just heard a bird.
Anonymous october 30 2015 at 8 51 pm.
It comes from all around the room.
