Strange nosies from ceiling?

This is now the third moarning in a row that i am hearing strange noises comming from the ceiling inside of my closet.

I moved into this place a little over a month ago and never had something like this happen before here. It sounds like a rat scraping or something. but there are people that live above me.

It is very loud, and apears to be random, it has only happen the past few days.

At first i was kinda scared, but now i am just confused.

What the hell is it?

I just walked into the closet and knocked on the ceiling, and the nosie has stopped... for now.

So i ask again... DAMM IT, the noise started again, and it queited down when i knocked again... and there it goes again...

Its been in the same place the last 3 moarning, in my closet, in the ceiling, makeing scratching noises.

WTF!

Critters!

Mate: you'd better get TFO now!!

TTFN

MonKey

i would think some sort of critter up in the celing/raftors or something but you have neighbors up..

maybe they have some dman ferret or cats or iguana or something that they put in a clost to run in or something right there.

I don't know what it is, but it has made the noise during the last few days at about the same time in the moarning.

NO OTHER TIME.

I would think i was a rat or something else if the noise was all the time, but it was just at certain times, and it really confuses me?

Could it be somethign Electical that is making the noise?


Are the people upstairs digging into the floor? But only for 30 Min a day?

I had something similar in my last apartment. My daughter would hear scratching on her ceiling in the same corner of her room at about the same time each day.

Turned out the upstairs neighbor had a small dog that slept in a crate, and when he'd put the dog in the crate it would try to dig its way out. Really scared my kid until we figured out what it was and I introduced her to the dog doing the scratching.

No pets allowed in the building

Unless they have a dog and are hiding it...

Then i can get them kicked out, no more annoying nieghbors... YES!!!

Very common for large rats to love attics. It's almost as if they like to wallo around in the fiberglass insulation. Set some rat poison up there and see what you find come up dead.

Wait, don't do that if you kill at rat and it hides in a corner you won' see it then you have the horrible smell to deal with.

Some sort of box traps will do it. Cats love hanging out there also even if they don't live there they could be comming from somewhere else. My cat can squeeze through tight spots the width of her head.

Frigging amazing what she will do to get to her favorite spot it the house!

No attic above me, i am in Apartments.

So... theres no attic to posin the rats in.

What is a Nosie? Thanks for the help!!

If you live in a flat roof apartment than you are corect, but I have see birds get stuck in the space between the roof and ceiling of flat roofs before. There are always vents that they like to sneak through!

If it is a hip/valley roof than there is an attic. At a seven/twelve pitch the space is 4 feet high at the peak of the hip.

No mater what design it is animals have and can get up there.

Edit Added:

Oooops Sorry! I missed the fact that people are above you in the complex.

The reason I missed that is that if someone is living above you and you are hearing noises. Trying to figure what they are is pretty much pointless.

It could be one of a million things and in my personal oppinion not even worth thinking about!

[edit on 2-11-2007 by MrMysticism]