What are those loud booms at night?
A skyquake is a phenomenon where a loud booming sound is reported to originate from the sky. The sound may cause noticeable vibration in a building or across a particular area. Those who experience skyquakes typically do not have a clear explanation for what caused them and they are perceived as “mysterious”.
Why did I hear a loud boom?
If you have exploding head syndrome, you’ll hear loud explosion-like noises as you’re drifting off to sleep or around when you’re waking up. The former is a type of hypnogogic hallucination, and the latter is a type of hypnopompic hallucination.
What causes a skyquake?
A skyquake is a loud boom that has no apparent cause. While some videos of skyquakes are hoaxes, the phenomenon is real and has been reported all over the world. Scientists believe skyquakes have a variety of causes, including meteors, coronal mass ejections, escaping gas, and collapsing landmasses.
What are Seneca guns?
The Seneca Guns are loud booming noises, most often described as sounding like thunder or a cannon being shot, and can feel like a small earthquake on land. To date, there is no scientific explanation for this phenomenon. While many theories exist, none have been definitely proven.
What is a Seneca gun?
The term “Seneca Guns” is commonly used for booms that residents hear near Lake Seneca in the Finger Lakes region of New York. The name has also been applied to similar sounds along the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia (possible origins of this term).
What does it mean when you hear a door slam in your sleep?
Exploding Head Syndrome sounds like the end of the world but in reality it’s a sleep disorder that affects around 13 percent of the world’s population at some point in their lives. The disease manifests as a super loud sound, as if a door slamming, right when people are about to fall asleep or are about to wake up.
Why do I make noises when I’m falling asleep?
Sleep-related groaning, also called catathrenia, causes you to groan vocally while you sleep. Sleep-related groaning is a long-lasting disorder that often occurs nightly. The groaning sound is usually quite loud. Your breathing becomes unusually slow during a groaning episode.
What is the tapping noise in my ceiling?
A repetitive ticking or clicking sound coming from walls and ceilings can result from the expansion and contraction of metal HVAC ductwork that conducts ventilation through these voids. When metal heats up, it expands; when the furnace stops pushing warm air through the system, the metal cools and contracts.
What’s crawling in my walls at night?
If you’re hearing noises throughout the night, you have a nocturnal creature living in your walls. The most common nocturnal creatures are mice, rats, bats and raccoons. But, you won’t typically hear a raccoon crawling around in your wall voids.