Phantom or unexplained ticking

jaymes420

It sounds too loud too be a watch, and too fast, but not very fast, Sometimes it seems to be coming from my headset sitting next to me, other times it sounds like it's coming from the tv, right now it sounds like it's coming from my window or window sill! Every night, randomly. Starting and stoping at random times, every night, months and months, I don't notice it too much when my computer is on, due to the loudness of it. But as soon as I turn it off and the room is quiet, tick tick tick.
Also every time I go to try to investigate it, it stops, which is very annoying. I only seem to hear it when I'm sitting on my bed doing nothing. As soon as I move an ear in the direction it's coming from, or move in that direction, it stops. Again. And like clock work (pardon the pun, it was too delicious) it starts again!!! I think I'm going crazy, I've almost contributed everything as it's source at this stage! Tick tick tick!



I have no clocks, no watches, or no pendulums in my room! There is nothing in here that could possibly account for this extremely annoying sound. Starting and stopping, randomly ticking. I feel like David Berkowitz slowly being turned insane by the sound of his neighbours dog! Maybe I've already gone insane, and this phantom ticking is all in my head! Either way it's annoying as hell...but seems to have stopped now..for the moment. I remember as a kid hearing ticking in my old bedroom, but it went away, but now I'm being plagued on a nightly basis for a year or more...I've tried recording it it to no avail. I am at a loss for a logical explanation as I have explored every theory...I would have happily thought it was so,etching electrical until tonight when it as clearly coming from the window / window sill, behind me...I'm stumped!

Has anybody heard of such a thing???...chances are it's not paranormal...but it's also not normal lol. The randomness of it alone is the strangest thing. Sometimes it ticks faster than other times. I feel like I'm sharing a bedroom with a time bomb

gctest50

Theres an insect that does that ( then sits there and lols at you ), can't remember its name

jaymes420

gctest50 wrote: »

Theres an insect that does that ( then sits there and lols at you ), can't remember its name

It wouldn't be called a "Tick" by any chance would it

Mellor

jaymes420 wrote: »

It wouldn't be called a "Tick" by any chance would it

No. It's the "death watch beetle"

gctest50

jaymes420 wrote: »

It wouldn't be called a "Tick" by any chance would it

No no , that would make waaay too much sense

The one that ticks is called a deathwatch beetle

The one that can kill you/make life a bit miserable* is called a Tick

*see youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WH3HPTChkQ

kylith

Yeah, it's the deathwatch beetle that ticks. Fecking annoying yokes.

Oryx

We used to call those beetles Clock Beetles.

So its more rentokil than ghostbusters you need!

busymum1

or these might be more likely than the deathwatch beetle.

https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/animals/bug-id/what-is-this-bug/what-did-that/makes-a-noise/booklicepsocids

gctest50

or if it seems to follow you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ac6RYSvo8

mummymoo

in my old place i used here ticking every evening even when tv was turned on i used here it finally found a watch behind a photo frame on the fire place, got rid of it and never heard ticking again! also when im laying in bed at night and the heating is on timer the rads can make strange noises when it comes on, cud it be the bed creeking when you are sitting on it?