So for the last few months, I’ve been hearing these sounds coming from my bedroom window. I can’t remember when it started exactly because it’s pretty sporadic though I think this sort of thing is relatively new.
It tends to happen every night for a couple of weeks on and off, but will go months without happening again. I’ve only ever heard it at night and usually pretty late. The sounds themselves have a decent range as well. Sometimes it there will be scratching on the side of the living room window, then it’ll start to become tapping on my window. (It is not a bird, as the HDB lights are bright here and there are no shadows of birds)
One time in particular it was very loud and persisted throughout the night. The sounds started from the left window, like scratching which then travelled along the side of the wall moving upwards until it reached my ceiling and began tapping and scraping at my window. Keep in mind this is my bedroom and I sleep on the second floor of the block. I actually have gotten so annoyed by it some nights that I’ve thought of yelling at it to stop (these sorts of things happen all the time so I’m very jaded).
There’s nothing outside my window that someone could stand on to reach it unless they had a ladder, and even if that were the case I’ve opened the window and looked outside with my phone flashlight and saw nothing. And just to be even clearer on how odd this is I’ll hear these sounds on calm quiet nights with no wind. So it’s definitely not a person or a tree branch because there are none outside my window even close enough to reach it.
I managed to record the sound one night. I know it’s not the most convincing audio clip because the sound could be caused by anything when you hear it, but I swear this is what I hear clear as day when I’m just in my room at night. It happened again shortly last night February 21st, I wasn’t able to catch it on time and it was much fainter.
I don’t think I can add the clip to this post without making another one? So maybe I’ll link it in the comments somehow. If you know how to do that pls tell me hehe