Would it freak you out if you regularly heard a noise that sounds like a squeaky hinge, even when you're home alone?

Could the squeak be a heating duct or hot water baseboard heat run expanding and contracting as the heat cycles on and off? Sometimes.they shift and come in contact with the floor.

Could it be a roof vent? Moving with the wind?

It wouldn’t freak me out, but it would bug me. I would search until I found it.

It would freak me out because I’m a big old baby and I’ve had experiences in the past that make me never like being home alone, ever.

That said, are there any tree branches touching any part of your house? Those can sometimes, if it’s just the very tip of a branch scraping against the house, make a squeaking hinge sound. Worth a check… Unless you’re too scared to go outside. ;)

Let us know that you weren’t murdered by a serial killer if you venture out.

It wouldn’t freak me out, but I would not stop until I had found the source and put a stop to it.

I have experienced a similar sound for the past two years. It sounds exactly like a smoke detector which needs its batteries changed but I have had them checked and they are fine. I was very curious about the origin of the sound at first but I have now stopped thinking about it.

Well, you have two choices.
One- it’s in the attic. It’s not The attic. IT is waiting for you In the attic…Go on up. IT’s waiting for You.
Two- it’s in the basement. It’s not the the Basement Door. IT is luring you to come down and “look” around in the Basement.
IT has been sending you warnings and messages for sooooo long.
You just ignore them. You think to yourself….” Oh, it’s just this.” or ” I must be imagining these sounds.”
It isn’t.
You aren’t.
And now, at last, you hear the noises it is making.
For….
You.
It is making noises just for you.
That’s not a squeeking noise at all…
That’s a noise that is made by movement.
Moving things.
Things able to move towards
You.
A squeeking noise that is as clear as a bell,
now that you are all
Alone.
Frightening in it’s insistant nature.
It’s not the breezes outside.
Nooo.
It’s worse.
It’s inside.
With you.
What if it is a tiny bell?
A tiny noise to keep you aware of
It.
Soundlessly moving
through the house
towards
you.
You.
You’re all alone….
A tiny ringing noise. A little
Tiny
Squeeky
Noise
just
for
You.

Because we all know :
Who does the teeny bell toll for?
It tolls
for
Thee…..
It’s
It’s
The trick or treater you allowed in to use the bathroom
WEEKS ago.
Lost.
Wandering.
Searching to find…
The damn door OUT!
It’s Mom is gonna be sooo pissed off!

I would remind my butler that his duties include such things as maintaining miscellaneous fixtures & fittings.

I GOT IT!!!! It is the Draft Regulator on your heating system. Go downstairs right now and give that flapper a light tap. Does it squeak? Bingo!
I’ll bet it moves every time there is the slightest change in wind velocity.

@LuckyGuy: Good on you! I was about to mention that my parent’s house had such a noise, indeed from a heating unit. :-)

@ibstubro: to answer in general – my house is about 100 years old and very chatty. The day it is silent is the day I really start to worry.

@ibstubro If that’s it, put a dab of white lithium grease on the two hinge points. They will stop talking immediately – and will look for another house to haunt. ;-) .

There’s no basement under the ⅓ of the house where my computer is, and the furnace is as far away as it can be.

I actually think it might be a noise embedded in the local Sleep Tight commercial on the radio. Next I hear the noise, I’ll pay closer attention to what’s on the kitchen radio.

The sound also reminds me of a scaled down version of the ”blurrrrt” that a website I frequent uses as an alert.

It wouldn’t freak me out, but it would annoy me.

Likely not as I am used houses “settling” or doing the thermal expansion thing.

However, I am also occasionally anxious enough that the slightest sound of any type freaks me out, so no guarantees.

Nah, I’m the logical and non-panicky type. I’d look for the source and short of actually having a ghost jump out in front of me, would not be freaked out. What freaks me out, sound wise, is the sound of creepy little dogs, like Chihuahuas scrabbling around tile or linoleum floors with their creepy little cockroachy sounding toenails. Gah! haha

Turns out the kitchen radio is turned on 24/7, low, and there was a commercial that had a noise that approximated a car peeling out. That was the source of my ‘squeaky hinge’ noise. One of those noises that your ears hear out of context.

Thanks, all.
Know that my current house is one of the ‘talkiest’ I’ve lived in. Probably because it’s in the country and there’s so much less latent noise around. The house talking seldom freaks me out.

It’s probably rats or mice partying in the Parmesan room. lol

Pshaw!
Several pounds of cheese have left the building this week, and the live traps have put the hurtin on the mice!
I catch them before I know I have them.

LOL

Kinda like an STD, @ibstubro.