[LuvablePsycho]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

I believe you heard those sounds. I don't know why anyone would doubt that. Maybe they just doubted your conclusions. Having lived in a big old house, I know sounds get thrown around through the wood, airducts, pipes, echoes bounce around... that is to say, when something is running on the roof (like a raccoon/squirrel) it's really difficult to pinpoint it's actual location. And of course a house makes sounds that mimic other sounds, so settling and house functions can sound like footfalls.

Just saying, you know what you heard, but it's really difficult to make any conclusions beyond what you heard. If you must, I'd suggest Occam's razor: the simplest solution tends to be the right one. You looked and didn't see anything with little feet, so the sound was unidentified. The next most logical, simplest solution would be animal running on the roof, branch tapping, or a house structure or function sound that sounded similar to little feet running. House sounds are something you've actually verified experientially, whereas ghost footsteps are not. You probably know when we perceive something, our brains are quick to fill in the blanks.

Incidentally, bathrooms are a place people often hear music or voices, which I assume is particular to the bathroom exhaust structures, also the small room and a higher likelihood of bare walls, and no less our stricter attention to sounds.

Still, life after death is a fantastic study. There are actual published experiments in this and related fields. Coming to a conclusion, or not, on the house sounds need not tilt your conclusions on the afterlife. = )

Yeah I guess it is very possible that I may have heard an animal running on the roof or something to that effect, but to be clear the xylophone music I heard wasn't actually in the bathroom it was in that same big hallway where I heard the other noise on my way to the bathroom. But then again maybe somebody in that house had xylophone music set as their ringtone for their cellphone? That is one possibility.

I really wish that ghosts were real, then I would feel a lot better about death. They may or may not be real but I guess we will never really know for sure until we are dead.