Something alive in my bedroom wall!

[equalizr]

:|

Well the cat first noticed last night, heard this scratching in the bedroom/hallway wall. I thought it was her scratching at the wall or the wires on the wall but then i heard it too! At first it sounded like a mouse but then after i was thinking, mice would go back out the way they came if they get stuck. This sound is stuck between 2 2x4's and sounds like its jumping. There is no scraping sound (like a mouse would make) so im thinking its a grasshopper? Ive had 2 others in my basement before but never in the wall. Its still there now but its jumping less and less (prob dying) and my cat is now living beside that wall:lol:

Im sure hoping its a grasshopper, no other insect resembles the sounds they would make

[cipher]

It's...Chuckie!!!

http://images.soundclick.com/04/images/c/band/chuckie.jpg

[Badman]

I feel sorry for you>:(

Probally some small insect

[Montague]

re: "Something alive in my bedroom wall!"

Maybe it is 'September' (maybe aka 'wanted'):

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346893

:|

[awais]

maybe its this person

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346893

my bad.. i didnt notice u just post that before me lol.

[Montague]

maybe its this person

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346893
Good thinking repeating my post - else people that have me on their ignore list will not read what I posted.
:razz:

[gmark2000]

Shouldn't this be in the "Home & Garden" forum??

[GateGuardian]

probably mice..... I had some in the attic a few years ago and they would travel up and down between the walls..... got some rat poison and later a cat and solved the problem

[UrbanPoet]

maybe its your mom.
seriously :-0
1 time my mom was up @ 2am cleaning the bathroom making all these scratching noises.

[najibs]

maybe its your mom.
seriously :-0
1 time my mom was up @ 2am cleaning the bathroom making all these scratching noises.

That's probably what your dad told you, not to blow his cover.

[WhiteFlagDeals]

Just tear the wall apart, then you don't have to speculate anymore.

[lost~user]

That's probably what your dad told you, not to blow his cover.
Well, it makes sense, there was some blowing..... lost a load somewhere, and then his mom needed to clean it up...

[felix]

Possibly baby raccoon or squirrel. I've heard stories like that from our raccoon guy a few years back. Mom dropped her baby, went down to go and help but both couldn't get back up and were stuck there until several months later when an aweful smell came from the wall, and after tearing up the wall they found rotting racoons there ... a mom and her baby .... so sad ...

[DualSoul]

Sounds like june bugs.

[lost~user]

Sounds like june bugs.
June Bugs are the wost thing to inhabity the EARTH! I use to have a HUGE June bug problem back when I lived in a house in Scarborough. We had use the fireplace to keep them from coming through the chimney. I remember them flying through the lower floor, and I used hairspray and a lighter to kill them. It felt good, but it was definitely grosse. I say u should call pest control and find out what it is before it becomes a major problem. Anyways.. enough of my rant...

[DualSoul]

June Bugs are the wost thing to inhabity the EARTH! I use to have a HUGE June bug problem back when I lived in a house in Scarborough. We had use the fireplace to keep them from coming through the chimney. I remember them flying through the lower floor, and I used hairspray and a lighter to kill them. It felt good, but it was definitely grosse. I say u should call pest control and find out what it is before it becomes a major problem. Anyways.. enough of my rant...

Yeah, used to have them in the basement. Would have to bring down good ol' central vac to pick up their bodies after they had killed themselves flying into the exposed concrete floor. On another note however, they do make a satisfying crunching noise as you suck em up.

Also had them in the fireplace too. That was when my family used the fireplace. Flame + bug = no bug. I don't think they go there anymore.

[lost~user]

Would have to bring down good ol' central vac to pick up their bodies after they had killed themselves flying into the exposed concrete floor. On another note however, they do make a satisfying crunching noise as you suck em up.
:lol: kinda like sucking up marbles, u can hear them tumbling down the tubes... I still get nitemares from these brown things. I remember the tree outside my house that was infested with it... I think that was how the problem began in the first place... err...

[Madchester]

This sounds like the story of The Great Eastern. Basically it was a big-ass steam liner built in the 1800s. One of the workers "accidentally?" got sealed inside the hulls during its construction. Other workers could hear contstant banging within the ship's walls but didn't know what the hell it was. Obviously, the guy died inside the hulls, but his skeleton remained, and shipgoers were complaining about a constant racket inside within the ship's walls.

Eventually, when the ship was scrapped for its metals, they finally realized that a man had been trapped within the ship's hull... all that was left was his skeleton, with his fist still clenched to a hammer...

[bumbum]

It's...Chuckie!!!

http://images.soundclick.com/04/images/c/band/chuckie.jpg

:arrowu: :cheesygri

[bionicbadger]

http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/cats_files/ceiling.jpg

[S_G]

Cut a hole in the wall (watch your cutting, you might decapitate whatever is in there). Think of it this way: you will eventually have to cut open the wall to clean out the corpse, so you might as well do it now while the thing is still alive.

Watch out for Ceiling Cat.

[jory29]

http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/cats_files/ceiling.jpg

Never mind ceiling cat, just thank God it's not bionicbadger's avatar thing-a-ma-bob staring down at you from the ceiling! :cheesygri

So, can we have an update? I am guessing mice - sometimes they find their way back out again - sometimes not. They make a heck of a lot of noise, really.