A cat or a raccoon will never sound like a human running with the someone is running across my room and portal jumping.
Sounds like someone running on my roof.
My cat can hear it.
Additionally raccoons are primarily nocturnal so the noises occur at night.
Its not all in one area.
Trust me it sounds loud like a freaking human walking.
I hear sounds like someone is running on my roof after dark usually at midnight.
They might be from squirrels under the roof inside your house and attic.
Most of the noises seem to be coming from the top of the walls.
Here are the concerns.
Our situation ended up being raccoons in the attic.
There are loud banging noises coming from our attic roof.
Anonymous january 24 2017 at 3 23 am.
We have snap trapped 3 rats.
It comes from all around the room.
I used to hear them a lot as a child.
It is nearly every night that i hear what sounds like animals running on the ceiling.
It s quite scary reply delete.
It s not at the same time eachday.
The sounds give jun 21 2016 so basically i heard footsteps on my roof last night.
We ve been hearing this for a year and recently saw a rat on our patio.
No i didn t live in an apartment but instead a two story house.
It literally sounds like someone punching sheetrock.
Hey just so you know i have footsteps on my roof at least 12 hours a day and sometimes at night it s called dem squirrels and if you want i can record it tomorrow morning lol.
Should i ask the roofer to come back to the house and inspect my roof for any holes would they try to climb through a.
While it is impractical to cover the roof in anti bird spikes placing these on the ridge of the roof can help to stop pest birds from landing on your roof and causing problems.
Very heavy sounding footsteps like someone wearing big boots.
Trust me i saw the builders building the roof and there were no kind of animals up there.
Squirrel on a roof is making noises running around and rolling nuts.
We are trying to figure out if they are coming from out.
How did you guys get to remove the racoons.
Squirrel is on the roof because it is actually entering and living in your attic.
Had that problem recently.
Mine is the noises that come from the roof at night.
Squirrel is on the roof chewing on wooden trim like in the photo to the left.
The ones that sound like someone is walking just above you.
Go back to the main how to get rid of wild animals page for more information about animal on the roof and what types of noises or sounds they make.
I am hearing them right now it actually sounds like a horses gallops.
Right now it is 8 degrees f outside.
Anonymous october 30 2015 at 8 51 pm.
I should also mention racoons birds and other animals make the same sound.
As i sit here in bed trying to get some sleep i cannot.
You can imagine my fear as a lay there in bed as a child hearing what sounded like footsteps.
