I used to hear them a lot as a child.
Sounds like someone running on my roof.
My cat can hear it.
I should also mention racoons birds and other animals make the same sound.
Right now it is 8 degrees f outside.
As i sit here in bed trying to get some sleep i cannot.
Here are the concerns.
Its not all in one area.
It comes from all around the room.
We are trying to figure out if they are coming from out.
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.
Had that problem recently.
Additionally raccoons are primarily nocturnal so the noises occur at night.
I also just heard a bird.
It s quite scary reply delete.
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.
The ones that sound like someone is walking just above you.
We ve been hearing this for a year and recently saw a rat on our patio.
The sounds give jun 21 2016 so basically i heard footsteps on my roof last night.
At first i thought it was the house settling on like this.
I am hearing them right now it actually sounds like a horses gallops.
Trust me it sounds loud like a freaking human walking.
We have snap trapped 3 rats.
Squirrel is on the roof chewing on wooden trim like in the photo to the left.
You can imagine my fear as a lay there in bed as a child hearing what sounded like footsteps.
It s not at the same time eachday.
No i didn t live in an apartment but instead a two story house.
Squirrel on a roof is making noises running around and rolling nuts.
It literally sounds like someone punching sheetrock.
Our situation ended up being raccoons in the attic.
It is nearly every night that i hear what sounds like animals running on the ceiling.
There are loud banging noises coming from our attic roof.
Mine is the noises that come from the roof at night.
Very heavy sounding footsteps like someone wearing big boots.
Squirrel is on the roof because it is actually entering and living in your attic.
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.
Raccoons are the largest of these animals so the sound is often heavy more like thumping or walking than the light scurrying of a rat.
Trust me i saw the builders building the roof and there were no kind of animals up there.
A cat or a raccoon will never sound like a human running with the someone is running across my room and portal jumping.
Anonymous january 24 2017 at 3 23 am.
Anonymous october 30 2015 at 8 51 pm.
How did you guys get to remove the racoons.
I hear sounds like someone is running on my roof after dark usually at midnight.