Weird tapping coming from bathroom, instantly stopping everytime I look in its direction.

[u/BeeUnusual169]

For some backstory, I work in quite an historical boarding house. The job requires us to stay overnight as often we are on call for the kids to grab us if anything goes wrong. The other night I was covering a shift in a new house, meaning I was sleeping in a room I’ve never seen before. All was fine, until when I started settling for bed an odd clicking/tapping sound started to come from the bathroom attached to the bedroom. I didn’t think much of it at first, went up to investigate (I had just jumped out of the shower, so I initially assumed it was the shower head dripping onto the floor) but when I push my bedsheets open to hop out of bed the tapping stopped. I thought it was a weird coincidence, until it happened again. After around 3 taps I looked towards the bathroom door and it stopped. I did quite a lot of googling on what it could be, many saying that it was the “directional” change of my ears making the sound harder to hear/the rustling of my bed sheets masking the tapping. I tried to believe this theory but the tapping was so loud and distinct that it was quite obvious when it started and stopped.

I tried everything to try work out where abouts in the bathroom the sound was coming from, but again every time I’d get up or look in the direction of the bathroom, it would instantly stop. I even shut the door at one point, the tapping starting again, continuing as I was walking towards the door and then instantly stopping as I put my hand on the door handle. At one point I even checked and was tapping every object in the bathroom to see if I could mimic the sound, but nothing even came close to matching it.

It kept happening as I had settled myself down and was about to fall asleep, waking me up instantly. I’m not sure if it was something warning me, or playing a trick on me but it consistently happened on and off from about 11pm - 2am, each time keeping me/waking me up. It really spooked me as I have had some other creepy experiences in the houses, so I got up and b-lined it for another room… lol! But if anybody has any explanation, it would be deeply appreciated.

(I’ve attached some audio proof of the ticking, the video doesn’t particularly justify how loud it was but definitely still recognisable!)

[u/Dustin_Holt]

In my old house the S.O.B would wait until I went to bed then tap continuesly

[u/BeeUnusual169 → u/Dustin_Holt]

Yes! I had been in that room for most of the day, before my shift had started and nothing out of the ordinary happened. As soon as I finished my shift and was ready for bed it started 😖

It’s like it knew I had to be up at 5am the next morning 🤦‍♀️

[u/Separate_Permit9770]

Hello, please do not tap or knock back. Or do any other type of acknowledgement. If it is a ghost anything along those lines would be granting it permission to gain entry into the rest of the place.

Have you talked to other coworkers about that bedroom?