My husband was not happy with me the other night when I woke him up out of a sound sleep.
I told him that I could hear someone in the basement.
He went into protective mode as he grabbed a flashlight and his gun and headed to the basement. He walked silently and if there were someone downstairs, they never would have heard him coming. Fortunately, no one was in the basement but he was able to hear the noise I was hearing. He said it sounded like someone was tapping on the ductwork. When he got upstairs, he heard the noise in the bedroom and it was echoing from the air vents and it really did sound like someone was in the basement. We laid there for talking for awhile and he shushed me. He heard more noise and he suddenly realized what was going on. There was something scampering around inside the ductwork. It was too warm for the furnace to be running and too cool for the air conditioning so whatever was in there was safe, but we had to find out how it had gotten into the ductwork. From the sound, he was guessing it had to be a squirrel, and now I was worrying that whatever was in the ductwork was going to get into my house. The next morning he called the HVAC company and told them we needed someone to check the ductwork because we had squatters. The ductwork cleaners found a nest of mice which were evicted and they patched up the hole so the mice weren’t able to get back into the ductwork.