Creeped out... vet or ghost hunters?

[sagelfn]

I guess this has been going on for about 2 weeks but recently is worse.

First started when I was on the couch using my laptop. I had also been tossing Sage's cuz toy for him. I remember he was looking past me and up the wall almost at the ceiling. He stared at one spot and then quickly looked to the right but the same area high on the wall. He kept looking back and forth in the same areas. At first I thought it was some string lights I had up and he'd just noticed them. So I didn't think much of it. He did this over the next few days. I started to get creeped out so I took down the lights. He still would look around the same. Then I started thinking maybe it is light moving on the wall from when cars go by and for whatever reason he's just now noticing it.

For about 4-5 days in a row he's woken me up early to go outside. Didn't think much of it because I've been working late so we are going for later bike rides and he's drinking a lot of water closer to bedtime. 2 nights ago he woke me up trying to get into the bathroom (at night he is confined to my room and hallway with a baby gate - bathroom is only door and it is closed) He seemed nervous so I took him outside thinking maybe he had to potty. If he has the blastys he usually acts a little nervous. Came back in and I think he went right to sleep. I was half awake so I really do not remember.

Last night I woke up to him trying to crawl under the bed. I had him hop up on the bed with me and he was acting nervous again. He kept staring at the wall and then would look down the hall and back again. He wouldn't lay down and wouldn't take his eyes off those areas for more than a couple of seconds. We went outside he peed and sniffed around a bit I called him and he stopped about 10ft from the door and stood staring at me. I called him again and he came in and went right to his crate (in the living room) and wanted in there. I let him in and he layed down. He seemed okay then. Didn't wake me up for the rest of the night and he seemed fine this morning.

[gsdraven]

[Wolfiesmom]

My son's Carin terrier was doing the same thing. They found a bees nest in the wall. They couldn't hear it, but the dog did.

[Castlemaid]

Wooo . . . creepy!

Could it be mice or some other critters behind the wall?

[rickaz80]

There was a point in time when the wife and I were having a house built. Due to the new house taking longer to build, we had to rent a place for the time in between selling the old place and moving into the new place. We ended up in an old town house. The owners husband had passed away and she was living out of state.
Our dog and cat always slept with us in the bedroom. That lasted half a night. They refused to sleep in that bedroom. When we moved to the new house, they started to sleep in the bedroom again.

[Holmeshx2]

Originally Posted by gsdraven

I love this one!!

BTW completely think animals can see the dead but since its the same spot a bees nest would make ALOT of sense since its high and the same spot but if hes acting wierd all around the house at different areas (as wierd as it may sound) Id start working on desensitizing him just like you would with other houseguests

[DJEtzel]

I've noticed Frag and Duke acting weird in our new house, too. Duke is doing almost the same thing, waking up out of a dead sleep to stare at the wall and follow "something" that he sees.

Frag will wake up like he hears a noise, walk into the kitchen like he's following something, and stare down the stairs for many minutes. I know there's a cat buried in the backyard, I wonder if it's "haunting" our house.

We've also had doors randomly open when none of the animals or people living there could have done it which I thought was strange. But a ghost cat? Maybe.

[middleofnowhere]

The late Barker the Elder got very fussy once in Wyoming. She kept pestering me and pacing - it was a nest of starlings in the wall.
Here, there were two instances of one or the other or both of the late Barker Sisters ripping into an exterior door when I was gone. One I think had a bird fall down between the storm door & the back door; the other I think there was a bird in the garage.
I think something is going on in your walls.

[lisgje]

there may be something living in the wall, termites, bees, ants...probably would not hurt to have an exterminator take a look. I also think animals can sense '"presences" as well. My friends are convinced their really old house is haunted as somehow, something keeps letting their dog outside onto the porch when all doors are shut! My other GSD Shane, refused to go upstairs in their house as well after getting spooked in one of the bedrooms for no apparent reason.

[Freestep]

This probably doesn't have anything to do with your situation, but I feel compelled to bring it up.

A couple of years ago, Luka suddenly started acting anxious for no apparent reason while she was outside. She was fine when inside, but suddenly didn't want to be left outside for any length of time, and would sit by the door begging to be let back in. My neighbors had been doing some kind of gopher control in the orchards involving explosives, which scares my Akbash dog silly, but never before phased Luka. She is a dog that loves fireworks, and loads when she hears gunshots. We took her to the vet to rule out anything medical and could find nothing. We were all stumped.

Several weeks after this behavior started, our shop caught fire for no apparent reason... the fire inspector never did definitively determine the cause for the fire, so after ruling out everything else, he figured it must have been some bad wiring in the wall. If there were a short, it could have been smoldering for days, or even weeks.

After the fire was put out and the dust settled, Luka stopped acting anxious.

Strange coincidence? Maybe. But who knows... animals are sensitive to things we don't even know.