Weird loud clicking in apartment occasionally

Ok,

I have heard it on and off for a couple of months. Not all the time–ever so occasionally I hear a slightly high-pitching clicking, like a chik, chik chik chik chik chik.

I always assumed it was a bird outside sat on the AC or something. But today I heard it in a room with no AC machine, and sounding like it came from near a wall. So I don’t think it is a bird.

I asumme it is a kind of animal, but has anyone else heard it? Is it s type of bug. It doens’t sound ratty, and there’s no sign of a rat in the apartment.

Afriad I can’t describe the noise much better, or record it since it just happens at random some time.

It’s fairly loud, I can hear it pretty well. It doesn’t come from the same place every time either, it comes from high or low or medium and not every day and at random times.

All I can think is, I have a strange high pitched bug lurking somewhere. Or, possibly, could it be a bird and the sound just carried strangely? Or maybe the bird has found its into the wall somehow (a gap where the pipes are/AC connects or whatever.

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It’s probably a gecko. They make clicking noises.

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Sounds like a gecko.

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Is this the noise you’re hearing?

Could be a wall tiger, be careful!

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Yes! That noise at 15 seconds is it!

I have seen house geckos here occasionally. I let them stay because they’re harmless and kill bugs.

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That’s it lol. Glad I’m not the onyl one with the noise.

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Could be this

Better watch out…

Seriously though I used to hear that noise every morning at my old place. I thought it was a mouse or something.

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I repeated the video multiple times to see if I could get the actual gecko to click, but it didn’t. I thought it might fool it into giving up its location so I could see it (just to see how big it is, the gecko can stay).

He didn’t fall for it,

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I don’t know the reason for them to make the sound but early morning and evenings seems to be the time they make the sound…

Probably a demon

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I wouldn’t say that’s a house Gecko. If it was, it would sound like this.

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I always try to find them when I hear them out on my evening walks. Lucky you have your very own house gecko!

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It wasn’t until I heard these guys in Bali that I understood why they’re called geckos.

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Clicking?
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I had one of these in my couch that drove me nuts until I figured it out.

That’s a Tokay, not a Gecko (seems that video si not playing the sounds linked to the Gecko images)… quite different, much much bigger and with a bigger fatter head

Tokay clearly let you know their name!

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I’m correcting myself! On the internet they call them Tokay Geckos! In Indonesia they typically refer to them as Tokay only

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A tokay is a kind of gecko. :smirk: