marble sounds at night *merged thread*

[memories]

Read this... frightening isn't it? I hear that sometimes & tot my neighbour dropped screws!! Even my colleagues hear it. And it's always at nite, any science explanation on some chemical reastion or watsoever??

Something from a fren.. Don't know how true.

Do u stay in a HDB flat? If yes, do u ever hear marbles dropping late at night from upstairs? Have u ever wondered why occasionally now and then, u hear marbles
dropping? It could be children playing marbles, but in this century when they got ps1, ps2 xbox, they play with marbles in the middle of the night? Or shift furniture in the middle of the night? Sometimes I wonder, asked alot of my friends and they all heard the same things in their flats occasionally....

When HDB started building flats, they put marbles in between the floor so as to let 'them' play and that they won't disturb the occupants..... otherwise u really think that children playing marbles upstair, u can hear it downstair in yr flat meh? If so, I switch on hifi or tv, my neighbours downstairs also can hear lor....

Okae, not sure abt hearing hifi and TV and stuffs like tt.. duno how true but I do hear something like marbles dropping in the middle of the night...

[firey]

wah lao ...
really or nt..
i also hear marbles at night sometimes leh...

my goose pimples all com up liao.....

[dennis]

check this out :

http://www.spi-world.com/spi/forum/003/main.htm

:cool:

[J4son]

sometimes late at nite i heard it too.. marbles dropping on the floor... but i think i'm so used to it that i usually ignore it.. furthermore most of the time i was listening to my MP3 thru hearphones.. din even hear it.. hahaa :angel:

[emcee]

Originally posted by J4son
sometimes late at nite i heard it too.. marbles dropping on the floor... but i think i'm so used to it that i usually ignore it.. furthermore most of the time i was listening to my MP3 thru hearphones.. din even hear it.. hahaa :angel:
i useed to heard pple washing a bunch of chopstick (chopsticks rubbing together) in the morning 4am....

[me_hui2]

marbles dropping and furniture dragging very typical.
i used to hear it when i was young like k1, k2 and lower primary.
i dun live in hdb flat, then there was nobody living above my house,
still got that type of sounds, how to explain?:eek:

[J4son]

Originally posted by emcee
i useed to heard pple washing a bunch of chopstick (chopsticks rubbing together) in the morning 4am....

washing a bunch of chopstick can be tat loud?? maybe those are the hawker uncles and aunites going to work??

[dennis]

Originally posted by me_hui2
marbles dropping and furniture dragging very typical.
i used to hear it when i was young like k1, k2 and lower primary.
i dun live in hdb flat, then there was nobody living above my house,
still got that type of sounds, how to explain?:eek:

this is interesting... maybe want to ask the SPI team to go to your hse and investigate :D

[me_hui2]

Originally posted by dennis
this is interesting... maybe want to ask the SPI team to go to your hse and investigate :D

dun live there anymore,
remembered last time raining heavily, thunderstorm,
but still can hear furniture dragging... like a big table being dragged on their legs...

was small at that time, didnt think much about it, i was not the only one hearing it, even my brother also made comments about it.

[J4son]

Originally posted by me_hui2
dun live there anymore,
remembered last time raining heavily, thunderstorm,
but still can hear furniture dragging... like a big table being dragged on their legs...

was small at that time, didnt think much about it, i was not the only one hearing it, even my brother also made comments about it.

wow... this is scary.. imagine the sound of dragging tables in the middle of a thuderstorm.. especially when there's nothing above u... :D

[emcee]

Originally posted by J4son
washing a bunch of chopstick can be tat loud?? maybe those are the hawker uncles and aunites going to work??

I noe my neigbour quite...no one actually a hawker lah.... and who will want to wash chopsticks so early in the morning.....

well... i don'y hear it anymore... maybe they retired liao.... hahaha

[J4son]

Originally posted by emcee
I noe my neigbour quite...no one actually a hawker lah.... and who will want to wash chopsticks so early in the morning.....

well... i don'y hear it anymore... maybe they retired liao.... hahaha

ya.. .bad economy... so no business then quit liao.. hahahhahahaa

[ReNeDEx]

i am not the expert here but to put it in a scientific way...

our brain emits brain waves rite...

we take all these supernatural things as 'energy' or waves...

in normal circumstances the frequency of the 2 waves should not match...

but at a time when u r feeling very stress or nervous your brain starts to emit waves tat r of the same frequency as those 'things'....

so this will affect your brain n you will start 'seeing' n 'hearing' things tat r not supposed to be there....

as we grow older our mind becomes more complex n the brain waves we emitted becomes more complicated thus our chances of hearing or seeing this kind of thing decreases...

tats y kids have higher tendency to see these kind of 'things'...

do u all feel more assured now...

[memories]

Originally posted by ReNeDEx
i am not the expert here but to put it in a scientific way...

our brain emits brain waves rite...

we take all these supernatural things as 'energy' or waves...

in normal circumstances the frequency of the 2 waves should not match...

but at a time when u r feeling very stress or nervous your brain starts to emit waves tat r of the same frequency as those 'things'....

so this will affect your brain n you will start 'seeing' n 'hearing' things tat r not supposed to be there....

as we grow older our mind becomes more complex n the brain waves we emitted becomes more complicated thus our chances of hearing or seeing this kind of thing decreases...

tats y kids have higher tendency to see these kind of 'things'...

do u all feel more assured now...

:doh: can that really be take as explaination??? Hmm... but what if it's a gp who "saw"??? Dun think all is having the same frequency rite???

THis is gettin very interesting... roflZ

[me_hui2]

and speaking about all this stuffs,
remember last time when adults say dun point your finger at the moon or your ear will be cut off!
i know this doesnt happens nowadays but my older frens told me that last time when they were small, they did try pointing to the moon and the next morning, there will be this slight red slit around the ear. :eek:

[ReNeDEx]

Originally posted by memories
:doh: can that really be take as explaination??? Hmm... but what if it's a gp who "saw"??? Dun think all is having the same frequency rite???

THis is gettin very interesting... roflZ

could be... cos environment can affect your brain frequency...
tat could be how illusionist trick his audience...
anyway our brain frequency is like our fingerprint everyone is unique n different....
if they is something that can alter our brain wave to the same frequency we can well be 'possessed' or can do telepathy liao loh

[J4son]

hmm... i tried it b4 when i was small.. and the next morning.. there's a slight cut on my ear... think it's quite true....

[speedstar25]

Originally posted by memories
Read this... frightening isn't it? I hear that sometimes & tot my neighbour dropped screws!! Even my colleagues hear it. And it's always at nite, any science explanation on some chemical reastion or watsoever??

Something from a fren.. Don't know how true.

Do u stay in a HDB flat? If yes, do u ever hear marbles dropping late at night from upstairs? Have u ever wondered why occasionally now and then, u hear marbles
dropping? It could be children playing marbles, but in this century when they got ps1, ps2 xbox, they play with marbles in the middle of the night? Or shift furniture in the middle of the night? Sometimes I wonder, asked alot of my friends and they all heard the same things in their flats occasionally....

When HDB started building flats, they put marbles in between the floor so as to let 'them' play and that they won't disturb the occupants..... otherwise u really think that children playing marbles upstair, u can hear it downstair in yr flat meh? If so, I switch on hifi or tv, my neighbours downstairs also can hear lor....

Okae, not sure abt hearing hifi and TV and stuffs like tt.. duno how true but I do hear something like marbles dropping in the middle of the night...



Sounds familiar ...me also heard almost the same thing from my frd before.....But wat I heard is for the 'children ghost' ..in hokkein " kuai Kia" to play.....

Sounds scarry too.......:eek:

[me_hui2]

Originally posted by J4son
hmm... i tried it b4 when i was small.. and the next morning.. there's a slight cut on my ear... think it's quite true....

but now it doesnt happen anymore liao rite?
or does it only happens to kid?

maybe grab a few kids then force them to point to the moon. haha....:D

[J4son]

Originally posted by me_hui2
but now it doesnt happen anymore liao rite?
or does it only happens to kid?

maybe grab a few kids then force them to point to the moon. haha....:D

kena once b4 still want to try?? hahaha.. u child abuse leh.. report u to the police!! :uts:

[kikasa]

actually not just marble or furniture..... this are quite common.... I once heard a
ball probably a basketball bouncing.... i really wanted to go up to scold whoever
bouncing the ball but that time my mother happened to be in the kitchen and she stopped me from doing so without giving any valid reason for me not to do so.....

[J4son]

coz she noes there's somethings up there??? :D

[kikasa]

Originally posted by J4son
coz she noes there's somethings up there??? :D

maybe lor.... cos i remember that time is around ching ming!!! :)

[J4son]

wah... duno issit friendly ghost like Casper anot.. hehee:D

[Classified]

Originally posted by me_hui2
and speaking about all this stuffs,
remember last time when adults say dun point your finger at the moon or your ear will be cut off!
i know this doesnt happens nowadays but my older frens told me that last time when they were small, they did try pointing to the moon and the next morning, there will be this slight red slit around the ear. :eek:


hey i did try b4 pointing at the moon while i'm still a kid... and i did got a slite slit around the ear and it's quite painful though

[me_hui2]

Originally posted by da_niu83
hey i did try b4 pointing at the moon while i'm still a kid... and i did got a slite slit around the ear and it's quite painful though

hmm...... then it was true...

[sherlyn]

Originally posted by me_hui2
and speaking about all this stuffs,
remember last time when adults say dun point your finger at the moon or your ear will be cut off!
i know this doesnt happens nowadays but my older frens told me that last time when they were small, they did try pointing to the moon and the next morning, there will be this slight red slit around the ear. :eek:

I experienced this before also...a few times.
After that, dun dare to point to the moon liao. :(

[J4son]

Originally posted by sherlyn
I experienced this before also...a few times.
After that, dun dare to point to the moon liao. :(

ya.. i also experience it once.. then dun dare liao... painful experience... if accidentally point the moon.. must pray pray.. :D

[molemole]

I've heard of this before myself.
Although I don quite accept the fact, here's the debunk...

http://www.spi-world.com/spi/forum/003/main.htm

I still believe that I heard the furniture and constant "renovation" plus the marbles.. sometimes 1 sometime a bagful of it... :blah:

[Mathwizard]

does it only happens to kid?
Maybe it's because kids really believe what adults told them. They believe that their ear will really be cut, hence the body react to the belief and produce the mark. It is well known that human mind is capable of producing scar on the body.

OK...back to the topic...I only heard marble dropping once in my room in NUS, most probably someone did dropped something on the floor above me. But at that time I jumped up and reached for my gadgets to scan the ceiling :wahaha: :wahaha: :wahaha:

A more mysterious event happened many years back during my secondary school time in Malaysia. It was late at night and my mother woke me up, asked me whether I can heard the sound. I said yes. It sounds like someone is banging on the door of my down stair neighbour's bedroom door :eek: I continued to sleep though :D My mother told me that the sound continued for two hours...and apparently our neighbour didn't hear it. Whether it is something supernatural I cannot say for sure.

[waltz]

ermm think i can explain the marble thing...
read on some site and books on it b4....
this onli happen on older blocks...
cause when building the put ball bearing on the side and on the ceiling..
WHY?
i remembered they say cause the building tends to sway from left to right..
or the soil below soften.. like some building grow shorter or taller after years
its ti prevent the building from collesp....
so at nite the air is cooling....
the building tend to shrink on 1 side....
than the so called "marble" will row from 1 side to another....
thats why got the sound....

[IniQx]

speaking abt marbles, my fwen hears marbles falling all over in his hse @ nite. de prob is, he lives in a 3 storey high bunglow & his rm is on de top floor, which means...it's definitely not possible tat de marbles were threw by de upstairs kids... :eek: plus, there'z no young children in his household...n it makes me wonder~

[Shnchn]

Originally posted by me_hui2
and speaking about all this stuffs,
remember last time when adults say dun point your finger at the moon or your ear will be cut off!
i know this doesnt happens nowadays but my older frens told me that last time when they were small, they did try pointing to the moon and the next morning, there will be this slight red slit around the ear. :eek:

ya lor... mi also leh... quite painfully...
dun knw hw to explain leh

[fOrKiE]

Originally posted by Shnchn
ya lor... mi also leh... quite painfully...
dun knw hw to explain leh
Yest nite I heard like marbles dropping sounds..... pak pak pak pak de...
Dont think is rolling wor.... somemore 4am plus... :think:

[Shnchn]

Originally posted by IniQxº
speaking abt marbles, my fwen hears marbles falling all over in his hse @ nite. de prob is, he lives in a 3 storey high bunglow & his rm is on de top floor, which means...it's definitely not possible tat de marbles were threw by de upstairs kids... :eek: plus, there'z no young children in his household...n it makes me wonder~

my old hse also haf...
marbles droping... rolling..
furniture moving... :faint:

i thnk mayb is due to the expantion n contraction lor...
furninture moving cos the concete is moving ma thus mking the sound...
marble....
i rally dunno..
:scratch:

[jmking87]

i also hear them a lot of times. Until today then i know there is such a story.....very scary leh.:hairise:

[sonato]

I never hear any marbles sound leh. But at some nights, i heard those creaking sounds like people pushing the furniture around upstairs leh. Related to this???

[fOrKiE]

If waltz is true then wat abt now the marbles I hearing now ???
It is defintely some1 playing marbless cos it drop... then no sound... like some1 drop them n after 1 2 bounce catch it again... then again n again....
Wah rao even now only ard 7 8 pm nia but relly...... :eek:
keep on rolling n bouncing sia !!!!

[waltz]

forkie maybe when the contractor building ur block insert LOTS of ball bearing onto ue ceiling and walls..hehhehe...:eek:
pak pak pak...
whooossee... u hear it now?:eek:

[JinG[-^^]]

this is old "story" liaox.. heard it frm a frend afew years back.. oso heard tt its ball bearings the contractor uses.. got alot of xplanation...
i oso hear this kinda sounds.. furniture lah.. marbles lah.. n i live on the last floor of the building leh.. -.-'' but i might choose to blieve wad waltz sae ba..
coz wad i heard ish the "marble" will roll............................. then kok kok kok kok kok.. like tt lor.. maybe ish the bearing roll to the side.. then hit against the concrete.. so will bounce abit..

[fOrKiE]

Originally posted by JinG[-^^]
this is old "story" liaox.. heard it frm a frend afew years back.. oso heard tt its ball bearings the contractor uses.. got alot of xplanation...
i oso hear this kinda sounds.. furniture lah.. marbles lah.. n i live on the last floor of the building leh.. -.-'' but i might choose to blieve wad waltz sae ba..
coz wad i heard ish the "marble" will roll............................. then kok kok kok kok kok.. like tt lor.. maybe ish the bearing roll to the side.. then hit against the concrete.. so will bounce abit..
Bounce okie lor i understand but some is pak pak then no sound....
Shld continue pak pak softer n softer until no sound but some is stop abruptly...
Like got pple bounce them then catch again...... :rolleyes:
this how to explain ?

[waltz]

pak pak till softer than no sound?
how can... its not a foot ball mah...
its a ball bearing.. so normally after 2-3 bounce it stop lor...
imagine drop a metal ball to the ground...
how many time i will bounce?
less than 4 i guess....
so when u heard u cant see so u have this thinking somebody stop it....

[Shnchn]

Originally posted by waltz
pak pak till softer than no sound?
how can... its not a foot ball mah...
its a ball bearing.. so normally after 2-3 bounce it stop lor...
imagine drop a metal ball to the ground...
how many time i will bounce?
less than 4 i guess....
so when u heard u cant see so u have this thinking somebody stop it....

but hw come it bounce????
nw almost every notz can hear...

argh...:Faint:

[DarK`AngL]

Originally posted by fOrKiE
If waltz is true then wat abt now the marbles I hearing now ???
It is defintely some1 playing marbless cos it drop... then no sound... like some1 drop them n after 1 2 bounce catch it again... then again n again....
Wah rao even now only ard 7 8 pm nia but relly...... :eek:
keep on rolling n bouncing sia !!!!

I also always hear those marbles bouncing. not rolling. den it'ld stop a while and continue and sometimes late at night furniture dragging. Always find it wierd cos it NEVER happens in e afternoon. every week at least hear once or twice and now this realli freaking me out

Also, know it sounds stupid but when i was small, whenever i point to e moon always get a slit at e ear there. Call mi superstitious or wad but up til now i nvr point at e moon :eek:

[iamhappy_80]

i heard those marble like sounds and furniture creaking or move sounds before too! but then i don't think it's anything supernatural lah..perhaps coincidental people drop something.. maybe not marble but definitely will still bounce awhile sometimes.

those sounds may not be on top of your house as sounds can travel thru those walls or floors or ceilings and they could be echos from some other floors in the building lor..i am not surprise..

i got all those info from a friend but dunno how true though since so many of you said it is ball bearings in the ceiling? or maybe SPI agent can comment? :)

[molemole]

Originally posted by iamhappy_80
i heard those marble like sounds and furniture creaking or move sounds before too! but then i don't think it's anything supernatural lah..perhaps coincidental people drop something.. maybe not marble but definitely will still bounce awhile sometimes.

those sounds may not be on top of your house as sounds can travel thru those walls or floors or ceilings and they could be echos from some other floors in the building lor..i am not surprise..

i got all those info from a friend but dunno how true though since so many of you said it is ball bearings in the ceiling? or maybe SPI agent can comment? :)


It could be both a natural or a supernatural event. Depending on how one perceives it.
Sometimes we give ourselves too many reasons and explanations to hide the fear of truth..
Seeing is believing.. but how can you see when you don believe/doubt it?

[acid]

i oso hear marbles leh...but not at new estates...my house occasionally got...but who noes...last time kid at nite sleep will hear furniture in my room like move abit abit...kok kok kok...den i think i found out was due to expansion contraction cos my wooden bed frame got cracks on it...

but my house upstairs...ALWAYS ALWAYS got sound of banging, moving of furniture even late nite.....den now they always got some church group go their house sing songs every few days....so now no more sound....:eek: :eek:

[reapfrost]

used to hear scratching noise coming from my sink at my old flat. it usually happen at night.

[iamhappy_80]

Originally posted by reapfrost
used to hear scratching noise coming from my sink at my old flat. it usually happen at night.

could it be a lizard?? hee.,.. they sound like scratching sound really..

[iamhappy_80]

Originally posted by molemole
It could be both a natural or a supernatural event. Depending on how one perceives it.
Sometimes we give ourselves too many reasons and explanations to hide the fear of truth..
Seeing is believing.. but how can you see when you don believe/doubt it?

true...maybe gave ourselves reasons to hide the fact that it COULD be true..hee... but still dun think it is scary lah...i think we are all used to hearing it since young liao and nothing happens so also boh chap lor. :D

[Ah Ben]

Used to hear that marble/screw dropping sound in my old flat when i was young... Now moved to a new flat, sometime will hear it too... :sweat:

[blackmore]

...my parents house is a 3 room flat....on the 3rd storey....my neighbour upstairs was a medicine man...now his house is empty...he shifted about 4 years ago...and no one bought his flat...it seemed he sold his flat back to HDB cos no one wanted to buy it....after he had moved...my mum said...even now, she still could hear the sounds of marbles like as if someone is playing marbles upstairs...!!..:D

[singularity]

my house here onli 3-4 years and still can hear furniture dragging at night...most of the time haf....nv heard of marble rolling b4

[asquires]

hmmm..~what if someone from the househow living directly below yours comes up to you the next morning and tells you to stop playing with marbles/shift furniture in the middle of the night?
wouldnt you be freaked out thinking that there maybe someone doing all these in the middle of night without even you knowing..?:eek:

[DarK`AngL]

hm..i oso hear furniture dragging very very often...last time got once e sound really near who knows from the living room?
if someone downstairs ays tt wun be surprised i guess...

[asquires]

from the living room..~next time you should go take a peep and see who is behind all the dragging..~:D

[DarK`AngL]

siao ah pretend dun hear in my room zzz liao :D
later really got sth there BOO! den wah lao really faint

[hellow]

okie.... the marble and furniture sound thing...

its alike wat u wld hear in ships too... but those in ships, more scary... coz will like hav clanking sounds, someone/something moaning sound, banging sound, and furniture moving sound... caused by uneven expansion and contraction that results in metal pieces or other things 'rubbing against each other...

oso, take another scenaro... the cracking sound of old door hinge... if u open it really really slowly, it does sound like marble bouncing...

how that for a thought?;)

[fOrKiE]

Well :Ot: abit... Hotel rooms eg...
My room at 28th floor in genting so is beri high hor...
Then erm... nite time can hear window tapping sounds.....
Shld b wind ba i assume..... But when i open the curtains then no sound
Close liao tapping sounds can hear immediately :eek:
GeeZ scary... !

[blackmore]

Originally posted by fOrKiE
Well :Ot: abit... Hotel rooms eg...
My room at 28th floor in genting so is beri high hor...
Then erm... nite time can hear window tapping sounds.....
Shld b wind ba i assume..... But when i open the curtains then no sound
Close liao tapping sounds can hear immediately :eek:
GeeZ scary... !

....woiittss!!!...dont scare me huh mate....im going down to genting this coming school holidays...:p:D

[Classified]

i was stayin in this hostel once for a camp... den in the midnite got this noise of hitting the floor coming frm the basketball court outside... den i look out... nothing!

[jakob]

Originally posted by fOrKiE
Well :Ot: abit... Hotel rooms eg...
My room at 28th floor in genting so is beri high hor...
Then erm... nite time can hear window tapping sounds.....
Shld b wind ba i assume..... But when i open the curtains then no sound
Close liao tapping sounds can hear immediately :eek:
GeeZ scary... !

you werent exactly the one who stayed in that room you know.... :rolleyes:

[fOrKiE]

Originally posted by jakob
you werent exactly the one who stayed in that room you know.... :rolleyes:
Well being th room next oso scary u know ? :sot:
Lucky both of U all r safe n sound :frosty:

[extendkia]

genting is quite eerie ...
cause people lost in the casino
& commit suicide in the rooms ..

[singularity]

is very eerie ar...i went there once...dunno whether a resort or hotel..the lights are very dim..all either dark red or orange,passageway very narrow and a huge clock at the end

[jakob]

Originally posted by fOrKiE
Well being th room next oso scary u know ? :sot:
Lucky both of U all r safe n sound :frosty:

:smash: never evn offer to change room still say LUCKY we safe and sound?? kaoz. now i know why you are ta BAI tu liao :p

[capricorn830]

concrete slabs have ball bearings inside..............


i dunno for wat reason lah.... perhaps expansion or contraction.

i heard this sounds b4, my friends, civil engineer says they are ball bearings... any1 confirm?

[superdelta]

i at nite hear ppl play mahjong~ scarry...

[ohmytian]

Originally posted by emcee
i useed to heard pple washing a bunch of chopstick (chopsticks rubbing together) in the morning 4am....
i used to hear that too in my old apartment.. using the hands to roll (wash) chopticks.. hmm. mua room is rather near the kitchern so oways kena woken up by it.. but tired la.. go back to slp.. cant bother to check...
but i lye to scold mua mum when i wake up.. "why u oways wash chopsticks in the early morning"... den she would hav tis puzzled expression.. but din explain~ keke
oh well. better to tink of it as my mum washing them then wotever else...
=P poor mum.

[batdance]

I am no expert about this stuff but i heard somebody mentioned that the marbles are actually placed in the ceilings right in the middle. So when they sound means something is passing through the concrete floors. This very common in Singapore and also hong kong as most of the buildings are highrise. We are not alone.

[AhLiang]

IMO,its because during the night the weather is cooler,then the concrete contract la.. thats y got the sound.

[chayedan]

Originally posted by capricorn830
concrete slabs have ball bearings inside..............


i dunno for wat reason lah.... perhaps expansion or contraction.

i heard this sounds b4, my friends, civil engineer says they are ball bearings... any1 confirm?



Well... from what i know... and from what i had study for the past three years... maybe older HDB do put in ball bearing for expansion and contraction on concrete(Do they?? Gotta check this out from my lecturer tomolo.)
But for newer HDB flat, they adopt a new building method call prefabrication. It is casting of building component before erecting all the structure together to form a building. I dun think they will still put in ball-bearing.... for what reason do they place since they do welding at connection point of components??
Interesting to know if newer HDB have this problem.. msg me if hav... may wanna do some research on this..
Btw, anyone hav sighting with the guardian from hell... chinese call Hei Bai Wu Chang??

[Don[^_^]]

marble is still ok ar.Last time i got join lion dance and the place was really super super haunted cos my friends(3 person) went to ton. They lock the main door and sit inside the office and there was ppl hitting the door and make funny sound. They went out and saw nobody but the fan was ON, so they switch it OFF and ran back to the office. Samething happen so they went out to see and quess wat the fan was ON. They ran back to the office and hide untill morning but they say they can heard ppl breathing very loud and ppl keep hitting the door and alot of sound sia. Lucky i never go ton, heng sia !!!!!! :D :D :D

[j20_sg]

marbles dropping and furniture dragging very typical.
i used to hear it when i was young like k1, k2 and lower primary.
i dun live in hdb flat, then there was nobody living above my house,
still got that type of sounds, how to explain?:eek:
zzzzz....mine aso leh.... *goosebumps*

shit sia...regret reading this thread.... :cry:

[j20_sg]

Remember the story on the marbles rolling across the celing of our HDB houses? Think we all must have heard it at least once in our lifetime.......

Well, my sister's fren was pretty freaked out with the "marble rolling across the ceiling" story, so she decided to get the truth for herself. She went to ask a few of her contractor/architect frens and found out that in between floors, there are ball bearings. The reason why they are put there, is for a very simple reason...... to allow for expansion when the concrete is hot and to contract when it is cool, to prevent cracks!! Just like the MRT tracks and expressways!! Thus the reason why we hear it at night, cos the concrete moves along with the ball bearings as it contracts to the cooler temperature of the night.

Interesting eh? Now we all dun feel so scared sleeping at night and hearing those "marbles"!!

hrmz? true nt?

[j20_sg]

i am not the expert here but to put it in a scientific way...

our brain emits brain waves rite...

we take all these supernatural things as 'energy' or waves...

in normal circumstances the frequency of the 2 waves should not match...

but at a time when u r feeling very stress or nervous your brain starts to emit waves tat r of the same frequency as those 'things'....

so this will affect your brain n you will start 'seeing' n 'hearing' things tat r not supposed to be there....

as we grow older our mind becomes more complex n the brain waves we emitted becomes more complicated thus our chances of hearing or seeing this kind of thing decreases...

tats y kids have higher tendency to see these kind of 'things'...

do u all feel more assured now...
well....wad if my whole family heard the marbles n draggin of furniture? :sweat:

[chayedan]

j20_sg...Dun be scared..I will use the scientific way to explain..hope it will soothen your fear

Just to let you know..building are make of cement concrete, sand, granite, clay and some other miscellanous material. As a tropical country near the equator, we experience much more heat gain and heat loss than any other countries like thailand and japan..

as you learned science in lower primary,there are expansion and contraction due to heat gain and heat loss, same goes to a building... ;)

especially when you say marble,do you know that the interaction sound of the marble is as similar to the interaction sound of the granite..inside the building there are granite to hold the hardened cement mixture stronger (that's wat i had learned in my course of study now...)..without it,the building is not strong and would be in danger of collapse easily as year goes by..

if you notice,granite absorb heat easily and the emit heat easily..yet the have slight expansion and contraction..the other stuff like sand and hardened cement mixture with also absorb and emit heat..thus causing some sound to be produced...so that's y you hear sound within building...

(*should there b any building expertise here,pls help me elaborate..I have limited knowledge and that's all I can provide to clear away doubts on huanted building where it is just mere expansion and contraction)

Anything is furniture..i believe it is also due to expansion and contraction..

But I dun forgo the doubt that some people used psychic to move things..there are cases that even normal people like us can shift things easily without our knowledge..as long as your mental state is in a tranquility and you have very strong brainwave at a moment...it is easily to perform some act which we called it as miracles...paranormal scientist are still researching to produce a hard solid thesis for every1..but of course they have obtained some result liao...

hope my explaination have given you more understanding and cleared away your doubts and fear... ;)

[jnifur]

I also hear. Both the marbles and furniture.
Then my downstairs neighbour come to my house and yell at us, say we drag the furnitures.
then when he stand infront of my house (obviously we didnt do anything) the noise came and his face turned green. After that he moved!
hahahahha
I think they say is contractor put the bearings lah. That time newspaper got explain b4.

[chayedan]

Yah.. suddenly the bearing theory reminds me...i lefted out some details :p
HDB dun put bearing into building..as singapore is not a earthquake prone zone..
for earthquake-prone zone like Japan and Taiwan,building usually they put bearing..
and for info:building do moves..but their movement is very hard to traces by human eyes..
this are all the answer after consultation with my lecturers and some of them are the things that i learned in class.. ;)

[oldturtle]

Read this... frightening isn't it? I hear that sometimes & tot my neighbour dropped screws!! Even my colleagues hear it. And it's always at nite, any science explanation on some chemical reastion or watsoever??

Something from a fren.. Don't know how true.

Do u stay in a HDB flat? If yes, do u ever hear marbles dropping late at night from upstairs? Have u ever wondered why occasionally now and then, u hear marbles
dropping? It could be children playing marbles, but in this century when they got ps1, ps2 xbox, they play with marbles in the middle of the night? Or shift furniture in the middle of the night? Sometimes I wonder, asked alot of my friends and they all heard the same things in their flats occasionally....

When HDB started building flats, they put marbles in between the floor so as to let 'them' play and that they won't disturb the occupants..... otherwise u really think that children playing marbles upstair, u can hear it downstair in yr flat meh? If so, I switch on hifi or tv, my neighbours downstairs also can hear lor....

Okae, not sure abt hearing hifi and TV and stuffs like tt.. duno how true but I do hear something like marbles dropping in the middle of the night...

piangz!! last time i live in AMK i ALWAYZ hear it!!!! ARGH!!! i used to live in blk 561.. low floor... alwayz hear the marbles dropping sound ar!!! but den i moved to bishan now.. i live top floor now (24) so i dun tink i can hear the marbles sound liaoz... =) heng ar...

and as for the ball bearings theory... eh the sound is like marbles being dropped from a height (you shld noe wat i mean).. not the rolling sound.. so cannot b the bearingz?? :confused:

[j20_sg]

I also hear. Both the marbles and furniture.
Then my downstairs neighbour come to my house and yell at us, say we drag the furnitures.
then when he stand infront of my house (obviously we didnt do anything) the noise came and his face turned green. After that he moved!
hahahahha
I think they say is contractor put the bearings lah. That time newspaper got explain b4.

funny thing is every since last yr when my free thinkier neighbours upstairs left n change to buddhist neighbours...it stopped leh...coincidence? diurnal range smaller nw? i dunno ar....

[lyk13]

Err hmm...I couldn't confirm if I heard it before or not...but...I think i heard the 'marbles' drop in my block...:sweat: :bw:

[minimog]

marble dropping.....
last time... when i was staying in yishun....
almost every night i hear this marble sound....
and also the moving of furniture.....
always at night...... day time... peaceful....
got a few occassion... i actually went upstair and knock on my neighbour's door....
and ask then to stop being a nuisance.......
and they tell me that they are hearing it too.....
so we go another stair higher......
and confront the neighbour......
this time..... this malay neighbour juz apologise.......
saying that it's her daughter playing with her bicycle......
she say she'll ask her daughter to stop......
but after i went back home.....
i'm thinking... i actually heard marble... not bicycle.......

[momo]

Worst thing happens was i was living on the top on those shop house.
everynite i could heard something dropping from the ceilling. ONli happen in my room. Cox i ask my family if they hear noise like things dropping, they say no.

Starting i feel scared, but starting to get use to it.Sometime even worst bed a bit virating feeling. strange rite

[j20_sg]

oh!~ i was juz recalled!~ i noe wads the chopsticks sound liaoz!~ i aso heard it laz time!!! i used to think it was my neighbour's dog....but i go ask tt time they say so old liao sleep beri early wan leh.....the sound was like the dog's "claws" scratch against the floor izzit? come to think of it sound like chopsticks leh....

[lyk13]

marble dropping.....
last time... when i was staying in yishun....
almost every night i hear this marble sound....
and also the moving of furniture.....
always at night...... day time... peaceful....
got a few occassion... i actually went upstair and knock on my neighbour's door....
and ask then to stop being a nuisance.......
and they tell me that they are hearing it too.....
so we go another stair higher......
and confront the neighbour......
this time..... this malay neighbour juz apologise.......
saying that it's her daughter playing with her bicycle......
she say she'll ask her daughter to stop......
but after i went back home.....
i'm thinking... i actually heard marble... not bicycle.......
...........Mog mog~which block har? :sweat:

[minimog]

...........Mog mog~which block har? :sweat:
definitely not your block......
at blk 800+......

so fed-up wif those pple that time.....
actually scold them..... :sweat:
now then i know why......
next time better :ls:

[lyk13]

:nod: Better :ls: Hmmz...not very far away....:sweat:

[Ah_Niu^]

I live in tampines and sometime even in the evening like tat when i am alOne in the house i can hear the the soUnd of marbles dropping from a height from, not the ceiling but inside a wall..

[LuV-AmanDa]

I live in tampines and sometime even in the evening like tat when i am alOne in the house i can hear the the soUnd of marbles dropping from a height from, not the ceiling but inside a wall..
wah lao .... scary leh... btw i oso oways got hear 1 frm my top... oways got ppl dragging tings..... arbo is marbles loh like wt u all say... kaoz if duno stil nt scared ... nw noe le... haiz... scarry sia

[j20_sg]

wah lao .... scary leh... btw i oso oways got hear 1 frm my top... oways got ppl dragging tings..... arbo is marbles loh like wt u all say... kaoz if duno stil nt scared ... nw noe le... haiz... scarry sia
lolz! i aso liddat! nw scared!!

[LuV-AmanDa]

lolz! i aso liddat! nw scared!!
hahaha ya loh nw wana 4get abt it n heck care abt e sound oso cant le.... damn lolxx

[Ah_Niu^]

Sian le, sometimes when alOne in the hse den hear even a slight sound also can hav goosebump`

[ShuLL]

posted somewhere b4 liao...tt's the sound of metals scrapping against concrete when it's expanding lah...it's scientifically proven already...

[Ah_Niu^]

posted somewhere b4 liao...tt's the sound of metals scrapping against concrete when it's expanding lah...it's scientifically proven already...

wa, den good, but can u postthe address of the articles here?

[Nakashima_Mika]

I been hearing the marbles for many years le.... now that you mention, I dun think my neighbour upstairs got any kids... :eyepop:

[anima]

:laugh:
u all hear is only marble drop then roll a bit..........
wat if 1 day is u hear a whole lot of them drop n roll all night........?
n ur upstairs has no neighbour?.........scarey huh`!? :ls:

[song45]

indeed i have heard marble dropping quite a few times before.....eee

[lyk13]

:laugh:
u all hear is only marble drop then roll a bit..........
wat if 1 day is u hear a whole lot of them drop n roll all night........?
n ur upstairs has no neighbour?.........scarey huh`!? :ls:
"Time to move..." :laugh:

[bLuE_gUrL]

oh!~ i was juz recalled!~ i noe wads the chopsticks sound liaoz!~ i aso heard it laz time!!! i used to think it was my neighbour's dog....but i go ask tt time they say so old liao sleep beri early wan leh.....the sound was like the dog's "claws" scratch against the floor izzit? come to think of it sound like chopsticks leh....

oh yah!! i oso heard tt!! then oso tot ish dog mah... budden i nv hear any dogs barking frm the flat above me lehz... i mean, doggies bery noisy one mah.... confirm bark alot one... =p :dunno:

like nv hear marbles roll b4... onli like a few marbles dropping frm a ht, going toktoktoktoktok... so noisy... but nv tot much of it, cos got 2 sec sch kids living upstairs, maybe they playing wif marbles? alamak... nw after reading these, confirm 'hu si luan xiang' liaoz :aigo:

[ShuLL]

wa, den good, but can u postthe address of the articles here?
read quite a long time already...on a science magazine webby...let me dig around...i'll post once i found it

[xx357xx]

i heard tat if u hear the sound of marbles dropping on the floor at nite, or the sound made when playing wif marble, its actually those "things" playing and they are children... izzit true?
i was totally freaked out when i heard bout it becos i rmb hearing them when i was trying to slp at nite :eek: like, "tiak, tiak, tiak, tiak" :eek:

**(the topic came up after i watched the tv preview of the show on channel 5 on tuesdays 10 pm where they tok bout strange happenings..) :(

[DarkKing]

This strange happening was talked about quite some time back in this forum. You may want to check out this link (http://forums.keeptouch.net/showthread.php?t=9683)

[Devilishious]

heh, makes you wonder which kids actually plays with marbles nowadays.

Maybe next time you can hear super mario jump "boing"s or sonic coin "kling"s instead

[noside]

they twisted the story lor... can find more at spi webby... rather detailed..
;-)

but it supposed to be the contraction of the metal ball bearings in between the storeys... i find that chopstick sounds are more scary... :cry1:

always hear the sound zhun zhun above me :ls:

[handbtys]

they twisted the story lor... can find more at spi webby... rather detailed..
;-)

but it supposed to be the contraction of the metal ball bearings in between the storeys... i find that chopstick sounds are more scary... :cry1:

always hear the sound zhun zhun above me :ls:

i got the marble sound also... =/

[dettol]

Hi people. Did anyone of you wonder if it ball bearings between the floors or really those things playing, why we never hear any sounds from our floor? Why only the ceiling/roof? :confused:

[abc123]

because even small insects when running about on the roof can have it's sound resonated by the hollow space and further magnified by the wood supports that's why you always hear weird stuff from the roof, even the natural bioderading of the wood can make some houling sound

[ttsunshine]

Hi people. Did anyone of you wonder if it ball bearings between the floors or really those things playing, why we never hear any sounds from our floor? Why only the ceiling/roof? :confused:

yeah, i aso heard sounds from the ceiling/roof during slp at nite.
sometimes, i wonder if kids really play that late.

[abc123]

at first for me sound like marble, then golf ball then a few days ago bowling ball :laugh: I wonder who would bounce a bowling ball

[free fire]

Heard this sound before when i was younger but have not heard anything as i get older . :laugh:

[merry]

marbles,moving of furniture,washing of chopsticks in the middle o the nite thats wad i heard some times wen i'm burning midnite oil !!!!

[ninjablur]

i got the marbles tink when i was young too.. bud now dun hav
moving of furniture shld be quite normal ba.. maybe ur neighbours on top reali need to adjust the position :P

[junkai21]

i'm 15 now... while browsing keeptouch, i suddenly saw this tread. And to my attention, i've just heard the marble sound (tak.. taktak tak tak...) above le... so scared.. my brother go back NS liao. hOW?

[devilcup]

i'm 15 now... while browsing keeptouch, i suddenly saw this tread. And to my attention, i've just heard the marble sound (tak.. taktak tak tak...) above le... so scared.. my brother go back NS liao. hOW?
dun scare urself
:)

[junkai21]

whoa.. lucky me. i'm still alive today.

;)

[dolcebaby]

a friend of mine told me that those marbles were placed by the contractors so that the "children" will be able to play and would not bother us.

[gwx89]

the marbles... r children really playing... or is it those kind of "children"

i hear before in my jurong wst flat last time

[moniquesg]

what i heard about it was xiao gui... who is playing with the marble

[bubu]

When i lived in tampines HDB, i recall hearing it quite a few times, but there's a big family with 4 kids up there, so i thought of nothing. Now only maybe rats n cocoraches live above me lol

[vagz]

last time when i used to hear it alot... mayb last time younger dunno... i would get very irritated n look to the ceiling n shout "tiam lah! " then suddenly wil go quiet as if reli can hear like dat... if its reli "children" wahh chamz man... :P

but luckily i dun hear it for a long time liaoz

[ninjablur]

no need sleep late also hav wan..
haa sumtimes i heard during 9+pm also got.. maybe juz reali children playin la..
less den 10mins hmm..

bud sound of moving funiture also hav la.. long time ago
haa

[vagz]

dun u all find it so funny?? i mean... so many ppl hear ppl play marble... i mean... marble is so "in' meh... so many children play.. hmmm... the truth is out there...

[anima]

this had been explain in a more logical way
those marble sounds r ball bearings for the expansion of the buildin..........something people in buildin should know........i aint no expert in this field..........so i cant explain much either

[Kira]

i oso hear at nite.....in fact even in afternoon...
it really bugs me alot as it happens alot...dun think ball bearing cos u noe..
it's nt a constant rhythm...it's like the tak......tak..tak tak tak..like ball fall fr a height liddat

[doopsie]

OMG! i also heard before at like 1-2 am leh. :nervous:

[antartica]

ok, i'm a little freaked out here coz i jus read this thread in the afternoon and jus now in the evening when i was at my girlfriend's place watching tv ( no one home) suddenli i heard very clearli *tak...tak...tak..tak.tak.taktaktaktak....* several times
and when that happened her younger sister's dog started to whine...

*shiver down spine*

btw this is a relatively new block near sembawang MRT tt has blue glass ceiling to floor windows and looks like condo from the outside...

[lovek24]

hmm.. after reading the above thread.. found out that most people also heard this sound.. now i more fan xin.. cos everyone seem to hear this kind of sound :p

i been hearing this sound often. last time is in the evening and sometime in the afternoon.

me too.. heard the sound of furniture moving......... so scary :sweat:

[jhbiz17]

marble sound is quite ok but if furniture moving upstairs then will be scary leh....unless u kn the ppl upstairs always move it here and there after watching their TV program prepare to go bed.

There is some who encounter the above unit is empty but during the night can hear furniture moving or ppl walking with high heels shoe.....this 1 more scary.

[JustinTimberlake]

:hairise: :whiteface :eek: feeling goosebumps all over liao

[ninjablur]

frankly speaking ball bearings.. which ermm only sound during nite.. nt weird meh..
y nt in morning or noon.. plainly only nite.. esp those sleepy timing..
haaz..

[Mathwizard]

frankly speaking ball bearings.. which ermm only sound during nite.. nt weird meh..
y nt in morning or noon.. plainly only nite.. esp those sleepy timing..
haaz..

Not sure if the ball bearing hypothesis is believable. But it is possible that expansion in day time and contraction in night time works such that it only makes sound at night. Or maybe it does make sound at day time but daytime is usually noisy enough all sorts of sound and we may not notice it. Not sure. LOL :sweat:

[anima]

just think of the above explaination as logical n u wont be tat afreaid loor........

but when one fine day after midnite...........u hear instead of tak tak tak taktak tak...............u hear like thousand of taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak...................e ndlessly true out the nite....... :nervous:

[ninjablur]

bud it only contracts at ermm 11+ to 1am liddat?
got timing de ah

[Mathwizard]

LOL... which is why I say I am not sure :sweat:

[ninjablur]

tink nvm la.. noe the less the better
haa

[Brugelion]

Then how about the shifting of furniture sound?
Some more the unit above me is vacant, last time is Indian family, now uninhabited for long liao. :nervous:

[jhbiz17]

Then how about the shifting of furniture sound?
Some more the unit above me is vacant, last time is Indian family, now uninhabited for long liao. :nervous:


u confirm your unit above is empty or got ppl stay oreadi......if empty then is creepy leh......

[JustinTimberlake]

Then how about the shifting of furniture sound?
Some more the unit above me is vacant, last time is Indian family, now uninhabited for long liao. :nervous:

next time maybe u can go and knock at the door upstairs when you hear the furniture sound again to 'complain'... sekali the front door starts to crack open slowly and inside is all pitch black... :wahaha:

[ninjablur]

wah lan er xing lolx..
reminds me of the channel 5 police and thief show..
well.. i doubt i hav the courage to go up n check sia..
bud i noe my hse got ppl live upstairs
haa

[Brugelion]

u confirm your unit above is empty or got ppl stay oreadi......if empty then is creepy leh......
I can confirm is vacant. Vacant for quite some time already. My mother knows about this also. Everytime got the furniture sound, she will look at me :nervous:

[jhbiz17]

I can confirm is vacant. Vacant for quite some time already. My mother knows about this also. Everytime got the furniture sound, she will look at me :nervous:


in that case ask your mom to do some praying.....i doubt you have the courage to go up and have a check. Mayb try in the morning with bright sun light and ask a few ppl to go with you......

[theghost]

I can confirm is vacant. Vacant for quite some time already. My mother knows about this also. Everytime got the furniture sound, she will look at me :nervous:

maybe got illegal workers or the house is occupied recently.....if not better pray

[QQBall]

in my old flat, i used to hear marbles dropping, shifting of furnitures or even sometimes loud bang (as if something very heavy had dropped on the floor) in the middle of the nite but now in my new hse, no more liao...phew...

[scouter]

with regards to this , heard from a maldivian friend of mine .

This marbles are actually this thing call gin or child spirit.
the marbles u hear are actually them playing at night

well there are two type of them the good and evil


which links to white and black magic



now the good one are supposed to look after ur home while the bad ones are controlled by this black wizards or bomohs to steal things from ur house or money from ur drawer

well thats for wat i know ,

[Brugelion]

I heard there is a saying there are marbles specially for the "xiao gui". So that the building would be stronger. Also, I heard that when Sheares Bridge was being built, lots of children have gone missing during that period. The saying was implying the lost children were killed:nervous: and their bones used to build the bridge, as it was believed their bones would make bridges stronger. :nervous:
Anyone heard this before?

[jhbiz17]

I heard there is a saying there are marbles specially for the "xiao gui". So that the building would be stronger. Also, I heard that when Sheares Bridge was being built, lots of children have gone missing during that period. The saying was implying the lost children were killed:nervous: and their bones used to build the bridge, as it was believed their bones would make bridges stronger. :nervous:
Anyone heard this before?


think is not their bones....is the head of human....

[ShuinKaz]

when I young that timt also got hear...even got hear like small hammer hitting on my roof...upstairs they got kids la..but who will play marbles at such a late time?haha last time i dont know will shout "OIE REN JIA ZAI SHUI JIAO BU YAO CHAO LAR" ;-)

[antartica]

last night i heard it again, at about 845pm for about 15 mins...

[ShuLL]

tot that time ST Times clarify on the marble sound liao?

it's caused by the distortion of the sound made by water flowing in pipes all over the building..since the building is solid, and sound travel fastest in solid, the sound might not even come from upstairs..might be from anywhere in the block..

[shoubude]

lol yeah gt proof already but it better to believe.. u dunno wad happen in the other side of the world..

[KuRanDo]

i stay my hse almost 5 years somemore new flat mostly i got hear marble sounds but didn't care much but i find it quite funny y morning dun play y at nite then play lolx :...:

[pixma]

Last time i used to hear people throwing marbles on the floor at late night . My mum went upstair to scold the person then now stop already . it's really the people throwing . BUT now every night got furniture moving sound . like 'eeee , orrro orrr then sometimes will BOOM very loud . but i'm used to it .

[lightbringer]

if u sae got those are the so called "children" then they can't be possible to hab so many leh. erm from wat i heard the ppl who control those thingy feed them on their blood de. tt guy where got so much blood from so many of them. And i hab been hearing marble dropping furniture moving drilling foot stompping . so many luckily nv heard ball . last time i thought is those thing but after so many yrs of living i dun thing is those thing lah. if hab chalet all this u shuld be able to heard de mah.

[Hiko Seijuro]

i have heard marbles dropping from above before.....
late at night tooo.......


i didn't know this and i never thought about it....
this is really creepy.. and i sleep late sometimes...

sheesh
thanks pppl!!! now i have creepy nitez from now onwards..... :S

[dudu^gao]

hey guys, i think this issue was mentioned before not long ago by SPI. they said they went to check out the source for this marble sound and found out that it was actually due to the water pipes(as in if somebody upstairs washed their hands/flush toilets). i cant really remembered why the pipes will cause this kinda sound, but i'm sure that i did see this article on straits time regarding this. it was certified by SPI it wasnt those 'things'
so dun worry!!

[dudu^gao]

ya and if i'm not wrong, i think someone mentioned in this thread before the reason for this marble sound.
but too lazy to quote. so u guys mayb can refer back bah

[Fussy-X]

this is true and i need someone to explain to me if it's those "things" or just marbles expanding and contracting.

i stayed on the 12th floor. the highest floor for that hdb. everytime at night i play computer i will hear marbles bouncing above me. it repeats. sometimes can hear chair moving on top also. somebody help me?

[shiroitenshi83]

this is true and i need someone to explain to me if it's those "things" or just marbles expanding and contracting.

i stayed on the 12th floor. the highest floor for that hdb. everytime at night i play computer i will hear marbles bouncing above me. it repeats. sometimes can hear chair moving on top also. somebody help me?

Scary. Has anybody besides you experienced the sounds? Try visiting the temple and ask around.

[Alvinnoob]

the marbles sound is actually molecule moving in those cement ceiling. coz due to the heat from the day time...

[exilim]

They are not marbles, normally in new hdb flats nowadays, these sounds would not appear.

This is because in older hdb flats, they have water pipes located very near to the cement surface or something. Thus, when someone in your apartment turns on the water tap, the gushing pressure from the tank will make the pipe hit the wall vigourously producing the "Marble Sound" you have described.

So please do not worry, there are not any "baby ghost" above your house playing marbles or whatever.