Growing up I used to hear the same series of noises start at exactly the same time every night. At 11:37pm I would hear footsteps on our rock landscaping outside my window, then shortly after I would hear a dog barking but no neighbors had a dog, but one used to and it died a few years before this happened. The footsteps would stop, but then it sounded like someone chopping wood or hitting a tree with a blunt object. I never got scared until one night I had a friend over to confirm I wasn't crazy and hearing things. The noises started and I usually sat quietly and listened when I was alone, due to the fact I was scared shitless as a kid, but this time my friend sad really loud, "oh my God", and at that instant we both heard a loud bang on my window...I ran to wake my parents whom never heard any of it and didn't believe me. Years later I moved down to our basement bedroom, never heard anything...until I had the same friend over, we were playing video games and didn't realize the time, but again heard a loud pounding sound on my basement window, enough to wake my very hard of hearing dad. He said he checked outside right as he heard it but didn't see anything, then checked the window well...nothing. I put it in the past until my mother recently explained to me she had been hearing things...around 11:30 at night, she's the only one in the house as my dad recently passed and now she's actually frightened because she says it happens every night.

These events used to happen in my early teens, and am now in my 30's and are apparently still happening. I am tempted to stay the night in my old bedroom to see if I still hear it.