Anyone else heard weird breathing sounds in an empty room?

Okay so this happened to me last month in my spare bedroom and I nearly launched my tea across the room lol. Slow, raspy breathing, totally rhythmic, and the cat was staring at the exact same corner as me which honestly made it ten times worse because animals don't lie do they.

My mate reckons it was the heating pipes but our heating was off, so cheers for that theory Karen.

What gets me is it stopped the second I turned my torch on. Like it knew. Has anyone else noticed it happens more at night or is that just us being spooked by teh dark and reading into things? Would love to know if others have caught it on audio because I really want to try recording next time instead of just standing there like a frightened muppet.

@daisy_ashworth the cat thing is what gets me. Animals don't perform for attention, they react to something real whether we can explain it or not.

Classic EVP-adjacent experience this. The rhythmic pattern is interesting - random noise doesn't do rhythmic. Your brain isn't inventing a pattern either because you were surprised by it, not expecting it.

Worth going back in with a decent audio recorder and just leaving it running for a few hours. Don't sit in there waiting, just let it record while you're elsewhere. Pareidolia and expectation bias mess with live listening sessions. Cold hard audio is harder to argue with.

Also check for pipes obviously, heating systems can do weird things but they tend to be irregular not rhythmic. If you've already ruled out the boring stuff then yeah, this is worth documenting properly.