Heard something walking on my roof last night and my dog won't stop staring at the ceiling

Right so this is the kind of thing I've been documenting for years and people still write it off as foxes or tree branches. Dogs don't stare at ceilings for foxes. They just don't.

What's the roof material, out of curiosity? Slate, tile, felt? And was the movement rhythmic or more irregular, like something stopping and starting? That detail matters more than people realise.

I had something similar in 2019, Derbyshire farmhouse, my lurcher wouldn't move from one spot in the hallway for three days. Not three hours. Three days. Something was absolutely present in that building and she knew it long before I started paying attention.

The dog is your best instrument here, genuinely. Note the direction its staring. Note the time. Get yourself a decent audio recorder running overnight if you can, not just your mobile, an actual dedicated recorder picks up frequencies your phone misses.

What part of the country are you in? That actually matters for what we might be dealing with.

@UncannyNewYork what's the roof made of and how old is the house? Details matter here.

Also your dog staring at the ceiling is doing more investigating than half the "ghost hunters" on youtube tbh. Give him a night vision collar and let him crack the case.

@UncannyNewYork the dog behaviour is the part that gets me. Animals picking up on something above them and tracking it consistently - that's not random anxiety, that's a response to something specific.

Had a similar situation years back, friend in Weston had her cat doing the same thing for three nights running. Turned out there was nothing physically wrong with the roof, no wildlife, no structural issues. The cat eventually stopped but she said the feeling in the house took weeks to settle.

What's the dog doing exactly, is it following movement or just locked onto one spot? That detail matters quite a lot actually.