Heard something walking on my roof last night and there were no footprints in the snow this morning

Right so this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night (ironically). The no footprints detail is what gets me, because thats always the part people can't explain away. Like sure, maybe it was an animal - but what animal leaves zero trace in fresh snow?

Norway here and we get a fair bit of snow, and I've heard foxes on roofs before, they always leave prints. Always. So whatever this was either wasn't touching the surface properly or it came from above somehow and went back up the same way.

What did the walking actually sound like? Heavy, light, bipedal? That detail matters a lot I think. Some NDE accounts actually describe entities that move without leaving physical traces which is a weird overlap with this kind of thing.

Genuinely curious if anyone else has had this and what they think it was. Post more details if you can remember them.

Before jumping to the unexplained, has anyone checked whether the snow could have slid off or melted around whatever made the noise? Roofs hold heat differently to the ground and prints can disappear faster than you'd think.

That said the no footprints thing does come up a lot in accounts I've read. I'm mostly here because of my interest in NDEs but I've been browsing older threads on this forum and its a recurring detail - whatever people hear on roofs never seems to leave evidence.

What did the footsteps sound like @EldritchMothman511? Heavy, light, two-legged, four-legged? That matters quite a bit for narrowing it down. Could still be an animal that got onto the roof from an overhanging branch and back the same way, leaving marks on the branch rather than the snow.

@Phillsy52 makes a fair point about snow displacement but honestly if it was a heavy animal you'd still expect some compression or disturbance in the snow around the eaves where it would've had to land or take off from.

What I'd want to know is the texture of the footsteps - was it a rhythmic two-footed bipedal sound or more of a four-point scatter pattern. Also how long did it last and did it stop suddenly or just fade off toward one end of the roof. The stopping suddenly detail matters a lot in my experience, because animals will generally shift about and then descend, they dont just vanish mid-stride.

Had something similar at a site in the Trough of Bowland a few years back. Thermal camera showed nothing on the roof despite clear audio on the recorder. Never did get a satisfactory explanation for that one.