I'm a very active/fit and hopefully still cognitively sound now retired 78year male.
I frequently take a 12min walk from my home to a nearby bay via pedestrian tunnel leading to a hillside footpath approx. 3mt above a main road. Several weeks ago partway down the elevated footpath I experienced a physically close loud snapping sound like dry wood cracking or small caliber gunshot. I looked around saw nothing that could cause the sound then continued walking. Some 20mins later after I crossed over a waterway bridge it happened again. I thought maybe its in my head, I have constant tinnitus (inner ear sound) or maybe its a joint cracking C vertebrae in my neck.
Since then I experienced this same unexpected sudden crack sound several times in different locations and each time alone, the most recent at our front door while I was hosing down patio tiles.
My wife returned home last Saturday after a three weeks visiting her family overseas. On Sunday 10th mid afternoon we went for a walk, not to the bay but along a built up street, the day was cold but sunny otherwise nothing unusual. Fifteen mins into our walk and again I heard the crack almost gunshot like sound and so did my wife.
So its not just me hearing the very distinctive sound nor is it just in my head. I have no idea of what or how or why it is happening but if any readers have experienced similar I would be very interested in your thoughts because I'm completely stymied a bit spooked and uncertain of what this could be leading too
I frequently take a 12min walk from my home to a nearby bay via pedestrian tunnel leading to a hillside footpath approx. 3mt above a main road. Several weeks ago partway down the elevated footpath I experienced a physically close loud snapping sound like dry wood cracking or small caliber gunshot. I looked around saw nothing that could cause the sound then continued walking. Some 20mins later after I crossed over a waterway bridge it happened again. I thought maybe its in my head, I have constant tinnitus (inner ear sound) or maybe its a joint cracking C vertebrae in my neck.
Since then I experienced this same unexpected sudden crack sound several times in different locations and each time alone, the most recent at our front door while I was hosing down patio tiles.
My wife returned home last Saturday after a three weeks visiting her family overseas. On Sunday 10th mid afternoon we went for a walk, not to the bay but along a built up street, the day was cold but sunny otherwise nothing unusual. Fifteen mins into our walk and again I heard the crack almost gunshot like sound and so did my wife.
So its not just me hearing the very distinctive sound nor is it just in my head. I have no idea of what or how or why it is happening but if any readers have experienced similar I would be very interested in your thoughts because I'm completely stymied a bit spooked and uncertain of what this could be leading too
