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So wood that naturally expands and contracts, creating squeaky floors. You don't even have to step on it if the temperature or humidity changes. My last house had gaps in the crawl space, so lots of shifting occurred.
Mice in the walls. It's always either mice or slightly moving plumbing pipes. I hate living near agricultural fields because mice love to try and move in every autumn.
Footsteps I'll chalk up to people hearing things. I don't know how many times I've thought I've heard footsteps but the moment I catch it, it disappears.
Low-reservoir flushing happened all the time with my last toilet. I know it had a leak but it was slow enough that I didn't much care until it started flushing once a week.
I'm not scared of my attic, I just don't like being up there because it's always hot, it smells weird, and there's too many exposed nails at face level. I imagine most people are only mildly "scared" of their basements or attics because they don't go in them very much, and fear of the unknown/unfamiliar is very real.
..... Maybe I am haunted...
Maybe you are the ghost.
There's a fun quote that goes something like "people say my house is haunted, but I've lived here 300 years and never seen a ghost." Maybe it's talking about you.
All the time when I'm home alone or certain that everyone else in the house is asleep, I'll hear noises. Usually they're caused by my cats. Also, I wear a CPAP when I sleep and I'm convinced that the extra airflow can manifest as noises inside of my head that sound like they're from outside my head.
Finally, there's a sound that occurs pretty regularly and sounds exactly like someone opening the door to our backyard and comes from that general vicinity. I was really confused for a while - when I did investigate, there was never anything there, not even a cat (or, so far as I could tell, a ghost). It took me forever to figure out, but my toddler keeps one of those little kid plastic pools on our back porch near the door. When it's empty even a gentle breeze can cause it to lift then drop back down, making exactly the noise I heard.