Not all, but most old houses I’ve been in required me to practically tiptoe all the time because anything more would sound like I’m stomping, and rattle everything around. Does it have to do with the way houses used to be built?
Edit for clarification: I don’t mean creaking. I’m more referring to how walking even slightly heavily will make your steps sound loud and booming
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You’re walking on all the bones and bodies that the old owners crammed into the floor boards and between the joists. To put them there they had to take up the subfloor, and put it back down. The resulting action resulted in loose and oversized nail holes and now squeaky floor boards.
That’s why when you are in an old house and you are heading upstairs and have turned off all the lights behind you, you must run up the stairs so the ghosts can’t catch you.
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