Crazy Night - Thought maybe a ghost. *I'm a dork*

Just thought people might get a kick out of this story. Anyways I come home from working out and I'm wiped, I sit down in the kitchen to cool off a bit before taking a shower. I started to hear this drip.drip.drip...EEEEHHHHHEEEEEIIIIIIIII noise...then it'd stop then I'd here dripb bip bip drip EEHEHEEEEEEIIIEEE.. I thought, oh I must have not shut off the facet all the way. I walk over there and try to turn the facet off and it is already shut off. I'm looking all around puzzled look on my face because the sound keeps happening!

My wife comes in and she is like what is wrong with you. I tell her, "listen". The noise happens again and again and she is like WHERE IS IT. WHAT is it? So I'm looking all over going through different rooms and it was defiantly in the kitchen where I was.Trying to pin point the sound down I determine it is in the ceiling of the house. Thinking maybe it's an animal I slam the ceiling a couple times with my hand to see if it stops and it still is going at it.. dripbipbipbip EEEHHHHEHEEEIIIIEEEE.. I get all angry and say THAT'S IT. I grab two flashlights and head up into the attic.

Funny enough I have never been in the attic of our house, we've owned it going on 4 years and just never had to go up there. When I get up there I notice there is a ton of stuff up there. It looks like someones personal belongings.. Then I start thinking....I don't hear the noise up here.. I start looking at the stuff and its not the previous owners of my houses either. I decided I'll come back up here later when it's day time to look.

As I turn around to go back down, my first flashlight stops working.. and I hear it faintly EEEHEHEIEIEIEEIEEEEIII right behind me.. I flip on the second light and turn around real quick! Nothing there, so I look around and I apparently psyched myself out and I felt this really cold breeze on my neck so I pump myself down stairs and I'm in the kitchen freaking out. At this point I'm thinking I don't believe in ghosts but I think I have a ghost.. It makes no sense.. WHERE THE H#LL is that sound coming from... My 2 year old is freaking out, going daddy we have bird in house? We have monsterrrrr in house? I tell him no, it's probably the ballast in the light. He wasn't having that answer and is dead set it's a giant bird so he is looking for bird. I say it's got to be the ballast in the light and leave it at that. My wife thinks its a wounded animal somewhere.

It's been going on 30-40 minutes still can't find the sound and I'm starting to buy into the ghost theory as I'm annoyed beyond all belief.... I grab my gatorade sports bottle (Like the ones you see football players use on the field) and squeeze it, it makes a loud EEHEIEIEEEIIEIEE and then fills back up with air... The whole time it was my gatorade sports bottle. 2 grown adults and a 2 year old spent almost an hour trying to figure out where this noise was coming from that sounded like it was in the ceiling and it was a sports water bottle.

Just a heads up so you guys don't go through the same mental trama!