I knew that experience as I encountered it before.

For the Muslims, we knew that spiritual disturbances are in a few forms. Some are sounds of chairs or furniture dragging on our ceiling, or marbles sound or stomping feet...But before we conclude to it and call for any religious teachers who are able to do the prayer, we checked with those who lived above us. If the house is vacant, then it can be spiritual existences. God knows best.

However, recently, many units in the high rise building for my country experiences a lot of noises especially at night. But some engineers said it is the water tank at the roof top in auto maintenance, thus the pipe would make a big sound. Probably the sound you heard was from the pipe not turned off. Please don't scare yourself too much.