I had something similar happen to me when i was kid. We were playing hide and seek at night in my rich friends house. I thought i saw someone so i “tagged” them but it was actually a large, expensive vase. It fell and shattered, making a very loud sound echoing in the night. Fearing retribution from the parents in the other room we all rapidly regrouped downstairs. After a few minutes of silence with shockingly no parental hellfire raining down on us, we cautiously ventured upstairs and turned on the lights. There was no vase… nothing at all was broken. We all clearly heard it shatter. It’s safe to say that play time was over at that point. We learned our lesson and never repeated that game upstairs again.