Ulalume
tart of darkness
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It was a quiet night tonight, but about 9 PM, we heard a gunshot. It was loud, but muffled sounding. Gunshots aren't too uncommon out here, but it being at night and the muffled sound seemed a bit eerie. Also eerie because it was so quiet, no noise the way there would be if someone had shot an animal attacking their livestock.
The reason it might count as minor strangeness, though, is that we all heard the sound coming from a different place.
Because I'm a wiz with MS paint, ( ) I made this handy diagram of our positions in the house and where we thought the sound had come from:
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The night was a reasonable temperature for once and all the doors and windows were open. Sound doesn't normally bounce around so much here. It was sort of like a game of Clue... "it was Col. Mustard with a shotgun in the woods" "no, it was Mrs. Peacock with a pistol in the road!"
Hopefully no one was murdered. We wouldn't have been able to find the victim, anyway!
Re-upping this old post because this happened again tonight, except this time, instead of a gunshot, it was a very loud popping sound, much like someone stomping on a Capri Sun pouch. Again, we all thought it had come from a different direction. We went around checking for anything thing that might have fallen or burst (like a lightbulb) and checked the electrical boxes in case anything seemed awry, but found nothing.
To add to the weirdness, the only person who didn't hear it tonight was my husband, who was asleep at the time. He was woken by all the kerfuffle in the house, though, so I asked if he'd heard the noise. He said no, but he'd heard it last night (Thursday). This was news to me, so I questioned him. He'd been out on the front porch when he'd heard the pop from inside. He'd gone in and asked the boys what it was, and they'd said they hadn't heard anything. He must have failed to mention it to me, as I'd been here and heard nothing then either.
I sent OH back to bed and asked the kids about what their dad had reported the night before. They all said that they can't recall either a noise or their dad asking them about it on Thursday night!
I'll quiz him again when he wakes up. In the meantime I'll be keeping an ear our for any further strangeness.