Quixote said:It's been a while since I read it, but in Peter Moss' Ghosts Over Britain, there was one story where a young woman who was experiencing *paranormal* goings-on in her flat/house, heard and/or was woken by knocking next to her headboard at night.
Thinking this was her flatmate in the next room, she knocked back. The next noise she heard was IIRC something apparently like a mechanical digger trying to very noisily claw/scrape thru the wall[?]. I can't remember the rest of the activity that was meant to have happened but I think that she did leave the property in a midnight dash.
As you would do too.
GNC said:I have that book and that's pretty much what happened, but as they made their mad dash to the front door, the lightbulb in the hall went out, leaving them panicking in the darkness! Great story.
Only to toons. Ref: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".This reminds me of reading about an attempt to contact aliens by transmitting the knocking pattern "Knock knock-knock knock knock...", to which the reply would be "Knock! Knock!", completing the pattern. Apparently it's irresistible.
razorblimp said:3 Knocks = 1,1,1.
Just responding to your other thread.
sundog said:Only to toons. Ref: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".This reminds me of reading about an attempt to contact aliens by transmitting the knocking pattern "Knock knock-knock knock knock...", to which the reply would be "Knock! Knock!", completing the pattern. Apparently it's irresistible.
PaZZa said:Mysterious knockings in your house can often be the result of; your kids, noisy neighbours, pet dog or cat scratching causing banging on the floor, pipes and numerous other things.
Orion_111 said:PaZZa said:Mysterious knockings in your house can often be the result of; your kids, noisy neighbours, pet dog or cat scratching causing banging on the floor, pipes and numerous other things.
I agree there could be many reasons but when the knocks happen on a regular basis and mainly on windows not just in my house but in other houses amonst other friends, and even in a taxi car!!... it seems rather odd.
PaZZa said:Orion_111 said:PaZZa said:Mysterious knockings in your house can often be the result of; your kids, noisy neighbours, pet dog or cat scratching causing banging on the floor, pipes and numerous other things.
I agree there could be many reasons but when the knocks happen on a regular basis and mainly on windows not just in my house but in other houses amonst other friends, and even in a taxi car!!... it seems rather odd.
Id put knocking on multiple windows down to kids playing tricks, upstairs windows down to kids throwing small stones, taxi window the same.
escargot said:However, I'd keep in mind a local news story from a couple of years back.
A bloke heard an owl hooting one night so, as a bloke might do, he hooted back.
The owl replied in kind and there followed a sort of owl conversation.
Most nights for some weeks, there was 'owl talk', either inititiated or responded to by our man. He and his wife were delighted at his new-found empathy with wild birdlife.
One day, the wife got talking to another woman who lived a few streets away, whose husband had been out in the garden one night making owl-calls (for some obscure reason) and, guess what, a REAL owl had responded.
He'd been 'talking' to the other owl several times a week ever since......... :lol:
I have never made an owl sound, as far as I can remember...escargot said:Another is surrendering to the overwhelming urge to deny that they've ever made an owl sound. :lol:
RainyOcean said:Maybe they like to knock so they can stand behind us and watch us write about the knocking on message boards and laugh.
Yes, which is why I posted here.Hypermetropia said:I too have heard the 'three knocks' which is a well known phenomena, I believe?
rynner2 said:Yes, which is why I posted here.Hypermetropia said:I too have heard the 'three knocks' which is a well known phenomena, I believe?
But I understand it usually relates to a death in the family - and nobody here is related to me.
Maybe tomorrow will reveal more...