Date Recorded: September 5, 2008.
Analysis Started: 9/05/2008 2:35 pm
Analysis Completed: 10/28/2008 10:01 am
A day recording of the house was completed at the request of one of my good friends, Martin from France. I left the house to go work out, and recorded while the house was empty.
The recorder was left upstairs, at the landing to the stairs. Based on the floor plan of the house, this was the optimal position, and noises should have been heard from all the rooms upstairs, and from downstairs as well. This is because the foyer is completely open, all the way up to a balcony on the second level, so sound travels well no matter where you are in the house.
Results:
Most of the recording was full of taps and knocks from the lower level - so much that I stopped splitting them off and decided just to make a note here.
The rest of the recording was uneventful.
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There's one conclusion that comes to mind from the "empty house recording" is that the taps and knocks aren't linked to the activities of the house inhabitants (including the dogs).
IMO it was a important test. In my own appartment, when the next door childs run in their room, the footstep sounds they are producing seem to come from the upper appartement, and it took us a lot time to define it was in fact the next door childs (and not the upper door ones) that were running during the night. Sounds propagation are somewhat awkyard.
The remaining possible sources for those taps and knocks are :
- spirits (that's your hypothesis #1),
- the house itself (but you talk about this possibility recently),
- outter sources that reflect through the earth to the walls of the house, such as cars or trucks moving on an adjacent road (which is my hypothesis #1).
I'll try to come with new test ideas to validate the presence of lack of presence of those different sources.
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