The girls are home for Thanksgiving this week. They were all downstairs watching TV in the family room. I had went upstairs for something and was on my way back down to the basement to continue working when Shelby stopped me.
I'll recreate the conversation I had with her from memory.
"I just saw something white peek out of the bathroom door at me," she said. Her voice was low, almost whispering like she didn't want the whatever she just saw to hear her.
"You did? Are you sure it wasn't your imagination playing tricks on you?"
"Yes. I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and when I turned to look, it ducked back into the bathroom."
I just nodded and said, "Well, you know funny stuff goes on around here."
What am I supposed to tell her? She's seeing things? She's getting too old for that. I don't want her to start questioning her own sanity at 11!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Three knocks in the early morning
Early this morning I woke up for some unknown reason, and lay there, trying to return to sleep.
A few minutes later, three knocks happened in quick succession. The sound had an "echo" quality to it, so I knew it came from the foyer, which has hardwood floors and is open to the second floor above.
I thought that maybe it might have been Jack, my larger dog, dreaming and tapping his tail on the floor, but the taps were too quick for that.
I then thought of Bobby, my Jack Russell Terrier, and how he barks furiously whenever someone knocks on the front door, or any door inside the house, or even the dinner table. So... why didn't he bark? Did he not hear the noise?
I saw a Ghost Hunters episode a few weeks ago where there were two investigators, only feet apart. One heard a voice, and even captured that voice on a recorder, and the other investigator, only feet away in another room, separated only by an open doorway, heard nothing. Very strange. Could this phenomenon be occurring with me and the dogs? Could whomever made the tapping sounds enable only my ears to hear it, and not the dogs?
A few minutes later, three knocks happened in quick succession. The sound had an "echo" quality to it, so I knew it came from the foyer, which has hardwood floors and is open to the second floor above.
I thought that maybe it might have been Jack, my larger dog, dreaming and tapping his tail on the floor, but the taps were too quick for that.
I then thought of Bobby, my Jack Russell Terrier, and how he barks furiously whenever someone knocks on the front door, or any door inside the house, or even the dinner table. So... why didn't he bark? Did he not hear the noise?
I saw a Ghost Hunters episode a few weeks ago where there were two investigators, only feet apart. One heard a voice, and even captured that voice on a recorder, and the other investigator, only feet away in another room, separated only by an open doorway, heard nothing. Very strange. Could this phenomenon be occurring with me and the dogs? Could whomever made the tapping sounds enable only my ears to hear it, and not the dogs?
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