Something is in my house

HungLikeJesus • May 22, 2008 1:50 am
I'm sitting in my house, in the office; I've been in here most of the day and night, working on reports and occasionally dropping in to the Cellar, and I've gradually become aware of a noise, a pattern of noises, in the house.

It's almost midnight. All the lights in the rest of the house are off. The big windows look out on absolute blackness, reflecting me back at me. I wish I had curtains. Anything outside can see me, but I can't see out.

I'm a long way from the nearest neighbor.

I'm definitely not alone.

I've got my back to the door, and I don't want to turn around.

What ever it is, it is getting closer.

The noise is a scratch. A hiss. A drip. Muted breathing. Unintelligible sounds. Dark, primitive sounds. A cry, a cough; like a baby choking. A sound like a knife; a sound like a bat; a noise like a hound, digging up a corpse, claws scratching on a coffin lid.

Like a baby, scratching.

A wooden box, a hollow cough. A feather on my neck. Across my eye, a paper cut. Does that give you some idea? Imagine a big wet worm in your ear. Or a roach, crawling in and you can't move your arms. That's what I'm hearing. That's what I'm feeling.

I will send this before I

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Kagen4o4 • May 22, 2008 5:08 am
so you got cut off writing but you still were able to click reply... SHINADIGANS!
spudcon • May 22, 2008 8:43 am
I bet he heard his big dog farting in his sleep.
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 8:44 am
Who resurrected Poe?
Cloud • May 22, 2008 9:46 am
shouldn't this be in the "Creative" forum?
classicman • May 22, 2008 9:47 am
How do you know it was even "him" that was writing it? Maybe "the noise" clicked on reply.
Flint • May 22, 2008 9:51 am
This is like an episode of Freaky Links...
glatt • May 22, 2008 9:56 am
His forehead hit the button as he slumped forward in his chair.
Cloud • May 22, 2008 9:58 am
Something was in my house last night, too.

My cats killed it.
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 9:58 am
Crap, and there haven't been any posts from him since. Do we have to wait three freaking days for HIM to arise, or what?
classicman • May 22, 2008 10:02 am
maybe it was a "her"
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 10:03 am
But but...how is "she" hunglikejesus?
Ibby • May 22, 2008 10:42 am
it'd sure be interesting finding out
classicman • May 22, 2008 10:45 am
No no no she is "hunglikemary"
lumberjim • May 22, 2008 10:46 am
So....I just got back from a quick trip to Colorado...did I miss anything interesting?
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 10:59 am
RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVVES!
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 11:07 am
LOOK!
HungLikeJesus • May 22, 2008 11:28 am
Shawnee123;455980 wrote:
LOOK!


But it's only 9:25 now. That must be shopped.

Cloud;455905 wrote:
shouldn't this be in the "Creative" forum?


No, this really did happen. Then I got carried away.

But I'm back.
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 11:29 am
Check his blood. See if it's green.
kerosene • May 22, 2008 11:37 am
Who are you people?
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 11:39 am
If you'll notice, every single thread has been stolen and replaced with an exact replica.
kerosene • May 22, 2008 11:43 am
Okay, so now it makes more sense.
HungLikeJesus • May 22, 2008 11:51 am
The problem is that I wrote this at night and you're reading it in the daytime. It's not nearly as effective.

I think I'll copy it into an e-mail and send it to my wife tonight.
Shawnee123 • May 22, 2008 12:18 pm
HungLikeJesus;456029 wrote:
The problem is that I wrote this at night and you're reading it in the daytime. It's not nearly as effective.

~snip~


Yeah, that's why. :cool:

:3eye:
Cloud • May 22, 2008 12:19 pm
HungLikeJesus;455996 wrote:

No, this really did happen.


so -- what was it?

huh? huh?
HungLikeJesus • May 22, 2008 12:32 pm
We've had mice, voles, chipmunks, snakes, and foxes in the house.

Based on this morning's evidence, I'm guessing mice.
HungLikeJesus • Oct 20, 2010 11:53 pm
I was in the shower
when the power
went out.
It suddenly got dark
and I heard somebody shout -
which is odd, because I'm home alone
and the nearest neighbor
is an hour by telephone.

(I dreamed this song; it was being sung by Joe Fornothin (http://joefornothin.com/))
monster • Oct 21, 2010 4:04 pm
It was a dark and stormy night and the lavatory light was dim
I hear a splish and splosh "Oh my god, she's fallen in!"
First she did the breaststroke, then she did the crawl
and then she swallowed something she didn't like at all
Bogart • Oct 22, 2010 1:33 am
Once upon a time I saw a shadow race by out of the corner of my eye. Things were never quite the same after that.

My cat began to sit, at first, in front of a wall and stare at it. Later, he did the same in front of the sofa (I was really beginning to question his sanity). More and more I began to see this shadowy figure race by always barely within my periphery. I would sometimes hear sounds, as if a distant train were rumbling by, but when I would grow quiet to hear better, nothing.

To make a long story short, it ended up being a rat which got trapped in the attic when I cleaned out the bird's nests and replaced the wire on the gable vents. However, it was quite eerie for awhile. Those flashes seemed quite a bit larger than the rat it turned out to be. Looking back, I should have figured it out sooner by the Hershey's Kisses which kept turning up missing.
Shawnee123 • Oct 22, 2010 8:37 am
Whew, I was afraid it was a raven, never flitting, still sitting. ;)

Welcome Bogart!
HungLikeJesus • Oct 22, 2010 10:10 am
Hello Bogart. Good first post!
Lamplighter • Oct 22, 2010 10:22 am
Over the past 35 years we have lived in this house we have had 5 Lab Retrievers.
The house is old but solid and does not creak or have other noises.
But each of those Labs have been absolutely certain there is an "invisible man" in the house or walking around outside.

My wife and I know we are not prone to heart attacks because we have so far survived the random,
out-of-the-blue, loud, vicious, back-hair bristling, barking-and-growling attack modes
of each of these normally friendly dogs.

I have previously written about the "spot of cold" that exists in our downstairs bedroom/office that comes and goes after sunset.
When it happens and one of the dogs is in the room, it will slink away and then sometimes charge back to the doorway again in attack mode.
Any train of thought in progress while working is long gone.

The previous owner was a widow who lived here for 30 years after her husband passed.
She had closed down the upstairs rooms and used that room as her bedroom.
She had a reputation in the neighborhood of being very nice and friendly.
So we have named our night-visitor "Mrs Knox" and try to be accepting everything comes with living an 100-year old house.
Glinda • Oct 22, 2010 6:25 pm
I have a mysterious occasional frog, croaking in my front room. :eyebrow:

This occasional frog croaking has been going on for several years now. I think the little bugger is living (mostly hibernating?) between a giant plastic plant pot and the attached drip catcher thingie underneath. I've looked everywhere else in that room, and there's just no frogs anywhere, but every now and then he starts making noises.

(Note: The plant was planted in that pot about eight years ago. There were no frogs in it then, and the plant went directly from my former guest bedroom to my current front room - no outside rest stops. The pot is big, and exceedingly heavy - doesn't bother me enough to try to take it apart.)

Just heard him yesterday - first time in probably six months.

Can't imagine what he's eating (haven't found any evidence of bugs in that room, either), but he sings his little froggie songs to me a couple of times a year.

My question is, is this possible? Can a frog stuck between a pot and coaster (for want of a better word) live on nothing for years?


:eyebrow:
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 22, 2010 6:48 pm
Highly unlikely. :unsure:
HungLikeJesus • Oct 23, 2010 10:31 am
Unless it's a ghost frog.
monster • Oct 23, 2010 11:42 am
Haunting by frogs is not uncommon
Shawnee123 • Oct 23, 2010 12:41 pm
Glinda;689856 wrote:
I have a mysterious occasional frog, croaking in my front room. :eyebrow:

This occasional frog croaking has been going on for several years now. I think the little bugger is living (mostly hibernating?) between a giant plastic plant pot and the attached drip catcher thingie underneath. I've looked everywhere else in that room, and there's just no frogs anywhere, but every now and then he starts making noises.

(Note: The plant was planted in that pot about eight years ago. There were no frogs in it then, and the plant went directly from my former guest bedroom to my current front room - no outside rest stops. The pot is big, and exceedingly heavy - doesn't bother me enough to try to take it apart.)

Just heard him yesterday - first time in probably six months.

Can't imagine what he's eating (haven't found any evidence of bugs in that room, either), but he sings his little froggie songs to me a couple of times a year.

My question is, is this possible? Can a frog stuck between a pot and coaster (for want of a better word) live on nothing for years?


:eyebrow:


My mom once thought she had gone the way of crazy old Aunt Leona, who once called my grandmother asking "Do crickets chirp? Do mice squeak?" when her smoke alarm was emitting low battery signals.

She kept hearing a frog (toad, whatever) in her house. Turns out it was living in her spider plant that she had set outside for the summer and had recently brought back into the house.

So, as a joke, I bought a giant plastic garden frog that made frog noises. I put it on top of her plant and waited for her to hear and see the giant plastic frog sitting there.

She loves me...

:rolleyes:
Flint • Oct 23, 2010 1:14 pm
Something is in my horse. I think it's right under here. He seems very agitated in this area. Oh my God something is all over my face!
Glinda • Oct 23, 2010 5:17 pm
Well, I know it's not my smoke alarms! ;)

But I'm not kidding - this plant has been in the house for years and on a few occasions when I've heard him singing, I've been able to track the sound to that corner of the room (before he hears me sneaking around and shuts up again) several times.

And... it's happened to others!

tree frog in overwintering pot-what to do?

while repotting my lemon verbena into a self watering container, I found a live 2" green tree frog that I missed when I brought it in last fall. In MI we still have freezing temperatures and snow outside. I don't know what that frog has been eating for the past 4 1/2 months in the 65 degree foyer. Do you think he will be okey for another 2 months? Maybe I could bury him in the soil next to the house foundation outside if that would help. Thanks for any info.. Last fall I did remove his brother from the same pot.


Also, apparently frogs can spontaneously generate from... air?

RE: Tree frog living in planter on my deck

I have a tiny frog that lives in a frog shaped planter on my 5th floor Balcony in Brooklyn NY! It just appeared one day, It is so cute!


Who knew?! :D
tw • Oct 24, 2010 7:29 pm
We had these lasers. Late at night, we would direct then to a spot inside someone's house where beams could be directed to a common spot through two windows. Then watch as the resulting cold spot would get people inside disturbed. Reactions were often unique. And always amusing. Anything for a good laugh.
HungLikeJesus • Oct 24, 2010 9:37 pm
Couldn't they see the laser?
Getgo • Oct 24, 2010 9:37 pm
Tis the month for scary stories. Fa la la la la..........la la la.
Gravdigr • Oct 25, 2010 3:20 am
la. (you forgot one)
Gravdigr • Oct 25, 2010 3:23 am
So, let me see if I've got this strait:

There's a frog that's hung like a horse, and he stuck something in your spouse and now she squeaks like a mouse?
glatt • Oct 25, 2010 9:32 am
HungLikeJesus;690222 wrote:
Couldn't they see the laser?


Oh, well you see, it was infrared, so it wasn't visible, and it was that special double secret negative infrared that is cool instead of hot. All you have to do is reverse the polarity of the tachyon field, and Bob's your uncle.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 25, 2010 9:34 am
glatt;690292 wrote:
All you have to do is reverse the polarity of the tachyon field, and Bob's your uncle.


I afraid if you reverse the polarity of the tachyon field, and Bob's your aunt. :3_eyes:
tw • Oct 25, 2010 12:00 pm
When does the frog become a member of the family (or dinner)?
Glinda • Oct 25, 2010 2:36 pm
Soon as one of these lazy ass cats finds it!* HA~



*[SIZE="1"]I speak to them often about their lack of assistance around the house. They don't give a cat's ass.[/SIZE]
Pete Zicato • Oct 25, 2010 3:58 pm
Glinda;690339 wrote:
Soon as one of these lazy ass cats finds it!* HA~



*[SIZE="1"]I speak to them often about their lack of assistance around the house. They don't give a cat's ass.[/SIZE]

It's a meme that cats don't give a f***. Here's one example.