RAPPING AND TAPPING
Have you ever heard that annoying tapping the seems to come from nowhere in particular and try as you will you can not find the source? How about a strange rapping that sounds like someone knocking on the door but when you go to the door no one is there?How about the pecking on the window that makes you look to see what it is and again nothing is there? These can all be experiences of the unexplained paranormal relm, sometimes they say spirits try to communicate with rapping and tapping.
Enter the chill
I can recall a time in my childhood early teens: It was evening around dusk cool but not cold we had finished supper and were setting in the living room watching tv. There was a knocking at the door and we of course assumed someone was there and said "come in," no one came in nor answered. Later that evening came another knocking on the door this time I arose from my chair and went to the door again no one was there nor was there any animals around that could have accidentaly made the sound. I sat back down scratching my head and we talked about it deciding maybe it was the wind. Around an hour or so later the knock came again and we ignored it for a short time but it was persistent so mom said,"come in if your nose is clean." To our surprise the door burst open but there was no one there just the chill air that entered the room and closed the door behind it. We didn't know what to make of it for the door was not only latched it was locked. To this day we have never known what entered the house that night but it was a little more than just a breeze from outside. Needless to say that night I didn't sleep very well and know I heard footsteps walking around in the house even though no one was up.
Tapping on the Window
I can give various accoungs of a steady rapping or tapping on a window pane. Now keep in mind if it were a bird it would be but one thump and maybe a sliding noise is it slides down the window. If it were the wind blowing something agianst the window there would be visible evidence of that something, wire, tree limb, a vine or anything else, any of these could be seen from in the house. What could the tapping on glass be then, there are some possibilities one is a ghost the other is a demon spirit.
I can recall a night in particular that I was watching the late show on tv, I was around 20 years old at the time.
I was comfortably setting in my recliner enjoying the saturday night late show. At this time my room was in the upstairs of the old house which we had finished. There were footsteps on the stairs and a creeking of the boards made as someone walked on the steps. I knew no one was up there as I am an only child and both my mother and dad were in bed sound asleep. I was used to the sound by now and didn't pay it very much attention. Then the footsteps were walking around my chair with a chilling of the air as if the outside door had been opened. This I had experienced a few times but it never ceased to give me goose bumps and a fright when it happened; they went on into the kitchen and raised the water dipper then replaced it to the bucket with a click and it was over I thought. So I had settled back down into the movie I was watching when there was a pecking on the window, at first I thought nothing of it maybe the wind. I was soon to discover that it was something else for it increased in intensity so I took a flashlight and shined it out the window, there was nothing there at all nothing the wind could blow into the window pane, there were no cats, dogs or wild animals of anykind to be seen.While I was looking out the window it would quit but as soon as I sat down it would start up again and each time more violently than before. It finally came to the point I thought it would brake the glass. Then it stopped as suddenly as it had started but for some reason I kept looking at the window frequetly for I had an ill feeling about it. Then as I looked what I saw made my blood run cold and to this day gives me goose bumps just thinking about it. There as plain as day and quite bright was a very red rectangle of light about a foot long and six inches wide and I felt as if I were being watched by some type of intelligence not of this world. Yes I was frightened, actually horrified my heart was pounding and I could hear the blood rushing through my ears as I stared at it. I watched the object for maybe two minutes then it was gone. Needless to say I got no sleep that night and was a little skiddish watching tv late at night though I never saw it again I did hear the tapping on the windows frequently.
It is said and I more or less believe it that ghosts seem more attracted to some people than to others. Some never seem to have a ghostly experience even though they proclaim their belief in ghosts. Others have experience after experience with spirits. I am one of those individuals that seem to attract ghosts as I can not recall a time in my life there was no otherworldly activity from time to time. You may be asking are these stories you are telling the truth and I have to say yes they are as to the best of my knowledge though I have dramatised them a little to make the telling a little more interesting, the stories are true.
MY WIFE
I married my wife Ruth november 20,1966 and at this time she had never even thought of the possibility of ghosts being anything but myth and stories told by liars or very imaginative people. She was soon to find out that there are things that happen beyond the relm of the explainable.
At the time I was married I deemed every thing from the spirit world to be either angels of demons due to an experience I had which I will tell of later on this web site. Now I am sure there are ghosts as well as angels and demons. I would tell Ruth of some of the things that I had experienced and she would kind of nod her head saying yea sure wondering what kind of man she had married. One day she told me she didn't believe that these things happened she had never seen anything like that, as she had been raised in a christian home and was taught there are no ghosts.
The Appearance
We hadn't been married only a couple of weeks when one evening I came home from work and she met me at the door: exclaming;"Charlie there was something in the garage today I thought it was someone and went to check and didn't see anything." She had then gone back into the house and later looking out saw the form of a man but not a man was in a black cape and didn't seem to her to be a man. She asked me what I thought it was and of course i replied,"a demon." After that she saw the shadowlike form several times and onetime it was in the loft of the garage and fightened her very badly. She said that she had gone into the garage for something and felt like she was being watched so she looked up and saw a black orb which was moving about in the air now she was beginning to believe that there was something beyond the ordinary. We moved from that house to another old house where she heard her first unexplainable tapping. One night she awoke me from a sound sleep saying:"Charlie there is someone tapping on the side of the house," we listened to it for a while and I took a flashlight outside and looked around finding of course nothing. I told her she might as well get used to it as it was a spirit wanting in the house.
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