Originally posted by: jonks
No. But the burden isn't on me to explain spooky behavior with superstitious nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI 55 in)
True, and I've applied this to a spooky situation.
So I was in this apartment, on the top floor - and I think I was the only one on that floor. At night, there were no lights in the corridor, and if you opened the door you would be confronted by inky blackness, and had to grope your way to elevator (or use a flashlight.)
I've just finished dinner, and it's about 10 PM - when I hear this soft whining, whistling noise, almost like an animal groaning in pain. The noise lasts for maybe 3-4 seconds. The first couple of times, I don't bother - I hear the train outside, and thought it was perhaps the siren. But then it occurs again and again.
I start getting spooked out. It's a one bedroom apartment, and initially, the noise appears far off... but it's getting louder and louder, almost if whatever's making it is coming nearer.
At this point, I realized how eager the landlord was to rent the apartment to me.. he even gave me a large discount. And it seems like everything was scrubbed clean (I'd just moved in.) So my mind starts wandering.
Now the sound is pretty much inside the apartment, coming from the kitchen (it seems) I get totally freaked out, and turn on every light. I think if the power had failed then, I would've gone mad. Anyway, I investigate the kitchen - when I hear the noise again, but this time from the room I'd just left.
Maybe it was years of being a geek and engineer, but just as I was going to get the hell out of that apartment, something in my mind made me wait, and time the intervals between the sounds. And guess what? the interval was very specific. It wasn't random. There was some variance, but I could pretty much predict when I would hear it again.
That did the trick. My fear fell off - I refused to believe that any supernatural entity would follow so precise a clock to manifest itself. The next thing I did was note all the locations of the sound - and it's path was predictable as well.
So I traced it back to the bathroom, and turns out it was a water heater unit that had a spigot whose position had to be altered. A quick twist, and that was the end of the mysterious whining noise.
What I could never explain is how that spigot got to the position it did. I hadn't touched it since I moved in, and hadn't heard the noise anytime before!!!! :shocked: