Bump in the night :-o
Last year my father-in-law unfortunatly passed away. He was in hospital for around 2-3 months and diagnosed with bowel cancer. The doctors tried to operate but it was a very tricky operation due to the location and size of the tumor. He died during surgery.

A week or 2 later we had the funeral. All went well and he was laid to rest.

The night after the funeral, I and the missus went to sleep as we usualy do. We both fell asleep no problem but I was later awoken in the night by a repetative banging noise coming from downstairs.

It wasnt a knocking. More a metalic noise, as if someone was banging on a metal fence. Now, we have hamsters, and anyone that has hamsters will know that they occasionally like to chew the bars. Ours don't. They have a better trick. They like to knock there wheel over so it is resting on the bars and they run in it so it makes a god awfull noise.

I got up, presuming it was the hamsters and was going downstairs to stand the wheel back up. As soon as I got out of bed, the noise stopped. Thinking nothing of it, I went out of the room and down the stairs.

I checked the hamsters cages and found nothing near the bars that could be banging. The hamsters wernt even out!

Confused, I went back to bed. I was just drifting off to sleep when the banging started again. Repetative bangs about a second apart. I lay and listened, expecting them to stop again after a minute like last time but they didn't.

I got up again thinking "those fucking hamsters arent going to keep me awake!" and decided to go and take out there wheel for the night. Got out of bed and the banging stopped again.

This time, I didnt go downstairs. I was tired and really couldnt be bothered so I got back into bed and fortunatly the banging didnt start again and I slept right through till morning.

In the morning I told my missus of the nights events. She had no recollection and had slept through the banging. Typical. My mother in law, however, heard the banging aswell. She also heard me going downstairs and cursing the hamsters and then returning to bed.

Following this convosation I decided to try and work out what the noise was. I banged on the hamsters bars but nope. Definatly wasnt that sound. We put it down to being something outside in the end but I swore it was coming from inside the house. We gave up in the end.

A few days later I was sitting at the PC and heard a bang. "that was the fucking noise!" I got up and went to see what was banging. My missus had dropped something and it had hit a portable radiator/heater thing that was setup in the living room. I tried myself and knocked on the heater. That was the noise!

Very weird seen as nothing could have knocked it in the night. Especially not in a repetative manner like it was.

It has never happened again since. Maybe it was just the father-in-law saying goodbye or something? I dont really believe in stuff like that but there is no other explanation!
(Bushboy, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:27, 6 replies)

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[T]here is no other explanation!


Yes. A ghost coming to give an incomprehensible message through the medium of central heating. Clearly the best possible explanation.




Dear God...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:36, closed)

^^This^^
Enzyme...

Arf! I love it when you're sarky!

Bushboy...oh very dear...
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:40, closed)

No.
It wasnt central heating though.. It was a portable electric heater jobbie which was turned off and unplugged. No possible air in the system noises etc as it was electric.
(Bushboy, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:41, closed)

Bushboy
That doesn't really get to the core of my objection...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:44, closed)

A ha
Take that Enzyme
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:45, closed)

Yeah Enzyme
that put you right on your place didn't it.

Oh hang on.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 13:45, closed)