Or, more to the point, solve one for me.
We will call this the Mystery of the Ghost Knocking at the Door.
We moved to our present home last October. It is a two story house with 2 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. These are all on one side of the house. On the other side a very high ceiling, maybe 25 feet at the highest point. It highest in the center and slopes down on either side. There is a staircase. At the top, you can see living room, dining room and family room on the 1st story.
Now the mystery. We keep hearing what sounds like someone knocking at the door. We keep going to the door and open it to …no one.
The knocking started almost as soon as we moved in. The owner denies all knowledge of it. It started like a steady knock, maybe 4 or 5…normal for someone who knocked at the door. The knocks seemed a little slow, but not much. This would happen once every week to every other week.
The knocking has now become more frequent and the knocks are faster, like someone knocking at the door in a big rush. The number of knocks has also increased, 10 to 15 at a time. Today, this has happened six times already but today is anomaly.
As we have investigated, such as we can, we seem to notice that sound comes not from the front door, but above the kitchen, like a wooden shutter banging in the wind, except for the speed…and the fact that there are no shutters.
There are no rooms above the kitchen. It is at the back end of the house. There is an empty crawl space above, accessible from the top of the stairs. It is empty space. There are no ac\heating ducts. At most, a vent from the stove. The empty space is the size of a small bedroom with a sloped ceiling. There is nothing that we know of that could account for the knocking.
My girlfriend’s sister watches the ‘ghost adventurer’ and ‘haunted this-or-that’ constantly, so we tease her by saying it’s ghost. I started out sure it wasn’t. Now…
What could it be?
