You don’t have to go too far into the categories on this blog to know our haunted homestead has a ridiculous amount of completely unexplained events happening. We are used to that sort of thing (for the most part).
This incident happened in October 2019. I was there for a visit and had asked about recent activity but no one had seen or heard anything lately. That night after I was back in my own non-haunted house, my son’s girlfriend sent me a video she was innocently recording when a ghost upstairs in the house decided to intervene.
They have a dog and two cats and to get them all to snuggle together at the same time pretty much never happens. However, at this particular time, all three animals were having a nice little snooze-fest on the bed while their owners were watching tv in their bedroom, so my son’s girlfriend decided to take a quick video of the super-cuteness happening. The only other person in the house was my mother, downstairs in the kitchen.
About seven seconds into filming, a rather large noise suddenly came from outside their bedroom in the hallway. This startled both of them, and both the cats (evident in the video capture) as they realized that anyone capable of making that noise was currently sitting on their bed and nowhere near the hallway. So naturally, there was quite a bit of “What the &^%* was that??!”
My son got up and went to have a look, followed by his girlfriend who was still recording.
Trust me when I say when you hear something like that in that house and bravely go investigate, you never know what you are going to find. The fact that a video was incidentally being shot was a bonus.
So in the upstairs hallway towards the large bay windows, there is a metal shelving unit, home to a few different collectibles. The item in the middle of the top shelf was now on the floor on the carpet. Nothing else was disturbed. It had also not been sitting close to the edge and in any danger of falling.
To fully analyze this further, I have to agree that things can fall over. Generally, there is a reason, such as the item is close to the edge of a shelf and something jarring happens to knock it down. This was not the case. It was not too close to the edge and nothing jarring happened.
The oddest piece of the puzzle, which is substantiated luckily by the video, is that the noise it made did not match the end result. The noise was much bigger and sounded like something really big fell down and hit something other than a carpeted floor.
I am calling "ghost" on this one, for several reasons.
1. We all know the place is haunted; this is substantiated by actual appearances of ghosts by several different people, phantom cars every now and then, phone calls from people who have died, evidence in pictures (HERE and HERE), personal items gone into and returned from the afterlife (read it HERE), ghost cats, and unexplained voices, just to mention a few things.
2. There has often been ghostly activity in the upstairs of the house: doors unlocking by themselves, doors opening and closing by themselves, items moving around and disappearing, footsteps pacing in the hall, unseen hands tucking little kids into bed….you get the idea. Please read back through the blog for more.
3. Once again, the sound did not match the falling of that one ornament. As a comparison, if you dropped a bowl on the floor but it sounded like you dropped a tv on the floor, that would be the type of anomaly I am trying to get at here.
4. There was no one around the shelf in the hallway at the time of the incident.
Sorry, but it isn’t rocket science.
There are ghosts. Plain and simple.
It’s okay though. They are okay to live with, most of the time. It’s not like the devil himself is suddenly showing up in the middle of the night. Well, actually, there was that time when a hoof shaped "foot"print mysteriously appeared burned into the carpet in an upstairs bedroom….
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