Fright night
Had another fright last night (see June 24 post on creepy noises). This wasn’t one of those late night noises you can barely hear, it was the opposite. I was sitting watching TV in my living room mid-evening, volume fairly high if anything, computer was on near bye, fan on etc., ie. not that late night sound magnification thing.
I was sitting near my big picture window (curtain closed) when there was a massive crashing sound that almost made me shriek as I leapt from my seat afraid something was coming through. The bjesus came right out of me - bit messy.
My first thought was of something breaking, roof collapsing, tree falling into it but to my surprise the window didn’t break. Being at ground level near the street my next thought was of someone pounding on the window and with no way to see out without opening the curtain or door it took me a second to get the courage to look out…nothing in sight.
Never did find any clue to what happened. My best guess is a bird crashing into it though I’ve never heard of that happening at night – why would a bird fly into what it can obviously see is some kind of window or wall? No reflection of sky which is what tricks them during the day. Though I’ve never seen the slightest hint of mischievous teens in the neighbourhood who may have been pulling a prank, that would be my next guess. There is no tree nearby that could have blown against it and upon inspection I found no sign of damage or feathers etc.
Anyway, just another funny reason why I seem to average about 5 hours sleep a night. Though I wasn’t in bed, or even all that close to trying, I have enough trouble falling asleep at the best of times and events like that set me back a good hour or two. Is it just me? Maybe I’m just a big chicken shit.
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Bart Simpson: I'm not calling you a liar but....I can't think of a way to finish that sentence.
5 comments:
That's crazy man. Ya see, if you were living in a town run by Christians like I do here in Lacombe you'd probably be safer. Then again, the noise could've been something minor, I dunno.
Or maybe you're just hallucinating. Try laying off the acid for a little while.
I'm not getting much sleep these days either, but the noises responsible are easily identified.
The rats in the ceiling are most active at night and are apparently engaged in some rat-like construction that keeps me up at night. And at 5-6am in the morning the maid's baby screams bloody murder during her bath right outside my room.
It's not much better knowing what's keeping you awake.
Auren, maybe it was just a wee bit of coal dust caught in the wind.
IT'S DALE'S BIRTHDAY!!! JULY 28th!
True, doesn't matter what it is, anything keeping you up sucks, rats in the ceiling would be high on the list of things I'd rather not have keeping me up though. Goodnight.
Not to make light of your situation because my reaction would be similar to yours but unlike you my bJesus would remain intact--but could scare something else from me.
YOu should track them - times, circumstances, type of noise - and consider it for future fodder for the paper (haunted houses in Hannah)?
Plus you get to use the
illiteration thingy.
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