When I was around 7-9 years old (I don’t remember the exact age), I experienced some weird things in my childhood home.
I don’t remember when I first noticed it, but at some point I became aware that the dishes in the kitchen cabinets would shake very loudly in the middle of the night, say 1am-ish. Looking back, I think I’d been vaguely aware of it going on for some time, but didn’t make anything of it because I assumed it was just my mother or shrugged it off to worry about other childhood things.
But at some point, I started to become more interested in it. I realized that it couldn’t possibly be my mother because she was well in bed by the time it would start. One night I remember hearing it and I knew for a fact my parents and only sister were sleeping. What stands out all these years later is how loud it was. This wasn’t just some rattling, this was the sound of full-on shaking as if a train were passing through the house or there was an earthquake. It never affected anything else, it was only the sound of the dishes, often so loud that I couldn’t believe no one else was hearing it.
Eventually I told my sister about it and she didn’t believe me. One night I told her to stay up late with me, and she did. It started again and this time we both heard it. My sister was so scared that night, she didn’t go back to her own bedroom and slept in mine.
I never told my parents and I don’t even know why. I also wasn’t frightened. It was a feeling of indifference and I don’t ever remember being scared in the house. I just acknowledged it happened. I never saw the dishes move, I just heard them, and loudly.
As the years went by, I stopped noticing it or it stopped happening. All I know is that by 10 or so, I don’t recall ever hearing it again.
I did have a sister that died young, at the age of three, but I don’t know if that had anything to do with it. However, it was around the same timeframe that I heard the sounds.
Now, as an adult, the memories came back to me after a conversation and I’m curious to know what it could have been. Any ideas?
Chosen Answer:
Perhaps it was the sound of an imprint….residual energy that replays…..one tie the dishes really did shake say from an earth quake, and this sound may of been imprinted.
by: inteleyes
on: 16th May 13