So about two weeks ago I was on the way back to my grandparent’s house, in Portland, from a family reunion at the Oregon coast. I was a couple of hours ahead of everyone, so when I arrived there I had to let myself in with a hidden key. The house was freezing, but it is really old, around if not over 100 years old now, so it stays cool. Anyways, as I came in through the back door I heard a crash in the basement, loud and strange enough that I decided to look the door to the basement and outside, thinking “at least whatever it is it is trapped down there now.†Moving on, assuming it was a rat or a raccoon, or at the freakiest, a person trying to get in (they have been robbed that way before), I tried to get my mind off it a pulled out my laptop to do work I needed to get done. I set the laptop up in my grandparents’ dining room because it get a glint of wifi that I can steal from the neighbor (the room is pretty cool with beams and an old chandelier and believe it or not they bought the home for $12,000 back in the day! Cheap even then because it was falling apart and needed a lot of work). Well while my laptop was booting up I got up and began to pace around, walking over to the upright piano playing a few keys (horribly), and then proceeded to walk towards the living room. Well, as soon as I reached the carpet at the edge of the living room one loud key struck down on the pian… the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I got instantly colder… I was freaked out… How could a piano key play on its own? But I didn’t want to freak myself out so I grabbed a blanket for warmth then walked back over to the piano to explain to myself the logics of physics and how that could happen. I explored the piano and the way the keys fell or stuck… piano keys make a noise when they go down, not up (for a minute I thought maybe one had gotten stuck down), and then I realized the key that played was from the opposite side of the piano… I decided I’d have one of my smart relatives explain this to me when I was back… It was totally possible, right? So I sat down at my booted up laptop and started getting to work when I heard a click. I looked up, and right before my eyes, the door to the LATCHED china cabinet swung open! I don’t even think my first reaction was fear, I probably rubbed my eyes with my mouth open. Again, trying to be logical and calm I tried to replicate the event… no avail, the cabinet was latched, stays latched, and I heard the latch come up. Still, I decided to ask my Grandma, “Your cabinet has trouble staying shut right?†… Well no one could provide me any good answers, the cabinet never opens on its own, nothing was in the basement, and no one knew how a piano could play one note on its own. I think I successfully either scared my uber religious family into thinking I was possessed or they thought I was bonkers… My immediate family believed me. I had no reason to make any of this up for a good ol’ reunion prank. I keep thinking about it: if just one of those strange events would happened someone might tell there friends, but I had three very strange events happen… The cabinet opened before my eyes! Is there a physicist here? Can someone explain how three isolated crazy weird abnormal inexplicable events happened to me in the course of an hour? I hope this post makes sense… lol
PS people (girls/women) kept asking me, "Why didn't you run out of the house? I would have." Well, if I would have done that at the time I would have been admitting to myself the events were paranormal and then I would have really freaked myself out.. I've been in denial about all this stuff for a while... but it all did happen.
PS people (girls/women) kept asking me, "Why didn't you run out of the house? I would have." Well, if I would have done that at the time I would have been admitting to myself the events were paranormal and then I would have really freaked myself out.. I've been in denial about all this stuff for a while... but it all did happen.
