Dog on Stairs

     Last night, around 8 pm, I went upstairs, by our rear staircase, to find a magazine I had been reading. The rear stairs end abruptly and turn to the right before continuing on up to the second floor. As I was ascending the stairs I very definitely saw the rear part of a grey dog make the turn in the stairs. As our dogs are not allowed upstairs except when we go up for the night; I thought our grey (salt and pepper) schnauzer had gotten through the gate somehow and was heading upstairs. I yelled his name, rather agitated I fear.  A bark from behind me alerted me to the fact that said dog was at the foot of the stairs, looking up at me with those big brown eyes that said "What did I do?" As our other schnauzer is black (actually a very very dark brown) it could not have been her. A bit embarrased, I had to go back down, remove the gate and allow the blameless dog to accompany me back upstairs. Needless to say there was no other dog up there. Had there been my little male would have known. He was just happy to be going where he doesn't normally. This isn't the first time I've seen dogs that weren't there. My wife has experienced the same several times so if I'm nuts were both nuts.

Thumping sound resumes but changes

    The weird thumping or pumping sound has resumed. But its cadence has changed. For example yesterday we first heard it at 6:20pm and it sounded like it always does with a series of thumps that last between 5 and 10 ceconds. Then at 6:51 pm it repeated. This is not what we have been hearing for weeks now. Its usually every hour, on the minute; this was only 31 minutes between. Then at 7:21 we heard a single thump, followed by a regular cadence, very loud at 7:51. Again at 8:20 only one thump with the norm at 8:51. Nothing was heard at 9:20 or 21, but the normal pattern repeated softly at 9:51. 10:21 sounded one thump and a normal pattern at 10:51. Silence again reigned at 11:20 and 21 but the sound resumed, loudly this time, at 11:51. Today has been pretty much the same. Still only heard in the Library. Still not identified. Still driving me nuts.

Strange pumping sound

     The strange pumping sound that is only heard in the library has not been heard since Monday the 15th. On that day it sounded every hour starting at 6:50pm through 11:50pm. But has been quiet since. The regularity of the sound and the fact that stretches of days without it occur is most perplexing. I have found no explaination for it.

Strange voice

       Last night, as I was sitting at the computer with both of my dogs at my side, I distinctly heard my name called. The interesting thing is so did both of my dogs who immediately got up and ran toward the kitchen. I followed, my wife was working on a craft project on the kitchen table. I asked what she wanted. She said she hadn't called me. I said the dogs both reacted to it. She replied that she absolutely had not said anything for quite some time. Even the kitchen TV was not on. This is not common, but these sounds do happen on occasion. But this time there was no mistake that the dogs heard it as well.

Ghost photos

      A while back I shot a picture up our front stairs which seemed to show what I thought appeared to be a phantom of a womans head, at about the right height for someone coming down the stairs. It wasn't really that plain. My wife thought it was probably a film or development flaw. I had two guests who thought they could see what I saw, but another said it looked more like a phantom portrait.  A paranormal investigator asked to see it. I sent it to him and though he noticed a discoloration he failed to see a face; but thought it promising enough that I should reshoot the picture and take the staircase from several other angles and make the shots just before or just after the full moon. I did the experiment and the shots all came out clear with nothing unusual in sight. I have tried it again, at full moon. But those shots have not been developed as yet.

Strange sound is daily now.

     The inexplicable pumping sound which can only be heard in the library and nowhere else in the house or out of the house; has been occuring on a regular hourly basis since I last posted about it here. The sound does occur on rare occassion in the morning, but is most reliably noted between 6 and midnight. Sometimes its louder than other times. Sometimes its more rapid than at other times. It only lasts 5 or 10 seconds at a time.Its never exactly the same time of the day, but it is pretty much exactly one hour to the minute each day. If its heard at 6:54 you can set your watch you'll hear it again at 7:54 and so on. But the next day you might hear it  at 7:53 and so on. Some days (rare recently) you don't hear it at all. I suppose it has a logical explaination. But only hearing it in one room and not being able to source it out is becoming a real problem.

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Mysterious pumping sound continues

The mystrious pumping sound continues and still no logical explaination is forthcoming. The sound can only be heard in the library. The sound lasts not more than ten seconds. The sound is of something heavy pumping or pounding. The sound is regular. If the first sound detected is at 5:53 then the next will occur at 6:53 and so on. We have heard it every night this week that we were home. It is not heard outside. It is not heard in any other room of the house. Tonight it has been especially loud; at 5:53, 6:53 and 7:53pm. I am open to suggestions from anyone as to what or where this sound is coming from.