Shadow people?

Today, at my wife's store, a strange happening. We hadn't been open very long; maybe an hour. My wife was working at the checkout counter and I was working on a clock in the backroom area. My wife came into the work area and said the strangest thing had just happened. As she was working on some papers at the counter she saw someone come in the door right beside the check-out. She gave her typical salutation and offered assistance if such were needed. When she looked up, no one was there. I heard her salutation where I was working and naturally assumed some one had come into the store. At this particular time there were no customers in the store. There is no way shadow or person could have crossed that threshold. She said that whatever it was passed through from the door well into the store. No shadows would be possible from that door. A person would not have been able to pass out of sight that quickly. The front display windows are well away from the check-out counter and are so well stocked that outside shadows or reflection would have been nonexistent in that area of the store. I said, "I heard you greet somebody, but I didn't hear the door bell ring (A rather loud brass bell sounds when someone comes in or leaves). "I saw someone or the shadow of someone come in so I greeted them. But nobody was there", my wife replied. "Then come to think of it, I didn't hear the bell either". We get weird things in this old building from time to time. I guess this was just another one.

Strange voice caught on tape.

I had previously reported that I was hearing what sounded almost like short-wave bursts that appeared to be coming from an interior wall of my house that once housed a dumbwaiter that has been sealed off for over 50 years. The first time I attempted to register anything on a tape, you'll remember, my recorder was moved several feet from where it was placed and all that was recorded was a buzzing sound. I checked the recorder out and it was fully operational. So I again set the voice activated recorder out. This time I discovered that if the downstairs door from the parlor to the front hall is left open the barking of my dogs can be heard. On this trial run they barked plenty, obviously while the wife and I were out. However aside from the barking the recorder did pick up the short "radio?" blasts that we have been hearing in the hall or master bedroom. But again, even though the blasts are loud they were too garbled to tell what was being said. Just prior to my placing the recorder in the hall, I had experienced the "voice" which repeated itself five or six times and sounded almost like it was saying, "Vincent had a heart attack", it sounded like that to me but it was unclear, garbled, so it could have been something else. BTW I know no one named Vincent. But tracking down the origin of these sounds always leads back to an inside wall on the second floor of my house in an area that once had an old dumbwaiter for moving items from the second floor downstairs. But it has been sealed off for decades. I have a pair of walkie-talkies and I have tried them out on the second floor, but nothing comes through on the wall. Its a very perplexing mystery.

Hallway voice sounds again

The hallway voice has sounded again. I was upstairs changing my clothes when suddenly the voice comes in loud and clear. Sounded like it was saying "Vincent is having a heart attack". That message was repeated seven or eight times. I quickly went to the hallway and once again the voice seemed to be coming from an area close to the closed off dumbwaiter. This reminded me that I had set a sound activated recorder next to that wall. I retrieved the recorder and saw the batteries had run down. Needless to say the recorder didn't pick up anything that time. I put new batteries in the recorder; rewound the tape and hit playback. Now I get mystery number two. Unless the downstairs doorway to the parlor is open; you cannot hear my dogs bark unless they get really loud and even then its a muffled sound. With the parlor door open you can hear the barking and they sound low like they are far away. When I rewound the recorder and hit playback I got what sounded like a dog war. The recorder picked them up like they were standing next to it. Now I know what they do when I'm not at home. They bark and howl. Anyway I did pick up the strange voice at one point on the tape. I couldn't understand what it said either. Its loud but unclear, garbled. I don't know any Vincent's, assuming that's what was really said. It repeated the message over and over at least 7 times. There is never any answer. And as I have said before it sounds like a shortwave radio of some sort. But why am I picking it up in an interior wall in my house? And that brings us to the game camera which I aimed up the front stairs to try to validate a couple strange shots I got from my, now defunct, spy camera. The batteries on it had run down as well, but I retrieved the chip. I had many pictures of myself and my wife going up and down those stairs. None of these photos looked anything like the strange aberration that came up on two shots of the spy camera. So the mystery continues in this old house.