Dog continues to bark at the wall.

My younger dog, a four year old black, female, schnauzer barks at an area a couple foot square on the western library wall just a few feet from the library door that leads to the diningroom. I wrote about this before but the barking continues. I was working upstairs most of the morning yesterday and I could hear her barking at the wall almost the entire time. Luckily, this old  house is blame near soundproof or that continual barking would really get on your nerves. Same place, every day. Sometimes she frantically digs at the wall while barking at it. Believe me it is getting old. I've checked the area thoroughly and found no evidence of mice or anything else (The walls here are solid brick and 17 inches thick).Besides I have an older grey and white male schnauzer who pays no attention to the wall. I think her barking is getting on his nerves too as he tends to go into the kitchen and as far from her as he can when she is barking at the wall. If she can hear something in that wall, you would think he could too. But either he doesn't hear anything strange or he choses to ignore it. These barking spells can go on for 15 or 20 minutes at a time several times a day. So is the house weird or the dog?

Tinkling bells

Yesyrtday at my wife's shop; she and a customer distinctly heard what sounded like small bells tinkling. It sounded like several bells , but the source of these tinkling bells could not be located. Checking outside, it was determined the sound could only be heard inside the store. She has no strands of bells hanging anyplace in the store. The ringing bells went on for several minutes and finally faded out. No source for these bells was found. I guess this is simply another page of the weird to be ascribed to this old structure.

Film shots a dud

Film taken during Halloween has returned with nothing showing up. Which leaves us with only the digital front door shot. It may be explainable; but at present, I cannot explain it. Oh well theres always May Day.

Halloween somewhat of a bust.

I took numerous pictures with both the 35mm camera and the digital Cannon. Going over the digital photos I noticed only one that had anything unusual show up on it. Shooting my outside Halloween decoration, I took one of the front door from the outside, using only available light. It rained lightly all day and it was almost dark when I shot this one. A light smokey, cloudiness, mist or something appears at the foot of the door and extends off to the right from the porch floor up about 2 and a half foot. The effect is rather light but I did get it to print. Paranormal or just a normal enity, I cannot say. Like I said the weather had been overcast, breezy, and rainy for several days prior to Halloween. I had only about 150 trick or treaters as opposed to my normally 400. I blame the rotten weather for the low turnout. I haven't recieved the processed film back from York as yet so I have no idea whether or not anything might have gotten recorded on it. There was nothing unusual on the tape recorders either. So, maybe all the paranormal that manifested in this old house has played out. The place hasn't been as active as it usually is for the past two years; although strange or weird things do still occur. Some day my prints will come (couldn't help it folks) and when they do I'll report any anomales that show up. But I do not have high hopes.

October 30

We just slipped past Hurricane Sandy. There was considerable distruction north of us but we had strong winds but not distructive winds and a lot of rain. This is the 30th of October so I plan to shoot some pictures around the house about midnight to see if we can get any disks or other anomalies.I really do not know what else to try. I do plan to set the sound activated recorders out tomorrow night and shoot more shots after the trick or treaters have had their run. I didn't get much done in the form of decorations this year as it has been raining for a week, I got a few lights and strings of pumpkin lights up on the railing out front, but thats about it. I may be able to do a few other things tomorrow before the festivities start.

Voices calling my name

My wife had the disconcerting experience of hearing her name called clearly while she rearraged a small room in back of our backroom. She said she was rearranging the room and pulling stored Christmas stock when she clearly heard her name called three times. There was one other person in the store who helps out occassionly so my wife figured she must have needed something. This rear of the rear room is quite small and really loaded with merchandise so it was no easy matter to crawl over everything to answer the "call". When she left the rear room and walked through the backroom to the main storeroom she saw her helper tagging new merchandise. She asked what she wanted and the girl gave her a "what do you mean look". Saying she heard her name called, my wife explained she thought the helper had called her. "No", the girl replied, if I had needed anything I would have walked back into the backroom and said something. So my wife went again into the rear room and continued to sort and arrange only to have the same thing happen again. Listening, this time, my wife said the voice though feminine, did not sound, at all, like her helper. She again went to the showroom and could clearly see her helper still tagging merchandise. This girl is not the practicle joke playing type anyway. So my wife is perplexed as to what did occur. I said if it happens again, answer it. See what happens. She agreed that is a good idea. As I have said before her store is in a very old building built in the 1800s. We have both experienced the weird in there from time to time and I suppose this is just another occurance to be filed with the rest. I probanly should shoot some pictures in the store around Halloween, just to see what developes.

Dog barks at wall

My younger, very black, schnauzer has been barking at a prescribed place on the wall that seperates the Diningroom from the Library.  She has done this several times a day for the past three or four months. It makes no sense to me and my wife is getting very irritated with her. The area of the wall she is so interested in is an area about two foot square from the baseboard up just beside the doorway that leads from the Dinningroom into the Library. The barking is intense, sometimes almost hysterical, for several minutes at a time. I have inspected the area myself, even going to the basement and checking out the wall that supports the Library/dinningroom wall. I have found absolutely no sign of anything out of the ordinary. I even tried leaving food scraps out in that area of the basement and it was not touched. I set up two of those rodent high pitched screamers and aimed both at that area of the wall, but so far, they have had no effect if it really is some sort of critter that has her attention. Strangely my elder grey and white schnauzer has no interest in barking at this wall. It has gotten so, when the younger dog starts her bark attack the older dog  leaves the room and goes into the kitchen as far as he can away from the racket. If anyone out there has ever had a similar situation let me know what it was and how you took care of it, please.