Wow Duane.. At least you are investigating on what it could be. You're a
logical person who doesn't assume its a ghost without looking deeper
into it.
Make sure you keep us in the loop. Sorry your sleep is interrupted ..
lisa :)

Duane Hennessy wrote:
> Trust me, it's a pain in the culo!
>
> It started happening not long after moving in to this unit (rental). It
> had been renovated by a young couple who bought the unit. Prior to them,
> an old couple had lived there. The old man was the butcher in the area
> and he died first. The old lady lived there quite a while afterwards.
> Apparently they were a nice couple. Anyhoo...
>
> There were copious nails in the walls in the garage. Like, how many
> tools could the old guy possibly have had?
>
> There were too many to be safe moving around so I pulled a whole bunch
> out. About three weeks into living here, I heard a strange tapping near
> the bed head. It was kind of rhythmic, but I thought, "probably the
> house contracting in the cold or something". I ignored it.
>
> Then I heard it a few times since. A couple of weeks after that I hear
> it early one morning and figure it might be mice or possums or something
> in the wall. Though it sounded like a typewriter. Weird.
>
> Then a week or so later I wake in the morning and hear it again, only
> this time I start actually taking notice. It sounded like it was coming
> from the bed head or side table next to my side of the bed. I'm
> listening.... Then I notice a pattern to the annoying tapping sound. It
> was morse code for SOS. .. --- ... ... --- ... I ask Karen if she can
> hear the noise and she says yes, she heard it Saturday before. I'm like
> "It's an SOS signal". WTF? So we switch on the lights and it stops. We
> hunt around the house trying to find where the noise is coming from.
> Couldn't find it. Went back to bed then it started again. In the end I
> slept, feeling awful that someone may be banging pipes somewhere and
> trapped (like those Austrian daughters of that nutter recently in the news).
>
> The next day I tell a guy at work about it. He said maybe it is the
> radio-clock next to my bed and it is picking up someone's mobile signal.
> I said it went for over fifteen minutes. Still, the next time I heard
> it, I pulled the clock plug out. It started again regardless.
>
> Now here's the irritating thing. The tapping is not always SOS but it is
> perfectly rhythmic with a number of rhythms. It starts quietly and gets
> louder to the point of irritation. I know it's from the garage wall now.
> If there is tapping and I turn my head to look towards the side table,
> the noise stops instantly. If I close my eyes and pretend to sleep it
> starts again relatively quickly.
>
> One night I tried to feel if it was the bed head being tapped. I knew if
> I moved my head to look it would stop. So I laid on my stomach with my
> hands under the pillow. When the tapping started I slowly slid my had
> towards the bed head. Wouldn't you know it, as soon as my hand met the
> cold air the noise stopped. I did this on several occasions.
>
> This morning was even more irritating. I lay on my right side and the
> tapping was irritating. Everytime I opened my eyes it stopped. As soon
> as I closed them it started. So this time I got pissed off and banged on
> the wall three times. It stopped. It started an hour or two later though.
>
> Another side effect is that everynow and then we can hear cupboard doors
> opening and closing in the kitchen. Yep, there are heaps of those too,
> from ceiling to floor.
>
> A week ago when I figured it was hammering nails by the sound and some
> rhythms, I did an experiment. I went into the garage and tapped a nail
> into the wall whilst Karen was in the bedroom. She said it was that
> sound spot on.
>
> My friends and I (we're all IT geeks) want to set up infra-red web cams
> that detect movement in the garage. Maybe even the kitchen would be good.
>
> Still, I'm thinking of APing and sorting this annoying prick of a ghost
> out. The tapping is definitely an exercise in aggravating the living.
>
> We'll see what happens next. So far it is localised in the garage and
> kitchen but the light in the WC is beginning to tap aswell.
>
> We exhausted all rational explanations, especially since it behaves in a
> way that it is like we are being watched.
>
> I'm soooo over having a ghost already!
>
>
>
> Mark Gemmell wrote:
>
>> Is Duane leaving me out of the loop? I am so HURT! (just kidding,
>> but if there's any success stories out there, I wanna hear 'em!)
>>
>> Mark
>>
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>> To: AstralProjectionOBE@yahoogroups.com
>> From: lisadermenof@...
>> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:07:00 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [AstralProjectionOBE] You have 1 new message!
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>> Seriously?? You have a ghost in the garage? HAHAHA... I love it.
>>
>> Not good for you, but wow, you can't take the nails out huh?
>> You need to video tape it and send it in somewhere.
>> I would love to hear details on this. When did it start happening?
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>> ---- Duane Hennessy <duaneh@...
>> <mailto:duaneh@...>> wrote:
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