Supernatural encounters?

[CK Yeo]

I am not superstitious or what... but recently my company just moved to a new building. A colleague sitting beside me stayed back in the night when most people had left the office. She say she heard strange knocking sounds that will stop everytime she turn her head to look. It is the second time she heard it. She was quite sure it was not construction somewhere or pest in the building. I believe her cos I heard it before when I was young and was having high fever then. At that time, I also just moved into a new flat.

Any one else encounter such things when moved into a new building/flat/house? Is there a logic explanation for it? If not, what can I do to send "it" away? Any advises?

ck

[illumnae]

is it a knocking sound or a sound like marbles dropping on a hard floor and bouncing? if it's the latter, there's a physics explanation for it..something about the building expanding

[David Moses Heng]

I am not superstitious or what... but recently my company just moved to a new building. A colleague sitting beside me stayed back in the night when most people had left the office. She say she heard strange knocking sounds that will stop everytime she turn her head to look. It is the second time she heard it. She was quite sure it was not construction somewhere or pest in the building. I believe her cos I heard it before when I was young and was having high fever then. At that time, I also just moved into a new flat.

Any one else encounter such things when moved into a new building/flat/house? Is there a logic explanation for it? If not, what can I do to send "it" away? Any advises?

ck

where's the place?

[ranmasatome]

why would a building expand in the night??? isnt it cooler?

[illumnae]

maybe contracting then?

[David Moses Heng]

why would a building expand in the night??? isnt it cooler?

it's not teh building. it's all those steel beams and stuffs that is in the concrete. Read somewhere in the papers.

[illumnae]

but anyway, assuming that the building is haunted, i guess how to deal with it really depends on what your religion is? different religions have different practices. my personal experience is just to ignore it and go on doing your own stuff. if you start feeling watched or oppressed, leave the area.

[ranmasatome]

so...scientifically... what the explanation for the sounds?

[illumnae]

i can't exactly remember as i only briefly read it a few years back...so i'll just take a guess here. i think that buildings have steel beams with ball bearings to allow for expansion and contraction due to temperature changes, kind of like how bridges are built with one end on a steel beam. it could be that when the building is expanding or contracting, the ball bearings move and knock into each other causing a chain effect and creating a sound kind of like throwing a marble onto a hard floor and having it bounce.

it's a shot in the dark here, so please let me know if i'm wrong

[zyblack]

If the knocking sound only stops when she turns in the direction where it is coming from then I think it probably won't have anything to do with the building. Unless the building can "sense" movement and make haunting sounds when appropriate....

I read that females are more sensitive and attuned to certain "frequencies" than males. My mum has been telling me spooky stuff she experienced in her room and when she travels (Bangkok hotels seems to have the most spooky reputation). Funny...my room is across hers and I never seen nor experienced anything.

Though I haven't seen anything supernatural yet but I did hear enough spooky tales to know better than to dismiss it entirely.

[illumnae]

haha i don't dismiss spooky tales at all. i've been able to sense supernatural stuff since a young age, so i do know that they exist (but NO i am NOT a female haha). i just thought it'd be best to rule out any normal causes first before looking to the supernatural

[zyblack]

hehe...I think it is much more interesting to think of it as a supernatural episode. Makes working there more exciting eh? Wonder if it is a disembodied hand tapping on a desk somewhere like the "Thing" from the Addam's Family show...wait... I am scaring myself...

[illumnae]

i'm interested to know though, where's this building? i recently heard about a haunted building in the city area as well...wonder if it's the same one

[CK Yeo]

As a science person, I would like to have a scientific explanation for it as well, though I am open to other explanations.
The expanding/contracting building theory sounds plausible at first, but it does not fully explain everything e.g. why it stopped when she move or why it does not happen in other buildings. I mean, there will probably be pretty common phenomenon if it was purely expanding/contracting building. The sound is more like knocking of the knuckles on the table/wood at a fast pace.

I am not located in the city area. My purpose is not to start a rumor/scare/tekong-style ghost story. I just want to find out if any one had similar experience and how it was resolved.

ck

[taygu]

I have the "same" experience during my NS time. Waking up in the middle of the night to hear the sound of a crying baby, I immediately though it must be those stuff as how did a baby ended up in a army camp, furthermore the cry was creepy. When I continue to listen on and telling myself it cannot be those stuff...I finally realise is a puppy..

What I am trying to say, try not to think along that when you heard it again and you may found out where the sound came from and may be another wild imagination.

[Jungle-mania]

Maybe the building is both alive and has the bearings in it beams, it knows when to 'let go' when no one is looking, out of politeness.

[benny]

what can I do to send "it" away? Any advises?

Classic case of bad feng shui.

You need an office tank. Something along the lines of at least 1 ft cube to 2 ft slim type. And don't keep just shrimps. Better to keep fishes. If maintainence is an issue, keep bettas. If budget is not an issue, keep apistogramma.

I recommended it to one of my colleagues and she don't feel so 'alone' when working late at night anymore as she has a 'real' companion.

Cheers,

[daveteogh]

Talking spooky tales... nothing related to this particular thread... but just my personal experience and 2 real tales during my NS times...

I went on a short holiday to KL with some of my then colleagues some years back. The 3 of us are staying in a hotel room... the most spooky things happen when I wake up in the morning.

Guess what I see!? Fruits (think is apples and pears) scattering around one coner of the bed. We DID NOT bring or buy any fruits at all! Where the hell did those fruits end up in our room!? Until today I do not have any explanation and the only reason I can think of is those 'things'.

We actually ignore those fruits... went for our breakfast and then went straight to the reception to request for a room change. When asked about the reason, we told them the reason and we are given another room with no further question asked. I believe they do know something is wrong with that particular room. When we return to the room, the fruits are longer there as the cleaner has removed them. Of course we are more than happy to leave that room. Spooky isn't it!?

Now for the tales during my NS times...
2 of my camp mates at that time heard baby crying in the middle of the night but there can never be a 'real' one...

While we are watcing soccer match in the bunk, 'someone' knocking hardly on our door but no one can be seen when one of my camp mate open the door and the nearest staircase is far away.

I have no explanation on all these happenings...

[CK Yeo]

Hahaha. It is an excellent idea which I have yet to put into action. 1 ft cube might be a bit too large. Maybe a standard 1 ft for a nano planted tank.

I heard that if the fengshui fish die, they took the bad luck for you... is it correct? So probably not anything too expensive for a start, until things stabilizes at least. Let's see how it goes.

Shopping time.

ck

Classic case of bad feng shui.

You need an office tank. Something along the lines of at least 1 ft cube to 2 ft slim type. And don't keep just shrimps. Better to keep fishes. If maintainence is an issue, keep bettas. If budget is not an issue, keep apistogramma.

I recommended it to one of my colleagues and she don't feel so 'alone' when working late at night anymore as she has a 'real' companion.

Cheers,

[Shadow]

Classic case of bad feng shui.

You need an office tank. Something along the lines of at least 1 ft cube to 2 ft slim type. And don't keep just shrimps. Better to keep fishes. If maintainence is an issue, keep bettas. If budget is not an issue, keep apistogramma.

I recommended it to one of my colleagues and she don't feel so 'alone' when working late at night anymore as she has a 'real' companion.

Cheers,

Hei man...that new way to promote office tank

I heard that if the fengshui fish die, they took the bad luck for you... is it correct? So probably not anything too expensive for a start, until things stabilizes at least. Let's see how it goes.

Better don't tell her about this, later everybody start killing their fish to get rid of bad luck