One thing I’d avoided after our loud haunting, is closing the doors to any rooms.

Whomever/whatever it was enjoyed knocking and banging loudly on closed doors (wears down the nerves), so I started keeping them open. But lately it’s been pretty cold in our home so my man and I have been doing the space heater thing. So now we close doors to trap the heat in the most used room of the day.

This morning, after having a relatively infrequent and annoying Sleep Paralysis episode w/hallucinations (it would take another blog to go into this), I awakened to find the door to my room closed, with Mr. Raphael not still in the bedroom.

After doing some reading and writing for a few minutes I got dressed and stood up. That’s when I heard knocking on the bedroom door. It was soft and tame. I said Hello? (a knee jerk reaction). Went and opened the door, thinking maybe Mr. R was playing with me (translation: had a death wish). But I found he was in the room across the hall with the door closed. I opened that door and asked if he’d heard knocking and he said no. … Didn’t surprise me. He had the space heater on plus his door closed; both were sound barriers. Plus the knocking sound was so light.

Was curious/stupid(?) enough to go back into the bedroom, shut the door, and ask Is anyone here with me? If there was a response I didn’t catch on: no knocking or banging or anything else unusual.

One window in our bedroom is open, and there are sounds in the vicinity. So while I can say with confidence that I heard the sound of knocking, and that it seemed to emanate from that door, I can’t promise my ears weren’t fooled somehow by some other noise. Plus, I’d recently awakened., and force of suggestion from bad Sleep Paralysis might have made me more susceptible to misinterpreting some sound as the mystical knocking I’d heard for so many months in the past.

If the knocking sound had been louder, more definitive, I’d have take myself more seriously … and especially if Mr.R had heard it too.

Anyway, hard to say if any anomalous activity is about to start up again for us. But if it is one or more entities, It probably wouldn’t be a problem as long as it was quiet in it’s communication and did so only during waking hours, I think (gulp). Just thought I'd share