Have you ever had the strange experience of suddenly knocking at the door at midnight, and when you opened the door, you found that there was no one outside the open gate?
In the middle of the night, the old house in the mountain village was silent, and the moon was hidden in the clouds, revealing a faint light.
"Tuk, tuk tuk..." Midnight dream back, chaotic brain in a very rhythmic knock on the door, gradually awake, the ear as if the dream knocking sound from far and near, a moment, as if knocking on the heart, can not tell whether it is a heartbeat or knocking, empty room "tuk, tuk tuk" echoed ....
Just in Xiangyang Village, Hunan, there is a couple who really encountered such an aggressive and strange thing as "knocking on the door at midnight".
They said that in the middle of the night, the door of his house would always suddenly sound a frightening knock, but whenever the door was opened, there was no one outside, which made the couple a little creepy.
Who knocks on the door in the middle of the night?
The eerie "knock at the door" in the middle of the night
The protagonist of the story, Chen Mingsheng, who is a villager in Xiangyang Village in Hunan, according to him, one night,
At about 10 o'clock, he and his wife had just lay down, tired for a day, the couple quickly closed their eyes tiredly, half asleep and half awake, suddenly a "tuk, tuk tuk" sound woke them up.
Chen Mingsheng stared angrily at the eyes and asked angrily, "What is ringing outside", Qin Fengying on the side had just woken up, she guessed that "eighty percent is the chicken"
chicken? Chen Mingsheng was curled up in the quilt and was strange, suddenly remembering the chicken that his wife was talking about.
It turned out that it was an old hen raised at home, usually his wife was a waiter, just a few days ago I heard her say that the chicken in the family was sick, because it was raining today, Chen Mingsheng was worried about not having to rain again and died completely, so he took a rope to tie the two paws of the chicken and put it under the eaves of the door.
Therefore, when the knock on the door sounded, his wife Qin Fengying first guessed that it should be the chicken under the eaves.
But the rhythmic knocking of the "tuk, tuk tuk" did not stop, and Chen Mingsheng lay on the bed and carefully identified it, and found that it was not like this.
Chen Mingsheng said: "I'm afraid that someone knocked on the door", when he said this sentence, he couldn't help but be afraid, who is this in the middle of the night?
Hearing her husband Chen Mingsheng say this, the timid wife couldn't help but be a little frightened, and she suddenly said a sharp word in her heart: In the middle of the night, I didn't sleep and ran to someone else's house to knock on the door? And they don't say a word, if there is something looking for them, they will not even know the name to shout, right?
She looked at her husband with some help, Chen Mingsheng sat up, dressed up in the dark, scolded and grinned, got out of bed and opened the door, but as soon as she walked to the door, the knocking suddenly stopped, as if something was suddenly choked, Chen Mingsheng listened to the wooden door for a while, and the knocking actually disappeared.
Find the truth
Originally thought that the matter was over, the next night, the couple, as usual, turned off the lights and went to bed, but the matter was not over.
The time came to about 10 o'clock in the night, and the knock on the door of "tuk, tuk tuk" was hammered on the hearts of the couple, and they sat up in shock, looked at each other, and saw the panic in each other's eyes.
Wife Qin Fengying quietly said to her husband: "How does it sound like three fingers knocking in turn?"
The couple stared dead at the door in the darkness and involuntarily swallowed their spit.
For a long time, Chen Mingsheng could no longer bear this feeling of being overwhelmed by fear, so he rolled over and got out of bed, walked towards the door with an arrow, and slammed the door open.
However, the scene in front of them made the couple creepy up, and they were shocked to find that the door was actually empty, and there was no one.
It's so weird, from knocking on the door to pushing it open, it's only a minute or two in total, but how did it disappear without a trace in this short period of time?
The couple fell into a state of panic and had difficulty sleeping.
The next day, the husband and wife were determined to find the truth, Chen Mingsheng and his wife were different, he had never believed in ghosts and gods, he always felt that someone had deliberately pranked them, but they had always been honest and honest, and they and the neighbors had no complaints in the past, and there was no revenge in recent days, who would toss them so much?
In the end, they fell on one person—their son-in-law.
Because since his daughter and son-in-law quarreled a few days ago, he quarreled with his son-in-law twice in anger, and the knock on the door in the middle of the night sounded.
Therefore, the husband and wife combined, and planned to teach the son-in-law who did not look good in his daily life tonight a lesson.
The time soon came to 10 o'clock in the night, and Chen Mingsheng hid behind the door, waiting with bated breath for the strange knocking sound.
"Duc, tuk-tuk," Chen Mingsheng said in his heart: Here it comes
Furious, he lifted his stick and rushed out of the room.
Qin Fengying also followed with courage, and soon she saw her husband standing motionless at the gate.
Outside the door, in the dark street, there was nothing but the couple.
"Is there really something unclean?" A thought arose in the couple's mind.
After a strange knock on the door that had tormented the couple for more than ten days, they were tired and afraid, at this time Chen Mingsheng suddenly had a plan, it was better to find a watchdog, so that it could help them guard the door and bring a sense of security.
When it was said, Chen Mingsheng really borrowed a dog, and it was majestic to look at, which made the couple feel some comfort at once.
But the follow-up results surprised them, and when night fell, there was a sudden knock at the door, but the borrowed dog fell asleep outside the door.
Chen Ming was angry and didn't call, his husband and wife had not slept well for several days in a row, but it was good, and as soon as they arrived home, they fell asleep.
This strange thing gradually spread in the eight villages of Ten Mile, and the villagers came to see the liveliness.
The villagers who had good deeds did not believe in evil, patted their chests and said to the couple that tonight he personally came to the vigil to see who was sacred.
Therefore, that night, the villager Liu Xinming stayed in Chen Mingsheng's home, and they agreed to sit behind the door one left and one right, and when the knock sounded, they rushed out to see it together.
It was 10 o'clock again, and the two of them were talking in a low voice, when suddenly, a strange knock on the door interrupted them both. The two of them looked at each other for a moment, Huo Ran stood up, squeaked open the door, and liu Xinming, who did not believe in evil, finally believed in horror that Lao Chen was telling the truth.
In the midst of the villagers' gossip, a sharp-eyed villager found that there was a water pipe for daily life clinging to the wall at the door of Chen Mingsheng's house.
At this time, he wondered, could it be that the water pressure was unstable, causing the water pipe to tremble and knock on the wall, sounding like a knock at the door?
However, this view was quickly rejected by everyone, after all, the sound of metal colliding was far from the sound of wooden doors, and it was too easy to distinguish.
So what is the purpose of this knock on the door in the middle of the night?
Truth
Just when everyone was at a loss, Chen Mingsheng even invited reporters from the TV station, and the reporters who received help also became interested in the incident, and soon, they brought the infrared cameras in the station together.
At the gate of Chen Mingsheng's house, they secretly arranged the camera, just waiting for the strange knock on the door, and when everything was ready, they only waited for the night to come.
This time the investigation waited until two o'clock in the morning, and only the occasional flying insect passed by in the surveillance camera, and other than that, no abnormality was found.
At this time, Lao Chen, who was helpless even by high-tech means, was completely desperate, and he really couldn't understand what was tormenting his family.
At this moment, the reporter went and returned, and this time they brought back an expert, Professor Deng Xuejian, and as soon as the expert arrived, he speculated according to Chen Mingsheng's description.
There was a knock at the door in the middle of the night, but there was no one to push the door open, professor Deng looked at the surveillance footage taken by the reporter, and suddenly had a preliminary judgment, he speculated, maybe it was some kind of animal.
First of all, combined with the environment in which the old Chen and his wife live, because there are layers of woods in front of and behind the house, it is obvious that there will be many animals living here.
In contact until late at night, so it is possible to be nocturnal creatures.
Most animals have a territorial concept, and the nearby Old Chen family just happens to be its territorial range.
So this can also explain why every night comes, the door of the old Chen family will appear knocking on time.
In the conversation between Professor Deng and Chen Mingsheng, he was keenly aware of a key point, that is, the sound emitted was the sound of "tuk, tuk tuk".
This sound is the sound of knocking on the wooden door, so it must be produced by the impact of a hard object, combined with this speculation, Professor Deng immediately had an answer in his heart.
As we all know, in nature, only the mouth of birds, called beak, is an exoskeleton covered with matter.
So what kind of birds would knock on Chen Mingsheng's door in the middle of the night?
Combined with the night, an answer is coming out:
That's the familiar owl.
The owl, scientific name partridge, is generally gray-brown on both wings and tail, and is distributed on all continents except Antarctica. It is a nocturnal carnivore that feeds mainly on rodents and insects, and is again combined with small flying insects that often fly in surveillance video.
The answer finally came out, and the initiator of the so-called "knocking on the door" in the middle of the night was not a superstitious ghost god, nor a prank by others, but an owl with nocturnal characteristics.
At the end of the article, the author also hopes that everyone will rationally treat those seemingly strange anecdotes that happen around you, do not explain the problem with various ghosts and gods as soon as there is a problem, but from a scientific point of view, I think as long as you think calmly and do not let go of any clues, then the so-called truth is actually very good to find.