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Strange experience I had at bedtime last night and early this morning… I was sitting in the upstairs of my house.  My kitties were downstairs and down the hall, the doorway that leads to the stairway was closed, so no chance they could have been up…  So I’m lying there making ready for sleep when I hear quite clearly “knock knock.”  Two confident taps on my bedroom door.  I got a little weirded out - there’s nothing in the hall that could have done that.  It wasn’t a windy night.  I got up and opened the door… nothing.  Nobody there.  I figured, ok, maybe two acorns fell on the skylight close to the door and promptly went to sleep.

The really odd part was at 3:30 AM I was awoken from sleep by some troubled feelings… I wasn’t quite wide awake, but half-conscious, embroiled in a mesh of thoughts.  What completely woke me was the sound of two taps on my door. Knock knock.  Again.  Confident, dispassionate, but clearly meant to wake me.  I turned on the light and opened the door… again, nobody there.  And I think if had been another couple of acorns from the roof in the exact same place and the exact same rhythm that would be magically bizarre. 

Well, I made it through the night.  But what were those knocks?