In 1990, I had a great uncle who passed away from a sudden heart attack. In his will he left a massive antique carved oak grandfather clock to my parents. According to the brass plate inside the pendulum box it was handmade in Germany around 1888 so it's over 100 years old. We rarely wound it because when it chimed it was loud enough to reverberate across the entire house. It was a creepy, low chime too.
Now let me get to the point: we have not used this clock since New Year's Eve in 1996. We have not wound it or tampered with it in any way. So not that long ago, in the middle of the night, the clock loudly chimed 12 times by itself! (My sister says 13 but I only heard 12). We got a phone call less than an hour later that a close friend of the family had suffered a miscarriage and lost her unborn child. We were all devastated by the news because she practically grew up in our house.
My mom once said that in her will she'll leave the clock to me someday. I'm not so sure I want it now.
So my question is: could our clock be haunted?
Now let me get to the point: we have not used this clock since New Year's Eve in 1996. We have not wound it or tampered with it in any way. So not that long ago, in the middle of the night, the clock loudly chimed 12 times by itself! (My sister says 13 but I only heard 12). We got a phone call less than an hour later that a close friend of the family had suffered a miscarriage and lost her unborn child. We were all devastated by the news because she practically grew up in our house.
My mom once said that in her will she'll leave the clock to me someday. I'm not so sure I want it now.
So my question is: could our clock be haunted?
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I do believe in ghosts, but I kind of doubt your grandfather clock is one of them.
Grandfather clocks are mechanical pieces, operated by springs and gravity itself. There are springs in there that never lose their tension, not even after a century or two. Clockmakers were (still are) a very precise and exacting bunch who took great pride in their work, so your clock was built to last almost forever.
It's not at all uncommon for an old clock to chime at random, especially if it's been sitting unused for a long time. Remember the spring-tension thing. It's one of those things that just happens sometimes.
The timing of the chimes that one time is interesting, but probably unconnected. If (just for example) your clock went off every time something bad happened to someone close to your family, that would be something. But one time isn't enough to draw any conclusions from, especially when the time before that (the middle of the night) it didn't seem to be connected to anything.
I believe in ghosts, but I also believe in coincidences. I've seen both.
Grandfather clocks are mechanical pieces, operated by springs and gravity itself. There are springs in there that never lose their tension, not even after a century or two. Clockmakers were (still are) a very precise and exacting bunch who took great pride in their work, so your clock was built to last almost forever.
It's not at all uncommon for an old clock to chime at random, especially if it's been sitting unused for a long time. Remember the spring-tension thing. It's one of those things that just happens sometimes.
The timing of the chimes that one time is interesting, but probably unconnected. If (just for example) your clock went off every time something bad happened to someone close to your family, that would be something. But one time isn't enough to draw any conclusions from, especially when the time before that (the middle of the night) it didn't seem to be connected to anything.
I believe in ghosts, but I also believe in coincidences. I've seen both.
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ya it's me
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i have ghosts in my pants. one looks like it's pitching a tent right now