What the heck just happened in my basement?
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Anonymous
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We have a long, unfinished, large closet of sorts in our basement (about 10’ wide x 40’ long.) No windows in that room, no HVAC currently running in the house, door solidly in the middle of the long wall.
On one end, I was sitting on the floor, quietly sorting through a storage box. I was there about five/ten minutes when suddenly on the complete other side of the room, the hangers on an open wardrobe-type clothes rack started clanking, clearly swaying side to side. I was a good 30’ away. Is my house possessed? In all seriousness, what the heck could have caused them to move of their own volition? There is no real air flow other than one air vent, which as I said wasn’t on. What the heck just happened in my basement? |
Anonymous
| rodent escaping |
Anonymous
| animal of some sort. |
Anonymous
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You could check earthquake activity. We do occasionally have tremors in the DC area. The strongest one recently was in 2011: our brick chimney cracked and needed repair.
If not that, maybe it was a grasshopper/cricket hanging out on the hangers, and it jumped and caused them to swing? |
Anonymous
| Did somebody shut a door or walk heavily elsewhere in the house? Vibrations travel. |
Anonymous
| Are you in Georgetown? |
Anonymous
| Truck or helicopter? |
Anonymous
OP here and I really don’t think so. There is nothing on that side of the room but the metal racks, no clothes, and he would have had no place to hide. Also, no evidence of a pest. |
Anonymous
| Traffic of some kind. I lived over a subway line and my bed would shake around 4 am every morning. I was convinced the house was possessed but it was just the early morning trains. |
Anonymous
OP here and you may have solved the mystery! |
Anonymous
| If earlier someone hung a jacket or something else up haphazardly, it might have slipped off the hanger. |