...There arose such a clatter
So last Wednesday I'm lounging on the couch, it was about 3am, and I hear this thundering boom followed by a clatter. I guessed mom had fallen and taken something heavy with her, like the bureau mirror or something. She was asleep when I checked on her. The room was in order. I checked the kitchen and bathroom, all okay. Could I have drifted off for a moment and been dreaming? Pretty vivid flash-dream, but I couldn't find anything unusual anywhere, so I went back to the couch.
About 2 hours later I was sleepy enough to go to bed, so I go to my room and find two pictures have fallen off the wall behind my bed and my pillow covered with an odd powdery substance. The whole top portion of the bed is powdered, and the carpeting beneath the window, my dresser, the window sill, my shoes. This powder had a grainy feel and smelled of chemicals. I inspected the ceiling and walls for obvious cracks or ....something. I checked my bedroom window, which I keep open about 2 inches during the cold months. The screen was locked.
I got a flashlight, put on a jacket and my boots, and went outside to investigate. Walking down the side of the house toward my bedroom window, I find a trail of that powder. It thickens as I get closer to my window. I shine the light on the side of the house, the adjoining lot, the backyard; nothing unusual. I lower my flashlight and, lying on the ground just beneath my window, I see a large fire extinguisher. And the only footprints in the chemical dust were mine.
It was the creepiest thing I've ever seen. Certainly the most mysterious....
From a distance, someone chucked a fully loaded, set-to-spray fire extinguisher at my house? And it sprayed right in through 2 inches of open window? What in the hell? Volunteer 3am fireman? I didn't even have a candle burning.
About 2 hours later I was sleepy enough to go to bed, so I go to my room and find two pictures have fallen off the wall behind my bed and my pillow covered with an odd powdery substance. The whole top portion of the bed is powdered, and the carpeting beneath the window, my dresser, the window sill, my shoes. This powder had a grainy feel and smelled of chemicals. I inspected the ceiling and walls for obvious cracks or ....something. I checked my bedroom window, which I keep open about 2 inches during the cold months. The screen was locked.
I got a flashlight, put on a jacket and my boots, and went outside to investigate. Walking down the side of the house toward my bedroom window, I find a trail of that powder. It thickens as I get closer to my window. I shine the light on the side of the house, the adjoining lot, the backyard; nothing unusual. I lower my flashlight and, lying on the ground just beneath my window, I see a large fire extinguisher. And the only footprints in the chemical dust were mine.
It was the creepiest thing I've ever seen. Certainly the most mysterious....
From a distance, someone chucked a fully loaded, set-to-spray fire extinguisher at my house? And it sprayed right in through 2 inches of open window? What in the hell? Volunteer 3am fireman? I didn't even have a candle burning.