楊秋香
Before entering senior high school, I hardly believed the existence of
the supernatural. But ever since something happened to me, I have
realized that there is something out there.
During my
first winter vacation of senior high school, I planned to take a trip
with my classmates. Two weeks later, we started
this
journey
with detailed arrangement.
On the
first night, we moved into a room on the 11th floor of the local hotel.
That night several of us, including me, took the king sized bed and the
rest three, including Selena, slept on the floor. At about three in the
morning, I woke up to find Selena sitting up beside me on the bed.
I asked,
"What's wrong?"
She said,
"There's someone knocking on our door."
"How long
has it been going on?"
"Five, ten
minutes or so."
I kept
quiet and listened carefully. There was an intermittent knocking coming
from somewhere outside the room or next door. It was not very loud at
that time. Of course, the thought of a supernatural origin crossed my
mind, but being a skeptic, I』d rather tell my friend, "Someone next door
is doing something. It doesn't sound like it's on our door. Go back to
sleep."
As soon as
I said that, the knocking sound increased in volume. This time it
sounded as if it was indeed at our door. I leapt out of bed and went to
the peephole. The knocking suddenly stopped the moment I looked into the
peephole. In my heart, I knew I wouldn't see anything and as a matter of
fact, I saw nothing. The corridor was brightly lighted and there was no
one there. I went back to the bed and told my friend to do so as well.
With that, I turned on my side and closed my eyes. After a minute or
two, the knocking started again, loud, soft, interval, soft, loud.
I said a
prayer. "Lord God, whatever it is, please make it go away and don't let
it bother us. We have a long day ahead tomorrow." And then I fell
asleep. My friend said that knocking stopped not long after I winked
off.
We
checked out the next morning and continued our trip. When I returned
home, I told my parents about the incident and my mother said that she
would ask my aunt who used to be in the management team of that place. A
week later my mother came back to me with another story from that same
room.
「There was
once a guest of the hotel who went to the reception desk after a night's
stay and asked, 『Why does your hotel staff clean the windows at
midnight? It's really disturbing.』
The
receptionist was stunned but recovered soon enough to apologize for the
inconvenience. Of course, the truth was there was no window cleaning at
night. The guest must have heard something else knocking on his window
that night.