Have you ever seen that movie, The Entity? That is one scary movie right there, one that I should never, ever have watched years ago. Having a vivid imagination and being one who might occasionally overreact, I was certain that the rumbling I felt in my bed at 5:40 AM last Friday was definitely an evil ghost who’d come to get me.
Luckily for me it was JUST an earthquake.
First I heard a very odd noise coming from the baby monitor, a noise that certainly wasn’t my children, but an eerie low frequency NON-HUMAN sounding something. Obviously when I put all the facts together moments after the rumbling that fully awakened me, I positively KNEW that I was living with a ghost (or ghosts plural.)
I immediately turned on every light, running frantically away from my bedroom and the ghost or ghosts plural. Finding my cell phone, I fumbled to find Tate’s number and call him. He’s a man! He could help beat the ghosts! Or something.
When I finally got ahold of Tate seconds later, I explained the situation and my fear of our unwelcome guests ghost(s).
“There was this rumbling that started at the bottom of the bed! And! I could hear it over the baby monitor! And!!! I could feel an energy in the room. We have an infestation of ghosts! I know we do, I just know it. I’m not crazy, Tate.”
After repeating the above sentences about ten times to REALLY! GET! MY! POINT! ACROSS!, Tate asked if I had considered that it might be an earthquake.
I, obviously, thought that the possibility of an earthquake was downright WACKO. A ghost or ghosts plural was a much more viable possibility.
But apparently, as it turns out, it was indeed an earthquake–an earthquake I BARELY survived.
I also narrowly escaped death once before when I was woken up by an earthquake in Knoxville. Now I can say I’ve survived TWO earthquakes and that makes me, like, really cool.
Of course the idea of ghost(s) was more probable than an earthquake. You live in the midwest now.
Congrats on surviving two earthquakes; should we expect a TV movie soon? (:
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You’re the coolest earthquake survivor I know!
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Hahahahahaha!
We had 2 earthquakes here in Iowa last Friday, and everyone was talking about at work. I was like, “Um, what?”
One I slept through, and one I actually worked through.
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Considering I’m 6 months pregnant and my unborn son is sitting incredibly low, there is no doubt in my mind that I would have peed myself. Probably more than once.
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That is incredible! Two of the places I would have thought would be totally unlikely to be hit by an earthquake!! CRAZY!
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earthquakes totally freak me out. I check glasses of water to see if there is actual shaking (or if I only passed gas or something) for a couple of days after one happens.
And the baby monitors? That movie “Signs” ruined baby monitors FOREVER for me. Can’t use the things.
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Even after “officials” have declared it an earthquake, I’m still going with ghosts. Indiana doesn’t get earthquakes, I just don’t care what anyone says.
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I’ll never forget the first earthquake I was in when I lived in Seattle. I freaked out and braced myself in the doorway, waiting anxiously for my apartment to come tumbling down around me. My ex, a native, kept watching TV and laughing at me. “It’s not a big one,” he said with assurance. And it wasn’t . . .by HIS standards.
But as an east coaster, I thought I would have a nervous breakdown. I think you handled yourself really well.
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That was clearly a close call. Heh.
Still, an earthquake? That’s insane, even if it’s a mild one.
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I’d rather it be an earthquake than ghosts. People here in Northern AL claimed they felt it too. I didn’t though, so who knows…
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I live a few states away, and even I woke up with the (minimal) shaking. And I thought I must have been losing my mind. Because really? An earthquake in KS? I know that the largest fault line in the country runs through the midwest, but it is INACTIVE.
Does the earth not realize that sleep is a precious commodity that should NEVER be interrupted?!
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You’ve ALWAYS been totally cool…:P
But I survived the earthquake(s)…or ghosts if you prefer…too. Does that make me cool too? I’ve always wanted to be
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LOL I have never experienced and earthquake…so I would be on the ghost boat with you.
And yes, that movie is freaky.
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This was about the 3rd earthquake (in the last 2ish years) that we’ve been able to feel here. I slept through them all.
So, do you feel better that it was an earthquake rather than ghosts?
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We’ve had 2 earthquakes in NH since I’ve been living here. HEY! I’ve got an idea for a new button!! LOL
I am glad that you didn’t have pesky ghosts running around.
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EEK! Ghosts! I totally see why you thought it might be an “entity”. Glad it was only a quake!
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Yep, pretty sure you should still be on the lookout for ghosts. Who EVER heard of earthquakes in the midwest?
And I LOVE that you called your hubby as if he could do anything over the phone. I do that for all sorts of things, but for some reason he doesn’t usually care.
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That same earthquake woke me up too the other night. I’d never felt one before. I thought, “hum, that has to be an earthquake” and went back to sleep. have I mentioned what a good sleeper I am?
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DON’T move to California. We have LOTS of ghosts here.
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Everyone talked about feeling the earthquake, even here in Ohio. I was awake when it happened, getting ready for my clinical, and I didn’t feel a damn thing. I guess I’m not that sensitive?
And of course you thought it was ghosts first – why would you think there was an earthquake in the midwest?
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Yep, we had them here in STL too, I think they said we have had a total of 11 aftershocks. I’ve only felt/seen a few of them though. The dogs have been way freaked out though. VERY clingy and whiney. They actually woke me up before the “big one” hit last Friday morning.
Yep, we had them here in STL too, I think they said we have had a total of 11 aftershocks. I’ve only felt/seen a few of them though. The dogs have been way freaked out though. VERY clingy and whiney. They actually woke me up before the “big one” hit last Friday morning.
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You were cool long before you survived the earthquake. Glad it wasn’t a pesky ghost(s)!
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I’m so glad you’re okay!
Glad it wasn’t ghosts either!
Earthquakes are second-nature to us Californians…I was in a driver’s ed car when the Loma Prieta hit in 1989, that was freaky!
When we break off the coast of CA, i’ll invite you to my island!
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Shit, thems shits were ghosts…I know it.
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I’m still mad that I slept through it. Although I did wake up at 4:40 and think, “Why am I up?” And went back to sleep. So it must have woke me up, but not enough for me to realize it was an earthquake. Darn.
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Ha ha ha!
My sister in law said the same exact thing!!! She called me later that morning, and told me that the first thing running through her mind was that it was her dog running around, and her next thought was that it was surely a ghost, since the dog wouldn’t make so much commotion. ha ha! She said she even swore the room got colder! Too funny!
They do sound pretty ghosty…
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Let’s just hope that it stops at two. Otherwise you will be like the Jessica Fletcher of Tornados…Everywhere that woman goes someone drops dead or is murdered. Any more funnel action for you and weather guys from some government agency will show up in white suits and start scanning you to death!
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lol…CLEARLY you’re an extremly lucky person to survive two close calls like that.
I was beginning to think I was the ONLY PERSON in at least two states not to feel the earthquake or any of the aftershocks. I’m happy to read other commenters didn’t either.
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It’s me again. Tagged you for a meme, not too hard, kinda cute.
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HAHAHAHAHAH! And a big snort! My favorite was the “Really, I’m not crazy!” I use that line all the time! I’m very glad that you all are okay and aren’t living with ghosts.
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YAY on surviving a second Earthquake!
Does this mean no ghosts or just that they’re still being quiet?
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Okay. Where the heck was Tate at 5:40 a.m.?? That’s crazy early.
So glad you survived the ghosts…em…earthquakes.
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I felt it in St. Louis and it freaked. me. out.
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I guess it doesn’t take much to kill you then does it?
Ya, we had an earthquake in Texas almost 15 years ago. I was in bed and the dog just started getting really nervous. I didn’t feel anything, but turned on the news and caught the story about an earthquake a couple hundred miles away.
~Jef
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You are a hero – 2 earthquakes…unbelievable.
I’m currently under about 2 feet of snow….at the END of APRIL…that’s what we get up here…no earthquakes.
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“He’s a man! He could help beat the ghosts! ”
Favorite line EVER.
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Hi! I tagged you to do a new “Lemonade Meme”
http://spunkymommy.blogspot.com/2008/04/ode-to-lemons.html
You’re it!
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Well who would’ve thought in the Midwest you’d get an earthquake? The whole Haunted Heartland thing is in 100s of books so far more believable.
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You are cool. And obviously prepared if you ever move to California.
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Wow, can’t wait for the TV movie of the week.
After living in California for 36 years, I’ve gotten to the point of guessing the quake’s magnitude pretty closely. One time we waited until a fairly good sized quake stopped shaking, listened to the planes still taking off at LAX, and went right back to sleep.
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heh. you’d do GREAT in california….
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I would have thought ghosts too. When I am alone, at night, I am scared. Very scaredy catty. I can’t help it, stupid movies! I can’t watch that stuff. Glad I’m not the only one though, I have to say.
I was surprised when I heard about that earthquake! Glad you survived it okay though.
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Earthquakes be damned. You’re cool anyway
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Well Hell’s Bells honey. Glad you’ve survived. Yikes.
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I was there at my mom’s when it happened, it was about 20 min before I got up. I saw it on the news online before I left that morning to come home, and was in awe, I mean, I lived in Indiana for 25 years and never experienced an earthquake before.
I think the news here said we felt a bit of an earthquake here in north AL….I didn’t notice it at all! Glad you survived it!
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We had rats in our attic in our old house. I know it was a ghost. I KNOW it.
Of course, the rat traps worked on the ghosts, soooo…
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That was the best description of an earthwuake I have ever heard! And I grew up living in California next to a graveyard! Love you and your blog!