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Just finished watching old Survivor episodes at 10 pm with the dog and cat on the back of the couch above me. Both pets and I all jump up when we hear someone banging around on the front porch. Sounded like a heavy person ran up the steps and landed on the deck. Dog barking, cats eyes all bugged out looking outside, hair on my neck standing up.
Followed the dog out (armed of course!) and made the usual laps, but she never hit any scent or flushed anything. Searched the house when we returned, no bogeys indoors. We live on 5 acres in the country, nobody drove up the road, neighbors all good. No debris on the porch a raccoon would want, etc.
First time it happened was about 9 years ago wife and I both heard someone walking across deck, jumped up nobody there. Happened a few times since then, but honestly usually happens when I'm out hunting or some such, so figured it might be my wife's imagination. No mistaking this one though.
I have no explanation. Both pets heard it plain as day too. Ever happen to anyone else? Definitely heightens the senses.
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When I was a kid we lived in a wood frame house. During the summer months the frame would expand during the heat of day and shrink late at night. As it shrank you'd hear a popping noise , sometimes a rat-a-tat-tat noise as though someone was in the attic.
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Trail cams or security cam system could end the speculation.
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Just finished watching old Survivor episodes at 10 pm with the dog and cat on the back of the couch above me. Both pets and I all jump up when we hear someone banging around on the front porch. Sounded like a heavy person ran up the steps and landed on the deck. Dog barking, cats eyes all bugged out looking outside, hair on my neck standing up.
Followed the dog out (armed of course!) and made the usual laps, but she never hit any scent or flushed anything. Searched the house when we returned, no bogeys indoors. We live on 5 acres in the country, nobody drove up the road, neighbors all good. No debris on the porch a raccoon would want, etc.
First time it happened was about 9 years ago wife and I both heard someone walking across deck, jumped up nobody there. Happened a few times since then, but honestly usually happens when I'm out hunting or some such, so figured it might be my wife's imagination. No mistaking this one though.
I have no explanation. Both pets heard it plain as day too. Ever happen to anyone else? Definitely heightens the senses. Weird. When wood beams are under pressure, and start to break, they will sometimes make a sound like that, but that doesn't sound like your situation.
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The first apartment I moved into had had some party kids living in it before me. My understanding is they grew some weed in there and had to leave in a hurry as the local police were showing interest in having a little Come to Jesus with them. About the third night I was in there, two kids came knocking on the door at about 2:30 in the morning after the bars started closing. I had no idea who they were or why they were knocking on my door. I rolled out of bed, hit the floor and racked the 870 all in one motion. They took off like a couple of turpentined cats. Never had a lick of trouble after that. They damned hear got hit by a car when they ran across the street, as I heard breaks skidding, and some choice invective's hurled their way as they hit the street.
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Just a thought, maybe an owl chasing some small critter that had mishap, but was able to fly away??
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Watching Survivor?? You turn in your man card? 
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Muleshoe is SO off base, I too am a Survivor Freak!
Strange, but as I was reading this, my dog just let off at the front door, and there's no one there either... Happens sometimes..
And these zombies line up and eat from the media’s trough
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The first apartment I moved into had had some party kids living in it before me. My understanding is they grew some weed in there and had to leave in a hurry as the local police were showing interest in having a little Come to Jesus with them. About the third night I was in there, two kids came knocking on the door at about 2:30 in the morning after the bars started closing. I had no idea who they were or why they were knocking on my door. I rolled out of bed, hit the floor and racked the 870 all in one motion. They took off like a couple of turpentined cats. Never had a lick of trouble after that. They damned hear got hit by a car when they ran across the street, as I heard breaks skidding, and some choice invective's hurled their way as they hit the street. I guess it's true what they say about the sound of a pump shotgun having its action racked.
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Sometime the squirrels that infest by yard and trees make kamikaze runs across my deck (breeding season or some such thing). I have several times mistaken this bounding/running event as a person walking on the deck. I seen them to this jump, bound, run thing several times and wonder(ed) at how such a small critter can make such a heavy/loud sound on the deck.
I also have a coon that raids my dog and cat food dishes left out on the deck... I believe that coon gets on the rail and dives headfirst into the kibble and water... loudest damn thump ever, generally all I find in my search is a set of fresh wet coon tracks.
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Muleshoe is SO off base, I too am a Survivor Freak! I too watch it. If you are a people watcher, this show will make you wonder what some of these people are thinking. They will try to explain but most times it makes no sense, except the paranoia. miles
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Made me think of the old colored people around here that would bury tire in the ground and paint the top half white. Paint the first 4-5' of,a tree white too.
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Made me think of the old colored people around here that would bury tire in the ground and paint the top half white. Paint the first 4-5' of,a tree white too. When I was a youngster, the town 4 miles south had big native Elms on both sides of main street. They would whitewash the trunks every year. Then the Dutch Elm disease got them all. People said they did it for bugs.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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