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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LcKedovan" data-source="post: 1094667" data-attributes="member: 1576">Well, I'll share a story from my past regarding a similar event... well... sort of.When I was in college one evening some years ago my parents had gone away for the weekend, and my brother had gone out for a drinking session with some friends of his. We had two pets, the family Dog and my cat. The Dog was away with my parents. That evening my girlfriend came over for a romantic interlude in my room. I had candles set up and incence etc. So, queue forward a bit in time and the two of us are in the shower. I have just gotten out of the shower and started to towel off when I hear a loud knock (2 or three raps) half way up on the bathroom door. (My girlfriend also heard it) So I shout out "Just a second" expecting it is my brother, back early from his session. I open the door, and nothing but the dark hallway stares back at me. I start shouting for my brother, to no answer. I call for the cat (Bogart, his brother was Humphrey) a few times, thinking it might have been the cat (not halfway up the door, but you never know). I hear the cat come running to his name from all the way downstairs where he had been sleeping.Now I start to get a little spooked, and my GF is also a bit spooked. I still think it is just my brother playing a trick so I go out into the hall, shouting "If you jump out and try to scare me, I am going to beat the hell out of you" (of course I used stronger words etc.). So shouting for my brother I slowly move up the hall towards the bedrooms where he would be hiding if he was trying to scare me. The moment I reach my doorway there is a flash of light in my room at the corner of my eye. As I turn, I realize the monitor on my computer desk has at that moment burst into flames (a candle was too close to it). I run in and somehow manage to blow out the burning side of the computer just using my breath. It wasn't until after calming down and realizing everything was ok did I stop to think about the fact that if the knock on the door had not come, I probably would have burned down the house, or at least had a blaze beyond my control. There were a few other times when we felt something else around, dropping temperature and odd shadows outside, but nothing quite like that again.As a note, the monitor still worked despite the gaping hole in it's side. I kept it as a poignant reminder of why not to leave candles unattended.-W.</blockquote>

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