Mumbling Lady

Mumbling Lady
as told by
Brian Barnett
Sometime late September, maybe early October of 2011, my family (Stephanie, Sebastian and Michael) were all in bed. It was relatively late and I was still up, which is not uncommon, but in this particular incident I was waiting for the dryer to stop running.
The house was quiet, the TV was off, no music was playing, everyone but me was asleep. I can’t remember what exactly I was doing, downloading ebooks for my phone, perhaps playing Angry Birds, but whatever it was, it was a quiet activity. That’s when I heard something strange.
I heard what I swore (and to this day still swear) sounded just like a woman’s voice. I couldn’t quite make out what was said, but it was definitely speech. It was muffled, perhaps through the walls, or maybe it was just someone’s mumbling voice. For a second or two I was confused. I checked my phone and my wife’s phone to see if any music videos or what-have-you was playing. But there was nothing. Then something happened that really floored me.
My son, Michael (who was 3 at the time), from his bedroom and while still sleeping, said “is that mommy?”
That was the last of the noises. I checked through the house, knowing I wouldn’t find anything, but just to be sure I checked anyway. Nothing more happened that night.
However in the morning, more weirdness went on. It was very early in the morning and Steph asked me to hand over her phone from the nightstand. I did, and she fussed at me for not charging it during the night. I knew for a fact that it had been charging, since I had to unplug it to hand it to her. So I handed her my phone instead. It was nearly dead too, and it too had been charging all night. 
So, naturally I checked out the house to see if the power had gone out for an extended enough period of time to allow for the phones not to charge throughout the night. All the appliances were running and all the clocks had the correct time.
A few days later we found out through Steph’s Granny that the lady who lived in the house before us had died somewhat recently.
I can’t say for sure what happened that night, but it sure got my blood racing. To date, nothing new has happened in relation to that night.
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