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Felt a weird tremor in my floor, and neighbor felt it too
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I live in the upstairs half of a 75 year old house that was built and lived in by my landlord's parents. They lived here, died here. I have never suspected they're still hanging around. No indications. However, there is a cemetery, within view from my little outdoor landing, on the opposite side of this block.
I was sitting at my kitchen table, which sits against a wall, as this "apartment" is small, reading a book and waiting on some food i had in the oven. I've got my feet on the floor. I have a few random things on the table. Fridge is across from me, but not touching the table. As I was sitting her, I felt a weird tremor in the floor, with my feet, that made the table shake. It felt as though the floor were moving, like someone had walked by, or maybe the house was shifting. Things on the table clinked, so i know I wasn't crazy. Shortly after this, my refrigerator started up. So it was not the fridge. Really weird.
About 5 minutes later, my neighbor calls up through the floor at me to ask if I want some food, so I go down to meet him for it. I ask him if he was doing anything with the wall or ceiling just a bit ago, and he says no, but he was sitting on the couch in his living room, and felt the couch move. I don't know anything about the layout downstairs, but this is weird. The only thing that moved in my apartment was the table and the floor beneath it, like it warped. I have some mugs and pretties that are hanging, and nothing else around my kitchen was moving or clinking when it happened. He told me it could be something to do with "the dead people across the street, I used to see em." Okay. That was unexpected. I definitely considered paranormal activity, but I haven't witnessed anything, just the occaasional general discomfort late at night when I turn all the lights off.
Sorry if I got disorganized in my recounting. I live in Wisconsin, btw, so I feel like an earth quake is fairly out of question, especially since nothing else was disturbed. What could be a possible explanation for the weird shaking we felt, that didn't upset any other parts of our house? Paranormal or logical? I have not experienced anything weird like this until now. Thanks for your input!
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I can tell you its not due to living next to a cemetary. Old houses do settle at times, a creaking or a tiny sound and lots less of movement like you mention. It does however sound more like the earth shifting or moving as in an earthquake.
Earthquakes can occur in minor bits like you felt if the house is anywhere near a fault line. A fault line would be a place where a break or fracture in the ground occurs when the Earth's tectonic plates move or shift and are areas where earthquakes may happen. I have twice felt the minor thing you mention and both times were a minor fault line. Something that rarely shifts but has been there in the earth for eons. Once time I was sitting on a chair at a table at a restaurant with hubby and his friend from California. All of a sudden I felt dizzy, like I couldn't sit straight. NOthing on the table was clinking. There was nothing bouncing or jumping. It only lasted seconds but I clutched the table edge hoping and took a deep breath, honestly thinking I was ill. When I felt better again, I looked across the table at the California friend and he was smiling. "You felt that earthquake, didn't you?" My husband said, 'There was no earthquake' but the friend point up at the hanging lantern and it was swinging slightly. "Yes there was."
Another was when we were up in Canada. I was sitting again at a table. Hubby was in bed resting. The chair I sat on was kind of wobbly to begin with having loose joints. So when I felt the rolling side to side movement, I thought the chair was falling apart on me. It lasted again briefly. A resident of the area checked on everyone and we were told this rarely happens there, only once before in their lifetime and not to worry about more.
I also have read about the practice of fracking, drilling for oil through out the U.S. and in some cases it causes the ground to shift for a second or two causing a mild rippling of the ground as it resettles. It could be that if not on a fault line or near one, that the ground was settling from fracking that occurred somewhere in the general area. So don't worry, nothing paranormal there.
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