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Post by carson on May 26, 2008 7:46:10 GMT -11
We have had my husband's parents' anniversary clock for about a year now. (His dad has passed and his mom is in a retirement home) The clock is very pretty, but it has never worked. It has chimes and a pendulum, but we could never get it to run. You have to wind it with a key, and I think we did wind it when we got it, but nothing ever happened. UNTIL TODAY. My husband got up this morning and went out in the dining room to eat breakfast, and he heard a ticking noise, and when he looked over, the clock was running! It's still running as I type this. Also, we have a wall clock from his parents, and it runs, and the chimes work. We got annoyed with the chimes, so we quit winding them. For several months it was quiet, and then one night at 11:00 it began chiming, and chimed every fifteen minutes all night long. Needless to say, I was freaked out. So my husband bent the hammer on the chimes to make them stop. But you can still hear a "clunk" every fifteen minutes, as though the hammer is trying to hit the chimes but can't. Just a spooky story for the day.
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Post by «Foz» on May 26, 2008 7:48:23 GMT -11
We had some weird stuff happen with clocks when my grandparents passed away. When my grandma died, a clock at their house stopped at the same time she died. The same thing happened with a clock at my parents house when my grandpa died. Both clocks were made by my grandpa.
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Post by carson on May 26, 2008 7:53:48 GMT -11
That IS interesting! Incidentally, my husband's brother got married yesterday. Maybe we were supposed to give the clock to him as a gift.
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Post by «Foz» on May 26, 2008 7:55:24 GMT -11
Maybe?
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Post by krystalmoore1986 on May 26, 2008 8:02:31 GMT -11
I believe you there is an uneasy feeling when you deal with clocks that have a mind of their own. This is my personal experience I had with a clock. It always baffled me because it seemed like I was supposed to know something but I don't know who was trying to tell me because the woman who passed in this story was still alive when the clock moved. So who moved it, a loved one of mine who had passed or a loved one of hers who wanted to make sure she wasnt alone at that time?
So when I worked at an alzheimers care facility I was going to do my 2 am rounds with the one other employee in my building named darrell. I went into my med cart and got out this womans morphine. She was a very sweet woman on hospice and had been declining for a while and was expected to pass at any time. Darrell was coming out of the room next to me and I knocked on the door softly and opened it. Now being a med aide you have to be very precise on time and I cant wear a watch because of how much I wash my hands and it will get in the way of gloves, also I could scratch or tear the skin of a resident while rolling or dressing them. So anyways I opened the door and to my left was the way from her living room to her bedroom. Also on my left on the same wall as the door was a clock. So right as I opened the door I looked at the clock as I was opening the door and I let out a very loud shriek. Darrell was about ten feet away in the outer hall and ran up to me because he thought I had found the lady fallen out of bed. When I had looked at the clock the hands were rotating forward in time extremely fast around and around for about 6 seconds. They stopped at 4 o clock exactly. The clock was no longer ticking at all. It just stopped. We tried changing the batteryt and made sure it wasn't a sattelite adjusting clock it wasn't. Darrel didnt see it move. He got in there right after. The hands were already spinning when I made eye contact with the clock. I was really shaken and out of sorts and Darrel was a good friend and knew I wasn't lying. We didn't change the time and hung the clock back up. Left it alone. So at 3:45 am we went in there and sat. The clock was at the right time again and ticking. We were afraid she was going to pass at 4. But nothing happened she was fine all night. The next day at 10 pm I got to work to hear she had passed. During charting the next morning I read her chart (they are in a spiral notebook together) and hospice had sat with her while she passed. At 4pm exactly she took her last breath. Strange and true story.
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Post by CougarBob on May 26, 2008 8:14:26 GMT -11
Wow, Krystal, that got the hairs on the back of my neck standing at attention. ROFL
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Post by carson on May 26, 2008 12:25:24 GMT -11
YIKES!
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Post by hoobsmom on May 26, 2008 12:27:57 GMT -11
Yeah that was one creepy clock story.
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Post by xXSpookyXx on May 26, 2008 12:48:50 GMT -11
I've heard of a lot of strange cases involving clocks, as well as phones too.
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Post by ♥~KarinaKay~♥ on May 26, 2008 14:04:53 GMT -11
I once had a clock that started running backwards, and kept it up for over two hours. I figured it was probably some sort of sign, but had no clue what it meant. But I had that "creeped out" feeling.
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Post by literarysnob on May 26, 2008 15:32:52 GMT -11
It depends on when the clock was made and if it was electric. My father bought his parents a clock with a horse and if you pluged it in one way the clock ran backwards, but, it you turned the plug around it would run the correct direction. He purchased that clock in 1951.
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Post by ♥~KarinaKay~♥ on May 27, 2008 0:12:54 GMT -11
It depends on when the clock was made and if it was electric. My father bought his parents a clock with a horse and if you pluged it in one way the clock ran backwards, but, it you turned the plug around it would run the correct direction. He purchased that clock in 1951. Really? Cool! I want one ;D Mine was a plain jane battery operated.
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Post by CougarBob on May 27, 2008 2:56:51 GMT -11
It depends on when the clock was made and if it was electric. My father bought his parents a clock with a horse and if you pluged it in one way the clock ran backwards, but, it you turned the plug around it would run the correct direction. He purchased that clock in 1951. Really? Cool! I want one ;D
Mine was a plain jane battery operated. Maybe you had the batteries in backward, Karina? ;D
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Post by ♥~KarinaKay~♥ on May 27, 2008 3:03:29 GMT -11
Really? Cool! I want one ;D
Mine was a plain jane battery operated. Maybe you had the batteries in backward, Karina? ;DThat's it!! Mystery solved ;D
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Post by CougarBob on May 27, 2008 3:12:07 GMT -11
That's it!! Mystery solved ;D Are you kidding me?
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