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Imagine you are sitting in your house in the evening, drinking tea and enjoying the silence and warmth. But suddenly someone knocks loudly on your front door three times. You ask "Who is there?" and you are not answered, and when you open the door, it’s empty …
All over the world, different cultures have their own superstitions, the most ominous of which relate to the omens of Death. And the most famous among them are the so-called "Death Strikes" or "Knocking Death".
A huge number of tales are associated with this phenomenon and it seems that these are not just horror stories for the night to intimidate children, but something based on real events.
In the most common form, "Death Strikes" is called persistent knocking on the front door (more often at night), and when the owner of the house opens the door, then no one is on the doorstep. It is believed that it was Death who entered and that someone who heard her knocking would soon die in the house.
The timing of the fulfillment of this gloomy prophecy among the people has different options, sometimes three days, sometimes three weeks or three months. Sometimes there is an explanation of the connection with the number "3", supposedly it is Death's mockery of the divine Holy Trinity (Paranormal News -
Superstitions about Death Strikes are surprisingly widespread. They are found both in Europe and in Africa, Asia or among the Indians of North America. For example, among the American Indians, it was believed that if they hear three hits on the drum or three hits with a heavy stick on the ground and do not find the source of these sounds, then it means Death itself was knocking and soon someone would suddenly die.
In Ireland and Scotland, the tapping of Death was considered to be a blow to the windows of a house. If there were three knocks and the knocks were repeated regularly for 2-4 minutes, then this was considered an omen of serious illness or death.
Similar superstitions exist in Arab and Jewish traditions, and there, depending on the culture, genies, evil spirits, demons, or the Devil himself were considered the culprits.
All this may seem like hopelessly outdated superstitions, much like the Slavic superstitions associated with life in a village house, but there are also enough modern stories about the Death Strikes. One of them was, for example, published on the LiveAbout website. According to an eyewitness, it happened one cold winter evening at their home in a remote rural area. There, even during the day, you hardly meet people, and at night it is completely empty for many miles around.
“That evening we were all gathered in the living room when we suddenly heard a loud knock on the front entrance door. This door had long been covered with snow and therefore we did not open it using another entrance. It was also not lit at night. So it all seemed to us suspicious, while knocking on the door continued and were persistent.
My mom cautiously approached the door and asked, "Who's there?" No one answered, but continued to knock. Then my mother began to tell the knocker to go to another door, which is on the side of the house. Again no one answered, but knocked again. Then my mother finally turned on the light above the front door and looked into the side window, from where the threshold of the front door could be seen. It was completely empty.
And it's not just empty. There were no tracks in the freshly fallen snow that led to this door. Then my mother turned to us and said, "This means that someone in our family is going to die soon."My dad was skeptical and said to this that most likely it was the wind knocking. But the next morning they called us and said that our uncle Charlie had died unexpectedly that night."
The following story implies that the mysterious knocks may be associated with anomalous locations. This story came from an unnamed California resident on Reddit. One day she went on vacation and stopped in a resort town on the ocean. Here her sister lived with her husband in the same house, and a woman named Jill lived in the same house with her husband.
This Jill used to have a friend who a year before was very drunk and fell into a snowdrift on the street. She was covered with snow and she froze to death. Since then, Jill has flatly refused alcohol, although before she was also a big drinker, and even to beer did not touch.
And so on 3 or 4 weeks of my stay at my sister's house, we sat in the evening with my sister and watched the horror movie "Babaduk". It was getting late - about 1 or 2 am, when the movie ended and we went to bed. Jill and her husband were not in the house at the time; they had gone on a camping trip in those days.
But as soon as we turned off the light, there were three loud and distinct blows. I asked my sister if she had heard, and she nodded and said that maybe it was the dryer upstairs rattling. At the same time, the dryer was completely new and I had never heard of it rattling. We went to bed again, but after 10 minutes the same three loud knocks were heard again. Now they were like knocks on the door.
I won't paint too much, but this house had a reputation for being paranormal before. There, things moved by themselves, lamps lit up without human intervention, and strange blood stains appeared on some objects. Therefore, I concluded that perhaps due to watching a horror movie in the house, another incomprehensible force was activated.
Days passed, Jill and her husband had time to return from the hike, and then I packed my things and went home. And two days after that, Jill was found dead in her room. The pathologist said that she died of alcohol intoxication because she suddenly took a large dose of alcohol. It was strange and incomprehensible, because she was so proud of her sobriety, nothing indicated such a denouement."
The following story was told on LiveAbout by user Christopher. According to him, there were as many as three cases in his family when, after mysterious knocks, one of his relatives died. The first occurred when Christopher was still a child and was sitting at home with his grandmother. Suddenly, he and his grandmother heard three loud knocks, which came as if from nowhere and were heard throughout the house. His great-aunt died shortly thereafter.
The second incident happened when he was older and was sitting at home with his father. He and his father immediately heard three knocks so strong that they seemed to shake the whole house. And just hours after that, Christopher's cousin died of a cocaine overdose.
The third incident occurred when he was already an adult and was sitting alone at home one evening with his dog. Someone knocked loudly on the door three times, but when Christopher opened it, the doorway was empty. Just an hour after that, his dog died suddenly from unexplained reasons.
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