The whole of today, there has been this sound of a coin dropping on the floor, but when we look around, nothing is found. Holidays are fun but not easy sometimes as the kids even though sweet, have their own wahala and it’s not that easy sometimes. In my house, the whole day today we have been hearing a sound like
as if a coin is dropping on the floor, we’ll look round, see nothing. Sometimes we ask each other “did you drop a coin and everyone says they didn’t, so why the sound? And surprisingly, no one is even bothered or trying to find out what is wrong because of an experience we encountered in the past…
I forgot this story completely but this constant ‘coin dropping’ sound just reminded me of what we went through some months back.
It was a chilling sound but everyone initially felt they were the only ones hearing the cat sound and kept it to themselves and the more we refused to talk about it, the louder the sound became.
For me, my first encounter with the ‘meow’ sound was while arranging pots in the kitchen cabinets. I heard a ‘meow, meow, weow’ three times but very faintly. Looked around the kitchen, there was nothing. I opened the drawers, checked under the kitchen sink, searched every part of the kitchen and found nothing. So, I let it go and continued arranging my kitchen stuff. After about 20 minutes, I heard the sound again and ran out of the kitchen into the bedroom, shut the door ad kept listening. After a little while, I heard the sound again and started praying and firing hot prayers against any force trying to scare me.
After the prayer, I opened the door and waited for my family outside, until they returned and everyone wanted to know why mommy sat outside in the early evening when mosquitoes love to fly and enjoy life around that time. I told them there is a cat hiding in the house and before I even finished talking, the kids chorused a confirmation. Everyone with their story of how they thought their ears were playing tricks on them. Now, daddy is not home and we need someone to be the first to enter the house oh. Who wan gree enter?
That’s how we stayed outside till my husband returned from work and just dismissed it like nothing while marching in, we all hurriedly followed him inside. Fiery prayer that night ehn. The girls and I prayed like never before and went to bed. Before I could shut my eyes to sleep, my last girl tiptoes in to tell me that she’s not going back to her room again because the sound came again. All this while, me, I stopped hearing the meow so, I tried to tell her that we were all wrong that dad is right, convinced her to sleep in her room and she left. Funny enough, that whole night there was no more sound and we all slept well.
The next day, while making breakfast, someone forcefully opened the kitchen door and ran inside breathing like a lizard that has just been removed from a well of water. I didn’t even finish asking what? before she started crying that the cat has now moved to her room and that she heard the sound clearly. We all marched that morning to my kid’s bedroom, sat down held our lips and waited for a whole hour. Nothing! No sound! We waited until we got tired and left without a meow!
We now became worried that the stray cat must be very hungry by now as the sound started to get faint and faint and all this while, the only person that never heard any cat sound was my hubby and there was no way anyone could make him believe that kind of story because ,each time someone tried to explain the mysterious meow sounds, he starts smiling at our ‘foolishness’ and eventually laughs like we are all going crazy and that he’s enjoying the momentary madness from his family.
To cut the meow story short, it continued for days until one morning I just got tired of waiting and became scared that a cat was going to die in the house. I called on some people to climb into the roof, they found nothing. Some went up the wardrobes and then gave a signal that they both heard a sound coming from inside the wardrobe. The wardrobe searched, NOTHING!
That was how we started carrying furniture oh, bed mattress, clothing items and in short that room was cleared within minutes and even while clearing, some said they still heard the meow cat.
I wish I can put down in words good enough to describe how intense that day was. Everything got cleared out , bedroom swept, spring cleaned and mopped yet no cat was found and while we were deciding on how to proceed to start clearing the next room, the people outside ran back inside that the sound was coming from the shoes taken outside. The stress of imagining how a cat will fit into kid’s shoes wasn’t easy for me at all. In short I just said ‘Jesus take the wheel”
So my dear. you know what happened and why the sound? My daughter’s phone had dropped from her hand days back and the screen turned blank. Because she couldn’t see anything, she dropped the blank phone in one of her shoes and forgot about it. Immediately that phone was brought out and switched on, the cat sound became very clear again with the cat looking at us and the phone .battery about to die. The person that brought out the phone unconsciously dropped it again and that was where it stayed until it’s owner came back from school later in the day.
She had Talking Angela downloaded and installed in the phone, chose the ‘meow’ sound for notifications before her phone screen went blank.