The Basement Knocked, Then One Clear Tap Came From Across the Creek

The Basement Knocked, Then One Clear Tap Came From Across the Creek

Cold nights brought a rhythm no pipe could explain: three deliberate knocks, a pause, three more, and a puddle appearing on the basement floor along the same twelve-foot diagonal - yet the water outside at six a.m. in January was liquid in twenty-two-degree air. Who was running a test that ended the knocking the night Craig Becker sat by a chair at the creek and walked home before midnight?

In this episode, you’ll hear how a retired water-systems technician turned methodical log-keeper traced an impossible pattern of sound and water under his house, and the experiment he staged by Teller Creek that coincided with the sudden end of the phenomena. Could a single staged chair and glass of water explain what years of contractors, plumbers, and geologists could not?

Person: Craig Becker Date: February 2007 (knocking began) Location: basement of a forty-one-acre property near Mossgate Event: recurring three-beat knocking and transient standing water Date: January 11, 2009 (creek chair observation)

- The knocking pattern recorded was three beats, a pause, then three beats, occurring mostly between 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM. - Craig documented six separate episodes of standing water over eight months, always along the same twelve-foot diagonal line. - A spirit level placed on the basement floor shifted with each three-beat episode and was photographed. - Craig took seventeen photographs showing the diagonal line of water appearing on nights when basement air was dry. - On the night before the knocking stopped, Craig sat beside a yellow kitchen chair at Teller Creek and left a folded dish towel with an eight-ounce tumbler filled to within a quarter inch of the rim; the water in the glass was not frozen in 22°F air.

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