The other day I blogged about our clock, Henry, and his odd behaviour, stopping at one particular time of day but only in the morning, and only if he was running at the correct time. One of those kind enough to comment, Kaimi0achava, wondered whether such odd behaviour in a piece of furniture was perhaps a warning of something about to happen.

Psychic warnings via the furniture are not actually uncommon - no, stop rolling around on the floor, I'm serious! There are a lot of well documented cases where people have heard sudden knocks or bangs either coming from the wall, the window or sometimes the furniture. Sometimes these can be so loud they sound like a gun going off.

Of course, such knocks are not the same as 'rapping' where you have a poltergeist who appears to have a psychic drum kit concealed around the house. When there is a psychic warning involved the knock will be sudden, and unlikely to be repeated (though sometimes you will get two of three knocks close together, like someone knocking on a door, it will only happen once.)

Other psychic warnings can be pictures suddenly falling off the wall (or sometimes the picture itself will behave oddly. I had one once that slipped inside the frame. Obviously you have to be sensible about this; if a picture's been hanging from the same piece of string for forty years it's probably not a psychic warning, just a timely reminder that it needs to be re-hung.

Years ago people knew of these premonitions and how to interpret them. In some areas, such as the Scottish Islands, psychic premonitions (particularly of death) were accompanied by ghostly lights.

I've met people who've witnessed psychic warnings, and believe me, the impression never leaves them!