John B. Allen (MrBallen)

They didn't have a friend's house to crash at.

Their dad was out working a late shift.

And so they were there.

in their home that night, and there was nothing they could do about it.

They had to go to bed and just deal with it.

And the tapping is happening pretty consistently at this point.

Not literally at this point, but it's happening all the time.

And so they're just like, OK, we're just going to get through the night, whatever.

So the girls are, they're having their dinner in the kitchen, their dad is at work, and at a certain point the tapping starts and it's coming from the basement.

It's not the three rhythmic tappings, it's just this kind of periodic tapping that sort of was the precursor to they could ask questions and get those rapid responses.

And Tina looks over at Karen and she's like, you know, dad doesn't believe us.

And, you know, the last week, every time this would happen, like, he would never hear it.

He doesn't believe us.

Like, we have to look into this.

Like, he's not going to look into this.

We have to.

And so there's active tapping in the basement.

The door to the basement's right off the kitchen.

And Karen is starting to get the sense that Tina's saying, we need to go into the basement right now and go look.

Because they hadn't done that yet.