PaRaNoRmAl..

Hehe juz came back from admiralty..Gonna slack a while online b4 starting work again..Sigh..

Anyway was surfing the sfogs website a few days ago, den came acros the topic on marbles in the forum..One such article kinda summarizes the discussion, or at least touch a bit on it..

"Never gave any serious thoughts about all those rolling marbles coming from upstairs late in the nite until I come onto this forum.

I have always thought it must be some kids doing it and quietly curse the parents for not disciplining them. There were occassions where it sounded almost like a bowling ball dropping and rolling across the room upstairs and I came so close to confronting them but as usual, being late in the nite and already half asleep in bed, I just put up with it as it usually last only a few minutes.

Now it seems that this is not a simple case of kids playing with marbles/bowling balls, not the usual kids at least. It's definitely not sheer coincidence that we have some many children living in HDB flats that like to play marbles in the middle of the nite. I have children of my own but they don't play with marbles. Come to think of it, most of my friends kids also don't have marbles in their inventory of toys becos it is a dangerous item as toddlers may swallow it by accident.

So who or what is making that noise?"

Well, i personally dun feel tt little kids will be playing marbles in the dead of the nite, when everyone's sleeping..Some other reasons were given too..

One practical explanation..
"the only time i have experienced this marble thingy before is when i sleep over at my uncles place at marine crescent....it does not create any creepy feelings but rather of curiosity...i always wonder who the hell would play marble at 2/3 am in the morning..i know i won't...but never put much thought to it...
i guess if u think about it logically, it could be the sound made by the contraction of metals...as u know, the concrete used in the building of walls and ceilings are bonded together with steel rods(reinforcement bars) these bars contracts and expand like all metals / it could even be the water pipes in the ceiling...the sound of the marbles could actually be the sound of metals contracting.....u might ask ..that the sound of metals contracting could never sound like marbles dropping ..it would definitely be more like creaking sound...but if u watched war movies where submarines are involved u will realise that this is quite possible...the submarines creaked and a metal hittin sound were made as the thing submerged in to water where pressure drop drastically...well this is just a theory anyway..i could not vouch for it's total truth either but it's worth thinkin about.."

Reasonable enuff, but seriously speaking, does the contraction and expansion of metal sounds like marbles rolling? Maybe..But wat abt the case of furnitures?

Less practical explanation..
"hello. First time here. Browsing and browsing and came across this topic. It sort of freaked me out, because I was chatting with a buddy once. He's a Malay and had attended some courses on natural healing or something with some holy religious teacher. This teacher told him that Djinns or genies still live among humans here, even in HDB flats, but they live in-between levels. Says if u keep hearing 'marble' sounds, it means the floor above is occpied. Donno how true. Scary huh? "

Hehe, scary, but possibly the truth..

Another possibility..
"i have been talking to this architect friend of mine. I told him about the marble issues. And here is his exlaination.

Its like they too are a bunch of superstitious fellow. So everytime they pile the metal pieces into the ground, they will cement a few marbles with it. So this will go on till the last piece of metal is pile it. by doing this, they are actually hoping the when at nite, the young spirits will play with the marbles instead of the people staying in the building, thats why u often hear sounds and stuff liddat at nite, even if u are living in a one story building.

But after hearing my explaination, do try to hear those sounds again....it seems that people who finally know the reasons....stop hearing these sounds....... "

So which one do u believe..?

Hehe, dun get nightmares hor...=)

"Shen Ah Jiu Jiu Wo!" --Chen Xiao Chun..
(Haha appropriate song?)