KNOCKERS – Things That Go Tap Tap Tap in the Dark

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:55.8	the old miners spoke of them and whispers during their lunch breaks these beings that dwelt
1:03.0	in the deeper tunnels where light seemed to curve and die not ghosts that insist ghosts were once human
1:10.8	and these these had never drawn breath
1:14.3	as men do. The elders called them knockers, though some said that name was too simple, too
1:20.9	innocent for what lurked in the dark below. They were clever things, patient as the stone itself.
1:28.3	They're tapping with start off soft and sweet, like a child's game of secret codes.
1:33.3	Tap, tap, then silence.
1:36.3	Tap, tap, tap, tap.
1:39.3	A pause, then answering taps from deeper in the earth.
1:43.3	Some said they helped the miners, leading them to rich veins of ore with their mysterious percussion.
1:51.0	Others said that help always came with a price, though they had grow quiet when asked what that price might be.
1:58.0	The stories always seemed to surface around holidays when families gathered and children
2:03.6	wandered, tales of sweet rhythms echoing through abandoned tunnels, of small footprints in the
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