'The Knocker' Strikes Fear in N.C. Widows

[13Gigatons]

It sounds like a scene from a horror movie: It's late at night, you can't get to sleep and, suddenly, there's a knock at the door.
North Carolina women complain about knocks on their doors late at night.

But it's not a movie.

Women just outside of the small town of Rutherfordton, N.C., told ABC News it's really happening to them -- and has been for years.

The women are all widows over the age of 60, and they all live in the same rural neighborhood.

The women asked not to have their names reported for fear of repercussions from the person they call "the knocker."

"You never know when it's going to happen," one woman in her late 60s said. "You try to forget it. You try to put it out of your mind, but you know it's gonna happen."

The Origin of the Knocking and a Common Link

Bobbie Condrey said her 83-year-old mother is a victim of the knocking, one of five widows in total who are experiencing the late-night nuisance.
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"From six to 16 years, these five women have been bothered by the one we call the knocker," Condrey said.

One woman said it started happening to her soon after her husband passed away about 10 years ago.

"I live alone and I began hearing, it sounded like in the beginning, a few small pebbles being thrown on my back window in the den where I stay at night," she said. "When I first heard it, I would go look and I wouldn't see anything."

Another woman, 62, said it started happening to her more recently.

"It started six years ago, just prior to my husband being diagnosed with a brain tumor," she said.

The woman now lives alone and said the problem has gotten worse.

Condrey said her mother started hearing knocking 16 years ago. Now, she said, her mother is getting phone calls at all times of the night, too.

She added that her mother's situation has one thing in common with some of the other women: It happened around the time she became a widow.

"My mother has been bothered, it started right after my father died," Condrey said. "He's been dead about 18 years and it started a couple years after he died."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/knocker-strikes-fear-north-carolina-widows/story?id=10131285&page=1

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

The guy needs someone knocking on his head.

 

[Alone]

Lol.

 

[Theb]

They can go to the media but they can't set up some cameras or have kids/grandkids hide in the bushes in wait.

 

[Matthiasa]

Hmm happened after they become widows... Someone looking from some gilf or ggilf action?

Really though why hadn't any of them put up security cameras if that was the case and they are so frightened.

 

[Rubycon]

Nitric acid squirting peep hole.

If door has high mounted mail slot a bull taser to the groin works too and probably less likely to maul the guy as bad.

 

[Matthiasa]

Nitric acid is not something to be messed with... brown fumes is horrible.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

It wouldn't surprise me if the knocker is an ATOT member.

 

[slayer202]

"The women asked not to have their names reported for fear of repercussions from the person they call "the knocker.""

There are only 5 of them though? genius

 

[Rubycon]

It wouldn't surprise me if the knocker is an ATOT member.

Knockers always come in pairs.

 

[Lash444]

Knockers always come in pairs.

This knocker wishes he had three hands.

 

[Rubycon]

This knocker wishes he had three hands.

You only need two...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrkJJam-qI

 

[HannibalX]

Put a camera on the damn door. Bunch of dumb old ladies if it's taken 16 years and they still don't know which creepy neighbor is harassing them.

 

[13Gigatons]

They put camera's up but the guy just avoided them.

 

[HannibalX]

Hide them! Hello?

 

[JMapleton]

What a loser, do people have nothing better to do than knock on other people's windows?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

They put camera's up but the guy just avoided them.

You seem to know alot about "the knocker".

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Knockers always come in pairs.

:awe:

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

What a loser, do people have nothing better to do than knock on other people's windows?

Obviously not. Seems like a real nutjob if he's knocking on the windows of widow's in a specific neighborhood. Kind of funny but must be some scary shit for the old ladies.

 

[13Gigatons]

You seem to know alot about "the knocker".

I watched the video, the sheriff talked about all the things that they did to try and catch the guy.

 

[Raduque]

What is this, just somebody knocking on doors late at night? That's it?

Kinda lame.

 

[Exterous]

You seem to know alot about "the knocker".

Quick - light the pitchforks!

 

[MotF Bane]

In the south, none of them has a shotgun lying around?