I own a small cabin up in the northeast (US) that i occasionally visit. Its in a small town and located in the woods on a small lake, while i do have neighbors they arnt there this time of the year. So i was basically alone. On my last visit a couple days ago i was sleeping when i was woken up by a knock at my sliding glass door. I checked the time it was about 12:40 something. After noticing the time i became terrified and kinda just froze there on the bed. I sat there and tried my hardest to hear anything else but the intense wind wouldn’t let me. Mind you the cabin is just a living/bedroom and a small kitchen so this is the only door in and out. I went and slowly grabbed my gun, keys, and mace because im sure that no one with good intentions would be outside my door past midnight in the freezing low 30s I came back and sat on my bed just starring at the door. Some time later i dont remember when i heard someone shoot three bursts of a semi automatic rifle. This didnt scare me as the gunfire was one my side of the lake but on the other tip about 15 minutes away deep in the woods and far from me but it didnt help me get any sleep. At about 4 i finally fell back asleep. The next day i went to a friends house who lived on the opposite side of the lake which is a pretty long drive. While we were talking he told me that someone had knocked on his door last night. I thought he was fucking with me and when i asked him what time it happened time he said about quarter to 1. However he added that it happened to him 3 times throughout the night. When i told him the same thing happened to me he had a strange look on his face probably thought i was fucking with him too. He looked genuinely terrified and sleepless when he was with me. He told me he was up all night and hadnt slept since the first knock woke him up. Later that day i visited someone i knew on the lake. She was on the same side as me but on the other tip of the lake closer to were the gunshots came from.
First thing i did after arriving was asking about knocking. And god damn she told me she heard a knock on her door at about a quarter to 1 while she was watching tv. It was also a set of three knocks like my friend experienced. She ran to the back door light and turned the porch lights on. But she said nothing was there. I told her both me and my friend heard it and we talked about it for hours but we couldnt come up with any explanation. To put in shortly something or someone in the span of a couple minutes caused something or directly did something that caused knokes to occur on several peoples doors across several miles. At first i thought it was some noise that was carried by the water of the lake but me nor my friends heard a loud sound that could have caused it. I wonder to myself if the gunshots were in response to knocks on that persons door but i have no clue. So what do you think X? Aliens, bigfoot, a group of asshole kids? Sorry if the formatting is shit im more of a lurker and never expected to have a story to tell.
Maine? NH? Just our local lake spirits fucking with you guys. Don't worry about it, but don't interact much with 'em. Leave out some bread for 'em, milk if you don't mind mr bear showing up once in a while. They're generally harmless, if a bit spoopy.
