Sometimes the family’s strange events would come in clusters. There was one very bizarre week involving all the members of Stephen’s immediate family in January of 1979. During this week, Stephen, his father Geoffrey and his sister Karen were all living at the house in Southern California, and Stephen’s mother Irene and his brother Phillip were living at the Sonora, California, house they were building in central California about 350 miles away.
The first two nights:
On night one Stephen’s father Geoffrey was awakened by his closet doors opening and closing by themselves.
He told Stephen about it in the morning, saying “it was really strange.” He couldn’t explain it.
On night two Stephen was reading a book called “Metaphysical Meditations” by Paramahansa Yogananda. He gave it to his father to read.
A few minutes later, about 9 p.m, Geoffrey came into Stephen’s room with a perplexed expression on his face and said he was hearing a bell ringing inside the wall.
He said, “I must be hearing things. Can you come into the living room, Stephen?” My dad was a master cabinet maker and knew that bells don’t ring inside a two-by-four-inch wall. But sure enough, there was a repeating, resonant ring.
The two men got Stephen’s sister to come out of her room, and she heard it too.
They banged on the wall, looked up the chimney and just felt perplexed. After about ten minutes, it stopped.
At the exact same time, 350 miles away, Irene and Phillip were sitting in the living room together. Irene said she heard the phone ring and she picked it up and she heard a voice on the line say, “I am the invisible Ambeche.” Phillip was in the room next to her and he said the phone never rang.
In the next episode, the beings start getting pushy with Stephen.
