AuntieJane...Like gumby, I too heard lots but experienced nothing. However, the following story that was related to me by an MS has an Urban Legend ring to it. He swore it was true though.
It seems there was an elderly sister in the Susanville, California congregation (about an hour from me) who was having a problem with "chirping" in her home (ok, you already figured this one out which makes you smarter than 99% of Dubbies). This sister thought there was a bird in her house so she went a lookin'. Could not find a bird so she asked an elder to stop by. He too heard the chirping and upon searching her home could not come up with any earthly reason for it. So, God's appointed servant asked the woman if she had brought anything "new" or different into her home recently. Now the sister was an avid yard sale shopper who replied that yes she had several items that she had recently picked up around town.
The Einstein elder asked to see the items, to which she started bringing them out, last ones purchased first and then working back in time with more items. The first victim was a toaster. The elder had by this time called for a back-up elder, just in case the Demon was more than one man-of-God could handle. So, as the story was related, these two genius's took the toaster into the yard and proceeded to give it a heavenly cleansing with a sledge hammer. No doubt the sledge hammer had been prayed over first to give it special annointing to purge Demons. After killing the toaster they immediatley ran to the house to see if the chirping subsided...alas, for this was a stubborn demon.
Next came the picture frame she had purchased at a rummage sale and held the photo of her dear grandson. What better place for a demon to inhabit and taunt one of Jehovah's servants? It died a splintery death. Again, a rush to the house by the two very dedicated servants of the one true God. Darn! That disgusting alien squatter was still hurling chirping insults at them. Flushed with anger at being snubbed by an agent of the God of this System of Things they rushed back to the yard and called for more items...the sledge hammer turning white hot from the friction of vindictive rage. After hours of strenuous God-induced physical activity, the yard began to look like a WalMart hit by a suicide bomber. It was apparently then that a young brother drove up to check out all the activity he'd heard about. After being told of the satanic chirping he politley asked if they'd checked the batteries in the smoke detector. Thus is the legend of the evil chirping demon of Susanville California.....And now you know the rest of the story.
-BONEZZ
