No need to say it is all the truth on this one. This is more common than many realize. It happens in my family also with the exception that someone dies within a week or so.

In my family it seems to be passed on from generation to generation. My Grandmother had it, my mother and I. Now for some reason, all my children have it. I have 4 from two marriages and they can hear the knocks but my wives never experienced it.

I can't explain it but my children and I have all heard knocks at the door with my wife sitting in the room with us yet she couldn't hear them. In one instance even the dog ran to the door barking.

I have never heard of that book but I am going to look for it.

I've never heard of the Knock of Death, sounds scary to me.

Welcome to PUG Jim from one New Englander to another /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

HI Jim, welcome to PUG.

I've never heard of this and I'm sure it would scare the crap out of me if I did hear it. Thanks for sharing.

actually it hit me last night. one of the paranormal experiences i had WAS a knocking.

but it was a knocking at a window and it happened years ago and no one died after

it happened.

All I could find on the Death Knock was a British fiction book by Frederick Lindsay which is the fourth book in a series.

Anyone know of anything out there on the phenomena itself?

No one that you are aware of, maybe? From the many people I have spoken to on this, not all are the same.

Some hear knocks, taps, etc., from different places. Some experience death on a personal level, (i.e. family member) some people that they just have come in contact with, (i.e. friends or friends of friends).

Also, maybe if you weren't aware of the phenomenon at the time you may have just simply disregarded anything that happened afterwards? Then there are those who can't experience it too. I have to get that book.

Granted it was years ago I had this experience, but had anyone close to me died afterwards

I would remember that. Now I'm sure plenty of people died after the experience, but not

any in my life.

I have also had the "knock of Death" experience. Very scary stuff. I use to think that when the phone rang or when a car drove up it was my grandmother. Then there would be that all too nerve racking moment when I realized she had already died. I remember one time I was with my sister and the phone rang, we both looked at each other thinking the same thing and my sister said "It's grandma." Then there was a strange pause and she looked at me again, that's when I said "She's dead." It's odd that we would both forget she died and would often both think she is contacting us at the same time, but I think for us it was more of a mental state and not a paranormal occurrence. It's hard to explain, but we feared her when she was alive and would try to warn each other if we thought she was calling. It's strange, my grandma almost never called, but when she did my sister or I would hear the phone ring and say it was her before picking it up, we were always right. It made is frightening when we assumed it was her after she died. But again, I don't think there is anything supernatural about this, just creepishly coincidental.