3AM, the devil's hour: is it?

It was 3am and my alarm came blaring that I woke up to read but sleep was very much in my eyes so I turned it off and went back to bed.

Few minutes after turning the alarm off, a terrifying thud was heard in my ceiling which jerked me fully awake. There had been lights out so I turned on the flash of my phone, very alert for anything that'd want to show up.

Never has any sound come from the ceiling no matter the time of the day nor would I think it was a rat because there was none in my house so I stayed up to see what could be in my ceiling that made such loud thud at such an hour of the day.

The whole drama really creeped me out because I had once seen a tik-tok that said 3am is the devil's time but then I don't believe he and I has anything in common for him to trespass at my house interrupting my sleep. As whatever was in my ceiling had it, I stayed up to see what more drama it had to display.

'Was it gonna break the ceiling and fall on my bed? Was it gonna keep hitting the roof and scaring the shit outta me?' Different Thoughts bubbled in my head but I was never going to sleep it off.

Thirty minutes after being up and going through different apps on my phone to avoid drifting off to bed again, some weird noises came from my bathroom as if things were falling from the roof to the floor.

I know sometimes natural noise does occur but was this natural? I tried hard to convince myself it was one of those noises that came from the wind doing its thing or noises from the pipe or prolly my old bathroom door trying to remind me it needed to be greased and while at my thoughts, another noise came again from outside and it was the loudest thud I could ever wish to hear.

"Oh, common! Can this get any worse?"

Terrified to the marrow, I slowly opened my door and flashed my lights outside. I was sure I was going to see this thing and warn it to never trespass at my house again because obviously it wasn't paying the rent with me and it was scaring the hell outta me.

I tiptoed to my backyard where the thud came from and I was welcomed by a very black cat with eyes that glowed in the dark.

A sudden chill swept over me and I felt my legs wobbling. I'm a cat lover but this one at the wee hours of the day sure was scary and I didn't want it around at all.

After the hypnotic chill left me, I wore the garment of courage and tried shooing it away. At first it didn't move but when I proved to it that I was serious and pretended to pick up my flip-flops, it scurried off crying like a baby then I looked up at my roof and I found and opening that could lead any crawling or four legged creature into my ceiling then it dawned on me that the cat was what made the first noise that got me up.

I am sure to contact a carpenter to fix the roof later in the day because I can't keep waking up to terror when I'm supposed to be sleeping plus I'll be sure if for real the "3 AM devil's hour" thing is true.

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