Cheap car, tinny rattley sound or an expensive car, solid dull thunk. Maybe
your neighbors are closer to you than the road, either beside or behind you,
or there is a cliff, wall or something solid to bounce the sound. Damp days
make the sound travel long distances, I can hear a train go over another
rail crossing on foggy days, and it is about 2 miles away.


"JimL" wrote in message
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We recently moved the country to an old homestead.

Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
out by the sounds of a car door slamming.

Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.

We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.

This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
we are frustrated.

Any ideas?