One day we went to a friends house for dinner. They have 2 sons and a daughter. The 2 boys, my brother and I were outside and then the boys went inside. Suddenly the light went out and i just happened to look straight ahead. There stood a medium sized black dog. Suddenly the lights came back on and the dog vanished.<br />The boys had turned off the light as a joke and i asked if a black dog had died here recently and they said a black dog was run over just outside their driveway. It was so scary!<br /><br />Sometimes i think there is something in my cupboard that makes noise but it's only when my cupboard is open. It also sounds as if something is directly above me in the roof. And it doesn't sound like rats!