Every clock in my house stopped at the same time on the same night.
This sounds like something that could happen with a power outage. It isn't. The clocks in my house run on different sources: the kitchen clock is battery-powered, the grandfather clock in the hall is mechanical, the clock on the microwave is plugged in, the clock on my phone was plugged in and charging. None of them should be able to fail simultaneously. None of them should be able to fail for the same reason.
They all stopped at 3:07 AM.
I noticed in the morning when I woke up and every time-display in the house showed 3:07. The grandfather clock's pendulum was still. The battery clock face was correctly stopped. The microwave display was fixed. My phone, when I pulled it off the charger, showed 3:07 — locked there, not advancing, until I restarted it.
I called a clock repair person for the grandfather clock. She came, examined it, found nothing wrong mechanically. She wound it and it ran fine. She said she couldn't explain why it had stopped.
I asked if this kind of thing happened. She said no.
I replaced the batteries in the kitchen clock. I reset the microwave. Everything ran fine after.
But 3:07 AM is now a specific time for me in the way that times become specific when something attaches to them. I wake up near it sometimes and check the clock.
Twice since that night, I've woken up at 3:07 exactly — and in both cases found, in the morning, evidence that something had been different while I slept. Objects slightly moved. A window cracked that I'd closed. Things that could be explained and that I am choosing not to explain, because the alternative to explaining them is accepting something I am not ready to accept.
All my clocks still work. They all show the right time.
But 3:07 is a hole in the night that wasn't there before. Something made it. I don't know what it was doing there.
I'm not sure I want to know.