At this point I had one last theory although I couldn’t figure out how that could be the source so I decided to investigate more. I mean, at 5:30am in the morning you can pretty much wander around like a madman without the fear that anyone is going to see you and bother and this was incredibly interesting to me; I really wanted to discover the truth behind this strange echo.
So I walked a larger circle around the smaller circle that I could hear the sound from and made a perimeter from where I could and couldn’t hear the noise and it definitely indicated that the sound was coming from the building directly across the street. So I cross the street and walk up to the building, I couldn’t hear the sound. Then I made a 90 degree turn to my left and followed the parking lot next to the building directly towards their sprinklers which were going at the time thinking that there’s no other possible explanation, the sound had to originate from where the most water was being distributed in the general area. But again as I made it up to the sprinklers I still heard no sound. Coincidently then as well the sprinklers shut off which reminded me of the scene in Donnie Darko where Donnie is walking by the motivational speakers’ house, he bends down to find the guy’s wallet laying in the side walk, the sprinklers shut off, and a mysterious voice says to Donnie, “Now you know where he lives.” So on the off chance that I was in some sort of tangent Universe I stood there for a moment waiting for some voice to help explain the situation to me. Nothing came so I carried on up to the sprinklers then straight back to the original spot where I heard the sound.
Making my way there I thought to myself, ‘certainly the sound is no longer happening or if it is I should hear it slowly dwindling away, drips slowing and getting farther apart. The sound was still happening with no discernible change. I stood for another couple of minutes to see if that would remain the same and it did. All I could figure at this point was that, ‘yes, either I am in a tangent Universe or the sound is coming from one.’ Either way, my mind had been foiled. I couldn’t figure it out.
As I continued walking home I was careful to listen for any remnants of the sound since all my prior investigations had been in the opposite direction but I still heard nothing.
Ghost noise…cool. That is the world I want to live in. Thank you god!