Not the Spookiest Thing I've Seen From a Clock

 Last night I began to eat dinner with a family member at maybe about 7:10 PM.  We had a fairly long conversation, and after completing dinner I glanced up at the battery-powered wall clock. It showed a time of only about 7:17. I looked at the time on my tablet device. It was 7:37. Somehow the clock had lost 20 minutes. As I typically look at the clock before starting dinner, I knew that the discrepancy was a recent one. The clock had the right time on several recent days. 

I reset the clock to the right time, setting it 20 minutes ahead of its displayed time. I wondered: was this just a case of the battery running down? A check of the clock 14 hours later showed it still had the right time. Apparently it was not a matter of the battery running down. 

This case of the clock mysteriously dropping 20 minutes from its displayed time is not the strangest thing I've seen from a clock. In my post here, I describe very many strange occurrences with a combined clock and sound machine. In that post I have a video showing very clearly the digits of the machine's clock fading in and out mysteriously. 

There are numerous accounts of spooky events involving clocks. Below is an account of a grandfather clock that worked fine for 30 years before mysteriously stopping at the hour of its owner's death, with parts of the clock falling. 

You can read the account below:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1934-02-28/ed-1/seq-9/

Below is an account of a clock that seemed to foretell or announce deaths of members of the Danbury Hat Makers Association (presumably having few members):

You can read the story here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92073908/1907-05-23/ed-1/seq-1/

Below is a newspaper account of two clocks stopping at the time of the same person's death:

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1907-12-14/ed-1/seq-2/

On the page here, we read, "The New York papers also give a good deal of space to the fact that John Judge, a New York saloon keeper, died in his saloon and at the very moment of his death the

saloon clock stopped."

Below is a newspaper account of a clock that stopped once at the hour of a family member's death, and also stopped at a very different hour when another member of the same family died.

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89051168/1902-03-31/ed-1/seq-1/

Below is another newspaper account of a clock that stopped at the hour of a family member's death.

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2010270509/1891-06-25/ed-1/seq-2/

Below is another newspaper account of a clock that stopped at the hour of a family member's death.

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88076432/1892-12-29/ed-1/seq-8/

Below is another newspaper account of a clock that stopped at the hour of a family member's death.

You can read the account here:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85053343/1923-05-31/ed-1/seq-5/

Postscript: It is now May 22, and the wall clock that mysteriously lost 20 minutes on May 8 has operated normally since I reset its time to the correct time 14 days ago, without replacing its battery. The clock still displays the correct time.