The narrator lives alone since his wife passed away and has been hearing strange noises in his home. The noises have been occurring more frequently and disturb him throughout the day. During his latest encounter, he sees something moving under the rug in his living room. Fed up with the constant disturbances, he bludgeons the object under the rug to death with a chair and discovers it was a baby raccoon trapped inside. He buries the raccoon, and the noises finally stop haunting him.