SUPERNATURAL STORY: AN AUDITORY HAUNTING?

This story was told to me by one of my nieces, Lee. Her experience happened just a day ago. My niece doesn't really believe in the supernatural and such. She's more of a logical and there's always a sensible explanation on everything kind of woman, since she is about to become a doctor. She's just relating of what she herself heard and experienced. I myself don't believe in these things, but I'm always a sucker with stories like this. As I always said, at best, take this as an entertainment...nothing more.
Before her own experience, last month another niece (Meye) had told Lee that she heard what sounded like a dog outside the house. Now, that in itself is not unusual...there are just too many dogs in the compound, fighting and barking. What's unusual was, what Meye heard was it sounds like a dog shaking it's head with rattling chains round the neck (dogs in the neighborhood do not wear chain collar). She also heard footsteps. Meye must have heard these sounds more than once as she told Lee that the sounds seem to be more audible when the moon was big and bright. Lee doesn't know what to make of Meye's story.


Outside wall of the guest room...

Anyway, here's the story that Lee told me of her experience:
My niece was getting ready for bed after chatting with her fiancee at 3:00 in the morning. She has the habit lately of sleeping on the ground floor's guest room instead of in her bedroom upstairs (two storey house) so that if ever a burglar gets in, someone could easily alert the whole house.
So, there she was, lying on the bed with the radio on. At first, she heard an itty bitty rattling sound. She had to strain at first, wondering what the sound was and where it came from. Then she heard it again, louder this time, just a few feet from the room where she was. She was thinking, it sounds like a dog with a lot of chains around the collar shaking its head. She's not the kind that gets scared easily so she didn't mind it at first...she turned on the lamp, made some noises, coughing etc. She continued the noise she was making for a few more minutes hoping that the sound would disappear, but whenever the radio stops playing, the rattling sound seems to get louder mixed in now with human footsteps. Eventually, the experience was too much for her and with all the hair on her body stood on end she hightailed it upstairs :). She was able to have her nephew's nanny accompany her back downstairs for the rest of the morning without hearing those sounds again. The funny thing was, with all the commotions she heard, she didn't hear even one bark from the neighborhood dogs.