This referres to tteh night of Christmas Eve 1843. Seven years prior Jacob Marley had died. On his retrun to his home Scrroge thinks he imagines an image of Marleys face where his brass door knocker would have been. Haing dismissed the sighting he goes home and starts to eat some left over gruel. He hears kncoking and banging around his rooms and tries to investigare but sees noting. He retruns to his food and suddenly he heards the servents bells ringing somewhere deep inside the old house. This scares him and he again seeks to find the reason. Scrooge finds nothing unusual anywhere even after checking his lumber room twice. Then when he settles in to his arm chair next to a very meagre fire his living room door opens with a bang and he heards painful moaning from somewhere beyond the open door way.. It is at this point that Marley makes his first real appearance and tells the terrified Scrooge of his fate unless he change his ways
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When Scrooge gets home, he sees the face of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, in the doorknocker. Inside, he encounters several ghostly visitations, including the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. These supernatural encounters start his transformation towards becoming a kinder and more generous person.