Strange Happenings Whilst Reading

The strangest thing to ever happen to me when reading a book occured when I was in Berlin, reading Dracula. It was the first time I'd ever read the book (I had it in the bath with me and everything) and I had just read the part where someone (Mina, I think?) hears something beating against her bedroom window and when she looked it was (again, I think) a bat? A few seconds after reading that, there was a beating at the window of my hotel room and I absolutely jumped out of my skin. When I looked over, there was dark outline of some sort of bird perched on the tiny ledge of the windowsill.

Needless to say, I've never closed curtains faster in all my life.