Dog phantom

  It was starting to get late, the dining room was, I admit, rather dark. Not so dark that I needed the light on to simply walk through to the kitchen. As I left the Library a movement off to my right, actually right in front of the closed Parlour door, caught my attention. It was a dark shape spining around to lay down. You have watched dogs spin around two or three times before laying down, I'm sure, if you have ever had a dog. It was like I caught the last spin. Like I said the light was not on in the diningroom so the area was in semidarkness. I thought,"Which dog is it?" and looking toward the kitchenI observed both of my dogs looking at me from the kitchen doorway. Spining around back toward the Parlour door I observed there was nothing in front of the door. Keep in mind this all happened within the space of only a few seconds.I went on into the kitchen where my dogs insisted they had to go out. While walking them I had to consider what I had seen. We had only one dog who regularly laid in front of the Parlour door; a little female I had for just days shy of 18 years. Was it her or did my eyes play tricks with me? It was the turning motion that got my attention to begin with; otherwise I would have just walked through the room seeing nothing. This is but another dog "sighting", I suppose. As "ghosts" go that seems the most common. If I'm seeing a "ghost" and not just some phychological phenomena or illusion.

Strange orange glowing orbs

    I hope I have this perfectly straight. This comes directly from my wife. Last night at roughly 3 am she made a visit to the bathroom. While in there she noticed flickering orange lights through the slates of the blind on the eastern window. Thinking it to be a state patrol or sheriffs car somewhere in the neighborhood she looked out the window to see what was going on. It wasn't a car. In our side yard was three orange balls of light, roughly the size of basketballs; they were twerling about each other in an ascending way, they moved up into the sky and out of sight. I have seen ball lightning but this certainly doesn't sound like that. I have no idea what she saw. But I have no doubt she saw it. I admit that getting up in the middle of the night for a bathroom visit could leave a person a bit groggy; but to then see lights, assume it to be on a police car, and then move to the window and open the blinds and then see something strange would indicate pretty much full wakefullness. But we have no explaination for this occurance.Investigating our side lawn this morning turned up nothing out of the ordinary.

Strange pumping or thumping sound returns

   I'm not surprised that the strange sound has returned, but where it has returned. The sound is no longer heard in the Library. Night before last, the thumping sound was heard, very loud, in the kitchen by me. My wife was on the computer in the library and heard nothing. The thumping went on for a good 10 seconds or more. I was taken totally by suprise because before it was heard only in the Library. I moved in the direction of the sounds apparent source but the moment I stepped from the kitchen into the short hall that connects to the dinningroom, the sound stopped. Last night, again I was in the kitchen when it sounded. Again it was louder than it ever was in the library, but lasted only 5 thumps. My wife was in the dinningroom and again heard nothing. We were out all day today so I don't know if it continued to sound or not. But the sound, to me, is loud enough that it should be heard all over the downstairs....but it isn't. Weird. Actually, this time the thumping sounded very much like someone driving a metal post into the ground with a sledgehammer. None of my neighbors work outside after dark and besides why is it only heard, now, in the kitchen?