Shadows

Twice today, I've had a really weird thing happen. Both occassions the event took place in the upstairs bathroom. The first time was this morning circa 8:30. I was moving some citrus trees around in the window so they could get maximum light. I had just walked over to the sink to run some water for a coffee tree that appeared dry. As I was turning with the pitcher of water a human shaped shadow so intense I could feel it pass, passed by me and vanished. This was one weird sensation but it occurred so rapidly I didn't have time to react to it except upon recall.The bathroom has two windows, one on the western wall and one on the eastern. There are no trees anymore that are outside those windows (We lost those trees in the tornado that ripped through here last June.) Besides the shadow started before it was in front of the window. I never felt a shadow before, it was hard to discribe, kinda like very soft, very black velvet.. This is a totally new experience. The second time it happened was in the same room, just before lunch, as I put away towells and washcloths my wife had me bring upstairs. I was about midway in the room, passing from the sink area to the glassed in shelves on the south wall. Again a dark shasdow with a roughly human shape passed me, but more on the eastern side of the room, and then disappeared. I did not feel the darkness this time and the window definitely shone through the apparition. Two weird happenings in one day in the same general area of the house. The skies outside were heavily overcast so I feel any sort of shadow from the window is out of the question. I just don't know what to make of it. The first one really threw me on reflection because I saw it and felt it. The second one surprised me but I had a better chance of actually seeing the thing but I still do not know what is was.

Footsteps again

Christmas and New Years is, once again, over but with all the snow and ice we've accumulated since the day after Christmas the decorations remain up. I may take the christmas tree down this coming week but I think the outside decorations will have to wait until most of the snow is gone.                                                Yesterday, January 5th, my wife and I went to Columbus so she could restock items in her store from a wholesaler. We were gone most of the day, getting back about 6 pm. The day was semi-cloudy with a very bright sun shinning, through, part of the time. The temperature was low 40s. I was in the upstairs bathroom and my wife was in the one downstairs, the two dogs were in either the dinningroom or the kitchen, as the downstairs gate was up. I was tending a few plants that I keep in the bathroom windows when I distinctly heard someone ascending the stairs. There are a few items sitting at the top of those stairs awaiting my removal into the attic storage. I heard someone brush by these items. I really thought it was my wife coming upstairs on some errand. I stepped out to the head of the stairs to see if she needed something. There was no one there. The sounds stopped when I stepped out of the bathroom. Looking around the bend in the stairs there was no one there either and the gate was still up and my older dog was sitting at the foot of the stairs looking up at me. So what did I hear? Seems footsteps are becoming more common once again.