Christmas photos

I printed many of the photos I took during Christmas. I detected no orbs or whatever those artifacts are. I also took many pictures of my neiece's house which was decorated to the nines. Her house is also very old being only about 25 years newer than mine. She had every room decorated including a Christmas tree (even in the bathroom), no artifacts were evident in those pictures.If orbs be paranormal then it appears my spooks are far less active now. But as I have said before it may be because we aren't home as much as we use to be.

This is super weird

I will not say the following account is paranormal because it sounds too much like someone on a walky-talky or ham radio. It all started last week. I had a gentleman come to the door wanting to buy an old van of mine that sits in the back of our driveway. As I was explaing to him that I wasn't ready to sell yet, we both heard a short blast of a voice that seemingly came from the front staircase or hallway. As no one was even near I wondered what its source could be. The fellow I was conversiong with asked if I had a radio on? I said "No", but I would think a radio would continue playing; not just give a short blast that couldn't be understood. The fellow left and I walked the hallway looking and listening but nothing happened. Later in the week as I was working in the Parlour the "voice" was heard again and a few minutes later even again. There are no radios , walkie-talkies, or two way radios anywhere in the hallway or Parlor, nor outside between my house and the storage building next door. I was perplexed but figured it had to have a logical explaination. The voice , definitely male, is loud but you cannot makle out what is being said. So last night as I entered the masterbedroom with our two schnauzers the voice boomed forth again. Both dogs ran to the wall on the western side of the bedroom and started barking. This wall has a semicircular bulge in it where a dumbwaiter was once housed (It was closed off in the 1950's sometime). I opened the bedroom door to the upstairs hallway by the front stairs and the voice was very loud. It sounded like it was saying, "....AB here..." or something to that effect. I really started investigating the hallway at this point and the voice sounded several more times and I traced it down to approximately where that old dumbwaiter was. There is no opening to the dumbwaiter from the attic or basement or at any point on any floor. It was completely sealed off. What the heck is causing these short "radio?" messages to come booming forth from this wall? I heard this voice at least 7 times last night and the dogs immediately reacted to it each time. Ghost ? I really don't think so; but what on earth is causing it to come through a very old, sealed off, dumbwaiter shaft?

Dog has finally quit barking at the wall.

Well, at least, as far as we know, she has quit barking at the wall. We took the dogs for a drive today. They had their typical Christmas treats. The house has been very quiet, especially since the little black schnauser has quit barking at the wall. I wonder how long our reprieve will last this time. Generally speaking the house has been super quiet. No footsteps or mumbling or other weird effects. Nothing since the loud explosion. Maybe we just are not herre enough to pick up on these sounds. They generally happen in the evening and we have been here in the evenings. I haven't closely checked my Christmas photos for orbs or whatever. I may do some printing tonight. You never know what will show up; but here lately, not much of anything has.

Nothing is stirring, not even a mouse

Perhaps its because I haven't been home enough. With helping at my wife's shop, we hardly get home and eat then off to bed. The poor dogs are feeling much negected and I don't blame them. So I guess I cannot really say that nothing has happened this season because we haven't been here much to know. This is the first year in 74 that there hasn't been a Christmas tree standing in a prominent place in the house. I have attended church services and played Christmas music in the store; but I really miss not having a tree set up or any outside decorations. But as far as I know we haven't had the strange occurrances that tend to plague the season. The hall camera is still running (I hope) but the trail camera does not seem as sensitive as the spy camera was. As soon as I can find a new spy camera I intend to get one. The last weird thing to happen here was the loud unexplained explosion. We heard it, shook the house, but noone else did and I still haven't found anything that could have been its source. Merry Christma everyone and May God Bless.

Loud Explosion Again.

Night before last night, my wife was using the computer and I was just walking from the Den into the Library to show a magazine article to my wife. Before I coud say anything the who house shook with a loud explosion. My wife was certain there had been a horrendous wreck out front. I went out the front door and looked all around, the place looked deserted; there was no one anyplace. This occurred at about 10pm so there isn't a lot going on outside. But a crash such as we heard should have distured someone. I walked around to the rear of the house thinking perhaps an accident on the road that runs behind our house but it looked just as deserted. The neighbor on my right had no lights on so they were probably out. The neighbor across the road had lights but he was no where tbe seen. I have no close neighbors on the left. So, it seems sometime near or in the Christmas season we have these "explosions" once or twice. They shake the house; but nothing can be found to explain them. No one else in town ever hears anything. If I were the only person hearing the crash I'd think it was just me going bonkers but my wife has heard them too.Over the years I have learned that this town has collective deafness. They can't seem to hear loud noises. When I first moved here in 79' a fireworks factory exploded killing one worker. I heard that blast and so did my wife, but on asking our neighbors, they didn't hear anything. It made headlines in the local paper. When I pointed this out to these same people they "Reckoned it was just a backfire" Would have taken a mighty big truck to backfirwe that loud. I really do wonder what goes on around here in the shade. Small towns all have their secrets. Been here 34 years now and I'm still the outsider.