Another strange artifact and a new camera

On Christmas morning I got a digital camera and printer from my wife. I'm new to digital having always used 35 mm cameras in the past. I read enough of the instructions to take pictures and print them. One of the pictures that I snapped was of our Christmas tree and part of the parlour that it is standing in. On the right wall of the parlour appears a disk shape. just like the ones I snapped on Halloween night. The Halloween parlour shot (taken on an old 35mm camera) showed the disk to be on the back wall. The Christmas shot shows a disk on the right wall of the parlour. Two different types of cameras, same room, months apart, both showing a strange disk shaped artifact but each in a different part of the room. I really would like to know what is causing these abnormalities. If natural, I'd like to correct the problem. If not natural....then what?????

Wife has vision

I really wasn't sure how to title this one. I think there is a good chance that my wife experienced a waking dream; however, she is firmly convienced she did not. Last night, well after we turned in, I was aroused by by wife shouting out. Thinking she had a dream, I went rapidly back to sleep. This morning she asked if I heard her shout out last night. I said I had but assumed it was in her sleep. She insisted she was awake at the time. She said she was awakened by the older dogs low growls. She couldn't figure what he was disturbed about so she aroused to see if she could hear anything that might have set him going. When she looked up from the bed she saw a white misty form standing beside the bed and thats when she shouted. She said the misty form vanished with her shout and and the dog stopped growling. So, I was awakened by the shout, but being half asleep I saw nothing but went back to sleep. Our older dog must have been aware of something to be making warning growls....but what? Was it a waking dream, or did she experience something paranormal???? Our younger dog could sleep through a train wreck, so shes no help here.

Unknown artifacts in photos taken on Halloween

One other thing that happened during the period that I was not able to access my blog. This occured at mid-night, October 31st. I had several readers request that I should attempt to take pictures around mid-night on Halloween. Whether or not I think that Halloween is anything significant or not, taking some shots around the house at roughly the stroke of mid-night certainly wouldn't cost much, so I decided to try it. Although I have better cameras (I still use the 35mm film type) the one that was loaded with film that had a number of shots already on it is an old Anso point and shoot. Truth to be told, I didn't expect to get anything but pictures of the rooms I was taking, I think next year, I'll try some experimental work with better cameras. At midnight, (the Parlour clock hadn't struck yet) with the house lights out, I shot a flash picture of the front stairs and another, as the Parlour clock struck 12:00, down the front hall. I immediately moved into the Parlour and shot a third picture and then moved upstairs to the Greenroon where I shot a fourth shot. I finished the roll off with shots of my dogs a few days later and sent the film away for processing. When the film returned the pictures were bright, clear, and should have been quite satisfactory. But not quite, on three of the four shots I made on Halloween night, there appeared round disk like artifacts. One large one going up the wall (or appearing to) on the right side of the front hall staircase. The picture down the front hall did not show anything unusual. The picture in the Parlour shows a slightly smaller disk in the back wall; smaller but quite evident. I almost missed the disk shape in the Greenroom, but it is definitely there over the headboard of the bed. Smaller and fainter than the other two, but definitely there. The film processor said the disks are on the film . The film is not flawed nor are they the result of development bubbles. The professional photographer who lives across the street had no explaination for them; he'd never seen anything like them. I was a semi-professional photographer in my younger years and processed my own film, but I had never encountered anything quite like them. They are very difficult to discribe. Many of you have possibly seen photos with white globs floating in them. Some people call them "spirit balls", they do not look like them. These disks are perfectly round, they are well defined even though the background shows right through them. I had several shots of both the inside and outside of this house on that roll of film, but the disks are only seen on three of the four shots I made at midnight on Halloween. If I ever learn how to post photos, I will. At the present time there are only four worth considering. These three plus the one I took some months ago that has a "smear, or discoloration, or something" that is about head high on the front stairs. To me it looks like a womans head. My wife does not see a womans head just a discolored spot. Two other neighbors say they can see a head but not sure of the sex, a nephew says it looks like a portrait of a woman to him. It may only be a smear or blotch; I really don't know. I'm quite aware that flying debrie and dust motes can come through as a glowing spot, but these do not look like them at all. Any of you with a logical explaination would be most welcome.

It took a while

It took a while but I've finally learned how to post this google blog. Even though this is the time of year that this old house becomes active; it has been relatively quiet so far this season. During the period between transfering the blog from AOL to Google, we did have one strange occurance. It occured during the cool autumn, I don't recall the exact date. My wife and I we're taking the dogs for their nightly walk. My wife had the older grey Schnauzer as he is better behaved than the fiesty little black Schnauzer that I was walking. As we crossed the front lawn , Shadow, the younger dog, started running in circles and jerking in the leash. I knew almost immediately what had happened, She had been bee stung. Rushing her inside, I found the bee still on her foot. Anyone who has an inside pet dog knows how big a baby they can be when hurt. We tried everything we could think of to take the hurt out of the sting but the dog was still making a big thing of it. My wife was worried because she was scheduled to work the next day. I told her to go to bed in one of our other bedrooms and I'd take care of Shadow until she settled down. She did finally settle down and went to sleep with the hurt paw stretched out beside her like a little furry school patrolboy. It was about 2 am at this point. Probably around 4 am my wife partially awakened me coming back to bed. I vaguely remember her saying "I'll tell you about it in the morning". The next morning the pup was fine and wanting to play. My wife had an interesting tale to tell. She had gone to bed in the Greenroom. I have no idea why. The greenroom has had various strange happenings over the years. I really thought she'd choose the Noah room as it has the larger, more comfortable, bed and has had very few (only two) strange episodes. Nonetheless she bedded down in the Greenroom and had gone to sleep when someone got in bed with her and , thinking it was me, asked how Shadow was? No answer, so she turned toward the visitor, there was no one there but that side of the bed was slumped, like somebody was there. She ran her hand across the bed and felt the dip, no one was there. Then she said the slump righted its self like some one had gotten up. There is a window across from the bed. She said she saw nothing, nothing moved in front of the window. She decided maybe Shadow was settled and she better come back to the masterbedroom. In her shoes, I probably would have made the same decision. Strange and I have no explaination. However I did mention this episode on a different forum so I can go back and get the date. I will add it in.

Update on Aug.24th event

  The case of the haunted doll house has not been explained. The broken doll house chair never did reappear. The children still insist the chair was not there when they put the doll house furniture back into the dollhouse and that they did not break it. Grandma believes they did not break it as it was not a piece of furniture that was ever in that dollhouse before. Grandma, once a confirmed skeptic, is not so certain anymore that strange, unexplained events can't happen in old houses. Whatever the cause.

Wifes strange encounter

Thursday night my wife had an unusual experience. But I had best begin around 11:30pm when we took our two schnauzers out for their nightly walk. I had the younger dog because she is the most rambuncious and doesn't lead well. My wife takes the older more mannered salt and pepper male. I was walking Shadow across the front lawn when she suddenly started running in circles and jerking the leash. She had gotten stung by a honeybee, obviously, in the grass. It was definitely a honeybee because it was still on her when I got her back inside. Any of you who have a house dog would know what a "baby" they can be when hurt. We used everything we could think of on her paw to take out the sting but she was being super pathetic. She was carrying-on pretty bad and my wife has a very part-time job and was going to work the next day and was lamenting that she wouldn't get any sleep. I suggested she go to one of the guest rooms and I would try to settle down out stricken pup. Actually, Shadow, did settle down and went to sleep about 2:30am with the afflicted paw stretched out like a school crossing guard. Around 5:00am my wife aroused me by coming back to our bedroom.  Half asleep, I heard her say, "I'll tell you in the morning", and I went back to sleep. So morning came and our severely wounded dog was up and wanting to play, no sign of  last nights tragic events. That was good, of course, but at breakfast my wife related a most interesting tale. In the first place I never dreamed she would choose the Green Room for her nights rest. That room has always had a bit of a reputation for the weird. I really thought she would choose the the more benign Noah room. Anyway sometime during the night my wife felt someone get into bed. Thinking it was me she said,"Hows Shadow?" She got no answer so she rolled over facing the "occupied?" side of the bed. Light from a large nearby window revealed no one there. So she ran her hand across the side of the bed and felt the slump, but nothing else. Then the bed suddenly returned to normal as if something had just got up. She decided it was expedient to return to the master bedroom and hope the pup had settled down. At lest twice in my life I have experienced that same thing, both times were a long time ago in different houses and times. I still have no idea what causes this weird phenomena.

Here we go again

   Things in this house disappear and often reappear. Sometimes they never reappear and sometimes they reappear in totally unethical places. This morning I needed to take some medicine and vitamins. I keep them in a large circular pill box that divides the doses into daily allotments for a week. This is no small pill box, it measures about 8 inches in diameter. The pill box is normally on the kitchen table. If I fill it and forget to put it on the table then it should be with the vitamins on the kitchen work area beside the sink. This morning I looked the table over, no pill box. Really, other than salt and pepper, a jar for straws, and a caddy for outgoing mail and a bottle of honey, thats about it.  Certainly no way to hide a large pill box. So I checked the kitchen counter. The bottles of herbals and vitamins were there but no pill box. Makes no sense, I know that no one has taken that pill box out of the kitchen so I go over the whole kitchen even to looking inside the cabinets. Keep in mind I'm home alone unless you count two schnauzers, but they can't really reach the table and what would they want with a pillbox full of nasty tasting pills? So I came to the original male conclusion that my wife must have put them some place else. I went into the library with the intent of calling her and asking. Her place of business phone was busy. Figuring I'd have to wait til she got home to ask, I gave up on the quest and returned to the kitchen for a bit of lunch. There on the table, about where I would put my dinner plate was the missing pill box. There is no way that that pill box was there when I was going nuts trying to find it. Thats a bit too obvious for even the most irresponsible of males to overlook. That box was not there, then it was, period. This has happened before, but it has been a while. The candelabra bulbs are still missing.