Somethings playing with my wall clock.

Its that time of the year when we start dragging out the Christmas tree and all the trimmings. These sundry items for the holidays generally are situated in the formal parlour. The formal parlour is where we generally greet guests. Since Halloween we've only had one guest and she is not the type to play with clocks. In the parlour we have a wind-up type wall clock (could be a shelf clock but we use it on the wall) that needs wound once a week and it keeps remarkably good time. This clock has a door on the front that we keep closed except when winding the clock. Today as I was starting to set up the Christmas tree in the middle of the floor in the parlour, I noticed the clocks door was open. I also saw that the clock was still running (penulum was swinging) and the time was way wrong. I asked my wife if she had been cleaning around the clock and she assured me she had not, "You know I know nothing about those things". Meaning she didn't try to set or wind it. Like most of todays women she prefers the electronic clocks. She likes the look of the old fashion ones but she knows little about setting or maintaining one. No one has access to that room but my wife and I unless we have visitors. So the wife has no idea how the door opened on the clock nor why it was four hours off. Even though it was a day early, I went ahead and wound it and set it and closed the door. The door, is firmly shut so it takes some force to open it .when you hear a loud "snap", it also closes with an audible "snap"So we have another mystery in this old house.

Processed film has several anomalies

The digital camera recorded nothing unusual on Oct.31st so I feared there would be nothing unusual on the film cameras as well. Film shot on Oct.30th had nothing unusual on it. I still have not sent away the film shot Nov.1st. Pictures returned for the film cameras did show the strange round transparant anomalies. They are not as obvious as they were in the past but I blame that on the film. In 08 and o9 I used 400 speed film, this year I used the more common 200 speed. A note for next year, "Use 400 or 800 speed film" if you can find any. Anyway, back to the anomalies. They all showed up in the Front Parlour this time. Last year they were evident in the Parlour, Green room, and front stairs. This year they were found only in the Parlour. The anomalies appear on four shots. Only one is large and grabs your immediate attention. The big one appears on the parlour floor. There are four on the ceiling of the parlour in one shot; there is one on the front wall between the front windows; there are two in the upper corner of a window on the eastern wall. These two anomalies are just off the wooden framework at the top side of the window, but on the wall. I have no idea what causes these anomalies, but I find it quite strange that they only appear on certain dates of the year and primarily on Halloween. These anomalies do not look like the classic "spirit lights or disks" that are shown in paranormal publications. They are round, they have a definite ring around them but they can be seen through and the otherside side is there just a tad lighter. Professional photographers tell be they have no idea how they come about and the processing company assures me the immage is in the negative so it has to be something the camera has taken. I am curious to see if anything appears on the Nov. 1st photos.

Shot photos

Even after all of the plans were laid for the Halloween photo shoot; I didn't do all that I had planned. I did take film shots on Oct.30th; I shot both film and digitile shots on the 31st and film only again on Nov.1st. The Oct 30th and 31st films have been sent away for processing but pictures taken on Nov. 1st are still in the camera. I only shot digitile on Oct. 31st and they were a big disappointment as nothing unusual resulted. For the past two Halloweens I've gotten the strange transparant disks in the photos on digitile as well as film. So I worry that if I got nothing on digitile this year will the films do the same? We'll have to wait and see. I shot in the same areas at about the same time (midnight) that I shot in before. The house has been uncommonly quiet from a few days before Halloween up to and including today. This is normally the period the house becomes active, but not so far. The past two days have been cold but the weather man is predicting a five day indian summer. We had snow flurries last night. If we have any action from the house I will post it.

Shot pictures last night

I plan to shoot pictures at around midnight on Oct 31st and Nov.1. I took a few shots last night with a regular film camera. We'll see if any artifacts show up this year. I plan to use both the digitile and film cameras tonight and tommorrow night. The pictures I shot last night were of the front stairs and front Parlour where we had artifacts show up the past two years. I have a standee of Elvira on the front stairs, she doesn't count. But she does make a good halloween decoration.

Trick or Treat

The annual Halloween trick or treat was last night, followed by a weiner roast and party at the local fire department. I had somewhere between 300 and 400 little ghosts and goblins. Not nearly as many as I expected considering the fact the local village government set our trick or treat night on a different night than the one in a much larger neighboring town. The last time that happened I had to shut off the lights and close the door when I ran out of treats at about 500.

Halloween

Last night my wife and I were sitting at the kitchen table eating a late night snack. Our little black dog was under the table at my wife's feet and our older gray dog was laying beside my chair. I was at the eastern end of our kitchen table facing west and my wife was sitting midway along the horizontal axis facing south. Suddenly a loud pop sounded from the southwesternmost corner in the kitchen followed by a long expelling of (air?). The problem is, theres nothing in that area but a broom. Nothing could be found that even had air pressure. Perhaps we will find the problem was mundane; but we're scratching our heads now.

Nothing new on film

I got back my final film and nothing unusual appeared on the pictures. Halloween is rapidly approaching. I plan to shoot photos with both type cameras on October 30, 31st and November 1 at around midnight and shortly thereafter. I also plan to make a short visit to the local cemetary , which is in sight of the house, and see if a get anything other than tombstones on the shots. Everything that goes on over there, after dark, is not necessairly paranormal, however. The village idiot finally got the historic house down. Its definitely been more than 3 days; a lot more. The only termite damage found was on two beams that were half buried in the dirt of the cellar floor. Someone got many loads of prime lumber as not even the outer siding wood showed anything but weathering. Some of the posts that supported the corners of the house were solid wood posts 23 inches thick. The house had been built with native oak and walnut. But the Idiots garage can now be seen from the street so he's happy. He still has a huge load of hand hewed granite blocks, that weigh several hundred pounds each, that made up the foundation to get rid of.