A sstrange thing

Last night we turned in early. It was snowing and I figured I'd have to clean a path to my car and clean the snow and possibly ice off the car. Around about 3:30 am I was awakened by a movement on the bed; kind of like someone sitting down on the mattress and getting up again. This occurred at least three times, maybe more for it to awaken me. My first thought was that it was my schnauzer, Shadow, who usually sleeps the foot of the bed. I thought she had gotten a drink and was trying to jump back into the bed. But by this point I was awake enough to realize Shadow was just inches from my head and sleeping soundly. Of course, when I sat up to see what was going on there was nothing there and the movement ended. My ever vigilant Shadow was quite zonked through it all. At my age, when you wake up in the middle of the night you have to make a bathroom run. Even going to the jon and returning did not awaken sleeping beauty. I don't have any idea what was going on. Just more of the strange in this place.

2017 ends to night

This has been my least eventful year. So I thought I should write something as a year ender. More than likely the reason there have been fewer strange events this year is simply because my wife and I haven't been home much except to feed our dog (Shadow), let her out and hit the sack; usually by 8 pm. If strange events occur during the day only the Shadow knows and she isn't talking. As my wife's health improves she will take over more and more of the duties at the store. I have a tremendous amount of work built up here at the house over the past two years that really needs my attention. Because we have been here so little during the day we have probably missed events the house seems intent on doing. With the new year, my wife continues to improve and takes over more and more duties at the store, hopefully freeing me up to work at the house during the daylight hours. So I might be privy to house antics. Anything strange will be reported. Sorry last year was so sparse.

Another Halloween has come and gone

Another Halloween has made its debut. I had a light turn out this year for "Trick or Treat"; only about 150 so I have lots of treats for next year, No I don't intend to pass out stale candy. I don't pass out candy. I haven't passed out edibles for Halloween since the big hoax scare a few years back. I gather up deals on toys during the year and pass them out instead. For a change I had only two trick or treaters who looked to be older than 12. I took a few photos but none came through with any orbs or such like. This just adds mystery to the fact that just three or four years ago I was getting numerous "orbs". I have been extremely busy this past year to set up elaborate camera shots or recorders. The lack of goblins this year was probably due to several factors; One. Trick or Treat in the village was not posted in the local paper. I'm sure the city fathers just "forgot", even though other towns and villages posted theirs at least twice. Trick or treat was the same night and time in most of the other locations so the surrounding area kids took a chance here. Secondly the weather, which was fine during the trick or treat period; however, it rained early in the day and looked stormy in the evening. Thirdly a lot of cheap skates do not treat here. The fire department came through with their after trick or treat party, so I'm sure the kids who showed up did have a good time. Maybe I'll be better prepared next year.

Disappearing and reappearing pen

This happened at the store we own and operate in a building that was built in the 1840's in a very small Ohio town. The building was built as a General Merchantile but fairly quickly became a hardware store and served as such until the 1980's when it sat empty for a while and then served several owners of miscellaneous shops until the turn of the 21st century. We took over the store and its present business (home décor and notions)around 2011. Today, my wife was working on store papers in the main show room, she was using a bright green pen. This was early and no customers had, as yet, arrived. The table sits about midway in the main show room. My wife is confined to a wheel chair with minimum walking with a walker. She hadn't been out of the wheel chair all morning. I was working at the cash register on the far side of the store next to the entrance. My wife had just finished a report and laid the pen on the table while she proof read her report. She finished reading and went to pick up the pen, but it wasn't there. It hadn't fallen into her lap. It was not on the floor. Had it rolled anywhere on that table it would really stand out. So I brought her another pen (also bright green) from our desk behind the cash register. She continued making her corrections to the report and making checks out to the utilities. Probably close to a half hour later she let out a surprise cry, and said, "Look here!" That first bright green pen had suddenly reappeared on the table. There is absolutely no was the two of us could have missed it when we searched for it. This is the kind of thing that makes you think, "Perhaps I have a ghost". Other explanations are more than welcome.

Experiment

Today I had lunch at the store again. Same place, same mug, same drink (RC). The RC was poured to the fill line on the mug. It stayed there. I even left it to wait on a customer and when I came back it was still on the line. No disappearing RC today. (Note last entry for details). So what happened last time? Another mystery.

Disapearing drtnk

Today I'm working at my wife's store. I just had a very unusual occurance. I cannot figure a logical explanation for. Having skipped breakfast to get here on time I fixed a sandwich from makings in our small store refrigerator. I poured a mug full of RC cola to go with the sandwich. As I sat there eating the sandwich I noticed the level of my cola had dropped a half inch in the glass mug. Thinking this is just something it do with the fact it was filled with a carbonated cola, I continued eating my sandwich; however, I did watch the cola in the mug and it continued to drop in the level. When it dropped about a half inch I picked it up to see if it was leaking. It wasn't. The bottom of the mug had a bit of condensation, but no liquid was in evidence. I decided to drink the cola while I still had it. Maybe I should have let it go and see how low it would get. The mug sat on a wood table. There was nothing close to it. The liquid had nothing to sink into. The mug was nor broken There was no obvious cola anywhere but in the mug. Where did the cola disappear to? Is thee a thermal explanation for it? Whatever, it was just plain weird.

Mumbling again

a Last night, about 8 pm give or take a few minutes, I was upstairs with my dog Shadow when I experienced a brief episode of mumbling, The mumbling sounded female and angry. As usual I could not make out any words. Shadow reacted with her ears going erect but she seemed confused as to where the sounds were coming from.. The mumbling only lasted roughly half a minute. Sounds from the street need to be extremely loud to penetrate the walls of this house. Basketball players on the village playground only two lots and across the street from here are not heard. The fact that the mumbling seems to have no point of origin also eliminates an outside source. It would be really interesting to me if I could tell what was being said. My wife was reading a book and heard nothing.