Very Bright Flash.

This just happened. Its 8:20 pm EST, Wednesday, November 27th. I am in the Library sitting at the computer. A very bright flash, almost blinding, just occurred out of the bookcase, immediately to my left and about 4 0r 5 foot from the floor. The day has been heavily overcast and it has been snowing ,off and on, all day. There are no windowds across from where the flash occurred. The only windows in the Library are two very tall, very slim, gothic type and they are directly behind me. When I looked in the direction of the flash, once it was over, there was nothing to see but books crowding the library shelves. There is nothing to be seen, out the two windows but evergreen trees and a couple of pear trees. View of the road in front of the house is blocked by two huge old evergreens and the angle is all wrong even if those trees were not there. What the heck was it? This is weird. The flash was just like someone had taken a flash pictuire of me sitting at the computer. No one was there and the book shelves in that area of the bookcase are tightly packed and there is a 17 inch solid brick wall behind the bookcase. Any suggestions?

Actually the house has been rather quiet this winter....at least we think it has. We haven't been home much until very recently. We had medical problems and business obligations that pretty much kept us going all day 24-7. Things are easing up a bit. The younger dog is still raising cane with the wall beside the library door. We've never discovered what her problem is. Whatever it is the older dog is totally unconcerned about it.Normally this is the season for loud unexplainable booms. footsteps on hardwood floors (that are now carpeted) and various other unexplained anomalies. The camera chip that had the strange pictures on it has disappeared. I may have mislaid it; but you'd think I'd have mislaid it in an obvious place; but it is gone.I still have hopes of finding it. Anyway its enough to make you think a quiet house is a boring house. Some of those episodes were quite invigorating. I kinda miss the mystery.

Darn spy camera still will not work.

The Spy Camera I was using on the front stairs that actually took several questionable pictures quit working. It still comes on but does not activate when someone or something walks in front of it. I suppose its worn out. So I have set up my trail camera in the same area I had the spy camera. Now we will see if anything unusual develops with it. I'll let it run another week and then check it out. I'll report if anything strange appears.

Halloween photos, again, no show

Once again, Halloween appears to be a bust. Once I can purchase a better machine to view my digitile pictures on that could change. But printing several shots that I took over the Halloween period, none came up with any "orbs". The weather was horrible on Trick or Treat night and although I planned for about 400 trick or treaters; only about 100 braved the weather. I even had this life sized skeleton dressed in a tuxedo standing by the door to greet everyone. He talked and his eyes flash and he scared the bejibbers out of the young goblins but not bad enough that they still didn't get their treats. One little girl, about 6 years old, got her treat and as she was walking away down the front stairs, turned and pointed her finger at the skeleton and said, "He's really scarey". Maybe he scared off the real ghosts? This is the third Halloween I've recorded no, I call them transparent disks, but others call them "orbs". But for three Halloweens prior to the last three I had several pictures with the strange orbs. I haven't sent the film cameras film awaay for printing as yet, but as I took most of the shots with the digitile and nothing appears to be evident; I have small hope that anything will appear on the film camera's film.The weather was so bad this year that I did very little decorating for Halloween. I had a line of jack-o-lanterns across the front of the downstairs balcony; two jack-lanterns on either side of the stairs to the front door, My skeleton butler on the left side of the front door, Elvira carrying a Jack-o-lantern on the right side. Guarding the treats were a demon with a green jack-o-lantern on a tray and Elvira as a traditional witch.As I give out toys, flashlights, and glow sticks for treats, I can save whats left for next Halloween. In fact, I probably have enough left to take care of next Halloween.

Small black dog back at it.

What on earth could a section of wall have about it that so excites my younger black schnauzer? That same section of wall beside the doorway out of the diningroom and into the library. She hadn't been interested in it for several weeks and now she's back at it. Barks furiously at the wall for several minutes at a time. I have it blocked off so she can't dig the wall now but that certainly does nothing to stop the barking.As I have reported before the wall is brick with an overlayer of plaster. It is about 17 inches thick. I have investigated the basement where this wall is built onto a solid granite foundation block. I see no holes, no points for entry. I have left out bait, it remains untouched. The older dog couldn't care less except he sometimes goes to the kitchen to get away from the younger dog's racket. If she keeps it up she's going to get a muzzle. We've about had it. I cannot understand what on earth only she can sense? Seems to me that if it was some creature in the wall the other dog would also be having a fit.

I, again, set up the spy camera and aimed it up our front stairs. It took over a hundred pictures. What set off the camera is beyond me. I have a few night=time shots of lights that really make no sense, but the final three shots kinda creeped me out. The first shot appears to be a transparant human, extremely tall, his legs very visible his waist is visible but starts to merge with the darkness on the stairs so the head and shoulders are not visible. The second shot shows just the "legs" about halfway up the stairs and the last picture shows what appears to the the bottoms of the legs at the extreme range of available light. At first I thought it must be me. I must have gone upstairs and the camera photographed me. But even at 6'2" I'm not that large and I'm anything but transparent. My wife wonders if the camera malfunctioned in some way; so I reset the camera and walked in front of it....the dang thing refuses to function. It came on. but it does not shoot. I'm going to have to see what the problem is. I still intend to reshoot that episode and see if I'm transparent; if maybe I got something else. Halloween is coming. I do want to be ready for that period when the Celts thought he vale between the living and dead is thinnest.I am very knowledgeable about film cameras because IO worked with them for years; even having use of a darkroom on many occasions. But I have to admit; I know very little about digitale cameras and their workings. Over Halloween I plan to use both kinds while I can still get my film processed. I haven't had a darkroom in years.

Possible ball lightning or ?

My wife's turn to experience the weird. This morning my wife and I went into town for a few groceries. We returned in the early afternoon as storm clouds rolled up on the horizon. Its Labor Day what more is expected. It began spluttering rain shortly after our arrival and it rained off and on for the rest of the afternoon. There were several peals of thunder and lightning but nothing intense. When we arrived at home my wife sat down at the kitchen table and announced she had paperwork she had to finish. So I took the hint and took the dogs with me into the Library with the computer. An hour or so later as I was catching up on some correspondence I heard my wife call me. I went to the kitchen but my wife said, "Forget it you're too late". "Too late for what?" I replied. She then explained that as she was working on her reports she noticed the overhead lights were flickering (directly over the kitchen table are two 1-00 watt equivilent coiled florescent bulbs (the kind our dimbulb government insists we use). My wife figured either they were about to go out, or the electricity was about to go off (Which it does,here,frequently). Looking up towards the overhead lights she saw a bright ball of light bouncing about 8 ft. high in front of the kitchen fireplace. It was passing east to west. She called me, but I was too slow getting there. The ball passed into the cupboards on the western wall. As she discribed the light, I immediately thought "Ball Lightning". I have read a good bit about ball lightning but I've only seen it once and that was around 50 or 60 years ago.The ball lightning I observed came swooping in a low curve out of the sky. It was about the size of a basketball and glowed with static electricity as it bounced across a neighbors backyard and across my parents backyard and fizzled out on a barbed wire fence seperating the backyard from another neighbors garden area. I think the ball lightning that I witnessed so long ago would have left scorch marks on wood. But this small lightball my wife witnessed passed into a wooden wallcupboard with not a trace of where it entered. So I'm not certain what she saw. I'm sinply reporting it as it was discribed to me. I wish I had seen it.