So let me ask you this…Have you ever
been sitting in your house—or any house for that matter—and a light just turns off
or on by itself without any human intervention?
I am not referring to any type of
electrical fault like a bad switch, loose wiring/connections, voltage
fluctuations, power surges, overloaded circuits, failing fixtures or bad bulbs.
If these were to blame, your light would have an issue pretty much ALL THE TIME
until you had it repaired. Remember this part as you read on.
I am referring to incidents where none
of the above was to blame and your light turned off when it was on or turned on
when it was off and you know for a fact no one had touched the switch.
There have been several incidents
involving lights that happened in our house over the years, of which no
explanation could be found. I have written about them before on the blog but
they were included in posts about other paranormal events, so today I thought I
would round them all up together. I will attempt to keep the re-telling on the
short side (yes, ME--known for making a short story long) since they are
detailed elsewhere on the blog.
First incident: My mom and I used to talk about everything under the sun, including our
earliest childhood memories. One of her first memories is of being a very small
child, around the age of two or three, in her playpen in the kitchen of our
house. (I STILL have that playpen—it came with the house. You haven’t seen
creepy until you’ve seen a 1930’s homemade wooden playpen.) She vividly
recalled being terrified at seeing a large ball of light come out of the dining
room and into the kitchen. I know what you’re thinking—how does anyone remember
something from when they were two or three years old? It happens. I fell down a
flight of stairs at 9 months old and I still remember bits and pieces of that
tumble.
The ball of light my mother described was quite a strange thing for a child to see, but freaky enough that she retained the memory and never forgot it. In later years, she asked her mother about it. No one else had seen the ball of light on that day. Although this has nothing to do with lights turning on and off by themselves, it is an unexplained event in this house and the source and identification of that light remains unknown.
Second incident: It was 1981. My father died unexpectedly and about a week later my mother saw the light in the kitchen come on after everyone had gone to bed. She was in her bedroom, which was not far from the kitchen and could clearly see it. It stayed on for a few moments, then went out again. She knew for a fact no one was in the kitchen. She had her mechanically-inclined brother check out the light switch, wiring and fixture. He found nothing wrong with any of it but replaced the switch for peace of mind. I believe it happened 2 more times after the first night, which just so happened to be the evening she had lit a candle at church in his memory. She was convinced it was my father playing with the light switch to let her know he was still around.
Messing around with lights is a very
common activity in the paranormal world. Experts think it’s because ghosts and
spirits find it relatively easy to manipulate electromagnetic energy because
they are made of energy themselves. Therefore, turning on a radio, tv or a
light is easy for them to accomplish. They don’t necessarily have to physically
move the position of the light switch to turn a light on or off.
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Further proof of this is the light in my
upstairs hallway. There is an on/off switch at the top of the stairs and also
at the bottom. Recently, within the last few months, on a few occasions, I had
purposely turned this light on with the downstairs switch, confirmed it had
indeed come on, went into the kitchen
and when I had come back moments later, the light I had just turned on was now
off. The first time, I assumed I had just thought I turned the light on when
maybe I actually didn’t. The second and third times this happened, I began to
think a ghost was to blame. I mentioned these incidents to my son, who lived
here for some years with his grandmother and he reported the same thing
happened to him on many occasions with that same light. There is nothing at all
wrong with the light switch or wiring.
Second question: have you ever witnessed
(aside from a horror movie) the extremely fast flickering of a light that had
no known cause? This is a classic horror movie effect, the intention of which
is to make you feel something supernatural is causing it, distorting your
vision of the scene and making you feel very uneasy. You just know something
terrifying is about to happen. It’s super effective. This exact thing happened
in my very own kitchen two years ago to 2 lights at the same time, witnessed by
me and my son. Watching it unfold, you would have thought you were smackdab in
the middle of a John Carpenter movie. But nope, it was just my kitchen which
happens to be in my pretty haunted house.
I had written about it on this blog at
that time. Here is the post in case you missed it:
Three separate times, the phantom car was outside our house.
How do we know this? Because when it happened at night (it also occurred in the daytime), it shone it’s headlights in through the windows. Plus you could hear it.
How do we know it simply wasn’t a real car? Read the blog posts (links below) where it is all explained. It is also probable there was a 4th time involving this that my brother and I encountered together when we were quite young. There is a short list of paranormal encounters at my house that actually sort of alarmed me to any extent. This is one of them, due to its multiple “appearances” and plain ole creepiness.
They have been written about on the blog
previously:
I started writing this post one late
afternoon before supper. I then went to eat and while sitting at my kitchen
table, facing the pantry, the light in there blinked out for a micro second and
then came back on. I have sat there countless times, often with that light on,
and the light has never gone out. Pretty big coincidence that it happened on
the day when I was talking about and writing about lights going out for no
reason.
Before moving back to the homestead 2
years ago, I lived in another non-haunted house for about 20 years and a couple
of other places before that. The number of incidents of lights turning on or
off on their own or flickering at horror-movie speed in those other locations
was zero. Not once was there an occurrence of anything like this happening. Yet
in my haunted house, it has happened a lot.
It’s not rocket science. It’s just some
ghosts. They are able to turn a light off, so they do. They can also, speak, make
noise, touch you, move things around and take your belongings. Basically, they
are roommates who don’t pay for anything or do any chores. But hey, they were
here first so I guess that’s fair.
The Curious Incident of the Rushing Air
Over the past month or two, it has been
fairly quiet here on the paranormal front. Not a whole lot has transpired.
However, there was one incident I wanted to mention. It is not enough for a
whole blog post on its own, so I will just include it here.
I was nearing the completion of a
renovation of our downstairs hallway and applying a primer basecoat to the
walls. It was a fairly hot July day and very still outside with no wind. I had
a fan on nearby but it was not aimed directly at me. Suddenly, I heard a bang
from the direction of the dining room, which I had clear sight of from where I
was working. The cat, incidentally, was nowhere around. I stopped what I was
doing to have a good look in the direction the noise had come from to see if
something had fallen over somewhere. Everything was where it was supposed to be
and I could not see the source of the noise I had heard. While I was standing
there looking at my dining room, I felt a fast rush of air come right over me
and sort of through me. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I have no other
accurate way to describe it. I also know it sounds like a cheesy haunted house
movie scene, but again, it is what actually happened. I stood there, paintbrush
in hand, thinking, “Woah..what the hell was that?” I have never felt anything like
it before. The only source of anything closely resembling a wind was the fan I
had on nearby. It was on a low speed but could not have been the source of what
I felt. What I felt was very sudden, very fast moving and felt like it moved
over and through me. I did not perceive that it had any particular temperature
to it (you know, like on Ghost Hunters when they encounter a freezing cold spot
or burst of air) and it did not do anything to me, like cause an electrical
sensation or send a shiver through me. It was over in a few seconds.
As previously mentioned on other posts,
sometimes jokingly or not jokingly I will say out loud to my mom (who passed
away two years ago) something like, “Okay mom, only a months’ worth/weeks’
worth/ a day’s worth of work left and this hallway will be done. I sure hope
you like it!” I had said this very thing
about an hour before I heard the mysterious bang and felt the rush of air. So
maybe it was her, letting me know her opinion of the work being done. Maybe it
wasn’t her. I don’t know. There have been many different ghosts here and they
come and go whenever they want. I can’t say for sure 100% it was anything
paranormal but I’ve experienced enough in my lifetime to tell you it was
abnormal and not wind from outside or from the fan. There are no other
plausible explanations.
Update
on the missing coffee cup and hairdressing bag
Back on March 8/25, I reported in
another post that these items mysteriously vanished into thin air. As of this writing
on August 4/25, the cup and bag ( and its contents) are still missing.
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