Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Well, true to form, I’ve just had another ‘incident’ that happened after my wife had left and I was the only one home.

About 10 minutes ago, my wife left to visit some of her family. I am alone here, except for the cat.

Our toaster is old…very old. We bought it at a second hand store, just because we liked it. It’s a chrome, 2 slice toaster that looks like it maybe came from the 50’s or 60’s. I had to replace the electrical cord because it was fraying in some spots, would get quite warm when we used the toaster and just generally didn’t look safe. I replaced it with a heavy duty appliance cord, and that new cord is relatively short. Bear with me, this info will come into play later.

I had just made some toast to have with my coffee and took the toast and coffee to my office where I was reading. Suddenly I heard a loud ‘crash’ coming from the kitchen. My first thought was that the cat had jumped up on the counter and knocked something off. But without even getting up from my chair I could see the cat on the back of the sofa, where he likes to sit and look out the window.

I got up to investigate and found my old toaster on the floor in the kitchen. Now, I had just made toast and the toaster was still a bit warm. I have toast with my coffee often in the morning and there is a routine to making it. I put a plate in front of the toaster when I make toast so I know I didn’t have the toaster close to the front edge of the countertop.

Also, the toaster was unplugged, of course, as I found it on the floor. I picked the toaster up, set it back on the counter and plugged it back in. I then pulled the toaster to the front of the countertop as far as it would go, but the cord is so short it wouldn’t even make it to the front of the countertop. This toaster had to be unplugged first, if it were to accidently fall off the counter.

I know I left the toaster back toward the back of the counter, still plugged in, after I made my toast. Something had to have pushed with pretty good force to unplug that toaster and then knock it off the counter.

I LOVE that old toaster and don’t want it broken, so my ‘houseguests’ got a pretty good scolding this morning!

So far, the toaster still works.

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

I heard the footsteps again last night. Not nearly like it used to be, but present none the less. I got up twice and walked the house, but of course I found nothing.

There is just this ‘feeling’ that I get when we’re having activity that’s hard to explain. I know I’ve tried before and I never feel like I explain it adequately.

The very atmosphere becomes electrically charged, or it feels like that anyway.

I’ve thought about investing in some night vision cameras, but then there would be hours and hours of video to examine every day and I simply don’t have the time to do that.

Friday, February 20th

Well, all our activity had stopped, but just as quickly as it stopped, it has started again.

I had felt a ‘presence’ almost all morning since roughly 8:00 AM. I have not felt a presence in our home for months until today.

I’ve spent the morning in my office but I haven’t been able to get very much done because I kept hearing footsteps and going out to check the house. This is the first time in a long time that I’ve heard these footsteps and I’d almost forgotten how unsettling they can be.

My wife has been gone for the largest part of the day helping her sister pack and get ready to move next weekend. She came back around 1:00 PM but had to leave again for a dentists appointment. Nothing has happened while she was here.

At least 5 times today I had gotten up and went out to search the house because of these footsteps. My cat is also hearing them because every time I come out of my office, he’s looking in the direction of the footsteps and staring intently.

The last time I heard the footsteps I again went to see if I could find out what’s making them. To my surprise, I found my bedroom door closed. We never close that door. There is no reason to close it, because my wife and I live here alone. Besides that, my wife likes to let the light coming in from the bedroom windows into the rest of the home.

I stood outside the bedroom door and listened and I heard someone moving around in there. I was quite freaked out at this point because I keep a gun in that room for home defense, and I knew it wasn’t my wife that was making the footsteps and noises. I was the only person in the house.

After about 30 seconds to a minute of listening, I knew I had to go in there and see what was happening, but before I even reached out to grab the doorknob, the door opened by itself! I was standing right next to the door as it opened!

This was no breeze that opened the door. It’s winter and all the exterior doors and windows are closed. Our furnace was not running at the time. Besides that, the door was completely closed and I even heard the doorknob turn.

I backed up and just stood there for another minute or so before I went into the bedroom. Of course, when I went in, there was no one in there.

This is the second time, I believe, that a door has opened by itself in this house. It appears as though our experiences here are not over. It’s after 3:00 PM and I still feel this presence.

I have a video camera set up and pointed at that door. Hopefully I’ll catch it closing again.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

First off, I want to apologize for not responding to the comments on the visible energy page. I honestly had no idea there were comments on there or I would have responded sooner.

Secondly, there just hasn’t been anything happening. It’s all just stopped.

I can still see the ‘visible energy’, but there are no disturbances in it, there are no more footsteps at night, no more voices, apparitions, or anything to report. I’m actually kind of sad about that too. I don’t know why it’s all stopped.

I don’t know if I should take the same steps again, the steps that I took when I first realized that there was more to ghosts and spirits than I allowed myself to believe, to open myself up to it all. I don’t know if I should go hunting for this again, or if I should just allow it to diminish like it has.

Friday, July 25th, 2008

I had just returned home from a week long business trip. I took my luggage into the bedroom, grabbed some clean clothes and headed for the shower. My wife was in the living room talking on the phone. The TV was on and I could hear both the TV and my wife’s conversation. I wanted to unwind so I closed the bathroom door to cut down on the sound.

I started to undress and as I pulled my t-shirt up over my head I heard a womans voice humming a tune. At first I thought it was my wife who had come into the bathroom. It didn’t take long to realize that I was indeed alone and that no one had come in.

I pulled the shirt off and stood there listening, and the humming continued for about 30 seconds. At the same time, I could still hear my wife talking on the phone, as well as the TV. The humming that I was hearing was not a muffled sound like my wife’s voice or the TV. The humming was coming from inside the bathroom and was as loud as if there were another person in there with me.

After about 30 seconds it stopped and I didn’t hear it anymore.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

It’s now early Wednesday morning and this event occured Tuesday night, around 10:30 PM.

I had just gotten into bed and was fluffing the pillows and trying to get comfortable. My wife was in the living room watching TV with her cat curled up beside her. I tossed and turned a bit, trying to find that perfect position to fall asleep. I finally found it and layed still. I was perfectly still for about 10 seconds when something suddenly jarred the bed.

At first I thought the cat had jumped up on the bed and I glanced at the foot of the bed to see. I saw what appeared to be something small quickly dart off the bed, but it didn’t make the normal movement of the bed, like when the cat normally jumps off. Also, I always hear the cat land on the floor and I didn’t hear that last night. There was no movement of the bed at all and no sound.

To be honest, it was dark and I couldn’t tell if this ‘thing’ darted off the bed or ducked down at the foot of the bed.

So I got up, turned the light on and there was nothing there. I went into the living room and asked my wife if she was just in the bedroom and she said no. I asked if the cat was just in the bedroom and she said that cat had been right by her side for the last hour.

I know I saw something at the foot of the bed but I couldn’t make out what it was in the dark. But I definitely saw the movement and I definitely felt the jarring of the bed.

Oddly enough, this event didn’t seem to bother me at all, because I immediately went back into the bedroom, turned the light back off and went to sleep. It was a busy day and I was tired.

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Well, I certainly got a good reminder this morning that we are not alone in this house.

I was sitting in the living room watching television and drinking my coffee when I saw the shadow of a person on the floor of the front room. It looked like someone just walking out of the bedroom and into the front room. At first I expected my wife to come walking through the door and when she didn’t it dawned on me that she had left earlier to go to some garage sales with her sisters.

Then I thought it must have been someone walking around outside but when I went to look there was no one there. I came back in and tried to recreate the shadow and was able to do so just by walking out of my bedroom and into the front room. I didn’t hear any footsteps when I saw the shadow.

Looks like they’re back. = )

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

I apologize for the lack of entries, but nothing is happening, at least that I’ve noticed. It’s strange that we’ve now gone this long without any activity. I don’t know, I can’t explain it.

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

It’s been unusually quiet these past weeks. With all the activity of the Holidays, maybe we were just not noticing things as much, but now we’ve settled down, back into our same old routine.

You may remember the problems we were having with the TV in the bedroom. Well, we got rid of that TV and put the one from the office in the bedroom until we could get another one. Once we got that TV out of the bedroom and put the office TV in the bedroom, the activity stopped, so we assumed it was just a faulty TV.

We finally bought a new one for the bedroom and I got my office TV back.

Now last night, as my wife was watching in the bedroom, the same old activity happened again, only this time with a twist. The new TV started turning on and off by itself, and also changing channels by itself. This is a brand new TV!

Also, we have satellite TV so there are two different remote controls in the bedroom right now, until I figure out how to program the remote to the new TV. So the fact that the TV was turning on and off, multiple times by itself, is completely separate from the satellite box changing channels by itself.

Also, yesterday morning I made my pot of coffee as usual and after the first cup, somehow the coffee maker turned off. This is a Bunn machine and it does not turn itself off. You have to physically turn the thing off. I am a coffee addict, and I know I didn’t turn the machine off.

I didn’t notice until I got my second or third cup and it was just lukewarm. I was the only one home when that happened.

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The month of December and Christmas went by uneventfully, as far as any paranormal activity. At least none that I noticed anyway. I don’t know if that’s because nothing happened or because we were maybe too busy to notice when something did happen.

It’s always in the back of my mind though, with the watching and waiting every time I can find the time to think about it. I’ve calmed down considerably from the apparition in the bathroom. It’s been a month or more and I’m still alive so I guess I really have nothing to fear.

There have been the occasional unexplained noise in another room once in awhile, but those happen so often we hardly even pay much attention to them anymore.

Well, today…actually about 20 minutes ago, I was reminded that we are not alone. My wife had just walked out the door to go to a niece’s birthday party at her sisters house. I was at the door to see her off and tell her to be careful and have fun. I closed the door and turned around to pick up a mess I had made on the kitchen counter before going back into the office.

As I was cleaning up the mess, I heard a very loud and long ’sigh’ just a few feet behind me. I spun around but of course nothing was there. My wife took the vodeo camera to the birthday party so I grabbed my camera and snapped 7 quick photos, but caught nothing on any of them.

This sigh was as loud and clear as if it had come from a living human being right there in the same room with me.