Sunday, November 18th, 2007
FREAKIEST INCIDENT EVER!
Just less than a half an hour ago, I had the most unnerving incident that I’ve ever had in my life, and I’ve had a few. This one really freaked me out, probably because I’ve often thought how freaky this would be if it ever really happened.
The home we live in is over 100 years old and though someone put in some updated windows, probably in the 80’s, they still aren’t very energy efficient. For this reason, every winter I cover them with that shrink plastic that you heat with a blow dryer. It takes an entire day to do it but it does help to keep the old house warmer in the winter.
In our bathroom, there is a window right behind the toilet that is covered with this plastic. The bottom pane of glass is frosted so as to block the view from outside, but the top pane is clear. You can’t see a reflection in the bottom pane but you can in the top pane. Anyway, with the plastic over the window, you can plainly see the reflection of the bathroom behind you if you’re looking at the window.
I can’t think of a way to put this delicately, maybe because of my excitement or perhaps my lack of vocabulary, but at any rate, I was standing at the toilet, ‘doing my business’ and facing the window right behind the toilet. As is customary, I was looking down, attending to ‘my business’ and when I was finished, I raised my head and caught the image of an older, gray haired woman who appeared to be wearing a pink robe, walking out of the bathroom!
At first, it was almost like I was watching a movie or something, I mean, it just didn’t register. I was zipping and snapping my pants as I saw this woman walk out of the bathroom. I think I even looked back down to flush the toilet when suddenly, it hit me like a ton of bricks! I whirled around and ran out of the bathroom trying to find this ‘woman’, but of course there was nothing there.
I went to the living room and my wife was stretched out on the couch. I asked her if she was just in the bathroom and she said no. ( I knew it wasn’t my wife that I had seen. My wife has long black hair and doesn’t wear a robe. I just wanted to cover all the bases and rule out everything, I think.) I asked if she saw anything and she hadn’t. I had to tell her about this right away, though she didn’t seem interested in investigating the incident like I was. I’ve given up on trying to keep these things from her.
I have a video camera set up in the bathroom right now to see if I can catch this woman on video. I didn’t see her face, only the back of her head, and her back, almost down to her waist. I’m pretty sure I even looked away after I saw her because it just didn’t register at first.
I’ve thought from time to time how freaky it would be to be looking into a mirror and to see an apparition behind you like I’ve seen in some movies and just the thought of that has always given me chills. Though it wasn’t a mirror I was looking into, I can tell you that it was absolutely as freaky as I always thought it would be.
I did not have that ‘feeling’ that I wasn’t alone when this happened. It’s strange to me that sometimes, I can almost tell you when something is going to happen, and other times like tonight, I had no clue. I keep seeing that woman in my mind now. The whole episode keeps running through my mind and I keep seeing her walking out of the bathroom.
THAT was freaky folks. I’ve never, ever seen an apparition before and it has absolutely chilled me to the bone.
You are sooooo lucky! I was laughing as you talked about checking to make certain it wasn’t your wife and I thought, “I wonder if there was someone outside and then thought, “Oh, Yeah…so many elderly women wander around someone’s yard in their bathrobe.” I can’t wait to hear if anything turns up on the video tape.
The first time you see soemthing it about makes you have a heart attack. I’m not one to see things, I usually feel them but my son sees people off and on. We have much higher activitiy around the holidays as well. Hope you catch something on the video.
I’m not really considering myself lucky at this point. Maybe a time will come when I do, but now now. I’m telling you all, this really scared me, and I’m the brave one of the bunch. I always thought that if it ever really did happen, I’d handle it much better than I seem to be.
I recorded 5 hours of video so far, one hour at a time, and caught nothing. I’ll keep trying. I need a way to capture longer stretches of video. I thought I would try for evp’s too, but I’m not so sure now. I don’t know if I want to see or hear much more at this point.