Posted on 10/07/2016 8:07:16 PM PDT by lafroste
I know that many of you think I am a total nutcase. I thought about this today, and have decided to ask if anyone has some really strange stories. These are true events in their life that not even a fiction writer would touch. I have several. Maybe that's why I'm half crazy. Anyway, it's Friday night and let's play a bit.
Grew up in a haunted house. Shadow people running around by day. Glowing, floating orbs by night. Not a fan of old houses to this day.
Now that I think about it, it may have happened to me a few other times. But it was long ago.
bttt
How old was your house?
My son and I encountered a UFO in broad daylight, on a city street.
He was in second grade, and I was walking him home from school.
He pointed up at the sky, saying, “What’s that, Mama?”
It was the weirdest shiny round thing. Sunlight glinted off it.
It was flying maybe 500 feet above and in front of us. We watched it drift slowly lower, like a balloon losing altitude. Then it bobbed and zigzagged, real jerky, and came in close. Now it was maybe 50 feet above and in front of us.
It hovered for a moment, then zoomed in to about 20 feet. We were on the sidewalk. It was right above the parking lot of McDonald’s, near the roof.
It was looking right at us!!
There were people getting out of a car, going in to McDonald’s, but they didn’t seem to notice the UFO hovering a few feet above their heads!
I asked my son if he was seeing this thing. He was.
We could see it clearly, and it looked EXACTLY like a disco ball !! Same size and shape. Perfectly round as a beach ball, but covered with little square shiny mirror thingys.
(I should mention, this happened in the late 1970s. So maybe a disco ball had escaped? LOL.)
But the disco ball had little wiry feet, and a straight-up wire antenna on top.
We just stood there staring.
Then a tiny red light on the front came on and blinked a couple of times, as if it was taking our picture.
Then it zigzagged left, right a few times, went around in a circle, then straight up, and sped off into the clouds and disappeared.
I thought, maybe a weather balloon? But wouldn’t a balloon drift on the wind? This thing moved purposefully, up, down, sideways.
It was motorized. Someone was controlling it.
Could a remote controlled toy fly off into the clouds?
Recently my son and I were reminiscing about this. I told him it must have been a drone. He said no, drones didn’t exist in the 70s.
But maybe the military had them, and the public wasn’t being told yet?
But why did it seem so interested in us?
And why didn’t anyone else see it?
A multifaceted, reflective ball could effectively camouflage itself with surrounding light and color under most circumstances, unless it was in a position to reflect sunlight or other bright light.
“So maybe a disco ball had escaped?”
I don’t think disco balls were self-aware back then. :)
Just to creep you out, not everyone in a group will see a UFO.
Have you or your son had any other weird experiences?
200 hundred years, which is not old by European standards, but weird and eccentric in the way that Colonial era homes often are.
200 years is plenty of time to build up a history. When I lived in England, there were stone farmhouses down the road that were older than that.
Oh yes. Too many to recount here. We’ve always had a kind of protective ESP in our family. We always sense when any of us is in danger or trouble, even hundreds of miles away.
Just to creep you out :-) not everybody can see ghosts, but I can. I’ve known people who live in haunted houses. They’ve heard noises, footsteps, felt weird coldness, etc etc, but have never actually seen the ghost.
I walk in, and there she is, standing right there by the draperies. I describe the ghost—clothing, hairstyle—and turns out she’s the 1890s era wife of the old confederate soldier who built the house.
Cool.
My childhood friends’ family lived in a haunted house. Many times when I and one of them were downstairs in the rec room we would hear footsteps on the floor overhead and there was never anyone there when I checked. I never saw anything, but a couple of them did.
Bump for more action.
Bttt
That’s what Carl Jung would call ‘synchronicity’ - he didn’t believe that there were coincidences like this without meaning.
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