A Very Eerie Moment!!!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was up very late, last night playing around on the board. It was around 3:30 am that the feeling came over me, that something “wasn’t quite right.” I don’t know what prompted this feeling.

I got up from my computer, went to the front door and looked outside. Sure enough, something was amiss. All of the streetlights had gone out. It was disturbingly silent outside, as well.

It was lightning heavily, (no rain) in all directions, as far as one could see. The lightning was rather odd, as it was “backlighting” most of the clouds. It almost seemed to roll across the sky in waves, like a bed sheet flowing in the breeze. Then it got a bit strange. There were occasionly bursts of “reddish gold” lightning. I have never seen anything like this before. I saw at least three of these. The only thing I can compare it to is the color of the sparks a wall outlet make when shorted out.

Then things got a lot weirder, but not in the sky. The following sounds nuts, even to myself, and I saw it with my own eyes! There were these subtle “puffs of lights” swooping around in the air, about 10 feet up from the ground, across the street, in the neighbors’ front yards. These “lights” were translucent white, and left “contrails” behind them as they swooped around. There were probably 3 or four of these. The first thing that naturally came to my mind was that they were some sort of optical illusions or apparitions.

I don’t know what the hell they were, and I don’t think I want to. They couldn’t have been any kind of illusion, as they were three dimensional, and had full range of motion. If they were “manmade” they would have to have been holographic projections a la Star Trek fashion. Trust me, no one else in this neighborhood is likely to even know what a hologram is to begin with. Lots of old folks here.

Then it got even weirder. The swooping lights didn’t really frighten me, as much as fascinate me. I “shrugged them off”
and returned to watching the lightning show in the sky. It was at this time, I got really freaked out. When I was looking up in the clouds, the lightning and clouds made the “appearance” of a pair of eyes watching me. I was overcome with a horrifying feeling, and immediately went back indoors.

Now granted, the “eyes in the clouds” was probably just a freaky coincidence, but it was disturbing, nonetheless. As for the swooping floating “ghost lights” I have no idea what they may have been. Coincidence, optical illusion, paranormal stuff, I don’t care! It was just damn WEIRD and creepy! Even if all of this is logically explainable in scientific terms, it does not make it any less freaky IMHO. I don’t like when spooky stuff like this happens to me.

I think I will go read some Psalms now. :stuck_out_tongue:

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The moon men are after you, MSK!! To survive, you must do what I say quickly. Don’t ask any questions. There’s no time to lose!

  1. Make one aluminum foil hat.
  2. Make one pair of lead shoes.
  3. Give hat to next door neighbor.
  4. Give shoes to the guy across the street.
  5. Drive to your mayor’s house.
  6. Sow his rose garden with salt.
  7. Piss on his dog.
  8. Return home
  9. Hide in a dark corner of your basement and wait.

Here’s the explanation that you don’t have time to read:

The police and personal security guys sent to your home by the angry, perplexed mayor will find you hiding in your basement babbling about moon men. Upon asking your neighbors about you, they will discover that aluminum foil hat and lead shoes. Now the police will begin to suspect that there is really something amiss in your neighborhood. They will call in the city water and power guys to investigate your environment.

When the moon men return to collect you, they will find uniformed guys with guns, uniformed guys with white trucks and hardhats, neighbors that appear to be geared up to resist the moon man invasion and one angry dog. They will think twice about messing with you.

Don’t worry, if the moon men do not return because they are too intimidated, you will not go to jail. You won’t even have time to say the word “insanity” before you’ll be lounging in a super comfy padded room while wearing a most intriguing borrowed smoking jacket. All will be right with the world and you will be out of reach of those bastards from beyond.

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You probably saw what is called Ball Lightning ::Swiddles waits for the snickering to die down.:: It’s VERY rare, consider yourself lucky. Or you may have seen St. Elmo’s Fire ::Swiddles waits for the snickering to die down.:: No, not the movie.

Whatever it was, you’re lucky!

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Creepy, spooky! I’ve heard of St. Elmo’s fire, but never ball lightening.

I saw a lightening display Monday night similar to what you observed, MSK. I wish I’d stayed outside longer. Maybe some eyes would’ve peered at me too!! :wink:

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Did you ever consider you could have been dreaming? It is perfectly possible to be awake, then fall asleep and dream, then wake again without realizing you ever went to sleep. The dream seems like something that really happened.

How do I know? It happened to me. I was watching TV, and I “saw” a news report that said Ringo Starr had died. I thought he was dead for a couple years before I saw him alive & well and figured out it must have been a dream.

(Don’t ask about the weirdness of that dream - that was one of my less freaky messed up dreams, believe it or not.)

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I’m leaning towards Swiddles explanation. My first thought when I read your account was ball lightning. With what you described, it seemed you were watching an electrical storm (all the lightning, but no rain) and there must have been a lot of static electricity to cause what you saw.

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Forget the tinfoil hat and lead shoes, You better go get some kind of titanium ass chastity belt or next time you’ll wake up while being probed.

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Good point, wolfman. I never sleep not wearing my Kevlar boxers.

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ok Swiddles, thanks for the info, NOT ;). I looked at the pics and they resemble very much what I saw, and they were about the size of grapefruits, as the page describes. So, it probably was ball lightning, damnit! I was HOPING it was ghosts! damn damn damn! science sucks sometimes!!!

And BTW Aeryn Sun, I was wide awake.

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AAHH!! MSK, what are you still doing here? Run, man! Run for the hills! You’re acting like you want to wait around and invite a moon man butt probe!

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If I’m going to believe anything paranormal, I’d stick with the ghosts. Moon men! HA!!! re: butt probe, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad, as I haven’t eaten enough fiber, lately. LOL

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I’m surprised nobody mentioned this explanation yet.

There was a massive solar flare esterday. They’ve been expecting a wonderful didplay of Aurora Borealis. MRs. Cal and I kep up on this, because we’ve never seen such a display, and would like to. Last night it was too cloudy up here in Massachusetts, so we missed out. It’s supposed to rain all weekend, too. Drat.

But you, you lucky dog, who have not been looking and hoping for this phenomenon, may have been blessed with a vision of the dance of the solar ions. And didn’t know it.

Of course, it MIGHT have been space aliens or something, or it might have been too cloudy where you are, too. But my money is on the Northern Lights.

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Having seen the northern lights, I’m pretty confident that’s not what it is. They are not known to dance around about 10 ft off the ground in ball-shapes the size of grapefruit. Plus, he mentioned it was cloudy so he probably couldn’t have seen the aurora borealis anyway.

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Fine. Suit yourself. Just don’t come cryin’ to me about your sore ass when it’s all over. I tried to warn you. Did you listen? NooOOoo, you just had to be a tough guy. We’ll just see how tough you are after those moon men exploit your feminine side.

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The Northern Lights do not float in blobs ten feet off the ground. As for NL, it was HEAVILY clouded here. All that was visible was lightning and thunderheads. And those damn creepy “eyes”

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My ass is *already/i] sore from my lousy diet! It feels like there is already a probe up there! :frowning:

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Was there a strong ozone smell? I hear that is one of the main corrobarating factors for ball lightning. Have you also considered the possibility that you have tinkerbell style fairies living in your yard?

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TMI, MagicalSilverKey. TMI.

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I don’t suppose you had hit your head recently. I always see bright floating balls of light after I hit my head hard, eg. hitting head against the wall repeatedly, having my head used as a softball, safes falling on it while standing in for Wile E Coyote.

[sub]Note to self: Need to stop doing the aforementioned activities.[/sub]

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LOL you’re lucky the img command is turned of! LOLOL j.k.