Strange Nuances
Report by: Debra Pickman
We moved into the house December 31, 1992, having no idea that there was anything strange or odd about it. For a few weeks while we unpacked and set up house things were quiet, but perhaps only because in doing so we lived with much disorder. Beginning mid January small things, easily explained away, occurred and I often wonder how much activity went unnoticed.
Once we realized what was going on in the house, I had to think back and write down many of the activities we had found somewhat strange at the time but didn't pay much mind to. Many of the happenings never took place again, however some did.
The first strange thing we experienced was our normally quiet and friendly dog barking fiercely at the threshold of the nursery room door. This subsided after about a week or ten days.
Our cats seemingly followed, with their eyes, something that often flew over our heads. We could never figure out what they found so captivating because we could never see what their eyes were frantically chasing.
Much of the activity occurred sporadically over a period of weeks; however, some of it was witnessed several times within any given day. This activity included many electrically based moments. Often we would hear the timer on our microwave or the stove sound as if it had been set and just reached the end of its cycle.
One situation, I often think back on as comical. We had installed a ceiling fan in the living room complete with a set of lights. There were many evenings where Tony and I would set in the living room in the evening and watch TV. Often enough, and having so many windows in the house we simply opened windows and turned on the fan to circulate a cooling breeze through the house.
As we sat there, the lights would dim quite low. This happened almost every night for a while. The fact that the wall switch was directly across the room from us when this happened had become a concern, but even more so was the fact that there was no dimmer switch hooked up for the light. We had the light, the electric checked out by an electrician to rule out bad wiring, and no problem was found.
The light continued to dim. What was even more intriguing was that no other lights, nor the TV or stereo changed at all; nothing on the same electrical circuit fluctuated or seemed effected by whatever was causing the light on the fan to dim. Tony made the off cuff comment, "Hah, we must have a ghost." We had no idea how right he was.
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