Strange Nuances (continued - page 2)
Report by: Debra Pickman
I detected the cold spots mostly in the area of the stairs or the front door; often as I was going up the stairs, and on a daily basis. This is one activity that remained throughout the entire time we lived in the house.
We occasionally had problems with our portable phone. There were a few instances when I had not been able to use it while standing in the nursery, however upon exiting into the hall, the party that I was speaking to returned.
There was other activity that took place in the nursery. While vacuuming the wind up musical above the crib began to turn and play music on its own. Electronic musical toys would often take on a life of their own and emit sounds, hums and even distant sounding voices. I look back and wish I had known about EVP back then.
There were also other disconnection type occurrences with the phone that happened elsewhere in the house and so frequently within one conversation that I had to cut my conversation short. This happened in good weather and bad, on local and long distance calls. The battery was fully charged and at one point a new battery was installed and when the occurrence continued it gave us verification that the problem was not a faulty battery.
When we brought our newborn son home, it was a constant battle to get sleep. At least hourly, and every night he would wake as if he'd been disturbed from his sleep. It didn't matter that he'd just eaten or been changed, or was comfortably wrapped or cuddled. It was as if someone was playing with him (or wanting to and waking him up to do so) throughout the night and the constant of this activity had Tony and I exhausted. At the time, and because we were such new parents, we thought the constant waking was normal and didn't realize how out of the ordinary it was.
At other times, electrical items would turn themselves off or on, dependant upon what we had just done with them. If we turned the vacuum on, it would turn off; if we turned the television or stereo off in order to go up to bed, it would often come back on. Sometimes this would happen right after; sometimes this happened as we got half way up the stairs. This was another behavior that continued throughout the time we lived in the house.
At one point, I spoke with our neighbors to the north that lived in the red-bricked house. In a casual conversation in the back yard, I was shocked to learn that the light in the nursery could be seen by Carol and Don at all hours of the night. In fact, Carol had asked me if there was a reason, I had the baby sleeping with the light on at night. I explained that Taylor had been sleeping in the cradle in our room and offered the idea that when they got up in the middle of the night maybe they were seeing the light on the ceiling of the hallway. She assured me that it was the light on the ceiling of the nursery they had been seeing.
Remembering back there was also a few weeks where Tony and I found a strange mold on many odd things; Tupperware containers in the cupboards, dog food in the bowl and of which had only been poured out that same morning, pots and pans, magnets on the refrigerator and more.
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