Added October 18, 2002
Hallway Orbs
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Michele, Chicago, Illinois, September 2000 to
September 2001, mnmaass@aol.com
In September of 2000 my boyfriend (now husband), Brian, and I moved into a
six-flat building built about 1920 on the North side of Chicago. He worked out
of town so he was gone all week. I got the first inclination of something
strange in the apartment the night we moved in. Brian left to return the moving
truck and my friend and I were putting stuff away. She said she was going to go,
and suddenly I just couldn't stand the thought of being there by myself -- I
just had a real uneasy feeling.
Next sign: my cat began staring into a corner in the hallway regularly, and
then "batting" at invisible things there. (I know cats are weird, but he has
never done this before, or since we moved out.)
Next sign: a tapered candle on my bedroom dresser began consistently falling
out of its holder in the small hours of the morning (the noise scared me and my
cat half to death when it banged down while we were asleep). This hasn't
happened before or since we've moved out -- same candle, same spot on dresser,
same holder. For some stupid reason I just kept putting it back in the holder so
it could happen again the next night -- denial, I guess.
Next sign: a glass vase on a wooden stand (as seen in the picture, but in
different location and different vase) somehow ended up behind the stand intact
and upright, and all six drawers in the stand were opened at exact intervals to
each other (consecutively wider up to the top of stand in a stair-step
formation) and weird things stuck in the drawer (which contained CDs) like
pencils and a notepad. And if anyone knows rough, Mexican pine furniture, these
drawers aren't easy to open.
Brian finally stopped calling me crazy after he saw an orb-like thing float
out of the bathroom and disappear. There were other things that happened, but
they were more "feelings" and "seeing things." We moved after our one-year lease
was up.
The picture I took of the hallway was practice for some residential
photography I had to do. I think the shapes are orbs... They didn't show up in
any other picture. I used a Sony Mavica (one of the older digital cameras that
use the floppy disk for storage -- I'm not sure of the model number) and the
picture was taken on Nov. 18, 2000 at about 1:48 P.M. Everyone I show the
picture to thinks I'm seeing things, but combined with my experience there, I
think its proof!
