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!
