what the hell was THAT ?

[pigfarmer]

This foolishness continues. It's been quiet and yet this morning at 0430 it sounded like someone took a two by four to the main beam of the house down in the garage

The house isn't moving or settling. It's done that already since 1960 when it was built. Camera in the garage reveals nothing yet I could actually feel it. Annoying really whatever the source.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Weird. What the hell is that noise you keep hearing?

 

[pigfarmer]

that's what I have been saying. you can feel it

 

[pigfarmer]

I had thought to give my keyboard a break today and intend to however I started this thread for a reason: miscellaneous weird shit. Noises, personal items that seem to come and go of their own volition. Perfectly willing to ascribe them to mundane circumstances but, as the title says, what the hell was that ?

I'm up really early out of a lifetime habit. I put the coffee on and then go downstairs to collect the food dishes and scoop out the cat box. It's way over in a corner of the basement and we have two healthy cats who use it, vigorously. When the house has been closed up at night, which it was, it can get a tad rich & fruity down there. This morning it was like some sort of WW1 gas attack - a green fog rolling out of their box would not have surprised me.

What did surprise me was in the midst of that for a moment I got a very strong smell of men's cologne. Stopped me in my tracks .... and then within seconds it went away and I was back to the feces party I had been having.

I can't stand perfumes and colognes and there isn't any in the house at all. The only thing in the basement is storage and cleaning chemicals. Where the hell that smell came from I have no idea but I didn't just imagine it, it seemed quite real.

I have the Saabfather's mortal remains in a box over in a corner. IDK if he wore any (not to my knowledge) but I asked him if there was something he wanted to say to me. Apparently not and the cats didn't seem bothered. My fiend Rob like to douse himself in cologne and he lived down there for several weeks before he died - but that wasn't here. I can't say that I recognized the smell.

I wonder sometimes if The Universe has a sense of humor and just ****s with me for fun. I really think sometimes that it's the small glitches that go by virtually unnoticed that are somehow relevant but to what I have no idea.

 

[Todd Feinman]

One wonders if the phantom odors (which are a thing in paranormal lore and experience), wou!d, if paranormal, represent not molecules reaching your nose, but rather the experience of the smell transmitted from another consciousness to yours; a purely mental phenomenon transmitted perhaps unintentionally, from a discarnate consciousness.

 

[pigfarmer]

purely mental phenomenon

Yup, definitely in that case. Believe me, if you were down there with me it smelled like anything other than cologne. Those two box poopers assured that.

Something triggered that odd switch in my head and I can only speculate at the source. Some sort of nonlocal influence ? Why not, I'd like it to be. That might generally explain the abduction phenomenon. I vaguely recall a case where someone reported a vivid one but others in the same vehicle only saw him (her?) sitting there. I am sure they are quite real to those who experience them and have no idea what it is.

I just have to say it, again. This really happened and I am not confabulating or exaggerating or bullshitting for the sake of forum fodder.

 

[pigfarmer]

In the morning while I am just sitting drinking coffee I review the security camera's overnight events.

The first video was a surprise and seems to be a camera glitch or something. I had just posted it here with the comment ' I don't think we'll need to call the Tedesco brothers for this one ' when it occurred to me that the first thing they would have me do is check to see if a complimentary device recorded this event.

View attachment vanishing fox.MP4

One most certainly did. Glitch in the app folks, not the Matrix but you have to admit it is odd.
If I posted this on a YT channel I'd already have followers thinking I have a Triangle in my front yard. I'd tell them I hear old '40s music faintly wafting out of it .....

Have a look - it's right @ about 02:00:00
View attachment vanishing fox 2.MP4

 

[pigfarmer]

No takers, eh?

The third complimentary camera caught the fox in my driveway a few seconds after it's mysterious disappearance.

You know what that means don't you ? It's not a time portal, it's a wormhole that only goes thirty feet.

 

[Todd Feinman]

The Case of the Vanishing Fox! Very cool. Cute fox, too. That is an odd glitch; you'd also expect some change in the background, at the moment of disappearance. You should post it on an electronics forum or even at Metabunk --if you don't already know how it happened. But yeah, that would gdt you a lot of views.

 

[pigfarmer]

Like I said, post that on YouTube and I'd have a following already. Give me a fedora and I could start a movement.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Like I said, post that on YouTube and I'd have a following already. Give me a fedora and I could start a movement.

If you could develop the alien connection and write a book...

 

[pigfarmer]

See, it's stuff like that which is so easy to swat away that sooooo many credulous people fall for regularly.

It's the weird subtle stuff that intrigues me like realizing the guy leaning over there having a casual smoke is a dogman. Not outrageous like that but something that doesn't belong right out in the open.

I don't really think some of the weirdness I've mentioned here is particularly paranormal but the missing personal items that seem to come and go at will I just don't have an answer for and both my wife and I are paying attention.

 

[pigfarmer]

It's not like I caught some guy's diesembodied arm in the catbox

 

[pigfarmer]

Alright then ...... I've lost glasses for a couple of days to parts unknown that have suddenly reappeared. Jeans too. Common stuff that just shows up again and I can't help but think there's a glitch in my brain or The Matrix or both. Perhaps it coincides with them flipping a big switch out at that Montauk Project ... IDK.

Ray Ban frames exactly my size, same model I usually wear. Yup. Just showed up in a case that normally houses drug store cheaters. They were absolutely filthy and dusty and appear to have been sitting around not in that case a long time. This is right where I toss my keys, wallet etc every night so it being there was a surprise.

So what's the problem ? There isn't any except they do not belong to either me or my wife and they're not in either of our prescriptions. Normally I would not have given it any thought but they looked - literally - exactly like the pair that vanished and came back. As if they had been sitting for years.

What the hell was that ?

 

[pigfarmer]

My wife and I were just looking at them. We must've picked them up without realizing it at a diner or something - that's the only thing I can think of. But what are the chances of casually picking up a pair identical to the ones you normally wear? Slim I'd think but not impossible so that's what I will hang my hat on for no really good reason other than it's possible.

I think what got me was that they looked like they had lain out on a countertop for years just like mine did when then disappeared and then reappeared a couple days later right out in the open on an empty cabinet. Weird.

 

[Todd Feinman]

That is weird. Fortuitous in a good way, though. Changeling glasses. Sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King book..

 

[J Randall Murphy]

My wife and I were just looking at them. We must've picked them up without realizing it at a diner or something - that's the only thing I can think of. But what are the chances of casually picking up a pair identical to the ones you normally wear? Slim I'd think but not impossible so that's what I will hang my hat on for no really good reason other than it's possible.

I think what got me was that they looked like they had lain out on a countertop for years just like mine did when then disappeared and then reappeared a couple days later right out in the open on an empty cabinet. Weird.

The world is a far weirder place than most people want to admit — even people like us who already think it's pretty weird. After a while you either learn to accept it — or you sign yourself into an insane asylum ( lol ).

 

[pigfarmer]

As I often say, the Devil's in the details and I think that many small 'glitches' go by virtually unnoticed. Of course, the opposite is to think that every single thing has some sort of transcendental meaning.

I have a cousin who is by her own proclamation 'sensitive' or 'psychic' or what have you. Not uncommon, more psychology than parapsychology. In my entire life she has yet to demonstrate any of that in the tiniest way, it's just something she says. Example. On 9/11 a stick fell out of a tree shaped like a crucifix at her apartment. You know, the apartment out in the woods with all the trees around it. Now, we are not church goers by any means but she attached such significance to that stick that she used it as a grave marker for her dog that I had recently buried in my back yard. It eventually rotted away although I would have expected such a thing to be free of physical corruption due to it's Jesusness or whatever.

Uh huh. Do I need to even waste the electrons on that? I am however generally kind to the mentally infirm and just let that go by. Later when she literally ran away from serious right-now real-world problems and tried to tell me about her sensitivity I had far less understanding.

In a family where my older brother is inventing UFOs and where my mother and Jamaican family friend are talking about Satanic worship and fooling with Ouija boards communicating with the ghost in the attic and a cousin who thinks The Universe communicates to her with sticks, among other things, the only surprising thing is that I scraped all that **** off and became highly skeptical.

Not dismissive though, I just want to make sure I'm not being bullshitted. Again, and again which is why I constantly go on about human nature being what it (really) is. So, in all that when I start to notice small weird shit going on I want to document it. I don't want to fan it like it's kindling and make more of it than it is but I do not have an easy explanation the small stuff.

Personal items used daily that come and go of their own volition isn't what we would call normal.

 

[pigfarmer]

Yesterday I wandered across the street and had an important Man Summit, which means I went over and sat with two other bored neighbors and we had a couple of beers.

We're sitting in a garage with the door open in a big house. We just sat down and cracked a cold one when there is a very loud slam of a door - if I heard it it had to have been loud. We all did and turned to look but there wasn't anything to see as it was in some other part of the house. My neighbor starts in with 'you see what I have to put up with?'

Nobody else was home, his family was away. The house was closed up with central air running so there wasn't a breeze to catch a door and slam it or anything and they have no pets. Whatever slammed it I felt it, as in hard enough to break something.

This was the beginning of beer 1 BTW so we weren't singing sailor songs or anything. He has always said weird things like that happen all the time and that a small child drowned in a tub in there years back.

A classic 'what the hell was THAT ?' in broad daylight on a nice calm day.

I love stuff like that. I think the True Weird hides right out in the open sometimes, you don't have to go skulking to find it.