Message #20404

[SI]

For instance, my children had a 'talking table' toy - it sang songs, recited the alphabet, flashed lights in various patterns, etc.  When I was in a room alone, that toy would often turn on by itself.  When I would speak to it, it would reply with music - sometimes with humor.  Once, late at night, I was at the computer in the dark and the talking table suddenly lit up.   After a few minutes of interaction I said, "Okay, you are starting to spook me.  I think you should go now." At that moment, it played the 'goodbye' song and turned itself off.  Ha ha. 

Once while she was visiting and staying in the guestroom - which was on the opposite side of our quirky house, and a few levels below everyone else - all the lamps in the room suddenly turned themselves on after she had turned them off to go to sleep.  I tried to play it off that the wiring in that part of the house was probably old and faulty, but she knew better. After that, she always slept with the lights ON because she didn't want to be surprised again.  It used to do things like pry the batteries out of my little booklight and place them on the floor where I would step on them when I woke up. Once it moved an entire laundry basket full of folded clothes from the hearth in my bedroom to the middle of the hallway where I was sure to run into it in the dark coming back from the kitchen with a warm bottle for the baby.  It did countless things like that.  I never saw it, but a few weeks before we were to move I went through the house taking photos.  A series of those photos is in the kids' room - I was taking pictures of their new bunkbed.  In one frame, there is a bright tiny orb hovering between the two beds.  It is white, but looks solid - not like a dust particle - and it has its own light.  In the next, the orb is a bit bigger and moving upwards.  In the final frame, it is HUGE and very bright like a full moon hovering over the top of the beds - as if to say, "Look at me!"   I think it was its way of letting me know it knew we were leaving soon, and it wanted to say goodbye.   . I never discovered who it was or why it was there.  Maybe someday someone can tell me.

Huh, you guys have all the fun. I think they must be scared of me, sort of the reverse.