Puzzling Pennsylvania

A web site documenting reports of the paranormal tells us "encounters with small spheres low to the ground and in some cases approaching near witnesses have reportedly been taking place for months from various areas of Pennsylvania." The site's latest report is entitled "More Mysterious Close Encounters with Ground Level Orbs of light (Mini-UFOs) Reported In Pennsylvania-October 23, 2022."  One witness says he saw a "glowing white ball of light" outdoors 10-12 inches in diameter, and another witness reports seeing indoors a strange blue sphere about a foot and a half in diameter.  

A New Poll Tells Us 22% Report "Seeing Unexplained Orbs of Light"

A new poll by YouGovAmerica surveyed 1000 Americans about any paranormal experiences they may have had. More than two-thirds reported having some type of paranormal experience. Some of the most common experiences were:

"Feeling a presence or unknown energy": 37%

"Hearing a voice of someone who wasn't there": 29% 

"Feeling an unexplained change in temperature": 28%

"Seeing lights or other devices turn on or off without explanation": 25%

"Seeing an object move without explanation": 22%

"Seeing unexplained orbs of light": 22%

"Seeing a door open or close without explanation":  20%

"Seeing a ghost or spirit": 20%

"Seeing an angel": 13%

The page describing the poll gives one interesting bit of testimony from one of the people polled:

"I was in a 100-year-old hotel in Brazil with abandoned floors that were accessible. As my friend and I explored, the temperature dropped and we saw orbs of light."

I myself have had several of these experiences. I once saw a locked door open when no one was near it. I have more than once observed objects move inexplicably. I have repeatedly witnessed inexplicable activity regarding lights, including either a turning on by itself of a light or a light turning off inexplicably and then quickly turning back on. My post here mentions recent observations of this type. 

Puzzling Playstation

 Photo date: October 20, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Spooky Serenade

Since I started keeping a log of my dreams in November 2020, the number of times my dreams have referred to deceased people seems to have greatly outnumbered the number of times my dreams have referred to living people other than myself and my two daughters and wife. Since that date there have been about 430 times that I dreamed about deceased people. Besides 76 dreams about my late mother and 79 dreams about my late father, I have had over 200 dreams about a vast variety of deceased people. Five of the dreams were about the late opera singer and actor Mario Lanza. 

This morning when I woke up I logged into my computer, and brought up a fresh instance of the Chrome web browser. I had not yet logged in to my Google account. Very oddly, before I did anything, the fresh new instance of the Chrome browser had a tab set to a Youtube.com URL I had not previously accessed. It was for a clip I had never seen before, showing two of my favorite movie stars from the 1950's: the late Kathryn Grayson and the late Mario Lanza. The clip was below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbG-daRLPRY

Why was a Youtube.com URL showing in my just-evoked browser when I had not done anything to go to Youtube.com? In my experience the Chrome browser never behaves this way.  My default URL on Chrome is www.google.com, and that is the only web site I ever see when bringing up a new Chrome browser (except for this day's event, which I could not replicate). You can configure Chrome to bring up multiple web sites on startup, but I absolutely had not configured Chrome to act in such a way (as a check of my Settings showed). My "On Startup" settings were as shown below:

 

I haven't searched for a long time on youtube.com for clips featuring either Mario Lanza or Kathryn Grayson, which makes this event all the more mysterious.  I almost get the impression here of some kind of "shout out" from the Great Beyond. It's interesting that the song sung in the clip refers to death, dreams, eternal love, and "a rapture that's all divine."

Searching for insight on the possibility of Chrome opening with two tabs, I find a page telling me to set my Settings as above (which have always been my settings),  to disable all extensions (I had no extensions installed),  and to install an anti-virus software (I already had Norton Antivirus installed and active). I am left with no explanation as to how this morning's event occurred.