A Symbolic Levitation?

 I keep getting very spooky behavior from a sound machine I use at night. In December and early January it acted up in various strange ways I describe in my post here. In February the machine acted very normally. This week it has again been acting very mysteriously. On two different nights this week the machine inexplicably turned off four different times. Last night it inexplicably turned off five times. After one of these turn-off events, something else very strange happened. 

I was in front of the machine, and had picked up a folder holding paper where I record strange events occurring with this machine, and also record my dreams. The machine had just mysteriously turned off. Inside the folder was a pen, which fell to the floor (I could hear the sound of it hitting the floor). The room light was off. I reached around for the pen, but could not find it on the floor. Baffled, I turned on the light, and looked further for the fallen pen; but at first I could not find it.  Finally I found the pen in a position where it never should have landed. 

Near the sound machine I have a fan resting about half a meter above the floor. The fan is sitting on a plastic bin. Behind the fan I found the pen, atop the bin, looking rather like someone lying on a high ledge. There are two reasons why it should have been impossible for the pen to have ended up in that spot about half a meter high:  (1) the pen was about half a meter above the floor, and pens don't bounce that high when dropped; (2) the fan in front of me should have stopped any pen bouncing off the ground from reaching the spot behind the fan.  My position in relation to the fan is shown in the photo below (when the pen dropped, I was in about the same position as when I took the photo below). 

I have a speculative hypothesis regarding this strange event: the idea that what occurred was a symbolic levitation. The pen had risen up and landed on the other side of the fan. This may have symbolized the idea of a soul rising up from a dead body and ending up on the Other Side:  some afterlife realm that many refer to as the Other Side. 

On the same night a very small green light in the bathroom mysteriously turned off and then turned back on a second later, an event I have seen on several days. I speculate about a symbolic meaning of such an event in the post here.

Postscript: The next night there were several additional cases of the sound machine turning off its sound mysteriously. This night I spent only about a minute looking at the sound machine, but I saw (1) the clock on the machine resetting its time from 12:18 to 12:00; (2) the brightness of the clock display increasing very noticeably as I watched it. In both cases I was not touching the machine. 

Was It All Just Chance "Playing Poltergeist"?

Quite the little day I'm having. Specifically:

(1) In the night a tiny green light in my bathroom mysteriously flickered, turning off for a second or so before turning back on (something I have previously noticed multiple times). 

(2) My sound machine (which I use every night to make a soothing waterfall sound) mysteriously turned off four different times. The first three times the clock on the machine did not dim in brightness, but the fourth time the clock dimmed greatly in brightness.  After a reset, normal operation of the machine was restored. It's more of the strangeness I describe in this post. 

(3) A Corelle brand plate I have been using for 18 years mysteriously shattered after what seemed like a not very strong contact with a cup. This brand of dishes is legendary for lasting very many years, and has a well-deserved reputation for being almost indestructible.

(4) After moving the trash can shown below to a position next to the white wall around noon, I found it a few hours later more than a meter from where I put it, in the spot shown below. A weather report listed the wind in my city as only four miles per hour today. And since this type of trash can has to be tilted to roll easily, the movement is hard to explain. 

(5) After restoring the trash can to its previous place against the wall, a few hours later I found the can again in the spot shown above, only this time the can was lying on it side. Checking the weather, I saw the wind listed as 8 miles per hour, not enough to topple a can like this one. 

I've seen and photographed so many strange things that this kind of stuff never alarms me.

A New Free Book of Mine

I just compiled a new book from the last year of my posts on paranormal phenomena, posts that appeared on one of my other blog sites (www.futureandcosmos.blogspot.com). The book is entitled "Clairvoyance, ESP, Psychical Phenomena, Life After Death and the Unexplained." You can read it for free by using the link below:

https://archive.org/details/espetc

The book includes many links to original source materials, and using the "native" book viewer at www.archive.org, such links will not work.  If you need to access the links in the book, you can download a PDF version of the book using the link above, which will allow you to use the links in the book. 

Other free books of mine available on the same site can be accessed using the link below:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Mark+Mahin%22  

From Orb to Woman?

At this link you can read "Immortality Proved by the Testimony of Sense" by Abraham Cummings, which has some astonishing testimony. On page 38 Cumming gives the following story of an orb "in the air" turning into the form of a woman:

"Sometime in July, 1806, in the evening, I was informed by two persons that they had just seen the Spectre in the field. About ten minutes after, I went out, not to see a miracle, for I believed that they had been mistaken. Looking toward an eminence, twelve rods distance from the house, I saw there, as I supposed, one of the white rocks. This con­tinued my opinion of their spectre, and I paid no more at­tention to it. Three minutes after, I accidentally looked in the same direction, and the white rock was in the air ; its form a complete Globe, white with a tincture of red, like the damask rose, and its diameter about two feet. Fully satisfied that this was nothing ordinary, I went toward it for more accurate examination. While my eye was constantly upon it, I went on four or five steps, when it came to me from the distance of eleven rods, as quick as lightning, and instantly assumed a personal form with a female dress, but did not appear taller than a girl seven years old. While I looked upon her, I said in my mind, 'you are no tall enough for the woman who has so frequently appeared among us.'  Immediately she grew up as large and as tall as I considered that woman to be. Now she appeared glorious. On her head was the representation of the sun diffusing the luminous, rectilinear rays every way to the ground."

Many of the testimonies in this case are dated, particularly following page 41, where we have dated witness statements from quite a few people who give their names. On page 31 we read this summary about the same apparition:

"Sometimes she appeared to two or three ; then to five or six ; then to ten or twelve ; again to twenty, and once to more than forty witnesses. She appeared in several apartments of Mr. Blaisdel’s house, and several times in the cellar. She also appeared at other houses, and several times in the open field, as already observed. There, white as the light, she moved like a cloud above the ground in personal form and magnitude, in the presence of more than forty people. She tarried with them till after day-light, and vanished : not because she was afraid of the sun : for she had then several times appeared when the sun was shining." 

A Brown University professor of philosophy (Curt John Ducasse) said this about the case, mentioning some experience of his own:

"Several of the witnesses report, as does the Rev. Mr. Cummings, that the apparition begins as a formless small luminous cloud, which then grows and in a moment takes the form of the deceased Mrs. Butler. (This incidentally, was what occurred when; over fifty years ago in New York, the present writer witnessed in red light but not under test conditions a purported gradual materialization of a man’s body.)"

See-Through Something

 Photo date: March 8, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors, in front of a wooden chest. 

Orb Colors

 We see below a mysterious blue orb and a yellow orb that I photographed in early February 2023.

Sign From the Sky?

 Below is a diagram of a strange sight I witnessed yesterday. I saw a flock of about 30 birds flying in a long 100-meter loop. The flock traversed the loop about five different times. About five times I saw the flock disappear from sight, as it went behind a building blocking my view of it. About five times the flock reappeared in my sight.  Then finally after about five traversals of this long 100-meter loop, the flock disappeared from sight. 

I know that people see big flocks of starlings moving together, in an event called a starling murmuration. But I don't know whether this many traversals of the same movement path is rare. 

When I see something this strange, I wonder whether it is some kind of omen. Could the flock size symbolize a month? See here for another example of hard-to-explain bird repetitive behavior. 

Postscript: Two days later something else odd happened. Returning from a walk, I noticed a robin in front of the house where I live. Strangely it was motionless for about 5 minutes, before flying away. Another "avian five."  

A Blue Orb

 Photo date: March 2, 2023. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.