A Series of Spooky Events

 I observe at irregular intervals mysterious events that seem beyond any physical explanation. Last week there were several:

(1) As described here, minutes after I turned off a PlayStation device, it inexplicably turned on (the TV remote being an arm's length away and the controller being two meters away). 

(2) The next day, February 29, as described in the same post, two hours after I turned off a PlayStation device, it inexplicably turned on (the TV remote being an arm's length away and the controller being two meters away). 

(3) The next day, March 1, as described in the same post,  the ceiling smoke detector in the room I was in lit up and started making loud noises, as it might have done if I had pressed its circular button (although I did no such thing).  There was no vapor or smoke in the room that can explain this.  

(4) The next day, March 2, a green light in the bathroom mysteriously turned off for a second before turning on. 

This morning another spooky event occurred. I was standing an arm's length away from the tube shown below, which was in a  position like that shown below, on the rim of a sink. I had not touched the tube in more than an hour. Suddenly I hear a noise. I was not looking at the tube, but I now saw it on the floor. I tested whether dropping the tube from the sink would create a sound just like the sound I heard. It did make exactly such a sound. 

Somehow the tube had fallen to the ground when it was an arm's length away from me. How could that have happened?  I can think of only one natural explanation: conceivably the last time I put the tube on the sink I could have put it by chance in a position so balanced on the edge that the tube might by chance fall to the ground more than an hour later. This would require accidental balancing about as improbable as dropping a coin so that it lands on its edge. This analogy reminds me of the time I once saw a coin rolling up from behind me, on its edge, when I was alone in an apartment (as discussed here). 

Prediction: I will before long have more spooky events to report. 

Why might such an item be chosen as part of a spirit sign? On its left is a green arrow pointing upward, with the words "Up & up."  What would happen if a soul were to leave a body? It might go "up and up."

Postscript: While I had this post displaying on my laptop computer, with that computer on a coffee table an arm's length from me, I noticed the screen very noticeably flickered for a second. 

Today (March 9) I saw something spooky-looking. I nearly-closed the heavy back door of the house where I live, leaving the door halfway in the door frame, which should have been enough to prevent it from blowing open (given wind speeds at the time of only about 10 miles per hour). But the door then opened about 8 inches when no one was touching it.  I felt no gust of wind that might explain this. 

Post-postscript: Today (March 15) besides seeing three spooky incidents involving lights, I three times saw the tube shown above falling from the front rim of my sink to the bottom of my sink (the drain hole),  long after I had touched the tube. I can't explain any of these events, other than the idea I just happened to previously place the tube so precariously that it might fall many seconds later.  The chance of that happening three times in one day seems microscopic. 

I then thought to myself: I will start keeping the tube on the bigger back rim of the sink.  That back rim is about the length of the tube, as you can see in the photo below. It seemed the first six times I attempted to place the tube on the back rim of the sink, each time it fell to the bottom of the sink, to the drain hole. This occurred in  eight out of ten attempts, despite me having good precise muscle skills that I require for typing the posts of this blog.  While I was taking the photo below, the circuit breaker of the bathroom inexplicably went off, causing the bathroom to lose power, and requiring me to press the button on the GFCI outlet to restore power.  There was nothing plugged in the GFCI outlet, no mist in the bathroom, no water in the sink, and nothing I can think of that can explain the power in the bathroom shutting off. 

It seems I predicted correctly when I predicted that I would soon have more spooky things to report. 

Post-post postscript: Today (March 16) about 40 minutes ago I was cooking spaghetti and had the stove fan running, as I always do when using any of the gas burners. I was standing right in front of a gas burner, below the buttons and light shown below, and my head was at least eight inches away from such buttons (which are directly above the front burners). Suddenly the sound of the fan stopped. I looked up and saw the green light had gone off.  I was worried that the fan had "died," having had in my life two or three times when fans stopped running and then never could be turned back on. But upon pressing one of the  buttons, the fan and the green light turned back on.  The fan on this stove has the quirk that you can only turn off the fan and the green light by pressing the button on the far right two times in quick succession.  But no visible person had done that. I was alone at home at the time. 

Post-post-post postscript: Today (March 24) I observed a spooky event regarding my TV set. Five minutes after I had just started to watch the first episode of a TV series on HBO Max, my TV reverted back to an HBO Max startup screen. There's a way to get something like this by pressing a particular button on the TV remote, but the TV remote was an arm's length away. The strange event occurred at the exact moment I was typing the word "synchronicity" while writing about how people may have experiences they regard as evidence of some mysterious invisible agency, in a post dealing with ghosts and apparitions. 

Post-post-post-post postscript: On May 21, 2024 I went into the bathroom and stood at least six inches from the tube of creme, which was positioned just exactly as shown in the first photo of this post, Without any imaginable cause, the tube fell forward, landing at the sink drain.  I had not touched the tube in hours.  The same thing happened the next day. I was naked after showering, and stood at least six inches away from the tube, which I had not touched in more than an hour, when I saw the tube fall forward, landing at the sink drain.