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The following anecdotal accounts were recently received from our readers:

OLD MAN HAYES

This is a right tale. When I was about twelve or so my family went into a rural neighborhood called Hayes Glenn. It was some ancient farm land owned by a man named Mr. Hayes. We built a new home on five acres and went in the winter of 1986. About a year or so later another house was being built next door to us. Being kids me and a excellent friend would hang out in the house while it was being built. One day we were just sitting in the unfinished house talking when we both heard foot steps coming down the hall right toward us. They were very loud because there was no carpet on the concrete foundation so they could clearly be heard. I looked down the hall and there was no one there. Thinking the owners were there we ran out of the house but I soon realized there was no body there.

A couple of weeks later I awoke up about two in the morning. My room was on the side of our house that overlooked the property that the house was being built on. I don’t know why but I looked out of the window and clearly saw an ancient man standing outside of the house. I could see him in the moonlight. I went and woke my mom up but when she got to my room he was gone. Nothing else happened. The house was finished and a couple of years passed. I happened to be talking to a friend’s dad who lived in the area. He was a police officer who, about 10 years before all of this, handled the case of ancient man Hayes…the farmer who had hung himself in a barn exactly were the neighbors house was built.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER AT A STOP SIGN

About two years ago, I had an experience which I will recount to you. I have been speaking of this more, but it took some time to reconcile.

I believe it would have been early March. I am an interiorscaper, which means I take care of plants in offices and estates. At the time, I had the contract to maintain the plant material in the executive offices at Electronic Data Systems in Plano, TX. Because I maintained the plants for the highest level employees (ceo, cio, etc..), I would do my work pretty much in the middle of the night by escort of their security personnel. I had the contract to do this work for them since 1998.

Once a week, I would leave my home, where I live in a country setting, and travel about 45 minutes in to Plano to do this work. On this morning, it was about 2:30am. I had loaded my van with my work materials, and started out on a very cold and unpleasant morning. It had been raining and the wind was blowing. I had my windshield wipers on because the wind was blowing water off the trees, though it wasn’t raining at the moment. I turned on the residential street to make my way out and to the main roads. As I approached the first stop sign, my headlights illuminated a being.

This is how I describe it: First, I must comment that I was immediately struck by a terrible dread. I believe my neck hairs stood on end, and I realized later that I had popped out in a complete sweat. I never sweat, and it was very cold, but my shirt had huge armpit rings by the time I reached the toll road. So I instantly knew that I was seeing something very out of the ordinary at the first second.

I would say this being was about five feet tall. It crossed the road on the cross street in front of me. I had probably 10 or so seconds as my van approached the stop sign, and I had my foot on the brake pedal already when I saw it. (I was traveling slowly anyway). It was a glossy white color, and I could not discern any clothing. It was the same glossy white from its head to its feet. It did not turn its head to look at me, so I do not know what the eyes looked like. It went in a very weird fashion. It did not seem to have any bend at a knee area, and shuffled rather than walked. The arms were very long, much longer than a person’s, and they hung down much past where one would expect knees, and also had no bend where one would expect elbows. I believe the hands were large. The head was not very huge, nothing like one sees looking up pictures of ‘greys’. There was nothing threatening in its manner, but I was terrified, nonetheless. I must say it took every ounce of courage for me to turn my head to the left in the direction it had gone when I came to a stop at the stop sign. I saw nothing there, and I floored it and got the hell out of there.

Nothing weird or unusual happened on the rest of the trip, although I was really frightened. And nothing has happened in all the time since then. I wish I had known that there would be no consequences from seeing it and I could have saved myself a lot of anxiety. I want to see it again, if I could know for sure that again there would be no consequences, and I could look at it from behind an army of people who probably believe me to be deluded or a liar.

Obviously, I have no thought what it is. Except to say that I know it is not human. I guess it could be an alien from space, or a creature from another dimension.

Seeing it had a huge effect on me. I have never been in the least bit worried outside in the night (I breed and raise horses, and I have spent many, many nights out in the barn by myself waiting for a mare to foal) but I was very nervous outside after that. I also started to dread going to that account. It was eons before I could go by that stop sign without feeling that dread.

I have had some unusual experiences in my life, but nothing like this. I do not know what to make of this experience, other than to acknowledge that there is much more to this world than we know. I come from a well-educated family of engineers and economists, and they would have preferred no family member of theirs have an experience like this, which puts on in a category of ‘kooks’. Kate

Reader Mail: Returning Phantom / Weird Encounter

A HOSPICE VISITOR

I am a Hospice nurse, so death is part of my daily work life. I had been called to sit with a family while my patient was dying, not an unusual request in my line of work.

My patient was a widower who had also lost his only child to cancer a few years back. His niece and nephew were waiting for the grandchildren to arrive. The niece remarked that it seemed so unfair to the man to be dying alone after he, himself had so many losses. The nephew was outside on his cellphone arranging transportation for the out of town grandkids, I was sitting with the niece. Nephew came inside saying he was going to the motel to pick up two of the kids, I questioned him to help me straighten the room to make room for visitors.

After the nephew left, I performed a quick once-over, and noticed a sweet looking young lady standing in the doorway, I assumed the kids had started arriving. I made brief eye contact with the girl, and stepped around her to give her privacy with her grandpa.Back at the dining room table, talking with the niece, she again mentioned the sad fact that he was dying alone. I reminded her about the girl in the room…to whice she answered, “There’s nobody back there.” I walked back to look…there was only the dying man. I described the girl, we looked through family photos, but could not find anyone resembling the girl I saw. The niece said her husband was talking to a woman outside, but when he returned, he said he was talking to no one.

I looked AT the young girl, not through her; we made eye contact. I have not seen her since…but I suspect I will….someday. Suzanne
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THE FRAGRANCE OF FLOWERS

I work at a print shop where there are a variety of smells (ink, etc.) or sometimes no aromas at all. I also have a weak sense of smell. This morning, when there were no customers and the owners of the business were in other parts of the office and shop, I smelled a strong fragrance of flowers. No one had sprayed anything and no one was wearing perfume or cologne. The scent was as if I had walked into a roomful of flowers or like when someone brings a lot flowers into a room.

My mother Went Away on 1-12-09, and my friend’s mother Went Away on 1-18-10. Until the last couple of dreams in which I could see my mother, she was pretty much in the same condition she was in at home, except, in the dream, she would be silent and kind of neutral with everything going on around her. (She was elderly, but ambulatory and responsive in life.) Over the last 2 nights when I dreamed of Mom, she was on a higher level and in the background, standing, and I could see her in a position where she could observe what was going on in my dream.

When I smelled the flowers today (5/21), it was about 10:50-10:55 a.m. I called my friend to see if anything weird had happened for her recently because she has experienced some phenomena too. I didn’t get to speak to her until 11:50 a.m. She said she was in her mother’s garden and her son had removed a keepsake ornament. I questioned her when this transpired and she said it was about an hour previously, which turned out to be the same time I smelled the floral fragrance at work.

Neither one of us had any thought what the other was doing and there was no way we could have corroborated on this. I just thought it was fascinating timing. Being moms, of course both of our mothers loved flowers. Michael

NOTE: both readers would appreciate feedback on their experiences…Lon

Reader Mail: A Hospice Visitor / The Fragrance of Flowers

The following accounts were submitted by blog readers and associates:

THE DOG

Some time in the 1950’s I was visiting with my friend’s family in Toronto, Ont. Canada, where I grew up My friend’s father who was a respected chemist/scientist told me a tale that had happened to him recently. He had returned home one evening to find a weird looking dog on his veranda. The dog seemed to want to come in the house with him and he, feeling sorry for the dog in the cold of the late fall, took the dog in, fed it and place an ancient coat on the floor in the kitchen for a bed. In the morning he let the dog out and it trotted away.

Later that day he received word that his brother, who lived in New York City, had died suddenly. He made arrangements to leave immediately for New York. When he arrived there many hours later, he made his way to his late brother’s home. He rang the doorbell and waited for his sister-in-law to let him in. When she opened the door he saw beside her the dog that had visited him the previous night.

Dr.M was very silent after telling me this tale. I don’t reckon he shared it with his family and this is the first time I have related it and it happened about 65 years ago. E.Mader
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NIGHT IN THE DESERT

Hi, back in 1980, a friend and I were in high school and spent a lot of time exploring the desert near Tucson, Arizona. One night in October (don’t remember the date), I was spending the night at his house. He lived in a ancient ranch house that had a ancient barn/shed near a dry river bed where we used to sleep in so we could talk and wander around at night. This night was a small cold for October and it was clear with no moon.

Anyhow, it was around 1 AM and we were about a mile away from his house in the riverbed talking. We had a miner’s lamp that was operated by a 12 volt battery and was worn on his head. It cast a half mile beam. Ahead of us was a tall (20 plus feet) Palo Verde tree which was very thickly covered with branches so we couldn’t easily see the other side. Suddenly, the tree shook violently and we heard a loud snort like sound. Fearing a pack of Javalinas (wild pigs) or maybe a loose bull we froze. My friend shone his light on the tree about our eye height and we saw nothing. The tree shook again but higher up. He fixed the light on the tree about 15 feet off the ground. What we saw we will never forget, two huge blue eyes set about 1 foot apart! Again the tree shook followed by the sound of 2 heavy feet running the other way. Needless to say, we ran the other way!

The next day we returned to search the area. We found large footprints going the other way. The weird thing is there were sightings of weird lights in the area skies for the next couple of weeks. This happened on the west side of town at the base of the Tucson Mountains.
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BLUE LIGHT?

Dear Lon,

I am writing about an incident that happened several months ago. First, let me say that your site rocks. I live on an acreage 5 1/2 miles from the town of Hampton, Iowa. Late last summer there was an incident in the town that we heard over the police scanner about 9:30-10:00 p. m. People were calling in to the police department saying they were having distress sleeping because there was a bright blue light just pouring through their windows.

After several of these calls, one police officer came on the scanner saying that he was a few miles on the edge of town and he could really see what was a vivid blue ceiling type effect covering the whole town.

Within minutes, there were several calls coming in from the different officers and a few business owners saying that their electronic gadgets, ie: door locks, shop lights, etc. were all going crazy. The police, who have as part of there nightly rounds check all the doors on the main street businesses to make sure they are locked, were reporting that they were having to backtrack and redo their routine.

I couldn’t see anything from where I live and after a small amount of time, nothing else was said. I imagined they might have switched channels or scrambled the channel. The next day when I went to town and questioned a few people who I know to be honestly open minded like myself, if they had seen/heard anything about the blue light or the electric gadgets freaking out. Nobody seemed to know anything or to have heard anything.

I waited for our weekly paper to come out and checked the neighboring town papers for anything about it, but, nothing showed up. I just wanted to know if anyone else has written about this or if anyone has ever had anything like this happen in their area.

NOTE: Have you had a close encounter or witnessed something unusual? Send us an email…I’d be pleased to feature your tale on the blog. Detailed and concise accounts are appreciated. Thanks…Lon

Reader Mail: A Spiritual Visit / Desert Eyes / Weird Blue Light