THIS week, to more pleasant, if a bit eerie, matters.
While all the stuff I wrote about last week and the week before went on, my neighbors and I found time to exchange notes on strange goings-on on our CCTV screens.
Claire spoke of weird lights curling through the screen, I spoke of similar ones. Claire's older sister spoke not just of the CCTV things, but of seeing a ghost in and around their apartments.
Speaking of which, our Ferraren neighbors were in residence here in our subdivision in Camp Seven even before my parents built their house here.
So Manang Schelma said that there is a ghost around, of a tall man in boots and a hard hat she sees both inside and outside of their building.
Her description strikes me as too clear to be shadowy, and I am accepting of what she sees. As I am too of Claire's story of curling lights.
I began my tale of a strange blob of light on one of our screens and stopped, deciding that they should just see footage of it for themselves one day.
Still, right after midnight on July 31 a couple of weeks or so ago, there was this blob of light that invaded one of our screens. A review of its entry had it dropping from above and onto the screen, fancifully rather like a falling star.
It was kinda held aloft by two beams of light forming a V and the blob was at the center of that V. The said review had this blob changing shape and kinda dancing about on the screen for close to an hour before vanishing.
The night that we saw this blob onscreen, I checked through our windows at where it should be, and only dark reigned there. So we concluded that what was onscreen was not visible to the naked eye as are other lights we see onscreen on occasion, oyes.
The tech guy who had installed the surveillance system came over to tweak it a few nights ago, and we showed him footage of the blob of light dancing.
Ah, said he, that's a leaf caught in a spider web. He said he would check if that leaf and web were there, and we forgot to ask him about it later.
Some others to whom we showed the footage to said no, it was not a leaf, but maybe a spider, since it moved and changed shape incessantly, and a leaf can't do that.
At the same time, we agreed that if the blob was a spider, shouldn't we have been seeing spindly legs?
Anyway, YouTube has similar stuff. And Google does, too. While on search mode for such blobs of light that move incessantly, I saw pictures of such a blob posted, but they were just stills.
Next week, let's see if we continue on this CCTV vein...