Spooky...

I believe in ghosts, but I refuse to believe that my house is haunted. Just because I believe that ghosts are real doesn't mean that I can't have a skeptical approach toward whether a place is haunted or not. Skepticism can be healthy. I heard someone say, "Thank God for skeptics! They keep us honest." When you look at something like a haunting skeptically you are basically trying to figure out every other possible thing that it could be. You do your research instead of jumping to conclusions, or at least you should. Even from a skeptical approach you still can't make assumptions. Don't look for evidence to back up your conclusions. Look for evidence to analyze, and draw your conclusions from that evidence.

I'm sure this seems pretty random. But last night something happened. Again. The lights in the dinning room turned themselves off. Please, don't missunderstand. It wasn't like they were flickering and went out, or like the bulbs burned out (which would've been 3 bulbs burning out at the same time), or even like there was some kind of freak electrical shortage that didn't affect anything else in the house. One moment the switch was in the "on" position, then the lights went out and when I walked over to the wall to turn them back on the switch was in the "off" position. I would've said that my brother (or even my mom) turned the lights off, but they were busy reading and playing video games in another room completely. Only my dad and I were in the room when the lights went out, but we were both more than 10 feet away from the switch. I thought that the switch might've been loose, so I turned it off and on again. The switch wasn't loose, so I don't think that gravity could've exerted enough force to turn the lights off at the switch. Wierd, huh?

Normally, I think I probably would've just brushed this off as being no big deal. That's what I usually do. The house creaks, well all houses creak. New houses are settling, and old houses are just creaky. Lights flicker. Ok. Whetever, just an electrical fluctuation. Nothing abnormal about electricity. Exept for this one time. A couple months ago I was in my room doing homework with my lights on (it's kinda hard to do homework in the dark). I walked out of the room to tell my parents something. Then I walked back in and the lights started flickering. It was like the likes on my ceiling turned into strobe lights. But I have energy saver bulbs, so instead of just flashes of light and dark, there were also flashes of color (is that normal?). I stood there for a couple seconds under the flashing lights until my mind c aught up to what was happening. I ran out of the room and yelled for my parents to come see this. We tried to turn off the lights. We were pushing the button on the wall but nothing happened, so my dad went into the bathroom and reset the circuit breaker. That stopped it. I turned the lights back on and it was like nothing ever happened. I didn't give it much thought. I don't know much about electricity, but like I said before it can easily be seen as funky electrical stuff.