Orbs With Faces!

We have a wee little dog here indoors. Can't let her outside for fear that a rabbit may beat her ass. Anyhow, she looks at stuff and barks at random, and will stand there and stare and bark, and there is never anything there, visible. She does that a lot towards the kitchen. I was sitting in the living room one night, and saw a momentary flash in the kitchen window, just a little one. It turned out to be a lightning bug, but my God - when i went to check it out, the woods behind the house were absolutely lit up with lighting bugs! There were more than there are stars in the sky, enough to light the woods about like a full moon. Now that's not really odd, until you consider that I've never, ever seen a lightning bug in the woods here before. Watched them rising out of the grass in the bottom on many an evening, but never in the woods, and never in the middle of the night, and never, ever that many at once before.

A few nights later there was a brighter flash, almost blinding, in the kitchen window, so I went to look at the lightning bugs again. Nary a one to be seen, anywhere. No one in the yard, nothing there. Never figured out what it was.

last night, Grace was getting ready for bed, and I heard her say "hello?" like answering a phone or something, but I hadn't heard the phone ring, and there was no one here but she and I. So I went to see who she was talking to, and she said she had seen a shadow cross just outside the bedroom door, heard someone walking across the floor, and thought someone was there. Whatever that was, it was real enough to elicit a response form her. She also said that she had felt something sit on the bed with her before, but no one was there, and she has heard the walking - evidently the same walking I hear in the middle of the night when it's quiet. Quite an admission for a woman who boldly declared she didn't believe in ghosts when I met her.

But this little dog tickles me. She ain't big as a minute, and I believe I could eat her in one bite... but little dogs don't know how little they are, and she just plain raises hell at things none of the rest of us can normally see, like she's going to defend us from the "Cobblies" (hat tip to Clifford D. Simak and his book "City", where he explains why dogs bark at things people can't see).

I sometimes see little tiny moving lights in total darkness that blink in and out of existence. I dunno if they are an optical illusion or what, but they're pretty cool - no faces, though. Just little pinpoints. Most of the "orbs" I've seen on "ghost hunter" type shows are suspect - they move along the walls, cutting corners at the corner, and are actually ON the walls. They look like someone shining a laser along the wall to me. These little pinpoints of light I'm talking about move freely in the air, not along walls., sort of like the optical illusion of "seeing stars", but I don't know of any physical thing with me that would be causing me to see stars, and I only see them occasionally, always in total darkness.