“The Flash”
Over the years I have read many very interesting stories pertaining to various “strange lights”. There is, however, another kind of “strange light” which my family and I have expereienced in recent years with increasing frequency, and I would very much like to know if anyone else might have experienced the same light, or have some idea as to it’s origin. (mundane? paranormal? And simply “what is it?”)
The closest any of us has come to describing this light is to say that it very much resembles that of a camera-flash, both in the speed with which it appears and then disappears, and in it’s colour – though the intensity seems to be far brighter than any camera-flash. The light appears most often indoors, but also in the gardens occassionally. Wherever it does occur, though, it leaves those who witness it feeling bitterly cold and (bizarre as it may seem) a little bit threatened – though nothing else seems to come of it.
By the time we loaded the kids into the car several weeks later for a long-planned trip to visit their Grandfather’s farm, we had seen this strange light more than a dozen times and were very perplexed as to it’s origin and meaning and by the decidedly uneasy feeling it always left us with. Later that night, having arrived at the farm and settled the boys in bed for the night, we sat around the kitchen table with Les and Helen and eventually fumbled through the tale of the strange cold light which seemed to have moved into our home.
Astonishingly, after having listened to our story with odd looks on their faces, Les and Helen then related their own tale of how Les had been awoken by a strange flash of light only weeks before, and having been drawn outside as the light appeared again and again, like a camera-flash suspended in the air, which moved away from his window, and up the dark dirt road. Les woke his wife and the pair followed the light up the road to an empty farm property near-by where it seemed to circle the house flashing again and again and then suddenly it stopped.
That was their only encounter with the light, but it was certainly either the same light or one which was exactly like the one we had experienced. We live about 4 hours drive from their town.
So it seemed we were not the only ones to have seen this particular light, but were no closer to knowing what it was or where it came from. Two years later we are still seeing what we’ve come to call “the flash”. I supose nameing it makes it feel safer. But it still leaves us feeling bitterly cold. It terrifies the boys, though even they cannot say why. It still leaves me feeling threatened (thugh it has never caused any physical harm). And it comes now with such frequency that I sometimes wonder if we’re building up to something.
So there’s a very skimmed through version of our little tale of “the flash” and the bitterly cold paranoia that comes with it. I do know how silly it sounds to be threatened by a simple light. The thing is, it’s getting so that I can no longer just giggle nervously and joke about ghosts taking photographs. I’ve seen some wierd things in my time. Some very unpleasant things, too. But this. Of all the things I’ve seen, This one makes me feel the most uneasy. This one keeps me up nights trying to solve the mystery.
Has anyone had any experience with this light? Has anyone any ideas for it’s cause (mundane or otherwise, an answer is what I need) or it’s origin? I would very much like to hear whatever you have to share.
