Strange Event in North Carolina
The event was witnessed by a 53 year old man, who lives in Bern, North Carolina. He states that a couple of months back, he was asleep on the couch in his living room. He awoke about 2:00 AM. Looking into the hall that joins his living room, he was startled to see a bright light. This light seemed to fill the entire hallway. He could see many spheres of various colors, inside the light. The manifestation made no sound.
The man at first thought he might be imagining the light and spheres, but it lasted quite some time, and he knew he was awake. Moreover, his Labrador dog, who was sleeping by him on the couch, got up and began moving toward the light. The hair on his back stood up, as if he was ready for a fight. As he neared the light, he stopped, and began backtracking. Soon, the light disappeared.
After the strange phenomenon ended, the man checked throughout the house, and there was nothing amiss. This is the only time this happened. He is hoping it was a one time event.
How can this strange event be explained?
Comments
Oh my God what an unbeleivable strange weird and twisted story..are you for real? is that the best story you could find that merits shedding ink..and by the way ..it is called a “…months ago” and not “…months back” that, of course, if you are a writer and not only just taking
I am glad someone else came forward with his story. As astounding as it seems these things can happen as I was also a witness although it was not the same description as mine. Where these things come from and where do they go we can only guess..probably some dimension that runs alongside us.
Why in the middle of the night? Possibly because it is the best and quietest time to have a look round at us. They do not knock at the door to come in.. these things just appear and dissapear. Your just left to carry the memory.
I only saw this the one time but there isnt a night goes by when its quiet that I look pensively around my room remembering it.
I can explain this. The part of the story that Billy left out is that this guy had been up all night pounding shots of Jagermeister before he passed out on the couch. He “woke up” in a drunken stooper and saw a bunch of lights. Cause of lights: Jager.
Faten, if you don’t like it here go to some other blog and read their stories. I for one happen to like the stories that Billy posts.
Unfortunately there will be people who cannot believe.. unless they awaken in the night themselves and behold something before them that is just not of this world. The experiencer is left with the memory and no material proof to produce as these things are not solid or earthly. Just remember what I say as one day it may happen to you or someone you know.
I thought the story was very interesting. This could have been not just something other worldly or it could have been spirits. Spirits are all around us and just because you see a floating light or sphere it doesn’t always mean UFO. I believe tremendously but keep in mind how old earth is and how many humans have passed on and how many spirits there really are. The man in this story could have sensitivites to spirits. Always stay open to all the possibilities.
Thanks, Billy, for another interesting post…
Billy,
It is an interesting story because I presume the gentleman who contacted you and shared his story wants no notoriety, and so quietly and “anonymously” contacted you with it. He doesn’t claim in your account of his story what he saw, and in fact he, himself, seems to be trying to make sense of it (e.g. he notes that it lasted too long to be a dream, he thought to be sure that yes he was in fact awake, he noted his dog got up and went to it, the dog’s defense mode appears to have kicked in and he backed off of it). In other words, the gentleman who experienced this isn’t claiming “aliens”, “ghosts”, “angels” or anyone in particular was there. He just explains what he saw.
One last thing: it is interesting to note, whether you believe them or not, that statistically (e.g. the Hudson Valley sightings of the early ’80’s) reported alien encounters occur between 2a.m. and 5 a.m. This man woke up around 2 a.m.
I admire his sharing his story with you, Billy, because it isn’t easy to be the person who experienced this; and I admire that you simply shared what you were told, without imparting your judgment, and in fact, you simply asked us, in this post, what we all think.
Could it have been some kind of static or even electric phenomenon, could it have been a light reflection off of some crystal in his living room that he’s never noticed light refract that way off of, before…etc.? Of course it could be any one of probably tens of natural phenomenon. That’s the point – he doesn’t know. Just because we don’t know what this man and his dog saw, either; doesn’t mean that we should disparage him or you. Arlene
Faten, ease up on Billy.
An orb encounter, eh? These are actually more common than reported, and are the subject of study by at least one researcher.
I’ll try to dig up the link. I don’t pretend to understand it but these are though to be sort of ’scout’ type things, controlled seemingly intelligently, and evidence some degree of responsiveness to thoughts. They can be detected by looking for heat changes. The experiencer has been scouted now, for some reason, its possible he’s about to have more than a few odd experiences now.
“fortunately there will be people who cannot believe.. unless they awaken in the night themselves and behold something before them that is just not of this world. The experiencer is left with the memory and no material proof to produce as these things are not solid or earthly. Just remember what I say as one day it may happen to you or someone you know. ”
Shirely is so full of hot air. She talks like she knows something here that the rest of us don’t know. Complete nonsense. You wouldn’t happen to be Shirley MacLaine? People make all sorts of things up all the time, that’s why you can’t believe most of what you hear Shirely. The rest of the time it’s a misinterpretation. Since he was sleeping, maybe he was experiencing a hallucination related to sleep paralysis. If he did see something perhaps it was something we couldn’t even speculate on. However it probably was something explainable if indeed it did happen and this isn’t just a story.
Hi, I think that Scott and Faten are just having one of their bitchy days and the wife won’t listen to it so we have too, haha.
I loved the report Billy, I’ve heard of a lot of different things but nothing quite like this, although there’s so much we don’t know of in this world and beyond…I had an experience when I was about 34, I was living in L.A., CA and going home from work, I felt a cold chill come over me and a huge black cloud moved over me and the car and towards the east coast, it gave me a very surreal feeling and kinda scared me too. A week later I was home and got a call from my Mom, my aunt and uncle were both killed at once, they had been run over by a car crossing the street. The first thing I thought of was the black cloud that graced me, so yea’ there are some pretty weird things in this world, most we have no idea what it is or what for it is. The older guy had a very neat experience and I would love to have something like that happen to me. There are some stories that can’t be made up and this is one of them. It could of been spirits, it could of been alien, like a probe sent to gather information…they do have these and they come in a lot of different forms depending on their intelligentence and how long they have been in the Universe, I’ve heard of anything from a small craft to a small metal ball or more than ever I’ve heard of glowing balls of light; I suppose its more like an advanced video recorder sent to gather info and soil and air samples. Life is amazing.
Dear Scott,
At issue here – on this blog – is not the recall, or perception of an “older gentlemen”, it is the compendium of evidence that exists pointing to the existence of a phenomenon that is not understood but is clearly real. Please understand that even hearsay evidence IS evidence. And at issue here is not the 95% of events that can be explained away with possibilities at best; but, it’s the 5% that can not be explained.
Honey Rider, you and shirley should get together, you talk the same nonsense.
“the existence of a phenomenon that is not understood but is clearly real. ”
Billy is talking about one story here, and I don’t see how anyone could say it’s real. I think if that this guys sighting maybe a hallucination related to sleep paralysis.
“Please understand that even hearsay evidence IS evidence.”
Unbelievable!
” it’s the 5% that can not be explained”
More pseudointellectual nonsense Shirley. The 5% that can’t be explain doesn’t mean that it’s something spiritual or has anything to do with UFOs. It just means it can’t be explained. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to back them up. The scientific method should be used to figure out unexplained sightings. But some people just want to believe in spiritualism or UFOs no matter how what. You’re one of these people shirley.
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I suffer from sleep paralysis. Though I have learned to somewhat control it, I’ve never witnesses anything strange in my 35 years.
I want to beleive, and am very jealous of those that have witnessed the unexplainable.
What proof do you have, scott, that these people are displaying “nonsense” or “full of hot air” or this is “made up”. You may have convinced yourself of this but I think maybe you should present some evidence that they are wrong, just like you may want evidence that proves this event was real. And if this DID happen…then uhh…yea, there would be an explanation beyond our means of understanding. Anything that happens in the physical world is explainable, maybe not by modern science.
“What proof do you have, scott, that these people are displaying “nonsense” or “full of hot air” or this is “made up”…. you should present some evidence that they are wrong, just like you may want evidence that proves this event was real”
No Dave, it works the other way around. We live by science not by fantasy. Everything we do or have done can be figured out. Otherwise we could just say anything and you wouldn’t need to prove it. I could say I’ve been given a gift by angles and can fly. It maybe true but I can’t just say it and walk away. I’d have to prove that assertion since it doesn’t make sense when we look at science. I will repeat what I said above…Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to back them up. The scientific method should be used to figure out anything that seem not be be intuitively true. In other words if something seems odd we figure it out by science and we don’t make up fantasic stories based on imagination. Everything that is paranomormal (ghosts, ufos, esp, monsters) must be figured out by the sciences before we can say they’re true. Otherwise they’re just worthless stories.
worthess stories maybe to you…
Sheesh, go get involved in something you actually enjoy…Captain Bring-down.
Dear scott,
You’re trying way too hard in your attempts to sound intellectual. You’re arguments are akin to those of a thousand years ago where people argued the earth was flat. They didn’t have the science to prove it was round or that other planets even existed. Likewise, we don’t have the science today to explain the ufo phenomenon. But you’re logic, that ufos and other like phenomenon can’t and should not be considered real until they are proven by science is itself not logical. Your argument is counter circular. It’s not illogical to say X exists but Y can’t explain it where X are ufos and Y is science; but, it is illogical to say X doesn’t exist until Y explains it – you can only say that if we know all the Y there is to know and we have at least one person who fully understands all the Y. We don’t know all the science and there isn’t any one person who even comes close to fully being able to understand any branch of science fully. Einstein himself made humungous blunders. Surely, you’re not suggesting you’re smarter than Einstein?
Interesting story, especially about the dog’s reaction. I’ve had many similar experiences. Someday science will be able to explain this and more as our technology advances. It is indeed an amazing world in which we live.
Scott: I too am a believer in the scientific method. But there are many things that science has yet to prove. Did you know there are people who can lower their heart rate with their mind? Science cant explain it but it’s true. Other phenomena such as UFO’s, ghosts, dejavu and ESP do exist even though science has yet to explain them. Only doors should be locked, not minds.
Jay: After 10 years in Germany, I can just about swear that it probably wasn’t the Jager; I’m sure it was the Meister that did the deed! Germans drink JagerMeister to nurse their beer hangovers on their mornings after and it tastes like cough medicine mixed with baby vitamins and alcohol! Yeeeowwie!
Anyway, being from Wilton, a small town in the Piedmont section of North Carolina outside of Raleigh, I know that there are some very strange things that go on in this state and no where else.
This is the home of the Venus Fly Trap plant, which is found no where else on this planet. Blackbeard the pirate sometimes shines a lantern at ships off the coast out on the beaches and sounds of the Outer Banks; several ships have run aground on sand bars while coming in to ‘rescue’ the person with the lantern only to find that there is absolutely no one there and no way anyone could have gotten away over open water without being seen. Sometimes, merchant seamen in WWII dungarees and life vests are also seen on NC beaches trying to warm themselves and communicate with the party-goers near the fires set up for night beach parties.
Yes, I believe that this ‘UFO Lights’ incident is real and that it really happened, especially since New Bern is a coastal town. I believe that it may be the first of many actual landing parties that are to come and that the Aliens behind these incidents will shortly reveal themselves to us.
This is going to change everything that we humans take for granted and may God have mercy on us!
John George
North Carolina
Explaining this strange event may best be realized by referring to another unexplainable sight observed by a fellow named Scrooge. He consoled himself by reasoning the following concerning the apparition he experienced:
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” –
Ebenezer Scrooge, blaming indigestion for making him see Marley’s ghost in “A Christmas Carol”
For some time, I have wondered if witnesses to UFO and other strange “phenomenology” may possibly have experienced the same affliction as good old Eb.
“Scott: I too am a believer in the scientific method. But there are many things that science has yet to prove.”
yes, science is a way to examine the unusal. Just becuase we can’t prove everything by science doesn’t mean we should say that ghosts, ESP or even UFOs need to be true.
” Did you know there are people who can lower their heart rate with their mind? Science cant explain it but it’s true. ”
Yes, I have heard people say they can control the temp of their feet, making one warmer or colder than the other. This is not so hard to believe becuase the mind is connected to the body. Some people, including Aurthur C Clark, thought that Stimata (bleading through the palms like Jesus supposedly did, St Fransis of asisi) exists and is controlled by the brain. This is an interesting possiblity but they need to do a lot of work with people who say they can do this to see what’s truely going on. Even today there’s a number of people today who say they can do this.
“Other phenomena such as UFO’s, ghosts, dejavu and ESP do exist even though science has yet to explain them. Only doors should be locked, not minds.”
This statement is pure guesswork (nonsense). How can you say ghost, ESP exists? You can’t so why would you say it? You also hint that because I talk of scientific method that I have a closed mind. I don’t. My mind is as open as they come. I think things about religion and unusual phenomena in ways that’s as unusal as anything I’ve ever heard. Some things make sense to me more than traditional religous doctrine.
Scott:
It’s very easy to prove that humans have psychic abilities, try this: Walk very quietly into a room where others are seated facing away from you and stare at the backs of their necks; soon, you will find that several of the seated will turn to look at you; why?; because they FELT your presence in the room without KNOWING your were there.
Haven’t you ever had psychic dreams and nightmares? Sometimes my deceased sister comes to me in dreams; she tells me things without ever saying any words; and I have dreamed dreams so vivid warning me of dangerous situations to come (i.e., robbery, theft, assault and death) also and many of these dreams have later come true.
But don’t worry, Scott! If you only believe in what you can see, feel, spend, touch and buy then you have a lot of company; GW Bush and Dick Cheney, just to name a few!
John George
North Carolina
The story has the ring of truth to it. The man does not brag on himself. He describes the event with details. His dog’s actions seem normal for a dog.
When about 15 years old I had what I orginally thought were dreams of floating in a room full of lighted balls or now called orbs. The color was varied and pastel in shade. These were way too vivid to be a dreams. So I can relate to this story.
Should Faten or Scott be hit across the forehead with a bar of steel (and should they survive such a blow) they no doubt would describe the incident as having been struck by a solid piece of steel. But nothing could be further from the truth. Examine that bar of steel under an electron microscope and they would see nothing but incredibly small proton centers surrounded by practically invisible electrons racing at incredible speeds in very distant orbits. How could something so small with so much space in between possibly be considered solid? Point being, not everything is as it first appears, Scott and Faten, even in science.
Scott: There are thousands of credible witnesses who have seen and photographed things which cannot be explained away as “natural phenomena”. I personally have a photo of a “ghost” taken by my son in New Orleans. (go to flickr.com and put in “ghost, New Orleans” to see it.) I know that it is genuine and has no known explanation. If you come up with one, let me know. Or go to “livescience.com” and look for “top 10 mysteries science can’t explain”. Even the U.S. Air Force in Project Blue Book could not explain everything they investigated.
Sorry, you will need this link to access the photo.
http://flickr.com/photos/29710695@N05/
montyp thanks for the pics. I’m not sure what your pic shows, but it’s interesting. I enjoy a good scare somtimes. Of course I could say it’s a ghost, reflection, double exposure or something else So I put it in the category of interesting, but unknown. I don’t think we could jump to any conclusion one way or another. Thanks again or sharing the pic
Thanks for the feedback, Scott. I also have no idea what it is in the photo. I know there is no trickery. The picture is shown as it came back from CVS after developing. The negative shows the same image. I believe “supernatural” is just another way of saying “unexplained”. I have no idea if there is some super natural force or being. A lot of people claim to “know” but I’m pretty sure that’s just self serving nonsense. So far nothing has been proved. I like what Joseph Campbell said, “If you could prove the existence of God, then what good is faith.” Faith is a personal matter which should be left that way.
Billy that was now an interesting story. It seems to be happening.
Check out this link and see what I mean.
http://www.mcn.org/1/miracles/Crossesb.html
This is a link about such type of phenomena only in the form of light crosses.
Possible explanation, “ball lightning”.
I neither believe nor disbelieve the existence of anything and or everything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning