A Scholarly Ghostie...

[byslantedlight]

I've just seen the atlas on my bookshelf, virtually right in front of me and up a bit, suddenly stand itself upright from its leaning position against the side of the bookcase... *g* It was very gentle, just a slight crunching of the dustcover as it came up - it'd been leaning about an inch, I suppose, so a fair old hoik to get upright, though not extreme... Nothing had been pushed or rattled or shaken, just me sitting here typing gently on my laptop, a couple of surfaces below... *g*

If I hadn't tipped everything the other way when I took the dictionary out from its place further down the line earlier this evening, and then tipped everything except the atlas back again, I'd be more impressed by its supernatural self, but I presume it simply had to do with the way its pages and so on had ended up sitting.

But it did just do it all by itself - quite impressive, mechanically, for the pages and cover and everything to be in the right position to be able to - and I can quite see how in a spookier house, in less prosaic circumstances, someone might want to shout ghooooooost! *g*

One of the most haunted things I've ever seen, I think... can you tell that my mum's spookiness took a genetic leap right over me...?

ETA - bloody 'ell, and Scary II - I swear that aeroplane must have had trouble getting off the ground, it was so low over the end of our village - if it'd been daylight I could have counted the pilot's eyelashes... I could hear the engine sounding as if it was struggling, which is why I looked out the window, and then saw these massive red and green undercarriage lights heading this way, on something that looked like it was desperately trying to climb - a cargo-ish size plane, or at least I hope so, rather than passenger!

And there I thought it was a dull evening, back to Job 3 after a long prior evening of Job 2, following the day's Job 1! Ghosts and frighteningly low aircraft - a little like those snatches of dream scenarios that you remember when you wake up... which I swear I am... *g*

Comments

[lillianorchid.livejournal.com]

That's still pretty spooky. :O

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - it was fun! I'm a bit Mulder about ghosties, I want to believe, but I can't help looking for the rational explanations first, and this one had one, so... *g* But it was terribly impressive - just a slight crunching sound that made me look up, and the book righted itself! *g*

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Wow, spooky. Better stock up on the rock salt...:D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee! It was fun - something like that would totally be "evidence" of ghosties for someone living in a proper old house... Very sadly not at our place, though...

[murphybabe]

That would have scared me. I don't much like spooky stuff happening. And eek for the plane!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was so not scary that... well, that I blogged happily about it! *g* I'm sort of on the Mulder side - I want to believe in ghosties, but mostly I believe that there's another explanation for most of the things we see as ghosts... and for the things that are harder to explain, we just don't know what the scientific explanation is yet... (though I'm also open to the scientific possibilities of there being spirits of dead people, which would mean... so much more to life!)

Definitely eek the plane - I don't think I've seen one that low around here, certainly not at night! ETA - oh, although I say that - there was a huge roar the other day, and it turned out to be not only a plane going over the house pretty low, but a Spitfire! I could just see its D-day stripes by the time it'd angled into my vision over the rooves of our row of houses...

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I would have been more scared by the plane than the book. But well done for immediately thinking of a scientific explanation! A lot of people would just have jumped to conclusions and run screaming! Especially as scientific notions of gravity would tend to suggest a book might more probably start to lean than to return to an upright position...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee! There is that gravity thing, yes... and it could have been a wee ghostie trying to tell me something through geography, but... yeah, I thought probably not. I kind of wish it had been though - what kind of world would that open up?!

The plane was... well, I wasn't alarmed, but I was keeping my ear out for that engine to sound less struggling, and both higher and further away!

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Well you've had an interesting evening! And there usually is an explanation for things like you describe.
Although. A few weeks ago I was downstairs preparing the cat's dinner, and went to wash their plates from the night before. I couldn't find the plug for the sink; it wasn't in its usual place at all, and it hadn't fallen into the sink. I lifted the drainer in case the plug had slipped underneath it but no, it wasn't to be found. Eventually I gave up looking for it, thinking that one of the cats must have run off with it as a toy, and I retrieved the plug from the laundry to use. Except when I came back into the downstairs kitchen, there was the plug on the side of the sink where it usually sat.
I have no idea what went on there. Can't even begin to explain that.