This morning was a very strange morning. Two things in particular. First was an earthquake (this is Wisconsin, people). Second was something I saw. Frist, the earthquake. I was sitting in my room listening to some music and helping my friend George with a project (via IM) when all of a sudden I thought I felt the floor shake. I paused the music a sec and listened, but I didn’t hear anything, so I played my music again. Then my brother walked into my room and asked me if I just heard anything. He heard (over his headphones) a sound like a strong gust of wind, and when he took his headphones off, he heard something rattling in his desk. I didn’t have a clue what happened, so we checked downstairs, and after not seeing anything I went back upstais and continued listening to music. Today after hearing something about an earthquake on the radio, I checked the news and found out there was a 4.5 earthquake south of us in Illinois. Pretty cool I guess

Now for my other story, of which I’m still skeptical because it was just too weird…
I was actually up most of the night helping with that project, and by the time I actually went to bed, it was 5:30. Around 5:15 I went downstairs to get something to drink (as I was really thirsty). By this time it was fairly bright outside (although it was very cloudy). I got a glass, filled it up with water, and starting drinking it. As I was drinking it, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Now I’m sure everyone here has seen that shadow or something from the corner of your eye, right? Well, as soon as I saw that I looked again right away and it was still there. I put my glass down and was staring right at this shadow thing. I was in the kitchen and I was looking straight into the family room. It was standing in the middle of that room. It wasn’t a shadow from the sun or whatnot because it was in the middle of the room. Just standing there. I’m guessing this thing was about 4 1/2 feet tall or so. It was like looking at a shadow of yourself on the wall…except this was just standing in the middle of the room. I was staring at it for a good 10 seconds, then it seemed like it turned it’s head away from me and ran to–and through–the wall. By that time I was really freaking out cuz this shadow thing was standing in the room. I stood in the kitchen for another 10 seconds or so and decided I was just going to run upstairs, go to sleep, and pretend nothing happened. Not finishing my water, I put the glass in the sink and ran upstairs. That was it. I haven’t seen anything like it since today, but it was weird seeing it.

This reminds me of a few weird stories from when I lived in Louisville, but I’ll save those for later…..

~Jaker