Friday 3rd August 2018
A long-term, 'Facebook friend' recently tagged me in a post, concerning something that they have been 'noticing' at their home in recent months. He said:
"Here's something a little weird for you Nick..... I'll set the scene:
My armchair is in the front room - just to the right of the hallway / living room door - facing the fireplace. Over to the left is the bay window and, in that corner, there is our television. Situated right opposite my position, above the fireplace, is a large mirror. When sitting down in the evening... and the room door is open... the mirror shows the open doorway and the hall. (*See accompanying diagram, showing just the positions of the items discussed above and ignoring other, unrelated furniture in the room, etc).
Now, almost daily, towards darkness, while I'm watching the telly, in my peripheral vision - reflected in the mirror - I see what appears to be 'someone' walking past the hallway door... This doesn't happen if I face the mirror directly, only when I'm looking to the side of it....
It shook me up the first few times it happened, as I thought somebody had walked in the front door........ any guesses?"
My friend has lived in the property concerned for 9 years and they have never noticed anything 'unusual' there before. The 'effect' concerned only happens at dusk - or just later - and nothing noticeable has changed in the make-up of the overall situation to bring about such an illusion, environmentally speaking. It is definitely noteworthy, however, to find that the family only moved into the small, front room concerned at the start of Spring (this year), so it may well be an effect caused by the ongoing changes in daylight, perhaps?
"Here's something a little weird for you Nick..... I'll set the scene:
My armchair is in the front room - just to the right of the hallway / living room door - facing the fireplace. Over to the left is the bay window and, in that corner, there is our television. Situated right opposite my position, above the fireplace, is a large mirror. When sitting down in the evening... and the room door is open... the mirror shows the open doorway and the hall. (*See accompanying diagram, showing just the positions of the items discussed above and ignoring other, unrelated furniture in the room, etc).
Now, almost daily, towards darkness, while I'm watching the telly, in my peripheral vision - reflected in the mirror - I see what appears to be 'someone' walking past the hallway door... This doesn't happen if I face the mirror directly, only when I'm looking to the side of it....
It shook me up the first few times it happened, as I thought somebody had walked in the front door........ any guesses?"
My friend has lived in the property concerned for 9 years and they have never noticed anything 'unusual' there before. The 'effect' concerned only happens at dusk - or just later - and nothing noticeable has changed in the make-up of the overall situation to bring about such an illusion, environmentally speaking. It is definitely noteworthy, however, to find that the family only moved into the small, front room concerned at the start of Spring (this year), so it may well be an effect caused by the ongoing changes in daylight, perhaps?
Looking at the matter rationally, they have said that they are wondering if it is possibly their imagination.... or perhaps some visual issue at play here?
With regards to the 'changing light' and 'visual issue' angle, it has to be stressed that the peripheral vision is particularly prone to anomalies in certain, usually subdued, lighting. Paranormal lore suggests that ghosts and / or spirits are 'often seen peripherally'..... and some sources go as far as suggesting that they are 'only' seen in this manner? However - needless to say - this is a terribly biased suggestion from the get-go and it could be accused of blatantly using naturally occurring peripheral / lighting anomalies as an excuse to believe that you are experiencing something ghostly and so on.....
From my own experience, I have visited quite a few sites that manifest such anomalies, one certain public house in the Walsall area being particularly prone to this kind of effect. We had been warned that the cellar of the building - and particularly the bar in that section - was a place where staff and customers were constantly seeing indistinct, shadowy figures flitting around. On entering the area concerned for our investigation, the effect concerned was immediately noticeable.... in fact, it became something of a burden having to 'stake out' the cellar because of this visual disturbance constantly at play! Needless to say, there was clearly nothing 'ghostly' actually happening and all 'movement' - as far as we could ascertain - was down to the subdued lighting levels playing havoc with our peripheral sight.....
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