Since I told the "ghost story" the other day, a few people asked if it was true. Some said I made it up lol. Others believed it and had similar ENCOUNTERS. This usually leads to me to telling them the story of what happened to me many years ago.
I was at home with my cousin and her mother. Her mom was doing her hair and I was chilling on the couch watching tv. I was startled away from the show on the TV by the loudest crack of thunder I'd ever heard. It actually rattled the windows! I looked outside and through the torrent of rain falling down, I saw a bright bolt of lightning. It flashed directly across the street from my house and seemed to actually hit the ground. I remember thinking - man, that was cool...and then suddenly it wasn't so cool. As I sat there watching the light come down from the heavens, the craziest thing - at least to that point - happened. A bolt hit the ground and disappeared! Oh but it reappeared though - IN MY LIVING ROOM!!! A basketball sized sphere of electrical energy was bouncing, no floating above my head!!! I dropped to the floor - too shocked to scream...I just lay there watching a ball of blues, purples and greens dance in the air. It was about then I noticed my cousin sitting frozen just like I was except she was still sitting in the chair in front of the window...A METAL FOLDING CHAIR!!!
Now I don't know if it was my science teacher or something that the Science Guy on TV said but I remembered that apparently electricity (especially lightning) likes metal - ALOT. So I reached up and snatched her out of the chair onto the floor. She screamed - oh no, not from hitting the floor but from watching as a stream of light shout out from the sphere and into ME! Dazed is an understatement...confused and terrified, I lay there transfixed - too scared to move and too scared not to. Eventually, we pulled ourselves up from the floor and looked around. Where did the sphere go? A check of the curtain at the kitchen door confirmed the exit path of the sphere of lightning. Apparently, it shot out a streak, it went through me, made its way to the kitchen, burned a hole in the curtain at the back door and went out towards the pine trees.
Did I have any side effects from this lightning incident? Yep...I no longer wear watches. Why? Well apparently the current was enough to cause me to drain watch batteries whenever I would wear a watch. I kept buying new batteries, different watches and the batteries would drain and the watches would stop. Let's see what else? Can't do my BP checks on anything other than the old-school manual devices. Why? The electrical ones give a false high reading. Oh and I almost forgot, I don't sleep anything like I used to. Anything more than 5-6 hours and you'd think I was hungover.
So, did I go to the ED or Urgent Care? Nope. Should I have? Hmm, probably. For the most part, I was ok. One thing's for sure, it probably would've been a good idea to have ghostbusters on speed dial...
Now I don't know if it was my science teacher or something that the Science Guy on TV said but I remembered that apparently electricity (especially lightning) likes metal - ALOT. So I reached up and snatched her out of the chair onto the floor. She screamed - oh no, not from hitting the floor but from watching as a stream of light shout out from the sphere and into ME! Dazed is an understatement...confused and terrified, I lay there transfixed - too scared to move and too scared not to. Eventually, we pulled ourselves up from the floor and looked around. Where did the sphere go? A check of the curtain at the kitchen door confirmed the exit path of the sphere of lightning. Apparently, it shot out a streak, it went through me, made its way to the kitchen, burned a hole in the curtain at the back door and went out towards the pine trees.
Did I have any side effects from this lightning incident? Yep...I no longer wear watches. Why? Well apparently the current was enough to cause me to drain watch batteries whenever I would wear a watch. I kept buying new batteries, different watches and the batteries would drain and the watches would stop. Let's see what else? Can't do my BP checks on anything other than the old-school manual devices. Why? The electrical ones give a false high reading. Oh and I almost forgot, I don't sleep anything like I used to. Anything more than 5-6 hours and you'd think I was hungover.
So, did I go to the ED or Urgent Care? Nope. Should I have? Hmm, probably. For the most part, I was ok. One thing's for sure, it probably would've been a good idea to have ghostbusters on speed dial...
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