Things That Go Bump In The DAY

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I recall one time (quite recently) when I went to turn on my kitchen light and then a big flash of light appeared (in place of the kitchen light) and vanished just as quickly… Turns out I just had a dead bulb 😐
 
I have random knocking in my kitchen and now when it happens I say, “make more noise.” Then it stops. I wonder what will happen if I say, “you’ve been doing this for months, kill me or throw something already” or “what, am I not good enough for bloody walls” haha
 
I remember being full of awe looking out at the full moon one night and seeing bright beams across it in the shape of a cross…then realised it was just the fly screen wire over the window that was causing me to see it that way 😊
 
Some people think that they have a peculiar energy about them, an energy that causes street lights to go out. This is not so; street lights are arc lights, and when the gas gets cool enough and sparse enough (street lights, like other tube technology before them, are subject to gas entrapment in metal that condenses out of the arc onto the cool solid portions of the light, ergo, the gas is slowly “lost” from the tube. A metal that is deliberately introduced into the tube and evaporates with pressure so as to entrap gas leaking into the tube so as to maintain a vacuum is known as a “getter”.), the arc goes out. At that point, the arc light is subject to the full applied voltage and restarts as if it had just been turned on, thus the arc lights are intermittent but with a very long period.

Sometimes, when they are leaving, people will be looking back at their house and see one of the incandescent lights they had left on as a burglar deterrent turn off and then turn on again. They think they have a haunted house, that grandma and grandpa are visiting them. Again, this is wrong. What happened is that the filament just burned out and, as it rapidly cooled, went from a soft hot sloppy lead-like heavy wire of tungsten into a much cooler much more springy coil of tungsten which, as it vibrated, spot welded itself together when the ends at the break made contact again.

Some old houses and hotels have a reputation as being haunted by ghosts who turn on the faucets late at night. Again, this is not so. What happens is that the water pressure goes down during the day due to heavy usage. As usage drops off during the evening, the water pressure rises and at a certain point, the old cracked leaky rubber washer in the faucet valve begins leaking. Depending on the relative leakiness and the increase in pressure, the flow of water can be quite substantial. Thus, there is no ghost turning on the faucet, just a cracked valve and high city water pressure.
 
One time I thought I had a sixpack. It was actually just the lighting of my room. I thought @(name removed by moderator) made this as a series to things that go bump in the night lol.
 
I saw an extremely (VERY) bright streak of light in the air over the freeway for 10 seconds. I thought it was a UFO with a magnet to pick up all of the cars and bring them to their home planet. Turns out it was a military experimental weapon. I’m just glad it wasn’t North Korea’s nukes.
 
Walked into the house with the cat yesterday, heard a weird poof noise. Both cat and I instantaneously jumped a mile high. Then got a nice waft of perfume. Still shaking and cat cowering I scanned the room rather quickly.

Realised that I had set off the new motion sensor air purifier! Phew!
 
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There was one night driving through the back roads with some rowdy young children and I was just wishing a goblin or something would run across the road to distract them…when a dirty snowball arced through the night sky,it was orange and green.My kids were so silent ,and one of my daughters said she wanted to go to confession she was that scared 😁
It was a very quiet trip home.!
 
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