My Cage "Classics" 02/03 - 03/2009
Added 2022-08-02 00:03:54 +0000 UTCHas anything you consider supernatural ever happened to you? If so, what?
Originally run Feb 2nd - 3rd 2009.
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That is a good one.
My Cage
2022-09-24 17:19:28 +0000 UTCA day or 2 late, but I just came across this in my inbox... In 1977 I was at a Richie Havens concert in Central Park. At one point I heard a flash of thunder the same moment the song he was performing hit a strong drumbeat - and at that moment I knew SOMETHING INCREDIBLY WEIRD WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. I even waited for a building on the edge of the park to collapse. Leaving the park, all the lights went out on the park drive. Sure, I thought, the concert's over so they're turning off the par- Then I noticed ALL the lights in the city had gone out: it was the beginning of the 1977 power blackout that lasted several days - something incredibly weird for sure.
JoeStrike
2022-08-03 13:53:18 +0000 UTCOkay, long story but really good, so.. The year my mother died, I had gone back to the Ozarks in the spring to take care of her and my father. When I arrived, I told Mom that I would stay just as long as they needed me, but that I would need to leave for a couple of days in the late summer because I had tickets to see Paul McCartney close the Candlestick Park stadium in San Francisco and I wasn't going to miss it. Mom smiled at that and concurred, being a Paul McCartney fan herself. That spring, the rains had been good and the underbrush and grasses in the forest were lush. One evening, the fireflies were wonderfully abundant. It was the biggest firefly swarm I'd seen since my childhood. The forest was thick with them, winking and blinking, surrounding the house and high up into the trees. A wondrous sight to behold to be sure. We soon had to put Mom in the hospital due to complications in her condition. One night, as she slept in the hospital and the family slept at the house in the woods, the power at the house went out. It had been stormy, but suddenly it became still and quiet outside, as it was in the house with no power. That type of thing tends to wake everyone up. I got out of bed, and moved towards the front of the house facing the lake. I was downstairs, and my father appeared at the top of the stairs above me, also having been awakened by the sudden silence. Then, as we both watched, bright flashing globes of ball lightning gently and slowly drifted from across the lake, moved up the hill, and enveloped the entire house, winking and blinking like a swarm of gigantic fireflies. The ball lightning swarm continued up the hill, through the trees and disappeared into the woods in silence. When it had passed, the power came back on. The storm was gone and all was quiet and peaceful. That was surreal enough, but... Mom passed, and that summer I made it to that Paul McCartney concert. I thought of Mom that night, and I felt a certain comfort knowing that she would be very happy that I made it to the show. In due course, the band began playing Let it Be. Accompanying the song was a video: someone was lighting a sky lantern and setting it aloft into the air. The field of view moved back to reveal other people also lighting sky lanterns and releasing them into the air to join the first. Again the view expanded, revealing more and more people and more and more sky lanterns, all now drifting gently, winking and blinking, a giant swarm rising high into the sky. As the scene and the song unfolded, I thought back to the swarm of ball lightning, and to the swarm of fireflies, and in that moment, I was indeed able to let it be, and I finally stopped grieving for my mother. Supernatural? No. But certainly serendipitous in the extreme. Thank you, Sir Paul McCartney, and to any and all of you who read this far. Cheers.
Yer pal Mikey
2022-08-02 06:18:33 +0000 UTC
