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What the Hell Was That?

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I’m going to tell you three things straight up:

  1. This post is not about dogs, although they do have cameo roles in the story I’m about to tell you.
  2. I will leave you hanging at the end of this post. Only because:
  3. I will tell you what the hell it was in Follow-Up Friday’s post. There will be a prize (a bag of treats) for the person who guesses correctly just exactly, What the Hell it was. (Hang with me, you’ll understand shortly.)
Wait? WHAT? That's a treat right there! A Frankenwoofer by JONES!

I hope it doesn’t take her as long to tell this story as it took her to let me have this Jones Frankenwoofer.

Hubby was out of town this past weekend. He left on Thursday and returned Sunday evening. I never sleep GREAT when he’s gone, I always worry about someone breaking in. SO, I sleep with my pepper blaster on my nightstand and put a tea kettle in front of the door. (Don’t judge.) My thought is this, if someone tries to get in they will knock the tea kettle with the door, which will wake me up enough to shoot them in the face with my pepper blaster and then Delilah can eat them. Perfectly sensible, right?

Well Saturday night Sampson didn’t come to bed. Which meant I couldn’t booby trap my door. Despite this, I fell asleep and slept fairly well until about 2:30. Around that time my bladder intruded into my sleep suggesting I might want to get up and make a trip to the bathroom.

Sometimes this happens and I ignore the bladder, but not this night. This night I appeased my bladder and got up to empty it.

I climbed back in bed, bleary eyed, ready to get my sleep on. I flipped this way and turned that way to get comfortable and then I was startled by a flash just above my curtain. You know when you’re using the flash on your camera and you get that quick little flash, just before it blinds you? Yeah that one. Well that’s what it looked like.

You’re dreaming, I told myself staring at the window.

Flash!

There it was again.

I swiveled my head around to check the shelves on the other side of the room, thinking there might be something up there that was causing it.

Nothing.

Whip my head back around and stare intently at the windows.

Flash!

Shit, I think the aliens are here for our cavity probe, I whispered to Delilah, who never moved.

I got up and cautiously approached the window.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not one to just open my curtains and peer out into the night. I have this fear of something/someone peering back at me. Granted I live in a raised-ranch, but there is a small porch outside my room, it’s unlikely, but not inconceivable that someone who was determined COULD manage to get up on that porch. Which is why I hesitated briefly.

I crept up to the window and carefully grasped one side of each curtain and slowly put one eye to the crack and gently pulled.

Nothing. No eyes peering back at me (thank Dog!) No alien spaceship shining a light in my window or trying to attract my attention by flashing me.

I let my breath out, and climbed back in bed.

I stared again at the window.

Nothing.

You’re still half-asleep, I assured myself as I once again started to close my eyes.

And Flash! There it was again, but this time it was on the chair next to the nightstand.

I grabbed my cell phone, activating the flashlight quickly and trained the light on the chair.

I didn’t see anything.

Someone’s fucking with me, I thought to myself, trying to figure out if this was one of those times where I needed to vacate the house immediately. Because we all know in those damn horror movies, investigating this shit doesn’t work out for anyone but the homicidal maniac.

I closed the flashlight and lay there staring at the chair.

FLASH! There it was again.

Again I grabbed the cell phone and using the flashlight feature, I once again inspected the chair.

And that’s when I saw it.

And this is where I leave you.

Yeah, so this is the cliff hanger portion. What do you think I saw? Leave your answer in the comments and whoever guesses correctly will win a bag of treats. These treats are something I recently found, they are made locally and my guys love them.

If there is more than one correct guess, I will put all correct guesses into a drawing using random.org and pull a winner. All guesses must be received by 9:00 PM eastern standard time Thursday, July 14, 2016.

Friday, July 15, 2016 I will reveal the answer to what the hell was flashing in my bedroom.

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  1. I don’t know what it was…but note to self: don’t read post titled like yours nor keep on reading it when the post cautions you are not going to reveal the answer until days later – ESPECIALLY RIGHT BEFORE GOING TO BED!

    I am blaming you for what I know will be a sleepless night full of me hearing and seeing things real or imagined and the poor performance at work tomorrow that results.

  3. Seeing as it wasn’t aliens, I’d go with lightning bug (considering where you live!)

  4. Once I saw that it was inside, I immediately thought lightning bug. Just in case, I googled luminescent insects – it’s not a click beetle or a glowing cockroach or a glow-in-the-dark millipede, or a bioluminescent fungus or bacteria. *shiver* Just to be different from the lightning bug guessers, I will say it’s something electronic – a signal-flashlight not shut correctly, something charging, needing to charge, or blinking to alert you to a message. My official (vague) guess is something electronic.

  5. I’m guessing lightning bug. If I’m right, you’re not alone. They often freak Rudy out because he thinks it could be real lightning.

  6. My first thought was lightening bug as well, so I’ll go with that for my answer. You didn’t say what color the flash was, and certainly a lightening bug has a slower, more yellowish pulse than a camera’s pre-flash, but since it moved, I’m sticking with bug!

    You tell a great story!

  7. Every detail of this post cracked me up, because I act the exact same way if my hubby leaves town! I haven’t done the tea kettle thing, but that’s a darn good idea. You were so brave to open the curtain, I probably wouldn’t have been that brave. 🙂
    I thought of something electronic. Like maybe your hubby forgot his phone and left in on the chair; except that you probably would have noticed it before Saturday.
    But since it seemed to be moving to different locations, I bet that everyone who guessed lightning bug is correct!

  8. Oh boy! I have no clue. Mom isn’t usually scared at night but at camp up north last fall, she saw a flashlight in the woods in the middle of the night going down the road but no other campers saw it, and no one admitted to being out. It did scare us.

  9. I’m thinking lightning bug. I had that happen to me once. Thought something paranormal was going on at first.

  10. Nothing like that to get your heart jumping! My guess is your phone! That little flashing light can be bright in the dark. I’ve learned to flip my phone over or it will keep me awake at night.

  11. First off…kudos for appeasing the bladder gods. They can be extraordinarily cantankerous and appeasing them is good juju for the equally cantankerous sleep gods. As for the FLASH…I’m with Cupcake…is your cell phone or other electronic gadget set to notify you of various functions (email, FB, etc.)? Mine does that and in the middle of the night, it cheeses me off something fierce. Other than that, I got nuthin. Fireflies and their ilk don’t live in the 303 so I wouldn’t know what one of those looks like to save my soul.

  12. I had as much fun reading the comments, as I did your spooky tale. At first I too was thinking lightning bug, which is plausible. Maybe it was a click beetle? Or maybe you left something on the porch that was reflecting the moonlight (or streetlight) and then flashing in the wind. If the dog does not stir, I do not worry. BE safe. Love the post

  13. I’m guessing space aliens and they have taken over your mind and wrote this post just to torture your readers.

  14. If the light moves around it cannot be a phone or other blinking appliance. Sooooo, it could be something outside blinking from another house? A lightening bug wouldn’t be that bright.

  15. Was it lightning? I only say that because I was woken up by the damned brightest lightning storm I’ve seen in years last week. No thunder, just lightning. It made it pretty hard to go back to sleep after that. And Laika? Snoring as loud as can be on the couch, not bothered at all by anything. And even though you didn’t mention it I have “I always feel like somebodies watching me” in my head again. Just sayin 🙂

  16. Oh geez! Well given that you apparently haven’t been abducted, I’m thinking it was one of those times where the lighting comes in the house and sparks up little electrical flashes inside. I don’t know exactly what I’m talking about, but I know it happened when I was a kid. 🙂

  19. I have no idea what it might have been, but I need to tell you – I am the exact same way at night, especially when I’m alone. I don’t look out windows, I can’t sleep – are we related? LOL!

    Monty, Harlow and Ramble

  20. Such a great story! Ok, my best guess is an electrical wire was “live” and hanging near your window. Although that sounds super dangerous and awful. I also think perhaps a neighbor was doing something that was making a strange flash — please tell us!!