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Last week we were in upstate Michigan and went to see the Paulding Light just outside of Watersmeet, MI. This is a mysterious phenomenon of blinking lights, that almost looks like a mini star.

You can read more about the Paulding Light here and also find directions and other theories that try to explain where this light comes from.

When we saw it, there was a pathway that followed the power lines that looked like you could walk closer to the light. We walked a bit but the light never appeared larger. Some other folks there that night walked considerably closer and they said they never saw the light at all--despite us saying we saw it a few times as they walked! So it disappears as you get closer, crazy!

Below is a short movie I made putting together clips from our cameras that we had. Can't wait to go back next year with some more equipment to explore!

As previously posted about, I have somewhat of a reason to believe our apt is haunted, most likely because our building used to be a hospital during the Civil War.

Supporting this claim, tonight when I went into the kitchen around 2am, I noticed the oven light on once again! It was most certainly off 2 hours earlier when I made tea and turned off the lights. No one had been in there since I was the only one home. I was an electrical engineer, and while it’s quite plausible for lights to “mysteriously” turn off, it’s quite hard for them to “mysteriously” turn on.

Weird. Yes, indeed.

So, my roomate and myself have reason to believe our apartment is haunted. Yes, I know what you are thinking, but hear me out.

First off, our apartment is located in Georgetown and back in the early 1800s was known as Miss Lydia English’s Female Seminary, frequented by the likes of Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. During the Civil War it was converted into Seminary Hospital, used by the Union Army. And shortly there after, into an apartment building, as it stands today.

Fast forward to January 2006 when we moved in and note these strange incidents in our kitchen: