There have even been a couple of times when they have given an Oscar worthy performance when I was not around to enjoy it! For these encounters, I have to rely on the first hand story of the friends who were actually there to experienced them.
One such private performance had quite an effect on the couple who stood witness to it. If I were to describe the couple, I would adamantly use words like "grounded", "sensible" or "highly intelligent". In other words, not the sort of people to go out of their way to make up an imaginary tale just for the effect. Yet theirs is probably one of my favorite visual sightings stories, especially since the particular entities involved very rarely make an appearance to anyone.
What might be humorous is to know that at the time of the encounter, these friends had no idea that anything was amiss or supernatural in origin, though it gave me goose pimples right away.
Although Jack and Carolyn had been to my home before for one of the many "board game" night parties that I was so fond of hosting, they had never had the pleasure of experiencing anything out of the ordinary themselves and were understandably skeptical when the rest of our group would reminisce about our own happenings.
That all changed shortly after their visit to my home for a late August birthday party.
With the Summers being so warm back then, if you were going to get in a good day's exercise, chances are you would have to wait till the sun was fading and the temperatures were dropping. So that is exactly what Jack and Carolyn were doing on that fated day, taking a nice twilight stroll through the neighborhood.
They were both lost in the easy conversation of two people in love when they found that they were approaching my house and looked up in an absentminded manor to see if I was home or not.
At the moment I was not home, but by the time they had made their two mile circuit, they noted that I was in fact home by then and so they decided to stop in to say hello.
We sat and chatted happily for a few moments when Carolyn finally asked me why I had taken the rocking chairs inside?
Puzzled, I replied to her that I was not sure what she was talking of, since I did not own any rocking chairs.A look of utter confusion crossed both their faces as they turned to share a look between them.
It was then that her husband Jack said the thing that sent chills straight up my spine and made the hair on the back of my head tingle... he said, "But we saw the two of them sitting in the chairs, rocking."
Taking a deep breathe, I asked "Who did you see sitting in the chairs?"
They both looked at me and he said, "You know, the old couple. They were sitting right here on your porch and rocking. They were seemed real nice and waved at us when we walked by like they knew us. Who were they anyways, we haven't met them before."
I felt my pulse jolt as I looked up at them with wide eyes and said "Neither have I, guys, neither have I".
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