Hi Petra:

ref:
Since its late and I'm talking about odd occurrences, I'll just throw these two in for good measure. On Thursday night around 10PM I was typing a letter on my computer and my hallway door is to my left. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the specter of a man. His entire aura and being seemed to be black. I saw him walk a little past the opening of the doorway and turned to look at me like he was spying on me and forgot the open space was there. Instantly I turned to look that way with both eyes and he vanished. That was rather unnerving.

These incidents and topic has been named "Shadow People" by radio host Art Bell (www.artbell.com). If you go to his web-site I think there's a link there leading to stories and pictures that people have sent in to him. Apparently the topic got mentioned once by a caller and he got a floodgate of emails and calls about people reporting the same thing. ==> One key theory is that if you are looking at a pixelated screen (your computer screen) and you are tired...it changes they way your brain processes visual information. Anyway, you may want to check that out (& no...can't say I've seen anything like that myself....)

Regarding the "ear blocking" I think on other message boards they discuss that type of effect...and I think for just one ear too....

Regarding the man at K-mart ...and what it means...I'm not sure I am following you on that one. Feel free to explain it if you feel like it....

In another area...I have a suspicion that the "grumble" that Don use's to predict quakes may just be from a Pentium CPU.... What do you think...?

mark

p.s. Art Bell also has an earthquake link (to keep it on topic :)