When I get home from work, one of the first things I do is take Max (my dog) for a quick walk around the garden, he tends to spend most of his time sniffing the bushes and ground, as I know foxes walk through the garden, as do badgers, and clearly this fascinates my dog. After he has finished marking every plant as his I head back inside and make myself a coffee or cup of tea, shortly followed by me having a shower.
Now depending on my mood and the time, I will either set about cooking tea or I head to my computer room to send and read my emails, plus check a few things online, mainly motorsport news, but sometimes topical news. As of late I have set myself an 8pm cut off time, and by this I mean when my clock gets to 8pm I turn my computer off and go and do something else. The reason for this is that I have found I could sit here until very late in the evening doing nothing other than watching clips on YouTube. I felt I was wasting my life away and wanted to do something a little different.
Well on that given night I headed to the front room as I wanted to watch a documentary, which I actually managed to do. The crazy thing was I switched the T.V off yet oddly felt this really strong desire to head back to my computer room and buy something on ebay. It's really odd as I can't explain the feeling, and I don't have much money burning away my pockets, but I just again felt like I wanted to order something.
Fast forward about 20 minutes of myself going through ebay and various online stores it struck me that A: I didn't actually need anything, and B: If I was going to buy something I would research it for a while first (Yes I'm that type of guy).
So I shut down my computer, stepped out of the room, turned to my right to switch off the light via the switch (Oddly the switch for that room is on the outside, on the hallway wall), as I turned off the light it felt like I was being surrounded. I then turned to my left to close the doors behind me (I say doors as they are like saloon bar doors), well as I turned to my left I actually took a deep breath, as stood at the end of that hallway was a dark silhouette.
Now this wasn't a complete figure, more the upper body, say from about the waist line and above. For the first time in a long time I actually swore and could feel my heart beat through my chest.
Daft as it sounds I tried to really look at the shape as I know human beings will make shapes out of things, i.e. shadows, clouds etc. Well the shape started to fade and I was 1/2 turned to try and flick the light switch back on, then as I turned around to confirm the location of the light switch, and turned it on, well the silhouette had vanished.
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