Strange and Spooky Stories From My Friends

On reflecting about my experiences I was reminded about the stories told to me from friends and family. These people are good folks, honest, all perfectly sane, no drugs or alcohol, don’t dabble in the black arts but nevertheless, found themselves drawn into the world of the supernatural. They have related to me some amazing experiences over the years. Some are strange events, some are spooky paranormal occurrences and others are stories of unexplainable happenings. Most of these are personal accounts and for security reasons most will not have their names noted with the exception of those that passed on (except for my dog who has her story here).

Full article here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/strange-and-spooky-stories-from-my

Breakdown Of A Haunting

 When you cross paths with unseen things.

When I arose on the morning of June 22 of 2011 I made my mother her tea and waited for her to come out.  She didn’t.  So I went to the bedroom and saw her lying there, mouth open, her right hand clutched in a fist on her chest dead.  Though stunned there was time for grief later.  The first matter of business was to call my father who was attending to family business only to learn from my aunt that he had already left and was heading home.  He had no phone with him.  My heart went out to him because he was coming home to discover his marriage of 57 years was over and the woman he loved was gone to this world.

Full article at Substack.

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/breakdown-of-a-haunting

Your AI Is Watching You

When your phone has a mind of its own.

I do journaling but only for “strange things.”  Strange things started happening when my mother passed in her sleep and vibe in the house changes, as it will someone dies in it, and while events have slowed down there are still incidences that I will continue to document.

One recent example is when I looked at a photographer’s portfolio on Pbase and then a few weeks later one of his photos appeared on my phone.   I have no idea how it got there.  I didn’t view the photographer’s site on my phone, only on my Mac Mini.  I never web surf on my phone.  The phone’s WIFI is off, all the time.  And I only viewed his portfolio, which has about 25 or 30 images on a page and the photo was just one image off that page.  I did not download any of his images, it was just me looking at a page of pictures.  Nor do I interface my phone with the Mac, only my Macbook.  I do not use my desktop to recharge the phone or upload and download apps.  I did not view the portfolio images on my Macbook only on the Mac Mini.  

Another odd thing, in a list of many, is that the image was slightly blurred.  Perhaps the result of a compression routine being used to transmit the image from my computer to the phone?

I have no idea how this happened or the means to how it occurred.  I wondered if it could have been a virus, but then there is the problem of how the image flew thru the air to land on my phone.  I deleted the image, which I now regret, as it would be added proof (for me at least) that this strange event transpired. I routinely check the photographs on my phone from here on so see if other web site images appear.

Was somebody or some three-letter agency running a test? A test that accidentally leaked?  They keep tabs on us bloggers so maybe this was done on the hope I would post an article on the event? If so, it worked.  I assume there is black budget technology and a host of backdoors loaded on these devices. Government surveillance and law enforcement demand it.  I would have not known this happened except I intended to send a picture to a friend and that is when I discovered this image on my phone.  

This is not my only excursion into smart phone strangeness.  On three occasions during using the speech to text translator, my iPhone printed what I was thinking about rather than I said.  

For example, as I was replying to a friend’s text, I had been reminiscing about my grandmother who had passed away over 20 years earlier and the text printed was “grandmother.” Only that one word and nothing of what I spoke.  At the time I suspected there is more to the AI in these devices than has be released to the public.

So beware.  Big AI may be watching you.