i experienced something extremely strange last night. i'm still not sure what it was, and being the extreme skeptic that i am, i can find no explanation for what i saw, so i thought i'd bring it here to see what anyone thinks. so here goes.

i was in my basement working in my studio late last night. i suddenly heard some sort of mumbling that sounded like it was coming from a walkie talkie. it was very brief. sounded like 3-4 words. i hear things all the time when i'm in my basement, but always blow them off. i have a duplex, so my tenants' side is connected to my side, like one giant house, and whenever i hear talking, it's either them, my roomate or a TV. however, this was somewhat louder and sounded like it came from within the basement (my roomate is out of town by the way, and my TV was off). after about 30 minutes, i couldn't stop thinking about it, so i called my tenant to see if he had his TV on or something. turns out he was at work and no one was at his home. now i'm starting to get a tiny bit freaked out, but whatever...

i wasn't really working on anything in particular, mainly just allowing my computer to record the feed from my mixer while i messed around. suddenly, i heard it again, and replied with a "what was that?" in a sarcastic & i-can't-understand-what-you-said tone of voice. just then, i saw what looked like a bat fly from the top of my furnace, across the room into a floor corner. freaked out because i thought i had a bat in my basement, i ran over with a whiffle ball bat to beat it down, no longer thinking about the sound. when i got to where i thought it landed, there was nothing there. i looked everywhere and there was nothing. no bat, bird, giant bug, or anything. but i saw something. i know for a fact that something flew across the room. although it went very fast, it was plain as day. then i started thinking about it, and remembered that there was no noise whatsoever. no flapping, and no crash when it hit the floor. ok, weird voice, flying black shit? now i'm thinking too much and have managed to get scare myself, so it was time for me to go! i'm such a puss that i locked my basement door when i got back upstairs.

back upstairs, my adrenaline was up a bit. i grabbed a beer, layed on the couch and settled down, eventually falling asleep for the night. when i woke up this morning, i wasn't nearly as freaked out, so i went downstairs again just to see if anything was misplaced or to find a live/dead animal with wings. everything was normal, but i noticed that i had never turned anything off, so my computer was still recording. to my excitement, i saw that my preamp was on which just so happened to have an extremely sensistive condenser mic running into it. so it looks like i have audio of everything that took place last night. i had to get to work, so i didn't have a chance to go through it yet. this should be interesting...