Who moved the...gym?

I know that sometimes ghosts can move things around or play games with you by 'misplacing' thing. But last week I came home to the unexplainable movement of a most unlikely thing - our home gym.

As I went into the back room to change clothes after work, I noticed that our gym was moved over on it's mat about 6" to the right and that there was a huge wrinkle in the mat that is underneath the gym to help protect the tile. After  I was done changing, I of course went and spoke to my husband about it to ask if perhaps he had noticed (how could he have NOT noticed) and if he had done it.

"Did you move the gym over and wrinkle the mat?" I asked.

"No. What are you talking about?" said Will.

"Someone moved the gym over and it wrinkled the mat underneath. I want to know why it was not fixed."

"Wasn't me. I have no idea what you are talking about."

"Come take a look. I am not sure how the gym got moved. The dog didn't do it that's for sure."

Will wanted to know what the hell I was talking about so I took him and showed him. The gym is simply too heavy for our dog Tonka to have done it. Neither Will, Allie or myself did it. No one else had been in our room at all. We were both dumbfounded. How can a dusty gym that has not moved nor the mat gotten wrinkled in over a year that it's been sitting there suddenly have moved?

I had to take pictures so that I could post this to my blog. You can tell from all the dust in this room that we don't use the gym (as we should) and believe it or not, this room was just mopped two weeks ago. It was when we were looking over the situation together that I also noticed a big slide mark in the dust on the seat, but not a butt mark like you would think would be on there should a person have physically sat down there. We have laid nothing on the gym ever, although it looks like something clearly took a slide across it. We had the discussion of how this had all happened and then dismissed it as a question with no immediate answer and went on with our day.

It was not until last Saturday when our friend Denise came over and was asking us about our 'ghost' and we told her the most recent story that we actually thought about trying to move the gym. She wanted to see so we took her into the back bedroom to show her and try to explain how such a heavy item got moved. The gym is not light and does not just move if bumped. We found that unless you physically lifted the end of it up and over to the right, it did not move. It's not just something that can be bumped and move easily.

I am not sure how this happened and if we will ever find out how the gym moved. I do know that this is one of the heavier items in the house that is never touched. Ever. By any one. Guess we are left wondering if our "ghost girl" is into working out, or if perhaps she was visiting with our dog and decided to take a seat. Who knows?

How can we tell the difference?

Tonight I would like to mention something that I have noticed over the past few years. That is that I seem to notice far to many things now than I did years ago. I seem to see and hear more and wonder if there truly is a sixth sense and if mine has kicked into overdrive at some point in my life.

I want to know...do we go on to another place? Or another dimension? Do ghostly apparitions come back to mingle with the living for any particular reason? And in how many different ways can they make themselves known to us?

I want to clarify that there was an incident that happened many years ago that changed me. I mean like a life changing thing that scared the hell outta me and made me wake up and pay attention. Pay attention to and question just about everything I hear and see. It was from that day forward that my belief in the 'unexplainable' went off the charts.

I have noticed how I pay attention to everything now, more so than before. I see 'signs'; both good omens and bad. I hear and see things out of the corner of my eyes and hearing that I have to question. The thing that I want to say about that is, how do you know if EVERY little thing that you see or hear should be taken as a sign?

This week I had two things happen that once again, I can not explain. One night while the hubby had fallen a sleep on the couch, I was sitting here reading and kept hearing a ringing sort of noise coming from the wall behind me (my daughters room). No, it was not my ears ringing and my daughter was not even home. It was a weird ringing, not like a phone or something on the TV. It started to drive me crazy and just when it did, it stopped. Then nothing but a dead silence. And it did not return. Weird, unexplainable noise it was!

Then this morning I had another small thing happen to me that I could not explain. I get up to go to work at 5:30am as I have to be at work by 7:00am every morning. I usually leave around 6:30am on the dot so I can get the kid to cheer, stop and get gas if need be and move my ass along with all the other robots on the freeway towards my daily grind. This morning as I was leaving, I opened the door with bags on my shoulders, keys in my hand and SWORE that a cat ran in the house underneath my feet.

The weird thing is, I don't like cats at all. Fact is, I hate them. I grew up with terrible allergies to them and just never found a cat I liked. But the neighbors have like 3 or 4 of them and I thought perhaps one of them had gotten brave enough to run into the Dragon's Lair (or in our case, the dog's). When I quickly turned around to catch what had just passed underneath me, there was nothing there. I even walked over to the other side of the coffee table to look because I swore that something had come in underneath me.

Call me crazy, but how does stuff like this happen and what does it mean? If you are reading this now, I am assuming things like this interest you as much as they do me. I would like to know what your thoughts are on this. What are these weird occurrences that I have and has anyone else experienced things like this happening?