I Am Not Superstitious, But...

By Anna
@LadyDuck (460454)
Switzerland
September 28, 2015 7:31am CST
Yesterday I was excited at the idea to assist at the first super moon eclipse in 32 years. Eclipses have been seen, from centuries, as anticipation of catastrophic events. I do not believe to those rumors, I was glad to be able to watch the phenomenon. First thing going wrong, around 7 pm, the sky becomes cloudy and it gets darker and darker. It seems we are not going to see the super moon. After watching a movie, we go upstairs to go to sleep. I turn on the bedside lamp... the bulb explodes! I go down two flights of stairs, to take a new bulb in the basement. One of the downstairs bulb goes off. Back to the bedroom, I replace the bulb, it flickers for a few seconds goes off. In the meantime I hear that my cell phone needs to be recharged, weird I already did it the day before. I had enough of weird things happening. I put another lamp on the nightstand, read a few pages of a book trying to forget about those events. I do not know what to think. This is the first time something like this happens, but we live in this house from only 15 years, so we missed the previous eclipse.
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@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
28 Sep 15
I was all set to watch the eclipse when the moon sailed across the sky and was eclipsed by my neighbours chimney.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
Nooo, this is too bad. I was sure to be able to watch the moon yesterday, the sky was clear and blue until mid afternoon.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
28 Sep 15
Last time I lost several power packs, it was not the fault of the moon, but of an overvoltage on the electric line.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck I think you should measure the AC voltage with a voltmeter. It can be due to bad quality bulbs, but it can also be an overvoltage due to a local shortcut.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
@topffer I saw that my hubby has measured everything this morning, from bulbs to the lamp . It seems that the lamp has a problem, it has worked for 15 years and suddenly last night it had a problem.... weird.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
The computers are protected by APC (power suppliers), they beep when there is a spike or a power problem. They did not, so it was not the line.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
28 Sep 15
Maybe your husband is actually a werewolf and the effect of the moon drove him to run around causing damage to the light bulbs and your mobile phone.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
He did not look dangerous yesterday night, but very upset by the events.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck Did he spend longer than usual having a shave this morning?
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@Inlemay (17713)
• South Africa
28 Sep 15
ha ha that is funny - Anna's hubby a werewolf!
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
28 Sep 15
The phenomena is global and so its effect will not be localised just in your house. They are all coincidences.
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
29 Sep 15
@LadyDuck These kind of things happen even when there is no blood moon
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
They surely are coincidences, but it's annoying all came at the same time, including a missing parcel delivery today.
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@sofssu (23662)
28 Sep 15
Strange..This blood moon is said to have a lot of Biblical significance. I am not superstitious either I would just think that there was a spike in the power supply.
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@sofssu (23662)
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck That is even stranger.. Honestly I have had strange things happen to me once . After which I always pray when I sense something happening.
@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
We have two twin lamps on our nightstands only one bulb exploded. The power supply has always been very stable here, I did not hear the computer protection alarm, so we had no spikes.
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@RasmaSandra (74146)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck Strange happenings indeed. Perhaps it had some connection, who knows? I didn't get to see the blood moon. Early this morning though the oddest thing happened that at around 6 AM it gets lighter and lighter. This morning by 7 AM it was still pitch black and then the rain started coming pouring down real heavy. It stopped about 9 AM and the sun came out.
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
28 Sep 15
Oh my. That does sound like quite a few strange events. Maybe the pull of the moon on earth was stronger, I had insomnia, and was walking around at 3:00 in the morning all disgruntled.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
I have always insomnia when there is a full moon, this one was possibly more powerful.
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck , I guess a full moon does not agree with us. I hope you have a calmer night tonight.
@rusty2rusty (6751)
• Defiance, Ohio
2 Oct 15
I missed it. As it was to cloudy in my area to see it. I have seen others in the past thou.
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• Defiance, Ohio
3 Oct 15
@LadyDuck It sucks when clouds covers such beauty. i do try to capture a photo when I can.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
3 Oct 15
I have only seen photos on the web. The last 12 months I have missed 10 full moons out of 12 due to clouds.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
28 Sep 15
The light bulbs always seem to go out at the same time here and it's usually when I don't have any spare ones. So I end up tading them out from one lamp to another until I buy some.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
29 Sep 15
I have two or three spare bulbs in the basement, just in case. It never happened that the one I had just changed burned out. That was very strange.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
29 Sep 15
@Rollo1 I test them before buying, they are usually good. My husband tested the lamp and it seems the problem is coming from the lamp.
@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
28 Sep 15
Sorry those freaky things happened to you. They always said crazy things can happen on a full moon night. I got to watch the eclipse for a little bit but couldn't stay up long enough i was tired. But it was pretty cool from what I did see.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
I am sure it was beautiful, I was upset when the sky became cloudy, it's a shame, only problems and no show.
• United States
28 Sep 15
We didn't see it either - too cloudy. Sorry about the other weird things that happened to you - just coincidence I'm sure!
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
I am also sure , but it's weird everything happened right on that day.
@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
@AbbyGreenhill Yes, I would have searched the reason, but I would have surely thought it was strange.
• United States
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck if they hadn't been the blood moon would you have thought it was strange?
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@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
30 Sep 15
It does seem a little creepy and makes you wonder. We didn't get to see much of the moon either due to clouds.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
30 Sep 15
Now everything is back to normal, I changed the other bulb and it works fine. I wonder what happened that evening.
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@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
2 Oct 15
@LadyDuck It's kind of creepy to think about, isn't it? You may never know and will probably always wonder.
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• Grand Haven, Michigan
29 Sep 15
That's the best time to watch a horror movie yo! lol
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
29 Sep 15
I had just finished watching a Sherlock Holmes, not really a horror movie, but a crime movie anyway.
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• Grand Haven, Michigan
30 Sep 15
@LadyDuck That makes it much creepier.
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• United States
28 Sep 15
perhaps jest 'n electronic hiccup caused by such? i dunno, could'a jest been a 'bad bulb day'. i watched it with no such monkey biz myself.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 15
LOL, yes it was a "bad bulb day" and today they did not deliver a package I waited, I called 4 times, they asked me to stay at home. Five minutes ago (6:42 pm my time), they called to say they deliver tomorrow.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
29 Sep 15
@crazyhorseladycx You cannot believe it, I am still waiting for that parcel. I am furious.
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• United States
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck bless yer heart! i so dislike that sittin' round waitin' 'n then to get 'that' news. hopefully they'll deliver such first thing 'n yer not gonna 've yet 'nother wasted day.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
30 Sep 15
If I could have just seen the blood moon I would have gotten some of my energy back. But it was covered by clouds. I did see it eclipse all the way to the end just before it was swallowed. If the clouds delayed by 20 minutes I could have seen the red.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
30 Sep 15
I was so upset when I saw the sky covered with clouds. I missed all the show.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
30 Sep 15
@LadyDuck Well, 2033 is the next supermoon full eclipse. But I don't know where that will be visible. The next blood moon that I will get to see in this region is January 21/22, 2019.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
30 Sep 15
@OneOfMany Yes, I have read that the next one is 2033... I will not keep my breath.
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@celticeagle (160015)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Sep 15
That would certainly be scary. And, then to have it happen again. Ikes! I usually watch for things to happen in threes.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
30 Sep 15
I am glad that today everything seems back to normal. It was spooky.
@kevin1877uk (36988)
29 Sep 15
Wired or what those things happening. The Moon was awesome, did you get to see it?
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
29 Sep 15
@LadyDuck That's a shame
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
29 Sep 15
No, the sky was covered with clouds, from around 7 pm up to yesterday noon.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
1 Oct 15
Part of me is saying that it was just a fluke, but another part of me is saying that something was definitely up. I am probably getting this from my super superstitious grandmother. The stories that my mom has told me would curl your hair lol!!
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
2 Oct 15
My grandmother told me weird stories and I believe that when those kind of accidents happen my mind come back to those stories.
@mom210 (9041)
• United States
2 Oct 15
I really wanted to see the eclipse and I forgot to go look grrr.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
2 Oct 15
This is too bad, I had everything ready to take photos and then the clouds covered the sky.
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@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
30 Sep 15
Don't blame the moon! It's just coincidence.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
30 Sep 15
I prefer to think it's just coincidence, even if after the fool moon everything was back to normal.
@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
30 Sep 15
I'd say those are awful lot of coincidences. But I am not the expert
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
30 Sep 15
I want to believe that all those were only coincidences, today is a normal day.
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