It Hovered Around Me

@akalinus (44366)
United States
December 10, 2019 12:03pm CST
I was doing a video chat with my son one night. Soon, I saw something hovering around me. It was a shape that I could not define but looked like a ghostly figure. It stayed on the left side of me. I kept asking Mike what it could be. I told him exactly where it was in the video. He finally saw it and was not sure either. I was getting really anxious about it. Mike suddenly said, "Mom, is that your thumb?" I moved my hand and the apparition disappeared. Have you ever been scared of your own thumb? Have you ever had a frightening experience with a simple answer?
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Belle Starr (Iz)
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
10 Dec 19
Yes I am sure that I have and my thumb has entered countless pictures so I completely understand that lol
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
10 Dec 19
I thought it was something otherworldly or something strange from this world. I am glad my son figured it out. I thanked him after he stopped laughing.
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Gloria Faye Brown Bates
@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
10 Dec 19
I am so glad it was your thumb! Gracious! I did laugh!
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
10 Dec 19
My son laughed a lot and then I started laughing. I was never so glad to see my thumb. Good times!
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502208)
• Italy
11 Dec 19
You fear so much to have ghosts around you that you are surely scared by your shadow.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502208)
• Italy
13 Dec 19
@akalinus I believe in ghosts, but I am not really scared when I see a shadow.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
14 Dec 19
@LadyDuck It just felt eerie to have this thing hovering around me. I could not figure out what it was.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
12 Dec 19
I don't really think there are ghosts but we don't know everything that is possible.
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (128831)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Dec 19
You made me smile! I imagine you were downright perplexed without fully knowing what the shape was! I'm just glad it had a worldly explanation!
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
12 Dec 19
That is the most important my thumb has ever been. That was its 15 seconds of fame.
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (128831)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Dec 19
@akalinus Your thumb has had more seconds of fame than I have had in my entire life!
Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
14 Dec 19
@moffittjc You are so funny. Thousands of people have seen you in Walmart.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381875)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Dec 19
Oh goodness! I would have been getting anxious too. I'm glad it was only a thumb - and glad it was your own!!
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
12 Dec 19
Now enters a new mystery. What would I do if I was home alone and it was someone else's thumb?
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
14 Dec 19
@JudyEv I forgot I wrote that. Now I'm laughing. Hope you are laughing too.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381875)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Dec 19
@akalinus lol but I don't even want to think about such a scenario!!
Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Dec 19
This made me smile, I've done a similar thing. Taking a photo, my finger was across the lens! lol
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
10 Dec 19
I bet you wondered what that was on the lens. We all think goofy things sometimes.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
10 Dec 19
@kobesbuddy Sometimes kids are smarter than we are. Especially when it comes to techy stuff.
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Dec 19
@akalinus My kids kept hollering, 'get your finger off the lens!'
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169447)
• United States
14 Dec 19
Yes, once Darth Vader joined us for breakfast, but it was actually a combined shadow from a lamp shade.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 19
You made me laugh and I bet you laughed too. That is funnier than my thumb.
Rebecca Huston
@Telynor (1763)
• United States
11 Dec 19
No, not really. Except when a tree from across the road came crashing down in the driveway, barely missing the car. The boom from that was pretty intense.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
12 Dec 19
That must have been a scary day. It is good that it missed the car.
Jim Bauer
@porwest (112802)
• United States
14 Dec 19
lol. Good thing you did not draw a little face on it. Spooookkkkyyyy.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
14 Dec 19
I was thinking more of getting a Bible and cross to hold.
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Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 19
@porwest Now you tell me. Where were you the other day?
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (112802)
• United States
14 Dec 19
@akalinus lol. Just keep your thumbs out of the picture and all will be good.
relcap23
@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
16 Dec 19
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D.Umanga Wettasinghe
@cool83 (4465)
• Sri Lanka
15 Dec 19
ohh that is real scary experience rite
Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
15 Dec 19
It was for a couple of minutes but it seems silly now.