Bleak Season Journal Entry: Flickering Lights
Dan, a reader from Tacoma, Washington, had an experience in his home today. Something manipulated the lights around the fireplace in his living room. Let’s take a look at the details after the jump.
What happened:
Monday, Nov. 9th, 2026 by a fireplace in his living room (Tacoma, Washington). Two incidents. The first at 4 AM and the next at 10 AM.
Dan gets up early for work. As he sipped his tea, he notices lights flickering by his fireplace. Later in the day, different lights along the fireplace began to turn off and on while he folded sheets and cleaned up after a night of Dungeons & Dragons.
What Dan noticed:
Lights started to flicker (more so at 4 AM) or turn off-and-on (10 AM). The lights include hanging candle lights, a standard lamp, and LED candles in holders atop the fireplace. The lamp would flicker, while the other lights would go dim, then relight. It wasn’t every candle. This would be individual candles, not the entire set.
The setting:
This activity took place in his home. The house had burned before, and a new addition was built on to it in the late 90s. No one has died in the home that anyone knows about. There are no known haunted objects present.
The story:
Dan woke up a little before 4 AM to check in with work. He works in tech for a global company, so the hours can vary.
He was having some tea and checking email when he noticed the lamp flickering (see video). Dan knew some basic ghost hunting techniques and asked questions. When he started an EVP session and recording, the activity stopped.
At 10 AM, Dan started folding the laundry, when the activity started again. This time, the LED candles started to turn on and off. It wasn’t the entire string, but individual candles would fade out, then turn back on. Again, when Dan started to record, the activity stopped.
What Dan checked:
The lights are not on timers, movement sensors, nor light-level sensors. You have to physically turn them off-and-on with a button or plug-in. The traditional lamp needs to have a switch turned. It was plugged in, and it was the one that flickered like in the video.
The house didn’t register a power surge or other weird electrical issues.
As for the hanging candle lights and the LED candles on the mantle, they have to have buttons switched on. But the buttons turn on the entire string. A single candle doesn’t just turn off or on. All the candles turn on or off together.
With the LED candles on the mantle, they were definitely turned on. The batteries still had power, so they wouldn’t have gone off and on. They’d just fade as the battery died.
You can participate in the mystery journal project. Check out the Bleak Season and journal posts about what to track for 2026. Also, if you have had a weird experience for this time of year, tell me about it in the comments below.
Thanks for reading Ghostly Activities. Much appreciated and take care!
