The Mysterious Light

I’m just going to jump straight into this story. No intro, nothing. So, Mary and I share a bedroom and Amanda has the bedroom next door to us. The very first night we were here I chose the bed against the window and Mary took the bed that is straight in from the door. We unpacked all of our belongings and went to bed. Well, as we were laying there I was staring up at the ceiling and noticed that there was a light shining beyond the light bulb above Mary’s head. This was so weird! All of the lights were off, but with the open space around the light bulb I could see that there was what looked like a room above us. So I immediately got a little scared and was like “MARY! LOOK!” She got up and as soon as I went over to the bulb to investigate further, the light shut off! So, Mary being Mary made fun of me at breakfast the next morning. I tried to explain my side that I firmly believe there is a “room above the light bulb” But, this sounded so crazy obviously NOONE believed me!

Then, that night Mary went to bed a little before me. When I finally laid down, the first thing I of course did was look up at the bulb and sure enough the light was on and you could see the room! So I tried to wake Mary but she was like a rock and would not wake up! So I yelled for Amanda and she came over and we were both hovering over Mary’s bed (she still did not wake up!) But, Amanda became a believer. She immediately got the heebie jeebies and agreed with me: there is a room above the light bulb. She left, and there I was lying there wide awake staring at the hole with the light and freaking myself out. All I could do was picture a face appearing and I was thinking of every possible thing this light and room could be! “Why was there a room up there? Why did the light only come on at certain times? Why would it shut off? How big was  this room? Who would be up there?” And all of a sudden Amanda came storming in and was like “Nicki did you hear all that yelling and barking? I thought someone was downstairs in the house!” Greattttt… now I was lying there looking at this light, listening to every dog in Costa Rica bark, and straining to hear if I could hear people talking. All of a sudden, *Boop* the light went off! What in the world?! I looked at the time and it was 10:28 p.m. At this point I decided I would ask our host mom the next morning.

The following morning Amanda and I filled Mary in on what happened and she still wouldn’t budge. She didn’t believe us! So we went to breakfast and I asked our mama-tica if there was anything above our room like another room or crawl space. I was absolutely sure she would know of this mysterious room and fill us all in and victory would be mine. But nope, my luck does not swing that way. She looked super confused and told us there was nothing up there. But there is! So I swore Liz and Fin that that night, if the light turned on I would run down and get them so they could see it with their own eyes!

Sure enough, that night, I was able to prove to them all that this room/crawl space does in fact exist!!!!! I was sitting on the couch just outside our rooms and Amanda happened to peer in Mary and I’s room. She came running out and all she had to say was “Nicki”. I knew what was going on! I knew I had to move fast so that the girls could see it before the light turned off! I got up so fast and practically jumped down the flight of starts, and banged on Liz and Fin’s room.  They were pretty much already half way out of bed at this time because they heard me coming (I really made a racket). The second Liz and Fin looked up into the light bulb, they were sketched out! None of us could figure it out! Why in the world was there this room that had a light that our host mom doesn’t know about?!?! Confusion to the max and of course goosebumps crawled up all of our spines. (This includes Mary. J She claims she wasn’t nervous at all but let’s be real, it was weird!)

Well we were all talking about what it could be and of course making jokes such as our host family was conspiring against us and that was why our mama told us there was nothing up there. We even went as far as to say this conspiracy must be the reason why we don’t have internet at the house; they don’t want us to have any contact with the outside world. DUN, DUN, DUN. Another theory was that it was some sort of supernatural being that had a spell on Mary which was why she acted completely unbothered by the room and was unable to wake up the night I showed it to Amanda. Really, it was a mystery and nothing made sense!!!

We kept exploring to see if we could find the source of the light and went into Amanda’s room next door. We put our hands up above her bulb and realized, yes there was a floor up there with space so there must be a room above her room too but…No light! Well after making this discovery we soon figured out the source….Be prepared for a total let down. There are no aliens, our family is not conspiring against us, no homeless man, no supernatural being with a spell on Mary…nothing. It is as simple as this: When Amanda’s bedroom light is on, the light turns on above our room. When our light is on, the light turns on above Amanda’s room. So, since Amanda is a night owl, I would lie in bed staring at that light in the room above. When she would decide to go to bed and turn her light out, the light would *Boop* disappear.