Spooky birthday balloon
A few weeks ago it would have been our daughter's first birthday - she was still born last year. On her birthday we had decorated her grave with various foil helium balloons and birthday cards. Last weekend we removed all this, and a couple of the balloons still had just enough helium in them to float to the ceiling once we took them home. One of these had a large "1" on it, and we went to bed Saturday night leaving it floating against the ceiling in the corner of the living room.

In the morning, we found it on the floor in the doorway to the bathroom, with just enough helium to stand upright. The bathroom is upstairs, and to get to there the balloon would have had to go through several rooms, under two doorways, and make five or six turns and changes of direction, as well as negotiate the stairs. I just can't see how air currents could have caused this, and this all occurred before the heating came on in the morning.

No-one even got up in the night, let alone went downstairs. I know it wasn't me, and if it had been my wife she would have confessed by now.

This has completely changed my hitherto scepticism about all things supernatural, weird and paranormal.
(How soon is now?, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:11, 4 replies)

That is so sad - sorry for your loss
(RobNob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:25, closed)

^^^^^^^^^
This.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:30, closed)

I'm sorry about your baby girl.
Helium balloons do tend to do this. We had a few after a birthday and took great delight in watching them hover mid-air and seeing where they appeared the next morning. Such little movement and air currents affect them and they float all over. It's like they get bored and float about to see what's what.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:53, closed)

I'm really sorry to hear about your daughter.
However, I do think that changes in density in the air overnight (either temperature or pressure changes) could fairly easily have made the balloon float lower for a while and drift round the house before rising up the stairs. It was so close to neutrally buoyant after all that a tiny change could do it.

It would be wonderful to believe that those we have lost continue to have an existence. I wish I could.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 14:18, closed)