I was on holiday in Jersey and visited Mont Orgueil Castle in Gorey. In one of the rooms there was a strange light display. The room was darkened and there were small spots of moving red light projected on the floor, walls and ceiling. There was also a vertical white light. It didn’t seem particularly impressive until, as you glanced away from the vertical white light, in the corner of your eye it expanded briefly into a picture of Queen Elizabeth II. When you looked back, it was a simple vertical white light again. Not everybody could see the picture,…
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