The detail about it standing in the corner specifically is worth noting - shadow figures almost always get reported in corners or doorways, rarely in the middle of a room.
Not from the Midwest myself (Lancashire, UK) but this caught my attention because we had something odd last Thursday too, around 11pm.
What time of night are we talking here? And was it making any noise at all, even a low hum? That detail makes a massive difference in terms of what it could be.
Cheers for the heads up - always good to know in advance rather than trying to log on and thinking something's gone wrong on my end.
Saturday midnight EST is what, around 5am here in the UK?
Spring-heeled Jack as a phenomenon pretty much stops being reported after the early 1900s. Your grandfather's 1962 encounter would be a massive outlier.
That said, Stonehenge and several other major sites DO have verifiable astronomical alignments that would've been incredibly difficult to achieve by accident.
Post-Christmas sighting timing is suspicious though - more people around, more chance of sightings. Or more chance of hoaxes.
Halloween release is standard for government information ops. They release controversial stuff on Fridays after 4pm, or on dates when media attention is divided.
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