From a new member.

Hello readers,
I'm sure there is a logical explaination to an event (a latest of many) I witnessed a couple of mornings ago. 10.30am I sat watching TV. 4 big wooden knots in my living room door (natural pine) began illuminating ember red (likened to the stand-by button on a TV, 6+ times bigger and stronger) I called my son in and we took pictures of it with the digicam. The camera picked up a pink glow, but the true colour is red. To the other side of the living room door is the hallway. Natural daylight shines through, and catches the living room door at an angle. I've been in this house for 3 years and this has never happened before. Does anyone have any possible explaination for this?? It hasn't unnerved me, but I'd like some help in recognising wich is "natural phenomena" and wich is "paranormal phenomena" My background from Nov 1993: 12 years of hauntings. 6 bad, and 6 good (so far)

Thanks readers, any idea's/explainations would seriously be appreciated.

Yours truly, flaccon

It does sound rather spooky but it also sounds to me that you've already come up with the most logical explanation, the sunlight. It may be you managed to catch just the right time of day. Don't forget that just that right angle will be possible just once a year.

Cool, Could it be the wod dying or something, dont ask me, i know nothing about doors...

Probably this is what is called "fox fire." It is the accumulation of phosphorus in wood, usually in knots, and they illuminate in a soft neon-like glow in the dark. It can sometimes be seen in the woods at night.

This happened at 10.30am in daylight. My living room was also in daylight, other than my shadowing the door as I took the picture.

intresting pic...
Other than that, Im no help here...

you call that a picture? interesting though

So, your termites have night vision goggles?

But, really, I think that Iaapac has this one in the bag. I've seen the same thing in the woods around here in South Georgia. It's probably just a variation of foxfire. That or the termite thing.

just the way it reflects?

Foxfire in the forests sounds good, only I'm in the living room and its never happened in 3 years. It hasn't happened since so I bought a real strong torch the other dayand shone it through the door knots, and they glowed the same. This makes me feel a lot easier, tho I dont understand why now and not last week/month/year. I've no idea about the termite possibility. If its termites, does anyone know who I would contact to get rid of them?
Very much appreciated, flaccon

call an exterminator.

I dont believe in daleks. I'd phone pest-control but I'm not sure that'd be the right department for glowing knots.......lol

Knots? How can you make a typo like that more than twice? Im assuming you meant knobs, right?
Anyway, that is quite unusual...

Sigh...........a wacko smilie? dear me,, sorry it was confusing. Theres no smilie to fit your error of assumption. Time to request a few new ones, eg :numb/skull : Its a pine knot on my living room door, though thinking up new smilies is beginning to sound more interesting. flacc

do you have any other pictures besides the extreme close up one posted?

Perhaps one that show the door and the other glowing knots for reference?

calm down , you asked about who to call for termites , so l only gave a suggestion about that not for what to do about the glowing knots .

The other knots were fading by the time I thought to take a pic. I took 2 pics, here's the other one

Sorry........I wasn't really angry. quite amused. The word exterminator conjures up daleks to me. Does it mean fumigator? (pest control) flacc

Well, as has already been pointed out, that exact angle of sunlight will only occur once a year, and if it was overcast or you weren't present when the conditions were right before you wouldn't have seen it.

Pine tends to be a reddish wood and knots often have a high resin content (I think). That would give them something of a transparent quality and would explain why the sun glowed red through them.

And yes, in the US we call a pest control agent an "exterminator". Also, there are lots more smileys. Just click on the link at the bottom of the smiley box. Perhaps for Kacen's comment you might use or ?

Or maybe a lot of . A lot.

Sunrise often makes things glow in a strange orange radiance. We call this light.

[quote name='flaccon' date='Nov 14 2005, 08:11 PM' post='932236']
If its termites, does anyone know who I would contact to get rid of them?

I wasn't really serious about the termite crack. Termites with nightvision goggles? Other than the above posted by Iaapac, I really don't know what you've got here.