Phantasmagoric

Roald Dahl wrote, in the BFG, "The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves."  I read about Dahl's big friendly giant quite some time ago, as in maybe two decades ago, but the strange allure of the "witching hour" stayed with me.  Depending on the source consulted, the witching hour is at 3am (or midnight to 3am) because 3am is the Devil's hour.

Outside of a run in with a paranormal something or other in the stock room of the panty palace (aka, Victoria's Secret), this blog does not promote the existence of ghosts or goblins.  Yet, this blogger has consistently been waking up at 3am (on the button), Devil be damned, at least a few nights a week.

Rob Thomas lamented in his song "3am" on Matchbox 20's first album that it was 3am, so he "must be lonely".  Well, in accordance with the witching hour, it may be entirely unlonely.  At 3am it's pretty easy to confuse any lurking shadow with an otherworldly goblin.  So, what does this all (all being Roald Dahl + the panty palace + Matchbox 20 = strange awakening patterns at 3am) add up to?  It adds up to that which is shown added up in parenthesis; it means that this blog must commit to some nocturnal investigations.  The night vision/phantasm view lens shall be set in advance on the camera and the next 3am awakening shall be explicitly documented.  Stayed tuned (assuming the blogger lives past 3am to blog about presumably bewitching encounters of the devilish kind).

Life sometimes can be phantasmagoric.
Phantasmagoric–adjective

  a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the  imagination; a changing scene made up of many elements