Now Andy, did you hear about this one?

Sorry, I have that R.E.M. song stuck in my head.
     I haven't had anything...overtly strange, I guess, happen to me over winter break. Last week, I think, I was talking to my mother's friend about shadow people and the Slender Man and those types of things and he theorized that maybe shadow people are connected to certain people, watching them, and are there to help them, and it's just that some people never get used to them. Like guardian angels? I don't think that's it at all, but it might be. I mean...it's never hurt either of us, only stood around. And Nocnitsa is sort of like the creepy, ancient Lovecraftian vampire aunt that just hangs around and watches us. But they have such a wrong presence, I mean, you can feel it. I think the one following Rhiannon is definitely not benevolent.
     At our old house, when I was a wee little lass, my mother and father happened upon a painting on the Internet that people kept going on about it being haunted. My mother told me this after it happened. She said it was of a little boy and girl in front of some sort of thing with hands pressed against it, and it felt really wrong, but they thought nothing of it. Shortly afterward, my mother said they stated acting really unlike themselves, and a chair toppled over oddly when my mother was standing on it. Then, eventually, it got to a point where during the night whenever my mother closed her eyes she would see a snake, like a cobra, and see red mist floating over the bed, and it only stopped when she tried to think of beautiful, good things. I think she said she put on a cross necklace and kept an amethyst ring, and that helped, and it eventually went away. I've accidentally seen the painting twice while wandering around the Internet, neither time on purpose, and I got really freaked out in case it was haunted and started repeating the rosary. Of course, nothing happened.
      That's not really related to anything, I just thought I'd type that down. This new house we've moved into doesn't seem it's haunted at all, and I tried to feel it out with my mind a lot of times, but my mother did chuckle and mention 'mirrors in this house'. It's so frustrating, she seems to know so much, but she never tells me anything. My grandparents wanted the mirror I saw Nocnitsa in, and when I was sitting in the room it was on the wall in, my mother was just smiling knowingly at me, and when I asked her what she thought of it, she just said she didn't think anything!
     Last night my mother and sister were out and I was sitting on my bed reading. The bedside lamp has three modes, each brighter than the other, and you change modes by touching it. So I was sitting there, and it turned off. I sort of had an inkling, half-formed, that it could be something not...normal, so I just waited to see if anything would happen. About a minute later, it switched to the dim mode. A minute later, it went to medium, and so on and so forth. I just kept reading throughout all this, and it happened at least six times, I think. I tried to unplug the light to see if anything would happen, but I was too noodle-armed to pull the plug out of the wall. Was it something supernatural?