"Can you feel that?" asked Kathy.
Strangely, I had. The beautiful feeling had gone, and Kathy and I felt the change simultaneously, as if a huge dead aura hung over the area around Bugarach.
Mount Bugarach is said to house aliens, and a gateway to another world. It is thought to have inspired Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Countless 'sightings' and photographs over many years add to the mystique.
Over 100,000 people may come to the mountain soon. For example American travel agents have offered special, one-way deals to witness the end of the world. And a neighbouring village, Saint-Paul de Fenouillet, has produced a wine to celebrate the occasion.
The odd thing is that there's no immediate sign of anyone interested in the end of the world anywhere. Maybe it's because Jean-Pierre Delord, the mayor of Bugarach, has asked the French government to scramble the army to prevent mass suicide. Maybe the armies already been here, and moved people on?
When "the end of the world comes this year", many believe Bugarach will be the only place to survive. It doesn't feel like it though, when you enter the tiny village of a few dozen houses. It feels like here, the end of the world has already come.
It was about 2pm, but unlike hearing song birds and wild life at the farmhouse, there was less sound here than in a graveyard. It was eerily silent and still. No movement, no sound...
We expected to see "New Age" travellers staring at Mount Bugarach that towers a short distance away. Or hippies selling end of the world souvenirs. Nothing...
So we walked around, innocently taking photos of the village and mountain. Innocent until we viewed the photos back at the farmhouse.
I took three shots of the nearest thing I could find to a happy hippy home. Two were normal. One showed large see-through orbs! If you look closely, you can see the orb includes purple and green lines...
And I took shots of the village. All were normal except one of the church - that showed orbs too!
The point to make here is that I take thousands of photographs. I've only ever captured orbs once before, of a sacred mountain in Sedona USA, near a Native American Indian burial ground. Like yesterday, I'd taken two shots of the sacred mountain, within seconds of each other. One was normal, the other was covered in orbs!
Whatever you think of orbs, the fact that pictures taken within seconds of each other can show orbs or not is a strange phenomena. Perhaps, just perhaps, something alien revealed itself to us yesterday?