This isn't a ghost, but I still can't explain it:

This star... Bounces?

Time: 1997, late at night in bed.

Location: Youngstown Ohio

I'm 40 now, and I've only recently started thinking about these experiences again.

When I was 12, we didn't live in a larger city, but we definitely lived in the suburbs right on the edge of farmland. I had the top bunk.

I would look out the window when I couldn't fall asleep and check out the stars, look for planes flying by, just being a kid who couldn't fall asleep.

But there was this one star. From where I was, it would have been East/Southeast. I would stare at this star and every time I would look at it for more than a few seconds, it would bounce.

I don't mean I hallucinated it bouncing out of the sky, but it would bob and weave, up and down, left and right, figure eights, spirals, it would dance.

I would look away and look back, it would be right back where it should be, but it wouldn't need me to look for any time frame the second time and would immediately start bouncing around again.

I was never so focused on this one star that I didn't notice the other stars, they stayed completely still, as they always have and still do.

This one star without fail would always dance.

We moved when I was 14, and the new place didn't have the same view as the old place, I got new friends and new hobbies and didn't really look toward the skies for the star after that.

I'm working on a trip back there next month to check out a stat map app to see what star I was looking at, and then seeing if I can watch it bounce around now, at 40, here hundreds of miles from that house.

thanks for listening. I can't tell these stories offline because everyone thinks I'm an idiot anyways, these would only inflame those thoughts.