[JET73L]

I mentioned something that happened over in the Wishing Well of Doom thread, and decided to post here so I could hear about things that happened with you all, too.

So, what happened was, a couple/few years back, I was reading in the furnished half-basement. I got into that kind of dazed, trance-like sort of mindset, where you can spend a half hour trying to read two or three sentences over and over, when all of a sudden I snapped out of it and decided to look up (like I usualy do to clear my head). A humanoid, about 1.8 or 2 meters tall, in a dark purple cloak, walked through the door to the boiler and furnace room. Through the door, not the doorway. It was completely coveredby the cloak, the lower half of its face completely shadowed by the hood. It seemed to suddenly notice me, looked over and waved a hand in a guesture seeming to be of surprise, and suddenly hadn;t been there. Felt like it wasn;t a threat or an enemy, but that I ought to dislike it anyway. I snapped out of it (the confusion, the trance thing seemed over earlier), went upstairs to mention what happened to my mom, and several times over the next couple of days and months asked her about it to make sure I hadn;t dreamed the entire day.
Never figured out what it was, a ghost expert in Eureka Springs from easter break last year said it could have been someone trying to preform some rite, my dad figured it could've been a walkthrough by a world traveller with a confusion/repusion spell, (alternate dimensions sort of thing), and I recently formed the theory that it was a premonition, because for one, the half-basement has three feet of it underground, and I tend to have premonitions (generally vague, or simply knowing things ahead of time, as well as severe deja vu for the latter) but not be very strongly affected by ghost hotspots or really see ghosts much at all. I made a detailed account, describing what happened and what the apparition was like, but I lost the paper (can remember it pretty well, though, except whether its hand, where it was not covered by the cloak, was skeletal, really pale, or seemingly inhuman).

If anyone has any theories, or would like to share their own experiences, I would really appreciate that. It weould be cool to hear what unusual things have happened to you all.