About a month or so ago a strange thing began happening with my iPhone. When I looked at the photo album collection, occasionally there would be a photo I couldn’t identify, and was certain I hadn’t taken. These would disappear after a minute or two and I joked with my kids that the ghost of some old Welsh witch was trying to send me clues about who killed her.

It was odd and I wondered aloud if it wasn’t possible that photos from other iCloud accounts were being slipped in and then back out of my photo collection for some reason. No one knew or had heard of such a thing, but with hundreds of millions of iCloud users round the globe it just seemed to me like a plausible explanation, unless I was to begin believing in ghosts.

Then this morning I saw this little news flurry:

A Glitch Is Causing People To Hear Voices Coming From Their iPhone

Suddenly my mystery photo explanation seemed more plausible. Stuff happens and data in the cloud can get scrambled, swirled around, and eventually put back into place. Kinda like the Star Trek transporter. And when it happens, it can feel like a glitch in the Matrix, but there is a perfectly rationale explanation for it.

On the other hand, it could be paranormal…