As a child, I had that reaction to an episode of Star Trek TNG-- the one where Geordie gets infected by an alien creature thingy on this planet and almost turns into an invisible critter.
Now, young as I was, I didn't quite follow all the plot bits, but afterwards I always remembered this part on the holodeck where they keep replaying this tape to figure out what's going on, and finally someone notices a shadow with no one casting it. The reason your mention of statues reminded me was that the computer extrapolates from the shadow to a source and places a vaguely man-shaped statue right in the middle of where they are standing around, where the invisible alien was... and it creeped me out so much I spent the rest of the night freaking out every time anything threw a shadow on the wall!
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Date: 2007-08-26 03:52 am (UTC)Now, young as I was, I didn't quite follow all the plot bits, but afterwards I always remembered this part on the holodeck where they keep replaying this tape to figure out what's going on, and finally someone notices a shadow with no one casting it. The reason your mention of statues reminded me was that the computer extrapolates from the shadow to a source and places a vaguely man-shaped statue right in the middle of where they are standing around, where the invisible alien was... and it creeped me out so much I spent the rest of the night freaking out every time anything threw a shadow on the wall!