Whoa people...what happened

I looked at my blog the other day just to see if anyone had commented on one of the posts. Up until then, I only had about 550 visits to the blog. A couple of days later I now see that I have almost 12000 hits. What is up with that. I really don't have anything that interesting to say. So either we have something truly bizare that's happened or my post counter got really messed up.