The Light Is On But Nobody Is Home

 My cousin went to our Hometown today, to Uncle's house.
The house is all locked up, but we left a couple windows open-like we took down the curtains to let in light.
Cousin has this big ideal that she is going to pay the delinquent taxes, and she's going to build a small house on my great aunt's lot.
The house burned to ground in '99, so it's an empty lot.
Then she wants her friend to, I assume, move into Uncle's house.
We all have told her, we've shown her pictures, the house is condemned.
I mean, this house is not able to be lived in nor can it be remodeled.
It's a total tear down.
The two lots are side by side.

So, she said her friend looked in the window, and it had to have been the front door window, and there was a light on in the bedroom off the kitchen.

The power was cut off to the house in May.
Friend checked the meter out, and it was not running.

This is the same room, the last time we went up there, that Hippie Aunt's grandson kept turning off.
It cut on three or four times.
He'd go, flip the light off, and in a few minutes back on it would go.
He was freaked out considerably.

There was no power to the house then, but in the basement bedroom, the light kept turning on.
And somehow, husband managed to turn a bedside light on in Uncle's room, which was totally weird-but no one questioned it.

Apparently the light stayed on the whole time Cousin was up there.

That wasn't the only odd thing.

Cousin has two chihuahuas, one of them walked up to the front door, and sat like she was listening to something.
Then she started talking-however, a chihuahua talks.
Then she started scratching at the door, trying to go inside.

So, Cousin put her in her crate in the car, and she started whining.
So, she took her back out, thinking she needed to use the bathroom.
Nope, she calmly walked up the driveway, went to the door, got all excited, and cried to go inside.

Cousin says her dog is a sensitive, and a very good judge of character-dead or alive, I presume.

She thinks it's my mother, Uncle, or our grandmother.
Or the ghosts of the chihuahuas my granny owned. 

I would never let my guard down in that house.
Good character sniffing chihuahua or not.

I have seen things in that house that was pure evil. 

I guess that answers one question.
If you have a highly active house, it stays active whether someone is living there or not. 

 

 

Atchoo

 I was all alone in the house this morning, husband, and daughter had gone to take her to therapy.

Very loudly, very clearly, from either daughter's room or son #2's room came a masculine sneeze.

I looked outside to see if son#2 had sneaked home-nope.

Husband and daughter wasn't home either.

Checked outside cameras, no one had been walking in the road or the side yards. 

The dogs were still snoozing, but the grey cat was standing as upright as a cat can stand, cocking his head, and glaring at the hallway.

🤷🏻‍♀️

We'll chalk it to up just one of those things.

Strange Coincidence

At 3:56 am, Turtle stands up and starts barking, that loud stranger danger bark she has.
At the same time, my phone pings that the hall security camera had activated.

I calm Turtle down, check the camera, and it did not record.

OK, what is strange is that the camera will not activate unless there is motion near it.
Equally strange, we have a motion-activated hall light, and it did not come on.

If something activates the camera, it will also activate the light.

I got up; Badger and Lady were sound asleep behind closed doors.
Cowboy and I had been asleep with Turtle and Duffy, also behind closed doors.
The cats were locked in the laundry room, and there were no other humans or animals in the house to be out and activating the camera.

Turtle did what we call doing her rounds; she paced the living room until I was finished in the bathroom.
Then we went back to bed.

She lay with her nose at the door crack until 6 am, when she finally went to sleep at my side of the bed.

It was just very odd.

Equally odd, I have seven security cameras inside and outside.
Yesterday all my cameras were at 80%; normally it will take a week or two to totally drain them.
As I'm going through footage, I notice every single one of those cameras had a low battery symbol, and they were on between 20% and 14%.
That's just impossible, honestly.
Not overnight, and not every single camera.
OK, maybe not impossible, but it sure as heck is strange.

Go on, debunk it.

Cowboy says that a bug set off the camera, but not the light.
OK, reasonable, but it had to be a pretty big bug.

Turtle heard something outside, or being in a different house, she just had a brief moment of panic.
Reasonable, oddly enough, though, Lady and Duffy didn't bark one bark, and they usually join in.

So, not something outside, perhaps Turtle just woke up in a strange house and freaked out.

Cameras?
I'm having a bit of a hard time explaining that one.
The pool camera, man, I don't have to charge its batteries for a month or two; it just rarely activates.
And yeah, it even was drained.
Um, it got cold last night.
Doesn't the cold drain car batteries?

You know, you would expect the front door, the carport, and the side yard cameras batteries to maybe go dead all at once.
They are frequently activated.

But, the pool and the back door-I don't have to charge them, but maybe once every month.

The inside cameras, OK, yeah they too are used frequently, so no really no biggie them going dead all at once.

It's just the pool and the back door in addition to the others, and overnight.