Spooky

It's an old house.

It makes noises - radiators tic and pop with temperature changes; floors creak and groan with humidity changes.

Weird things happen - light bulbs flicker; the cook top fan turns on when we boil water and the fan switch doesn't turn it off or on (surprise! something that doesn't work! ;-)

But they've always had reasonable explanations.

Until now...

See the little round makeup mirror?  It's one where you can touch the base to turn it on/off or brighten/dim it.

Well...

We had a couple of instances where it's turned on by itself.

Or off by itself.

Not just when no one is around.

One night I was lying in bed reading a book.  SWMBO was in the bathroom.  The light turned on. I got up, touched the base to turn it off, and climbed back into bed.

A minute or so later, the light turned back on again.  I sat up and looked around, wondering if the dog had brushed by it or something.  Normally, she wears her collar so I hear the jingling of her tags.

So I asked SWMBO, "Where's the dog?"

"In here with me," she replied from the bathroom.  "Why?"

"Your mirror light just turned on by itself."

"No way!"

"Way," I said as she walked into the bedroom.  "See?"

"You did that."

"Nope. I've been lying here the whole time."

She walked over, touched the base to turn it off, climbed into bed, and started to read a book.

Five or ten minutes passed.

The light turned back on.

She turned to me and asked, "How did you do that?"

"I didn't," I grinned back.  "Maybe Emerson did."

Her eyes opened wide as I looked toward the light and said, "If you want us to keep restoring the house back to what it should be, you'll quit messing with that light!"

And the light turned off.

It hasn't happened again...