Strange actions by one of our dogs.

A couple nights ago, at bedtime, one of my two dogs behaved very strangely. We had gone to bed at the regular time, the older dog was in his bed by the radiator and the younger one had just laid down at the foot of our bed. The younger dog, we call Shadow, perked up and began by looking down the upstairs hall. Then she started looking around the room like she was following something neither my wife nor I could see. She then jumped up and started looking one way then the other and couldn't hold still. She finally jumped off the bed and ran down the hall. The other dog was watching her and looking down the darkened hall but I'd say out of curiosity not fear. Suddenly we heard a a whine like yelp from down the hall and before I could get up to see what was wrong, Shadow made a pell mell rush back into the bedroom , made a flying leap up on the bed and proceeded to tunnel under the covers and shook so hard she made the whole bed shake. Meanwhile the older dog just sat there in his bed and watched the whole thing with nothing more than a curious look. At my wife's suggestion, I got up and walked down the hall which leads past two guestrooms to the upstairs bath. I saw nothing unusual, I heard nothing strange, I sensed nothing amiss. By the time I had gotten back to our bedroom my wife had pretty much settled Shadow down; but she didn't come out from under the covers until morning. I have no idea what the pup thought she sensed. Whatever it was didn't seem to have much, if any, effect on the older dog who simply spun around a couple of times, flopped down and went to sleep. That sort of carrying on can be a bit unnerving; but in this house we expect the unexpected. What was it? We have no idea; but as it was out of the ordinary, I have reported it.

Strange kitchen occurance

My wife got a new TV to watch in the kitchen. Its one of those very small, very light, digitiles. It had to be light because it sits on a mantle over a brick fireplace. It is located on the extreme right side of the mantle. Probably 18 inches to 2 foot from the end of the mantle is a doorway to the pantry. The electrical cord on the TV is very generous easily reaching the floor where the electrical inlet is, with extra to spare. The wife experienced the following event. I was working outside and only entered after the fact. She said she was watching Dr. Phil and the set went off. The station she was watching is famous for blackouts so she tried to switch to a different channel. That didn't work either. So then she noticed the little red light on the TV front wasn't lit. The overhead kitchen light and the over the sink light were on so she knew that no fuse had blown. So, of course, she thought the set had blown out. About this time I came in; "The TV has quit" greeted me. I got the story. Trying the TV with the remote resulted in nothing. Then I noticed the TV plug was laying in the floor in front of the pantry door. This you have to think about. A loose plug can fall out of a socket. But wouldn't it lie there in front of the socket? This plug was a good 2 feet, probably more, from where it was plugged in. I plugged the set back in and it was a good snug fit, by the way, and the set came back on. So, how did the plug come out of the socket and end up well over two foot away? No one had used the pantry door. Though there was extra wire on the TV cord, it was placed beside the chimney, out of the way. The kitchen table sits too close to the fireplace for anyone to move between it. If someone had, my wife would certainly have noticed. I have two dogs but they were both napping on the far side of the kitchen; besides had one of them been responsible the noise and confusion that would have evoked would have settled the matter. So, how did that plug get ourt of the socket and over two feet away? Old houses can cause odd delimmas. Any suggestions, out there?