Burglar Alarm a Bust

A week or so ago, I placed a burglar alarm in the alcove at the turn in our front stairs. I did it as an experiment. The front stairs is one of the main points where the weird in this house occurs. This is also the area where we most often pick up those photographic, transparent, disks that occur on photos shot during certain times of the year (Halloween, shortest day, Christmas, and on one occassion in mid-december). One day this week (Wednesday) I was working in the upstairs bedroom. We have a lot of extra furniture there that needed to go to the attic. I was in the process of transporting it the attic. The bedroom door to the hall stairs was closed but the door to the mainhall was open to the attic stairs. As I was working I heard a squeeking or grinding like noise, like something electrical that wasn't running quite right. I couldn't figure what it could be because we have very few things in the upstairs that run on an axis. I checked the bedroom and found nothing, I then opened the door from the bedroom to the hall to the top of the stairs and was blasted by that alarm. Ears ringing I made my way over to the alarm and hit the shut-off code. I then went downstairs through the open parlour door, through the parlour and opened the door into the diningroom where both my dogs greeted me. I went through the diningroom and into the kitchen where my wife was working on a project. I ask her if she heard the alarm; she said "No, and obviously neither had the dogs." She felt the alarm was no good because it was not heard all over the house. Thats a good point, but I'm not certain where I can find an Air Raid Siren to replace it with. And that still doesn't answer the question as to what set the alarm off in the first place. I suppose it could have malfunctioned or ..............?

A third dog wants to play

As I have mentioned before, this house is almost soundproof to noises outside unless they are very loud. The interior walls are also brick and the walls are thick 3 to 4 bricks thick and then they are plastered over by a near cement plaster used by builders in the mid-eighteen hundreds. So sounds do not carry well between rooms. Last night, before turning in the the evening, my wife and I spent half an hour or so playing with our two dogs. Its a nightly ritual they have come to expect. We had just finished playing with them and were preparing to turn off the lights when we heard a loud, very distinctive play growl come from somewhere in the house. It got all of our attention. The Dogs sat bolt upright and peered down the upstairs hall that runs from the master bedroom to the bathroom on the opposite side of the house. My wife exclaimed "What was that?" and our older dog jumped off the bed and ran down the hall to investigate. He came back fairly fast looking puzzled. The younger dog continued to look down the hall. Nothing more occurred and the elder dog went to his bed next to the heat register and laid down. The younger dog continued to peer down the darkened hallway and was doing so when I finally turned off the light. The sound was loud. We ALL heard it. It was a playful growl like both dogs do when we wrestle. We do not have a third dog. I have no logical explaination for it.