More of the weird

This morning my dogs got me up promptly at 8:15. They must have built in alarm clocks. The both jump up and down on the bed and shake themselves vigorously. If that doesn't get them the desired result one of them will them brush my face with their long beard. That gets my attention. I keep the bedroom doors shut because I do not want the dogs running all over the house at night. My wife keeps her door shut because when she keeps it shut that room is the warmest of the upstairs rooms. We have basically two upstairs halls. A short one that goes from the front stairs and north past the master bed room and ends at the trunk room. The other hallway is much longer and runs south from the master bedroom, past the Noah room on the left and the Green room on the right. Yjis long hall is always dark, even on a bright sunny day this hallway is at best gloomy lit. So you can imagine how dark it is at night. I did install a small floor level night light about midway; but that just didn't seem like enough light when you have a bathroom run in the middle of the night. So recently I installed a bright motion light over the doorway from the master bedroom. The light woprks very well, it even comes on when I reach the top of the backstairs and turn to go down the hall to the bedroom. So I got up and got dressed and the dogs and I went down to the Noahs room where my wife sleeps since she has a serious leg problem. Anyway the dogs bounded into the room and was in the act of getting my wife up. She said "Why did you wait so long to let the dogs in?" I said "What do you mean? We just now came from the bedroom." She then said, "Yhe hall light has been going off and on for at least a half an hour." Keep in mind that over the doorway to the Noahs room is a transum and she could see the light through that. We had not gone down that hallway except when we entered the bedroom. That was our first time in the hall way. Nothing very small will trigger that light. A mouse wouldn't trigger it. A bat might but there was no evidence of a bat. The dogs would trigger it; but they were in the bedroom with me. I have checked the light several times and so far it has only come on when it was suppose to. If my wife watched it come on several times thia morning before the dogs and I could have activated it....then what activated it? More strangeness in an old house.

Weird results

I placed a sound activated tape recorder on top of a tall display case in our hall way right beside the wall where these short blasts of speaking seem to be originating. I left the recorder there for several days. This area of our house is rarely used by us. It is a section of hall yjat runs parellel to the front stair case and goes past the western door of the master bedroom and dead ends at the trunkroom (where Christmas decorations are stored. When I went to get the recorder it was not where I put it. I could not find it. It had not fallen anywhere around the area. I aasked my wife about it. She assured me she hadn't even been in that area of the house. I returned upstairs and did a double check of everything. I found nothing so in discust I turned and walked down the hall yoward yjer master bedroom; inyending to return downstairs. As I passed the door of the trunkroom I saw the recorfer sitting on a box of Christmas decorations. Total surprise. That box of decorations was a good 15 ft from where I placed the recorder. I saw the tape had run out so I placed new batteries inn the recorder and rewound the tape. When I played the tape the first quarter of it was blank or had distant voices which I determined were my wife and I and someone at our front door. So that was explained. Then the tape set up a buzzing for the rest of the tape. Just buzzing. Testing the recorder I found it works just fine. So whats with the buzzing?