http://www.cityofreno.com/gov/news/?newsid=17408

burner left on while house is unoccupied, fire starts in cabinet directly above the stove

maybe people have been breaking into your house while you're out for a long, long time.. except during a recent break-in some really bad shit went down, and now they're trying to torch the house.

look for signs of a murder.



wipe the knobs that turn on the stove so they're clean. then if this happens again try to dust for fingerprints or something. use talcum powder. sprinkle it on and blow off any excess, and then i think you're suppose to use a really fine paintbrush to brush anyway anything not attached to the fingerprint. use tape to lift the prints.

if you don't find fingerprints i really don't know what to tell you. although even though you have to push the knob in and turn it while it's pushed in, i don't think you'd need opposable thumbs to do it.

davesec wrote: the third time could be your roommate playing up the situation?

man, i wish this was the case. he's scared shitless. he's talking about moving out. I know the guy, and he's not the kind of dude to play tricks. I could tell he was really scared shitless when he called, he was panicking and talking about moving out. I wasn't actually freaked out when he told me, for some reason im becoming numb to it, but becasue of that he thought I was playing a joke on him. Anyhow, he locked the place up and left, that's how scared he was.

I have no idea what's going on there.

mike

So ghosts actually exist? Holy shit.

Wow, this is crazy.

MTAR: I don't know if your stoves in the US are the same kind of design as here in the UK but when you find your stove is on I presume the dial for that particular burner is actually turned to a reading right?

As an experiment - turn the power to the cooker off like you have been doing and check the dial each day to see if it has been turned even though the cooker is off.

Failing that, do all the crazy tricks from cop movies of yesteryear - I dunno, tape a hair across the crack of each door after you close it. Sprinkle a light dusting of flour on the floor of the kitchen etc.

Or, just get a webcam like everyone says...

(in the event that this is all a huge wind-up - you are very entertaining and should do this for a living. I am hooked)

My cat would turn the oven on on my old stove. He would be on top of the stove hopeing that there might be some scraps to scavenge. Then he would jump of the stove his rear leg would both push in and turn with the jumping action somehow and turn on the oven.

So I can vouch that it is possible for a cat to push the knob in and turn it with a jump.

Big John wrote:
So I can vouch that it is possible for a cat to push the knob in and turn it with a jump.

Stop fucking up the ghost story.

good thread... update please!!

ps I vote you are hoaxing this.

Sound like that oven's got a demon. Throw it out and get yourself a microwave like the rest of us.

I am enjoying this thread very much myself. After playing a little catch-up and reading the last 3 pages, I must admit that I believe you are putting us on Mr. Russian, atleast currently if not from the start.

This is so interesting that people with no involvement (myself included) are dying to find out more. (I'm sure a Buy-MTAR-A-Webcam-Fund would do very well.) If it were happening in your own home I don't know how you could not be intrigued to find out the deal at the very least as much as the rest of us are intrigued.

The bizarre happenings are increasing and it seems the only steps you have taken are ones we can't confirm? Hmm... a little fishy...

Sure it's totally possible you aren't making anything up. But I just think you are.

skatingbasser wrote:
Sure it's totally possible you aren't making anything up. But I just think you are.

Why do you have to be a dicknose?

I believe you, Mtar.