sleepkid wrote:Whoah! I really have not gone through this whole thread. But at any point, did you call an electrician/appliance repair person?
Being serious now:
The reason I ask is this: I used to live in a house with an old electric stove, and during the winter, once or twice, we found that the burner would be on, even though the dial would say it was off. Turning the dial would shut the burner off. We called an appliance repair person (free of charge, the landlord footed the bill) who could find nothing wrong with the stove. However, a week later same thing happened again. Then, one time I was in the kitchen when it happened. I can't remember the exact details, but it turns out that the breaker for the stove (in this old house, which had old wiring, not necessarily built for modern appliances) would sometimes surge when the thermostat for the central heating would click on. The electrician was at a loss for why it would cause the stove to short like that, but he simply swapped out the circuit breaker so that it was no longer next to the one that controlled the thermostat, and we never had the problem again.
(sorry if any of this has already been suggested. I read the first 3 pages of the thread, then skipped to the end. So I might get kerbled.)
Yeah, it's a long thread so here's a quick summary of the stove events that all transpired in a 3 week period:
1) came home one day, burner was physically turned on high, burning bright red. the next day is when i started this thread, no supernatural activity was seriously considered at this point.
2) I made sure to always keep my house locked including all windows, although the front door only had a knob lock, no deadbolt. One week after the first incident I came home after band practice to find a different burner set exactly to "5".
3) I am freaked out. The knobs on the stove are child proof and very stiff. It is not possible for my cats to turn them on. Anyhow, I am pretty sure someone is breaking in and doing this. Police have been informed, and I ask my landlord to install new locks and a deadbolt. He also cuts 2x4s to put into the windows so they cannot be opened under any circumstances.
4) A dude moves into my house later that week. I tell about this stuff and he thinks I am fucking with him, and when he realizes I'm not he gets pretty freaked out. A few days later, I wake up and make breakfast. As I leave I make sure everything is locked, I leave throught the front door, lock and deadbolt it. 10 minutes later as I am driving to work I get a call from my hysterical roomate. He was woken by the smoke alarm. When he came down to see what was going on he saw that the same burner was turned on hi, and there was a pot on the burner so chunks of pasta were burning and smoking. He threatened to call the cops on me cause he thought i was fucking with him. He checked all the locks and wondows and they were still locked, which meant it was impossible that anyone had come in.
5) After that we started to turn off the breakers to the stove. For some reason after we did this my roommate decided it wasn't a big deal that the burners would still end up on high. On 3 more occasions we found that the knobs to different stove burners were set on high, and on two occasions the oven burner was set to medium. The oven burner is actually hard to turn for a human with an opposable thumb.
There is no explanation for any of this, but I have my theories. The cats couple not have done it. Maybe once by accident, but not 8 times in a three- four week period.
We now keep the circuit breakers off, and have the knobs removed from the stove and oven.
And like I said, nothing else has really happened. There were a few strange things, like a few weeks ago I was watching a movie around midnight, and I heard my roomate come home, unlock the door, open the screen door and come in, but 15 minutes later i still had not seen him... i looked around and no one was there. But there hasn't been anything as dumbfounding as the stove, the mysterious text message, the smell of rotting flesh or the weird things that happened when I attempted to speak with the spirit.
Last night, in my bedroom, I smelt dog (the smell went away about 10 seconds later). Smelt just like a wet Golden Retriever (a terrible smell, sort of like shit ). The homeowners had a Golden Retriever that died about 12 years ago ! Good thing that dog liked me.
