You'll appreciate that thread title in a minute or two. I expect plaudits for it.
This is a "it happened to a friend" account. Or is happening, perhaps. The conversation in which im getting this information has been taking place via text over the last half hour. So there'll be much i don't yet know.
Renato, a decades-long friend in Australia, has just casually mentioned in response to one of my dream/coincidence stories that there's definitely weird stuff happening in his house.
Pray tell.
He concentrated on two repeated phenomena. The first is that neither the alarm inside nor the porch light outside can detect his presence. At all. And only him. Which is to say with regard to the first - which he says is sensitive even to spiders - he thought for a long time the alarm simply didn't work. Till friends stayed and told him it does. But not when *he* enters or leaves. Ever. The outside light comes on immediately when anyone but he approaches. But never for him. I questioned him does he just mean often it doesn't work. No he means never. But only for him. He had it tested and the lights changed twice. They found nothing wrong with it.. he claims its sensitive to even the passing presence of mosquitoes. Yet unless he's with someone else it seems to think he doesn't exist. For this to be true of two unconnected pieces of equipment is certainly passing strange. We'll throw in that - less consistently to be sure - his Google (which he says is only meant to respond when he says "hey google" ) randomly greets him of its own volition. Specifically when leaving the house to go for a walk it will occasionally call "have a good day Renato".
Electronics have their own mysteries of course and perhaps some of those could be explained by some of you. But the more obviously intriguing second phenomenon involves the regular appearance of a stack of magazines.
If my questioning has correctly drawn out and comprehended the details then for the last 18 months, every month without fail, a stack (always in the same order) of about 10 women's weekly magazines appears on his "front pillar". "I move them, dump them, leave them on the side of the road and they keep re-appearing stacked on the front pillar". Most recently he took them to a council bin "not far from mine" (a detail i include to allow open the option of a watching neighbourhood practical joker), returned home to do some work, and when he stepped out of hsi front door there they were again, stacked up in place.
I enquired if they ever show the wear and tear from all these attempts to dump them. He says no, they always appear looking pristine.
At some point they disappear themselves, but always reappear the next month, every month.
I've suggested some experiments to try. If he destroys one will a replica appear in its place? If he takes them into the house and leaves them there will they still disappear? I'll let you know if there are any results from such trials.
You'll be curious about any significance apparent in the magazines themselves. I questioned him as precisely as i could but his replies lack the same precision so I'm left to infer from his lack of denial or clarification that they are the precise same issues of the same magazines and the magazines are just modern, recent editions of women's weekly mags with no particular significance obvious in their titles or covers...eg they're not from the 1940s or anything suitably eerie like that.
Going, as we must or where's the fun?, down the ghostly route, we make an observation and ask a question. Any "ghost" is seemingly friendly, the possible theme of the electronic weirdness is he's no stranger or threat to the house but belongs there, and the magazines suggest it is a she. So who lived in the house before him? Did anyone die there?
He understands an elderly widow had previously lived there, but died leaving it vacant.....her one story house was therefore knocked down and his built on the same spot.
Which is just what we want in a ghost story.
I'll add if there are any future updates.
