Something Kinda Spooky

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Okay, me and my wife are a little freaked out now. Over the past four or five days we have had some weird experiences with the door to our apartment. We have two locks on the door, a deadbolt and a lock on the door handle. My wife works in the evenings and when she comes home she locks the deadbolt but not the lock on the handle. I don't touch the locks at all, but for the last four or five days we keep finding that the deadbolt is unlocked and the handle is locked.

It happened again today after we came home from a shopping trip. Just to prove she isn't crazy, me wife actually made me watch her lock the deadbolt after we came home (and we made sure the handle wasn't locked). Sure enough after we ate dinner, my wife noticed the deadbolt was unlocked and the handle was locked.

Now neither me or my wife really believe in ghosts or hauntings, so is there any logical explanation any of you guys can think of that would cause this to happen? Or do you think this might be evidence of an actual haunting?
 
It's not evidence of a haunting, on account of that is impossible.

95% chance you're imagining things. 3% chance your superintendent is doing maintenencey work in there, and not telling you for some reason. 0.99% chance the police are searching your apartment. 0.99% chance some nere-do-well is reconoitering your apartment. 0.02% chance sex fiends are living it up in there during the day.

Recommendation:

1) Setup a video camera pointed at the door, continuously recording.
2) Setup easy-rip tape over the door jam. Leave though a window.
 
History_Buff said:
It's not evidence of a haunting, on account of that is impossible.

95% chance you're imagining things. 3% chance your superintendent is doing maintenencey work in there, and not telling you for some reason. 0.99% chance the police are searching your apartment. 0.99% chance some nere-do-well is reconoitering your apartment. 0.02% chance sex fiends are living it up in there during the day.

Recommendation:

1) Setup a video camera pointed at the door, continuously recording.
2) Setup easy-rip tape over the door jam. Leave though a window.
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The bolded part is something we have seriously considered until today when it happened while we were in the apartment and awake. In fact, every time it has happened we have been in the apartment and we just didn't notice it until the next morning after we woke up.

As for the landlord doing work: He hasn't even been in the building for three days (We know when he's here because he parks his truck outside of our apartment).

I want to set up a video camera, but my wife is afraid to just in case it actually turns out something funky is going on.

@LucyDuke: Nah, doesn't seem like his MO. If I had to pin it on one of the animals, it would be Fuzzbutt (one of the guinea pigs). That's definitely her kinda trick.
 
I think your wife is having some fun with you. Maybe think up a little joke to play back on her... maybe spook her with a good halloween costume or something. The doorknob ghost. :p
 
If you have witnessed this changed while being home and awake, I can only think of three reasonable possibilities.

1) You or your wife is doing it, but not realizing it (1% chance)
2) Someone is outside your door screwing with you (3% chance)
3) Your wife is screwing with you (96% chance)

In short, someone is screwing with you and so I would escalate it: freak out and threaten to call the cops, or try to convince her you need to go out and buy an assault rifle for protection (depending on your home nation). I'm sure your wife won't call your bluff.
 
wilycoyote said:
2) Someone is outside your door screwing with you (3% chance).
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We talked about that and that is a new possibility we are considering since the landlord didn't change the locks from the last tenant. So we think either the previous tenant or someone she knew still has a key and is messing with the apartment for some reason. This is reinforced by my wife claiming to hear someone walking around outside our apartment at night (we are on the ground floor and pretty isolated so it's not normal pedestrians) right around the time this started happening.
 
It could it be a maintenance man your not familiar with, or perhaps somebody is casing out your apartment for a possible burglary/home invasion.
 
Commodore said:
We talked about that and that is a new possibility we are considering since the landlord didn't change the locks from the last tenant. So we think either the previous tenant or someone she knew still has a key and is messing with the apartment for some reason. This is reinforced by my wife claiming to hear someone walking around outside our apartment at night (we are on the ground floor and pretty isolated so it's not normal pedestrians) right around the time this started happening.
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Commodore said:
The bolded part is something we have seriously considered until today when it happened while we were in the apartment and awake. In fact, every time it has happened we have been in the apartment and we just didn't notice it until the next morning after we woke up.

As for the landlord doing work: He hasn't even been in the building for three days (We know when he's here because he parks his truck outside of our apartment).

I want to set up a video camera, but my wife is afraid to just in case it actually turns out something funky is going on.

@LucyDuke: Nah, doesn't seem like his MO. If I had to pin it on one of the animals, it would be Fuzzbutt (one of the guinea pigs). That's definitely her kinda trick.
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....and your wife is the only one who sets the locks?

your wife seems to be the main suspect...or the ghost of an obssessive compulsive locksmith
 
Commodore said:
I want to set up a video camera, but my wife is afraid to just in case it actually turns out something funky is going on.
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Just set it up. But do it inconspicuously.

Wouldn't you rather it be a ghost than a real person with nefarious intentions?
 
I like the camera idea. But I think that it is a bit to far to call a demonologist, those are just frauds :p

why do I like the camera? because it is probably your wife screwing with you and with proof you can screw with here without feeling guilty, maybe it even opens possibilities to get rid of the iguana :devil:

something else:
Tell your wife to lock the handle and leave the deadlock unlocked, next time?
 
"A ghost" is the only rational explanation.

Do the cam thing and at the same time put some brightly colored tape over the deadbolt when its locked. Easy to see if that moves on its own. :scan:
 
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