After the stove situation I was a little concerned. About three weeks after that on a Saturday morning my wife and I were going to go to the local shopping center to do some shopping. I got dressed she was ready and I went to get my car keys off of the dresser. They were not their I looked all around the dresser and the bed thinking I might have dropped them. The keys where no where to be found! She started looking also. Our search took us into the living room we where looking under books the paper under chairs nothing. I looked at her and said I bet I left them in the car so I ran out to the car to see if they where there. They where not in the car I went back inside the apartment and told her I had no Idea where they were. She told me she remembered me having them the night before and remember seeing me putting them on the dresser. As we turned around to go back in the bed room to look again for the keys we both heard a jingling sound like keys being bounced then heard a sound of keys hitting the floor in the hall way. We both walked to the hallway leading back to the bedroom and they're where the car keys in the middle of the floor of the hall way. We both just stood there in total silence then looked at each other, she had this look on her face of fear. I told her that I had no Idea what just happened but I think we need to leave for a while we got in the car and went to the shopping center. Neither one of us talked about it while we were gone. I think the reason for that was we were totally blown away about what happened and did not know how to approach the subject. That evening we were sitting in the living room watching TV she brought the subject up about the keys. She asks me what did I think happened with the keys. I told her Love I have not the slightest Idea. All I know is if they were on the hall floor from the start you or I would have seen them or at least stepped on them while looking for them. You could since an uneasy atmosphere the rest of the evening.
We went to bed that night and it was quiet nothing out of the norm took place. We both woke up around 6 am and she went into the kitchen. I was still getting dressed in the bedroom when I heard her call for me I went into the kitchen she had a jug of milk in her hand and was pouring it down the drain. I ask her what she was doing? She told me the milk was bad and that the Fridge was not working. I opened the door to the fridge and sure enough it was warm inside everything had spoiled. As I looked closer I check the thermostat on the side of the fridge and Noticed it was in the off position. I pointed that out to her she told me she did not turn it off. So we tossed everything and went to the store after work to get some more Items to put in the fridge. That night I got some duct tape and put it over the thermostat thinking that perhaps it was the vibration from the compressor in the fridge that caused the thermostat knob to turn until it turned off. So I placed duct tape in an X formation over the thermostat knob then we went to bed. About 2 am or so I got up and went into the kitchen to check it and it was still on and the tape was still in place. I did that again at around 4 am also all was fine. At 6 am when we got up I went into the kitchen and opened the fridge and every thing was Luke warm or not real cold. Lifted the tape from the thermostat and the thermostat was in the off position. This just about blew me out of the tree! There was no way that knob could have turned with the tape still on it. And before you ask no I don't sleep walk and neither does my wife. This was getting a tad too much for me to deal with. My wife came into the kitchen and asked if it was ok I told her that it was, I did not want to frighten her any more than she was already. About 7 am Jack our neighbor came over asking for a ride into work we work at the same place. He said you guys must have had a wild party over here last night. My wife and I looked at him kind of strange and told him no one but us where here last night. Jack looked at me and said no way he told us he was reading in his living room heard people talking and laughing from the direction of our apartment. I told him no it had to be the other apartment on the other side of him. He said no he walked into his kitchen and some one was tapping on our counter like they were playing the drums he said he could her voices. I ask him about what time was this. he told me around 1 am when he said that a chill ran up my spin that stood the hair up on the back of my neck because I was in the kitchen only an hour after he heard the sounds..
Everything was quiet for about two weeks we had joked around about it thinking it was just sound coming from one of the other apartments. It was now late August and my wife and I decided to go out to dinner. So we left and went out I guess we got back around 9 pm that evening. As we drove up I noticed the front door was wide open. First thing that went through my mind was some one broke into the apartment. I got Jack from next door and we checked the apartment out while our wives waited out side. Every thing was find I looked at the door and as I turned the doorknob I noticed it was still locked. I checked the door frame to see if it was jimmied open. There were no marks on the door to indicate it was forced open. Jack told me he has been home since 5 pm and did not see any one over by our apartment.
By this time curiosity is setting in I am more determine now to find out what is causing this situation. I am no longer afraid of what has been going on. I want to find out what is causing it and perhaps put a stop to it. On the other hand my wife was ready to pack up an move out of state. And the prospect of me going on shift work did not ease her fears one bit. I made it a point not to talk about what was going on with her for a while because I did not want her to be to concerned about me going on night shift. So during the next few weeks some things took place they were minor in comparison to what happened before. I was sitting in the living room one night watching a late movie. I walked into the bathroom, which is just off of the bedroom hall. As I walked through the hallway I felt cold just a few feet from the bathroom. Just like before when I was sitting on the couch that one time. I also heard rapping sounds coming from under the apartment, which I just figured, where water pipes.
