Tremendous
Kaol's suggestion and he's not here today.

Anyway, to my brief tale of scariness.

Many moons ago, my parents and I were out somewhere one evening. Can't remember the details, but it's not important. Anyway, my sister, who was a teenager at the time, was home alone, and when we returned later we found her shaking and crying.

Turns out that she'd put out the lights and gone to bed. But when she turned out her bedroom light, she could see the other lights in the house.

Thinking she must have forgotten to switch them off, she put on her bedroom light, got up and went through to switch off the living room lights again. Which she did. Then returned to bed.

Only when she put off her bedroom light again, the lights in the rest of the house had mysteriously come on once more.

Naturally, she freaked out at this point, which is how we found her on our return, with all the lights on.

Personally I think she dreamt it or something. But it scared the shit out of her regardless.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 10:08, 1 reply)

Could be
the electrical circuit for the lighting?

My old house used to refuse to turn out certain lights unless others were switched on/off
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 14:05, closed)