11. Every lightbulb in my apartment had been unscrewed just enough so that the lights would not turn on.
“My apartment was robbed once, and broken into again a couple months later. The spooky part? I had just moved in when I got very, very ill. I had to go stay with my parents while getting treatment at the hospital. No one had been to my new place or knew the address. It was full of unpacked boxes as I was too ill to move in properly.
They left the TV. They left the jar of cash on the dresser. They only took my diaries. Multiple diaries. I always buy the same kind, and they date back for years. They were packed in different boxes, too. Someone had riffled through my stuff, found the diaries, and took only those. They even left my diary and recipe books, which are the same style as the diaries—so they had to have checked. My apartment was on the third floor. There was no sign of a break-in, but there WERE small handles on the outside of the pillars on the porch that went all the way to the ground. Perhaps they climbed??
The second time, I returned home one night to find the light outside of my door was off. I didn’t think much of it except that I’d need to call to get it replaced. I unlocked and opened the door, and tried to turn on the light. Nothing. I thought maybe the power had gone out? But then I looked over and saw my microwave with the correct time on it. Something about that spooked me, and I went to wait in my car after I called the apartment complex on-call agent. He came over, I waited outside. He came out and told me to call the cops. Turns out, nothing had been taken. But every lightbulb in my apartment had been unscrewed just enough so that the lights would not turn on. The cops came and checked it out, found nothing suspicious, but told me to stay somewhere else for the night. The next day, after telling my sister what happened, she and her bf drove in from 3 hours away and installed deadbolts (totally against the complex’s policy, but the management was just as creeped out as I was). Nothing else creepy happened in the 2 years I lived there.”