Poltergeist

[offcntr]

One of the first things Denise and I got for our new house, twenty-plus years ago, was a glass-fronted display cabinet, for pottery, sculpture, and fragile knick-knacks that we didn't trust the cats not to gravity-test. It's in a corner between my office and the front door, and has built-in lighting, with a three-phase dimmer controlled by touching the right top hinge. We generally leave the lights out, unless showing things off to company. (Yeah, I know, what's that?)

So it's extra unsettling to get up before sunrise and see it glowing dimly in the corner.

I suppose one of the cats could have jumped up on the file cabinet and put a nose to the hinge, but nothing else on the desk or cabinet showed any sign of disturbance.

I'm gonna go with ghosts.