I was renting a small basement apartment a few years ago. The first night I moved in, I noticed something strange — the old thermostat on the wall kept clicking every few minutes, even though the heat wasn’t on.
Around 2 a.m., I woke up freezing. I checked the thermostat, and it was turned all the way down to “Off.” I figured maybe I’d bumped it while unpacking, so I turned it back up.
The next morning, the landlord stopped by to drop off the mail that had come for the previous tenant. He glanced at the thermostat and said, “You replaced that thing?”
I told him no, it was already there.
He stared at it for a second and said quietly, “That’s strange… I took it off the wall after she passed. It shouldn’t be there.”
That night, the clicking started again — faster this time.
When I finally worked up the nerve to open the cover, there was no wiring inside. Just a small folded note. It said:
“Stop turning it up. It’s colder down here for a reason.”
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