I had gotten my dad a card for his birthday that had the sound of a firetruck siren when you opened it (it was supposed to be humorous, like he needed firetrucks because of the fire from all the candles on his cake). Anyway, it was laying flat on my bookcase, the book case was next to the tv stand. I often got off work at odd hours of the night and I'd often fall asleep in the living room while watching something on tv or while I was reading. Late one night after work I fell asleep in the living room with the tv off. I jumped out of my sleep to the sound of a siren. It was that card. It wasn't open. It was laying there flat like it had been for probably months. Btw, I still have that card! lol
Another time, I turned out the light and hopped into bed. The light I turned out was a ceiling light that had a pull chain. I get into bed and I get comfy and I close my eyes. Right after I closed my eyes, I could tell that the room was bright. My eyes flew open and I seen that the light had came back on. I got back up and pulled the chain again. It stayed off that time.
My dad had an explanation for the card going off. He thought that at some point the central heat came on and activated the card, as there was a vent nearby.
I thought that the light coming back on could have been due to me possibly not getting the pull chain pulled all the way and one of the little beads of the chain slipped back up causing the light to come back on.
A friend at work didn't buy these explanations and considered my apartment to be haunted.
The explanations for the above occurrences seemed reasonable enough to me, but what I'm still trying to figure out, though, is what I seen out in the yard in front of that same apartment one night. There for a while I wasn't working evenings, and dad and I would always set outside in the evening. One evening, we seen a flat, round shadow moving across the yard. It glided across the yard over to the apartments across the way and disappeared. Dad was a pretty skeptical person, but he wasn't sure what to make of this. I'd never seen anything like it before or since.
Btw, I also "do not believe that the spirits of dead people walk the earth doing crazy stuff," but I do like these sorts of stories. Thanks for the thread!