I posted the above on another forum. This was about the ghost walk that my sister urged and talked me into taking. Stupid me for going on that ghost walk and bringing yet another spirit into my home. I have no idea why these spirits are attracted to me as if I am some type of ghost magnet. I feel that I know who the spirit was. Her name was listed as "Veronica" in the book but that wasn't her real name. Here is a web link to the book that you can partly read online. As I mentioned before, I do not promote any book or website. http://tinyurl.com/cu9kvu3 Go to page 20 and read about "The Lonely Divorcee" which is the spirit that I believe hitched a ride home with me. I know that when I got into my car about two or three blocks away, that my head and mind was clear and as I turned the corner near the yacht club, my mind went into a foggy state. I had no problem driving but I had no idea what street that I was on or how to get home. I felt like I was in a strange city for the first time in my life. I was able to make it home but the entire drive home was like I was on some strange road. I do have this book and the readers can get a preview of this book.

I have done all that I could do to find the cause of my high water bills. Because of the huge amount of water used, the probable cause was my toilet in the half bath at the other end of my house. This toilet is very rarely used. Most of the time, I will clean it and flush it about once a month.

I have looked at this particular toilet before during my previous high water bills. I checked the flapper and all internal workings in the tank. I tried to cause this toilet to stick to keep the flapper from closing. I found no debris such as a chunk of mineral build up that might have broken lose from my water piping into the house. I have run out of answers as to what the problem was but could only think of probable causes. What may have been left no evidence.

My toilet is made by Mansfield and was made during the 1970s. My opinion of Mansfield toilets is that they don't flush well and can plug up easily. Both of my toilets are the same type and brand and both flush the same way.

During the test, I kept the flapper from closing and allowed the tank to empty completely. The water rate coming into the tank was about 3.5 gallons a minute. I checked my water meter before I did the test on water consumption and noted the reading. After 15 minutes of continuous flushing by keeping the flush handle tied down, I found that about a little over 7 cubic feet of water was used in 15 minutes. That is a lot of water. That toilet would have to run non-stop for over 10 days to have used over 57,000 gallons of water.

I saw no turbulence of water in the toilet bowl while the water continued to pour into the empty tank. I wondered where all this water was going so I got out some red food coloring and poured some into the tank. After a few seconds, some red dye fed back from the siphon and settled at the bottom of the toilet bowl. Looking at the surface of the water, there was absolutely no turbulence. The water that was entering the tank went directly into the bowl siphon passage and into the drain.

Here is the probable cause of what might have happened. I cleaned and flushed the toilet and walked away. It is possible that the toilet flapper failed to close for over 10 days. I didn't hear the water flowing in because of the toilet location and my hearing impairment. Somehow about 10 or 11 days later, the flapper closed itself and the toilet went back to normal.

I shut off the water valve that feeds into the tank and will open it up for toilet cleaning and shut the valve back off. If in the future months or years, I don't get anymore high water bills then it means I have found the source of my high water bills. More than likely, the high water usage was not paranormal

Has anybody ever smelled a foul odor in their home that you cannot blame on science, yourself, another person or a pet like a cat or dog? I have also smelled nice smelling perfume or colonge in my home but they were rare events.

Has anybody ever had problems with their electricity powered appliances?

About my high water bills and usage? I am presently studying to what is a probable cause. I said the word probable. Probable is not factual.

I did not have this cat when my first two super high water bills came in 2009 and later. Those two super high water bills could have been due to a defective register that actually counts the number of cubic feet of water used. Or maybe something else like phantom flushes which can be explained.

After the second high water bill, I had the water meter and register replaced with a new unit. The register that sits on top of the water meter counts the number of cubic feet of water used. There are 7.48 gallons per cubic foot. Here is some information about water meters for the home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_meter

I have many years experience as an industrial plumber and I have vast knowledge about fluid leaks, whether hidden or visible. I also know that the registers (counters) that sit on top of the water meter can sometimes read wrong but that is a very rare event. I doubt that new register and meter would be defective. There are no underground water leaks or in the home. There are no intermittent water leaks such as a problem with the toilet that I am aware of. I have checked many times and found no problem with the toilet.http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-R.....ing-Toilet Most high water usage problems are related to problems with the toilet. I do not have any water driven devices. A good example of what many people may overlook is a water driven sump pump. http://thealternativepress.com.....pumps-work

Other than somebody stealing water from me during the night which is nearly impossible, I have no other explanation. Any comments of the possibility of paranormal activity related to high water usage would be welcome. It will save me hours looking for the information on the internet.

Some times I wonder about what her grandmother always used to talk about..she always talked about her angels. She said when she lost things..she would ask her angels out loud for them to help her ...then not long after that she would find what ever she was looking for ..and the funny thing was..she said it was always were she already looked . So she knew thats when they helped her. Makes ya think. If not angels she had spirits watching over her. A comforting thought.

Edit: To your question above..no thank goodness. No activity at all in this house. I did there for a few days but then suddenly stopped. But activity here is very very few and far between since we moved here...and we lived her now for ..oh about 3 years now. Our old house on the other hand was active on a daily basis night and day , I was so relieved to move into this house I can tell ya. I forgot what SLEEP was , then moved here and thought I was in heaven. lol

We have had a few random occurrences. Keep hearing what sounds like our bedroom door (very distinctive creaking door) open and close, but upon investigation nothing seems out of the ordinary.

Yes, you wake me up in the morning every time you think you hear it. I think we have some q-tips some where. /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

Interesting how activity just comes out of nowhere sometimes. Where do they come from? What suddenly attracts a spirit or makes a spirit who hasn't previously made itself known to suddenly become active?

Anyone else having any paranormal activity?

As a kid, I didn't have much in the way of toys so I had to improvise. I had some heavy string, thicker than kite string. Maybe it was more like cord that was used to wrap around packages. Anyway, I was using this cord to "draw" pictures on the living room carpet. It was in the evening and I was alone in the living room playing with my string. I believe that my mom was in the kitchen probably doing dishes and I don't remember where my older and younger siblings were at the time. It was so long ago but there are some things that you never forget. The last picture that I drew with the string was of a man laying on the floor. It resembled those chalk line drawings that you see on television when police draw a chalk line around a body at a crime scene. I think that I might have made several drawings of a man laying on the carpet with that string. A few moments later something turned off the light switch on the wall light. We had no ceiling light in the living room, only a floor lamp, a table lamp and that wall light. The switch was on the light so it was either on or off. The light didn't burn out, something turned the light off. There was no way that the light could have shut itself off. When that light went off, I ran like the dickens. My mom came into the living room and turned the light back on but I was too afraid to play with that string again. A lot of scary and spooky things happened in that rental house. I recall my mom telling me that the neighbors said a man hung himself in that house before we moved in. We moved into that house about 1950 and moved out in 1960.

I also have night terrors brought about by sleep apnea. I fall asleep, have a bad dream, awaken due to I stop breathing, see what was troubling me in my dream before me, and react. Since my body is usually not paralyzed this can be a very adverse reaction. Light helps dispell the terrors and I have trained myself to go for a light source when I finally realize what is going on.

Other things I have done while asleep: woke up trying to shake the devil out of my ex-wife (she claimed I was trying to kill her. I swear I was not.), scream and yell, and drive, yes drive, and I thought I was a superhero while I was doing it. Luckily I saw no criminals, who knows what would have happened.

A lot of the above is brought about by stress and lack of sleep. Things that I have been suffering from a lot lately. I tell Cherylo to go for the light switch, though I doubt that is much comfort when it is happening. Oh well, such is life. We must deal with the cards we are dealt. Wish it was different though.