Summary

It's 3 a.m. You've woken from a dead sleep because you've heard a thud in the darkness or a floorboard creaking downstairs. Or perhaps you've woken because you have the unmistakable sensation you're not alone. During daylight, these phenomena might be dismissed as the heating, your neighbors or the sounds of an old house settling.

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