大千世界:能自己撥打報警電話的屋子
An empty house in Marblehead, Mass. seems to have called 911 on its own after months of enduring a leaky pipe that covered the walls with toxic mold. And you thought that dog that called the police was smart.
No one actually spoke with the house (though I don't know why you assume you'd understand house-language); instead, the call was recorded as a hang-up when it was received by police on Wednesday. After the dispatcher was unable to return the call, police headed to the location—31 Rockaway Ave.—where they discovered a damaged house:
According to the police log, they determined that something inside was leaking before they requested permission from higher-ups to make a forced entry through the back door.
It was then they saw just how badly this house had suffered.
Firefighters pumped out the basement, and all the utilities were stopped, according to fire Capt. Mike Porter.
Nobody's been able to find the owner, but the bills are up to date and his family says he travels frequently. The house, unfortunately, will have to be gutted.
As for the emergency dialing, the lame "scientific explanation" is that water from the leak eventually short-circuiting the phone system, causing an errant call to 911. The cool explanation is that the house—located about 10 minutes from Salem, Mass.—was built on some kind of sacred witch grass, or whatever, but the point is that the house is alive, and it ate its owner, and then it called 911 because it was lonely and moldy. So, you can choose which story you believe.
馬布爾黑德鎮（Marblehead）一直是個和女巫、靈異傳說等結緣的地方，但是當地的警察叔叔恐怕沒有想到，當他們接到一通立刻掛斷的報警電話、回撥數次都打不通之後，出警的結果竟然是……一棟沒有人的空屋。
警方同時發現房門下流出一股潺潺的水流……在獲得上級許可之後，他們破門而入，被眼前的景象震驚了：這幢屋子已經幾個月沒有人類的痕跡，房間裏潮溼得可怕，到處都是黴跡，天花板和地板都已經變形，地下室更是整個被淹，積水達1.5米深，以至於電力也被中斷……然而，每月的賬單卻仍然被如數付清，所以直到現在都沒有人發現屋子的異狀。
警方說，恐怕正是由於積水遇上了電話線路，纔打出了這一通無頭911。不過，竟然偏偏就打到了警局，這多少是有一點蹊蹺。有種說法時房子是活的，它吃掉了房主，但是它感到孤獨而且房子已經發黴，所以它撥打了911報警電話。你可以選一個自己相信的說法。
請消防隊抽走了地下室中的積水之後，警方開始查詢住宅的所有權。屋子的主人名叫James Cowen，至今下落不明——他的幾個親屬紛紛表示現年60歲的Cowen先生靠着父親的遺產生活無憂，因此不用工作、長期在外旅遊，所以讓警方不用擔心。然而這就出現了第二個蹊蹺……Cowen先生的車仍然在車庫裏。因此，許多人也猜測，恐怕在事件的背後，有着更可怕的真相,
