I was at a relative's house last month, an older man. We noticed a water spot on the ceiling. He, myself, and a son in-law were going to go take a look in the ceiling. When he pulled the string on the door thing that has the ladder in it to walk up into the attic. When he opened it, the light was on but turned off. We both saw the light.
We climb up there. We weren't sure if we spotted where the water was coming from. Everything looked dry. We wondered if the pan for the A/C unit up there had filled up in the summer and he'd just now noticed it. he said he thought the roof actually went further than the the edge of the roof on the inside. It looked like that might be the case. I didn't measure rafters with a tape measure.
So later, he tells me this theory of his that there were people going up in his roof, having sex. He said something about them being 'church people.' I know he has had a couple of bouts with some kind of mental illness in the past, paranoia that nearly broke up his marriage at the time, even fear of people under the stairs, people after him on the road, at least a couple of serious bouts with paranoia many decades back. Also, he listens to conspiracy theory videos on telegram, believing in med beds that will make our bodies 30 year's younger, a new quantum currency evaluation that will make one Zimbabwe dollar and one Iraqi dinar worth one US dollar (or something like that), that Hillary Clinton, Biden, and a bunch of other politicians were executed in Guantanimo and that they have doubles wearing mission impossible style masks, that we are all going to be rich because of Trump and getting all the millions owed to use for selling our birth certificates, and returning to a previous form of our constitution before the United States became a corporation. There is all kinds of other stuff like that.
He thinks the people who go in the roof sneak up with a ladder, the neighbor is in on it. They wipe out the tracks from the frosty dew, and he thinks he saw where they wiped them up. He knows it sounds crazy, but told me I saw the light. I'm more likely to think a demon was flicking the light switch and fueling paranoia than 'church people' breaking into his roof to have sex.
I'm wondering about the light in the attic. I told him I was more inclined to believe it was demonic than people in the roof. I suppose it is possible that the light was just on the edge of flicking, nudged by the shaking that occurred when we pulled down the ladder to go into the attic. He said he'd heard people talking up in the ceiling. Again, I'm more inclined to think it's demonic or a light that was just somehow right on the edge of getting switched off.
If anyone has any wisdom to address this specific situation, I would appreciate it.
