Haunted House

I came home last night to find only half my house had electricity. No amount of flipping breakers or resetting GFI switches made any difference. Happily the live half included the heater (blower), my bedroom and bathroom, and strangely,  the stove and the dryer but not the refrigerator. The smoke detectors were getting some kind of limited power because they kept going off--albeit weakly--at two hour intervals during the night, jolting me out of sleep with a racing heart. Turning the stove on created a high-pitched shriek in the basement and turning the dryer on brought 1/2 power to all the areas that were out. Freaky! Though I was certain the ghetto-construction of my house was to blame, it turns out there's a "leg down", some line in the ground is broken. Still waiting for that to be fixed, but at least I don't have to worry about my untimely death due to crossed wires smoldering in the attic. Or poltergeists.