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I moved into a new apartment last month. It’s small, cheap, and the kind of place you settle for when you’re desperate. There’s one thing I noticed the first day: the apartment directly across the hall has its lights on 24/7. Curtains always drawn, but the lights never flicker. I asked the landlor…

I moved into a new apartment last month. It’s small, cheap, and the kind of place you settle for when you’re desperate. There’s one thing I noticed the first day: the apartment directly across the hall has its lights on 24/7. Curtains always drawn, but the lights never flicker. I asked the landlord about it. He said the unit was “technically vacant,” and the previous tenant moved out a year ago. That didn’t make sense. Why would it be lit? At first, I tried to ignore it. But then, every night,