I could not help but recall J.K. Trotter's charmingly deranged old Gawker blog, "How to Find a Beeping Smoke Detector If You Don't Know Where It Is." His revelatory technique: Once you have not found the smoke detector where you expected to find it, continue looking in other places until you find it.
It was a sustained, maddening, high-pitched ringing sound, not all that unlike that made by a smoke or carbon monoxide detector when it's actually set off. We couldn't figure out what was making it; though it sounded vaguely alarm-like, it also clearly was not the sound any of our various alarms make.
Once we had exhausted all of the sane or explicable places to look for its origin, I did indeed have the thought, OK, well, then it is time to look in places that do not make any sense at all.
The sound sorta seemed like it was focused on the back wall of the bathroom... wherever we found it, it wasn't gonna make any sense.
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