well, after posting this I have talked with my bf whose mother is a spiritualist to say the least and he says that at times he does sense a presence in the apartment when he's alone- and very recently my upstairs neighbor friend admitted to me about how she thinks she has a spirit in her apartment . . . so perhaps that's the cause of the random smells . .. perhaps the presence moves around- she claims it comes and goes and like to knock things over in her apartment. . . I have't had a problem with weird smells in a long time but the other day something up on a high shelf randomly fell. . ..

Luckily it was nothing breakable.