u/aminwrx

Hey everyone, I’ve had two incidents in the last week that have me a bit creeped out and I’m hoping you can help me figure out if I’m being paranoid. About a week ago around 11pm, I was in my backyard and clearly heard what sounded like a woman singing. The sound was coming straight from my neighbor’s yard, and it honestly spooked me pretty badly. I ran off and when I came back the sound was gone. Then tonight I went outside again and saw a flashing red light coming from their backyard. I tried to get a closer look, but then I saw what looked like a person (or something) moving in the distance. I noped out of there real quick 😂 Some extra context: I moved in about a year ago. I always assumed their house was either vacant or occupied by an older person/family because the yard and exterior are pretty run-down and unkempt. In all this time I’ve never once seen anyone actually living there, just gardeners who come by occasionally.

Need a sanity check from the BBQ pros here. Yesterday I smoked a brisket to 193, then put it into a holding oven set to 150 around 3:30pm.

Apparently the oven has an auto shutoff I didn’t know about, and it turned off at 3:30am. I checked the brisket at 7:20am and temps were reading anywhere from 127–140 depending on where I probed.

I immediately put it back into the holding oven at 165. Was that the right move? Think it’s still safe to eat?