the Smell of Death

yes this is the aroma in my house.

I took out the trash, washed the rags, bleached the kitchen and bathrooms, all to no avail.

Last week while i was home alone one night i heard loud noises down stairs. I stood in my family room and continued to hear a loud scuttle above my head which proceeded to move all over the ceiling.

A bird?

nope much bigger.

a fallen tree?

nope too skittish.

the boogie man?

highly unlikely.

I went outside armed with a flashlight and giggled nervously thinking how i'd explain my logic when my hubby found me half eaten my an R.O.U.S.

As it turned out the noises stopped and i never saw a thing.

A week later no noises

Just an awful stench.

My theories?

A large family of rats or possums duked it out and then died.

of course it also could have been...

a murderer who hid his victim's remains in the walls of my home

(My dad read Edgar Allen Poe to me as a child...I'm still scarred obviously)

Either way,

my house smells like death.

Is there a Febreeze for this?