Where's the switch?!

In My Humble Opinion
1

On the heels of this question over in MPSIMS, I posit the opposite query.

On the exterior of my house, under the eaves on the corner of the house near the spare bedroom expansion, is a double flood light. One light points towards the south, one towards the east. It should be noted that there are bedroom windows right where they are pointed.

They don’t turn on. There is no switch that we’ve found that controls them. There is no visible motion-detector attached to them. We’ve switched out the bulbs for (tested) fresh ones, and haven’t gotten them to light up out there.

I suspect they were security lights aimed at trying to prevent peepers from checking out the bedroom, or from being burgled. But I don’t have any idea why they don’t work. My little pen circuit detector doesn’t beep when I push it into the socket, but I don’t trust that to be accurate at all.

So, Teeming Millions, what the hell’s going on?

2

Is it hard wired in? Maybe the breaker box has a switch.

Maybe it was on a timer and the timer is disconnected.

3

Maybe the people whose bedroom windows they’re pointed at complained vehemently enough that the switch was removed to prevent their being used. The switch might well have been easier to get at than the lights themselves.

Old houses often have electrical things of one sort or other that are no longer in use; sometimes the wiring to them has been removed or disconnected but the disused item is still there.

(Whether your lights are actually disconnected I don’t know. I wouldn’t count on it.)