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Can I tell you about the weird thing that happened at my house the other night?

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Jul 25 '12, 10:07

It was the night before last. Very hot outside and ultimately had some serious storms. At about 4:30 in the morning the doorbell rings. In our house the doorbell actually rings our phone (you get 3 short rings to distinguish it from a regular call. You can then answer the phone and talk to whoever's at the door). Of course it's always freaky when the phone rings in the middle of the night, but weirder when it's the doorbell. My dog, of course, jumps up and starts running in circles around the room with a tennis ball in his mouth (because there is nothing in the world more exciting than when somebody is at the door). My wife finally answers the phone and there's nobody there. She hangs up and 10 seconds later it rings again. And this time the radio on my clock radio suddenly turns on and the digital time display starts blinking. You would think power surge or brief outage, but nothing else in the room or the house was affected. This happened 3 or 4 more times. We actually have a camera in the vestibule by the front door so you can see who's there, so I turn on the tv and there is nobody there. Finally after 4 or 5 times total it stops. My dog is freaking out and we kind of are too. We finally all settle back down and about 10 minutes later it all repeats. The phone ringing for the door, the clock radio going off, nobody on the camera, dog running around the room. Again it happens 4 or 5 times straight and then stops. I can't for the life of me figure out what happened. As I said, it would be a weird set of circumstances for a power surge. And if it was a short in the system of some kind you wouldn't expect it to suddenly start working again. Of course after this it's almost impossible to fall back asleep. I actually had a hard time even closing my eyes. Finally at about 6 a huge storm hits and my dog decides he needs to go out. My wife takes him downstairs and lets him in the back yard, and finds the back gate open. Personally I think it was blown open by the 50 mph winds, but still weird. I can't figure it all out. I'm beginning to think ghosts.

Responses:

open the box - JenBro Jul 25, 14:31
I would totally be creeped out, but considering the storm and what not it's probably nothing. - musubi Jul 25, 10:36
those analog low voltage systems get of whack pretty easily. could have moisture could have been connecting a relay and causing a false button press. - colin Jul 25, 10:33
You're either in a Spielberg movie, or whoever installed your security system... - Old Antarctic Explorer Jul 25, 10:27
Solar flare? I thought I saw something from another friend of mine on Facebook about basically the same time of day - oblique Jul 25, 10:25 3
- There are many ways a sword might find itself in a field -- nm - CQ Jul 25, 10:30 1
  - Election day -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 10:33
- Aliens -- nm - decline Jul 25, 10:25
This is *awesome*. -- nm - Mop (199 lbs) Jul 25, 10:24
Paranormal Activity 5 - Monocle Diaries -- nm - Epiphany Jul 25, 10:23
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Aliens -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 25, 10:15
did you happen to receive a strange unopened box in the mail from prayformojo? -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 10:11
yeah, that would freak me out. -- nm - Andie Jul 25, 10:10
you don't have an unopened box in your attic left byehind by the previous owners, do you? -- nm - znufrii Jul 25, 10:10 9
- No, but what was also weird is that when we looked on the tv there was a box sitting by the front door. - pmb Jul 25, 10:13 8
  - The box didn't want to be left on the door step any longer. -- nm - Mop (199 lbs) Jul 25, 10:22
  - quick! See if "Restoration Hardware" is an anagram for something sinister! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 25, 10:14 6
    - ("Restoration Hardware" totally sounds like something out of a Stephen King story) -- nm - prayformojo Jul 25, 10:18 1
      - it's the F'n CIA man! Wake up! -- nm - Mother Jul 25, 10:19
    - senior arrowhead tart -- nm - znufrii Jul 25, 10:17
    - "A Warhead Terrorist - No!" -- nm - Andie Jul 25, 10:16 1
      - does it blare righteous AC/DC tunes? 'cos that I'd be OK with -- nm - prayformojo Jul 25, 10:18
    - To narrowest diarrhea -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 10:15
wow, that's eerie -- nm - prayformojo Jul 25, 10:08 3
- (listen to the professional.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 10:09 2
  - (hee.) the dog is my favorite part. -- nm - b. Jul 25, 10:38 1
    - " because there is nothing in the world more exciting than when somebody is at the door). " -- nm - Epiphany Jul 25, 10:39

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