It’s my first Moanday off on my new schedule. It has begun with the bedroom TV turning itself on 6 times within 30-ish minutes. WTF???
I’ve never really liked this TV anyway and now it’s giving me a reason to toss it.
Yeah, yeah, happy Moanday…
Hmm–try pulling the blinds close.
It will block an infrared signal.
We used to have a possessed PC; leave it on something like a word processor, pop out the room shutting the door, and when you came back there’d be a couple of extra letters and numbers you didn’t write cue spooky music.
And no, we didn’t have a cat. It never wrote anything that looked like a word.
Yet again, I’m sitting in waiting for this stoopit parcel, due in around an hour. It’s a different delivery guy today, hopefully it’s the guy who’s been here before. Place bets now!
I dunno if I mentioned it, but the depot it’s been in since Thursday is only 15 minutes away. Last time I got stuff from them, I wound up going round and getting it myself, but for some reason they no longer appear to allow that.
I should be heading off to play with my tiny plants, but I’m going to have to go late.
Or try putting the remote on the nightstand instead of rolling over it on the mattress. :smack: 
Our house sits on a 3-acre lot and our bedroom faces the wooded back yard, which is fenced. I’m pretty sure no one is sneaking into our yard to screw with our TV, and the nearest houses are well beyond the range of a TV remote. If it was a garage door remote, you’d expect the TV to be turning on all the time, but it doesn’t - just randomly, but never repeatedly like this morning.
The only logical explanation is demon possession!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
ETA - the remote IS in the nightstand, facing away from the TV. It’s demons. I tells ya!
There is another remote.
Happy Moonday!
It’s a cloudy 30 degrees outside, predicted high of 37.
I didn’t want to get up this morning, I’s sleepy still.
Once when I was pet sitting, I was in the client’s basement family room watching TV with the dogs. When I came upstairs, the upstairs TV was on. Kind of freaked me out because I knew other people had keys to the house and I didn’t know if somebody else had been there. After it happened a few more times I figured out that the downstairs remote would turn on the upstairs TV. Why it didn’t turn it off? My clients had just bought two new TVs that were the same model, and sometimes the remotes would affect both sets.
When I lived in the spooky house in Baltimore sometimes when I’d leave the room for something the TV would switch to a different channel.
I went through a time when I was in my teens when lights and clocks wouldn’t work around me. My lights would come on in the middle of the night, my mother would turn them off and then ask me why I was sleeping with the light on. I wasn’t leaving the light on. I gave up having a clock in my room. They’d stop working, until I gave them away, then they worked fine. Same thing with lamps, come on at random with me, worked fine for other people.
So another week starts.
Good Morning Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 47 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 71 for the day. I shall take puter in to find out what is wrong with it. Whatever it is will be the worst thing possible I am sure.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
I used to have a mysteriously flushing toilet. The ex finally fixed it. It’s raining and upper 40s today. I don’t have much to do at irk. And I don’t care.
Anything else on the nightstand you might access in a semi-comatose state? Was the clock-radio alarm set for 3am & you just didn’t gain enough consciousness to remember turning it off? (Have you tried meditating to gain greater consciousness?) Any of the critters in there with you last night?
Have you suddenly gained the ability to get a 360° view of the room, Linda? :eek:
When I was a young Bug Eyed Monster, mutter-mutter years ago, my parents TV had a remote that worked on sound. Turns out that the bells that attach to the infants shoelaces matched the frequency, so any time their little sprout kicked his feet, the TV would start changing channels.
Sahirrnee, my father worked in a location that had the distinction of having the locally generated power come in at 63Hz. Special motors on the clocks were required.
I’ve never had a possessed TV that turned itself on. But this morning I was listening to the radio, and they were talking about all sorts of AI devices that people have, and that they’ll have in the future. Stuff like Alexa and other voice-activated things. I was thinking, “Who needs all this junk?”
Besides, I mumble and stutter so much that I’d be bad at activating things with my voice. (Though I did manage to work my conductor’s Google Home, and in French.)
My daughter’s alarm clock radio sometimes turns itself on randomly. It’s eerie to just randomly hear static coming from another room. It doesn’t do it often, and she loves her princess clock… so I think it’s sticking around.
It’s 36 and rainy today… that cold, miserably, barely-not-snow kind of rain that freezes and makes black ice everywhere. I wish I were still in bed.
MRI is scheduled, but they couldn’t get me in until January 24 since they need to do one with contrast and they only do that first thing in the morning. Actually, they could have gotten me in earlier that week, but it was the one morning that I have early meetings I can’t miss. Well, whatever it is, it had better not kill me in the next two and a half weeks.
For 5 of the 6 times, I was awake, playing a stupid game on my tablet, and no, the tablet doesn’t turn the TV on and off. No critters in the room - we lock them out. Nothing being touched accidentally. Everyone else in the house was asleep - even Roxy.
It’s demons, I tells ya!!! DEMONS!!!
Since I’m already well down the page lets start with one from last week.
Naaaah ----- I try to live my life cling free.
OK ------- now that I have that out of my system
I am not saying you are claiming this to be beyond the veil but … we have had some odd situations with electrical things over the years but I don’t rate those as paranormal the way I do some more physical events. One that crossed the line though was actually the first day we moved here. The two of us and two hunting buddies of mine were taking a break when the phone started ringing. Problem was it wasn’t plugged in to anything so where was the juice coming from? This is like 1982 and an old-style phone even by the standards of the day. It rang a few times, we all basically stared at it, it stopped and we all laughed. It rang again and my one buddy picked it up and said hello; it was dead of course. We all still laughed but wrote it off as really odd. Over the years, once a few more things happened, in retrospect, I just wonder …
Have FCD stop by the local shop and buy some Gremlin Bells to hide around the house? Its worked darn well on the Road Kow.
To be clear - I don’t suspect paranormal involvement with my idiot TV. I’m sure there’s a perfectly logical explanation. I’m just ticked off at being awakened on my day off. Stoopit TV.
But it *could *be DEMONS!!!
Since TVs have been mentioned a few times ------ back when the Old Wench was young they had an old tube set that would turn on/off or change channels by itself; rarely but it happened. It was a cheap model and never had a remote; just those physical knobs you had to turn. It was still in the attic of her folks place when we were cleaning it out. We did NOT keep it but that was mostly because it didn’t work at all anymore.
Look ------ you marry someone whose last name is “Ghost”, you have to accept some things and just move on.
Wait --------- I have it all figured out! Given where you live and the fact that you know Doggio ------ it is those darn New Jersey Devils!!!
Do ya have to Shout[sup]®[/sup] about it?
But, but, but, she’s in Merrylande, which is much closer to where the ::shudder:: Washington Senators are. (I mean the scary idjits in Congress, not the baseball players). :eek: