Down here there are literally thousands of blinking, beeping and flashing lights…
Kids can hear better than anyone, they could have sniffed out the problem in no time.
I hear noises and go to the source but yet it seems to be somewhere else…I usually have great hearing but I guess, getting old!
Aside from having to reset every electronic item in the house?
ooooo the deviousness!!
This one for sure. :D:D (Best reply yet)
Just imagine how many conspiracy theorists there are on here, you’ve just gave them another one!! :smack::smack:
Since this zombie got revived I am going to point out that the current smoke detectors have a five year life (FIVE). Not the battery; the alarm itself. So if you put in new batteries it does not stop the beeping (as I learned, sitting on top of our tallest stepladder at three in the morning while my husband was out of town). You have to replace the whole thing. We have 8 in our house which we moved into when it was brand new, six years ago.
Yes, they have now all been replaced. Not cheap either. By the way, you can’t really buy new alarms at three in the morning, and even if you could, the clip that holds the plug that holds the alarm can only be unclipped by someone smarter (and taller) than I am. My cats spent the rest of the night staring at me with the “make it stop” look on their tiny furry faces. I finally discovered the alarms were all on one circuit breaker so I flipped it and got blessed silence.
Had a similar situation recently. I kept hearing a beep in the house. Like you I checked the usual suspects, moving room to room and checking the smoke alarms, the various bits of the security system, the fridge and other appliances. If I was upstairs checking bedrooms, it sounded like the beep was right there! If I went downstairs, again it sounded like it was right there! But I could not find a source to save my life. I’d walk into a room and hear a beep. I’d be looking at everything in the room but find nothing. We have a large home, 6 bedrooms and 3 floors. I walked the whole house repeatedly trying to find this beep. I was the only one home and I honestly thought I was going crazy.
The one thing I never checked? Our little dog’s collar. She has a barking collar and the battery had gotten low. So as I’m walking around the house, looking at smoke alarms and electronics the little shit was following me around room to room and floor to floor with occassional beeps emitting from her collar. I’m sure if she could talk she would have said “HEY IDIOT! MAKE THIS DAMN COLLAR STOP BEEPING BEFORE I LOSE MY TINY DOGGIE MIND!!”
I blame my wife for buying the damn collars.
Last night, about 01:40, I heard a ‘beep-beep’ every 45 seconds. I tried to ignore it and go back to sleep. Then I wondered if it was my car. Did I remember to turn it off? Is it on, and happily running down the battery? Got out of bed and went to the living room. ‘Beep-beep.’ Not the car. It’s in the living room. I determined it was coming from my wife’s mobile phone. I couldn’t figure out why it was beep-beeping, nor how to make it stop. Since I’d solved the mystery, I just went back to bed.
‘Beep-beep.’ Forty-five seconds. ‘Beep-beep.’ OK, I’m going to take that phone and shove it down the chair cushion. As I’m doing that, I hear the beeping again. It’s not the mobile phone. I’m looking around on the table beside the chair to see what may be making the sound. ‘Beep-beep.’ Aha! It’s the cordless phone indicating it needs to be recharged. I put it in its station, and the problem was solved.
The Wife rarely puts the cordless phone back in its station. I’m never around when it warns its battery is almost dead – except, now that I think of it, one time, quite a long time ago. Long enough that I didn’t recognise the sound.
A double zombie thread. This is a first for me.
The zombies are beeping…
I was drifting in and out of sleep somewhere around 4 a.m. this morning when I heard a beep.
Or was that really a beep? Wait 10 seconds…20 seconds…BEEP
Do I really want to get out of bed and go search for the offending smoke detector? Yep, gotta do it if I am going to get back to sleep. Find new battery - check. Get up on footstool to remove old battery from detector - check. Insert new battery into detector - check. BEEP Damn, it isn’t working. Try to remove and reinsert new battery…battery cover is now stuck. Locate screwdriver to pry open battery cover and reinsert battery. FINALLY, blessed silence.
I go back to bed, only to have the lollapalooza of nightmares involving an item of Mrs. J.'s jewelry that was supposed to arrive in her dessert as a surprise (don’t ask), but accidentally gets thrown in the restaurant trash, leading to the prospect of my having to go through two enormous bags of restaurant waste to recover it. :eek::smack:
Not a restful night.
What kind of light bulbs do you have, some bulbs beep when dying. I have LED tubes in my kitchen and my last dog refuse to go into the kitchen b/c a bulb was dying . It could me awhile to realize what was driving my hearing dog nuts .
As long as this thread has had new batteries installed…
My husband and I live in a house that was built in 1977. It was one of the higher-end neighborhoods at the time, so has quite a few bells and whistles from the period.
Which includes smoke detectors wired into the house circuitry. No need for batteries, right? Except that they do have a beeper to tell you when the detector has reached the end of it’s useful life. One of the detectors died a couple of years ago, and Bob removed it. Now we have the other one going out. All we need is for one of us to get off our duffs and remove the damn thing.
Here’s a really weird one, and I swear I’m not crazy. I hear a single beep, and when I go the spot where it’s coming from, it moves. When I go to that spot, it moves again, sometimes to another room. It can beep right next to me, and when I look for the source, it beeps across the room. It’s like it’s messing with me. Same thing happens when others try it. All electronic devices are unplugged. No smoke alarms, watches, not anything. There’s more: The beep used to stop when we quit trying to find it. Now it’s every 10 seconds or so. We have no rational explanation, so we’ve started calling it the poltergeist. Yeah, I know.
Do zombies beep every time they’re awakened? 
When I lived in my old house, there was a smoke detector in the basement stairwell that had been installed by a previous owner. In time, the battery ran low, and because it was in a place where I couldn’t reach it (and I am not good with ladders), I put up with the intermittent beeping until I hired a co-worker’s husband to paint that area and do some other work on my house. He took the smoke detector down, and I replaced the battery and placed it in an area where it was easier to access and still be useful for that part of the house.
We had a beeper for years. More like a bird tweet really. We were so used to it we quit hearing it. Others coming in the house would hear it right away. Asking, what is that noise or checking their phones.
When I had to buy a new fridge it solved the problem. It was the ice maker in the fridge. No more bird tweets in the house. I was kinda sad to lose it:(
The ones that got me were when the boys were young, they’d get toy trucks with sound effects. Middle of the night, the pile would shift in the toy box and one would start with the sirens or engine rumbles or whatever noise they made. We had one go off recently which no one had touched in months. (We kept some for when babysitting.)
Oh, God we had a Furby that would start making demon noises in the middle of the night. The lil’wrekker was scared shitless of that thing.
I got rid of it in a gruesome manner. I didn’t want to donate it and cause trauma to some innocent kid.
About the Annoy-a-tron - - -
I bought one, and pranked a few people at work. It went well, and having several different groups spread out over 3 floors, everybody was good humored and kept the secret. Then I placed it in a guys office, and a couple days later the help desk people are at my desk, asking where it is. It seems the guy put in a trouble ticket, with them and the facilities guys. He’d called in everyone he could think of to solve his problem. He didn’t know what the “problem” was, but he wanted someone else to fix it. He was just that sort of guy.
Choose your targets well.
Some sounds can be quite directional. Devices that emit short, infrequent beeps can easily (and unintentionally) appear to be coming from one direction when the real direction is otherwise. Most of this can be traced to human expectations and simple sound reflections.
Not long ago, I heard the telltale beeping in my office of a smoke detector with a low battery. I listened for several cycles, and gradually zeroed in to a ceiling-mounted device in the hall. After listening to it for a while to confirm, I got a stepladder, climbed up, and removed the battery.
But the beeping continued. The source was eventually traced to a pile of spare, unused smoke detectors in an adjacent room, which I didn’t even know was there.
Moral of the story…remove the battery if you are storing an unused device, and don’t assume that a sound is coming from where it first appears, no matter how certain you may be.
We had our smoke alarm go off for about 3 seconds at 2 am the other day. Randomly, no smoke. It did its job and woke us both up c/w elevated heart rates.
I’m not sure the alarm at 2 am is better or worse than battery low beeping…
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