We were all sat have or tea last night (dinner for those who don’t speak Northern) when we heard a bump and the sound of breaking glass from upstairs. An ornament had fallen over and toppled a large cylindrical candle. The candle had then rolled about 18” along the top of a chest of drawers and off the end onto the bed side table below, hitting a very expensive Venetian glass table lamp which is now in eight pieces (note to self – must get super glue from Tesco on the way home). Nobody was in the room. No windows were open.

Also things frequently fall off the shelves in my under stairs tool lair when nobody is anywhere near it.

Picking up and sorting a box of 800 assorted sized woodscrews is bad enough, but repairing a glass lampshade is going to be a right PITA.

How very, very odd. Anybody else suffer from this sort of nonsense?

I blame this man.

See what he looks like now he’s all grown up?

You might want to keep the kids away from the telly for a bit mate

We have a similar problem with our ‘house guest’ turning the radio on in the kitchen. Thought it was maybe just a fault with the radio, but its now been replaced with a new ipod dock and its still happened since

I once dropped in on a neighbour and noted the make and model of his TV. I then bought one of those multi-use remote control things and occasionally walk pass his house and change the channel for him.

lol

I presume you are familiar with the broken telly and the parrot story?

sounds like yer common-or-garden demonic presence to me.
It might also explain the recent behaviour of your first-born.

something like this in your back bedroom is bound to knock a few knick-knacks over

You have ornaments?

And people call ME middle class? (I’m not, btw)

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We were all sat have or tea last night (dinner for those who don’t speak Northern)

We understand the word tea. We tend to have it around 4pm, with a nice scone.

Anyway, get that stupid ghost hunters tv program around. They might pay you some cash to film in your house with the lights out.

I presume you are familiar with the broken telly and the parrot story?

no, do tell

don’t cross the streams ray

Sounds like an Alan Partidge style programme suggestion

Monkey Tennis?!
Ghost-Hunting with Harry the Spider?!
Cooking in Prison?!

It might also explain the recent behaviour of your first-born.

The second one has started to display some signs of disturbing behavior too.

Yep, we have one specific part of the kitchen where weird stuff happens, normally around 10:30pm every few months or so. Plus stuff goes missing and reappears in totally out of the way places. And lights come on upstairs.

We do live in a 400yr old house though.

According to the story (but this could all be horlicks) when TV remotes first came out some used ultrasound. One family had endless trouble with the telly turning itself on and off randomly and changing channels. They had engineers out and replacement sets lots of times. In the end they realised it was their pet parrot listening to and mimicking the ultrasound – cos they can hear and talk that high apparently.

Tis true. A friend of the family had to move their budgie to another room because it learned to make the CLICK-CLICK noise of a 1970s pop-a-matic channel changer.

Plus stuff goes missing and reappears in totally out of the way places

Yip, that happens to my spanners, allen keys etc while I’m working on my bike

What absolute twoddle.

All I can say is; all ghosty whosty type things must be really dull.

If I was a ghost, I’d be robbin’ your Peroni and ordering stuff on t’internet – cases of wine, pron and that. I certainly wouldn’t be rolling candles onto glass lamps. How very, very dull.

Either your house is on a rift line or:

Derek – Have you ever thought of setting up a business now, in anticipation of slipping your mortal coil, where you could take bookings to carry out the afore-mentioned work from beyond the grave?

Rentaghost?

You need to read about Richard Feynman and The Supernatural Clock before y’all go jumping to conclusions:

http://www.brew-wood.co.uk/physics/feynman.htm#clock

Mice? They love candles, the urine soaked little cuties.
It’s been proper warm too, could it have melted a bit in the sunlight and just fell over?

Alternatively, if there are any feathers around, it could be a poltergoose.

Hope this helps.

if there are any feathers around, it could be a poltergoose.

Thanks, you just made coffee come out of my nose.

“According to the story (but this could all be horlicks) when TV remotes first came out some used ultrasound.”

Might be true. My parents tell me that my Fisher Price activity centre used to change the channel on their TV. This would’ve been the early 80s.

Seeing as I’ve now got the theme tune to rentaghost stuck in my head because of you, I sort of hope you ARE haunted. 🙂

Tis true. A friend of the family had to move their budgie to another room because it learned to make the CLICK-CLICK noise of a 1970s pop-a-matic channel changer.

Fairly impressive for a bird to learn to produce an ultrasonic noise….

It wasn’t ultrasonic. It was a CLICK-CLICK noise. Clapping your hands or banging the table had the same effect.

The **** budgie just went CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK right up to the moment when they shoved it in the back room.

Maybe the Parrot has some castanets?

Fairly impressive for a bird to learn to produce an ultrasonic noise

Really?

Fairly impressive for a bird to learn to produce an ultrasonic noise
Really?

Rubbish, I’ve made loadsa birds produce a high pitched noise, if you know what I mean, eh eh?

@ransos – did your folk have a Fisher Price TV?

That would explain the compatibility between it and your activity centre.

HTH

I know what you mean CM. I was tonking a bird in her parent’s pub – in the bar after hours. When she let rip, she wrote off the whole top shelf and all the glasses except those dimpled pint glasses.

Also things frequently fall off the shelves in my under stairs tool lair when nobody is anywhere near it

I have that to but rather than supernatural shenanigans it’s more to do with the fact that the previous owner couldn’t mount a shelf straight to save his life (and I’m too lazy to correct all his screwups) Mind you it must be said my house’s previous owners were diy gods compared to some ex-house owners I could think of…

Bradley Wiggins looks like he’s got Fisher Price Hair. I don’t know if he can change channels with it though

Thanks for the link Spin, that won’t waste my afternoon!

It wasn’t ultrasonic. It was a CLICK-CLICK noise. Clapping your hands or banging the table had the same effect

I had a “remote “control”” car that used this system. It came with a gun that made a loud CLACK when you managed to overcome the enormous resistance of its trigger. The car went where the **** it wanted and I ended up with vibration white finger.

When she let rip, she wrote off the whole top shelf and all the glasses except those dimpled pint glasses.

I have that problem sometimes