For those of you who don’t know the original story, please read a little about the strange things occuring in my apartment. I have an update of sorts. Something ‘new’ happened last night and I am officially starting to get a little spooked to say the least.
I was out in the living room laying on the couch after putting the kids to bed. I had a little headache so I was just relaxing with the lights off. All of a sudden I hear *click* *click* *click* over and over again. It’s coming from the Kitchen and while I couldn’t see, it was obvious to me that it sounded just like the switch to the coffee maker.
I got up to investigate and sure enough, the coffee maker was turned on with no water in it. Now, I know I wasn’t making coffee and my boyfriend had left to go out about a half an hour beforehand. He only drinks coffee in the morning and that’s on occasion. I’m really starting to get the creeps now. Anyone want to give me a rational explanation for this? Pretty please?
October 20th, 2007 - 12:10 pm
No rational explanation. A stupid one, though, that’s suppose to make you roll your eyes and smirk: maybe the ghosts were tired and wanted some coffee.
October 20th, 2007 - 12:38 pm
cardiogirl:
Well, I certainly didn’t need any coffee after that. I was able to stay nice and alert for hours…. when I should have been sleeping peacefully. Now I am exhausted and the kids are wide awake. I guess it’s time for some ghost coffee!
October 20th, 2007 - 2:25 pm
It seems like you have an other-worldly prankster on your hands.
I had an experience while driving a van full of balloons to a kid’s birthday. I was working a florist delivery job during college and had happened to be delivering to some funeral homes that day. (FYI - if you buy flowers for the deceased, don’t spend money on stuff that has those pretty, pollen-covered buds - the funeral director cuts them off to keep pollen off the deceased.) One of the funeral home “clients” decided to go on my next delivery with me - this I am convinced.
I’m driving along and all of a sudden, 50 balloons start bouncing on their little sand weights around like crazy. WTF came to mind, but it continued with increasing vigor. I pulled into the next open turn lane, hit the brakes hard and yelled “STOP!” It stopped. I freaked. They/it never came back.
From then on, I always kind of hoped they would come back. This sounds crazy, but talk to it. You might be surprised at the results.
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October 20th, 2007 - 2:41 pm
pete:
I have talked to it and even gotten angry and snapped at it… it makes me feel like I’m about 30 seconds away from becoming one of those people you see walking down the street talking to themselves…
October 20th, 2007 - 2:59 pm
don’t talk to it. If you do, it’ll just make you buy more coffee! *lol*
btw, it’s now 11:05pm here. almost midnight. akkk!
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October 20th, 2007 - 3:54 pm
Marni:
Trust me, if it is an entity with the capacity for intelligence, it knows I have coffee. The two jumbo sized canisters sitting next to the maker are just the tip of the iceberg. I have more coffee hidden away that I’ve been hording in case I run out.
No, I’m not obsessed much…. I. need. coffee. to. live.
Thanks for stopping by!
October 20th, 2007 - 4:31 pm
To quote from Ghostbusters, “Generally you don’t see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.”
The rational explanation is, of course, that somebody else, living that is, in your house turned it on by accident or on purpose. My son has done that kind of thing and wouldn’t always own up to doing it.
There was an interesting “buying a haunted house” story on MSN’s real estate section yesterday. The people in that story found a way to calm down their ghosts, mainly the same way Pete did, telling them to stop it.
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October 20th, 2007 - 6:03 pm
Frank C:
That’s what has me so wound up about this, that there was no one who could have done it because my two toddlers were sleeping in their cribs and my boyfriend wasn’t home at the time this happened.
October 20th, 2007 - 7:11 pm
Try burning sage. That’s all I got left.
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October 20th, 2007 - 7:28 pm
I’d be so out of there. Do you have any history of the house from the Realtor? Maybe you need to get a priest to scare the spirits away
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October 20th, 2007 - 7:46 pm
I’d give up drinking coffee, perhaps? Sounds creepy though.
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October 20th, 2007 - 7:47 pm
pete:
Sage? Never heard of using Sage. Hmmmmm… Any idea what it’s supposed to do?
October 20th, 2007 - 7:49 pm
Rolando:
It’s a fairly new apartment building and as far as I can tell there aren’t any ancient indian burial grounds underneath. If things get any more freaky, I’m going to want to hightail it out of here too!
October 20th, 2007 - 11:14 pm
mikster:
I’ll take on the entire underworld before I gave up my coffee… seriously. I’d go hunt down the devil before I’d allow that to happen.
October 21st, 2007 - 1:38 am
Supposedly clears out negative energy. It’s worth a try. Check this out:
http://www.bizhostnet.com/us734827/metaphysics/whiteSage.html
You can probably buy it from the local hippie store or whole foods-type market.
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October 21st, 2007 - 3:01 am
The switch is the clicking type? Could the circuit have been short somehow?
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October 21st, 2007 - 7:14 am
Ignore it and it’ll go away! Be warned…it will know if you are thinking about it!
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October 21st, 2007 - 7:40 am
Burning sage is “a ritual to cleanse and purify… from the Native American tradition.” The ritual is called smudging. http://www.yoni.com/healerf/smudge.shtml
Maybe you could at least find someone like that Yoni to do a “spiritual housecleaning” before you have to go and move out. That’s such a hassle. I’d be freaking out, though! My positive thoughts are with you.
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October 21st, 2007 - 9:34 am
Q: Where do baby ghosts go during the day?
A: Dayscare centers.
Q: Where do ghosts buy their food?
A: At the ghost-ery store.
Q: Where do ghosts mail their letters?
A: At the ghost office.
Q: What’s a ghosts favorite fruit?
A: Boo-berries.
Q: What are little ghosts dressed in when it rains ?
A: Boo-ts and ghoul-oshes !
Q: What do you call a prehistoric ghost ?
A: A terror-dactyl !
Q: What is a ghost’s favourite day of the week ?
A: Frightday !
Q: What should you say when you meet a ghost?
A: How do you boo ?
Q: When do ghosts usually appear ?
A: Just before someone screams !
Q: What kind of cars do ghosts drive?
A: Boo-icks.
Q: What is the most used question a ghost ask to another?
A: Do you believe in people?
Q: What did the little ghost have in his rock collection?
A: Tombstones
Q: Who protects the shores where spirits live?
A: The Ghost Guard!
Q: What do ghosts mail home while on vacation?
A: Ghostcards.
Q: What did the boy ghost say to the girl ghost?
A: You look so boo-tiful tonight.
Q: What’s a ghost’s favorite breakfast?
A: Ghost toasties with boo-berries, Scream of Wheat or Dreaded wheat !
And most important :
Q: What do ghosts drink at breakfast?
A: Coffee with scream and sugar.
and
Q: What time is it when a ghost haunts your house?
A: Time to move to a new house!
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October 21st, 2007 - 11:35 am
I still have to share my story looking at this post reminded me that I did not share on your first entry. Gah!
In regards to what is going on I’ll ask my father he was a electrical engineer and perhaps he can give a logical explanation of why this might happen. For the life of me I cannot think of a logical reason though.
I did have an unplugged radio turn on before. I was a teenager. There weren’t any batteries in it either. Strange!
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October 21st, 2007 - 1:03 pm
pete:
Thanks for the link. It’s certainly something I will look into.
October 21st, 2007 - 1:08 pm
WaterLearner:
The button (switch) was in the on position… a short would have just caused it to start regardless of the switch’s position, right?
October 21st, 2007 - 1:56 pm
Bobby Revell:
back when I used to ignore it because I didn’t realize what was going on, these sorts of things happened a lot more than they are now. I think it was getting angry that I was ignoring it or something.
October 21st, 2007 - 2:03 pm
Sherril:
You have no idea how utterly stupid I feel even looking into this stuff. I feel like I may as well start sprinkling salt in my doorways and stepping over cracks in the sidewalk if I am going to go down this path.
What to do, what to do….
Moving out is so not an option for me right now. I am broke and it’s not that bad (yet) that I would break my lease. *sigh*
October 21st, 2007 - 2:04 pm
Valentin:
I think I had a joke book when I was in third grade with some of those in there
Thanks for lightening the mood.
October 21st, 2007 - 2:07 pm
Opal Tribble:
Unplugged radio with no batteries turning on? Oh yeah, now THAT is freaking scary!
October 21st, 2007 - 7:12 pm
RE: looking into stuff you don’t really believe in to pacify your possible ghost - can’t hurt, might help is the way I’d look at it.
I just had a thought. I know I don’t know you very well yet, but this whole thing would be a good Halloween scam to play on all of us, wouldn’t it?
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October 21st, 2007 - 7:32 pm
Email me and I can help you with this, seriously, I have experience getting rid of my own ghosts. I may sound off my rocker, but oh well. 99% of the time you can get rid of this type of thing. My email is bloggerchristyz@gmail.com if you need some help.
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October 21st, 2007 - 9:05 pm
Sherril:
Nope, I save all my fiction for my short stories. No tall tales here.
October 21st, 2007 - 9:07 pm
Christy:
I remember now that you wrote about this once! I will definitely have to email you sometime. I’m not quite sure I want to be rid of it before I know what it is though…. I really just want to know what it is!
October 21st, 2007 - 10:31 pm
It could be the Earth’s magnetic field being bombarded with solar radiation which, because of the macro “Fung Shwei” misalignment of an improperly arranged neighborhood in relation your area’s “dark matter” spherical geometric overlay, is exuding theoretical anti-matter based energy spike implosions.
Ha ha ha ha…LOL!!!!! I made it up:)
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October 21st, 2007 - 11:23 pm
Bobby Revell:
There is this game called Balderdash where you make up the meanings of obscure words and try and trick people into thinking it’s the real meaning. I bet you’d be great at it!
October 22nd, 2007 - 12:26 pm
It sounds like a ghost, or maybe even more than one….yikes.
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October 22nd, 2007 - 1:52 pm
Christy:
One is more than enough, thanks
October 23rd, 2007 - 3:42 pm
We have a television that turns on by itself at times. We will go out for the day and come home to find the television on. We joke that the cats get bored but we know the TV has a timer built into it and that it must be faulty. Never happens when the tv is unplugged.
I wonder if your coffee maker has a faulty timer like our television? Or it’s possible it had been left on by someone but nobody noticed until you went to bed and that you noticed it then only because that is when the house was quiet so you could hear it. I know I wouldn’t hear something like that during the day with two toddlers in the house.
Just a thought.
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October 23rd, 2007 - 3:49 pm
teeni:
The switch was flipped on with no filter and no water anywhere in the coffee maker when I found it.