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Post by BSJ on Jul 19, 2017 20:21:29 GMT
Nope. Copyright bullshit.
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 19, 2017 20:42:18 GMT
Well, I guess I'll have to give up.
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Post by BSJ on Jul 19, 2017 20:43:58 GMT
I get a lot of those.
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Post by unomusette on Jul 19, 2017 20:44:13 GMT
I'm not a big horror fan so I won't watch a whole hour of it, but it seems to be playing OK in the UK
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Post by eloneen on Jul 20, 2017 0:53:42 GMT
Here's my best scary/funny experience from 30 years ago. I was living alone for the first time, working in my first teaching job in another state. Since my parents had also recently moved, it was really convenient for all of us for me to take some of their old furniture. My grandmother had passed away a couple of years before and had also left me some furniture, as well as her gigantic 1970s Zenith television with all kinds of features that were cutting edge at the time. I gladly accepted it all and fully furnished my apartment with it. I was fine until one day I came home from work and the TV was on. I was very surprised/scared, and just told myself that maybe I had left it on, even though I knew I hadn't watched it in days. I secretly worried that maybe some employee of the apartment complex with a master key had come into the apartment and had watched my TV. (Why? Who knows? People can be weird.) I felt like Goldilocks. This happened a few more times, and it was very unsettling. Then, most frightening of all, it started to come on occasionally during the night while I was asleep. You can imagine how creepy this was, to be 22 years old and living on my own for the first time and trying to deal with this weird situation without seeming like a silly little kid afraid of her own shadow. I kept this all to myself. The first few times it came on at night, I just froze and did nothing until daylight. Then I just got up and turned it off once or twice. Then it happened one time when I was in the living room, right where the TV was, and I knew for sure that it did not come from some other person in my apartment- which deep down, I knew anyway. It came on and then went off on its own. After talking with some people about it (finally), I figured out that it was probably a neighbor's remote that was activating my TV. I was able to determine which neighbor it was, and I talked with him about it. We both had a good laugh, and he did something different (I don't remember anymore what it was), because my TV started to behave normally again. I still laugh when I think about it, and most people who know me who hear the story think it's pretty funny, because I'm a no-nonsense kind of person, and it had me pretty rattled. Maybe this is all really obvious now in our high-tech 21st century world, but to my scared little 22 year old self in 1987, it was very bizarre and threatening. That's about as paranormal as it's been for me.
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Post by elophile on Jul 20, 2017 1:42:09 GMT
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 20, 2017 4:52:27 GMT
The remote control signal was activating your TV through the building wall?
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Post by eloneen on Jul 20, 2017 12:50:54 GMT
The remote control signal was activating your TV through the building wall? Apparently so! lol
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Post by BSJ on Jul 20, 2017 18:13:23 GMT
Whoa, eloneen ! Poor thing! Under the bed I would have gone! So, it didn't turn off when your neighbors turned off his? Our ceiling fan downstairs in command central and bedroom fan upstairs are on the same - what would you call it? - wave length?
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Post by unomusette on Jul 20, 2017 20:08:04 GMT
Brilliant tale eloneen, the TV behaving in that way would rattle most people I think. You must have been SO relieved when all was explained. I wonder how long others with the same kinds of TV have gone on being spooked and maybe never found out why?
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Post by eloneen on Jul 20, 2017 23:24:04 GMT
Whoa, eloneen ! Poor thing! Under the bed I would have gone! So, it didn't turn off when your neighbors turned off his? Our ceiling fan downstairs in command central and bedroom fan upstairs are on the same - what would you call it? - wave length? So a couple of times, it did turn off during the night without me having to do anything. When I would come home in the afternoon and found it on, I turned it off. BSJ What do you do about your fans, then? Do they have to run at the same time? Is that it?
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Post by eloneen on Jul 20, 2017 23:33:41 GMT
Brilliant tale eloneen , the TV behaving in that way would rattle most people I think. You must have been SO relieved when all was explained. I wonder how long others with the same kinds of TV have gone on being spooked and maybe never found out why? I don't know how many people had held on to a grand old TV like that for so long. My grandmother was very good about getting it repaired and making sure the right parts were used, etc., when she was alive, so the one I had may have been a rarity due to her tender loving care for it. (It was clear that I was her favorite grandchild -- and she was unapologetic about it, too--, so that's why I got her prized TV when she died.) Technology had improved so much since it was made, but that TV was still up and running so many years later. The remote went missing somewhere along the way over the years, too. I think it was a fluke- a perfect storm, I guess, for my big old TV to encounter this neighbor's remote like that. Really weird and really funny- now at least!!
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 21, 2017 0:32:09 GMT
BSJ What do you do about your fans, then? She doesn't treat us her fans well enough in my opinion. Rarely gives any autographs.
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Post by eloneen on Jul 21, 2017 0:34:32 GMT
BSJ What do you do about your fans, then? Can I answer as the big fan of her I am what she does about us, or would you rather have the answer from the rockstar herself? Ha ha! Very cute, Helmut83!
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 21, 2017 0:37:06 GMT
Ouch, eloneen , you are fast as lightning! I decided to change my answer but you had already quoted me in a matter of seconds! Flash Eloneen!
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