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Ok, What Was It?

asydhouse said:
Standing by the sink, the tilt and warp of the floor caused by your new position in the room released the door from the slight mound where you had left it wedged, and it fell closed and the slight bump caused the hook to fall down to latch the door.
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An excellent observation.
 
Jodie said:
That I can understand, but not how the door got pushed into the crooked jam and certainly not without my hearing the scraping noise that should cause.
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If it's anything like ramshackle privies I've used before now, simply standing in a different spot can shift the floor/walls/frame slightly, resulting in a better fit for the door. No scraping required.

But I'm sure that this isn't a possibility...
 
SezMe said:
Can we rule out the effects of static electricity?
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You could do it with static electricity I imagine if you set it up just right but I can't imagine how it would happen naturally. I'd think that you'd need the tissue sticking out to be charged one way and the tissues inside the box to be charged the other way and I imagine the box would get in the way of any scuffing or sliding or other ways of generating static charge by friction.

I'm no expert and I'd happily accept correction if someone with more experience than me in the electrostatics of tissue boxes showed up. I'll go so far as to say that I'd be pretty surprised if that turned out to be the solution.
 
Why even speculate? Every event has detailed reasons for it happening, many of which are not readily obvious. Without a proper and complete investigation using solid techniques these are just known unknowns and proof of absolutely nothing. Worthless in every respect.



While not perfect...I think Hitchens razor can be put to use here.
 
Different tissue boxes fold the tissues differently. Rectangular ones tend to have the overlapping folds that don't cause too much friction between sheets, but square/upright ones squeeze the same shape into a smaller space. I've seen tissue-balls in a square box that certainly could have fallen in the box and pulled the tissue down. (pulling up on the last tissue loaded the current tissue, and lifted the tissue ball up from the bottom, gravity does the rest)
 
bluesjnr said:
I was sat in my living room in my one bed-roomed flat back in 1983 when the electric kettle switched itself on and boiled. I was the only one in the house and the kitchen was a separate room some feet away.

I don't really know what it was, but I certainly know what it wasn't.
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You sound like you are being sarcastic, but I have a true story.

My boyfriend and I were in the living room of our house when the portable radio came on in the kitchen. No one was in the kitchen and we were both there, it wasn't me forgetting the radio was on.

I have no idea how it came on, it did not have any remote control capacity or I would ascribe it to a random signal.
 
Olowkow said:
What interests me about ghost stories is the great amount of detail setting up the mysterious occurrence, (aunt Tillie was visiting, her cat had died, she had her blue dress on...) but little or no detail of the subsequent investigation undertaken to determine the cause.

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We immediately both went in the kitchen, found nothing but the radio playing, turned the radio off and the mystery was never solved.

And no one in the forum had a good explanation that I recall, but I still don't chalk it up to anything supernatural. Sometimes inexplicable things happen.
 
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Jodie said:
Ok my next incident was in the diningroom. Behind where I was sitting was a wall with two sconces on it. I was sitting in a chair directly beneath one of them during the middle of the day when the lights were off. The light bulb in the sconce over my head exploded.

I initially thought we had some bad wiring and was concerned about a fire hazard so I called an electrician to check out all of the wiring in the house. When I explained what happened he said it was impossible for only one light bulb to explode when the two sconces were on the same circuit. If it was a power surge it should have blown both bulbs out. He couldn't explain it so what do you think caused it?
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That's not true. One bulb could have had a flaw in it the other didn't. There's old wiring in this house and until the city replaced the older transformer on the pole outside sometimes two or three bulbs would burn out all at once. But every bulb in the house or even every bulb in the same lamps didn't burn out. While the bulbs never exploded, it's not that unusual. Incandescent bulbs are under a vacuum and all it would take is a crack in one for it to explode (actually they implode).
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
That's not true. One bulb could have had a flaw in it the other didn't. There's old wiring in this house and until the city replaced the older transformer on the pole outside sometimes two or three bulbs would burn out all at once. But every bulb in the house or even every bulb in the same lamps didn't burn out. While the bulbs never exploded, it's not that unusual. Incandescent bulbs are under a vacuum and all it would take is a crack in one for it to explode (actually they implode).
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When they implode, would the glass from the bulb drop to the floor or would it be thrown across the room? The glass from this one went across the diningroom table into the livingroom which is why I ask.
 
I once saw something that I couldn't believe.

I was at home and in my dining room, through an open doorway I have full view of the kitchen stove. I was sitting down and out of the corner of my eye I saw something move in the kitchen. It was evening, but the lights were on, I was just home from work. What I saw shocked me because of it's impossibility, as I stared at it, I saw a long thin "tentacle" protruding from a vent underneath the controls above the stove-top surface. It was brown-ish, and slowly moving, like a finger gesturing or feeling around, and appeared as if it were 5-6" in length, about as thin as a pencil. My mind couldn't comprehend what I was looking at, why it was there, what it was doing inside the stove, it was horrifying, yet I was frozen and could not look away. After what I would guess was 15-20 seconds it silently slipped away. Afterward I was able to get up and take a look around, but did not find anything with my flashlight inside the oven or underneath where I could look.


I still don't know what I saw, it was either a hallucination from being tired after work or a really big mouse inside the stove. I never saw it again in that house while I lived there.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
You sound like you are being sarcastic, but I have a true story.

My boyfriend and I were in the living room of our house when the portable radio came on in the kitchen. No one was in the kitchen and we were both there, it wasn't me forgetting the radio was on.

I have no idea how it came on, it did not have any remote control capacity or I would ascribe it to a random signal.
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I might have an answer for you on that one, my son had a Teddy Ruxpin that kept coming on at night by itself and waking him up. I was told by the manufacturer that sometimes signals from low flying jets would do that. I don't know if that is true or not but they can set off your car alarm.
 
Snorkio said:
I once saw something that I couldn't believe.

I was at home and in my dining room, through an open doorway I have full view of the kitchen stove. I was sitting down and out of the corner of my eye I saw something move in the kitchen. It was evening, but the lights were on, I was just home from work. What I saw shocked me because of it's impossibility, as I stared at it, I saw a long thin "tentacle" protruding from a vent underneath the controls above the stove-top surface. It was brown-ish, and slowly moving, like a finger gesturing or feeling around, and appeared as if it were 5-6" in length, about as thin as a pencil. My mind couldn't comprehend what I was looking at, why it was there, what it was doing inside the stove, it was horrifying, yet I was frozen and could not look away. After what I would guess was 15-20 seconds it silently slipped away. Afterward I was able to get up and take a look around, but did not find anything with my flashlight inside the oven or underneath where I could look.


I still don't know what I saw, it was either a hallucination from being tired after work or a really big mouse inside the stove. I never saw it again in that house while I lived there.
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Hell it might have been smoke, I would have called an electrician, but that is weird. I made a similar mistake with an umbrella cover that had a snake skin pattern. It was stuck under the stucco siding of the building where I worked and looked like a shed snake skin. I called maintenance thinking a rattlesnake might have gotten in the walls, but they pulled it loose and saw it for what it was.
 
Silly Green Monkey said:
Different tissue boxes fold the tissues differently. Rectangular ones tend to have the overlapping folds that don't cause too much friction between sheets, but square/upright ones squeeze the same shape into a smaller space. I've seen tissue-balls in a square box that certainly could have fallen in the box and pulled the tissue down. (pulling up on the last tissue loaded the current tissue, and lifted the tissue ball up from the bottom, gravity does the rest)
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After I smashed the box with the manual , I knew a mouse wasn't in it obviously. It was the rectangular kind that was nearly full. At any rate, it pulled itself completely back in the box and that tissue was crumpled. I tore the box apart to make sure a cock roach wasn't buried in there because who wants to pull a tissue up with cock roach guts on it? I didn't see anything that might cause it. Either way, it was odd.
 
383LQ4SS said:
Why even speculate? Every event has detailed reasons for it happening, many of which are not readily obvious. Without a proper and complete investigation using solid techniques these are just known unknowns and proof of absolutely nothing. Worthless in every respect.



While not perfect...I think Hitchens razor can be put to use here.
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Not to me, I have a few answers I didn't have before.
 
Tolls said:
If it's anything like ramshackle privies I've used before now, simply standing in a different spot can shift the floor/walls/frame slightly, resulting in a better fit for the door. No scraping required.

But I'm sure that this isn't a possibility...
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It's a possibility if I hadn't been watching the door, however it was in my sight as I walked to the left to use the sink. It closed after I turned away to use the sink. Wouldn't it have shifted when I stood up?
 
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