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#1 ·
Over the past several years we can come home and the television will be on or we can be downstairs and we will suddenly hear the television in the family room upstairs. I haven't found that there are any channel preferences. We don't watch it enough to remember what station it was tuned to when we last watched it. Or if it has been changed. By the way it will change stations by itself.
Its kind of fun though.
 
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I did that with a football addicted neighbor at my first apartment by using a remote I found that matched the optic frequency of his and shooting from the walkway through the window to switch his TV from his football game to Julia Child on PBS for a couple Sundays.

When he caught me he chased me down the breeze way spraying me with a quart beer and laughed as he had me pinned at my door and as he shook it and showered me in the face with suds I lapped at the suds in the air and cleaned under my armpits like one of the 3 stooges.

When he went back to his place he left me the flat dregs of the beer in the bottle and took my spoof remote back with him, but later he agreed with all of us that it was a funny prank and said he was glad that he didn't have the money to buy a new TV before he had caught me and beer hosed me for our 15 yard walkway dash.
 
#5 ·
My grandparents had a similar issue come up once. They finally discovered that the cats had learned how to use the remote control and for some reason enjoyed watching television.

They also had to keep the answering machine locked in the bedroom. Following a number of complaints from others for not returning messages, they discovered that the cats had learned to press the button to hear grandma's voice and erased the messages in the process.
 
#6 ·
hey discovered that the cats had learned to press the button to hear grandma's voice and erased the messages in the process.
I heard voices in the house one day when I was home alone.

I found the cat sitting by the answering machine hitting the flashing button and playing the messages.
 
#8 ·
When I was in college I lived in a cabin with my brother, his girlfriend and a buddy of ours.

Place was haunted. You'd be home alone studying in the livingroom. Get up, go to the bathroom, and when you come back your books are on the kitchen table. Or again when home alone you would hear someone run down the hall and slam the bedroom door at the end of it. Stuff like that happened all the time. Stuff was always getting moved around. we called our ghost Jake. That's because I saw him once and he looked like a farmer. Other than that we didn't mind and he didn't bother the dogs so what the heck. It made for interesting conversation.
 
#19 ·
I had a similar situation with my other grandparents (i.e., not the ones with the cats). It was usually car doors slamming, and everyone in the house would hear it. We didn't think much about it (as far as I knew). In my teens, when my grandparents would take weekends or sometimes a week or two to go trail riding in one national forest or another, I was encouraged to spend that time with my aunt who still lived at home. That suited me just fine since we would generally enjoy pizza and movies and in my case, the lack of siblings. I didn't realize until fairly recently that the underlying issue was that my aunt was afraid to stay in the house by herself on account of the haunts.
 
#9 ·
We had a weird house too. In Georgia. New and beautiful but weird things happened in it. Things moved around, alarms shut off but nothing particularly scary till one night I was home alone with my younger siblings and a racket started in the garage. It sounded like paint cans and tools were being flung around the place...we were terrified. We called our neighbor and he came over and checked it out. Nothing was out of place. A few other things happened in our house and then there were meetings in the neighborhood about what was going on because it wasn't just happening in our house. They hired a local historian to see what had happened on the land our neighborhood was built on.
That was really impressive to me. That grown ups were seeing it and were uneasy about it too.
We ended up moving to Massachusetts before they found anything out.
We never felt really afraid in the house other than the garage incident and one other time.
 
#12 ·
My kitchen sink used to turn on and off by itself sometimes. Right at the noon hour. Plenty of witnesses and no one around it. It hasn't happened in ten years or so that I know of. Of course I'm usually at work at that time now that I'm working for the man.

It's twelve o'clock. Do you know what your house is doing?
 
#13 ·
My kitchen sink used to turn on and off by itself sometimes.
I used to live in a house where the water in the sink would start running "by itself".

The mystery was solved when I happened to be there in the room one day when my Russian Blue jumped up on the counter and slapped the "L" shaped faucet handle until he got a steady stream so he could get a drink of fresh water.

He thought he was too good to drink out of a bowl like the other cat.

I never could teach him to turn it off though.
(He's not the same cat who played the answering machine)

This one was also smart enough that when he wanted to go outside he would reach up and try to turn the doorknob. He was large enough to reach it, and if he could have gotten a grip on it, he was probably strong enough to turn it.

He weighed 18 pounds, had no fat on him at all, and used to kill and bring home full grown rabbits.

Sadly he wasn't smart enough to realize not all cars would go around him if he decided to sit in the road.
 
#15 · (Edited)
All my dogs stay outdoors.

I've had cats nearly non stop for the last 40 years or so though, and a few of them had definite personalities and strange behaviors.

I did have one dog that would bring things home on occasion.
A couple of times he brought my neighbors horse blankets, and he stole a full sized shovel from some where. We never figured out who it belonged too. He just came walking across the yard carrying it in his mouth.
 
#16 ·
This isn't a new thing to start happening. I built this house in 1989. We were the only ones for a mile for several years after we were there. Have had different televisions up there. My wife's mother died in the house in 2013.
I don't have any fear about it. Its just always fun when it happens.
I probably ought to keep track of when it happens.
 
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