Ain't That Peculiar?! My Peculiar Happenings...Any Happen To You?

OneEyedDiva said:
For several years before my son moved back home, my Panasonic HDTV would turn itself back off when I turned it on. This happened at least 3 our of 10 times during the week. I'm mad at myself for not bothering to have the problem taken care of when it was under warranty. I did read that others were having the same problem. Luckily, the power strip its plugged into is easily accessible and I'd have to unplug it and plug it back in again, sometimes 2 or 3 times. After my son moved in, it has only happened 3 times and he's been here for going on 11 months. Don't you think that's peculiar? If anyone here has a theory, I'd love to hear it.

Also, a couple of days ago, when I went to get a trash bag out of the bulk box, I noticed the box it was sitting on was wet on part of the top. Turning over the trash bag box, I noticed the bottom was wet. I looked up to see if there was a leak from the ceiling but there was not. I asked my son if he inadvertently spilled water from the iron that's stored in the crate above the boxes and he said no. Anyway, the top of the trash bag box would have been wet as well or even if it dried, showed signs of having been wet. I can't figure out what happened.

Do you think the two events I described are strange? Have any peculiar, weird, unexplainable events happened to you? @Pecos
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There is actually an explanation for the TV turning itself on or off. I learned that from my electrician when some lights in my house & my stereo turned themselves on & off. He explained that electricity in a house travels around in a circle, causing things to go on & shut off themselves if the outside breaker is not working properly. My breaker panel was 64 years old & starting to short out. He replaced the outside breaker box & it never happened since.
 

My old cathode ray tube TV did that only once right after my mom died. She couldn't just let me enjoy TV. No, she had to lay a little more guilt on me even at the end. Thank God she moved on and didn't bother me anymore.
 

OneEyedDiva said:
That would make sense if I hadn't stored those boxes like that for decades without that ever happening before. I go in and out of that closet several times a day for one thing or another.

@RadishRose Coincidence you say? Well it's a good coincidence then because it's saving me money, for one thing. It used to do it so often that I wound up just leaving the T.V. on all the time so I didn't have to deal with it, but HDTVs pull a lot of electricity. After almost 10 years (at least) for it to stop what it was doing all that time...:unsure:

@caroln Cardboard can start to smell strange when it is just wet with water...animal pee would have really left an odor. Our kitten hasn't jumped up there (the boxes are about 3 ft off the floor) because I always grab her out of there when she wanders in and we keep the door closed. And we don't have vermin...now with our ferocious kitten, even if we did, God help 'em.

@Pecos I have an apartment sized dryer but still it holds a good bit. The way the lint filter is made and positioned, there's no place for socks to go other than in my laundry basket when I take the clothes out. I wonder if your socks wind up sticking to other clothing. :unsure: I found a glove I was looking for the other day that somehow wound up mixed in with my slips.
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Well to be absolutely truthful, I have "found" a couple of socks that had managed to wiggle up into the sleeve of my shirts, but (LOL) they didn't bring all of their wayward friends with them.
 
Pappy said:
We have a fan in the bedroom which has a light built in. Every once in a while, this light comes on for no reason. We are in the front room when this happens. ???
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I have rewired the switch on an overhead fan/light and an tell you that there is a lot of wiring jammed into that box on the fixture. Some of it looked like it could easily short over from the fan to the light if there were any vibration at all . I felt uneasy and eventually took that fan/light down and replaced it with a regular overhead light.
 
win231 said:
There is actually an explanation for the TV turning itself on or off. I learned that from my electrician when some lights in my house & my stereo turned themselves on & off. He explained that electricity in a house travels around in a circle, causing things to go on & shut off themselves if the outside breaker is not working properly. My breaker panel was 64 years old & starting to short out. He replaced the outside breaker box & it never happened since.
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That's an interesting theory Win. There's a breaker box in my kitchen that has never been repaired or replaced in the 51 years I've been here. I'll have to ask the VP of our board if the outside breakers were replaced during the first couple of months in 2022, around the same time my son moved in.

Another crazy thing. The air conditioner remote sometimes changes the screen on the Roku (eg; if something is on pause, it will play again). I honestly don't remember that happening either until after my child moved back in. :unsure: Maybe he's emitting a special kind of energy. :D
 
win231 said:
There is actually an explanation for the TV turning itself on or off. I learned that from my electrician when some lights in my house & my stereo turned themselves on & off. He explained that electricity in a house travels around in a circle, causing things to go on & shut off themselves if the outside breaker is not working properly. My breaker panel was 64 years old & starting to short out. He replaced the outside breaker box & it never happened since.
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Your explanation seemed so plausible Win but I checked with the VP of our board. The outside breaker box has not been touched since my son moved in. The VP would know if any repairs or replacements had taken place. So the fact that my T.V. has turned itself off (after I turned it on) only 3 times since my son moved in (now over a year ago) and was doing it 3 - 4 times a week before he moved in is still a peculiar mystery to me.
 
The weirdest thing that has happened to me is when I stayed in the upstairs bedroom of a friend’s home. It felt like there was a presence and my dog didn’t like it either.
Every time I go to visit I have this feeling.

Then I am blow drying my hair and start to use my curling iron and it worked. Then I realized that I had never plugged it in but it was hot. I couldn’t believe it and touched it twice and burned myself. I doubt that I would believe it if it hadn’t happened to me.

Then that night I saw a figure standing by the bed and said I couldn’t sleep there anymore. Others had similar experiences and it turns out that the former owner hung herself up there. My friends now put a bed downstairs in their office because no one will sleep up there.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Your explanation seemed so plausible Win but I checked with the VP of our board. The outside breaker box has not been touched since my son moved in. The VP would know if any repairs or replacements had taken place. So the fact that my T.V. has turned itself off (after I turned it on) only 3 times since my son moved in (now over a year ago) and was doing it 3 - 4 times a week before he moved in is still a peculiar mystery to me.
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A house has two breaker panels - one outside & one inside. Either one can malfunction, causing things to go on & off.
My sister had the same thing happen when water leaked into her inside breaker panel.
 
win231 said:
A house has two breaker panels - one outside & one inside. Either one can malfunction, causing things to go on & off.
My sister had the same thing happen when water leaked into her inside breaker panel.
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But why would the malfunctioning stop all of a sudden? Believe me, our VP, who is quite nosy and keeps the wheels turning around here knows every single repair that is scheduled and done. As I mentioned before, my breaker box has not been worked on either. The equipment here is quite old. I've been here for going on 52 years. My breaker box is in the kitchen on the common wall with the living/dining area. It is quite easily accessible, thank goodness, because sometimes my dryer and even the microwave cuts the power. The outside breaker box may have been repaired or replace years ago...don't know, but not recently. That being said...I thank you for your feedback. :)
 
Please don’t misunderstand this post. I don’t mean to be bragging. The day I won the Florida State Lottery, my girlfriend kept telling me she was really hungry for a frozen Milky Way ice cream bar. All I heard for about 2 hours was her getting this ice cream bar. We were on the way home from watching a game at Tropicana Field between the Rays and the Red Sox with the Rays winning, 4-1. It was just after 10 at night.

I looked at my gas gauge and it was just below a quarter of a tank, so I thought I would stop at Race Trac and fill the tank and buy her ice cream bar. The woman in front of me asked for 5 Florida Lottery tickets, so without thinking, I also asked for 5 tickets. As soon as I said it, I thought to myself, “Oh crap, I didn’t want any lottery tickets.”

Two days later after breakfast, I was out in my garage working on a car for a customer and my girlfriend comes out snd said she thinks I hit the Florida Lottery. I thought nothing of it because she usually got stuff messed up. In the middle of the afternoon, I was going to get a shower and there sat the lottery ticket, so I picked it up and checked the numbers online. Well, holy crap, I had a single winner.

Now that’s strange and a lot of dumb luck.
 
Moon Rat said:
Please don’t misunderstand this post. I don’t mean to be bragging. The day I won the Florida State Lottery, my girlfriend kept telling me she was really hungry for a frozen Milky Way ice cream bar. All I heard for about 2 hours was her getting this ice cream bar. We were on the way home from watching a game at Tropicana Field between the Rays and the Red Sox with the Rays winning, 4-1. It was just after 10 at night.

I looked at my gas gauge and it was just below a quarter of a tank, so I thought I would stop at Race Trac and fill the tank and buy her ice cream bar. The woman in front of me asked for 5 Florida Lottery tickets, so without thinking, I also asked for 5 tickets. As soon as I said it, I thought to myself, “Oh crap, I didn’t want any lottery tickets.”

Two days later after breakfast, I was out in my garage working on a car for a customer and my girlfriend comes out snd said she thinks I hit the Florida Lottery. I thought nothing of it because she usually got stuff messed up. In the middle of the afternoon, I was going to get a shower and there sat the lottery ticket, so I picked it up and checked the numbers online. Well, holy crap, I had a single winner.

Now that’s strange and a lot of dumb luck.
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I hope you split that money with your GF. :LOL: Although you had to stop and get gas anyway. In Florida you have to pump your own gas then go inside to pay right? Still, maybe taking the time to get your GF's ice cream bar, then being behind the woman at that exact moment had something to do with your "luck"....not dumb I might say. 🤑
 
Jace said:
I have a small TV in the kitchen...that...turns itself on...
I just keep it unplugged...til I need it for another channel I don't get on main TV. đź‘Ť
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My TV also turns itself on. Sometimes I turn it off and go to bed. I will hear it in the middle of the night, get up and have to turn it off again!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I hope you split that money with your GF. :LOL: Although you had to stop and get gas anyway. In Florida you have to pump your own gas then go inside to pay right? Still, maybe taking the time to get your GF's ice cream bar, then being behind the woman at that exact moment had something to do with your "luck"....not dumb I might say. 🤑
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I paid at the pump, but when inside to see if they had the Milky Way frozen ice cream bar. At first, I grabbed 2 M&M frozen cookie bars, but then I saw one of the Milky Way bars, so I bought one of each. My gf at the time always knew if she wanted anything she could just buy it and put it on my American Express card. She wasn’t a big spender, well, except at Christmas, then I would asker to keep her spending under a certain amount.
 

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