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Title: Rationale Explanation Sought.
Post by: Sundiver on November 05, 2003, 09:48:33 AM
As to why every electronic device in my childrens room would all turn on at exactly the same time. As well as the room lights flashing on and off. Now, I know for a fact some of these toys did not have batteries in them at the time and some of the devices needing to be plugged into an outlet were not at the time.

 We DO live on the Southern approach to Carswell Joint Reserve Base so at one time or another during a month we see every model aircraft in US service passing a few hundred feet over our heads? Could EM interference or generation do such a thing?

 Maybe a AWACS on short final? I can't imagine that this is the case since it's never happened before but I'm still looking for the rationale explanation before assuming we have a small child haunting my childrens room. :P
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Post by: SOB on November 05, 2003, 09:50:25 AM
It's a poltergeist.  Get yourself a freaky short fat woman, quickly!
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Post by: lazs2 on November 05, 2003, 09:55:28 AM
lend him one of yours sob.
lazs
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Post by: Sundiver on November 05, 2003, 09:56:34 AM
Believe me SOB that explanation is more comforting then thinking these low-flying fighter pukes are generating that level of emissions. :P I mean before we switched to cable everytime they'd fly over we'd lose television signal but there's a large difference between that and what happened last night.
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Post by: bigsky on November 05, 2003, 09:57:13 AM
do you live next to high power lines?
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Post by: Sundiver on November 05, 2003, 10:01:17 AM
Nope. Not even close. We've got a substation about three miles away? Suffer from occasional transformers blowing a coupla times a year.
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Post by: gofaster on November 05, 2003, 10:03:19 AM
Cold War surveillance aircraft stationed in Alaska used to carry these really powerful radar arrays mounted along the sides of their fuselage.  Soviet pilots would be afraid of approaching these aircraft from the starboard side (where the radar beamed) because of the radioactive emissions coming from the plane's radar side.  Your emission fears may have some grounds.
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Post by: Sundiver on November 05, 2003, 10:06:45 AM
Well yeah, but I at least assumed they'd have some proceedure for shutting this crap down before going on short final over a heavily populated area?
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Post by: Sundiver on November 05, 2003, 10:08:04 AM
I mean you can turn on a hair dryer or blender and generate EM for what? A 50-75 yard radius. But we're talking ALOT more current to do this I'd think..
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Post by: SOB on November 05, 2003, 10:09:17 AM
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Originally posted by lazs2
lend him one of yours sob.
lazs


My squaddies ain't available to be rented out ... well, not for this anyway.  :D
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Post by: boxboy28 on November 05, 2003, 10:12:18 AM
how long do these devices stay on?
Do you hear a plane over head when this happens?
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Post by: Dago on November 05, 2003, 10:15:18 AM
I think it is your kid, better call in an Excorsist.  :D


dago
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Post by: capt. apathy on November 05, 2003, 10:19:47 AM
I'd start by checking to see if my neigbors experienced anything simular.

as to what it could be, I've no idea.  waht kinds of things came on?  lights, motors, all of the above?

lights could be explained by emissions, I think.  (have you ever put a florescent bulb in a microwave?  it lights right up.)

sounds a lot like the 'haunting in georgia' show from friday night discovery chanel
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Post by: midnight Target on November 05, 2003, 10:33:16 AM
Has your kid been sucked into the TV yet?
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Post by: 1K0N on November 05, 2003, 10:40:17 AM
See any Black helicoptors?
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Post by: Dux on November 05, 2003, 10:42:16 AM
Surveillance aircraft would not (typically) be transmitting on approach.

The solar flare maybe? Some sort of lightning?

Have you found yourself sculpting your mashed potatoes since then?
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Post by: -dead- on November 05, 2003, 10:45:40 AM
Have any of you been suffering from nosebleeds?
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 05, 2003, 10:51:56 AM
Three words for you:

INDIAN   BURIAL   GROUND
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Post by: lord dolf vader on November 05, 2003, 11:19:17 AM
are they incandecent or florecent?

if they are incandecent you got problems.
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Post by: Engine on November 05, 2003, 12:20:33 PM
The 7th Seal has been broken.
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on November 05, 2003, 12:23:11 PM
BOOOOOOOOOOOOSH
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Post by: Monk on November 05, 2003, 12:28:45 PM
Hmmmmmm......maybe

        this (http://www.halloweenmovies.com/sounds/h2theme.mid)
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Post by: jonnyb on November 05, 2003, 12:45:44 PM
I think everyone is forgetting one minor detail when describing this as some sort of EM pulse or emission from military aircraft: the events are localized to his child's room.  Were every appliance in the house to act wacky, all the lights in the house to turn on and off, the wife's mechanical lover to come to life (or his for that matter ;)), the tvs to turn on, etc. all at the same time then perhaps that explanation would suffice.

Who ya gonna call....

or you should have your kid's head checked for small alien devices that could be mistaken for brain tumors...
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Post by: Airhead on November 05, 2003, 12:47:38 PM
LMAO I can't believe so many of you mo-mos believe in ghosts! Anyone with half a brain knows UFOs are the only thing that can cause electrical devices to spontaneously come on.

:rolleyes:
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Post by: OIO on November 05, 2003, 12:52:13 PM
"As to why every electronic device in my childrens room would all turn on at exactly the same time. As well as the room lights flashing on and off. Now, I know for a fact some of these toys did not have batteries in them at the time and some of the devices needing to be plugged into an outlet were not at the time."

wait a sec.. you saying that toys without batteries are turning themselves on?

If so, id suggest you go to that base and ask them about it.. any EM powerful enough to do that would definetely affect the health of your family.

But...it only happens in your kids room... thats really freaky.

EM from mil. craft would hit your whole house.... and if it affects devices that dont need to be plugged to the wall then that rules out critters chewing your cables.

You got a spook.
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Post by: Dago on November 05, 2003, 01:01:50 PM
Quick, wrap your heads in tin foil while there's still time!!!!!


Just to be safe, wrap the whole room, no, no, the whole house in tin foil!!!   The voices........ the voicesssss............. make them  stop....................

:rofl




dago
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Post by: Dux on November 05, 2003, 02:06:52 PM
On the back of your kid's Krusty doll... make sure the switch is set to "Good" and not "Evil".
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Post by: Sundiver on November 05, 2003, 02:11:49 PM
Can't really confirm that it didn't happen in the rest of the house, since when I heard a ruckus in the kids room it's the first place I went. Needless to say after that I was abit...distracted? So can't really say if their was a jet overhead at the time.

 Anyone who's lived on or near a military base knows how quickly you get accustomed to the racket. Like I said we always had television problems when we had a normal antenna. It was just the lights and noisemakers, no motors. Not many of their toys are motorized though. The lighting would of been mostly LED's on the toys, umm...the fishtank light which is flouresenct and their room light which is halogen and blew out.
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Post by: gofaster on November 05, 2003, 02:20:34 PM
The emissions are already starting to affect your thought processes.  You're starting to make simple spelling mistakes!

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Needless to say after that I was abit...distracted? So can't really say if their was a jet overhead at the time.
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Post by: Holden McGroin on November 05, 2003, 02:22:57 PM
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Originally posted by Airhead
LMAO I can't believe so many of you mo-mos believe in ghosts! Anyone with half a brain knows UFOs are the only thing that can cause electrical devices to spontaneously come on.

:rolleyes:


This is true! I saw it in a documentary where this kid's toys all turn on, the stereo starts playing Johnny Mathis, the kid runs outside and gets abducted by Aliens, only to be let go in Wyoming a few days later.

My advice, start heading towards Devils Tower... that is the picture you can't get out of your mind..
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Post by: Eagler on November 05, 2003, 02:24:17 PM
do you get an almost irresistible urge to beach yourself ?
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Post by: Scootter on November 05, 2003, 02:35:32 PM
A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields (usually above sunspots) is suddenly released. Flares produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to x-rays and gamma-rays.



I think you may find your ghost here.


http://www.keelynet.com/energy/holt1.htm
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Post by: boxboy28 on November 05, 2003, 04:21:34 PM
if it was aa solar flare it would have hit the whole house not  just the kids room!
SUNDIVER was you kid in the room at the time?
What time of day was it?
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Post by: Dago on November 05, 2003, 06:30:26 PM
Is your kid named Damien or Lucifer?   :)
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Post by: Gunslinger on November 05, 2003, 07:12:12 PM
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Originally posted by Dago
Quick, wrap your heads in tin foil while there's still time!!!!!


Just to be safe, wrap the whole room, no, no, the whole house in tin foil!!!   The voices........ the voicesssss............. make them  stop....................

:rofl




dago


Has to agree here....break out the tinfoil.  seriously though are u sure your kids arnt doing all of this.  My kids have this amazing ability to take ANYTHING apart to BREAK everything and to make sure if I turn somthing on (to include my wife) its garunteed to be at a volume thats definatly gonna hurt my ears and annoy me.
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Post by: mrblack on November 05, 2003, 07:14:08 PM
Mice.:D
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Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2003, 09:25:08 PM
I used to work on mobile ground radar, the antennas were relatively close to the ground. Used to freak the controllers out by holding a fluorescent light tube up in my hand. The Antenna would cause it to light up everytime it swept by.

Still, I don't think any a/c has a radar powerful enough to "turn on" battery powered toys that have no batteries.
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Post by: NUKE on November 05, 2003, 09:56:25 PM
Not real safe to be directly in front of a radar transmitter.
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Post by: Airhead on November 05, 2003, 10:36:30 PM
There is no need to panic- the only reason the UFOs are here is to pick up the Bigfoots. If your wife's vibrators work extra hard tonight then consider it a gift from the Aliens.
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Post by: Pooh21 on November 06, 2003, 05:54:20 AM
Its just swamp gas.  And the new one they came out with infrasound.
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Post by: Hortlund on November 06, 2003, 08:20:55 AM
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Originally posted by Sundiver
Could EM interference or generation do such a thing?

No. Period.
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Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2003, 08:29:47 AM
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Originally posted by NUKE
Not real safe to be directly in front of a radar transmitter.


Depends on the power. Some will cook you pretty quick while others are harmless.
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Post by: Scootter on November 06, 2003, 08:31:36 AM
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Originally posted by Hortlund
No. Period.


Agreed, a power burst with that much energy would have burned many things out and would have been big news


To power up battery powered items with no batteries would certainly burned them and everything in the area out.



this is T.F.H. stuff here
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Post by: GrimCO on November 06, 2003, 08:49:41 AM
I'll be damned if I can come up with an explanation for that one...

You've got some spooks in your house buddy...
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Post by: kappa on November 06, 2003, 09:32:38 AM
Clearly, its the underpants nomdes.

Step 1:  Collect underpants.......

Step 2:

Step 3:  Profit!!

k
AoM
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Post by: Ripsnort on November 06, 2003, 09:47:04 AM
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Originally posted by Dux
On the back of your kid's Krusty doll... make sure the switch is set to "Good" and not "Evil".


ROTFLOL!!!!:rofl
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Post by: texace on November 06, 2003, 01:22:38 PM
I live right under the north approach to Carswell, and never once has low flying aircraft caused my ligts to go bonkers.

I got accustomed to the racket within 3 months of living here. Considering I've lived in the same place for 17 years, you kinda get to the point where you can not only tell where a plane is, but what type and how many. :D
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Post by: Saurdaukar on November 06, 2003, 01:31:48 PM
(http://www.okemosweb.com/ghostbusters/images/gb_main.gif)
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Post by: Gunslinger on November 06, 2003, 04:18:32 PM
The Cure all make you feel better explains nothing explination:

SUN SPOTS

its gotta me it.  Yup i'm convinced:D

actually I used to install microwave home television cable, and the company i worked for was low budget to put it lightly.  Whenever a customer wanted to know why there cable picture was so chitty on some days my explenation was allways "sun spots" than i'd quickly change the subject.
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Post by: Hortlund on November 07, 2003, 01:35:58 AM
So sundiver, has anything else happened?