I've been hearing a haunted cell phone in my room

[Rakehellion]

Okay, for the past several weeks, I've heard what sounds like an Android phone on vibrate mode getting text messages in my room. I usually just shrug it off as my imagination, but this morning I definitely heard it ringing for about ten seconds.

I'll confess, my room is hideously unkempt with papers and boxes of electronics all over the floor, so simply looking around for it hasn't worked any of the times I've tried.

But why I think the phone is haunted:
-I do have numerous cell phones in my room, but they're all powered off and deactivated.
-It's obviously not a phone that anyone's using, so who calls and texts an abandoned phone repeatedly?
-No phone has a standby time that long, so it would have to be plugged into the wall. But it isn't.
-It sounds like it's coming from under my bed, but of course nothing's under there or on the floor nearby.

Is there some handheld device I can use to trace the signals coming from this thing? Or barring that, a seance?

 

[vshah]

do you live in an apartment?

 

[sixone]

Is there some handheld device I can use to trace the signals coming from this thing? Or barring that, a seance?

Yes. It's called a vacuum cleaner.

 

[Rakehellion]

do you live in an apartment?

I have roommates.

 

[Rakehellion]

Yes. It's called a vacuum cleaner.

I don't want to frighten the spirits of Froyo.

 

[kranky]

Take half of the electronics out of the room and keep taking more out periodically until the noise stops. Then you'll either know it was in one of the last round of boxes, or you will have found the source because there are a lot fewer places for it to be.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Clean your room. It was probably from that girl you had over a while back, and she's too afraid to come get it.

(Actually, since it's an apartment, it's probably somebody above/below you. That stuff can echo around weird.)

Incidentally, while smartphones do die quickly, an iPad will stay in standby mode for 3-4 weeks receiving emails and beeping every time.

 

[lxskllr]

Take half of the electronics out of the room and keep taking more out periodically until the noise stops. Then you'll either know it was in one of the last round of boxes, or you will have found the source because there are a lot fewer places for it to be.

^^^This

As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, there's no such thing as magic. Clean your room, and find where the noise is coming from.

 

[Rakehellion]

Clean your room.

It was probably from that girl you had over a while back, and she's too afraid to come get it.

(Actually, since it's an apartment, it's probably somebody above/below you. That stuff can echo around weird.)

Incidentally, while smartphones do die quickly, an iPad will stay in standby mode for 3-4 weeks receiving emails and beeping every time.

I've texted every girl I've ever had over since first hearing the noise. And there's no way I could hear a cell phone on vibrate from the next apartment without there being a gaping hole in the floor.

People, someone is actually calling this phone on a somewhat regular basis.

 

[jaedaliu]

^^^This

As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, there's no such thing as magic. Clean your room, and find where the noise is coming from.

Wel, it COULD be ghosts. those are real.

Cleaning your room sounds like the right thing to do. If you're doing drugs, stop that, too.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

clean your living quarters

 

[Ketchup]

I've texted every girl I've ever had over since first hearing the noise.

and this is easier than cleaning your room?

 

[Rakehellion]

Incidentally, while smartphones do die quickly, an iPad will stay in standby mode for 3-4 weeks receiving emails and beeping every time.

According to this list, the Philips W920 has a standby time of 240000 minutes, but the chances of me having that exact phone and having it on full charge is very slim. Down in the more reasonable range, some of the phones do have a standby time of four weeks.

It's definitely been longer than four weeks since I first started hearing it.

 

[OverVolt]

Your body can "feel" cell phone signals. Frequently when your phone is in your pocket you will feel your leg vibrate before the phone actually vibrates.

When I upgraded to a smart phone, which throws out way more signal, it "felt" like I was getting a call all the time for 2-3 days when I carried it with me.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...s_you_re_not_the_only_one_who_feels_them.html

When I had my phone on vibrate for about a year I got phantom vibrations even if it was on silent and I would check it and had just gotten a text message :awe:

I've answered calls when the phone was silent because my leg vibrated :awe:

Anyway smart phones throw out way more signal. In the past you probably kept an Android phone on your nightstand habitually and now when your neighbor gets a text message or something you think there's a phone vibrating next to your bed. It'll go away over time.


Its definitely a real thing, but its also rather moot. I guess just making the connection that you can "feel" cell phone radiation and your brain will interpret this however it is you use your phone most frequently. It can be phantom ringing, phantom vibrations, etc. You've all probably experienced it.

 

[Rakehellion]

Cleaning your room sounds like the right thing to do.

clean your living quarters

and this is easier than cleaning your room?

 

[Rakehellion]

Your body can "feel" cell phone signals. Frequently when your phone is in your pocket you will feel your leg vibrate before the phone actually vibrates.

When I upgraded to a smart phone, which throws out way more signal, it "felt" like I was getting a call all the time for 2-3 days when I carried it with me.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...s_you_re_not_the_only_one_who_feels_them.html

When I had my phone on vibrate for about a year I got phantom vibrations even if it was on silent and I would check it and had just gotten a text message :awe:

I've answered calls when the phone was silent because my leg vibrated :awe:

Anyway smart phones throw out way more signal. In the past you probably kept an Android phone on your nightstand habitually and now when your neighbor gets a text message or something you think there's a phone vibrating next to your bed. It'll go away over time.

Yes, that's why I shrugged it off at first, but it absolutely 100% rang this morning. Several seconds long, impossible to ignore.

 

[Rakehellion]

Take half of the electronics out of the room and keep taking more out periodically until the noise stops. Then you'll either know it was in one of the last round of boxes, or you will have found the source because there are a lot fewer places for it to be.

I might hear the noise once or twice a week, so the ghost might have found a new home by the time that binary search is over. Besides, I want to read these text messages. :awe:

 

[JM Aggie08]

Stop being a slob.

:thumbsup:

 

[PowerYoga]

Don't clean your room, that'll allow the wretched spirit to escape and roam.

Cleanse it with holy promethium fire.

 

[gevorg]

did you look under your bed?

 

[kranky]

From reading your replies, I guess you really don't want to find the source of the noise.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but why don't you just clean your room?

 

[Rakehellion]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but why don't you just clean your room?

I've checked every place it could be and every phone I have. Phones don't just appear out of thin air.

 

[wirednuts]

clean your living quarters

yup

 

[Cheesemoo]

clean your living quarters

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