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

[sixone]

I have read that people who surround themselves with chaotic living conditions tend to be more open to ill-intentioned spirits/demons/whathaveyou.

Clean your damn room, already.

 

[jaedaliu]

Maybe your downstairs neighbor is messing with you.

Last time you brought a girl home, she was way too loud. So they're getting you back by strapping a porter cable random vibration sander doohickey thingy to the ceiling and setting it off at random times.

I think you should take are of all our suggestions at once. Get an exorcist, maid service, and hit squad to your apartment and let the professionals figure it out.

 

[_Rick_]

Get an exorcist, maid service, hit squad, and porn camera team to your apartment and let the professionals make out.

Fixed.

 

[Rakehellion]

Most girls I bring home aren't even that loud.

I've searched every box in my room and all over the floor and turned up with nothing. A living, breathing, activated cell phone doesn't just get tossed into a pile of junk, does it?

 

[Rakehellion]

Maybe the last tenant hid it inside the walls as evidence of a crime.
Or maybe someone's using it as a spy cam to monitor all of my actions.:hmm:

 

[SagaLore]

^^^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.

Or, find the portal into another dimension.

 

[Ketchup]

Or, find the portal into another dimension.

Never saw Portal coming into this thread. This is why I love Anandtech.

 

[nanette1985]

When did you last have a hearing test? My youngest son has astonishing hearing - he hears things like this. His psychiatrist once said he was schizophrenic because he hears things.

Good luck with this.

 

[Rakehellion]

His psychiatrist once said he was schizophrenic because he hears things.

:awe:

 

[vshah]

We need to see a picture of your room so we can gauge what a mess it really is.

 

[gamefreakgcb]

No one asked for pics yet?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Someone playing a joke on you.

 

[Paratus]

So basically The Tell Tale Heart for the modern age.

 

[CZroe]

My phone sometimes goes berzerk and starts vibrating randomly. Seems to work fine while it's happening too. It corrects itself on it's own eventually but a reboot fixes it right away.

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G R800at.

 

[yhelothar]

My abnormal psychology professor would profess that we all hallucinate, and he used cell phone sounds as an example.

I've often had times where I thought I heard my cell phone vibrate but when I checked, there were no messages.

But you should just clean your goddamn room anyways.

 

[CZroe]

My abnormal psychology professor would profess that we all hallucinate, and he used cell phone sounds as an example.

I've often had times where I thought I heard my cell phone vibrate but when I checked, there were no messages.

But you should just clean your goddamn room anyways.

While I've never had that happen, everyone I know who has played Banjo-Kazooie swears they hear the Jinjo whistle and/or muffled help cry ("-elp") for years after.

 

[Fayd]

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.

that list is bullshit.

 

[Rakehellion]

that list is bullshit.

So I'm not crazy!

 

[who?]

That could be a ringtone annoy-a-tron from Thinkgeek.com. They also sell a regular annoy-a-tron that just randomly beeps.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Best cell phone battery ever?

Seriously if it ain't plugged into a wall the damn thing would have discharged by now. It is not in your room.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

You could get a two hour special of Hoarders meet the Ghost Hunters.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

My abnormal psychology professor would profess that we all hallucinate, and he used cell phone sounds as an example.

I've often had times where I thought I heard my cell phone vibrate but when I checked, there were no messages.

But you should just clean your goddamn room anyways.

This happens to me when I'm driving. I swear I feel the thing buzzing in my pocket.

 

[wirednuts]

HEY! it must be in the wall! its one of those drug phones that when there is an emergency it will ring. youre supposed to punch the drywall right where the sound is, grab the phone and get your debriefing! if you don't, it will self destruct and burn down your house.

 

[Possessed Freak]

This happens to me when I'm driving. I swear I feel the thing buzzing in my pocket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome

 

[OverVolt]

This happens to me when I'm driving. I swear I feel the thing buzzing in my pocket.

Yea I just assume anyone who keeps their cellphone on vibrate for any length of time (~1 year straight) gets that.

And I'm 100% positive it has to do with your body subconsciously picking up on the cell phone signal. Because when I got my new smart phone over my dumb phone, the smart phone throws out way more signal, which I knew about.

But it felt like I was constantly getting a call, especially while driving and there was a burst of signal as it changed between towers etc.

Instead of "buzz buzz" which was always accurate on my old phone (phantom vibrate when it was on silent, actually getting a call anyway) the smart phone was like "buz... buz.. bu..... buz..... buzzzzzzz..... buz.... bu..... buz." to the extent that its actually annoying and I don't carry it in my pocket much.

AFAIK its just your brain playing tricks on you. It senses the burst of cell signal that normally indicates a call and you'll hallucinate vibrate or your ringtone.