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My sisters house has Ghosts

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HoloDuke

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... Or at least it is going to have them with a little help from x10. I got a sneaky idea when my sister called my dad complaining there were ghosts in her new house, turning on the radio and the water faucet. Her husband, aka my bro-in-law has asked me to help him laying carpet, painting, tile, things of that sort. So I have been researching house automation for the past few days and I thought I might come to the experts for any ideas. My dad is the vocational electrical instructor and this is part his idea too. He told me he had a computer controlled switch/receptical which got me thinking of all the possibilities. My dad suggested putting a radio in the wall tuned into a talk radio station for the strange voices effect. I was thinking recessed transmitters controlled by a hidden reciever. I would love to hear what you guys can come up with!
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
how about being a good brother and not freaking her out...
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Holoduke, use IR sensors to detect her body movement and make a small digital logic circuit to control the lights. it could easily be done with relays and have a random sequence happen each time.

also, you could put a windmill in the air ducts so when the air comes on, it will spin the windmill and you could use that to power a small device. ive actually done that and it worked, so take it and run.

also, you could have a fake-mice simulation of feet on the inside of the walls.
 
Add a remote control for the toilet. Make it flush when she is nearby but not actually using it.

A remote to automatically turn on something noisy like a vacuum cleaner.

Put an IR transmitter(universal remote) in the room to turn on a TV. You can even have it switch to a special channel (say 666) that happens to be playing images of a dead person (you in zombie makeup) walking around her house. Or something more subtle like say an image of her house from outside in black and white like from a 1930's photograph. That leaves more to her imagination. That shouldn't be so hard to do if you have an old VCR and her TV is regular cable. Hell even if she has digital you can just use auxilary inputs.

Put a hammer device to knock on the floor boards from the crawl space.

If you could somehow get red food coloring to run from the sink.....

Lights flickering...

Lights going off when TV turns on.

Put electromagnets in the ceiling behind the drywall. When she is gone place all the pots and pans on the ceiling and wait till she comes home. When she walks into the kitchen wait till she see's them then let them drop.

good luck.
 
Maybe you could put a device that suddenly turns all the lights off when she enters, and floods the room with this wierd red light, and you can have this voice whispering in latin, then a hidden projector can make a pentacle on the floor, and you can teleport in an imp or an Arch-vile. Now THAT would freak her out! You'd have to have some way of killing it before it got her, though.
 
You'd have to have some way of killing it before it got her, though.
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Haha, thread winner right there.

To the guy who suggested the remote toilet actuator, I'd like to know if you ever actually make this work, because I have three young daughters who never flush the damn thing. Would be a trip to set it up to flush as soon as they turn their backs on it.

Getting stuff mounted inside the tank would be a challenge, and it would be immediately evident on any cursory exploration, as would anything actuating the lever from outside, obviously.

Maybe have a solenoid down behind the thing, and lead some fishing line up the back, over the tank rim, and down behind the fill piping to the flapper.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Maybe you could put a device that suddenly turns all the lights off when she enters, and floods the room with this wierd red light, and you can have this voice whispering in latin, then a hidden projector can make a pentacle on the floor, and you can teleport in an imp or an Arch-vile. Now THAT would freak her out! You'd have to have some way of killing it before it got her, though.
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As if Doom 3 wasn't bad enough on a computer screen in a dark room. Now you wanna bring it into reality! I don't think it's his intent to actually make her die of fright!
 
Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Originally posted by: BrownTown
how about being a good brother and not freaking her out...
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also, you could put a windmill in the air ducts so when the air comes on, it will spin the windmill and you could use that to power a small device. ive actually done that and it worked, so take it and run.
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you've seriously put a windmill in someone's air ducts to power a small device? yikes, this is why i stay in OT and P&N
 
At night randomly turn the tv ON with the volume fairly high. Let her turn it off and as she walks away..Cut the lights, turn the Tv On full blasts and start flipping the channels. Soon after make the lights flicker and suddenly stop. Continue for the next couple days.
 
Originally posted by: essasin
At night randomly turn the tv ON with the volume fairly high. Let her turn it off and as she walks away..Cut the lights, turn the Tv On full blasts and start flipping the channels. Soon after make the lights flicker and suddenly stop. Continue for the next couple days.
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Or have it turn on and play that video from The Ring.

 
Above all else, please set up a few video cameras to catch the action! 😀

I like the IR transmitter idea for the TV. If you could hide a small portable dvd player and set that up with something cool on the disk, you could do a lot with that...
Some kind of small speaker in the wall making scratching and moaning noises would be great, again perhaps set this up with the portable dvd player?
And you definitly need to get some of those sounds from those classic Jason movies.
 
i love the idea of a good prank but in this case you need to consider possible consequences. People do get frightened of things they dont understand, such as ghosts, and especially if they believe in them and when i say they get frightened, i mean dead frightened. Dont give her a heart attack, a prank is ok as long as nobody ends up in hospital.
 
install speakers in her walls that are tied to a computerthat will play a randomized list of MP3s of footsteps, moaning, sex, etc....
 
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