Seeking logical explanations

[scheherazade_79]

My doorbell keeps ringing... but there's no one there. There isn't any wind or rain to set it off, and after searching the garden I can say with complete honesty that there's NO ONE playing tricks on me.

The weird thing is, I just pressed the doorbell myself, and it doesn't work. But yet, every 30 minutes or so, it rings - all on its own.

I'm too stoned from last night to start getting spooked by this, but I'd really be interested to know if someone can find a logical explanation for it.

Thanks,

Scheherazade

 

[hugo_sam]

My doorbell keeps ringing... but there's no one there. There isn't any wind or rain to set it off, and after searching the garden I can say with complete honesty that there's NO ONE playing tricks on me.

The weird thing is, I just pressed the doorbell myself, and it doesn't work. But yet, every 30 minutes or so, it rings - all on its own.

I'm too stoned from last night to start getting spooked by this, but I'd really be interested to know if someone can find a logical explanation for it.

Thanks,

Scheherazade

MY first guess would be a short in the wiring leading to the ringer or an internal malfunction of the ringer itself. If it is is ringing on it's own and does not work at the "button", I would suspect that wires have become bare and crossed somewhere.

 

[scheherazade_79]

MY first guess would be a short in the wiring leading to the ringer or an internal malfunction of the ringer itself. If it is is ringing on it's own and does not work at the "button", I would suspect that wires have become bare and crossed somewhere.

... or... there's a small possibility it could be a ghost!

 

[hugo_sam]

... or... there's a small possibility it could be a ghost!

I was attenpting a slightly less supernatural explanation, but I'm sure most anything could be poossible.
*GBH*

 

[NoJo]

My doorbell keeps ringing... but there's no one there. There isn't any wind or rain to set it off, and after searching the garden I can say with complete honesty that there's NO ONE playing tricks on me.

The weird thing is, I just pressed the doorbell myself, and it doesn't work. But yet, every 30 minutes or so, it rings - all on its own.

I'm too stoned from last night to start getting spooked by this, but I'd really be interested to know if someone can find a logical explanation for it.

Thanks,

Scheherazade

It's possible that the doorbell is working perfectly, and you're suffering from DSRS (Delayed Sensory Resposnse Syndrome). You ring the doorbell yourself, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge, try to work out why fridges don't have a remote like the TV, then you hear the doorbell you rang thirty minutes ago. So you go back out -- nobody there. You try the doorbell, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge...

...it's nothing to worry about.

 

[matriarch]

It's possible that the doorbell is working perfectly, and you're suffering from DSRS (Delayed Sensory Resposnse Syndrome). You ring the doorbell yourself, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge, try to work out why fridges don't have a remote like the TV, then you hear the doorbell you rang thirty minutes ago. So you go back out -- nobody there. You try the doorbell, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge...

...it's nothing to worry about.

Your logic scares me.

 

[yui]

Your logic scares me.

It scares me, too, that I actually Googled "DSRS," just in case ....

 

[Colleen Thomas]

My doorbell keeps ringing... but there's no one there. There isn't any wind or rain to set it off, and after searching the garden I can say with complete honesty that there's NO ONE playing tricks on me.

The weird thing is, I just pressed the doorbell myself, and it doesn't work. But yet, every 30 minutes or so, it rings - all on its own.

I'm too stoned from last night to start getting spooked by this, but I'd really be interested to know if someone can find a logical explanation for it.

Thanks,

Scheherazade

Is it a pre installed doorbell or one of those you installed yourself? If the later, your battery could be dying, the periodic ringing being a warning it's low. Also, all the do it yourself kits work on the same frequency, so if a neighbor hs one installed too, and is in close enough proximity, yours will ring when someone pushes theirs.

 

[maggot420]

It's possible that the doorbell is working perfectly, and you're suffering from DSRS (Delayed Sensory Resposnse Syndrome). You ring the doorbell yourself, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge, try to work out why fridges don't have a remote like the TV, then you hear the doorbell you rang thirty minutes ago. So you go back out -- nobody there. You try the doorbell, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge...

...it's nothing to worry about.

that sounds like a very reasonable explanation...i seem to have misplaced my doorbell...

 

[Liar]

Is it a pre installed doorbell or one of those you installed yourself? If the later, your battery could be dying, the periodic ringing being a warning it's low. Also, all the do it yourself kits work on the same frequency, so if a neighbor hs one installed too, and is in close enough proximity, yours will ring when someone pushes theirs.

Yeah, I was just going to ask if it maybe is a RF controlled wireless doorbell. They are very easy to spook.

 

[Guest]

Your logic scares me.

His AV scares me.

Perdita

 

[scheherazade_79]

It's possible that the doorbell is working perfectly, and you're suffering from DSRS (Delayed Sensory Resposnse Syndrome). You ring the doorbell yourself, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge, try to work out why fridges don't have a remote like the TV, then you hear the doorbell you rang thirty minutes ago. So you go back out -- nobody there. You try the doorbell, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge...

...it's nothing to worry about.

When I start doing that, can someone please take me to see a professional?

 

[BlackShanglan]

It scares me, too, that I actually Googled "DSRS," just in case ....

Loved it.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Is it a pre installed doorbell or one of those you installed yourself? If the later, your battery could be dying, the periodic ringing being a warning it's low. Also, all the do it yourself kits work on the same frequency, so if a neighbor hs one installed too, and is in close enough proximity, yours will ring when someone pushes theirs.

I don't know what kind of doorbell it is. It plays two notes. I'm not sure if it's run off the mains or a battery, but since my parents have been back it's stopped ringing. As for the neighbours' bells... There was definitely no one standing outside their doors either when I went outside.

Very, very mysterious. Come to think of it, every now and then there's a small of pipe smoke in the bathroom. My mum was blaming it on me for ages (which was worrying, because I'm still a closet smoker), but after a while she came to the conclusion that it must be drifting in through the double-glazing from next door's garden. Suddenly I'm not so sure anymore.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Very, very mysterious. Come to think of it, every now and then there's a small of pipe smoke in the bathroom. My mum was blaming it on me for ages (which was worrying, because I'm still a closet smoker), but after a while she came to the conclusion that it must be drifting in through the double-glazing from next door's garden. Suddenly I'm not so sure anymore.

By all means enjoy the sense of mystery. If, however, you would like a more prosaic explanation - variations in humidity commonly release odors impregnated in an area that are not noticable at other times. Hence, unfortunately, my office is periodically haunted by cat piss.

Shanglan

 

[NoJo]

I don't know what kind of doorbell it is. It plays two notes.

Just looked it up in my elctronics handbook. I think the technical term is a "ding dong" bell. It's basically a bitonal inductance resonator with a 2 kilohm impedence.

 

[oggbashan]

Radio?

If there are no wires between the bellpush and the bell then it is operated by radio.

Most UK bells have a choice of only 12 frequencies and some are shared with car remote unlocking devices so your doorbell may be operated whenever someone nearby opens (or closes) their car.

I had that trouble with my shop bell. I switched the frequency on both the bellpush and bell and had fewer false alarms. I think the original frequency worked everytime someone pressed a Ford keyring.

Og

Edited for PS: 'Nearby' in my case meant within 100 metres and that included the town centre's car park!

 

[yui]

Just looked it up in my elctronics handbook. I think the technical term is a "ding dong" bell. It's basically a bitonal inductance resonator with a 2 kilohm impedence.

Sounds like it might be a problem with the compression of the periodic halftoned bitonal capacitance and inductance.

 

[Liar]

Sounds like it might be a problem with the compression of the periodic halftoned bitonal capacitance and inductance.

Um...yeah...what she said.

 

[cantdog]

When I start doing that, can someone please take me to see a professional?

Can we be nekkid?

 

[cantdog]

I don't know what kind of doorbell it is. It plays two notes. I'm not sure if it's run off the mains or a battery, but since my parents have been back it's stopped ringing. As for the neighbours' bells... There was definitely no one standing outside their doors either when I went outside.

Very, very mysterious. Come to think of it, every now and then there's a small of pipe smoke in the bathroom. My mum was blaming it on me for ages (which was worrying, because I'm still a closet smoker), but after a while she came to the conclusion that it must be drifting in through the double-glazing from next door's garden. Suddenly I'm not so sure anymore.

We have a family ghost, in a way. There was an old woman who rented the apartment upstairs from my grandmother. She left every summer to live by the water in Northport, where she had a summer cottage with no insulation or anything. She could tell the future and she had visions of other kinds. I heard all the stories growing up.

Everyone called her Aunt Phoebe. She was actually not an aunt to any of the family, but she spent time downstairs with everyone. When she was due to leave for the summer one year, she told grandmother goodbye.

"I won't likely be seeing you again, Blanch," she said.

"Of course you will; you'll be back next year; don't be silly."

"Yes, well... I want you to know that if anything happens to me... well. If there's any way to get in touch with the living after you die, Blanch, I want you to know that I'll try to get in touch with you."

She died, of course, that summer, and thus never saw my grandmother again. It was the last of a series of remarkable predictions.

So, in our family, whenever the door opens by itself, we say, "Come in, Aunt Phoebe." If the cupboard door opens, it's "Do you need anything, Aunt Phoebe?" If the door is shut by the wind, and no one near? "Sorry, were you too cold, Aunt Phoebe?" It is considered polite to assume that any supernatural event is just Aunt Phoebe trying to contact the family.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Sounds like it might be a problem with the compression of the periodic halftoned bitonal capacitance and inductance.

I can't say for sure. I'm not bitonal. But if my capacitance ever occurs halftoned, I'll pop a viagra. I'll ask next week at the doctor's office. I have to go see about that rash on my inductance anyway.

Q_C

 

[yui]

I can't say for sure. I'm not bitonal. But if my capacitance ever occurs halftoned, I'll pop a viagra. I'll ask next week at the doctor's office. I have to go see about that rash on my inductance anyway.

Q_C

You won't need viagra, I promise. I'll make you see bitonal and hear capacitance and everything that came before will all be halftoned.

But about that rash ....

 

[Quiet_Cool]

It's possible that the doorbell is working perfectly, and you're suffering from DSRS (Delayed Sensory Resposnse Syndrome). You ring the doorbell yourself, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge, try to work out why fridges don't have a remote like the TV, then you hear the doorbell you rang thirty minutes ago. So you go back out -- nobody there. You try the doorbell, don't hear anything (that's the DSRS effect), go back inside, puzzled, sit down, maybe light up a roach, open the door of the fridge...

...it's nothing to worry about.

I think I may have this disorder. Can this be, y'know, a community disease? Something shared by a group?

Here's the case. Every time I go to the fridge, be it to get a beer, or some chip dip, etc, I open the door, and the light gives no response. But, usually about an hour or so later, I hear this pounding noise coming from the other side of the refridgerator door. It's actually bright enough inside that the little gnome that guards the butter can't sleep.

Q_C

 

[SamanthaSmith]

OK! OK! I confess...I rang the doorbell...sorry!