Freaky
 

About 3 weeks ago I was over at a buddy's place, He went into his kids bedroom and he yelled out to us in the living saying why is the T.V. turning on by itself. I responded saying, Whatever your smoking I want some.

I go into the bedroom and I watch as he waves his arm in front of the T.V. and the damn thing turns on...I take a quick glance around the room to see if anybody else is in thier hiding with the remote trying to trip me out...There wasn't.

So I tell him to move and I wave my arm in front of the T.V. and sure enough, It turned on.

It's true, As fucked up as it sounds. I reached down and unplugged it...It freaked me out.

I don't know how it was possible...But it happened.

ur neighbor is fucking with u with a universal remote control from his window :p

Hehe.. yeah I've thought of this one too many a time.. did you check outside the window?

A neighbor might have a TV remote or garage door opener operating on the same frequency.

No, My buddy lives in an apartment on the second floor downtown...And thier is only 1 window in the bedroom and the T.V. faces opposite of the window. Even outside of the window there is no other apartment buildings.

hmm. i wouldn't be surprised if it were a signal issue (though mroe difficult to prove with the guys location) or a spirit thing.

problem is spirits rarely do shit without cause. so they could just be fuckin with ya, but I'd imagine some kind of reason first.

anything else? does he have dogs or cats? i've had cats do that before by simply laying on em.

You don't need line of sight for a remote or garage door opener to work. It's a *radio* frequency, so it's unidirectional.

its an easy remote that u never have to worry about loosing :p

but it does sound like some one is fuckin with u? i dunno tho

Can he change channels that way too? That would be cool.

The remote need not be facing the tv either... I've bounced the signal off walls and still turned it on... Then i'd try to bounce it off of the ground.... nothing. But again with the walls it would work. One thing to try out, is just be COMPLETELY gullible to your friend. Even tho you are not, just act it. If he was fucking with you, he'll admit it just to call you a dumbass. But you wont' have hurt feelings, because it was all for show so he'd admit it. (I've done such things just to get friends to admit things so they'd shut up :)) If that doesn't work, then perhaps a stray signal. The thing that I'm curious about is this.... The TV ONLY turned on under these conditions..
Weird that it only happened when you waved your arm infront of the TV... I'd look into that variable if i were you.

I don't think it could have been a stray signal..Because we were both standing infront of the T.V., Blocking the sensor thing...I don't think he was fucking with me...Cause I was standing right next to him and he had nothing in his hands.

He waved his arm infront of the screen and it turned on...I was like what the fuck, So I tryed myself and it did the same thing.

I know he didn't have the controller in his hand...And there was nobody else in the room except for me & him...That's the first thing I checked when I seen what was happening with the T.V...Made sure I was getting fucked with.

The only thing I can think of...But I don't think this is it...But Maybe the T.V. had some sort of short in it or something. But it's kinda wierd how it would only turn on when you waved your arm infront of it.

It's almost like it worked on a Motion Detector or something...But it's a pretty old T.V. so that's not it either.

I can't explain it.:hmm:

my tv has turned on in the middle of the night while i was sleeping... and onci turn iit off i wakeup aagin only to find it back on...and another time i was on my bed wiht a friend watching tv and the tv's volume rose all the way to the max level... the remote had no batteries

That's true for garage doors - but I have NEVER seen a tv remote that wasn't infrared controlled. You could be right and it's just something that we don't have in Australia for some reason, but that just seems odd.

If it is infra-red, then it works like this - an oscillating IR light signal is picked up by the tv's IR sensor. You can see the light flashes if you look at the remote using the Ir night vision feature on modern video cameras and see the flashes when you press a button.

Experiments (assuming the remote is infrared):
1. Find the sensor on the TV and cover it up (with electrical tape or something). Test to see if it's covered by trying to use the remote.
2. If the arm trick still works, then it ain't the remote sensor - weird...
3. If the arm trick only works with the sensor uncovered. Use the video camera's night vision function to try and locate a strong ambient signal of ir light. (this can include visible light sources too). The arm movements might be enough to oscillate that light source in such a way as to communicate the 'on' signal.
4. Finally, try the arm trick in pitch dark. Remove all ambient light sources, including any LEDs. Still work? - creepy...
5. Try it out with the tv in different environments.
6. Don't look in your friend's eyes with the night vision camera. It's disturbing...
7. You can either continue treating it as a great mystery or you can take this list and play junior scientist. Whatever you choose - have fun!:D

When we're using our wireless networkingcards in our laptops, we have to keep them pointed away from the TV. Otherwise it just scrolls through the channels really fast. And the VCR/DVD player go on/off. It's fun when you're bored.

And for what it's worth,garage door openers operate universally between 35 and 50 megs.
You only have to duplicate the signal for some serious up and down fun in suburbia.

I had a TV that turned itself on from time to time. Oh, and I have a laptop that does it now. If the switch is faulty it can happen.

at about midnight one night, I had on ESPN and the sleep timer activated and started to drift off to sleep. Just as I started to drift off to sleep I heard my tv switch channels. Sure enough, the tv switched by itself from channel 25 to channel 5 (RELIGION CHANNEL). Thinking I bumped the remote and was laying on it, I looked, but the remote was sitting on my dresser 2 feet away untouched. This was late at night, everyone in my house was sleeping. I went and told my mom about it. The man on the channel was preaching about how you should try your hardest to love all of your neighbors, even the ones that have done you wrong. This message came in a time when I pretty much hated everyone.


I am not a religious man and just try to pretend this didn't happen but it did. I keep thinking I got things mixed up and might have bumped the remote but I remember when I looked up and saw it on my dresser. It's just really fucking freaky.

This is the only 'paranormal' experience I have ever had.

I currently have a *bigger* TV in my closet than the one I use because it randomly changes channels and turns off and on. Freaked me out soo much I stuck it back in the closet and got the smaller one out that doesn't do that. I miss the bigger TV :)

This reminds me of a situation that happened in the Oklahoma City metro a year or so ago (was a story on KFOR, channel 4, they interviewed her).

Some guy was stalking a girl that lived alone in an apartment. He bought a remote and stood outside the window to fuck with the TV. The next night she received an IM asking if her TV acted up the night before.

We have an RCA that does that, and it's a known issue with that particular model. It's really freaky, it can turn itself on, or off, and even change channels, *when we don't want it to* ! We did some research, and something is loose inside of it, and just needs to be soldered down. We'll get that done eventually. In the mean time, instead of looking at 20 pretty inches of a tv that freaks us out, we're looking at 11 inches that don't.

What kind of flooring does he have? Other than buggy models, it could be the power cord. If the floorboards are loose-ish, it could be wiggling the power cord to the teevee, which gives it power, then cuts it off as you move (moving your arms would shift the weight enough maybe?).

Anyways, ever seen the movie Amelie? :P

guys I know for a fact no one was fucking around with my remote. My parents and brother were sleeping and no one in the house has a remote that could access my tv. My tv has never done it except just that one time.

I wish I had a tv as cool as your guys'.

On a cruise, my friend was simply trying to change the station and he ordered porn. Explain that one!

RF signals could still interfere with a TV's internal circuitry even if it does use an infrared remote (which pretty much all modern sets do). Anyone who's ever used a cell phone close to a TV, regular phone, amplified speakers, etc. should know this. Having your hand near the TV could serve as a sort of antenna for stray RF signals, or it could be reflecting a stray IR signal (remote stuck under a couch cushion with the power button jammed down, perhaps?).

sure, maybe not your remote, but you can buy universal remotes at any electronic store and palm pilots can even be used as a remote. then there are still plenty of other possibilities that involve signals that aren't just teevee remotes, like that garage openy thingy.

I'm not sure what kind of flooring it was...

No never seen the movie Amelie...Why?

Wow, serious? You should definitely see it. Very good movie. Beautiful cinematography. It's one of the few love stories I'll *admit* to liking. ;)

Anyways, there's a rather humorous scene in the beginning where little Amélie exacts revenge... I'll say no more.

Shit man, just find one channel you like and you never have to get up again! :crazy:

If waving your arms turns it on, what does masturbating in front of it produce?
Just fuckin with ya....cool tv!