Riddle me this- what do you think?

Did you give any ghosts your mobile number?

Would the phone have had your husband's phone number set into a speed dial or similar? Maybe something fell onto it, knocked the reciever off and hit the speed dial?

johnny osbourne wrote: »

why is the chest of drawers in front of the door?

I wondered that too, and why is the house phone locked away upstairs in a built in press in the first place ?

I normally keep my house phone out of closed cupboards and presses so that I can hear it. I also keep it down stairs so that I can answer it when I hear it.

I do agree though, there is some very strange behaviour in that house, but not convinced its paranormal.

The thing about "paranormal occurrences" is that you first have to eliminate all the obvious and explainable reasons for something from the list, mainly because sometimes what people attribute to the paranormal is actually something pretty "normal"; when I was first starting out I used to think that every little noise in certain locations could be paranormal, but these days I would make it a point to make sure that I'm aware of the conditions of a place and its areas, as in what's there, the environment, temperature and so on so I'm able to understand why something might happen, or at least eliminate a possible reason for why something happened.

If you're essentially able to eliminate all of these as factors, then it narrows down the possibilities of what it could be. That said however, even if it's something unexplainable, it still may not necessarily be paranormal, as it may just be that you didn't have the right information to work with at the time. I'm not trying to dismiss your experience by any means, but it's important to know as much about the conditions surrounding the incident, as much as it is about the incident itself. It's also important to be aware of anything that happened just prior to the incident occurring where possible as well.

Admittedly, I'm saying something that to some is blindingly obvious, but to others, it might be less so. I'd rather put this out here knowing that I was thorough with my response and also so anyone reading this has an idea of how to go through things regarding anything they think is "paranormal". In any case, I still do believe that "paranormal" occurrences do happen, just not as often as people might think.

With regards to your incident though, it does seem a bit odd... despite the fact that the cabinet containing the phone was blocked off, I am wondering if the chest of drawers was moved even slightly? Additionally, have you had any other strange occurrences in the past or is this just the first time this has happened? Even if you're wanting to debunk/explain this particular incident, any mentions of other "strange incidents" can help contextualise things further. That said however, I suspect that this would probably be something best suited to someone investigating this on-site (especially given that there's only so much information that can be provided on a public message board), especially if this isn't the first occurrence as I get the feeling that this may not be something easily explained.

Very possible that there is a GSM dialler attached to the alarm somewhere and when the 'wonky' alarm went off the call was made to your husbands phone, as the phone line was taken by the dialler for this call depending on your phone type, the dialer may not have hung up or the time on your phone was misread and actually just showed the time the call to your husband was made which would match the time as the call was initiated 18'ish minutes prior.

I wouldn't read too much into it, a group of seamanly random incidents taken all together can always make peoples minds come up with elaborated situations when in reality it was just a group of random incidents.

Scaredy_Cat wrote:

That would kinda freak me out too OP, I know when our alarm goes off we get a text to our mobiles so you obviously have something similar set up with yours but as you said doesn't explain how the receiver was off the hook at that exact time. I can't explain it either sorry! Have you had any weird experiences before in the house?

Ziycon wrote:

Very possible that there is a GSM dialler attached to the alarm somewhere and when the 'wonky' alarm went off the call was made to your husbands phone, as the phone line was taken by the dialler for this call depending on your phone type, the dialer may not have hung up or the time on your phone was misread and actually just showed the time the call to your husband was made which would match the time as the call was initiated 18'ish minutes prior.

Doesn't a gsm dialler normally send a text if there's a activation.

Did you check if there was any seismic activity in your area at the time? Tremors can activate alarms and phones. Unlikely that you didn't notice but still....