Hoping there is a logical explanation for this!

Happyzebra

I was just reading a thread here about a person's creepy experience in a hotel and it brought to mind something that happened to me a few years back.

Was staying in a hotel in dublin ... Jurys inn i think and we were given a room on the top floor. The room looked a bit shabbier than the usual room you'd expect and i remember thinking that it had an uncomfortable atmosphere.

In bed that night i found i could not sleep... Not unusual for me when i am away. My oh however was snoring his head off. I was like a wasp!! I was becoming more and more agitated and eventually let out a roar telling him to shut up.

The same time that i shouted the tv came on in the room by itself. You know like in the film The Ring. I got a bit of a shock but assumed that i must have sat on the remote or something. Looking around i saw that the remote was lying untouched on the bedside locker :-0 I nearly sh&t myself!

I flicked off the tv with the remote and lay in the darkness terrified incase it would come back on and some creepy bitch would start crawlin out of the telly. Tried to wake oh but the bastard was still snoring. At that point i decided that if something was to happen i was going to leg it out the door and leave the bitch have him :-)

Later on i did fall asleep but was damn glad to check out the next day.

So my question to you is ... Can a tv be programmed to start itself at a certain time (maybe a previous guest was fiddling with tv?) or did i have a brush with the paranormal that night?

viadah

Did you notice the red standby button on the television? I'm sure televisions can be programmed to turn on at a certain time...

Could be worse pranks, Mike Patton in his Faith No More days used to poop in hotel hairdryers, apparently.

Happyzebra

Yah the tv was on standby. No **** in hair dryer though! It was just the timing of it... Excatly at the moment i shouted.

viadah

Yeah, I'd probably rack this one up to coincidence.

vanjaqwq

Thats mad I'm a massive FNM fan amd just randomly opened this post. If the post is about a TV, shouldn't this one belong in "Consumer Electronics" maybe???. Imagine getting covered in sh1te after Patton having a gick in the hairdryer. He's class isn't he.

kylith

Televisions can absolutely be programmed to turn on. It's likely that whoever stayed in the room last night programmed it to turn on in the middle of the night for a laugh.

A less likely explanation, which would depend on the layout of the hotel, is that someone with the same make telly had a room in the building opposite yours and was either conciously or accidentally controlling your tv with their remote. For example my tv remote will also operate various functions on my stereo.

My money's on the previous occupant being a prankster.

faceman

Would I be right in saying OP, that it was Jurys in Ballbridge? (now the D4 hotel)

Happyzebra

It may have been but could't be certain. Why do you ask??

meryem

It appears to be just the co-incidence of on-timer set on the TV. Or the TV /power system etc. might have been programmed to start on a particle level of sound. Meaning to start at high volume/pitch of sound.

You should better have asked the hotel manager to give rest to your curiosity/questions of scared up mind and brain ofcoarse.

dlofnep

Yes, it can be programmed to turn on. Your post leads me to believe you were already paranoid, and your mind was playing tricks on you.

evolving_doors

3 Explanations

1. Remote control interference from next door (all tv remotes in hotels are the same)
2. Timer was set to switch on
3. The spirit protector of your husband was angry at you so he communicated through the power of the TV.

Happyzebra

meryem wrote: »

It appears to be just the co-incidence of on-timer set on the TV. Or the TV /power system etc. might have been programmed to start on a particle level of sound. Meaning to start at high volume/pitch of sound.

I do think my shout may have been a wee high pitched and perhaps that may have some how activated the tv. That's what i want to believe :eek:

Happyzebra

3. The spirit protector of your husband was angry at you so he communicated through the power of the TV.[/QUOTE]

Now that's something I don't want to believe :eek:

Monty Burnz

Armelodie wrote: »

3 Explanations

1. Remote control interference from next door (all tv remotes in hotels are the same)
2. Timer was set to switch on
3. The spirit protector of your husband was angry at you so he communicated through the power of the TV.

This one.

youtube!

well it patently obvious to me, you let out a scream thus disturbing a person in an adjacent room who then decided to flick on their tv which also controlled your own one as can easily happen in hotels.:P

Happyzebra

youtube! wrote: »

well it patently obvious to me, you let out a scream thus disturbing a person in an adjacent room who then decided to flick on their tv which also controlled your own one as can easily happen in hotels.:P

No. I screamed at the exact same time as tv came on... Which is why i think perhaps the high pitch of my voice may have activated it.

meryem

dlofnep wrote: »

Yes, it can be programmed to turn on. Your post leads me to believe you were already paranoid, and your mind was playing tricks on you.

Why can't it be possible? Today we have switches that can start off upon the sound of clap.

But considering the TV was on standby mode. I am in a bit of doubt now.

kylith

I'd be dubious that a TV could be turned on by sound, I've never heard of anything like that. I'm also dubious that it could be controlled by the remote from next door as remote controls need a line of sight to operate so the beam would have to come through the window (try putting your hand across the front of your remote to block the beam and changing channel, it doesn't work).

My money is still on the previous occupant setting it to come on to freak ye out, it's just coincidence that you happened to make a noise just at that moment.

maccored

early remote controls only had a button for the channel and one for sound. the sound could be turned off by rattling a bunch of keys near it, and the channel could be changed by my sister giving a short sharp scream. Im sure tv remotes have been perfected since then though.

thing about the tv is, once its on standby and plugged in then technically it can pop on at any time.

crushproof

Hotel I worked in had Tvs that turned on automatically if someone had booked a premium box office movie or a classy porno. So perhaps the guest the previous night had a movie and the hotel forgot to turn the reservation off.....either that or any of the other theories above....case closed.

Or perhaps, where you sleeping on the remote?

crushproof

Hotel I worked in had Tvs that turned on automatically if someone had booked a premium box office movie or a classy porno. So perhaps the guest the previous night had a movie and the hotel forgot to turn the reservation off.....either that or any of the other theories above....case closed.

Or perhaps, where you sleeping on the remote?

maccored

maybe it was one of these 'poltergiest in a box' gadgets

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/d794/

it turns the telly on and off every 20 mins or so

maccored

Places you could use the TV Poltergeist (not that we're encouraging you):

- At home (we are not responsible for your couples therapy bills)
- At school (c'mon teen geeks, you know you're tired of those boring history videos)
- In the doctor or dentist's waiting room (if they're going to waste half your day...
- At friends' houses (leave it there for a few days, then come back later to retrieve it)
- In hotel rooms (but don't blame us if you get a bill later, okay?)

hmmm ...