Starting to freak me out

Since this is pretty much the off-topic sg board, I wonder if anyone else has this problem.

The problem is my computer speakers. I generally turn them down to zero volume rather than off, and lately (in the last few weeks or so) just ever so rarely, they'll start talking to me. I'm serious, I'll actually start hearing voices coming out of them, too soft to understand the words, but still loud enough to distinguish gender (They're normally female). The voices fade if I turn the speakers up. So, as a generically pointless thread- give me your best explanation of what could be causing it. I'm going off the assumption that the metallic backing of my computer case is accidently creating a weak ariel effect and thats going up the input lines, but I'm sure people can come up with far more inventive possibilities

You're just picking up interference from cell-phones/cordless phones/walkie-talkies... I used to have a stereo that would pick up my neighbor's TV, faintly, when there was no other signal.

My computer speakers make this weird beeping that sounds like Morse code milliseconds before my cell phone rings if it's nearby. It's the weirdest thing. And it's not my imagination, it happens every single time right before it rings, and no other time. My theory is that computer speakers are cheap and poorly made and therefore poorly shielded from interference.



[Edited on Apr 16, 2006 by Keith]

Hmm, hadn't thought of that. Do you have any idea how I could amplify the sound to audible, voyeuristic levels?

I pick up passing trucker's CB radio transmissions on mine. The first time it happened It scared the bejeesus out of me, but I kinda dig it now.

Go to Radio Shack radio scanners
and pick up a scanner. That is how people have been listening in to local radio frequencies for years. Police, CB, walkie talkie, baby monitors, analog wireless phones and the such. That is probably what you are picking up

Check out Spacewurm. He's made a "career" out of this stuff.

I used to live 3 blocks from a radio station tower and it would come through the phone and every thing else that recieved signals.

This scared thehell out of me until my boyfriend explained to me what was happening....

I wish it was just my speakers that did the morsecode/phone about to ring thing. My tv, Ipod, guitar amp, pc and just about everything else with speakers does it.

You might be legitimately haunted. RUN!

call ghostbusters!!!

the devil is in your house

its probably this guy...
its him

Yeah I am more inclined to believe it is another version of the phenomenon from that AWESOME movie "White Noise"....

you are hearing voices of the dead....trying to warn you!!

that movie premise had so much potential

my cell phone does that too, except not just when it rings. usually when its searching for a signal

The guitarplayer in my old band used to pick up radiosignals through his amplifier sometimes. The funny thing was that the guy was czechian and all his amp would ever pick up was czech radio.