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Live on my own - someone has switched oven on - all doors locked

246 replies

Seeingadistance · 16/12/2023 18:27

Ok - I never thought I'd be posting one of these threads, but there you go! I also don't know what I'm posting for, tbh.

I live on my own in a large bungalow. I have two cats.

Was out this morning.

Spent afternoon sitting in bed, where it's warm - watching Youtube videos, writing Christmas cards, procrastinating ...

About 20 minutes ago went through to kitchen to feed cats, and immediately noticed light on in oven. No heat, just the light and fan on. Knob was in 7 o'clock position so very definitely turned deliberately - so seems very unlikely that it was caused by cat jumping around, and even when I had cats who could open doors and turn handles - which these ones don't - I've never had a cat turn the oven on. Cats have either been with me or out all afternoon.

Front and back doors both locked and keys in both locks. Both doors are fairly new - I've lost the spare key for back door but it's in the house somewhere. The spare key for front door is in key safe in garage and the number is known only to my son who's not here, and a trusted friend.

The loft hatch is bolted on this side, but there is another loft hatch in an extension I rarely use, and I've never actually looked into that loft or touched that hatch. However, anyone who was in that part of the house would need to come through a door which is closed and makes a noise when opened and closed, then walk past my bedroom to get to the kitchen.

I'm trying not to be freaked out.

The only other strange thing was maybe a couple of weeks ago, late evening. I was in bed, cats were both sitting on bed, and I heard a noise somewhere in the house. Just one noise - like something fairly light had fallen - so not a loud crash or thump. The cats heard it too - they both lifted their heads and looked towards the bedroom door which was ajar. It was the kind of noise which I would have blamed the cats for making, but they were both with me.

Fuck!

Give me reasonable explanations for how my oven could have turned itself on!

And, no I didn't turn it on myself and forget. I hardly ever used my oven before and pretty much never now as I have an air fryer.

OP posts:
Packetofcrispsplease · 17/12/2023 18:35

It was probably the cats 🐈‍⬛ our oven door was locked with the child lock .
I was annoyed as we don’t have small children so never use that function and I needed to find the manual to see how to switch the safety lock off .
Everyone denies doing it…….. think it was probably accidentally nudged in all honesty

User3735 · 17/12/2023 18:43

Sleepwalking? You might have done it last night and not noticed it this morning. Do you have a Fitbit watch you can check your activity level in the night on?

PhotoFirePoet · 17/12/2023 18:48

I was going to say something similar. I communicate with Spirit Guides and any weird stuff they do is for my benefit.

MysticalMegx · 17/12/2023 18:50

Seems to be a lot of these posts ...

DaNcInGtEqUiLaCaT · 17/12/2023 18:54

Check your loft when there is someone with you. You should buy bolts for the back door or get the locks changed just Incase!

educatingrati · 17/12/2023 19:02

I only discovered my oven had a timer when it suddenly turned it self on, made me jump out of my skin (I was peeling carrots at the time, and suddenly oven fan and light came on) to this day I still have no idea how I managed to turn it on, but I think my overly large backside must have knocked the clock button!

anon666 · 17/12/2023 19:03

I really bet it was the cat. Look at YouTube they're capable of quite incredible things

Wazzzzzuuuuuuup · 17/12/2023 19:09

It was the cat. I know someone whose cat turned the hob on recently and set fire to the kitchen

bonzaitree · 17/12/2023 19:09

Have you seen the film « parasite » OP?

😂😂😂

BestBadger · 17/12/2023 19:11

PhotoFirePoet · 17/12/2023 18:48

I was going to say something similar. I communicate with Spirit Guides and any weird stuff they do is for my benefit.

Ask them why they resort to moving ornaments, glasses on ouija boards, oven knobs and showers etc and never a pen a paper? Or, Email. Pressing a keyboard and moving a mouse must be as just as easy.

PhotoFirePoet · 17/12/2023 19:18

I communicate with my personal spirit guides, which are good, as that is the point of guides. I would never use a ouji board as they attract dark spirits which I want nothing to do with as a person I respect warned me they can be dangerous.

KaiserChefs · 17/12/2023 19:22

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 17/12/2023 13:04

SequentialAnalyst
which book is that? I've read a lot of hers but it doesn't ring a bell.
I have an "anything but" flat. Who am I kidding? I have an "anything but" life.

Not from a book, though I think she may have mentioned it in an article or interview. It was the drawer next to the cutlery drawer in the large dresser/crockery cupboard in her dining-room, just by the dining-table, and everyone in the family had got into the habit of dumping small might-be-useful things into it. When it became impossible to shut it, the whole drawer was turned out onto the table and there were cries of "So that's where that got to!" and "Good heavens, an elephant!" and "All right, what is it?" from the assembled throng (usually Diana and a couple of assorted children who enjoyed the chore). Obviously useless things were thrown away, tangles of string ruthlessly untangled, rolled into balls and put into the string-box, small rolls of sellotape returned to her study, and a semblance of order temporarily induced. Then the process started again.

The clockwork false teeth were real, and so was the red golf-tee and the small flathead screwdriver. Pipe-cleaners in a house in which nobody had smoked a pipe for probably twenty years since her husband quit smoking. Vast numbers of paperclips – who nowadays actually uses paperclips? – sifted to the bottom with the novelty pencil-sharpener in the shape of a hamburger which didn't sharpen pencils very well, and a door-lock for no known door and without handles, and the three crumpled foreign stamps, and many, many perished elastic bands. All the household mundungus, really. (And yes, she and John absolutely did know mundungus is what is left after someone has been chewing a dottle, or else a particularly vile sort of tobacco, but calling the residue in the anything-but-drawer mundungus lent it a spurious air of respectability, she said.)

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I'm glad I kept reading this thread now. I love DWJ (MSRIP) and this is such a great insight into her as a person.

Calliopespa · 17/12/2023 19:24

PhotoFirePoet · 17/12/2023 19:18

I communicate with my personal spirit guides, which are good, as that is the point of guides. I would never use a ouji board as they attract dark spirits which I want nothing to do with as a person I respect warned me they can be dangerous.

What is the difference ? ( genuine question, not being confrontational)

penjil · 17/12/2023 19:27

ianshe · 16/12/2023 18:33

Year peel??? TEA TOWEL

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Weirdest autocorrect ever! 😂

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 17/12/2023 19:34

penjil · 17/12/2023 19:27

Weirdest autocorrect ever! 😂

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Somewhere on another thread there is the word "beefeater" which I think was intended to be "because" before autocorrect got to it.

Lollipopsicle · 17/12/2023 19:35

<Googles Len Goodman>

<Misses point of thread>

penjil · 17/12/2023 19:39

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 16/12/2023 23:02

I haven't had a gas hob from which gas would come out without the ignition being pressed since my old Cannon 151 in the 1970s. Certainly the one I have now wouldn't pour gas into the air if one of the knobs were turned on; it would just sit there with the knob turned and no gas coming out. Annoyingly, this means you can't use the hob in a power cut even though it is a gas hob, but it is a whole lot safer than they used to be back when we all used town gas.

Why can't you use the gas hob in a power cut?

potty39 · 17/12/2023 19:43

So do I...absolutely brilliant x

potty39 · 17/12/2023 19:47

Totally brilliant..love this and yes as you say they are indeed very clever x

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 17/12/2023 19:49

penjil · 17/12/2023 19:39

Why can't you use the gas hob in a power cut?

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The ignition for the burners is an electric spark, and in a power cut it doesn't happen. But the gas doesn't come out unless the ignition is going click-click-click, which it only does if the electricity is on. (My mother used to turn the electricity for hers off at the wall every night because she turned off all the switches at night to stop electricity from leaking into the room, and every morning my father would make cross remarks about the bloody thing not working to boil the kettle until he remembered and turned the wall-switch back on.)

I have just made sure I am right about that by switching off the wall-switch for my gas hob, and no gas comes out.

Mikimoto · 17/12/2023 19:49

Check to see if there are any pale flexible Japanese girls hiding in the cupboard.

worryingalot · 17/12/2023 19:54

check the loft

MustWeDoThis · 17/12/2023 19:55

Our minds are our own worst enemy. You may have brushed against it the day before, or like my own cat - Once they realise that the nob turns they will start batting and pushing on it, playing with it etc. Put your cat in the kitchen and see what happens (although they may not do it again.)

Evan456 · 17/12/2023 20:17

Phrogging?

Ellamaelucyolivia · 17/12/2023 21:03

This reminds me of that scary episode of Luther where the guy is hiding in the attic 😣