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bit spooked - tell me I'm crazy!

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cunningstunnt · 30/09/2017 21:36

I'm upstairs watching Netflix, home alone until midnight. I thought I heard the landline phone ring downstairs but by the time I had muted the TV it had stopped so shrugged it off.

I've heard it twice since then. No one rings the landline, ever. Ex directory, no sales calls etc and it's 9.30 on a Saturday night anyway.

No big deal you might think, so I went downstairs to ring 1471 out of curiosity.

The fucking phone is off the hook.

Doors are all locked etc so I can only conclude that there is a ghost fucking with me or Bad Girls has the same fucking phone as me!! Now hiding back upstairs and a bit jumpy, every car door slam is an axe murderer coming for me. Help!

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hooochycoo · 30/09/2017 21:37

Rewatch the bits of the program again and see if you hear ringing again?

PizzaPlease · 30/09/2017 21:39

I'd be freaking out too!

teaandtoast · 30/09/2017 21:40

Next door's phone?

Scaredycat2016 · 30/09/2017 21:42

Is yours one of those phones that makes a noise when it's off the hook? I had one once.... Was Convinced I'd ended up in a real life version of scream for a while lol x

RaisinSmuggler · 30/09/2017 21:43

I'd be gone.... See ya runs away so fast leaves a trail of smoke

JaneEyre70 · 30/09/2017 21:44

Just don't watch The Ring and you'll be fine Grin............

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cunningstunnt · 30/09/2017 21:45

Maybe Scaredycat2016. I've unplugged it now and I've been sat in silence. Gonna go back through my episode and see if I hear it again. Can't be next door as detached house with lots of space in between.

It's exactly like scream. If I'd had a drink I'd think I'd lost it for sure! but I do need a cigarette but too scared to go outside now

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MadisonAvenue · 30/09/2017 21:46

Fucks sake. I was just reading your post OP when my phone started to ring. I jumped a mile!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 30/09/2017 21:48

Get your flimsy nightie an heeled slippers on.
Pick up a torch that goes off/on sporadically, you shake it, and it works for now but you know it'll peg out.

Go up the stairs not out the door. Or if you do, leave the door just on the latch (so your MadAxeman can slip into the house)

Sigh and say to the cat "Oh silly me, there's no-one there" and go back to bed, pulling the door shut then go to the bathroom to faff about and swivel the shaving mirror round to see ................................ Oh

MrsGotobed · 30/09/2017 21:50

Can't the operator and or phone company make a phone ring , even when it's off the hook, to alert you to the fact that it's off the hook? (Eg. If someone reports your phone as having a possible problem )

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cunningstunnt · 30/09/2017 21:51

MadisonAvenue that really made me laugh out loud, so if there is a serial killer downstairs, now he knows where I am Confused

70isaLimitNotaTarget not funny!!!!!!!!

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CherryCheese · 30/09/2017 21:51

70

Grin don't stop!

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 30/09/2017 21:52

Thank fuck I don't have a land line.

FindoGask · 30/09/2017 21:52

"Fucks sake. I was just reading your post OP when my phone started to ring. I jumped a mile!"

Haha! This has really made me giggle.

Jesterstolehisthornycrown1 · 30/09/2017 21:55

What happens next 70?Grin

NoParticularPattern · 30/09/2017 22:01

If it helps OP my phone does this every now and then! Only when you try 1471 it comes back with our own phone number!! Very fucking creepy. We live in the arse end of absolutely nowhere and all you can see outside is black- no security lights on one side of the house and millions on the other. DH always says he can tell when I’ve watched something scary because all the curtains are shut and every light in the house is on!

I have no good explanation for the phone ringing, but I managed the opposite the other day. Someone rang twice and I didn’t hear it despite being sat next to the damned thing. Just came up with two recent calls!! Weird!!

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 30/09/2017 22:06

You weren't watching The Ring were you?

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cunningstunnt · 30/09/2017 22:08

No but I have seen it and shit myself

My question is why is it doing it now when it's dark and I'm home alone!!! If it was bright sunshine I wouldn't care haha

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PoorYorick · 30/09/2017 22:08

My old landline phone made an intermittent soft ringing sound if it was off the hook.

Runaways01 · 30/09/2017 22:10

It will just be the TV show you were watching. I get this when I’m listening to certain songs with my headphones on. It sounds like the phone is ringing in the background but it’s just part of the music.

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 30/09/2017 22:14

No but I have seen it and shit myself

Oh dear. I'm afraid you've got a week to live, OP. Can we help you complete your bucket list?

mumtri · 30/09/2017 22:14

I can see you.

mumtri · 30/09/2017 22:15

Haha, sorry, I'm shitting myself on your behalf really!

FoodGloriousFud · 30/09/2017 22:16

Bad Girls is on Netflix??!

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cunningstunnt · 30/09/2017 22:17

You lot aren't helping Grin I've unplugged the phone and burned it and haven't heard anything since. And I've managed to venture to the kitchen for seconds of curry which I can use as a weapon if I do get attacked as it's hotter than pepper spray Grin

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