To be spooked by this

[LisaSimps0n]

I'm not normally one to give much headspace to woo stories, and generally look for rational exlanations if anything a bit weird happens, but getting increasingly spooked by what appears to be a haunted phone.
I replaced my phone a few months ago, and my old phone is sitting on the chest of drawers in the bedroom. A couple of weeks ago I found it on the floor beside the drawers, picked it up and was surprised to find it turned on and charged. Didn't think much more about it, put it back on the chest of drawers and went to bed. A couple of minutes later it fell on the floor again. This was unsettling, and I couldn't explain it (no one else in room, no obvious movement. Can't remember whether I'd turned it off, but even if it had vibrated due to an alert this had never previously caused it to fall on the floor). Put it back and put it out of my mind. A few nights later I was again on my own in bed when the phone (definitely turned off this time) flew off the drawers and landed in the floor about a foot from them. Again picked it up and put it back. In the morning it was in the floor again, this time right by the bed.
Since then it has happened 2 or 3 more times, always when I was alone in the room and in bed. Told my partner, but she was unimpressed and didn't really indulge my wild imagination at all.
This evening we were both in the room, in bed about to go to sleep when again the phone flew off the drawers, this time landing under the bed, 2 or 3 feet from the drawers. Partner has finally agreed this is weird, with no obvious explanation.
I'm torn between finding this intriguing and wanting to see if it keeps happening, and being increasingly spooked.
Would love to hear pet theories and similar stories.

book marking

Shameless placemark-

Also if it was some magnetic force or something then there'd surely have to be movement from something else in the room? The way OP describes it is as if the room is still, settled.
If it is just sliding off somehow- mark where you put it with a bit of tape and check back every few minutes. It might just be sliding to a certain point then building up some small momentum in the last slippy bit.... maybe

invisible cat.

Spirits are meant to use phones as a way of trying to get in touch. I read somewhere that they symbolise communication between the living and the dead.
It sounds like someone is trying to tell you something. But if it's freaking you out, I would get rid of it.

I'm going to embark on some systematic experimentation, and will report results, but as I have said, it is a once every few days occurrence, so it might be a while before I have anything to update. It is definitely not sliding off - it moves really quickly, and nothing else on the drawers is moving. I will try putting other objects around it and look into rigging up a camera. The phone is a Sony Xperia z3 compact. It is set to silent/no vibrations and has no SIM card in it, so I don't think it is caused by any notifications making it move - the movement is too rapid and dramatic for that to be s plausible explanation - but I will let it discharge completely just to be sure. Will be very disappointed now if it doesn't happen again!

Our cars are enormous and far from invisible . And they haven't been around to witness it. I like to imagine that maybe someone is trying to get in touch - a few people very close to me have died - but that is so far from what I rationally believe that I don't really think that is the case. But really have no idea what is going on so willing to believe anything.

Invisible cat

Cats, not cars

Sony phones are known to slide off surfaces, I have had several and they all do it. The glass backs make them very slippery. Does it have a case on it?

I’d have to move to the moon

I put my iPhone on a new wireless charger the other night. It was on a flat bedside table. I watched transfixed as it ever so slowly moved itself off the charger and slid to the floor (I caught it)
Some kind of vibration I guess coupled with the fact the floor might not be level.
I'm guessing vibration somewhere.

Turn it on and dial 666.

Not near the underground, OP? If not, I think you have a haunted phone, possibly by the spirits of your previous mobiles...

Oh god, put the phone somewhere else and see does it fly off

New iPhones slide off surfaces. Glass back stupidity.

If it is an old phone why don’t you just throw it out? Or is that too logical?

You're not alone... I don't think you're haunted.

forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-4-definitely-moves-my-itself.1294238/

Belphegor - that's a really interesting read.

If OP does the 'surround the phone with bits' thing it should put a stop to the phone slipping anywhere. If it manages to jump out of it's prison it'll be back to the drawing board

Shameless placemarking!

Magnetic fields or the vibrating function or something.

Just shove it in a drawer-if it escapes from there then I'll be convinced it's haunted.

OK, so although I do know that there is almost certainly a logical explanation, I honestly don't think that any of the suggestions given so far are it (and of course, a big little part of me also quite wants there not to be one). To answer some of the questions, I live nowhere near the undergrond, or a busy road, but I do live in an old cottage with bouncy uneven floors, so I'd be very surprised if the surface is completely flat. But I have been in the bedroom a fair amount today, walking around on bouncy floorboards, opening and closing the drawers to put clothes away, and sending myself emails and facebook messages from my partner's phone to make it vibrate, and at no point has it moved more than cm or two.
The phone is slippery, and has only recently been taken out of a case (during which time it has been lying around unused), so the oleophobic coating theory does sound plausible; when I give it a little nudge, it does skate around on the surface a bit. But the only way I was able to get it to fall off the drawers today was to jiggle them repeatedly until it worked its way to the edge - and then it landed just at the base of them, not several feet away.
So, in the interests of science I have dug an old sony video camera out of the loft and trained it on the chest of drawers, on which the phone is surrounded by various objects including a nice chunky book between it and the edge. I will do my best to attach a photo in a minute. I'm now shitting myself a little scared about the possibility of the phone managing to get past that. But assuming that nothing happens tonight, I will try again tomorrow without the obstacle course. I am really hoping to catch something on tape, because I am now really curious about what is going on.

Place marking to see what happens when cameras are trained on the attention-seeking phone! Had experience of a picture and a clock apparently jumping off a wall (no heavy traffic, no vibrations to speak of, the cords and hooks holding both objects were undamaged). In the case of the clock, it just very neatly flipped itself off the wall, landing on the floor inmediately beneath. In the case of the picture, no one saw it happen but heard a loud bang and found it on the floor the other side of the room. Looking for logical reasons....

Here's the photo of the surface with the phone on. Note the card, which I thought would be a good indicator of seismic activity etc that might explain a phone flying across a room...

Place marking! Exciting!

I really don’t believe in ghosts. But I too have struggled with the physics of things like this: we have had the hairdryer throw itself to the end of its lead, and bottles of essential oils throw themselves about the place too - from the back of a chest of drawers. Then there’s the more explicable but still odd stuff like appliances like the kettle and the TV turning themselves on and off and the TV talking once it’s switched off and other bits like that.

Keen to see if you film it, OP!