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Tech glitch or poltergeist?
Maybebabymaybenot · 01/12/2019 10:37
Had a strange experience this morning and wondering if anyone can explain please?
Tried to put TV on this morning and found that all 4 socket switches had been turned off (2 sets of 2). I definitely didn't do it last night before bed.
I don't actually think a ghost has done it (unless they think I'm watching too much TV and trying to help me?) but I really can't think of a logical explanation!
I did buy an echo dot and tried it out in the kitchen, switching it off at the wall before bed but I can't see how that could be linked but maybe someone more techy knows better?
Any theories??????
c3pu · 01/12/2019 10:47
The physical switch on the socket had been turned from "on" to "off"?
Unless you're talking about some kind of socket with a built in RCD, and the RCD had tripped like this: www.screwfix.com/p/british-general-13a-2g-rcd-switched-plug-socket/3133J?tc=ST5&ds_kid=92700049678963836&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiA5o3vBRBUEiwA9PVzagLsHX2nE6ZFSngG3sm4z_yYNxmg5N20i3XE-u7Po09e5eH_Ubf0LhoCJCsQAvD_BwE
There is no tech glitch that can cause the switch to move. And I don't believe in ghosts so I'm going to say somebody physically turned them off.
Maybebabymaybenot · 01/12/2019 10:53
Thank you for replying. Yes they were physically turned to off position but nobody has been in the house. I went to bed switching TV off using the remote and came down this morning to this. They are just standard sockets in a new build property but I have been in the house a year and not had this before so I'm baffled.
Maybebabymaybenot · 01/12/2019 11:07
Thanks for replying Dodie. There's no way I would do it without thinking though, I haven't switched the sockets off since I moved in a year ago and it's not easy to get to them as they are right down the back of the TV unit. It's really weird. I have thought I might have been sleepwalking but seems a random thing to do even then!
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