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Alexa has just whispered to me - freaked out.

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FavouritePJs · 04/12/2025 23:07

My Alexa has just whispered to me and I couldn’t understand what it said, I asked her to repeat and she told me there was nothing to repeat. I’ve played it back in the app and it sounded like a male saying “Alexa drop” it’s nobody in our house and we dont use Alexa drop. I have unplugged it but feel (stupidly) frightened by it. My husband is on a nightshift - I don’t think I’ll sleep. My daughter doesn’t seem to think that anyone can just drop in but if it wasn’t that, what was it?

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EmeraldRoulette · 05/12/2025 01:40

Janeysunshibe · 05/12/2025 01:19

I ticked myself up on the sofa under a blanket in front of the fire last Christmas, and out of the blue Alexa said night night don’t let the bed bugs bite, that freaked me out,

Do you live on your own? Because that would definitely be a problem in that case.

Thisisnotmyid · 05/12/2025 01:48

Mine randomly goes blue and says hmm ‘something shit’ all the time. Doesn’t help when my DD has one and she talks in her sleep! It answers her back at 4am and wakes the rest of us up 😂

nugshugz · 05/12/2025 01:53

Once I was in the living room, my Alexa is in the kitchen.. all of a sudden she said “knock knock” and then there was an actual knock knock at the door! When I say I shit myself😂

breezyyy · 05/12/2025 02:13

DuchessDandelion · 04/12/2025 23:44

I won't have them in the house. The whole premise is sinister.

I agree, freaky shit.

Chickensky · 05/12/2025 02:38

nugshugz · 05/12/2025 01:53

Once I was in the living room, my Alexa is in the kitchen.. all of a sudden she said “knock knock” and then there was an actual knock knock at the door! When I say I shit myself😂

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That sounds like a start of a movie!! I shit myself reading that alone!

Titasaducksarse · 05/12/2025 02:56

nugshugz · 05/12/2025 01:53

Once I was in the living room, my Alexa is in the kitchen.. all of a sudden she said “knock knock” and then there was an actual knock knock at the door! When I say I shit myself😂

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How very Matrix!

breezyyy · 05/12/2025 03:00

Titasaducksarse · 05/12/2025 02:56

How very Matrix!

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The start of a film…..

RocketNan · 05/12/2025 03:07

Someone in IT at work pranked their brother by instructing the brother’s Alexa to “play horror music at 2am”. 😱

TeaCupTornado · 05/12/2025 03:32

Drop in makes alexa turn green, and she says "ok dropping in" on the one given the command...but you have to say "drop in on the kitchen" for example...and then the kitchen one lights up green and makes a ping pong noise before connecting.

We use it to save shouting through the house.

Strange that you have a recording though. Definitly glitches with alexa at times.

notallwhowanderare · 05/12/2025 03:46

Someone connected to your device. You should be able to turn off whisper mode.

madaboutpurple · 05/12/2025 04:03

I am pretty sure now I don't want an Alexa. It sounds as though it is upsetting people.

GrandmasCat · 05/12/2025 04:04

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BoxingHares22 · 05/12/2025 04:08

For gods sake, why do people leave it on all the time? I was given one years ago and we only use it to play music or the radio then unplug it. I would never have one on all the time listening in.

FreyasCats · 05/12/2025 04:13

Just out of curiosity was the knock knock just before an Amazon delivery??

What with Alexa, Siri, Amazon, location trackers and surveillance cameras everywhere and whatever Google Home is called these days, we appear to be living in the Black Mirror universe

And don't even get me started on Copilot imposed on us all at work. Ruddy spyapp.

springintoaction2 · 05/12/2025 04:21

Happyjoe · 05/12/2025 00:10

If I ever were unsure that my refusal for an Alexa was right - this thread has cemented my view!! OP, keep it unplugged 😄

100 per cent agree!!

Not helpful @FavouritePJs but that is super creepy.

springintoaction2 · 05/12/2025 04:22

But what if it whispers again - unplugged? ! 😱

Cheezit · 05/12/2025 04:41

FavouritePJs · 05/12/2025 01:18

so I texted my husband and he’s popped home and had a listen and has managed to ascertain the voice is Scottish, which it is, I hadn’t noticed that until he pointed it out, but says it’s definitely interference. He’s obviously given me all of the highly correct logical explanations for it, but he keeps forgetting I have watched The Enfield Hauntings and UnCanny and therefore my mind is made up 🤣. He’s going to stay home for a bit in the hope I’ll calm down and get some sleep.

‘Bloody Hell FavouritePJs’ 😆

DinoLil · 05/12/2025 04:48

Hehehe! I have an Alexa in every room except the bathroom. She controls the whole house - cameras, lights, everything. Yesterday, I had an electrician in all day and one of his jobs was installing Hive so that I can also use Alexa to control the heating. We spent the day referring to Alexa as 'her' in whispered tones so she didn't interfere with the set up of anything 😆

I also have a different voice for mine in each room which is funny. It's like living with lots of different people, a schizophrenic house!

It does glitch sometimes. But then so does my washing machine, dishwasher and car. Nothing is perfect, mot even tech.

HelenaWaiting · 05/12/2025 04:50

Get rid of it. It is surplus to requirements.

ThisTicklishFatball · 05/12/2025 04:54

I’m feeling excluded from the fun group. Alexa never did any of those things, but honestly, I’m glad it didn’t—I’d be totally freaked out. I have a bunch of automated gadgets at home, and sometimes they glitch, but thankfully nothing supernatural has happened so far. I’ll admit, I’m a scaredy-cat and even normal nighttime noises in the house spook me.

Blizzardofleaves · 05/12/2025 06:00

My aunt was cleaning her kitchen when Alexa growled ‘get out’ she was so scared. Even on a summers day, at lunch time she didn’t know if it was someone trying to warn her to leave the house.

She unplugged that thing a few hours later, and has never touched it since. She couldn’t sleep for a week.

Is it true that anyone can hack into them and listen? They are not secure.

WonderingWanda · 05/12/2025 06:11

Ours is really boring, she just endlessly tells us the weather for the wrong place or that our parcel has arrived.

PenelopeChipShop · 05/12/2025 06:22

I am freaked out by the very idea of Alexa and if I ever use chat GPT I always say thank you, just in case the robots ever take over and remember me…

My dd would quite like one and I was considering getting her one for Christmas but not after reading this thread!

Luckyingame · 05/12/2025 06:25

It does that sometimes, if it "thinks" you whispered to it.
Ours giggles or says "Great".
Honestly.

Nevernonono · 05/12/2025 06:40

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 05/12/2025 00:39

Or, far more likely, it was just a random bug.

Building software is a form of engineering, like building bridges.

Thing is, we're really good at building bridges. We've had a lot of practice, thousands of years of it in fact. And yet still, every so often we end up with a bridge that randomly falls down, or has some weird bugs in it like the Millennium bridge by the Tate modern that started swaying because of some weird resonance thing.

In comparison, we've been building software for 70 years or so. We do not have thousands of years of building software, and as a result we as a species are still spectacularly fucking shit at it. So some times Alexa will whisper, or growl at you, and it's not because of an intruder, or a ghost, or anything else other than a coder who turned up on Monday morning with a spectacular hangover and somehow coded something that randomly creeps people out by accident.

Or my favourite personal example, coded something that generated a random 6 letter word to let people log into an estate agents website, and then gave someone from Essex the code SXCUNT

That was a fun phone call.

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Please stop being reasonable and rational, doesn’t fit the narrative at all!

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