Help me with an explanation for this - possible ghost?

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My (extremely rational usually) friend has recently moved into a flat where objects have started being moved around when she is out.
The last thing that happened was two LED lights clicking on simultaneously, two of those letters with lights in them, that have batteries and aren't linked to each other or the electrics. Her son and her witnessed it.
I want there to be a rational explanation for this but can't think of one. She is now convinced and is getting a priest in.
Can anyone think of anything rational/scientific?

Surely the answer to this on MN is related to Brexit, transsexuals or veganism?

So you have a vegan, formerly male ghost who voted Remain. And plays with lights.

What’s so unlikely about that?

Keener I’ve just been online and ordered it from the library. Haven’t read a good book in ages.

Op the lights may have been bought at different times but presumably the batteries came out of the same pack? Damp in the atmosphere? Stored in a drawer too long? Near the expiry date? ( yes batteries have an expiration date)

forget the lights. What are the objects being moved?

On the woo side which are the two letters that blink and do they equate to initials of someone she knows/knew.

I hope you like it, Peter. It’s very, very black comedy.

I might ask her what the book was. It was taken out of a box and put on a chair.
It's definitely connected to the flat not her personally.
The two letters are the initials of her and her sons first names so not significant.
I still don't think it's a ghost I'm just trying to think how the lights thing would happen.

in woo territory it is significant.

But she only has those two letters

ah sorry I read wrong. I thought you meant two out of a few other letters that made a word.

Yeah it doesn't help. In woo territory could the previous occupant's bad energy make things happen?

This happens at my mothers house, oddly all in the living room. Mostly electrical and all on one side of the wall.
Alot of things fall down. Stones have been thrown from the fire. The ceiling fan turns on by itself. The tv volume just goes up and down as it pleases. It doesn't feel creepy but theres no reason for it happening
Its woo Op ask your friend to set up a camera.

Get a priest in? Good luck with that

More like someone wanting attention. It often happens when changes are made in some way to the house by new occupants. not the only reason though.

If your friend is actually wanting a priest in tell her to try asking 'them' to stop and that she lives there now and to please respect it before she gets a priest. Honestly its how a lot of people with this problem solve it.

lilqueenie funnily enough my friend said it might be to do with her making changes to the place.
She has spoken to it but I read somewhere she shouldn't encourage it by talking to it too much

Its true sometimes you should ignore but on the other hand getting a priest involved can make it worse depending on who it is. Acknowledgement in this case and firm I live here now is likely enough to settle things if its a past resident.

How would getting a priest make it worse? Make it angry?

its happens but its unlikely. also it doesn't always work depending on the spirit. If they were not of a certain religion they might not listen. I don't think she should worry to be honest.

lilqueenie funnily enough my friend said it might be to do with her making changes to the place.
She has spoken to it but I read somewhere she shouldn't encourage it by talking to it too much

Every single time there's a woo thread, they start of with 'I/my friend is extremely rational', or 'complete non believers'.

I think 'Yeah righto, lets just sit and wait for it'.

And there it is right there ^^ only a few posts in...

I remember when he had battery operated baby toys in the house there were a couple that would go off randomly when the batteries were going. Scared the shit out of me but it was definitely just the batteries and that's what this sounds like.

She was completely rational until this series of events, and would never have believed in this if it had happened to someone else

The friend needs to buy more lights so she has every letter of the alphabet then ask Mr or Mrs ghostie to spell out a sentence by lighting up one letter at a time

This made me laugh!

I am a believer in ghosts and this would freak me out! I’ve heard of a couple of cases among friends to do with strange happenings after/during house renovations or decorating.

I can't believe she's come around to believing so quickly and would never have expected it. I still don't know what to think.

That would explain one doyoumind but 2 completely simultaneously?

Yeah, the friend’s a dyed in the wool sceptic. 🙄

And a priest will be really concerned about demonic possession of the battery operated lights. 🙄🙄

A priest, though... What if the deceased (lets call them “Ghostie”) was not a catholic, nor, indeed, any flavour of Christian? Ghostie could well have been Sikh, Buddhist, atheist. They’d laugh at a priest getting all holy at them. It’d be like trying to attack a werewolf with a crucifix and garlic.

I’ve just had the happy realisation, though, that as an atheist myself my own (possibly) malevolent spirit can’t be exorcised when the time comes. 👻

A book being taken out of a box? Making a couple of lights flicker?

What a fucking amateur!

That ghostie needs to get with the programme as he/she is hardly the Enfield Poltergeist.

We want kids thrown from their beds, beds dancing across the room, wardrobes moving, knives and forks hurled in all directions and deep throated chuckles coming out of the kettle.

If you're going to haunt someone why do such a half assed job?