Like I hadn't already lost track of time...

[m_findlow]

My family are trying to warp my head with the monotony of self isolation.

Just when I think I've grappled with the idea that it's May and I'm not losing my mind I start hearing the tune of Christmas carols (badly, I might add - like those singing candles that have been lit too many times).

After wandering around the house for five minutes trying to discover the source of the strange festive music I ended up in the kitchen staring at the bin. Lo and behold when I push open the lid it gets louder, confirming my utter bafflement. I believe the question I asked was "why is our bin singing Christmas carols?"

Apparently there was a broken novelty pen Mum found in the pantry which she threw out. Hours later it decided it wasn't as broken as she thought. We think it has finally given up the ghost but not without a fight.

Validation that I've not reached complete madness yet, but it's a close thing.

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[bk_forever]

Something similar happened with my neighbour a year or so ago. She asked if the beeping noise she kept hearing was coming from my house, which it wasn't, but I tracked it to her dustbin and she remembered she'd thrown out some old smoke alarms. I told her to drown them in a bucket of water, which is what I'd been told to do with an old carbon monoxide detector which had reached the end of its battery life.

Weird, unexplained noises are enough to drive anyone nuts!

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

It totally threw me. I thought maybe it was our doorbell which has about 40 different tunes you can set it for, and its always on the fritz. I thought maybe we had another delivery. Mum has been buying random things - boxes of fancy tea, books, and god knows what else. The local Australia Post guy is getting a workout in our street. Ususally it's just the neighbours across the road that are always buying stuff getting boxes all the time.

[bk_forever]

I bet it did, but at least you tacked it down to its source!

My doorbell has about that many ring tones and I've got it set to random. once in a while I get a Christmas song but the one that makes me jump is the electronic voice because I live alone. it can be quite creepy!

Hope your mum is enjoying her shopping spree!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Lol, I had something similar happen. Two separate cases, back when we lived with Grandpa.

1. I was in my room, trying to sleep. And I could hear this tinny music playing. I couldn't figure out where it came from. So, there I am, in the middle of the night, going outside to find out what was going on. Turned out that my mom had stashed an old music box of hers in the garage (near my room at the time), and it was inexplicably playing 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'.

2. On my seventeenth birthday, Mom and Grandpa sent this adorable teddy bear to me at school. And it had a music box in its paw that played the chorus of 'Love Me Tender'. As the years passed, it eventually started losing power. Until around the time of 2002-2004; it would wake me up in the middle of the night and start playing, all on its own. Sometimes, it would play just this I'm-low-on-power growl of a few notes; other times, it would play the entire song as if nothing was wrong with it.

Creepy as fuck, haha!

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. So creepy. Fortunately it seems to have finally given up.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Paranormal activity!

:D