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Wierd Door Bell Happenings- Things That Go Ding-Dong in the Night

Now. This surely must be a weird one. My (old) door bell recently started ringing somewhat randomly, at all times of day and night, and using a different tone to the one the door bell is set to. I changed the batteries, I took the wireless bell-button off and cleaned it, and tried to seal it in case rain was getting in and finally I got a new one.

5am in the morning. Ding-ruddy-dong on my new door bell. No one there, and a different tone to the current doorbell setting. Would you credit it?! 

I am wondering if we are haunted by the Ghost of Owners past, or something. Any ideas out there? It is the fact that the new one is also doing it, and that it is doing it to a different chime tone to the setting on the bell.

One other thing, I checked that the old door bell-button and new door-bell do not work together, so I am rather assuming that the new door bell is on a ‘different frequency’ as it were to the old one, and that it is not being randomly set off by someone else doorbell.

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james walshPermalink Reply by james walsh on October 18, 2011 at 20:28
Same thing happened to me until i realised that my neighbours 'remote keyless car lock'  triggered my door bell. That's why it went off exactly same time every morning when he left for work. I thought it was someone ringing my doorbell and running away.
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on October 19, 2011 at 10:45

Alan, petitioning along Wightman Road on traffic calming & footways a few years ago I thought I'd discovered a pocket of related Friedlands and wondered whether they'd come over pre- or post-war. It took me a while to rumble the mystery, but rest assured my later W1Bus Petition included no multiple Friedlands.

Ireland's Garda Síochána made a rather similar discovery last year after booking one Prawo Jazdy on over 50 separate charges of speeding and reckless driving across most counties from Cork to the Border. The miscreant Pole finally rang a bell with one young alert Garda. 

Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on October 19, 2011 at 10:59
That's hilarious. And it seems the BBC takes its news from the Irish Times.
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on October 19, 2011 at 12:18
I just wonder what they made of it that week in Gazeta Wyborcza or even in Gazeta Wspólczesna - and I'm sure it kept Nowa Trybuna Opolska in Irish jokes and cartoons for the rest of 2009.
Permalink Reply by Inkjetpack on October 18, 2011 at 20:43
Permalink Reply by John D on October 19, 2011 at 9:10
Let's wait until he gets a wired bell, then go round at random times, ring the bell and run away :-)
Permalink Reply by pamish on October 19, 2011 at 14:03

My doorbell lets me set different frequencies. There are little switches inside, which have to be set to the same for the bell and bellpush.

I did have to ditch the last one as it didn't have this option and I would get those unwelcome random dingdongs. Must be quite funny to watch someone standing in the street looking for invisible miscreants.

 

Permalink Reply by Anette on October 21, 2011 at 13:50
have you tried burning some sage and clapping your hands? Just in case.. ;D

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