TV just turned itself off in the other room--twice

[orleans]

no one else is home.

when it shut off about twenty minutes ago i turned it back on.

then it turned off by itself five minutes ago.

freaked me out.

should i turn it on and see if it does it again?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear orleans!

Go for it!

You do NOT have a ghost!

It might be a short circuit or something...

:hug:

[orleans]

2. ok peggy...but how can you be sure? n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Well, I don't believe in ghosts! n/t

[Roon]

4. Oh Peggy

My ex was physic sensitive and every once in a while his face would light up and he would tell me about a little girl he just saw running to the other room.This house is over a 100 years old and it would really creep me out when he would do that. My hairs are standing on end as I write this.

If ghosts are real, please don't ever let me see one, I don't think I could handle it.

[orleans]

16. well, i decided not to turn it back on again

after it shut off twice.
i figured it wasn't meant to be on.
i listened to the radio on the computer instead. george noory! omg!

[tango-tee]

5. Unplug it.

And if it *then* turns on by itself again, go get your .357 magnum, aim center mass and shoot it. That should fix the problem.

[goldcanyonaz]

13. HAHA!

[peekaloo]

6. Check the back of it for the good/evil switch and make sure it's set to good.

Those switches are such a pain. }(

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. They do that sometimes. On "Ghost Hunters" it almost always had to do with

a remote that was stuck on "on/off" or a timer that had inadvertantly been set. There were a few other reasons, but I can't remember them now. But none of them involved ghosts, if that makes you feel any better. :)

[rug]

8. Stop turning it to Fox and it won't happen again.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I used to come home from work sometimes and find my tv on when I knew

I had turned it off before I left the house. It really creeped me out to hear voices in the house when I unlocked the door. I finally discovered that my cat was laying on the remote if I left it on the couch when I went out. Mystery solved!

[lunatica]

10. Some cats just like to see hoomans freak out

Especially since they lost their status of gods after the ancient Egyptian times.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. Hush, you fool! My cat has still not accepted the downgraded status.

[lunatica]

14. Ooops! My bad!

Shush my mouth! Zipped!

[hunter]

11. We had a microwave oven that started doing that.

Sort of like a Toyota, I guess, maybe some glitch in the control circuitry.

Does a microwave oven really need a computer in it? (Gotta have that "Popcorn" button!)

I disassembled it, kept some of the parts for my mad scientist lab, and sent the rest of the beast to be recycled before it had a chance to burn our house down.

[rurallib]

15. appears you have visitors from another dimension

offer them a Budwieser and that will get rid of them.

[kayakjohnny]

17. Even your tv knows how bad tv is these days.

I'd go with it's instincts.

It's probably just turned off by all the crap that passes for programming.

Get it?

[kimmerspixelated]

18. KJ has the best answer yet!!!

Seriously, ours does it all the time. With the satelite dish, I think they are just doing a check everyday. Then the brain of it has a little fart* or something and then when it comes back on, it goes back to the average channel, not nec. the one it was on previously. I know, annoying!

[carlyhippy]

19. it's getting hot, probably about ready for it to go out

unless ghosts are not liking your selection of programming ha

[Swede]

20. Something is breaking down.

Current flow is making something hot,it's electronic properties change and the protection circuits kick in.

[RagAss]

21. Maybe your neighbor's remote is doing it.

[guitar man]

22. Moisture?

I had one that would do that from time to time and I finally figured out I had a tiny leak in the roof that was dripping just a little into the vents on the back of the tv, just enough to make it shut itself down sometimes.

[applegrove]

23. My DU turned itself off last night. Spooky!