Dateline: Late 70's. My first job in broadcast, a 3KW FM/5KW AM radio station.
The station was built on farmland but the suburbs had grown to surround it. One day I got a call from a very upset but very sweet and very old woman. She was mad that she couldn't NOT hear our station. She had a lot to say so I heard her out, and it turned out she was convinced her toaster was possessed because it was speaking to her.
She lived at the back corner of our property. I had to go see for myself.
The AM station was a four tower array with different daytime / nighttime patterns. Both patterns had a lobe pointed straight through her house. The closest tower to her was all of three hundred feet away.
I was met with the specter of a vintage chrome toaster singing Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", clearly and unambiguously, directly to me. It. Was. Haunting. The lady was right!
Now I don't know if Satan exists or not but I was damn sure he wasn't gonna use my radio station as his unholy vessel. And I can't speak for Cher's relationship with the evil one but I suspect she was an innocent in all of this. Then the toaster told me the weather.
I was fresh out of garlic and crucifixes so I did some LC thing on the powerline and cleansed all the souls involved. Sadly it was before the movie Poltergeist so I didn't think to say "this house is clean".
The station was built on farmland but the suburbs had grown to surround it. One day I got a call from a very upset but very sweet and very old woman. She was mad that she couldn't NOT hear our station. She had a lot to say so I heard her out, and it turned out she was convinced her toaster was possessed because it was speaking to her.
She lived at the back corner of our property. I had to go see for myself.
The AM station was a four tower array with different daytime / nighttime patterns. Both patterns had a lobe pointed straight through her house. The closest tower to her was all of three hundred feet away.
I was met with the specter of a vintage chrome toaster singing Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", clearly and unambiguously, directly to me. It. Was. Haunting. The lady was right!
Now I don't know if Satan exists or not but I was damn sure he wasn't gonna use my radio station as his unholy vessel. And I can't speak for Cher's relationship with the evil one but I suspect she was an innocent in all of this. Then the toaster told me the weather.
I was fresh out of garlic and crucifixes so I did some LC thing on the powerline and cleansed all the souls involved. Sadly it was before the movie Poltergeist so I didn't think to say "this house is clean".
It's entirely true, but it has so many great fake punch lines! Which one of these is the real ending?
"Anyway, that's how I met my first wife"
"I need to point out Cher is living the exact life of someone who picked up the pen. Coincidence?"
"Sometimes life offers you biscotti"
"Anyway, that's how I met my first wife"
"I need to point out Cher is living the exact life of someone who picked up the pen. Coincidence?"
"Sometimes life offers you biscotti"
I had a microwave that would turn itself on randomly.
I would go to bed then after a while there would be a buzzing then a ding as it finished.
Turned out to be those cheap tactile buttons.
One was worn out and sometimes made contact and set the microwave off.
I would go to bed then after a while there would be a buzzing then a ding as it finished.
Turned out to be those cheap tactile buttons.
One was worn out and sometimes made contact and set the microwave off.
Reading the title, I thought you might have been the poster of the YT video where the guy stuck a knife into a toaster and it subsequently exploded!
My own story:
I was working on something and heard voices from the other half of the house. I knew nothing was turned on, so I thought to myself, "They're going to take my driver's license away for this." It turned out to be the washing machine playing two audibly distinguishable radio broadcasts. The closest station is about 45km away.
My own story:
I was working on something and heard voices from the other half of the house. I knew nothing was turned on, so I thought to myself, "They're going to take my driver's license away for this." It turned out to be the washing machine playing two audibly distinguishable radio broadcasts. The closest station is about 45km away.
I remember in 1980 building a Maplin 225WRMS disco amplifier.
I had it turned on about to test it when suddenly a voice came out of the speakers.
It was a police broadcast from a police van parked in front of the house.
I had it turned on about to test it when suddenly a voice came out of the speakers.
It was a police broadcast from a police van parked in front of the house.
nigelwright7557, we must have had the same microwave! I decided to get rid of mine when the display spontaneously flashed "666".
There was an anecdotical story from the 50's or60's about cabbages playing music loudly near the 1 kW MW broadcast transmitter in my country.
Similar story. One day my neighbour, the proverbial little old lady knocked on my door and said "Can you help me please, I think my central heating
is broken as its making a very loud "boingggg" noise every now and again. I went in and sure enough it was and it was shaking the whole house. However
I couldnt exactly see where it was coming from as it seemed to be everywhere. Then I went upstairs I happened to look out of the window and next
door to her my other neighbour Lee was in his garden with some huge speakers. Now he ran a PA equipment business and was testing some out to loan to
the Notting Hill Carnival. These apparently used big bass drivers but these had previously come back damaged because they were played so loud so we was
testing out some new 24in ones to near destruction with a LF pulse driven by a several Kw amp !.
is broken as its making a very loud "boingggg" noise every now and again. I went in and sure enough it was and it was shaking the whole house. However
I couldnt exactly see where it was coming from as it seemed to be everywhere. Then I went upstairs I happened to look out of the window and next
door to her my other neighbour Lee was in his garden with some huge speakers. Now he ran a PA equipment business and was testing some out to loan to
the Notting Hill Carnival. These apparently used big bass drivers but these had previously come back damaged because they were played so loud so we was
testing out some new 24in ones to near destruction with a LF pulse driven by a several Kw amp !.