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i was just in the kitchen and my kettle just switched itself on all by itself.. i saw it happen.. the switch flicked all by itself and the light came on..

[alanseago]

Ghosty is thirsty. Can't you take a hint?

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how can it be thou Alan..? is it some type of optical illusion or summat? it was well weird....

[Patrick]

Careful you haven't got a bit of water in the electrics. That's the only thing I can think of. Have a sniff around the kettle's socket and give it a wipe with a dry tea towel and if it's cordless, check the underneath of the plate it sits on to make sure that's all dry too. The last thing you want is for it to come on by itself then not turn itself off again. They make kettles look posh these days, but many manufacturers spend little money on making the important bits water tight.

[Patrick]

By "having a sniff" I mean; see if you can smell any sort of burning smell round there - or as Peter Tinniswood once described it "The tang of stale electricity".

[everso]

Aha! It's probably the witch doctor that interfered with your computer.





Costal is haunted, Costal is haunted, Costal is haunted

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[trubble]

The exact same thing happened to me, Costal, (about 2 years ago maybe? It's documented somewhere here, I think - or on one of these proboards). I never found a reason why but I did find more problems followed. Start saving for a new and different type of kettle. One the ghost cannot operate.

[trubble]

By the way, I have ghost-witchy stuff that happens around electrical items too. I am so relieved I am not the only one.

[alanseago]

Try unplugging it and see what happens.
Seriously, is it a rocker switch.

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whats a rocker switch? Weyland???!
the switch is like a little lever, that i press down to switch it on. Or, in recent developments, the kettle decides to switch down all of its own accord...

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Trubble.. i've often had mad electrickal happenings.. one time in portsmouth i woke up, went to switch on the tv and it sort of exploded. Only after that did i notice it was sitting in a puddle of some type of liqwuid. No idea where the liqwuid had come from.

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not a scooby.. it was just a puddle around the tv with no possibility of it having come from anywhere... looked like the tv had wet itself.

[trubble]

Ectoplasm.

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Exackkkerly.

[housesparrow]

One morning earlier this year there was a bang and a flash in my kitchen and that smell you describe so well. The only thing on was the boiler, which was humming away happily but the initial suspect was the toaster, though it had done nothing to deserve it. It is still making toast, the kettle is still providing tea and the boiler is still heating water.

[trubble]

Apparition.

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AAAPPaarantllly.

[trubble]

I suppose it could have been a partition. My psychic spelling isn't always so good and costal's is...er..a little ungooder than mine. It's bad luck for you, Housey, that we are are your psychic consultants. Have you had trouble with goats recently?

[Patrick]

Proper Kettle! The classic 'Swan'. If something blew on it you just went out and bought a new element for a couple of quid. I used to have one 'til it got nicked. Probably still have it today otherwise.

An aunt of mine would swear by (and sometimes at) stove top kettles - after all - if she ever burnt one of those dry it was just £2 to replace it from Croydon market!

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