Do I need a ghostbuster?

Dear Beeb,

This morning at 7 AM the phone rang at home. The caller ID displayed my home phone number. Later I woke up to find the ceiling fan on in the family room. It was not on when I went to bed. I can't turn it off with the remote, and there is no wall switch. Lastly, the garage door opener light was on, and that wasn't on when I went to bed, either.

Do I need a ghostbuster? How do I turn off my ceiling fan?

Best regards,
Walt

 

Burn it with fire!!

 

No, you need a new battery in your remote.

 

Lay some base charges in the foundation, then blow the fucker up from your neighbor's front yard.

 

Any thunderstorms in your area? Garage door openers and remote control ceiling fans are usually the first to go with a lightning strike, as well as thermostats and hvac control units.

 

Probably a power outage....

 

boooga boooga boooga boooga!!!!!

 

Who was on the phone? Maybe Ghostbusters was calling you?

 

In the hours after my mother's passing, my brother-in-law and my sisters best friend were en route to my parents home (middle of night). Her friend received a text message saying "Where are you?" on her phone. It was from "Jeannette" (my mom). My BIL figured it was my sister using mom's phone. But her friend did not have my mother's cell # in her phone. When they got to my folks house, there was no record of a text from mom's cell, and there was no phone # attached to the text that was sent when they tried to call the message sender.

Call Dr Venkman.

 

You need a catholic priest who moonlights as an electrician. And for the ceiling fan, a BFH.

 

You're f@cked!

 

Just put a couple hundred pounds of tannerite in the house and shoot it with a .50 bmg

 

Call one of those ghost hunter TV shows and get paid.

 

Wow! You will never have an explanation for this...

 

Was there any poop in the living room floor? If so it was just Ditz thinking it was a fort.

 

Sounds like a power surge has scrambled or fried your ceiling fan control, and possibly scrambled the brains of the garage opener.

turn off the breaker to these devices for 3 minutes, then turn back on. If that doesn't fix them, then you need to replace them.

The phone thing is a hacker/scammer. Never will you get a legitimate call with your own number as caller ID.

 

Sorry to hear that about your Mom. That is actually a very cool story.

 

My television will sometimes turn itself on in the middle of the night.

No picture, just sound coming through the speakers.

When my grandmother passed away I went down south for the funeral. The night before at 3am the microwave in my hotel room turned on and I couldn't turn it off.

Had to unplug it.

 

Sounds like you can home drunk and don't remember leaving the garage door open or turning in the ceiling fan.