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Saelwen
February 3rd, 2009, 06:50 PM
I was uploading some soundfiles to mediafire, and when I was done a strange thing happened. I had my headphones on and was checking the files to make sure they downloaded correctly. Then, I heard this weird, male voice saying 'hellooo, helllloooooo!' It freaked me out completely, so I didn't answer, and turned off the computer at the power button and went to bed. It was 11:30 at night, and I was too tired to deal with it. I haven't heard any more weird voices, and I double checked my files again the next day... and nothing.

Thoughts? Did someone take a stroll through my computer when I opened the FTP port to upload/download? Do I need to worry?
ThaMan
February 3rd, 2009, 08:43 PM
This? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist)
ThaMan
February 3rd, 2009, 08:45 PM
Seriously, without taking a look at what processes were running on your computer, there is no way to tell what was going on.
Prophet
February 3rd, 2009, 10:43 PM
sounds like an EVP to me.....
ThaMan
February 4th, 2009, 08:01 AM
sounds like an EVP to me.....

You liked "White Noise" too?
Savistik
February 4th, 2009, 05:22 PM
Are you running any chat programs automatically? Teamspeak or Vent set to auto-start?
Landro
February 4th, 2009, 05:53 PM
You liked "White Noise" too?

lol, no, that movie has no idea what an EVP is....they screwed that all up...

I would say either ghost or chat program that was running.
Saelwen
February 4th, 2009, 09:13 PM
'EVP'? What?Oh, just looked it up. Who knows. I don't think I have any chat programs running automatically. And it definitely wasn't a poltergeist, ThaMan. Silly person. Unless there's a poltergeist that likes haunting headsets.

Ok. So, if the consensus says it wasn't something to be worried about... I won't worry. It freaked me out, though.
Palehorse
February 5th, 2009, 10:01 AM
It's possible your headphones were picking up noise from an outside source, a strong transmitter maybe. Years ago, a small CD player sitting on the passenger seat next to me in the car started making noise while I was at a traffic light. It wasn't even turned on. Then I heard a guy tell a joke. Turns out it was coming from a police car that was behind me. I could see the guy talking into his radio and could hear what he was saying from the speakers next to me, pretty weird stuff.
Timmerfoot
February 5th, 2009, 10:01 AM
Do whatever you did before and see what happens.
Freejack
February 5th, 2009, 11:12 AM
This is possibly crazy, but could it have been one of those web page ads with sound? Like, whenever I buy a ticket off movietickets.com they have that annoying ad telling me I've just won something (I try to close the window as fast as I can before that comes up). But maybe on these "media" sites, which are known for spurious ads, there was an ad there that came up? Maybe? I'm reaching...
Methus
February 5th, 2009, 02:10 PM
sometimes our pc speakers will catch a conversation [like 2 or 3 words] from someone on a 2 way, dont sweat it i'm sure it was something like that
Morning
February 5th, 2009, 04:39 PM
I blame namoric.
Landro
February 5th, 2009, 06:09 PM
This is possibly crazy, but could it have been one of those web page ads with sound? Like, whenever I buy a ticket off movietickets.com they have that annoying ad telling me I've just won something (I try to close the window as fast as I can before that comes up). But maybe on these "media" sites, which are known for spurious ads, there was an ad there that came up? Maybe? I'm reaching...

I vote this....

Of course the new "smart phones" can do this too. Mine has come through on my XBox headset before.
Saelwen
February 22nd, 2009, 11:41 AM
Yes, I'm not sweating it... since it hasn't happened since. Thankfully! It was pretty much the freakiest thing that's ever happened to me in my life, though.

Thanks for all the good ideas.
Dar
February 27th, 2009, 01:32 PM
After I fecal myself I would welcome our new Poltergiest Overlords.