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Posted: 07-01-2013 14:20 Post subject:

The phone rang just now. I picked up, expecting another PPI or similar timewaster, but there was silence. I said Allo? a couple of times, and then a recorded female voice said "goodbye"!

Was this an omen of some kind, or just a faulty recorded message? Question

Posted: 07-01-2013 17:34 Post subject:

It's that Someone trying to tell you Something again! Laughing

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Posted: 22-02-2013 00:30 Post subject:

My phone weirdness is not so much who or what was on the end of the line but more the ringing itself. I was living in a shared house in my third year as a student (in 1995) and our phone was set to incoming calls only (there was a phone box just outside our house and so we never had to worry about splitting the bill!). The phone would ring but with a sporadic sort of broken tone, stopping and starting with partial rings. The phone line was always dead when we picked it up. We would also ask our regular callers if they had rung early on but this was never the case.

We reported it to BT on a number of occasions and they claimed the tests showed there was no faults in the line and the cables were sound. We bought a new phone on their recommendation but this did not stop the problem. It was an old house and it could be a bit creepy if this 'broken ringing' happened when alone. We eventually learnt to ignore it but I remember it happening as frequently as once or twice a night. Has anyone else had or heard of this problem?

Posted: 22-02-2013 01:10 Post subject:

Yep had a similar problem when I lived in Cornwall, it was eventually traced to condensation in the junction box outside the house, once it was replaced the problem was solved.

Posted: 22-02-2013 08:31 Post subject:

Likewise, I experienced similar 'broken' ringing at a previous workplace and BT eventually found it was down to trees branches making contact with various pole mounted phone cables.

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Posted: 28-02-2013 20:27 Post subject:

On reading the above back to myself, it all sounds furiously unlikely.

But the 'F' story I would swear to on a stack of Bibles, and I have no reason to disbelieve my mate (and he has stuck to his story without alteration or embellishment for more than 20 years).

Posted: 28-02-2013 21:59 Post subject:

'F' may be akin to 'Q' or 'M' - a senior civil servant or something...

Posted: 28-02-2013 22:19 Post subject:

That would be my guess too. But it's unlikely to be anything internal relating to MIs 5 or 6, because neither was based in Whitehall.

(It's only just occurred to me that F might not be an individual but a department of some Ministry or other, which is how the person who answered the phone sussed me out so quickly)

Posted: 05-04-2013 10:56 Post subject:

This is weird but not supernatural.

My mother in law's carer rang this morning to tell me that her phone isn't working. This is a bit serious, as her various alarms and her emergency pendant and warden alert system run off it, so I had to deal with it.

When I rang her number to test it I got a different house completely! When I explained that I wasn't a scammer, the person gave me their number so I rang that to see what would happen, and got a third house! Laughing

When I rang back to my mother in law's number again and got the wrong house once more, the man of the house was on his mobile, having rung their own landline number and also got the third house! Sheila, who lives there, is NOT amused at all.

I've rung BT and after an attempted fob-off with a spurious line test I was told that, yup, there IS a problem and it'll be fixed by the 10th April. If it takes that long, there'll be some angry phone calls whizzing about.

The people whose phone I got when I rang my mother in law gives out my mother in law's number on the 1471. Her daughter suggests they try making a long call to Australia to see who gets the bill! Laughing

Apparently people in the area are now ringing each other and getting wrong numbers all over the place. I'm highly amused, but glad it's not happening here!

Last month my own area's phone exchange had a fault that knocked off everyone's internet access. BT blamed the ISPs and the ISPs blamed straight back. Wasn't fixed for a week or so. I reckon a mouse chewed through a cable.

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Posted: 06-04-2013 09:06 Post subject:

Three weeks! Shocked

There're going to be some RABID BT customers round the MiL's area if it takes that long. rofl

Edit: most unsportingly, BT have already fixed the fault. How disappointing. Wink

Posted: 06-04-2013 12:58 Post subject:

I HAVE SOMETHING RELEVANT TO POST! Shocked

Last night at around half past nine, our home phone rang. We usually never bother answering it as it's always a cold caller - anyone who knows us calls our mobiles.

Thinking that it was pretty late for a junk call, the usual "bad news from home" alarm bells start ringing, so I answered it.

"Hello, this is a message from BT. Telephone number 07********* sent a text message to this phone at 9.32pm.

We're not able to read this message to you. This could be because it's blank, or contains a photo. BT recommends you contact the message sender."

OK, nothing weird there so far, and no bad news. The number was my mum's mobile, and she hardly ever texts. I sent her a message telling her what had happened thinking she was trying to send me a photo. I wasn't surprised that mum didn't reply straight away, her mobile is only on when she goes out.

So, mum calls me this morning:

"I'm sure I didn't send anything last night - I switched my phone off at about 6!"

Ah well, one of those weird glitches in the system.

Only....a minute or two later....

"I've just checked the sent folder on my mobile. The last message was a blank text sent to your home number at 9.32 last night! But my phone was off........."

Shocked