Haunted doorbell strikes again

[bunn]

After a long period of basically behaving like a doorbell and making only one noise, and only when called upon to do so, the Doorbell Poltergeist has returned.

Rather than ringing the doorbell when there is nobody there (and sometimes refusing to ring when there is someone there), or doing that odd humming thing he does sometimes, today he was simply sitting in the bell and whistling in an ear-piercing manner.

He could clearly hear me coming, because the first few times he stopped whistling when I stood up to track him down. But I am too sneaky to be caught in such a way.  I crept up on him through the other door, caught him at it, took his cover off and gave him a good clonk.   I hope this will be a lesson to him.

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I wonder if he is related to our Bathroom Extractor Fan Banshee, who shrieks shrilly, particularly shrilly in cold weather such as we have this week. Maybe I will try clonking her with a broomstick.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

"If in doubt, give it a clonk" is a motto that has served me well.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I feel that "If in doubt, give it a clout" has an even better ring to it :-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Eee, 'appen it does.

[chainmailmaiden]

We used to have a Doorbell Poltergeist in our house in N'cle. As well as occasionally ringing the doorbell when no one was there, he specialised in ringing the doorbell at exactly the right frequency so that the burglar alarm would be set off and the key pad would lock all users out so you couldn't turn it off. The third time he did this and the engineer finally worked out what it was that was causing it, he was exorcised by the replacement of the doorbell. Maybe that was when he took up residence in your house...