Mystery
| date: 3 October 2002A local thunderstorm had passed, and all of a sudden the tape answering machine activated itself. Nobody had called, and there was no signal on the phone line. The machine’s lights where blinking. I could hear a thunderstorm loud and clear through the phone speaker. The ‘call’ continued for a couple of minutes. I couldn’t think of any explanation, so I took my video camera and recorded the incident – only to convince myself that it was happening for real.
The silences in between the thuderclaps became longer, and the intensity decreased. Impatiently I pressed the machine’s replay button. Nothing happened, and nothing was recorded on the tape. My theorie is that the answering machine spontaneously acted like baby monitor receiver, possibly caused by heat or electro atmospheric disturbances. However, the transmitting device then had to be miles away, becuse in the broadcast, the thunderstorm was still going strong. Uptil this day, I still don’t understand what happened exactly.
