This happened a few weeks ago and I thought it was really
spooky. It's just passed midnight. I was in bed coming down
with the flu. I was starting to cough and had a very sore
throat. No longer being able to stand the pain, I got up to
get some medicine in the kitchen. From my bedroom, the
kitchen and living room are down the hall to my right, and
the bathroom is at the end of the hall to the left.
I passed the living room on the way to the kitchen. It was
pitch black. I got the medicine from the pantry and saw
from the clock on the microwave that it was 12:53 am. After
taking some cough medicine, I returned back to my room to
try and get some sleep. As I lay in my bed still coping
with a sore throat, I thought I heard the computer in the
living room turn on. You know the sound a computer makes
when you turn it on, right before the icons appear, there
is something like a single music note played that increases
in volume, then your screen appears. It’s impossible to
mistake that sound for anything else.
I heard this and thought, that sounds like the computer.
But I knew it couldn’t be since I just passed the living
room and there was no one there. Besides it was probably
1:00 am by now and no one else was up but me. It’s just my
parents and me at home and they were sound asleep. I could
hear them snoring. So I just told myself I was imagining
things.
Still lying in bed, my sore throat was becoming unbearable,
so I finally decided to get up again and go to the bathroom
and try to gargle with some medicated mouthwash. I didn’t
bother putting my glasses on but walked sleepily into the
bathroom. From the bathroom entrance I stared down the hall
and saw a faint light coming from the living room. I walked
slowly, passing my room, and timidly stopped just before
the archway of the living room. I could see the computer
light being reflected off the wall mirror, but couldn’t see
anyone.
Of course I was a bit nervous now, so I quickly walked to
my room to get my glasses and returned. The clock in my
room read that it was 1:10 am. The computer was on but no
one was there. I walked up to it and turned the system off.
I checked the sliding doors in the living room. It was
locked. I went to the front door and saw that it was locked
too. The door in the kitchen, which led to the garage, was
locked as well. The only other rooms to check were the
guest bedroom next to the bathroom and my parents’ room. I
looked at the guest bedroom, no one there. From outside my
parents’ room I could hear two people slight snoring. So
who turned on the computer?
I asked some of the engineers at work the next day if some
kind of power surge could turn a computer on. No, not that
they know of. Unless the computer was actually on and the
screen saver was in use, the only way to turn a computer on
is for someone to physically do it. I told them the
computer hadn’t been used in at least two days and besides
I heard that little intro noise/music a computer makes
whenever it is turned on. Now I get spooked each time I
think about what happened.
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