My Door Bell Rings And No One Is There

That is eerie!

I'm quicker than I used to be. Funny that.

Get a cheap video camera and point it at the door. You can get them to record to a DVR.
 
Randy

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Seth Kellogg [Cakewalk]
You may have mice? I've heard of rodents screwing around with doorbell lines before.

rsp@odyssey.net
Get a cheap video camera and point it at the door. You can get them to record to a DVR.
 
Randy

However, training mice to use a DVR is no walk in the park.......
 
HTH.  

But apparently they CAN ring doorbells, so there is hope.

UbiquitousBubba
That's the last time I buy an invisibility cloak from a guy in an abandoned castle.  I keep ringing doorbells and no one opens the door.  Also, I think there are mice in here.

Are your doorbell wires frayed or just anxious?

Probably wires are bad and only touch sometimes. Mice will eat installation off of wires also.
Dampness of the wires!
 
A short in the wires somewhere causing it.
makes connection (shorts) bell rings.
 
 

That would freak the living daylights out of me. I'd disconnect it. I get spooked very easily. A while ago I had the creepiest dream where I got up to go to the bathroom and as I passed the dark living room, I could sense there was someone sitting on the sofa and I didn't want to look but I did, and it was this horrible Pinhead type character with luminous green eyes and this great force started pulling me toward him. One of those dreams where you wake up in a cold sweat and you're freaked out by it for a good couple of minutes before you're 100% sure you're back in reality. Anyway I woke up, and just as I'm going through that couple of minutes of waking terror, my damn printer came alive of its own accord and started printing something. It was like the perfect storm of sheer terror. I was too scared to get up and stop it in case it turned out to be a printout of that Pinhead fellow in the dream. Of course reason prevailed and it turned out to be a document that had only half printed earlier and the damn thing decided it was going to come out of standby and finish it at 3am. But boy... 

Oh great now I have to stay up all night reading Jeeves and Wooster again. 

 
 

Well I never considered mice because I put out a lot of poison and the only thing that seems to get into my traps are moles...no kidding. I have caught three moles in mouse traps in my garage so far. They end up in my pool in the summer and they are terrible swimmers. The house had mice years ago but I had pretty much nuked them. The previous owners had dogs in the house and dog food was everywhere. And mice LOVE dog food. I put out mouse bait a few times a year..there could still be one around though. I should look into that. Thanks for that recommendation. The scary thing about mice is that they tend to start house fires by chewing wires and if they are doing that then I'm really concerned about it.
 
I guess I already told you the one about the new house where the electrician had wired the door bell and the thermostat but crossed the wires. When you rang the bell the heat would come on and when you turned on the thermostat the door bell rang...this really happened. I could tell others but it doesn't really relate to this.
 
I once found a few mice who were getting it on in an air conditioner and one of them had gotten across the compressor terminals. I'm sure it really lit up their life. They were pretty much crispy critters when I found them. 
 
I wish I could say I was kidding Kenny but I'm not and I can't make the bell ring on purpose but it seems to have  mind of it's own. If I had seen a black eyed kid at the door i think I would have really been distressed. As it was I didn't, thank goodness. The really strange thing is that my wife's maiden name is "Bell". I don't really want to believe it but the timing of the whole thing did kind of give me the creeps at first.It's funny how this kind of thing works, the first few times it's scary and strange but now when it happens I just turn over in bed and think,oh that's just that bell misbehaving again.No one is ever there and if it really was someone there they would knock if the bell didn't work.The prior homeowner left a widow when he was out back cutting wood and killed over with a heart attack. I have long since torn the shed down and replaced it with another where it happened.Not a month ago a neighbors dad passed away down the lane from my house. Lots of souls exiting the territory here, who knows, maybe a few are stopping by to say goodbye. The last time it happened was when his grand daughter came to our house. Since so far I can't confirm or deny anything I can only guess. I think I'll check my wiring.
 
Sharke- That is a really creepy dream you had. I have had some memorable dreams myself. I won't go into too much detail here but I dream a lot. I sometimes think I have something going on where I'm between waking and asleep (no drugs or alcohol involved) and I hear things. One time I heard my wife call me clear as a bell and she was fast asleep. I have had my name called numerous times and when I come fully awake there's no one there. But it seems just as real as a person shouting in my ear.I hear noises, but nothing I can't attribute to the house usually.There have been a few unexplained events though. One time I had a voice yell at me in the middle of the night and it was in my head and it sounded like a way over modulated radio frequency. It was saying some really hateful things.It was almost like I had picked up some kind of stray radio transmission. But I didn't have any  radios around me. None of that has happened for a  long time though. If these were dreams then they sure had me fooled for awhile.
 
Spacey- the doorbell is hard wired but it doesn't work on the typical 24 volts that most doorbells do. It makes a circuit to ring the bell but I think it's DC current. It takes 24 volts AC and then it converts it to DC and uses that to power the circuit board that makes the sounds.

It's nothing to worry about.  Just relax.  You're fine.
 
Unless, of course, you open the door to find the Tall Man from Phantasm yelling, "Boy!"
 
I just creeped myself out. (shudder)

Starise
Thank goodness I have glass on both sides of my door and I can see whats out there without opening it.
 
Spacey- One theory goes that some of these things draw energy from electrical appliances. I am not saying one way or the other. I will say that one time my wife and I went to Gettysburg Pa. on a ghost tour and she has freshly charged batteries in her camera and they were discharged within two minutes. That has never happened before or since.:)
 
 True story-Disconnected electrical appliances that keep on working after they are unplugged.This is documented. I don't know what I would do if that happened. I'd probably spend the better part of 15 minutes scratching my head in wonderment.
 
It really does take quite a bit to scare me. UB if that guy comes over I'll tell him to get lost.

Ghosts and other phantasms love glass...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082934/
 
it's the postman.

Starise
Sharke- That is a really creepy dream you had. I have had some memorable dreams myself. I won't go into too much detail here but I dream a lot. I sometimes think I have something going on where I'm between waking and asleep (no drugs or alcohol involved) and I hear things. One time I heard my wife call me clear as a bell and she was fast asleep. I have had my name called numerous times and when I come fully awake there's no one there. But it seems just as real as a person shouting in my ear.I hear noises, but nothing I can't attribute to the house usually.There have been a few unexplained events though. One time I had a voice yell at me in the middle of the night and it was in my head and it sounded like a way over modulated radio frequency. It was saying some really hateful things.It was almost like I had picked up some kind of stray radio transmission. But I didn't have any  radios around me. None of that has happened for a  long time though. If these were dreams then they sure had me fooled for awhile.
 

 
I have stuff going on like that too. Just drifting off to sleep then I'll hear someone shouting in my head and it wakes me up with a start. Another thing that happens is that as I'm drifting off, a sudden noise will trigger this blinding flash which wakes me up. It happens most often when my refrigerator turns on, but also something like a clanging in the pipes. It's like getting an electric shock. I'm sure it's somehow related to synesthesia. 
 
Dreams are great if you can learn to control them. There are waking exercises you can do which trigger lucid dreams at night and they really work. They're all based around being aware that you're dreaming. Once you think "hey I'm dreaming" during a dream, it gives you the power to do whatever you want. First few times I did it I woke myself up out of pure excitement.  It's a pretty intense experience. 

Hi,
 
It's the SHADOW!
 
Maybe even Lamont Cranston!