The Story of the Possessed Television

It's true, honest! Okay, like any normal teenager I like watching telly. No, I tell a lie - I LOVE watching telly. Lately, though, some very strange things have been happening eith my televiosion. My dad reckons it's cos it's old (I've only had it for five years) and said it's cos the breakers (what?) are getting heated and melted, or something like that, anyway! I think that it's possessed. Well maybe not seriously, maybe I'm just joking around, but I do know this: the strange things that have been happening to my T.V. have NOTHING to do with breakers (whatever they are). Everything's just too freaky for that. Maybe I'd better get on with my strenge tale. Just in case you're wondering, my telly looks pretty normal. It's a 14" screen, black, with buttons on the front to change the volume and channel. Pretty standard stuff, really. There are only two things that my telly does, but the fact that they ARE happening, and keep on happening is the scary bit, believe me. So anyway, on with the story. I guess it all started about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I was just sitting on my bed watching telly, I can't remember what I was watching, some video, but that isn't important, is it? After a while, I fell asleep, like I often do - usually because I'm totally knackered after a day at college. Parents don't appreciate how hard us poor students have to work, do they? When I woke up again, it must've been about 2am, something like that. All I could see on the screen was that snowstorm-type thing, when a video finishes, or there's something wrong with the arial. I thought that maybe the video I was watching had just finished, so I pressed the stop button on my remote. Nothing happened. I thought maybe I'd pressed the off button in my sleep and accidently turned the video off. So I pressed the button to turn it on. Nothing happened. As you can imagine, by now, I was getting v. puzzled by what was (or, rather, wasn't happening). I mean, the telly was on, yet there was no picture on the screen. I checked to arial and everything at the back, checked that everything was where it should be, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. By now I was more than puzzled. I was getting kinda worried, to be honest with ya. Well, wouldn't you be? I decided that the best thnig to do would be to turn the whole thing off, and unplug it. That happened a few more times, and then a couple of days later, I was watching the new Friends video, which my mate got me for my birthday. It was one of those videos wher the volume on the video itself is quit loud, so I tried to turn the volume on my telly down, so I wouldn't be disturbing the old couple who libe next door to us. This is where the next weird bit happens, cos when I tried to turn the volume down, everytime it got so low, it would turn itself back up again. Very creepy. Now, I have to turn the volume down asap when I'm watching the telly, otherwise that just happens after it's only been on for half an hour or so. Here comes the weirdest bit...this has only happened twice, so far, but that's twice in four/five days, which is quite a lot! Ok then, on Sunday (18th March) I was watching Who's that girl on channel five (no, I don't have bad taste). I went down to have my tea (or, as most ppl say, dinner) and half an hour late, I went back upstairs to see the last five minutes of it and to see who was no.1 on the pepsi chart. Anyway, I plugged my telly back in, switched it on, and realised that something v. strange was happening to it...it was...turning the channels...by itself. Freaky. Very Freaky. It started at channel 7 (which is where I ahve my video tuned into) and worked its way right through all the other channels. When I'd seen enough and turned it back on again, I think it had just reached channel 14. Again. I must stress at this point that this story is entirely true. Completely true. Nothing here is made up. Nothing. If I wanted to write fiction, I'd be sending in stories to fanfic. Not putting them here. D'ya get my point? It happened again this morning. I decided to ignore it and just turn my radio on...although the moring crew are almost as strange as my telly. No kidding. If you're in Leicestershire or near enough turn your radio to 105.4fm in the mornings and you'll see what I mean. So what do you reckon? Some technical glich or is my t.v. set possessed? Decide for yourself. I'm not sure what I think. It's all a bit too weird to be a simple technical problem, though. Send your weird stories to the webmaster by clicking on the picture link. last updated Thursday, 22nd March 2001