I woke up around 4 AM this morning to the sound of Tracey Chapman’s “Change” playing in the next room. It turns out the DVD player turned itself on, and since that’s the song HBO uses on the ad at the beginning of Disc One of Season 3 of The Wire that was in the player, that’s what I heard.
As for why my DVD player came on, since it’s the Halloween season, I believe it’s one of the following three explanations:
- My DVD player is possessed by the Devil himself, AKA Lucifer, the Great Beast, the Princes of Lies, the Angel of the Abyss, Leviathan the fleeing serpent, the one and only Satan, Prince of Darkness.
- A poltergeist turned it on.
- The power went off, and the DVD player was on “soft” power off, i.e. through the remote, and not with the power button on the player itself in the off position, and when the power came on it started playing automatically. This would also explain why the clock on my microwave had been reset and the light on my garage door opener was on.
Naturally, I’m going to go with the Satan explanation due to sheer preponderance of scientific plausibility. I mean really, who else would want to wake me from a sound sleep but Satan? (And of course I have to assume he reset the microwave and garage door light as well. Why else would he be known as the Great Deceiver? Got to watch him all the time…)
Having shared living accommodations with Lawrence, I can testify (for the benefit of those site readers who have not) that no one but the Prince of Darkness himself would ever want to wake Lawrence from a sound sleep.
Hi Lawrence, Sorry for the questions, but my samsung dvd player behaved the same way last night at 2.00 am. Please could you tell me if this was one off or you have noticed any panaromic activity after this.
Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Given the power cycle on the other devices, I feel safe in concluding that it was a just a result of a loss in power when the device was in a “soft” power off, and that no paranormal activity was involved.
I had a similar event happen a few years before with a very old TV whose faceplate no longer worked properly. The power went on and off and the TV came on blaring at full volume. Since the faceplate didn’t work, I just unplugged it and set it out on the curb for the next heavy trash day.
But both occurred due to a temporary power outage.
Hey so i used to have a dvd that said “Hell” istead of “hello”…unless we talked about the bible infront of it…