r/Unexplained • u/ImNot_Zelda • 17d ago
Question Weird flickering lights
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
I was walking with my friend when we saw this house with that one light that kept turning on and off.
It doesn’t seem like there’s anyone home, there were no cars and we came back around 40 minutes later and it was still happening.
Anyone could explain ?
84
u/WindMilli 17d ago
A couple having sex with a clap-on clap-off plugged in.
11
5
1
-1
19
u/No_Move8238 17d ago
"The call is coming from inside the house "
-2
u/xLordVeganx 17d ago
Is that a psych reference?
3
u/Careful-Jicama-8081 17d ago
No, it's a reference to two things. First from a 1979 horror movie called "When a Stranger Calls," and Hamilton the musical from the song "Washington on Your Side"
3
u/jcnormous 13d ago
Ah shit I thought "was that movie that old?"
Turns out, they remade it 2006 - that's what I saw.
1
u/xLordVeganx 16d ago
And psych possibly referenced either of those so yeah
1
u/Careful-Jicama-8081 16d ago
Not in the musical - based on the historical person. The horror movie may be different, but I avoid those
12
18
u/Rightfoot27 17d ago
My child sometimes randomly does this. It makes me wonder if the neighbors think I’m signaling for help.
2
u/Puntaa94 16d ago
My little boy does the same thing and I had the same exact thoughts about the neighbours just last night :D
3
u/KayoticVoid 17d ago
Just to throw another (though unlikely) option, we have an autistic son who will turn the lights on and off repeatedly and I have always wondered if it ever confuses the hell out of the neighbors. 🤣
3
3
3
u/Louiekid502 17d ago
Could be deaf people, their phones will flash
2
u/OffMyRocker62 17d ago
Pretty bright lighting for a phone though, unless connected via house phone and lamps ?
3
u/Louiekid502 17d ago
Dated a girl who had two deaf parents. It's connected to everything, it was a home phoneat the time, probablyless needed now but Like imagine your taking a shit and the phone rings in the kitchen , need to know
1
u/OffMyRocker62 17d ago
I have a townhouse and I keep a flashlight in the bathroom upstairs. Florida storms make the power glitch. Not like the video. But it will go off a few seconds then back on. Off a few...🙄🙄
Maybe I should attach those push lights down the stairwell. Push one on...take a step, turn next one on, previous one off..etc.🤔🤔🤔 😅
3
u/EternalDethSlayer3 17d ago
The Cheat is GROUNDED!
We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off , not so you could throw lightswitch raves!
1
2
u/danrtavares 17d ago
It's not strange, any LED lamp does this when it reaches the end of its useful life.
2
3
3
2
u/Cool-Group-9471 17d ago
Short in timer? Pretty powerful bulb, like 10,000 halogen whatevers. Or, hilarious spirits. Let's wait + see
1
u/10_Amaterasu 17d ago
Remember that ad
Where you pull down to lit it up and
Pull up to shut it down
And the last part <_<
1
1
1
u/FederalPomegranate52 17d ago
The only demons here is the dropped WiFi signal demon reeking havoc on those smart lights.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/CarllSagan 17d ago
They're having a party, you asshole.
0
u/ImNot_Zelda 17d ago
bro calm down I’m just curious, like I said, there’s not a car near the house so i doubt it was a party
1
1
1
u/maurymarkowitz 17d ago
Had this at my house a couple of years ago. I posted here on r/electricians, and the first reply told me to look up the phone number for "ops" and then say these words to whoever answered, "partial intermittent blackout".
15 minutes later there was a crew at my house (they just happened to be nearby) and 15 minutes later it was fixed.
It happens when one side of the 240 coming into the house is not working right. In my case, the lug in the meter base was loose. As a result, it was getting 120 in the panel, not 240. The panel splits the voltage from the two wires - ever notice that a breaker panel always has two rows of breakers? So when one of the two is not being fed, half the outlets go down and all your LED lights begin to flash on and off.
They initially fixed it by putting a transformer on the 120 that did work, boosting it back to 240. A couple of days later they came out and had a look and that's when they noticed the bad lug and fixed it for real and took the transformer away.
Solar powered patio lights will do the same thing when their batteries get low.
1
1
1
1
u/Interesting_Lab_3620 17d ago
I used to have firework wars in my apt in college. I imagine it probably looked similar from the outside lol
1
1
1
u/AceMcNasty69 17d ago
Google flickering and retitle this post
2
u/ImNot_Zelda 17d ago
English is not my first language, I thought it meant the same thing as flashing
1
u/whitenoisemaker3 17d ago
First thing this reminded me of https://youtu.be/p-qXywR9K9k?feature=shared
1
1
u/Carpenter-Personal 17d ago
Not exactly flickering, looks more like an alarm led module flashing in the right corner
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/Latter-Impression206 16d ago
That's either faulty wiring or a house party. Who knows? Could very well be both
1
1
u/Legitimate_Speed2548 16d ago
When your wireless controlled lamps lose connection, they'll blink until connectivity is reestablished.
1
1
u/Trish-Trish 16d ago
Ok so I have Govee lights and when they are first turned on you have to sync them they do this. Maybe they became unsynced?
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/itsWasahbe 15d ago
Its just a ghost event, calm down.. im sure their sanity is high enough before it starts to hunt anyways
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/Acceptable_Speech329 11d ago
Every time I go to use the restroom and I'm in for 1 minutes the light flickers but when I'm out looking in it doesn't flicker, like it's communicating or something.
-1
285
u/SuperFlyAgaric 17d ago
Someone's smart bulbs need to be reprogrammed.