Holy crap I am never sleeping again

[changeyourstars8]

OMG. So Chris is in Kaylee's room with her tonight and I'm in our bedroom, and the baby monitor's on and I'm just about to go to sleep when I hear this laugh come over the monitor. Creepiest. Laugh. Ever.

We've picked up conversations and whatnot on this thing before, but GAH. brb, off to check the house for gremlins.

Freaking baby monitors.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_yggdrasil/]

Uh, it WAS the baby, right?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

No. Both she and Chris were sound asleep; I don't know what it was. :-P

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Good old interference. If you listen to shortwave, you can hear a lot more of it. Baby monitors are often in the 50MHz range, which can travel a long way. If the signal is just slightly out of tune or has gone through a lot of solid objects, you get all kinds of fun frequency distortions (like when you play a tape back too slowly). What happens is that some frequencies move faster than others through a given material, so as the radio waves travel, the fast frequencies move toward the front and the slow ones fall behind. The process is called dispersion. You can do it with ordinary light too, which is how a prism splits white light into a rainbow (colors = light frequencies, remember).

If you want some radio phenomena that's a bit more fun, you should listen to shortwave and find a numbers station (like they have on Lost). They're regarded as almost certainly espionage-related. More here:

http://www.dxing.com/numbers.htm

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Cool; thanks!