Halloween Computer Question: What is the oddest unexplained thing your computer has ever done all by itself when you were at least 10 feet away?

Night before last I was streaming a television show on Amazon, and binge-watching, when suddenly google opened a second window all by itself, on top of the window from which I was streaming. I was sitting about ten feet away, and there was nothing near the computer, nor was there any vibration or movement. Explanations?

Last week I was working on my free family tree website, and my cursor "stuck" in place. I rolled the mouse across the mouse pad to see if I could unstick the cursor, but that didn't work, so I took my hand off the mouse, and suddenly the cursor started moving by itself. It travelled UP to the tool bar, (when I tried to unstick the cursor I moved the mouse from left to right, NOT UP!!!!) and then it travelled straight across the toolbar from left to right without my touching the mouse.

Can you think of any explanation for something like this?

Is there a ghost in the machine?

FaeLuna · 31-35, F

My computer will wake up from sleep in the middle of the night and install updates.

And then one time, it scrambled all the desktop icons without notice. It was the same exact formation as before, but the icons were in different places. So where they were arranged in an L shape before, it was still an L shape, but different icons made up the L. If that makes sense at all.

puck61

I've had mine 'read my mind' several times. I hate that. I'll be thinking about something, and an advertisement related to my thoughts would come up even if I did not express those thoughts on the keyboard.

puck61

@4meAndyou Yeah, I used it for a few months but I told everyone that the account was not mine. I was the third time I was "used" by someone in Russia. I could do everything with it as if I had made the account myself. I think it was a "sleeper". A nice potential spark of divisiveness if things started getting real hot politically. I had an account five years ago, but facebook always breaks my heart, so I can't handle it.