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Old 28-06-2007, 8:02 PM   #1
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Thumbs down Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

I was typing away on the computer today and the missus and kids were all downstairs when there was a VERY loud sound of breaking glass from upstairs

The wife had left a half filled Stella tulip glass (with coke in) on the side cabinet by the bed which had decided to explode shattering splinters of glass a good 1m in radius from where the glass was. Just glad we were not in bed, as we'd both have been covered in glass.

TBH this has really freaked us out a bit because although the window was open, there was no reason for the damn thing to break on its own. It looked more like it had either exploded or had been dropped from a height

Has anyone else experience anything weird happening like this without a good reason, or has Stella just got a bad design of new glasses which are prone to explode

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Old 28-06-2007, 8:07 PM   #2
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

only last time i was playing with a Ouija board
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:18 PM   #3
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only last time i was playing with a Ouija board
Thanks but i was hoping for an answer that did not involve the Paranormal
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:22 PM   #4
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Had a glass coffee table last year approx 6 - 10 mm thick. Got up one morning last summer to find it shattered into thousands of pieces. Nothing anywhere near it and table was approx 4 years old
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:22 PM   #5
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

The glass was probably already pre-stressed with combatting a 20-39 PC+, and had just realised you have a PC Ultra on order and thought, **** it, why wait?
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:22 PM   #6
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Was the glass in direct sunlight, that would be the only thing i can think of, and that shouldn't even make a difference.

Plus, you shouldn't drink coke before bed, as it'll eat your teeth away.
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:28 PM   #7
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Was the glass on the floor smashed or still on the sideboard?Got no explainations for that but I would put the house up for sale and stay with friends or family till its sold

Friend of mine told me about when he was in bed, early hours of the morning and heard noises coming from his wardrobe. As he looked at it in the darkness the door started to slowly open. Just as his heart was about to pop out of his mouth .......his young son climbed out and said "Alright Dad?". Apparently ,his son never said why, hed been in the wardrobe for hours Scared the out of my mate.
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:33 PM   #8
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!



Sunlight.....your having a laugh its been raining here for days ....lol
ummmm most of the glass was still on the sideboard but there was bits on the bed and the floor too

the missus had a lot of spooky goings on in her old house in Ireland...... maybe they have popped over here to say hello......
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Your glass may have suffered from a (rare) problem which has been identified in toughened glass....

http://www.glassonweb.com/articles/article/330/
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Old 28-06-2007, 8:48 PM   #10
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Glass will have stresses "frozen in" as it cools from the molten state. Microscopic scratches may concentrate this stress to a point where the whole structure fails. Fairly rare in drinking glasses (I think!), but more common in tempered glass. Possibly a small change in temperature was enough to push it over the edge...

If you have other glasses from the same set I'd be a bit wary of them!
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Old 28-06-2007, 9:02 PM   #11
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

hi
i wouldnt worry its probobly something to do with atmospherics as the weathers been a bit funny lately it would be nice if it was paranormal it would make a good ghost story
as me old mum used to say you should be more afraid of the living than the dead they cant do you any harm how very true she was ive never been hurt by a dead person yet
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Old 28-06-2007, 9:58 PM   #12
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

I've just come on here to take my mind off The American Haunting i've just watched. Now i'm really spooked
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Old 28-06-2007, 10:45 PM   #13
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Stella glass with coke in it............














The glass just revolted against it










Stella glasses for Stella only
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

the wind probably caught it and knocked it over

either that or a kid with a bb gun
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Old 29-06-2007, 11:44 AM   #15
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

[QUOTE=steptoe;5049129]hi
it would be nice if it was paranormal it would make a good ghost story
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Real life ghost story......?
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Old 29-06-2007, 4:29 PM   #16
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

What about some form of resonance...? Maybe James Bond was nearby with his funky glass smashing ring thing (Die Another Day I believe)
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Old 29-06-2007, 4:34 PM   #17
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

Out of interest, has there been any other odd things occurring in your house?
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Old 29-06-2007, 6:05 PM   #18
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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

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Out of interest, has there been any other odd things occurring in your house?
hello steves wifey here

Ummmmmmmm where do ya want me to start.......rofl

not really much happening in this house , i have felt something sitting on my bed (& no it wasnt cats r anything else) also i did hear the banshee howling a few weeks back........

but in my old house in Ireland..... now thats a different story
a couple of things like hearing footsteps up the stairs in the middle of the night , my mum's duvet used to "float" over her bed , the kettle used to turn on & off too....

then one day i was upstairs & on the sideboard was a bottle of perfume...... next thing i knew was the bottle of perfume slid/jumped (no windows open) off the unit onto the carpet..... so off i went to get the hoover , the perfume had a really thick dropper on the top of it which i picked up..... the rest of the glass bottle was NO WHERE to be found although i could smell it
........ rather strange ,

my mum did go to see a medium and she said it was her mum just lettin us know shes watchin over us, so it never really bothered us

so me thinks the paranormal is around me
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so me thinks the paranormal is around me

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Re: Shattering glass - Spooky stuff !!!!!

When i lived in newcastle me and a mate had been out on the lash all day followed by a bit of a smoke, and i decided i was knackered so went to bed.

A little later i heard my mate knocking on my door, and sheepishly saying "i need to show you something". So I went downstairs and was greeted to the following sight:





Turns out the drunken idiot had tried to get up, lost his balance and fell over, onto the table.

Pretty funny i thought
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