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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

I had a similar experience a while back and it was an old handheld game that had fallen behind my desk and been forgotten. For whatever reason, it decided to start making odd noises all on its own. Once I found it (it took a while to track down) and pulled the batteries, the sound went away.

 

If it was tinnitus it would follow you wherever you went. With it just being in the one room, it's a device of some sort. If all else fails, unplug everything and see if the sound persists. If not then plug things back in one at a time and see when the sound returns. If unplugging everything doesn't kill the sound then start looking under furniture, pulling out the furniture, in drawers, in pockets of any coats you might have hanging up, for anything battery-powered. You'll eventually find the culprit.

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

My ear with the worst tinnitus can hear electric pulsing in heating elements. Things like throws?

 

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

I will have my landlord check the smoke alarm.
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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

Do you have a programmable thermostat? Ours beeps when the battery is low. 

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

Just unbelievable!  CO alarm is reading this thread.  Two AA needed.

 

Remember that old song "They are coming to me away ha ha"?

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

it's probably your smoke alarm. Check the battery.

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

I’m still waiting to hear back from my landlord. But I’m telling you, I sit almost directly under the smoke alarm, and I think I would know if it were coming from there. I can’t emphasize enough how faint the sound is. Every time I hear it, it seems to be coming from a different spot, sometimes to my right and then to my left. There’s never another beep afterwards so I can go and stand where I had last heard it to catch another one and get closer to the source. There are days when I don’t hear it, and others where I hear it up to half a dozen times.
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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

Do you live by a parking lot? It could be a delivery driver's reverse beeping sound you hear occasionally and then the truck leaves, just a thought. If the sound comes and goes, it sure is a mystery...

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Re: Strange Beeping Noise In Living Room

Could it be a cricket?  Those little buggers have a habit of sounding from one place and really being at a different place.  They go silent if you get close.