My house dialed 911?

Question

Four o'clock in the morning my doorbell rings. I open the door to see a towering police officer. He asks me if everything was alright. I asked him what was wrong. He told me that 911 was dialed from BOTH of our phone lines (business line, then home line). There is no one else in the house. He notified the phone company of the problem, but I'm not sure what sort of problem would cause that to happen.

How is this possible? Has this happened to anyone else?

The 911 call came from the house, not the security center. Is there something that the phone company does to dial 911?

Answer 1

Ya been there done that it happened to me and the officer was a *** because I had kids in the house and thank god while we were all outside talking to him dispatch called again and said that it was being repeatedly called to 911. The officer then asked to look through the house I said look away have a go at it. The officer apologized and they called the phone company and they said that there was a glitch in the system. Ya it makes for a whole new experience.

Answer 2

Surely you don't have an alarm system that you don't know about?
Some of them are capable of calling even without being monitored.

Something else I thought of...if your phone box (where the phone line enters the house) is outside the house and can be opened, you can plug a phone into the jack inside the box and make a call - to test if the line is bad inside the house or outside. There will be a connector for each possible line the house has.

Our current house had bad line noise when we moved in, and the phone company found a tiny ear-bud type phone connected and balled up inside the box!

Answer 3

there is probably nothing wrong with your phone or phone line, security systems are not foolproof and are prone to glitches now and then that cannot be explained.something as small as a particle of dust on the cpu can cause a system to go nuts, have it checked by the alarm company.

Answer 4

i hope someone has an answer to this, because i know of a similar incident!! it has been a total mystery ever since.

i worked at a home that provided care for girls with mental disablilties, and the live in staff and all three girls were awoken the same way!!

i know what you are thinking, one of the clients that live there did it, but that's not the case, the girls really were fast asleep, and just as confused as the staff person.

Answer 5

thats kinda freaky.. sounds like "when a stranger calls"..

Answer 6

spooky.

Answer 7

SCARY