paranormal Seth Thomas

[Doug]

Many years ago I obtained a kit to make a replica of what was called a Columbus clock.

They were very simple clocks that used a rock for the drive weight. The kit was very simple to snap the pieces together and in fifteen minutes you had a clock.

I assembled it and put it on the wall, started the pendulum, it ran for five to ten minutes and then it stopped! I continued this process several times with the same results. The next morning when I was leaving for work I started the pendulum and to my surprise it was running when I came home for lunch. Five minutes after entering the house it stopped and would not run as long as I was in the house. Whenever I was out it would run untill I returned! I disassembled and reassembled the clock several times and found no reason for it to stop!

p.s. today it lives in the bottom of the County Landfill!!!

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Doug Osborne

[lamarw]

Hey Doug it is called haunts or in the deep South it is called hants. I am surprised with the frustrations that you just didn't use a sledge hammer on it.

It may of been a reincarnated old girl friend.

Just for laughs.

I have had table clocks that would not run in certain places in my house. I mean level and everything. Move them to another location, and they ran fine. Maybe it has to do with direction or maganatism pull???

[Antigue2]

Paranominal is not so strange.

I have a grandfather clock that belonged to my "greatgrandmother" it works beautifully all year long - I've had the clock for 40 years myself and my mother told me it always stopped on July 2nd every year that she had the clock. I did a little research OK, not that much, but did obtain the death record for my greatgrand mother from the family bible - she died at 2:03AM July the 2nd and for the last 40 years it stops almost but not always exactly at that hour since it's been in my home.

[Julian Smith]

A lady I knew had a cuckoo clock that stopped. A local fixit man got the clock to run.The day the man died the clock fell off the wall and never ran again.
J Smith

[Doug]

I am sure others have had unusual experiences. I hope more of you take time to share them.

Thanks.

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Doug Osborne

[kj4vq]

Doug... look in the movement and see if you spot something that looks like a heart-shaped cam... Walt

[Julian Smith]

If you still have this clock,try demagnetising the hands.There might be enough magnetism to put enough repelling force between the hands to stop the clock.
J Smith

[doug sinclair]

All,

Brian. As I indicated in my original post, I am not going to try to cure the clock of its peculiar behaviour. I am intrigued by its quirk. I had thought of the non-counterbalanced minute hand, but if that was part of the problem, why does it not stop at times other than 11:43? Say 10:43, 09:43, etc.

Julian. I flame-blued the hands when I serviced the clock, so magnetism isn't the problem.

Chris. This particular clock doesn't have stop-works. If a clock so equipped were to stop because of the stop-works, then I would suspect that when it was wound would be a factor affecting when it stopped. For the stopworks to stop it after a certain run time, for it to stop always at the same time would mean it was always being wound at precisely the same time. Or so I would think.

Anyway, I wound it yesterday when it had stopped at, guess what time........ 11:43!!!

Doug S.

[neighmond]

I have an older W. L. Gilbert kitchen clock that used to live on a small hutch in my diningroom. It ran, but due toworn bushings and many other clocks was never kept running, and was allowed to run down until the stopworks engaged, and left that way.

One evening as my Uncle John and I were eating dinner, the clock chimed. The hands read 6:40, and the power was totally off of both mainsprings.

The clock got a scrubbing and 14 bushings the following winter and since then behaves fairly usually, occasionally ringing the alarm at the wrong time but otherwise fine.

Strange at that.

Taken as it's worth

Chaz

Every man must have a purpose to strive for
A cause to fight for
A dream to live for
Because
A man without a dream is dead.

[ged]

Hi, It's a female clock, They're always 10 mins late. All the best . GED. :smile: :smile: :smile:

Learner

[chasbaz]

Hi again Doug,
I have a nice English longcase clock which lives in our porch. I overhauled it and it ran perfectly until one day it started to lose and to behave in a very erratic fashion. Tried everything. Eventually nephew in the room next door moved his woofer to another wall and all is fine again....

chasbaz

[Bill Ward]

Hi Doug:
You know, these clock guys can't help themselves from applying logic to every situation!
I had a 400 Day clock with a motion wheel on crooked. It ran fine unless the temperature dropped too much; then, when the high part of the wheel came 'round to the pinion, the shrunken gears came out of mesh. The next morning, when the heat came on, it re-meshed with the still running clock- it drove me crazy!
B.W.

[harold bain]

Phil, next time you service this clock, try leaving it 10 minutes fast, it might fool your poltergeist into setting it correct. Harold