A user reports that he hears strange voices coming from his PC. And he is not the only one who has this problem. What is behind it?
A gamer reported on reddit about a strange phenomenon. He explained that he had been hearing strange voices coming from his PC for some time now. They would speak in an Australian accent and tell bizarre things. However, apart from individual sentences, he couldn’t understand anything anyway.
After he turned off his speakers and restarted his PC, the voices fell silent and did not reappear for a while. He himself writes:
Recently, I heard a voice coming from my computer. It had a slight Australian accent, but I could clearly hear what it was saying. I could hear it say things like ‘Thank you, Cliff’ ‘Thanks for this weapon’ ‘I’m going to take a nap now’ and such things. When I turned off my speakers, I didn’t hear it anymore; I also restarted my PC and nothing happens anymore.
Interference from radio or phone
What is probably behind it? Some users explain that it is supposedly interference from mobile phones or other devices. Especially cheap speakers are not well shielded, would pick up the frequencies, and that would then cause noise.
Such disturbances include walkie-talkies or old portable phones. Radio stations that broadcast on the medium wave band (so-called AM radios) are also included, which are widely spread in the US, but also in South Africa and Australia.
Especially in the past, such disturbances were not unusual when there were still predominantly analog devices. As someone explains (via reddit.com):
About 10 years ago, when I lived on S. Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans, I constantly heard taxi and police radio in my headphones, but in 99% of cases it was unintelligible, and it took weeks for me to finally understand what was really going on.
In Germany, such disturbances are now unlikely, as AM stations hardly play a role here and much is digital. Unless your neighbors are using an ancient baby monitor or talking on wireless phones over 20 years old in the house.
Another user also needed help with his PC. Because he received it from his deceased brother. You can read how the community helps him on MeinMMO:
