[Sailor Steve]

I've never had anything like that happen.

Well, once, but it was much more mundane than it seemed. My daughters were just babies, and one day I was sitting in the living room reading a book with the radio playing music, and suddenly this loud growling voice came out of the stereo. I jumped pretty high (hard to do from a sitting position) and waited, but no more growls. A couple of days later it happened again, and I was starting to get pretty spooked.

The third time it happened, though, the words were understandable: "Breaker, one-nine!"

Somebody a block away had a CB radio home station, and it was overriding the incoming signals.

@ Privateer: Nice picture, but where's the rash?