First, I used to have an old NTSC computer monitor. Whenever I turned it
on, I would feel a wave of heat, or something, wash over me. It wasn't
static electricity, although this monitor generated a lot of that too.
Second, I was trying to tune in a weak TV station with a set of rabbit ears.
I had an FM radio with a whip antenna on in the same room. I discovered
that as I turned the fine-tuning knob on the TV, I would come to a position
where the radio station I was listening to would disappear! If I changed
the tuning on the radio slightly, it would come back.
The most dramatic thing I've heard of happened to a couple of co-workers.
They live near the top of a hill in open country, with only a few other
houses on the road. One day they returned home to find that every
electronic item in their house had been fried as if the power line had been
hit by lightning, except that everyone was sure that there had been no
lightning that day. There had been a power outage for some reason, which
explains the surge, but nobody knows why the surge only hit their house.
--"Withdraw in disgust is not the same thing as apathy." --R.E.M.