It's Like Some Invisible Presence Is Pressing My TV Remotes

I get many types of inexplicable occurrences other than mysterious orbs that show up in my photos. My series of 18 posts here lists some of these strange events. One of the types of strange things I see happening involves my television set. I will repeatedly get the television acting as if one or more buttons on a TV remote was pressed, even though no such button was pressed by me. Here are some examples. I may note that I have two remotes, a black remote and a gray remote. The examples below all occurred while I was alone in my living room. 

April  9, 2018: On this day there occurred the very inexplicable event described in this post, in which a screen came up on my TV that required 14 different presses on my black remote, a remote I wasn't even touching at the time.  

April 21, 2018: I was watching TV with the black remote about a foot from my leg, and suddenly the TV picture is lost – it's just how the screen would look if someone pressed the button 2 on the black remote.

May 26, 2018: I was holding the black remote, and my finger was on the volume decrease button. At this instant the TV switches so the picture is lost. The TV now shows just what I would have seen if I had pressed the 8 button. That button is several buttons away on the control from the volume decrease button.

May 31, 2018: I see the “Scene Select” menu come up on my TV, just as it would if I had pressed the “Scene” button on my black remote. I had not pressed the button, and the remote was not in my hand.

June 26, 2018: When I came back from going to the bathroom, I found the TV was on the “Light Classical” station, channel 1950. I never switch to that station. The last channel I had chosen was  channel 1943, “Soundscapes.” An accidental switch to this station would have required an accidental 7 pushes of the Next button on the remote (or a pushing of the 1, 9, 5, and 0 buttons).

July 6, 2018: The channel changed from 80 to 1 while I was not touching any remote.

August 16, 2018: The “Settings” menu comes up on the TV. I was not holding the remote that has a button that can bring up this menu.

August 20, 2018: I turn to channel 1943 on the TV, the instrumental “Soundscapes” channel, so I can finish a blog post with minimal distraction. After spending about an hour on the post, without touching any remote, I look up at the TV, and it is now on channel 1947 “Singers and Swing.” 

August 31, 2018: I was holding the gray remote, with the TV on channel 83, and suddenly the channel changes to channel 1. My finger wasn't next to any of the buttons that could have been used to make such a change.

September 5, 2018: I pick up the black remote but did not press any of its buttons. I then look at the TV, and see that it has changed from channel 82 to channel 1000. I can only change channels with the gray remote.

September 14, 2018: I was standing while pointing the gray remote at the TV with my finger on the volume button. Suddenly the TV changes so that there is a blank screen with 1 in the right corner. This is what I will get only if I press the 1 button on the black remote. But the black remote was three feet behind me, on the sofa. 

Postscript: I read online various cases of people who experienced TV channels switching when they didn't press the remote. The explanations suggested seem to be all just speculations.  One explanation is an infrared signal from a passing truck. I live on the seventh floor, so that doesn't work as an explanation here. Another explanation is a remote signal from some other apartment passing through the wall. But it seems the signals from remotes cannot pass through thick walls. The diagram below shows a test I tried. When I was in the position marked by the green circle, the remote would change the channel. But when I was in the position marked by the red circle, the remote would not change the channel, regardless of which direction I pressed the remote. 

Additional incident:  On September 26, 2018 when I was playing a video game, using the TV as the video display screen, I held the video game controller in my hands, and the black remote was on the sofa six inches to the right of me. Suddenly the TV turned off. I hadn't touched the remote. There's no way of turning off the TV using the video game controller. When I play a game using the TV there's no reliance on cable TV, and the cable TV box didn't look like it does when there's a cable TV outage.