Basically I have a shower with a big glass pane and I was in bed and heard a massive crash and went to look thinking someone might be breaking in but no the shower glass pane shattered itself and nothing can fall on it or anything. So I’m so confused. Any ideas?
And before anyone jumps to anything paranormal I’m sceptical of that type of stuff.
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My tempered glass sunroof blew apart while I was driving. Manufacturing defect. A woman had the same problem the same week (2015 glass, around 2019).
It was insanely loud. Like a shotgun going off by your head. :p
Very loud especially when it’s nighttime and everyone is in bed and it’s quiet, like I literally went into defence mode thinking there was someone breaking in through a window or something lol
Tempered glass, the type which is used for stuff like shower screens or car windows is under constant tension against itself. The inside of the glass wants to be bigger than the outside. Normally this makes it harder to break as the bonds on the outside are so strong and uniform they prevent it from bending or shearing as easily as normal glass.
The problem is that if you manage to break those bonds, the outside can very rapidly tear itself apart as it finds a way to relieve that tension. It basically pops like a balloon. The reason it breaks into small pieces is because anything bigger is still under tension and once the surface is damaged the crack will spread to ease it.
So your glass could have had a defect or damage which broke a few of those bonds, and heat cycles eventually pushed it to break the next bond along and start a chain reaction which destroyed the whole thing.
Edit: it could even be that some grit fell in the housing or something. The reason spark plugs break car windows is because the edges are sharp enough to cut the glass with very little force.
Existing stress, changing temperature and shifting building structure. Any and all of those can cause it
There could have been a defect that caused immense stress in the glass. Alternatively, there could have been microscopic cracks caused by mishandling. Or both. Either way, a tiny temperature fluctuation was probably the final straw that broke the camel’s back. The actual root cause probably happened several years ago.
Definitely ghosts. Shower ghosts. Clean shower ghosts. Clumsy clean shower ghosts.
