First it was scary, then it was silly, what a relief!!

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I was moving some stuff around from one part of the kitchen to the other this afternoon. Suddenly I heard a high pitched whistle sound. If you remember the old test patterns when tv went off the air back in the 50's and 60's you will know exactly what I mean. I thought perhaps the freezer got unplugged, "no", or carbon monoxide detector, smoke alarm "no, and no". I could hear it in both halves of the house. I heard it louder when I got up close to the metal wall furnace. If I bent at the waist and picked something up, I did not hear it down near the floor. It was not as loud outside, but I could hear it all the way around. I thought about getting in the truck and driving away to see if it was an outside alarm or malfunction. The sound was very high pitched and was making me dizzy.It did not seem to be bothering the cat. Maybe it was ringing in my ears--an infection? a brain tumor? Should I call the doctor? I went across the road to get the mail, then decided to look at my pedometer . . . It had blanked out all the steps for the day, the screen said "off". It is well over five years old and just chose to die at that time, but it would not shut up!!! When I would bend over my body muffled it. When I got close to the wall furnace it bounced off.Louder than ever. I did not have a screw driver to get the back off and remove the battery. So I left it outside. I felt a lot better then.