My 5s is randomly operating itself - self selecting series of buttons with no touch of the touch screen. Anyone else have this problem?

I have the 5s and about 4 times so far, the phone has gone completely rouge and started operating menu buttons on its own.
It usually starts with unresponsive touch screen and then the phone will completely crazy just running on its own, self selecting a series of random buttons and keys. From that point forward, I can actually sit and watch (not touching the screen), the phone go haywire. It looks like someone is just randomly hitting phone keys, but no one is. The only way I can get it to stop is to do a hard reboot. Sometimes that does not even work and I have to reboot several times or even turn the phone off for a period of time.
Is anyone else having a similar problem? I would love to show this to an Apple employee at the Genius bar, but I cannot purposely replicate when it occurs. It is very random.
Note: each IOS update has not seemed to help resolve the problem.

Follow Diesel vdub's advice. Plug your phone into itunes and preform a restore. Then, restore your phone from a backup and see if it fixes it. If not, restore the phone but wait on putting your backup back. See if it works. If not, it looks like its a hardware issue.
It does sound to me like the digitizer (the glass, basically) has gone bad and needs to be replaced. I would visit your local Apple Store after trying a few restores from iTunes.

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