My new ATV3 is haunted!

Seriously!
I was demonstrating it to some friends yesterday (OK, showing it off!) and while we were still on the main menu page, some really spooky sounds started coming out of the speaker system! They disappeared when I played some music, but when I went back to the menu, they were there again.
My kids and their kids were all mucking about on iPods and there was an iPad or two in use too.
Is it possible that AirPlay was sending signals down to the ATV from those devices?
Another thing... I put the old ATV1 on another TV and was surprised to see that I'd "bought" a TV episode and rented Puss In Boots... in French! I have absolutely no recollection of doing so, but don't discount the possibility that another family member did it by accident.
However, although the rental showed up on ATV1, I can't for the life of me see where it is in the new menu of ATV2... any ideas?
Cheers.

Thanks both..... where will rented movies show up on the ATV3?
Winston, I don't think my kids were playing tricks.... the sounds were coming out of all 5 speakers and the sub, were quite loud, very "spooky" sounding and heard by 4 adults! I wish I could describe them well.....  BTW, Winston, you helped me out before with advice on HD.... I went out ang got an HD camera, and now ATV3 will play home movies as 1080 too, I'm chuffed to bits! Thanks for the earlier advice.
Just got to get the atv3 exorcised now :-)

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