Unaccounted alert sound on 1st gen unibody Macbook Pro

Greetings all,
I am having a slight problem with my 1st gen unibody MacBook Pro. At seemingly random intervals it will play the 'Frog' sound without any user interaction.
I have checked the Console and have not seen any messages. I have also made sure that the sound is not coming from another application that might send a notification (iChat, Skype, RSS-reader, ...)
Is there a way to track what process launched the sound or has someone else experienced this issue as well and can give me some insight in how to get rid of it?
With regards

Could it be the Growl notification sound?
Email notification sound?
Check to see if you have any type of 3rd party sound apps installed.
Also check your alert settings.
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