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When I bought my house, I found that if I touched the stove and anything else that was grounded at the same time, I would get shocked. That didn't happen anywhere else in the house. After doing some investigation, I realized that the former owner, being an engineer, decided to wire the house himself, and was very creative with how he decided to wire things, doing things such as disconnecting the fucking neutral from the stove, because even though the wire was there, he didn't connect it.
Fortunately, fixing simple grounds at the plugs and at the appliances is something that is within my wheelhouse, so I spent a few weekends here and there, re-connecting all of the grounds and wiring things correctly, and since then I have had no problems.
I said all of that to say that if it is one specific thing that is shocking you, then address that one simple thing. But if it is all throughout the house, hire a goddamn electrician.
It's gonna suck to shell out $600, $800, $1,000, whatever it costs to get that fixed. But paying that money sucks a whole lot less than being electrocuted.
Wow. Just, wow.
Well, glad you figured it out to be here today.
I've seen similar with an electric stove, someone had attached the cord incorrectly, so occasionally you'd get a shock touching it. It's been a long time, I guess they flipped neutral and ground.