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P.S. I've replaced one switch. Maybe it's time replace the other two and see what happens.

I did some more investigating, first shutting off every other circuit in the house one by one to see if the voltage disappeared. It did not. In case it might be two circuits backfeeding, I shut all the other circuits off, but still got the voltage at the ceiling box with the switches off. Next...

Thank you. I've replaced one switch I thought was suspect. The electrician suspects the wiring may have been done from the ceiling box down to the switches, so I my next move may be to trace the wires to see if it was done incorrectly. Thanks again for your help!

In case your still curious, here's a bit of an update: I took down the ceiling fan and checked the wires at the box and got 60 volts with the wall switches off. I also shut off all the other circuits in the house and still got the 60 volts. Does that not rule out backfeed? Is it possible the...

The glow stops when you use the pull chain. Thanks for the response!

Answers: 1 - No, 2 - No, 3 - I'll have to try, 4 - Switches came with the house, built in 1959. 5 - both, 6 - Not sure what all, some other lights, switches and outlets. Thanks for your response!

No. No glowing switch. No dimmers.

I recently replaced a ceiling fan and light kit using LED bulbs (we had used incandescent and, most recently, CFL bulbs in the old kit). The fixture is on a circuit with three wall switches controlling and seemed to be working properly with the old fixture. But the new fixture's LED bulbs glow...