By wire do you mean you connected to the electric ground wire in the electric socket?
In some cases some ground wires in the electric socket will have some micro currents on and mV voltage.
In this case if you connect the ground pads to the electric socket you body voltage will rise.
I believe ground pads should be connected only to a ground pool in the yeard and only after testing it to see there are no ground currents.
I hope this helps.
amirb
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