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AMThe Art Bell Story Archive

Story library

This library holds every story found in the processed broadcasts: callers' stories, letters read on air, and the host's own stories. Scores are rough guides. Each story page explains them.

All 853 stories are AI drafts that no person has checked yet. Checking their start and end points and labels is under way.

853 of 853 stories

  1. 1993·Article read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    AP item on reported spirits and a bread smell at the US Capitol

    Art Bell reads an Associated Press item datelined Capitol Hill about claims that the US Capitol building has been the scene of spirit sightings and sounds over its two-hundred-year history. The item quotes Clarence Brown of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. It lists a demon said to have been reported by more than one guard, a sighting of John Quincy Adams (who died near the old House chamber in 1848), and a smell of baking bread from the basement after a Civil War bakery there stopped operating. The reading ends, and the host moves to the next item.

    Public buildings and businessesHuman figuresSmells with no source
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    58
  2. 1993·Article read on air·9 min· not yet checked

    Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah

    Art Bell reads a newspaper piece he identifies as the Gateway Gazette of Thursday, October 28. The article, titled [quote withheld] is by staff writer [name withheld] and is about the Mizpah Hotel Casino in Tonopah, Nevada. It strings together a bar patron's remark about a “hologram” of a woman in the elevator, the legend of a “lady in red” said to have been murdered on the fifth floor, a keno board said to light up though it is not connected to power, and stories from several named employees. Bell stops reading partway through the article, saying there is more.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  3. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Reported poltergeist activity at the Provincetown Inn, Cape Cod

    An unidentified caller tells Art Bell a family story about the Provincetown Inn at the tip of Cape Cod. The caller says their uncle, a former California contractor, took a caretaker job at the inn about twenty years earlier. They say the uncle and his wife reported a thrown wooden spoon, footsteps upstairs with nobody there, and an empty stairwell after the uncle stood waiting with a gun. The caller adds that they and their brother later visited with cameras. They also say their uncle's research linked the building to lumber salvaged from an 1870s whaling wreck. The host cuts this part of the broadcast off for time before the caller can give more detail.

    Objects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangsPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    44
    Originality
    57
  4. 1993·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house

    A caller from Alameda, California, tells Art Bell that she and her five children were hearing slamming doors, footsteps, and other disturbances in a large old house. She says each of them had kept it from the others. She reports a shadow that appeared in daylight, an unsuccessful first appeal to a priest, and a house blessing. Finally, she says, a voice said “your brother.” She then learned her brother had died about two months earlier.

    Haunted homesShadow peopleFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    59
  5. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Storage-room door opens in an old Pittsburgh house, 1956

    A caller tells Art Bell their own story of an event in 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when they and their husband rented the third-floor rooms of an old house. One night, while alone, they heard the latch of a closed storage-room door click open and the door squeak open. They fled to a bathroom until their husband returned. The caller later reports that the elderly landlord died within a year after they moved out and that a baby on the second floor died in its crib. The caller takes this as evidence of a very evil spirit looking for a victim.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homesDemons and hostile presences
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    51
  6. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Deceased great-aunt seen at cemetery and in hospital room

    A caller who gives Seattle, Washington, as their location tells of a deceased great-aunt they were close to. They report seeing a figure run in front of their car at the cemetery, causing two separate collisions. They later describe the aunt visiting them in a hospital room and warning that doctors had misdiagnosed them.

    VisitsHuman figuresMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    53
  7. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A dream of a family death, a waking premonition, and a phone call, Utah, 1955

    A caller tells Art Bell that after their family moved from Ely, Nevada, to Provo, Utah, they woke on December 18, 1955, from a dream that someone in the family had died. The caller says they telephoned a cousin in Ely, who reported everything was fine. Then on December 21 they woke around 12:30 a.m. with the thought that “somebody's gone” and waited for the phone. It rang with news that their cousin's uncle had died in a car accident.

    Dreams that came trueWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    48
  8. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Biological father emerges from a bedroom mirror (1970)

    A woman caller tells Art Bell that in 1970 she was visited in her bedroom mirror by her biological father. She says she had not seen him since she was three years old and did not know he was dead. She reports a light growing brighter in the mirror, a solid figure stepping out of it, and a brief conversation in which he told her not to be afraid and to [quote withheld] Art ends this part of the broadcast abruptly ([quote withheld]), so the story is cut off before she says what happened afterward.

    Human figuresVisitsSleep paralysis and bedroom visitors
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  9. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Electrical outlets burning out and a sticking door in a Marinwood house

    A caller, whom the host addresses only as “sir,” tells of a house in Marinwood where electrical sockets and toasters reportedly burn out and doors slam. He says a visiting child there said they saw a lady in the hallway before a door jammed shut for about twenty minutes. The caller reports that the owners later looked into it and found a woman had died there years earlier of a heroin overdose, which he takes to mean [quote withheld]

    Lights and appliances acting upDoors, windows, and locksHuman figures
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  10. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Caller from Salt Lake City cites scripture that spirits of the dead are demons

    A caller from Salt Lake City asks to interject [quote withheld] and notes the death of Vincent Price. The caller says they have had an experience with a Ouija board. The caller then argues that the spirits of the dead do not return but are demons posing as dead relatives. Art Bell asks how that fits with stories heard earlier in the broadcast of helpful departed loved ones. The caller answers that such spirits may seem kind while intending harm, then says this is not what they called about. This story ends just as the caller begins their own experience, which is not finished within it.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingNon-human creatures
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    52
  11. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board session and a phone voice saying “You shall”

    A caller, whom the host identifies only as speaking from Salt Lake City, tells of a Ouija board session the caller says they held alone many years earlier. The caller reports that whenever they moved the planchette to the letter “S,” the telephone rang. The caller says they asked the board if it was causing the ringing, and the planchette answered “yes.” On answering the phone, the caller says, they heard a distant, “ancient” voice say “you shall” before they hung up. The caller frames the episode as a warning and says they have avoided occult objects since. The host thanks the caller, repeats the caution, and says he once had his own Ouija board experience that he will not discuss.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingPhones, radio, and TVVoices
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  12. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Wounded Marine sniper reports ancestor in Civil War uniform freezing his wound

    A first-time caller from Alaska, who says he served as a sniper in the United States Marine Corps, describes being shot in the knee during the Grenada operation. He reports that a figure he recognized from family photographs as his great-great-grandfather, in a Civil War uniform, sat down and froze the wound, then said everything would be okay. He says this is the first time he has spoken of it, apart from with a military psychologist. The host thanks him and calls the story incredible.

    Human figuresVisitsMilitary sites
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    64
  13. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Sudden pain coinciding with a young friend’s fatal truck accident

    A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], from Anderson, California, says that a couple of years before the broadcast he doubled over in extreme pain at a friend’s house at about 1 a.m. The next day, he says, he learned that a young woman he had mentored, [name withheld], had been killed by a truck at roughly that time. He says a sheriff’s deputy later told him the impact was on her right side. He states his belief that she came to say goodbye. The call ends with him asking Art Bell for an address for a book he and a friend are researching, and with Bell praising the program.

    Signs at the moment of deathMore than one witness
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    58
  14. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board at age nine and a claimed decades-long demonic affliction

    A first-time caller from Denver warns Art Bell’s audience that using a Ouija board let a “satanic spirit” enter them at age nine. They say the affliction lasted from age nine to age fifty-four. They credit an exorcist, Dr. Ken Olson, whom they associate with the Maury Povich show, with releasing the spirit. The call is a warning rather than a story, and the host closes it with his own caution that Ouija boards open “a conduit.”

    Ouija boards and automatic writingPossessionHappened in childhood
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  15. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Man buried in a cave-in seen in the Ward mine near Virginia City

    A caller from Reno tells the host a story about an old friend of their father’s, a retired miner. The miner reportedly saw a man buried to the head in a cave-in inside the Ward mine near Virginia City. The miner then arrived at the family’s door agitated and bleeding from a knock on the head. The caller says townspeople dismissed the story as the product of the head injury, until mining engineers’ maps years later showed a fatal cave-in in that tunnel.

    Haunted placesHuman figures
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    59
  16. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Two lightning bolts cross a truck after a driver asks for a sign

    A caller who gives no name or location tells Art Bell that a couple of years earlier, they were driving on 163 toward the Blubble Canyon turnoff during a lightning storm. They challenged a “superior being” to show itself. They report that two bolts of lightning then crossed the front of the truck and struck the roadside about 400 yards ahead. The caller says they and their companion [name withheld] pulled over for about five minutes and then drove on to Mountain Pass. They say they no longer ask for things in a joking manner.

    Anything else
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    47
  17. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Transparent child figure at the bedside during inner-child therapy

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Genoa, Nevada, describes an experience about two years earlier. They were in recovery and in counseling with a girlfriend, and the couple were doing “inner child” therapy. They say that one night, lying in bed with their eyes open, they saw a transparent little girl of about eight, a smaller version of their girlfriend. She spoke without moving her lips, said she had come to play with them, then ran off with another child in a field. They report that the episode lasted roughly ten minutes, that they were not afraid, and that they invited her to return. The host ended the call.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    51
  18. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Uneasy feeling and a pull to leave an empty Victorian house in San Francisco

    A caller who says only that they are in Las Vegas now tells Art Bell, at the host’s invitation, about a night in the late 1960s. They stayed in an unoccupied Victorian house in San Francisco, offered to them by a stranger they had just met in a piano bar. They report growing unease on entering and moving through the house. A back door opened onto a ten-foot drop with no stairs, and they could not enter either of two upstairs bedrooms. They say they finally had to leave. The host cuts the call short before the story is finished, and the caller offers no cause.

    Haunted homes
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    51
  19. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes a shrine room at home where a presence is felt

    A first-time caller, introduced by the host as “Paolo in Canada” (later called “Pavel”), says people who come into their home usually get an eerie feeling from their murals. They say one room in their house is a shrine “to you-know-who,” and the host supplies “Hitler.” They say the presence and power felt on entering are strong. The caller breaks off mid-sentence. The host thanks the caller and tells the audience that Pavel is in the Edmonton area of Canada and that they are “a Nazi.” The caller states no cause and produces no evidence.

    Haunted homes
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    33
    Originality
    57
  20. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Toddler’s insistence on visiting an uncle weeks before the uncle’s death

    A caller to the wildcard line, who is said in the transcript to be calling from Albuquerque, retells a story their father told them. At about age two they demanded, out of the clear blue sky, to be taken to see a favorite uncle roughly a hundred miles away. Their parents gave in that weekend, and a couple of weeks later the uncle died. Months later, the caller says, they asked to see another relative, who did not die, after which their family reportedly worried about the child naming people. The call ends with the caller saying it is just a short little story.

    Warnings and premonitionsHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    50
  21. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Mother's dream warning before a motorcycle wreck and a later check on her father

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Anchorage, Alaska, tells Art Bell that about three years earlier their mother, in Alaska, had a bad dream warning them they would be in a wreck that weekend. They say they dismissed it, then had a serious motorcycle wreck and were hospitalized. While visiting the caller, their mother described a faceless someone who woke her to say the caller would die at the end of the week, though she had passed on only a caution. The caller adds a second story: their mother once had a sister check on her sick father in Florida, and he was found on the floor. The caller calls it weird coincidence or a gift, and says they would now take such a warning seriously.

    Dreams that came trueWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    53
  22. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Figures at a guest-room door and a blonde man who vanished, St. George

    A first-time caller named [name withheld], calling from Las Vegas and formerly of Pahrump, Nevada, describes one of two stories they say happened while they lived in the area. They report waking in the guest bedroom of a girlfriend's family in St. George and seeing several people looking in at them from the door. They say a blonde man standing beside the bed then fell toward them and vanished before touching them. This part of the broadcast ends as the host moves on to the caller's second story.

    Human figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    51
  23. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Repeated waking dreams of a school bus and the caller's sister

    A caller reached in Pahrump, Nevada, describes a night as a high-school junior when they waited in their car at the school for their sister's junior-varsity bus. They report falling asleep and dreaming three times that the bus arrived, and they say their sister was at the car in the third dream, asking to be let in. They say they had more and more trouble waking, finally screamed themselves awake, drove home, and waited for a phone call.

    Anything else
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    55
  24. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Pursuit on a Nevada highway, a flat tire at an isolated house later found boarded

    A caller who says they are calling from Linwood, Washington, recounts a drive across Nevada from Idaho to California in the early 1970s. They say two men in a car pursued them on a desert highway outside Winnemucca. They report that they had a flat tire beside the only house in the area, that a man came out of the house toward a running pickup, and that the pursuers then drove off. They say that later, on the return trip, they found the building uninhabited, with no windows or doors. The caller tells the host they do not know what happened but feel something kept them from being harmed.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  25. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Intruder-shaped silhouette ascends and vanishes after a Ouija session

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from the Reno/Sparks, Nevada, area, tells Art Bell about something that happened a week after they and their then-wife “horsed around” with a Ouija board. They say they were dozing off in bed when they heard the back door open and heavy boots cross their kitchen. They say they took a 9mm pistol from a dresser drawer and confronted a stocky figure about 6'3" in the living room. They report that the silhouette shot straight up like a spring-loaded window shade and vanished. They add that other things happened in the same house, including clocks sliding off a shelf onto the floor, and then ask to get off the air.

    Human figuresOuija boards and automatic writingObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    59
  26. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A brother's dream phone call from his deceased father, who spent his prayers on the call

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Carson City, passes on a story their brother told them. About six months after their father's sudden death in June 1991, the brother was napping before a graveyard shift. He dreamed that a phone rang in his bedroom, which the caller says has no phone, and that his father was on the line, calling from a casino. The caller reports that the father warned the caller's brother he would die within a year, and then the line went dead before a second, more important message could be given. Two years later the brother was still alive. The caller now reads the episode as a prediction that the brother's old, dependent self would die.

    VisitsPhones, radio, and TVWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    59
  27. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports ex-husband's pre-death visits and a vision of a small plane

    A caller, [name withheld] of Toppenish, Washington, tells Art Bell that their ex-husband would get sudden impulses to visit relatives, who died just before he arrived. They say they once had a vision of a tiny airplane with three angels and a passenger in a gray jacket. They say the vision matched their husband's later arrival by chartered plane around the time their foster father died. The host cuts the call short.

    Warnings and premonitionsSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  28. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Red eyes in a tree, a transforming figure, and a drive-by rescue

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Birmingham, Alabama, describes to Art Bell events they say they have shared with their best friend [name withheld] since they met. They report a nighttime encounter in Huntsville: barking dogs, red glowing eyes in a tree, a neighborhood blackout, and a white tiger-like shadow that they say changed into an Egyptian man who promised protection. They then describe a Christmas incident in which they say they and [name withheld] were thrown back from a door shortly before a drive-by shooting passed the house. The call ends with [name withheld] saying they and [name withheld], now in Germany and at home, are still having the same strange dreams.

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyesShadow people
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    64
  29. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Deceased brother said to return each year on the caller’s birthday

    An unidentified caller tells Art Bell they were born in April 1949 and that their older brother died on April 5, 1952, five days before their third birthday. They say their brother came back and spoke to them on that third birthday and has returned every April 10th since, wherever they have been. They say the brother appears as he did on the day he died and tells them everything will be okay. The host thanks the caller for the story and afterward tells the audience he does not believe it was a prank call.

    VisitsHappened in childhoodVoices
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    63
  30. 1993·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Two reported sightings of a small boy in a boarded-up farmhouse south of Denver

    A first-time caller from Denver, Colorado, tells Art Bell that in 1984 they and a woman they call [name withheld] went to a boarded-up farmhouse south of Denver to salvage light fixtures. Each of them separately reported seeing a small boy of about four or five inside. They searched the ground floor and stairway, found no one, and left. The caller says that afterward, in a newer house on the same farm, they saw an old photograph of a boy and two girls. Art Bell cut the call off before the caller could finish.

    Human figuresHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    57
  31. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Deceased girlfriend reported in a mirror and a window at a Halloween party

    A caller from Seattle tells Art Bell that about eleven years earlier their girlfriend, [name withheld], was killed by a drunk driver. On the following Halloween night her former roommates held a party in the house where she had lived. The caller reports that the band’s lead singer, who they say knew nothing about [name withheld], screamed in the bathroom after seeing a different face in the mirror. She then described the face as [name withheld]’s. Later that night, the caller says, they themselves saw [name withheld]’s reflection in a window and heard her voice asking them to leave. The caller says they believe she came back because she did not want people sitting there getting drunk.

    VisitsHuman figuresVoices
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  32. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Two fortune tellers’ warnings and a 1945 dream of a factory explosion

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a story they date to 1945, when their newly married husband had just left for Navy service. The caller reports that two separate fortune tellers, weeks apart, gave them the same message: their husband would be fine, but they should take care of themselves. The caller says they later dreamed of an explosion at the factory where they worked, then were hurt in a real explosion about a week afterward. The host cuts the call off for time before they finish.

    Dreams that came trueWarnings and premonitionsPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    36
    Originality
    56
  33. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Faces floating through a bedroom seen with eyes closed, gone after a command

    A caller from Little Lake, California, tells Art Bell they want to share three stories, and they give the first. While lying in bed with their eyes closed, the caller says, they saw hollow-eyed, gaping-mouthed faces floating through their room. The caller reports that after they silently told the faces to leave if they meant no good, the faces disappeared immediately. This part of the broadcast ends as the caller begins a second, unrelated wartime story.

    Partial figures and mistsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    55
  34. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Wounded Marine credits his deceased father for bringing him back across no man’s land

    A caller tells a story they say their husband told them. He served in the Pacific during World War II. According to the story, a young Marine crossed no man’s land under Japanese fire, severely wounded, and told a chaplain that his father had brought him back. The chaplain later learned the father had died in battle. The caller believes Yank Magazine reported it.

    Visits
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    64
  35. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Recurring footsteps on a deck and a hammer thrown in a workshop

    A caller tells Art Bell what they introduce as “the third one.” A couple of years before the broadcast, they say, they and their husband heard footsteps two or three times a month across their patio and wooden deck, and they always found nothing. One night, while their husband was working in his workshop, he thought the caller had called him. Shortly after, a hammer flew across the workshop and just missed him, though no one was there.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsObjects moved or thrownMore than one witness
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    45
  36. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports seeing husband in a passing car before learning of his death

    A caller who gives no name, only their location, Spokane, Washington, tells Art Bell about something that happened in the 1950s. They say that while they were driving, they saw their husband, a miner, smiling and waving from a black sedan. They say they prepared for his arrival and then received a telegram saying he had been killed the day after the sighting. They say they never remarried. They offer no explanation for what they saw.

    Signs at the moment of deathHuman figuresDoubles of living people
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    53
  37. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Bathroom mirror found raised and refastened in mother's trailer

    A caller says that about four years before the 1993 broadcast, they found a lengthwise mirror in their mother's trailer-house bathroom unexpectedly raised about two feet above the doorway and fastened tight with all of its screw latches. The caller says there was no forced entry, that only the mother and father had keys, and that the bedridden grandmother could not have reached the room. The story ends with the mother upset by the mirror, the grandmother muttering the grandfather's name, and the caller getting rid of the mirror the next day.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    74
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    61
  38. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Dream of a school friend who said he had been hurt in a car wreck

    A caller who identifies only as a former schoolmate tells Art Bell that an old friend, whose life had been hard, came to the caller in a dream while they were stationed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. The caller says that in the dream, the friend was crying and said he had been hurt badly in a car wreck. The caller says they thought nothing of it until a letter from their mother arrived days later. It held a newspaper clipping reporting that the friend had been killed in a car wreck.

    Signs at the moment of deathVisits
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    56
  39. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Felt presence in the downstairs of a Santa Barbara church building

    A caller who gives no name tells Art Bell about the church building in Santa Barbara where their family lived while their father was a part-time pastor. The caller says they and others felt something present in the downstairs when it was dark. The caller says they later learned of a suicide in the building and of a former resident who killed his parents. They describe going back and finding the building had become an occult-themed coffee house, whose upstairs tenant would not stay at night.

    Public buildings and businessesHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  40. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Metallic sounds, a figure by the partition, and a moving bed in a Taiwan apartment

    A caller who says they once lived in Taiwan tells Art Bell about a night in a one-bedroom apartment they shared with a friend, divided by a wood partition. The caller reports metallic noises like BBs thrown at a refrigerator. They also report a figure they took to be their friend moving around the partition in the dark. Then, they say, after they realized their friend was in bed, their own bed seemed to move [quote withheld] The story ends with the friend checking the door and windows and finding no one.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHuman figuresObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  41. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Doorbell rings and scent of roses after a son's death

    An unidentified caller tells the host that her 19-year-old son, who used to pick roses for her, said he had a premonition that he did not have long to live. He asked her to send him roses if anything happened. She says that a year later he died in a car accident around Christmas. Two days afterward, in their old farmhouse, an unconnected doorbell rang, jammed doors flew open, and roses could be smelled. She takes this as her son returning to say goodbye. The host thanks her and comments on similar stories.

    Signs and messagesDoors, windows, and locksLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    61
  42. 1993·Caller's story·46 s· not yet checked

    Teenage dream of a casket foretelling an uncle's death two days later

    A caller tells Art Bell that as a teenager they dreamed they were holding up a casket. They woke screaming and told their mother that the person inside was their mother's brother. The caller reports that two days later their mother received word that he had died. The caller says they saw his face in the casket in the dream, and that their mother, [quote withheld] believed them.

    Dreams that came trueSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    51
  43. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Clock strikes oddly at the reported moment of a relative's death

    A caller to Ghost to Ghost tells a brief family story about their father's sister, who was not expected to live. The caller says that about four days after their father traveled to see her, the family's clock struck differently in the middle of the night, and their mother said the sister had just died. The caller says she did. The host thanks the caller and moves on.

    Signs at the moment of deathSigns and messagesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    53
  44. 1993·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Caller relates Yeats's poem “The Ghost of Roger Casement” and Irish neutrality

    A caller who identifies himself as [name withheld] of Silver Springs, Nevada, tells what he calls “a true story” about the ghost of Roger Casement. He says a poem by William Butler Yeats is about it. He does not describe anything he experienced. Instead he recounts the poem, in which a speaker cannot sleep and hears knocking at his door, which the poem attributes to Casement's ghost. He links this to Casement's execution, the later return of his body, and Ireland's neutrality in the Second World War. The host responds only with [quote withheld] and the caller signs off.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsVisits
    Believability
    32
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    57
  45. 1993·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Armed party walks through a sprung ambush near the Cambodian border, 1968

    A caller who says they were a Vietnam veteran describes an evening in 1968 when they and five other infantrymen set an ambush near a fire base close to the Cambodian border. One of the six woke the others, and they all saw a small armed party of Vietnamese approaching. When the ambush was sprung, the party reportedly kept walking through without reacting. The caller says they have never told anyone about it before and that it had a big effect on their life.

    Human figuresMilitary sitesMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    50
  46. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Feeling of a presence while camping in the ruins of the old Rainbow Lodge

    A caller from Mesa, Arizona, tells Art Bell that in about 1976 they and their father camped in the burned ruins of the old Rainbow Lodge near the Navajo Reservation. After putting out their campfire, both felt a presence. The father, described as a preacher, offered a prayer. The caller says the feeling eventually faded and they went to sleep. No one saw anything, and the caller offers no firm cause.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    53
  47. 1993·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A barefoot footprint at an Arctic creek and a legend of an immortal shaman

    A caller from Anchorage tells Art Bell they found a single large barefoot human footprint in fresh sand at an abandoned gold-mine creek near Teller, Alaska, in 1961. The caller says their Eskimo companions, [name withheld] and a cousin, walked away in apparent fear. [name withheld] later told the caller a legend of a huge shaman from the turn of the century who was said to be immortal and “still here.” The caller finishes the legend, and Art thanks the caller and comments that sailors would not put to sea under such conditions.

    Marks and tracesMore than one witnessAnything else
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    66
  48. 1993·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A small terrier greets family members outside a house after an uncle's death

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that about three years earlier, after the caller's uncle died at around 2 a.m., a small dog was outside the aunt's house when the family returned in the morning. The caller says the dog greeted each immediate family member and waited to be petted. It left after the whole family had arrived and was never seen again.

    Ghostly animalsMore than one witness
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    49
  49. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Paper-route dog patted on a porch after the owner said it was put to sleep

    Art Bell reads a letter on air that he credits to a listener named [name withheld] in Spokane, Washington. It describes a paper route the writer shares with their father. For a year and a half, the writer had been placing a newspaper on an enclosed porch where a large German shepherd was kept, and the dog always waited for a pat. After not seeing the dog for about two weeks, the writer says, they found it on the porch, patted it, and left. About a week later, the owner told the writer the dog had been put to sleep three and a half weeks earlier. The letter ends with the writer saying they now hurry in and out of that porch.

    Ghostly animals
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    42
  50. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Black dog rising out of a sleeping wife in a bedroom lit by a store sign

    In a letter read on air by Art Bell and credited to [quote withheld] the writer says that several years earlier they were lying in bed beside their then-wife when they saw something black rise up out of her body. The writer says it formed into a black dog with glowing yellow eyes, which took its time to fade away after they screamed. The writer says the dog never reappeared. The writer adds that sad events followed, most notably learning that their wife [name withheld] had been cheating on them.

    Ghostly animalsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    55
  51. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Figure resembling the writer's wife in a bathroom doorway, Northridge, California

    An unnamed letter writer, read on air by Art Bell, describes lying awake in bed in a newly purchased home in Northridge, California. The writer saw what they took to be their wife standing in the lit bathroom doorway. When their wife answered from beside the writer on the bed, the figure vanished. The writer told her what had happened and later guesses that something from the site's past may explain it.

    Human figuresHaunted homesDoubles of living people
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    9
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    45
  52. 1994·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    A former priest blesses the house of a dead radio singer

    In a letter read on air by the host, the writer says they were an Eastern Orthodox priest for many years. They describe a 1974 case. A close friend's father, said to have been a popular radio singer and guitar player in the 1940s, died alone of a heart attack. About two months later the friend's mother reported hearing her dead ex-husband singing, seeing him in a rocking chair, and feeling pinches that left welts. The letter writer says they blessed the house with holy water. During the bedroom blessing the mother was thrown backward into the hallway. The writer says they saw welts on her legs afterward, and that the problems stopped after the blessing.

    VisitsHuman figuresMusic with no source
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    61
  53. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Sensed presence of previous owner “[name withheld]” in a purchased house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Santa Maria, tells Art Bell that after they and their husband bought their house, they could not move in at first because a woman named [name withheld] had died there. The caller says they sensed [name withheld]'s presence in the house for about five years. The caller reports that the room [name withheld] died in was always very cold, that their husband once said someone had touched him in the hall, and that they received [name withheld]'s mail for about three years. The caller ends by saying the presence left after roughly five years and that they do not know how to explain it.

    Haunted homesVisitsCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    55
  54. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Pink and blue human-shaped figure beside a bed in a mobile home

    [name withheld], who gives their location as Vista, California, tells Art Bell they were sleeping in a mobile home at about 3 a.m. when they sensed an energy at their feet. [name withheld] says it moved up beside the bed toward their head. The caller reports that they asked, [quote withheld] and got no response. The caller then opened their eyes and saw a pink-and-blue figure, human-shaped but not quite solid, standing and looking at them. [name withheld] says they asked, [quote withheld] and the figure slowly faded away. [name withheld] says a friend they called did not believe them, and the host said he believed them.

    Human figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    52
  55. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Mother's reported visit from the caller's deceased grandfather

    A caller, [name withheld], who calls himself [quote withheld] tells a story his mother told him and others. He says his grandfather died when [name withheld] was two. A couple of months later, he says, his mother saw the grandfather in a fully recognizable, silent, smiling form, which she took as a message that he was all right. The host responds that such reassurance makes sense. No further details or independent confirmation are given.

    VisitsHuman figures
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    10
    Originality
    45
  56. 1994·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Teen dream of a house and pasture, later found ruined near St. Louis airport

    A caller who gives no name or location says that in their teens they had two dreams in one night. The first showed an idyllic road with grazing livestock and an old house; the second showed the same road with dead animals and an axe attack. About six months later, the caller says, they and two companions found a ruined house off a driveway near the St. Louis airport, felt a presence, and fled when their Jeep would not start. The caller ends by saying that over the years, the only explanation they and their cousin agreed on was an economic one.

    Dreams that came trueHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    56
  57. 1994·Caller's story·46 s· not yet checked

    Report of felt presence during mother's illness and subsequent improvement

    An anonymous caller from the St. Louis area says they felt a presence at their workplace while their mother's health was failing. The caller says they spoke to the presence, which they took to be their late father, and urged him to leave his wife behind. Shortly afterward, the caller says, their mother began to recover.

    Signs and messages
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    62
  58. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Bloody Mary mirror ritual in seventh grade and a toothbrush impact

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that in seventh grade they performed a Bloody Mary mirror ritual alone at night. The caller reports seeing a face with blood on one side and then being hit in the head by something they took to be a toothbrush. The caller also reports that friends said they had been scratched doing the same ritual. The host closes this part of the broadcast with comments about mirrors and inviting something in.

    Ouija boards and ritualsHuman figuresBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    51
  59. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A bull-shaped figure at the bedroom door and a sensation of being smothered

    A caller describes an event they say happened when they were about seven years old. The caller says they woke at night to see a bull, which they call a demon, standing at their open bedroom door, and then struggled in bed, unable to scream or breathe. The caller reports praying for it to be taken away, after which they say it let go and never returned. The caller says their father, who came in after they screamed, did not believe them.

    Paralysis and pressureGhostly animalsNon-human creatures
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    60
  60. 1994·Caller's story·35 s· not yet checked

    Caller says devil poster in mother's room tore itself apart after prayer

    The caller tells of a four-foot “mod poster” of the devil that belonged to their mother in the early 1970s. The caller says they would not go into their mother's room, asked God to take the poster away, and within three weeks it had torn itself apart. The host thanks the caller and moves on.

    Objects moved or thrown
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    66
  61. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A silver figure, footprints on a sleeping mother's arm, and a “vortex” in Long Beach

    A caller on the wild-card line, who says they are in Long Beach, describes what they say happened when they were 15. The caller and their mother were staying at a friend's house when their mother woke up saying a little silver man had been crawling on her arm. She then woke the household to show them small footprints left on her arm. The caller says they looked at the marks and agreed they were footprints. The host ends the call and, to the audience, offers an explanation based on dreaming.

    Bedroom visitorsMarks and tracesHaunted homes
    Believability
    47
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  62. 1994·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Halloween graveyard dare and a death in Graceland Cemetery, 1933

    Art Bell reads aloud a piece he attributes to “Ron in Seattle.” It is presented as a true story about a 1933 Halloween dare in which two young women agreed to drive stakes into graves at midnight for $10. [name withheld] is said to have felt something tugging at her skirt, screamed, and been unable to get away. The reading closes with a quoted newspaper headline reporting her found dead in Graceland Cemetery with the stake through her dress. No witness speaks on air, and no document is examined.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    44
  63. 1994·Caller's story·7 s· not yet checked

    Caller states poltergeists are demonic and begins a mother-in-law story (fragment)

    This excerpt contains almost no story. It is the host's handoff to a new caller plus the opening lines of their remarks. The caller states that ghosts, poltergeists, and past-life visions are all one and the same and are “agents of satan.” The caller then begins a family story about their mother-in-law and a three-year estrangement after an argument about [quote withheld] Nothing matching the provisional title, a death cloud or ongoing house disturbances, appears in the supplied lines.

    Demons and hostile presencesAnything else
    Believability
    30
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    53
  64. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A cloud at a mother-in-law's death and ongoing house disturbances

    A caller who says they are calling from Santa Rosa tells the host that in 1989, on Thanksgiving Day, their mother-in-law died. The next day, they say, they and their husband watched a large brown mist cloud dissipate on the sidewalk outside. They go on to describe a series of household disturbances: objects moved, a music box starting by itself, and odd smells. They also describe family upheavals involving their husband and their son. They blame all of it on demons. They say the situation is still going on. The host closes by telling them he believes they are in a dangerous situation.

    PossessionPartial figures and mistsObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    57
  65. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Chains, a plea for peace, and grave markers in a Logan County field

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] and their location as “Portland, KX” relays a story they say their grandfather told them about land the family bought in Logan County, West Virginia. They say plowing turned up what looked like makeshift grave markers. One night a family member was woken by rattling chains and a plea to be left in peace in death. The caller says the family stopped plowing the land and left it alone. The host closes the call with his own thoughts on spirits and buried bodies.

    VoicesFootsteps, knocks, and bangsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  66. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports sister's sightings of a child and a bearded man in her duplex

    A caller who says only that they are calling from San Diego passes on what their sister told them during a recent family conversation. She says she has repeatedly seen a small child in old-fashioned clothing in her son's bedroom and a dark-bearded man in her hallway. The caller describes themselves as skeptical and a nonbeliever. They say they have no explanation, and the call ends with the host thanking them.

    Human figuresHaunted homesChildren who see presences
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  67. 1994·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Disturbances in a rented upstairs apartment above an old store

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Portland, Oregon, describes living with their wife and mother in an upstairs apartment above a store they call the Liberal Store, north of a town they pronounce Malala. The caller reports a room that stayed cool in extreme summer heat, their mother being touched and smelling lilac, dishes found dumped in the sink, a dog refusing to enter a bathroom, Bibles found on the floor open to passages about King David, and knocking on the upstairs door and windows. The caller says the family moved out and that their wife and mother still will not enter the store.

    Objects moved or thrownBeing touched, pushed, or heldHaunted homes
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    57
  68. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Wife describes two weeks of episodes and a moving kitchen cabinet door

    In a Ghost to Ghost AM call, the caller comes back on the line with their wife. She says she was a skeptic until the events in their home. She reports about two weeks of separate little episodes among household members. Then, she says, a kitchen cabinet door was opening and closing while she sat with her mother-in-law. She says they concluded they were living with a ghost. She says she refused to stay another night and stayed with relatives until they could move.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    50
  69. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A solid white figure with a knight-style helmet seen in a family home hallway

    A caller from Overland Park, Kansas, says they are 22 years old and were between fourteen and sixteen at the time. The caller describes being alone in their parents' newly built house one Thursday evening while they were out walking. The caller reports first seeing a nearly invisible, swirled shape moving through hanging plants above the television. Then, the caller says, they saw a solid white figure in the hallway whose head looked like a knight's helmet. The caller says it pivoted toward them without moving its legs and vanished when they closed and reopened their eyes. The story ends with the caller sitting curled beside the television, shaking, until their parents returned. The host thanks the caller and moves on.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    56
  70. 1994·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Figure in hallway and crying girl in 1800s dress

    A letter attributed to [name withheld] in Scottsdale, Arizona, and read on air by Art Bell describes two days in an apartment. The letter writer reports feeling watched and seeing someone run down the hall on Sunday night. The next day, the writer says, they woke to a crying girl in a late-1800s blue dress sitting in the bedroom, who then disappeared into the wall. The story ends with no explanation and no further sightings.

    Human figuresVoicesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    53
  71. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Weight, spinning sensation, and a barking dog behind a closed door

    A male caller, who says he is in Denver and listening off WOAI in San Antonio, tells Art Bell about a single nighttime episode in his bedroom. He reports waking to an ominous presence, a weight on his body, and a feeling of spinning on the bed. He says reciting the Lord's Prayer had no effect. He says he then made a sign of the cross, that his black Labrador, Angel, barked behind a closed door, and that he felt the presence leave. He ends by saying he imagines whatever it was flew over the geese that then began squawking a quarter of a mile away.

    Paralysis and pressureBedroom visitorsBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  72. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Childhood home in Granite City, Illinois, with flying plates and slamming doors

    A caller who gives their location as Granite City, Illinois, says they were raised in a house from birth to age thirteen. The caller says plates and cups flew and smashed there, cold spots and strange smells occurred, footsteps and slamming doors were heard, and a dog watched unseen things. The caller says their parents brought about four people to drive out ghosts and that someone said a man had hanged himself in the basement. The caller says the activity went on until the family moved out after thirteen years. The caller says they were a child with no choice and would not live in such a house now.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    55
  73. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Two pilots seen in an airliner cabin, linked to an Everglades crash

    A caller who gives their location only as Lexington, Kentucky, tells of a flight they say they took in Chicago while in the Air Force. The caller and a woman with them saw two pilots seated in the back of the cabin. After takeoff the two men were gone, and a stewardess reportedly reacted with distress. Asked by the host about the aircraft that crashed in the Everglades, the caller says that crash is connected to what they saw. The caller recalls the figures as chalky-white but solid-looking. The call ends as the caller begins a second, unrelated story.

    Human figuresShips, planes, and carsMore than one witness
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    53
  74. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A girl's laughter and a slamming door in a rented trailer in Cookville, Tennessee

    In a live call, a man (addressed by the host only as “Sir”) tells a second story about a rented trailer in a trailer park in Cookville, Tennessee, where he says he moved in “this summer.” He reports hearing a girl laughing outside at about 1 or 2 a.m. on the first night. He says a cat fixed its gaze on one spot in the living room. Later he heard bangs and knocks, and a door slammed shut by itself during an afternoon argument about the open doors. A neighbor told them a girl had been murdered in the trailer a year earlier. He says they moved out.

    Haunted homesVoicesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  75. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Pounding sensation on a barracks bunk after reading “The Exorcist”

    Art Bell reads on air a faxed letter from an unnamed writer. The writer says that in 1973, while stationed at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, they read the paperback of “The Exorcist.” The following night, around 5 a.m., they were woken by a pounding sensation on the lower bunk that moved up their torso. They say they ran into the corridor and shouted for help. None of their barracks mates heard them or backed up their story. They say they still believe the incident was real and avoid mirrors and “taboos” to this day.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldSleep paralysis and bedroom visitorsMilitary sites
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  76. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    A grandfather's voice and a dream of grandparents before deaths

    A letter read on air, from [quote withheld] describes two experiences tied to deaths in the family. In January 1976, in Mesa, Arizona, the writer says they heard a voice calling their name the way their grandfather used to. Shortly afterward a sister called to say the grandfather had died. In July 1980 the writer reports a dream of both grandparents, young and dancing in wedding clothes. The next morning they learned their grandmother had died.

    Signs at the moment of deathVisitsVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  77. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A black shape in the bedroom closet after a childhood church prank

    A caller who says they are phoning from Austin, Texas, tells Art Bell about a night when they were about seven years old and staying with their Aunt [name withheld] in the country. They woke and saw a pitch-black, nonhuman “thing” sitting in their bedroom closet. They say they could not scream and prayed silently to God in their head. In the morning they found their normally neat toys jumbled in the closet. The caller offers the jumbled toys as the reason they do not accept the experience as a nightmare.

    Shadow peopleHappened in childhoodBedroom visitors
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    58
  78. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports thirty-six years of shadows, moving doors, and lamps in a house tied to fires

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell they have lived in a haunted house for thirty-six years. They report shadows, doors opening and closing, and lamps lifting and setting down. The caller also reports three sisters, killed in a 1906 fire, running through the house, and a man's screaming heard about fifteen years earlier. The host thanks the caller and moves on.

    Haunted homesShadow peopleDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    53
  79. 1994·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter about a stone mason's photograph in an old L.A. home's wine cellar

    Reading from a listener's letter on air, Art Bell presents a photograph said to have been taken by the letter writer's friend, a stone mason, while finishing a wine cellar in the basement of an old Los Angeles home. The letter says something appeared on the developed picture even though the mason saw nothing at the time. It also passes on the architect's story of work crews leaving the job after cold air and a push down the stairs. This part of the broadcast does not describe what the photograph actually shows.

    Strange photos and videoHaunted homesBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    55
  80. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Girlfriend reports sleeping caller conversing with a woman and boy

    [name withheld] from Phoenix tells Art Bell that in the summer of 1977 the caller's girlfriend woke and found the caller apparently asleep, stiff and cold, carrying on a conversation with a little boy and a woman while their lips did not move. She said she heard voices answer, and a third woman she could not hear. The caller later links the conversation to their wife, son, and mother-in-law, who had been killed in a car accident six months earlier. The caller says they cannot decide whether it was their mind working on the problem or something supernatural.

    VisitsVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    49
  81. 1994·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Fax about a translucent figure in cowboy clothes reported in a Phoenix-area home

    Art Bell reads a fax on air from an unnamed sender whose cousin, called “Linda” in the letter, lived in a house bought about six years earlier in a suburb of Phoenix. Her four-year-old son woke her to say a stranger was in his room. The letter says she then saw a translucent, glowing man in a plaid cowboy shirt, blue jeans, and a cowboy hat standing behind the boy. She is said to have fled with her sons to her mother's house. The letter adds that her brother claimed to have seen the same man about two weeks later.

    Human figuresChildren who see presencesMore than one witness
    Believability
    47
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    49
  82. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board session said to contact a grandfather in a coma

    A caller on the first-time caller line tells a story they say their friend [name withheld] told them in “the utmost seriousness.” According to the caller, when [name withheld] was sixteen and his brother about twenty-one, a group of friends used a Ouija board alone. One of them appeared to make contact with [name withheld], the brothers' grandfather, who had been in a coma for two to three years. The story ends with the board spelling rapid messages and the boy at the board being pulled away in a shocked state. The host then warns against Ouija boards.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingCold spots and sudden heatMore than one witness
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    57
  83. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Death instructions found on a dresser after a fatal crash

    A letter attributed to [quote withheld] is read on air by the host. It describes events of 1974. According to the letter, the writer’s husband’s 27-year-old brother gives a pregnant young woman a ride home from a bar in Biloxi, Mississippi, and both are killed when a drunk driver hits them. Later that day, the writer says, their mother-in-law found his life insurance papers, distribution instructions, burial instructions, and a list of people to contact in case of death lying on his dresser. The letter ends with the writer insisting it is true and identifying themselves.

    Warnings and premonitions
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    13
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    57
  84. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Voices upstairs in a new Missouri house, linked by the caller to an unearthed teacup

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Columbia, Missouri, tells Art Bell that as a teenager they heard voices talking upstairs in their parents’ brand-new house in Dexter, Missouri, for weeks. The caller says the voices began the night they brought inside a porcelain teacup they had dug up and glued together from pieces found while landscaping. The caller says the voices stopped for good after they threw the cup away. Art Bell responds that things as well as places can be haunted and warns about what people bring into a home.

    VoicesHaunted homes
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    47
  85. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Two brothers swatted by nothing at a second-floor windowsill

    A caller named [name withheld], from Edmunds, Washington (as transcribed), describes a childhood incident in Minnesota. [name withheld] and their brother, then small children sharing a second-floor bedroom, sat up on the windowsill after an early bedtime. The caller says that one night something behind them swatted each of them once, and that when they turned around nobody was there and the door was shut. The host asks about their position and the number of swats, then closes the story with a joke. The caller does not say what caused it.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    44
    Originality
    52
  86. 1994·Caller's story·34 s· not yet checked

    A sister reports a face at her second-floor window

    A caller on Ghost to Ghost AM tells a short secondhand story about their sister, who lived across the hall from the family on a second floor. The caller says she woke one night crying and told their mother that someone was looking at her through her window. The caller says the mother went outside and found no ladder or trees that anyone could have used to reach it. The story ends there, with the host thanking the caller for it.

    Human figuresHaunted homesVoices
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    46
  87. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Blind caller reports a warm presence guiding their dog around a country road corner

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], calling from Denver on the toll-free line, tells Art Bell that six years earlier, after their grandmother’s funeral, they walked a country road near their uncle’s farm with their guide dog. They say they went off the road into a ditch and felt something “warm and light” beside the dog. The dog, they say, would not go back the way they wanted and instead eased them around the corner. They say they are convinced the presence was their grandmother making sure they made the turn. Months later their mother agreed, according to the caller.

    Visits
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    58
  88. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    House spirit, a child's great-grandfather, and keys turning in the lock

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell about a presence they link to the house they live in, which they describe as not threatening. They report sounds on the stairs that they first took for their cat or dog. They say their daughter talked to [quote withheld] whom the child later picked out in a photograph as her great-grandfather. They also report evening door noises in which keys turn in the lock without the door moving. They add that their brother, a previous occupant, reported seeing doors move there, and that the presence stopped them from opening the front door during an attempted break-in. The host closes the call by thanking the caller.

    Haunted homesDoors, windows, and locksHuman figures
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    55
  89. 1994·Letter read on air·29 s· not yet checked

    Letter: Grandmother's sightings of a lady in black and family deaths

    The host reads aloud on air a letter from a sender named [name withheld] from Kogoland. It says the writer's grandmother [name withheld] would announce on certain days that she had seen a [quote withheld] and that a family member would then die. The letter says she was “frighteningly right” and that she was the only person who could see the figure. The host names the sender and moves to the next caller.

    Human figuresWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  90. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Grandmother seen descending from the ceiling at the hour of her death

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Seattle, tells Art Bell that at about age 16, newly living with their father in Seattle, they woke at 2 a.m. to their name being called. They saw their grandmother coming down from the ceiling, arms outstretched. That morning they learned their grandmother had died in New Mexico at 3 a.m. They say this matched the time of the vision once the time-zone difference is counted.

    Signs at the moment of deathVisitsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    52
  91. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Windstorm stops after prayer to angels; daughter reports sudden calm

    A caller tells Art Bell about a windstorm a couple of years earlier. She says she prayed for angels to protect her and stop the wind, and that it stopped immediately. She adds that her daughter, on her way to the bus stop that morning, described the sudden calm on her own as if someone had turned off a switch.

    Cold spots, smells, and marks
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    56
  92. 1994·Caller's story·6 s· not yet checked

    Host remarks on “providing the atmosphere”; no caller story present

    The part of the broadcast first assigned to this story (2:06:51–2:06:57) contains only fragments of the host's own remarks about listeners “providing the atmosphere” and an invitation to call the toll-free line. No caller story appears in it. Nothing in it matches the first title, about a windstorm or a prayer for angels. So there is no story to analyze.

    Anything else
    Believability
    20
    Evidence
    0
    Creepiness
    5
    Originality
    51
  93. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A tap on the shoulder after an uncle's death

    A letter read on air, signed [quote withheld] describes the writer's favorite uncle, Uncle [name withheld], and the shoulder-tap prank the two used as a greeting. The uncle is said to have died in 1972. While the writer was talking with their father about the loss, the writer says they felt a firm tap on their right shoulder and found no one behind them on either side. They say they smiled and cried.

    VisitsBeing touched, pushed, or heldSigns and messages
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    52
  94. 1994·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Figure resembling roommate walks past door in Lawrence, Kansas, house

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, tells Art Bell that they once lived in a house in Lawrence, Kansas, said to have been haunted. Their roommate had described poltergeist-type episodes there. The caller reports that one night, while sitting with friends, they saw what they took to be their roommate walk past the doorway, but the roommate was not in the house. The call is cut off mid-sentence as the caller begins to describe what later occupants of the house reported.

    Human figuresDoubles of living peopleHaunted homes
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    46
  95. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Invisible rocking chair heard by a blind woman at a YWCA

    [name withheld], a caller from Sacramento, tells a brief secondhand story about their wife before they were married. While she was living at a YWCA in Massachusetts, she reportedly heard what sounded like a rocking chair creaking in a library or sitting room. When she reached out to touch it, the sound stopped and the chair was gone. [name withheld] offers no cause, and the host says the story suggests an afterlife.

    Voices and sounds with no source
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    62
  96. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Woman in white and vandalized cemetery at Indiana University

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], a cab driver from Portland, tells Art Bell about an event on June 11, 1970, while they were attending a drama conference at Indiana University in Bloomington. They say they saw a woman in white, dressed in 1930s style, in woods near campus. She vanished, and after following a hedge they found an old cemetery with a shattered headstone for a woman named Mary who died in 1936. They report seeing the woman again before she faded away, and then running from the vandalized cemetery. They believe she wanted someone to see the damage.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsCold spots, smells, and marks
    Believability
    74
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    60
  97. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A brush slides off a roof at the time their father's wife dies

    A caller who goes by [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about a week they say they spent living near Oakland, California. The caller reports that during a chimney-rebuilding job at an old house in Berkeley, a large push-broom brush moved off the roof on its own and struck their helper. When the caller telephoned their father in Seattle that evening, they learned their father's wife had died that day at about noon. The caller adds that their stepbrother's wife gave birth in the same hospital shortly after the death. The caller closes by calling it “a strange time.” The host says he is not sure it is exactly a ghost story.

    Objects moved or thrownSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    56
  98. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller's employee dreams of three dead relatives; a grandmother dies two days later

    A caller named [name withheld], in Phoenix, tells of an employee who came to work about a week earlier and described a dream. In it, the employee filmed from a front yard as three recently deceased people walked through a gate: their own mother, their girlfriend's grandfather, and their girlfriend's grandmother. The employee reportedly did not recognize the last woman, but their girlfriend identified her as her grandmother. Two days later, the caller says, the employee arrived late because that grandmother had died.

    Dreams that came trueSigns at the moment of deathVisits
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    57
  99. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Basement door latch flips open on its own in a Missouri lake house

    A caller who gives the name [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that as a 12-year-old they lived for about two years in an old house at a residential lake in Missouri. There, they say, a basement door cut out of a natural wood wall would repeatedly open by itself, its small latch flipping up, and then close again minutes later. They say the family grew used to it. They mention other, smaller incidents that they do not describe. The host ends the call just as [name withheld] begins to describe their downstairs bedroom.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    52
  100. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Stereo switching on by itself during a movie at a Chalmette home

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], in New Orleans, tells the host that the caller’s girlfriend’s parents told ghost stories about their family home in Chalmette, Louisiana. [name withheld] says that while they and others were watching Amityville Horror in the living room, a stereo connected to the TV came on loudly by itself. [name withheld] says it was not switched on. A person in the room turned it off and shrugged it off. The host thanks [name withheld] and moves on, and the second story [name withheld] says they have is not told in this part of the broadcast.

    Lights and appliances acting upMore than one witnessHaunted homes
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    54
  101. 1994·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open

    A first-time caller to a Ghost to Ghost broadcast says she is in Red Desert, Wyoming, with a residence in Oregon. She tells one of two incidents: a mobile home she moved into about thirteen years earlier, where objects went missing, faint figures were seen in the living room, and doors and appliances were found open. She reports that a neighbor said the site was on the old Barlow Trail, where a party of settlers was said to have been massacred. She says the activity ended after a night when the back door flew open and nothing was found outside.

    Haunted homesPartial figures and mistsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    53
  102. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Deceased mother reportedly appears at a newborn's crib and vanishes

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell they have two ghost stories, but only the first is told before the host cuts off this part of the broadcast for a break. The caller says their sister Nancy, a practical nurse, saw a “really beautiful woman” standing in an archway near her newborn daughter's crib. The caller says she watched the figure kiss the baby and then saw it vanish. Nancy is said to have identified the woman, from old photographs, as their deceased mother. The story ends when the host stops the caller for time and promises to continue after the news.

    Human figuresVisits
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    59
  103. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter describing a haunted house where unseen presences are treated as roommates

    During Ghost to Ghost AM, the host reads a short letter signed (as transcribed) by a listener in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The writer says they live in a haunted house and would find it hard to live anywhere else. The writer describes the presences as no trouble to them and says they badly frighten first-time visitors. The writer offers their own theory that cold spots are presences that draw heat, light, and EMF, and that some feed on fear. The letter ends by inviting readers to draw their own conclusions.

    Haunted homesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    48
  104. 1994·Caller's story·39 s· not yet checked

    Caller [name withheld]'s story of a brother's premonition of two deaths

    [name withheld], a caller from Renton, reports that their brother said in February of an unspecified year that he would [quote withheld] and that his friend [name withheld] would “go” a year later. [name withheld] says he drowned that June and that [name withheld] died a year later. The story ends with those reported deaths.

    Warnings and premonitions
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    45
  105. 1994·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Widow reports late husband massaging her feet and putting her to sleep

    In a brief 1994 call, a woman the host calls Ruthie from Renton says she is a widow and that her late husband is with her. She reports that he massages her feet and that she hears a glass being cut in the corner. One night a loud noise came halfway down the hall, and then a pressure on her forehead put her to sleep. She takes this to be her husband putting her to sleep, and says she now sleeps with a flashlight on her pillow.

    VisitsFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    54
  106. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Air Force captain's ghost at a gate shack after a B-52 crash

    A caller named [name withheld], from Chico, California, says that in 1973, while on gate-shack duty for a SAC detachment out of Mississippi, they saw a man in an Air Force captain's uniform who asked, [quote withheld] The figure disappeared when the caller closed and reopened their eyes. The next morning, they report, they found a record of a B-52 that left the base at 3.05 a.m. and crashed seven minutes later, flown by a [name withheld].

    Human figuresMilitary sitesVoices
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  107. 1994·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter about footsteps and knocking after a grandmother's funeral

    A letter read on air by Art Bell, attributed to [name withheld] in Wasilla, Alaska, describes sounds of knocking and slippers in the family home two nights after the writer's grandmother's funeral in January 1972. The writer and their brother hear the sounds on two nights in a row. The letter says both of them still remember it clearly.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsVisitsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    56
  108. 1994·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Unseen running and a fall heard in an Illinois apartment hallway

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that around 1979 or 1980, while they and their mother and brother lived in a small Illinois apartment, their mother and a visiting friend heard someone running in the hallway and falling, then found no one there. The caller describes the apartment as “a little haunted” and says they have two stories, but Art cuts the caller off for time after the first.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    56
  109. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that they worked as a custodian at a six-screen movie theater where one of the projectionists died of a heart attack. The caller says that a couple of days later employees were reporting flickering lights, slamming doors, and an ice machine “falling apart.” A system manager said they heard their name called. The caller says five workers left a tape recorder in an empty theater and later heard a chair spring up by itself on the recording. They then tracked faint music to the projection doorway. A projectionist said no such radio was in the projection room, which the caller calls the strangest part. The host then offers general remarks about spirits remaining where they died.

    Public buildings and businessesLights and appliances acting upDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    58
  110. 1994·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    A reported ghost dog in an old Bothell, Washington, apartment

    A letter read on air describes an old apartment building in Bothell, Washington. The writer and a roommate named [name withheld] reportedly heard and saw signs of a small dog they did not own. Friends at a weekly card game also reportedly heard and felt the animal. The writer says they later learned a little white dog had lived there and been killed by a car.

    Ghostly animalsHaunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    52
  111. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Refusing a cave after a strange sound; a body reported found there

    A caller identified on air as “[name withheld],” from Seattle, tells Art Bell that as a fifth-grader around 1966 they refused to enter the Oregon Wind Caves with their stepfather, [name withheld], a spelunker. At a wind hole they heard a sound that the caller says did not sound human or like wind. The caller says they took the sound as a sign not to go in. A scout troop entered instead, and the caller's mother later told them a radio report described a woman's body found in that cave the same afternoon. Asked about a photograph taken there, the caller says it showed only [name withheld] smiling up at the caller from the hole.

    Voices and sounds with no sourceRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  112. 1994·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    A call to a South Dakota tribal office on the father's unknown birthday

    A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that their father left when the caller was about two years old and that they never knew where their father was. After keeping a phone number for about two years, they say, they called it [quote withheld] one morning and reached a tribal office in South Dakota. They were told their father was dead, and that the day they called was their father's birthday, which they had not known. Art responds that it is [quote withheld] and the call ends.

    Signs and messagesPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    56
  113. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps on the roof while the caller's husband was at his shop

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Olympia, tells Art Bell they heard what sounded like their husband walking back and forth on the roof one night. [name withheld] says he was down at his shop working at the time. Their macaw became agitated, and when they got up to complain, their husband walked in the door. [name withheld] ends by repeating their husband's suggestion that it might have been someone close to them who had passed on.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    53
  114. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A wild man figure reported near an archaeological dig on the Luxembourg-Belgian border

    The caller, whose name and location are not given beyond “Europe,” says that in the early 1970s their archaeologist parents were digging at a Gallo-Roman site on the Luxembourg-Belgian border. The caller says a student digger came back in from the porch frightened. She said she had seen a wild-looking, hippie-type man at a tree line across the road. The caller says the group first took him for a vagrant from a nearby village. Later they heard a local World War II story about a man who went mad in the woods, was killed by Nazis, and was called the Red Man of Rodingen. The caller says they and their brother decided the area was haunted. The student left the dig early, and the story ends with the host thanking the caller.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    53
  115. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A floating female figure, immobility, and being carried out a bedroom window

    [name withheld], calling from Medford, Oregon, tells Art Bell about events they say happened in the mid-1950s, when they were about ten or eleven, in a house on Garden Grove Avenue in California. [name withheld] reports a fear of the bedroom and a curtain moving. One night, [name withheld] says, a female, ghost-like being floated through the open window and tied something around the caller's finger, leaving them immobile. It then floated the caller out of the window toward a light, where they were poked and prodded, with a buzzing sound, before they found themself back in bed. Art Bell suggests a hypnotic regression and calls it possibly an abduction story rather than a ghost story.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureHuman figures
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    57
  116. 1994·Caller's story·53 s· not yet checked

    Clawed touching in bed and being pushed into a closet

    A caller tells Art Bell that several months after an earlier experience they had described, they were lying in their bedroom when they felt something beside them touching them all over. The caller says it felt like claws. They report being pushed into the closet, the door shutting, and their mother finding them inside after they screamed. The caller gives no name, place, date, or explanation, and the host closes this part of the broadcast by calling it “another closet story.”

    Being touched, pushed, or heldBedroom visitorsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    9
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    50
  117. 1994·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Disorientation, a dry river crossing, and a chair-shaped rock in the Wind River Range

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Sacramento, describes a 1976 National Outdoor Leadership mountaineering trip in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. [name withheld] says the caller and a camp partner became disoriented in sudden darkness while fetching water. They woke at dawn across the river with dry shoes, sitting 25 feet up a cliff in a rock hollow shaped like a chair. [name withheld] says a guide later told them the spot was a Shoshone burial ground and that they had experienced a “Wind River turnaround.”

    Vanishing places, people, and timeRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    17
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    71
  118. 1994·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Red eyes in the woods across from a rural Louisiana house

    A caller to Ghost to Ghost 1994 gives their location on air as Omaha, Nebraska. The caller says the events took place years earlier in an unnamed Louisiana town. They describe coming home at about age seventeen on a foggy July night. The family dogs barked at the door, charged into a wooded lot across the road, and fled back. The caller followed with a flashlight and walked a few feet into the woods. Their sister screamed from the house and told them to run. Turning back at her instruction, the caller reports seeing two red glowing eyes at the spot where they had just stood. A sheriff was called and reportedly found nothing.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsVoices
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    52
  119. 1994·Caller's story·44 s· not yet checked

    Skeleton faces at a window and a skeleton figure in the hallway, New Orleans

    A caller to the 1994 Ghost to Ghost broadcast tells a short story he calls “the skeleton story,” from the time he lived in New Orleans as a small child. He says he woke in his bed on two occasions to a pale blue light outside his window and saw two skeleton faces there. On another occasion, he says, a blue light in the hallway came with a skeleton figure walking into his sister's room. He says that is all he remembers, and the host ends the call.

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    49
  120. 1995·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    College radio expedition to a reservoir reports a woman in white on the road

    In a letter read on air, the host presents a story from [name withheld] in Bellevue, Washington. It describes an early-1970s college radio expedition on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The station set out on a Halloween special to look for a local “Easton monster.” Waiting in three cars by a reservoir at night, at least one person in each car reportedly shouted to leave at the same moment. Back at the station, the group wrote down separately what had frightened them, and all described a transparent woman in a long white gown on the road. The letter says the special was canceled and listeners were told there were technical difficulties.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  121. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Stumble in a radio station hall where a dead employee was found

    A caller named [name withheld], in Santa Maria, California, who works at KSMA, says the station has a ghost. [name withheld] describes a former employee who died of a heart attack during a baseball broadcast about five or six years earlier. Later, the coworker who found the body stumbled in a long hallway at the spot where the body had lain. Nothing was visible when the lights were turned on. The host thanks [name withheld], and no resolution is given.

    Public buildings and businesses
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    51
  122. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Pale, unresponsive hitchhiker figure on Piper's Gap Road

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Pueblo, Colorado, tells Art Bell a story dated to the summer of 1986, shortly before the caller entered the service. [name withheld] and two high school friends had just left a house in the country that was [quote withheld] They were driving back into town along Piper's Gap Road when fog came down. At an intersection the car pulled over for a man standing at the roadside with his thumb out. The caller says the man never responded, was [quote withheld] and kept staring down the road. The caller drove away and says they still think about it. When asked, the caller says they do not know what they saw and guesses it was a ghost.

    Human figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    33
    Originality
    46
  123. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ouija seance, a door swinging shut, and a trident impression in a vestibule carpet

    A caller identified as KC, from Detroit, tells Art Bell that about twenty years earlier they, their brother, and their sister used an Ouija board for a seance. After the brother called on Satan, the caller says, a gust of wind shut the front vestibule door, the light failed, and a trident-shaped impression was found in the carpet. The story ends without resolution, and the host moves on to another caller.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingDoors, windows, and locksLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    53
  124. 1995·Host's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Host's story of a witch caller who left him an old Ouija board

    Art Bell tells a short story about a night when he was broadcasting in Las Vegas and a woman telephoned claiming to be a witch. According to him, she gave disconcerting personal information about him, which he bleeped off the air, and said she would come and leave something for him. He says an old Ouija board was later left for him. He declines to describe what happened to the board and closes with a general warning that Ouija boards are an opening and should not be used.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingDemons and hostile presences
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    53
  125. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Smiling face appears in cigarette smoke in a Newport basement

    A caller from Spokane, Washington, tells Art Bell that about a year earlier, while smoking in a friend's basement in Newport, they saw a face form in their cigarette smoke. The caller says their friend also saw it, that the face smiled, and that it then faded slowly.

    Partial figures and mistsHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    54
  126. 1995·Host's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Host describes a wine cellar photograph said to show a translucent figure

    The host, Art Bell, tells listeners about a photograph he says was taken by a stonemason in Arizona after the man finished a wine cellar in a house roughly a hundred years old. Bell says a translucent being appeared in the finished picture. He says the image was published in his newsletter and can be downloaded from his bulletin board by calling a given number. He describes seeing a face, body, arms, and legs in it. He ends by calling it a spirit or entity in the photograph and moves on to a caller.

    Strange photos and videoHuman figuresPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    40
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    55
  127. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Woman in a white dress pursues a car on Monterey Highway, 1951

    A caller named [name withheld], from Los Banos, California, relays a story they say their father told them about their father's cousin [name withheld]. According to [name withheld], in 1951 [name withheld] was driving north from a movie theater in Morgan Hill toward San Jose on a stretch of the Monterey Highway known as “Blood Alley.” A woman in a white dress at the roadside kept pace with the accelerating car and then appeared at the window as a skeletal face. [name withheld] says [name withheld] braked, prayed, and drove back to [name withheld]'s mother's house instead.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    50
  128. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Missing

    Unavailable.

    Believability
    0
    Evidence
    0
    Creepiness
    0
    Originality
    51
  129. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ouija session: light forms in mid-air and room turns cold

    A caller who gives no name continues a story begun before a break. During a Ouija board session, the presence on the board asked the group to turn off the lights. They lit a candle and did so. A small bright light formed in mid-air in the corner of the room, the room turned cold, and both the caller and their friend felt ill. They stopped, prayed, and pictured a protective light, and the light faded. The caller advises caution with Ouija boards, and the host adds his own warning.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingLights, orbs, and glowing eyesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    55
  130. 1995·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes a man convulsing and speaking in multiple voices in an apartment

    [name withheld], calling from Denver, tells Art Bell that a man they met asked them to check whether the man's wife had been married before. After [name withheld] gave him the information, the man reportedly came over crying. He then went into a rage, convulsed, appeared to stop breathing, and spoke in multiple voices before emergency services took him to the ER. The caller later says the man told them that two priests in a French orphanage had told him he was possessed.

    PossessionVoicesHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    56
  131. 1995·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports their mother saw a boyfriend in her bedroom the night he died

    A caller on the wildcard line, speaking from Duluth, Minnesota, tells Art Bell a short secondhand story they attribute to their mother. They say that in the 1950s, when she was a junior in high school, she woke one night and saw the young man she was seeing standing in her bedroom. They say she asked what he was doing there, and he faded away. The next day, the caller says, she learned he had been killed in a car accident. The story ends there, with the host remarking only that there are many stories like it.

    Signs at the moment of deathHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    36
    Originality
    46
  132. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Two gray-skinned figures in a hospital corridor thrift store

    A caller from Corpus Christi, Texas, tells Art Bell about shopping with their mother at a thrift store inside a hospital. The caller says they heard a deep voice ask [quote withheld] and then saw two men in white gowns with gray-toned skin. They say the taller one looked into their eyes and communicated a threat. They say their mother told them to make the sign of the cross and warned them that being upset made them vulnerable to evil spirits. The caller says they did calm down. The caller closes by generalizing that “bad spirits” can reach people who are negative and vulnerable.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesVoices
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    60
  133. 1995·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Ghost sailor reported aboard the icebreaker Glacier

    A letter read on air, signed by a retired US Coast Guard man named [name withheld] of Shelton, Washington, reports a ghost he says he encountered aboard the icebreaker Glacier. He describes a knock and a “sailor” at his stateroom door directing him to the B-1 engineering room, a hatch that closed and locked by itself, and a woman who reportedly saw a translucent sailor pass through a bulkhead. The letter ends with his sign-off and the host's thanks.

    Human figuresShips, planes, and carsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    55
  134. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Family story of a bird at the fireplace speaking in a dead mother's voice

    A first-time caller named [name withheld], from Houston, Texas, tells Art Bell a family story they say has been handed down for over ninety years. In the story, their relative's six-year-old daughter is left alone at night with a crying baby and a dying fire in a South Carolina shack. She sees a large bird come down the chimney, fan the fire up, and speak in her dead mother's voice, telling her to give “mama's baby” water. The caller presents the bird as a benign, protective presence and says they have never personally seen a ghost.

    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    48
  135. 1995·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Child says dead brother is present at a Guam rosary; a stuck cupboard opens

    A caller reachable through Reno recounts an event they say happened to them in 1991 or 1992 while living in Guam. At a rosary for a friend's former schoolmate, the dead man's four- or five-year-old sister repeatedly said her brother was present. She finally led the household to his room. There, a sliding cupboard door that two adult men could not move slid open effortlessly for her, revealing a letter the man had written to her. The story ends there. The host thanks the caller and offers his own comments about messages from the dead and children's perception.

    VisitsChildren who see presencesSigns and messages
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  136. 1995·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A voice and an arm on a hotel staircase, then news of a brother's death

    A caller from Canton, Michigan, tells Art Bell that on October 7, 1983, while playing a band job at the Fordney Hotel in Saginaw, Michigan, they woke at the top of the hotel stairs, felt an arm around them, and heard a voice say [quote withheld] The caller says their mother telephoned the next night to tell them their brother had committed suicide. The brother then “visited” them for about a week and a half, which they describe as feeling a cold stare, and which they say comforted them.

    Signs at the moment of deathVisits
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    54
  137. 1995·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Waking vision of four masked, robed figures in blue light, Fresno (1988)

    An unnamed caller from Fresno, California, tells Art Bell that on a Saturday morning in 1988, as they were waking, a blue light and a TV-like image appeared inside their head. The image showed four tall, robed, masked figures bathed in blue light in an underground cavern, hallway, or room. It lasted about thirty seconds and startled the caller. They say they have told people about it since and still wonder whether it was symbolic. They say they do not know what it was. Art Bell offers an unverified guess about crossed psychic paths, then closes the call.

    Human figuresSleep paralysis and bedroom visitors
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    65
  138. 1995·Letter read on air·26 s· not yet checked

    Fax read on air: Room lights dim after host suggests turning them down

    The host reads a short fax on air from an unnamed listener. The writer says that as soon as the host suggested listeners turn down their lights, the lights in the writer's room dimmed by half while the writer was writing, and were still dim. The letter gives no name, place, lamp type, or explanation for the dimming. The item ends with reactions from the studio, and the show moves on to another letter.

    Lights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    55
  139. 1995·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Thrashing in bed each September in a Phoenix apartment

    A letter read on air and signed [quote withheld] says the writer is woken from daytime sleep by the feeling that someone is thrashing in bed with him, though the bed is empty. The feeling comes back each September and stops after September 21st. A neighbor later tells him that a young woman was found strangled in the same apartment in September 1981. The writer concludes it is her spirit and asks the host what to do. The host declines to advise.

    Bedroom visitorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  140. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Falling through ground in a cemetery and being lifted out by pressure on their feet

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Houston, Alaska, tells Art Bell a story they say happened about thirty-five years earlier, when they were 13, in Westfield, Massachusetts. They say that while running through an old cemetery beside a church as a shortcut, they fell through the ground into what they assumed was a grave. They were covered in dirt and winged insects. Then they felt a pressure around their feet that lifted them out of the dirt. They say they ran to the far side of the cemetery, where their friends were, and have never entered a cemetery since. The caller offers no explanation for the pressure.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    52
  141. 1995·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Family haunting in Louisiana tied to an uncle who kept his wife's corpse

    A caller from Austin, Texas, tells a family story they say took place in Louisiana about a hundred years before the broadcast and is still going on. An uncle, said to be devastated by his young wife's death, kept her corpse in an upstairs bedroom for six months while he waited for a glass coffin ordered from New Orleans. He reportedly kissed it nightly and talked to it over a Ouija board. The caller passes on servants' reports of candles that would not light, cold air, whispers, falling objects, and nighttime conversations with another voice. The caller says relatives kept avoiding the room and feeling a cold presence into the 1970s. The caller says the woman is still buried in Metairie Cemetery, that a family member holds the key to the crypt, and that they themselves would go in out of curiosity.

    Haunted homesOuija boards and automatic writingCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    64
  142. 1995·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Boulders thrown around a camper on the Queets River

    Caller [name withheld], from Graham, Washington, describes four men playing poker in a camper beside the Queets River. Around 1:30 a.m., rocks began landing around the vehicle for about three hours, along with grunts that he and Art Bell compared with a recorded “Sasquatch” sound. In the morning, [name withheld] says, large boulders lay in a circle around the camper, and it took two trucks to move them. He dates the event to 1975, says he has never returned to the spot, and offers no cause beyond “something awfully big.”

    Bigfoot and other creaturesObjects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    54
  143. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Man in a black robe at a remote mountain campsite

    A caller from Pasco, Washington, tells Art Bell about a summer camping trip in a remote mountain area. The caller and a girl came back from a walk to find their friend hiding in the car. The friend said a man in a black robe had come by, said “this isn't right,” and walked off. The caller says they never learned more, and the friend still insists the caller had someone up there.

    Human figures
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    51
  144. 1995·Caller's story·53 s· not yet checked

    A voice calling the caller's name on a night shift at a Lake Stevens plant

    A caller tells Art Bell a brief story about working a night shift at a plant in Lake Stevens. The caller wore earplugs because of the noise, and heard someone call their name. The caller says the only other worker was outside on a forklift. The two met at the doorway, each asking what the other wanted, and no one else was around. The caller says the coworker told them the plant had done this ever since it was built, and that no one could figure it out.

    VoicesHaunted places
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    51
  145. 1995·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Elevator doors reopening in a Florida hospital after a father's death

    A letter attributed to [quote withheld] is read on air. The writer says his father died of cancer in Florida in the summer of 1992, shortly after the writer and his wife arrived from Maryland. He says that as they left the hospital, the elevator they were in rose unexpectedly, stopped on the next floor, and kept reopening its doors with no one in sight. The letter ends with his view that his father was signaling that he was there and okay.

    Lights and appliances acting upVisitsPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    56
  146. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dark cloud and a black face seen in an F.E. Warren AFB dormitory

    A caller from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, who says he was once stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, describes seeing a dark, gas-like cloud above his bed and down the hall of his dormitory. He also describes a black face with navy-blue eyes, and hands, peeking around a corner. Both were gone when he looked straight at them. He also repeats claims that the base is haunted, including ghosts of dogs in the dormitory. This part of the broadcast ends while he is still telling the story. His next story, about an attempted astral projection, falls outside it.

    Partial figures and mistsMilitary sites
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    61
  147. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Attempted “astral projection” and seeing his own body in bed

    A caller who is addressed in the story as “[name withheld]” tells Art Bell about a single attempt at what his mother called astral projection. He made it while lying on his bed, missing home. He reports feeling himself sit up, seeing his own body, and being able to see through his legs. He says a friend then came in and greeted him, and he felt himself being pulled back into his body. He says the experience frightened him and that he never tried it again.

    Psychics and mediumsDeathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    49
  148. 1995·Caller's story·58 s· not yet checked

    Caller recounts her mother smelling flowers before her sister's death

    A caller who gives her name as [name withheld], in Las Vegas, tells a story about her mother. She says that in 1976, while they were talking on the telephone, her mother suddenly said she smelled flowers, strong, like stock or carnation. Her mother identified the smell as her sister [name withheld]'s flower. About an hour later, she says, her mother got a call that [name withheld] had died. The story ends there. Afterward, outside this part of the broadcast, the caller goes on to describe her own recurring flower smells.

    Signs and messagesSmells with no sourceSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    57
  149. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Recurring sweet pea scent after mother's death

    An unidentified caller tells Art Bell that since their mother died, they have repeatedly smelled sweet peas, their mother's flower. They describe it as a scent confined to one spot, which they call a “bubble” around their head. It usually happens in doorways and lasts about five minutes. They say two of their sons have also smelled it, and they see it as their mother's “little visitation.” The host says he believes the caller and comments that he has heard similar stories about spirits and flowers.

    Signs and messagesSmells with no sourceVisits
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    54
  150. 1995·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A black mass invitation, a stalled dorm elevator, and a body in the college lake

    A caller who gives their location as Gainesville, Georgia (WDUN), tells of their freshman year at a small southern college. A man in the student center claimed to be a black witch and invited their group to a black mass. The caller did not go. That night a fire alarm sent them outside, where they saw their returning friends looking [quote withheld] before the dorm elevator they boarded stalled between floors. The caller says they later learned that one man had disappeared and that his body was found in the college lake about three weeks afterward, with his throat cut. The host cuts the caller off for time.

    Séances, rituals, and blessingsOuija boards and automatic writingAnything else
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    55
  151. 1995·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Recurring dream of a jeep on a desert hill, then a matching real road

    [name withheld], from Los Angeles, describes a dream they say they had about every couple of months from roughly age seven to fifteen. In it, two men in an old jeep drive a deserted desert road, and the dream ends in terror and a wrecked jeep. At fifteen, on a desert road near the Salton Sea with a school friend, they say the same landscape and the dream's fear returned, and they refused to go over the crest of the hill. They turned around. [name withheld] says the dream never came back.

    Dreams that came trueHappened in childhoodWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  152. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Hands on the shoulder and a voice in a karaoke bar

    A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], in San Francisco, tells Art Bell about a night around age 20. He was sulking in a karaoke bar over an unplanned pregnancy when he felt hands on his shoulders and heard a voice he took to be his dead father. He says the experience encouraged him to grow up, and he adds that he now sees his father in his daughter's eyes, without deciding what that means.

    VisitsVoicesBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    51
  153. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A man in a checkered suit lying on a Santa Cruz Mountains road

    The caller, who says she is calling from Merced on KYOS, describes driving down a curvy two-lane road in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the 1970s. She was in a Volkswagen with a friend, after leaving a place she calls the Chateau Liberte. She says she saw a man lying in their lane with his head on the white line, wearing a checkered suit, and that they swerved around him at the last moment. She says he was smiling and showed no sign of injury, and that they never saw him again. She calls the story very short and says she does not know whether it was a ghost or a real person.

    Human figures
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    49
  154. 1995·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    A flame lighting underfoot at a creek in the Virginia hills

    A caller (name and location not given) tells a short secondhand story. The caller's mother grew up in the hills of Virginia and told many stories, including one in which she and her sisters were walking home through woods at night and had to jump a small creek. According to the caller, as they jumped, a match lit underneath them out of the middle of the water. The caller offers no explanation and says many such stories came from them. The host thanks the caller and ends the call.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    27
    Originality
    42
  155. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Phantom fire in a converted railway station restaurant

    A caller from Owensboro, Kentucky, tells Art Bell about a “ghost fire” at a railway station converted into a pizza restaurant, where the caller says they worked. The caller says an unused fireplace near the kitchen gave off the sound of crackling flames and heat, though nothing was visible. The caller says it happened repeatedly and the staff knew about it. Art says it is the first such report he has heard, and then closes the call.

    Public buildings and businessesCold spots and sudden heatVoices and sounds with no source
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    58
  156. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Classical music in a 1949 Ford that had no radio

    A caller from Reno, Nevada, tells Art Bell a brief story from their high school years in the late 1950s. The caller was driving down a Reno street with their girlfriend in an old 1949 Ford when, the caller says, loud classical music came on. When the passenger reached over to turn down the radio, she said there was no radio in the car. The caller says they never discussed it afterward. The host compares it to a fireplace story he recalls and describes it as [quote withheld]

    Music with no sourceShips, planes, and carsMore than one witness
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    56
  157. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A blindfolded Ouija session in Hawaii and a planchette that flew off

    A returning caller, whose name is not given, tells Art Bell that she and a friend were playing a Ouija board in Hawaii when her husband, [name withheld], blindfolded them. She says the planchette flew out from under their fingers. [name withheld] said he had held a crucifix over it. She says she wrote Art a letter about it a year earlier, and Art says he remembers the story. The call ends with Art advising listeners not to play with Ouija boards.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    58
  158. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Coast Guard member reports glowing three-masted ships in the Gulf of Mexico

    A caller from Jacksonville, Florida, tells Art Bell they served as an ASM in the US Coast Guard, stationed in the Gulf of Mexico out of Houston. The caller says that in 1980–1983 they and others several times saw what they called “ghost ships,” glowing three-masted, schooner-type vessels that did not show on radar and then vanished, generally around the time of a harvest moon. The caller says they were sent for a psychological evaluation twice and were given official explanations that they do not adopt themselves: an electrical effect of gravity, and a fluorescent effect of the ocean. The call ends with the host saying he believes the caller and moving to the next caller.

    Ghostly figures and lightsShips, planes, and carsMore than one witness
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    62
  159. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A repaired semi truck, a recurring cold feeling, and a buried trailer

    The caller retells a story they say they read in a trucking magazine. A semi truck involved in a fatal wreck is repaired and sold again and again, but each buyer brings it back because something is wrong. A woman who buys it reportedly feels a cold sensation whenever she passes a certain area. Later a buried trailer that belonged to the dead driver is exposed, she hauls the truck to its final destination, and the cold feeling stops. The host then asks whether it was the dead driver's spirit or some energy in machines, but this part of the broadcast does not include the caller's answer.

    Ships, planes, and carsCold spots and sudden heatMore than one witness
    Believability
    32
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    56
  160. 1995·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Roommate's night vision of her dead father warns of her sister's car accident

    A caller who calls themself an atheist tells Art Bell that at age 20 they shared a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate who was a single mother. One night, the caller says, she ran into the caller's room crying. She said she had seen her dead father standing over her sister's casket, warning that the sister would be hurt but would not die. The next day, the caller says, the roommate's mother telephoned to report that the sister had been badly hurt in a car wreck and was in intensive care. The caller says the sister recovered, but the timing has always bothered them.

    Warnings and premonitionsVisitsDreams that came true
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    51
  161. 1995·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Door slams and deadbolt locks out caller; bottles found in a circle in a shop

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Oregon, describes about eight years of what they call prankster activity in the antique store the caller and their husband bought and live above. They say that on their first day there, a slammed door and an engaged deadbolt locked them out on an upstairs porch. Later they found six Jim Beam decanter bottles arranged in a circle on the shop floor. They say they are not afraid and call the presences pranksters. The host jokes about the bottles and closes the call quickly.

    Doors, windows, and locksObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    57
  162. 1995·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Cheyenne caller says F.E. Warren is haunted and begins a dying mother story

    [name withheld], from Cheyenne, Wyoming, tells Art Bell that F.E. Warren air base is haunted and that they have heard several stories about it. The caller then begins a secondhand story about their younger brother's friend, a newlywed young mother with two small children. The friend had just been diagnosed with cancer and given about two weeks to live. The host interrupts before [name withheld] can continue, calls it a cliffhanger, and puts [name withheld] on hold.

    Military sites
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    45
  163. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports scalp touch and sticky goo in bathroom

    A female caller, whose name and location are not given, tells Art Bell about a young woman, a friend of her brother, who was dying. The caller says she had been thinking about the woman for four or five days when, standing in her bathroom, she felt something like a finger cross the top of her head. She found a sticky goo there. She says she does not know if the event was connected to the dying woman. The host calls it a Halloween “slime” story.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldMarks and traces
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    54
  164. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller on their late brother's near-death experience and a felt presence

    An unnamed first-time caller tells Art Bell that their call is [quote withheld] It is about their brother, who died about five years earlier. When he was younger, the caller says, he had a car wreck and what the caller calls a near-death experience, and he spent a long time in the hospital. The caller says they feel their brother's presence during the call and call themselves nervous. They say they thought him “special” while he insisted everyone had the power. Asked why, they mention martial arts and “extra strength.” The host responds about concentration and focus, and the story ends with no further detail.

    Visits
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    49
  165. 1995·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Cyclist reports seeing their dead riding partner on the road at night

    Art Bell reads a fax from a hospital emergency room worker. The writer says they were bicycling home at night, listening to the show, close to the one-year mark of a riding buddy's death on the same street. The writer reports hearing a tire sound behind them although there were no cars, and then seeing their dead friend [name withheld] beside them. The writer sped home. The letter ends with the writer saying they cannot tell whether they were having a ’60s flashback.

    VisitsHuman figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  166. 1995·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board played twice; antique mirror moved and later broke

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Fairbanks says that at about 18, after playing with a Ouija board one night, they found a heavy antique Chinese mirror lying face down on the floor at the foot of their bed. It normally sat on their dresser, and nothing else on the dresser was disturbed. The caller says that after a second Ouija session the next night they woke around two or three in the morning to a loud crash. They found the mirror broken into many pieces in the same spot, with the dresser items on the floor. The caller says they never touched a Ouija board again. The host closes the segment with his own warning about inviting things in.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    69
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    55
  167. 1995·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Two tomb robbers found dead in a New Orleans above-ground cemetery

    [name withheld], calling from New Orleans, tells Art Bell that they and their younger son were visiting and cleaning their grandmother's tomb in an old above-ground cemetery. They found several tombs broken into. In the tomb of a girl said to have died in a scarlet fever epidemic, they found the recent bodies of two young men. The caller says the cemetery keepers called the police and that they later heard both men had died of heart attacks. The call ends with the caller saying the little girl took her revenge on the men who tried to break into her tomb.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsAttacks and harmContact from the dead
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    13
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    63
  168. 1995·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Covers that would not come off and a scream in the ear at 3:30 a.m.

    Mary from Bakersfield calls live near the end of the broadcast. The caller describes a winter night when they were about 18 or 19. The caller says that after they pulled the covers over their head in bed, they became frightened and could not pull them off. Then they heard a shrill scream in their ear and could not call out until they managed to say “daddy,” and at that point the covers came off. The caller gives no cause and says they have never slept with the covers over their head since.

    Paralysis and pressureVoicesBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    59
  169. 1996·Letter read on air·5 min· not yet checked

    Rocking chair and voices in an 1880s Ashland rental house

    A letter read on air, from a writer named [name withheld] in Ashland, Oregon, describes moving into an 1880s rental house in 1989. Later a rocking chair moved by itself beside the writer's infant daughter. The letter also reports baby pictures balanced on their sides, odd noises on the baby monitor, a white mist, the voices of two elderly women, and a sweet smell. The family moved out, and the letter says the current residents report nothing unusual.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownVoices
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  170. 1996·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    A painting of an 18th-century lady, called Henrietta, that moves and cracks

    Art Bell reads a letter from an unnamed listener about a painting of an 18th-century lady, bought in an antique store in 1963. The family calls her Henrietta, and the writer says she takes “an active role” when events demand. The writer reports that in 1970, in Army quarters at Fort Bragg, the child's light was repeatedly found on and the door open, with the painting askew. Later the painting's face showed a crack [quote withheld] before the writer's mother died. The letter is cut off as Art moves to the next one.

    Objects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting upDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  171. 1996·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter claims mother and son had matching dreams of a shooting and met on the stairs

    The host reads a letter in which the writer tells a story about [quote withheld] The letter says the son, sleeping in the basement, dreamed he walked upstairs and stood over his blood-covered parents with a gun in his hands. At the same time, his mother upstairs dreamed he was entering her bedroom and shooting her and her husband. She woke, went downstairs, and met him coming up the stairs, with no gun in his hands. The two ended up crying in each other's arms. The letter ends by asking whether something was driving him toward the gun or protecting the family, and the host says the guess is as good as his.

    Dreams that came trueMore than one witness
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  172. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Man in blue coveralls vanishes from a catwalk above the Queen Mary pool

    The caller, [name withheld], from Bakersfield, tells Art Bell a “true story” from 1984. A friend took the caller on a tour of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and they slipped past a rope railing down to the empty swimming pool. The caller reports seeing a man in blue coveralls, with red hair and a red beard, walking on a catwalk above the pool. The man was gone when the caller looked back. About a year later, the caller says, a TV special showed an actor playing a spirit who looked exactly like that man and who had been crushed to death. Art closes with his own remarks about souls who die unexpectedly.

    Human figuresShips, planes, and carsMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    55
  173. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A self-described witch in Ravenna, Ohio, and bees stinging people

    [name withheld], calling from South Pasadena, tells Art Bell that when they were about 18 they moved to Ravenna, Ohio, and lived with some people there. They say the woman in the house told them she had been a witch and that Ravenna was where the real witches of Salem moved. They say she also told them things about their childhood that scared them. The only example of weird events is hives of bees stinging people, before the host takes over. No further incident or outcome is described.

    Psychics and mediumsOuija boards and ritualsAnything else
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    63
  174. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Horses, war cries, and an arrowhead in a tree near Pipestone, Minnesota

    A caller from Janesville, Wisconsin, tells Art Bell that at 15 they lived in southwestern Minnesota near Pipestone. The caller and friends were camping by a small lake when they heard horses and war cries at night but saw nothing. The caller says they heard something strike next to them and later pulled an arrowhead from the tree beside which they had heard it. The caller says the group found tomahawk heads and arrowheads, and that a Dakota tribal man told them a battle in which many Native Americans were killed had happened there. Bell calls it a time flash. The caller says it frightened them all and that the only explanation they can think of is what the shaman said as well.

    Voices and sounds with no sourceTime slipsMarks and traces
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    59
  175. 1996·Host's story·2 min· not yet checked

    The host's brief story of a ghost named Harold in a Nye County brothel

    In a short segment on Ghost to Ghost AM, host Art Bell tells what he calls a brief but true story about a ghost named Harold who is said to haunt an unnamed brothel in Nye County, Nevada. He says the ghost is female despite the name and has been seen by many successive working girls. He says a long-held legend promises a thousand-dollar night to anyone who sees her and touches her red dress. He declines to name the brothel and ends by saying he does not know why Harold is there.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    34
    Evidence
    4
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    54
  176. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Vanishing woman in a long gingham dress on a Georgia country road

    A caller who gives their location as “Werner Robbins, Georgia” and “South of Macon” tells a story they say happened to their father, who has died. The caller says their father, as a boy of ten or eleven, was riding home in a mule wagon on a road between Knoxville, Georgia, and Byron. The party saw a woman in a long gingham dress walking in the road, and as the wagon drew near, she vanished. The caller also says that stretch of road was considered haunted until it was paved in 1923. They agree with the host that the woman might have been killed there.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    53
  177. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Las Vegas, tells Art Bell a [quote withheld] from when they were about 17 and living in their parents' newly bought house. They report a little boy's voice in the backyard asking for his grandpa, a child figure their mother saw on the stairs, their son's folded laundry found unfolded, and a small figure at the foot of their bed that disappeared. After their infant son died in November, they say, the boy appeared beside the bed asking “where's the baby.” A neighbor later told them a boy who had stayed with his grandparents had been killed by a car in the road. They describe the boy as friendly, eight or nine years old, and still looking for his grandfather.

    Human figuresVoicesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    58
  178. 1996·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A round light moving like a walking man on a hill at Rockwoods Park

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Las Vegas, describes a night as a teenager at Rockwoods, a park outside St. Louis that they call an old miner's place. The caller and their companions were sitting in the dark around Halloween. They report that dogs and park animals went wild. Then a basketball-sized round light came down a hillside at roughly a man's walking pace, about 100 yards away. It went out at the bottom, came back on, and climbed back up above the ridge before turning and moving off. They say the group ran to the car and left, and that they now assume it was some kind of being or a ghost.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    48
  179. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Light bulb found behind a radiator after a lightning strike

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell a short second story about a lightning strike near their house during a storm. Afterward, a replacement light bulb dropped from their hand and could not be found for hours. It turned up jammed behind a radiator, where the caller says it could not have rolled. The caller insists that was physically impossible. The host offers a tentative suggestion of a lingering “force” from the lightning and says it is hard to say. The story ends there.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    51
  180. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Teenager reports a boy on their bed and a rusted pistol in a Midvale, Idaho, farmhouse

    A caller who gives the name [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about something they say happened when they were a teenager. Their mother took a teaching job in Midvale, Idaho, and the family rented an old farmhouse there. They say they saw a boy sitting on the end of their bed. He told them he had ridden for the Pony Express and had been shot and killed. The next day, they say, they found a rusted old pistol in the horse barn. They give no explanation for what happened. The host offers his own idea that such beings may calm the people they appear to.

    Human figuresHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    26
    Originality
    58
  181. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Bull-headed figure over a bed, a voice from a sleeping husband, and a trailer fire

    The caller, [name withheld], from Cooley, Arizona, relays a story they say a friend told them about seven years earlier. The friend woke in bed beside their Native American husband and saw a bull's-head or demon-like form hanging over the bed. The friend heard a voice they could not understand coming from their husband's mouth. The story ends with the friend's trailer burning to the ground the next day. [name withheld] mentions a newspaper report of an electrical fire, a replacement trailer, and a witch doctor being brought to the property.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureVoices
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    26
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    54
  182. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Rented Ohio mining-town house: footsteps, greyhounds, and a man at the door

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Hanford, tells a story they say happened when they were a child. [name withheld]'s aunt and uncle rented a house in a small mining town in Ohio. The former occupant had been sent to a nursing home against his will. The caller reports a series of household disturbances. They say they and their girl cousin saw two greyhounds in their shared bedroom at night. [name withheld]'s aunt met a man at the back door, and the aunt fired a shotgun through the door. The next morning, grapes were found withered on the vine. The story ends with the family moving soon afterward.

    Haunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangsHuman figures
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    46
    Originality
    58
  183. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A figure at the foot of the bed on the night the caller's grandfather died

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Canton, Ohio, says that at the age of five they woke in the night and found family members gathered and upset. They then saw a greenish-white shape at the foot of their bed that they came to think looked like their grandfather. The caller says they learned the next morning that their grandfather had died in an emergency room that night. The host closes the call by saying the grandfather [quote withheld] and describing such stories as a type that comes up again and again.

    Signs at the moment of deathHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    51
  184. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Figure at foot of bed, then a man in the laundry room five months later

    A caller who gives their location as Wenatchee, Washington, tells Art Bell they woke from a nightmare to feel pressure on their bed. They saw a man from the waist up at the foot of the bed, in inverted light. The caller says that about five months later, while sitting in their dining room, they sensed someone behind them and then found a man in their laundry room. They say the police came and found his footprints around the house. They state they do not know what the first figure was.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureHuman figures
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    53
  185. 1996·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house

    A caller from Kelso, Montana, tells Art Bell about a night several years earlier when the caller and a girlfriend were alone in a large old ranch house. The caller reports hearing a wood-chopping sound outside, then seeing a tall dark shadow float across a propane tank toward them. The next day they found chopped wood scattered around the yard. The caller also reports hearing their mother's voice call them inside the house when no one was there. They say they think the home's earlier large family “were still there.”

    Shadow peopleVoices and sounds with no sourceVoices
    Believability
    74
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    59
  186. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Unexplained knocking on a signal-shack hatch aboard a Navy oiler

    A caller from Albany, Oregon, who identifies as a former Navy signalman, tells Art Bell about something they say happened around 1983 or 1984. The caller was stationed in the Indian Ocean aboard an aging oiler. They report that they and another signalman heard repeated knocking on a hatch of their signal shack in the middle of the night. They found no one when they opened it, and the knocking returned twenty to thirty minutes later. They searched from both access doors and found no one. The caller says they never found a cause.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsShips, planes, and carsMore than one witness
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  187. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Law student reports basketball-sized presence of dying mother during class

    [name withheld], a second-year law student in Madison, Wisconsin, says that on October 24, 1995, he was drowsy in a first-year civil procedure class. He felt or saw a basketball-sized presence at arm’s length that seemed to be his mother saying hello and goodbye. He says his mother was then in the terminal stage of cancer. After class his wife relayed a call from his sister. When he called back, he learned his mother had died about an hour and 15 minutes earlier. He takes the classroom experience as his mother’s visit at the time of her death.

    Signs at the moment of death
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    63
  188. 1996·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Ghost tracks and a truck pushed over a San Antonio rail crossing

    A caller recounts the “ghost tracks” legend at a rail crossing in deep south San Antonio, which the caller says their daughter researched. In the 1940s, a school bus stalled on the tracks and was struck by a train, killing the driver and the children aboard. The caller reports visiting the site the previous Saturday, parking about 30 feet from the tracks with the truck in neutral, and then feeling the truck pushed over the crossing. The caller also reports small handprints in baby powder left on the trunks of cars that had been stuck. The host offers a sympathetic reading and thanks the caller. Nothing is verified on air.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsPoltergeist activityMarks and traces
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    51
  189. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller relays aunt’s story of a goat-like figure and hoof prints in an Ohio cellar

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], of Kapolei, Hawaii, relays a story the caller’s mother told them about her sister, the caller’s aunt, as a girl in Ohio. Sent to a dirt-floored cellar for potatoes, the aunt reportedly heard heavy footfalls. She turned, screamed at a tall half-goat figure she called “the devil,” and fled upstairs. Her parents were said to find hoof prints in the dirt running from the wall to where she stood and back, including a half print at the wall.

    Non-human creaturesMarks and tracesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  190. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Strangling dream and a hag mask found at the basement stairs

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld] and says they are calling from New Haven, Connecticut, tells Art Bell a “scary” story from their teens. The caller reports that in summer 1980, while sleeping in their parents’ basement, they dreamed of being strangled by a hag or witch. They woke to find the rubber hag mask they had gotten for Halloween 1979 lying at the foot of the basement stairs, though the caller says it had been upstairs. The caller reports no marks and says their family did not believe them. The caller says they never figured out how the mask got there or where it later went.

    Objects moved or thrownBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  191. 1996·Letter read on air·5 min· not yet checked

    A Denver officer’s letter: A woman in a red dress at a courthouse and the elevator

    Art Bell reads a letter from a listener who describes themselves as a police officer working [quote withheld] The writer says they were sent on October 29, 1993, to a distressed courthouse janitor who reported a figure that dissolved. Later the same day, the writer says, a detective reported a woman in a red dress who vanished inside an elevator. The writer says they then returned to the courtroom at midnight with a fellow officer and the officer’s friend. The writer felt cold and a presence. They were told a spirit wanted permission to leave, and they gave it. The cold and the presence stopped.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    57
  192. 1996·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Vibrating vase and mirror, and a shattering glass in a mid-1970s house

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Rockford, Illinois, describes a house the caller and their new wife moved into in the mid-1970s. Both of them separately heard a vibrating noise. The caller says they traced the vibration first to a vase and later to a wall mirror, and each time they stopped it by touching the object. Roughly a week later, the caller says, a piece of glass from a toaster-oven door exploded upward into their face from the sink and cut their cheek. The caller says the activity never came back after that. The caller offers their own view that a spirit upset by their presence caused it.

    Objects moved or thrownVoices and sounds with no sourceHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  193. 1996·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Fax confirming a San Antonio “school-bus ghost tracks” story

    Host Art Bell recaps a story he says was told the previous hour by [quote withheld] It was about haunted railroad tracks where children in a school bus were killed. A stopped vehicle there is said to move by itself across the rails, leaving children’s handprints in baby powder put on cars. Bell then reads a fax from someone signing as [quote withheld] The writer says the story is true and was on their local news that day, with video of the car moving on its own and of the fingerprints. Bell adds no further comment in this part of the broadcast.

    Objects moved or thrownMarks and tracesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    34
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    48
  194. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Daughter’s invisible friend Daggett and a cold chair in a Kansas City-area house

    Caller [name withheld], from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, recounts his daughter’s childhood invisible friend “Daggett” in an old Kansas City-area house, noises in the basement, and a cold chair in her bedroom. The story ends with the daughter now a university freshman involved in Wicca. The host cuts off the call before [name withheld] finishes an answer about asking her about Daggett.

    Haunted homesChildren who see presencesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  195. 1996·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A voice named Harry and charred lumber in a Washington cabin

    A first-time caller from Pahrump, Nevada, describes a presence the caller says they met about 15 years earlier while living in an old cabin above a lake in Washington State. The caller reports feeling something over their shoulder at night and joking with it. Later, a voice in their mind gave the name “Harry.” The caller says the presence told them it had died in a fire in the home, and that they later found charred lumber under a board by the stairs. The caller says the presence communicated with them and their wife until they moved out.

    Haunted homesVoicesMarks and traces
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    55
  196. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board session in a box canyon and a spirit speaking through a participant

    A caller addressed as [name withheld] describes a 1982 Ouija board session in a box canyon with the caller’s friend [name withheld] and their wives. The caller reports that two women got answers. The caller was later told they had been chanting in an altered state. [name withheld] wrote pages in an unfamiliar script, and [name withheld]’s wife spoke in a low voice that the caller took to be a spirit. The caller says the spirit identified itself as an unburied Indian hunting party and that [name withheld] guided the spirits to cross over. The caller says a coworker later reported that the poster-tearing in their son’s room had stopped.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingPossessionVoices
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    62
  197. 1996·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter about Scrabble tiles rearranged overnight and a stereo changing channels

    The host reads a letter (or similar written message) from an unnamed writer. The writer says that in high school they stayed rent-free with a family from overseas while helping fix up another home. The writer reports that Scrabble tiles left on the floor were found rearranged into obscene words and that their stereo changed channels wildly. Family members shrugged it off. The writer later learned that the man of the house had been sent out of the Philippines for abuses against his first wife and children. The writer believes this explains [quote withheld]

    Objects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting upSigns and messages
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    56
  198. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Dolls moved overnight in an antique shop in a former Kansas City orphanage

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that they and their wife bought an old house, restored it, and opened an antique store. Children’s toys and dolls were repeatedly found off their shelves in the morning. The caller reports a child crying at night and a burned doll found behind a knocked-out wall. The activity stopped while the doll was on display and started again after the doll was sold. The caller says they are now trying to buy it back.

    Objects moved or thrownVoicesHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    58
  199. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Foster home in a dead boy’s bedroom: Bed pressed down at night

    A caller from Seattle tells Art Bell that at about age 11, the caller and their brother were placed in a foster home. It turned out to belong to a family friend whose son had died on Halloween, and the caller was given the dead boy’s bedroom. The caller reports waking one night to feel their bed pressed down hard, as if someone had sat on it. The caller said a prayer in Jesus’ name, and the bed sprang back up. The foster mother blamed the dog, and the other children in the room said the caller was crazy.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldBedroom visitorsOuija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    60
  200. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Presences and voices reported at World War II monuments in southern Okinawa

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that while serving in the Marines in Okinawa, Japan, the caller and a Japanese girlfriend visited the southern area with its World War II monuments at sunset. There they felt presences around them, and the caller heard voices they could not understand. The caller says their girlfriend ran back to the car in tears and never told them what she had heard, seen, or felt. Bell responds by saying he had lived on Okinawa himself and calls it “a haunted island.”

    VoicesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    55
  201. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A friend is watched by a man who vanishes from a Connecticut kitchen

    A caller from Essex Junction, Vermont, recounts events in Connecticut involving their best friend. The friend’s father had been killed shortly before the friend began reporting that a man was watching the friend from across the street. The caller says they dismissed it until the day they walked into their friend’s kitchen and found the friend at the table talking to a man. The caller glimpsed the man for an instant, and then he was no longer there. The call ends with the host’s brief comment and sign-off. The caller offers no explanation for what they saw.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and timeMore than one witness
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  202. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Presence in a new Escondido house, 1971; home blessed by a priest

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about a night in 1971, shortly after their family moved from Los Angeles to Escondido, California. The caller says something brushed past their shoulder around 1–2 a.m. while they slept on the living-room couch. They then could not move. The caller says their mother’s bedroom light came on because something had woken her too. According to the caller, a priest blessed the house a day or so later, and the family had no further problems.

    Haunted homesParalysis and pressureBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    50
  203. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board channeling and a father’s figure in an Ohio farmhouse

    [name withheld], calling from San Clemente, tells Art Bell about something they say happened when they were about fourteen or fifteen, in an old farmhouse in Ohio. They and a girlfriend used a Ouija board, a Christmas gift, to channel spirits. The caller says that on their first try they seemed to watch from outside their body. A spirit complained about the candlelight, their dead father briefly appeared, and then their vision went black and showed two-headed serpents and red-eyed rats. The caller says they came to with the lights on and their friend panicking. The caller ran to the bathroom, unable to breathe, with chest pain and a burning feeling. They never tried it again.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingVisitsNon-human creatures
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    56
  204. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Woman in a green glow at a bridge near a lynching site in Claxton, Georgia

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] says a cousin took the caller, along with a second cousin and that cousin’s girlfriend, to a bridge in the woods near Claxton, Georgia, said to be near the site of a lynching. The cousin told them to cross the bridge with their heads down. After they did, the caller says the group saw a woman come out of the woods. The caller describes her as moving in slow motion, torn and tattered, like a green glow. Two companions ran away, and the caller and the other cousin left with them. The caller says nothing bad came of it and that they would go back.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    52
  205. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Falling darts and indoor thunder in a Hanford, California house

    A caller who gives their name as Lance, from Clam Falls, Oregon, tells Art Bell about a stay in a Hanford, California house for a friend’s wedding. Lance says the bride had warned them about one room. She had once woken to thunder and lightning inside the house while the sky outside was clear. Lance says that while they and their friend threw darts in that back room, darts fell out of the board untouched. Lance also says other people in the house reported stereo speaker wires flying off the wall and unplugging the speakers.

    Objects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting upHaunted homes
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    52
  206. 1996·Caller's story·45 s· not yet checked

    Caller says a dead family friend brings a dollar each Halloween at noon

    A caller on the open line, heard saying they are in Pennsylvania but giving no name, says that when they were 12 a close family friend died and then came to them with a dollar bill, promising to see them on their birthday. The caller says she returns every Halloween, at exactly noon, with another dollar. Since they first saw her, the caller says, they have seen ghosts everywhere, in streets and houses. The story is cut off mid-sentence where the segment ends. No names, dates, or other witnesses are given.

    VisitsHuman figures
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    64
  207. 1996·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Annual funeral reported in the living room of a former funeral home

    A caller tells Art Bell that their house used to be a funeral home. The caller says that every January 1, a funeral takes place in the living room and all the furniture is gone. The caller says they have gotten used to it and are not afraid of ghosts. The caller says they have talked to them and that the beings that do harm are demons. When pressed on how to tell the difference, the caller says you cannot really tell.

    Haunted homes
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    59
  208. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Santa head toy activates and phone rings in a closed San Diego restaurant

    A caller tells Art Bell about a night a few years earlier when they worked a graveyard shift at a San Diego hotel that shared its property with a restaurant. The caller says an internal phone rang from the closed restaurant with nobody on the other end. The caller also says the lone cleaner ran out saying a clap-activated Santa Claus head toy had sounded on its own. The caller ends by calling it [quote withheld] they had almost forgotten.

    Lights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  209. 1996·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Childhood sounds and a cold presence in a Pomona house; a white figure in Ontario

    An unnamed caller to Ghost to Ghost 1996 describes strange events in two childhood homes. In a house in Pomona, California, from about age five or six, they heard sounds after their mother left for a graveyard shift. They were repeatedly woken by an extremely cold presence over their bed, and they saw the family dogs escape weekly. In a later house in Ontario, California, around fourth grade, they saw a short, powdery-white glowing man in a navy peacoat walk up the hallway into their room, touch them, and seem to read their thoughts. The caller describes the figure’s face as blank and says the experience was impossible to describe. The host closes the segment with general remarks that children and animals sense such presences before adults do.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    57
  210. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Lights, ringing phones, and footsteps at a southern Idaho radio station

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Seattle, says they worked weekend overnight shifts alone at a radio station in southern Idaho about seven years before the broadcast. The station was said to be haunted. They report lights switching on and off, phones ringing with a dial tone when answered, and footsteps crossing the floor above them while they were in the basement at about 3:30 a.m. They blame a ghost that they say was attached to one of the station’s DJs and had earlier been at that man’s house until a priest blessed it. They do not say how the activity at the station ended.

    Lights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    63
  211. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Hooded figure with sickle in Golden Gate Park before a friend’s motorcycle death

    [name withheld], who gives their name on KSFO in San Francisco, tells Art Bell that as a teenager they and a friend were riding bikes in Golden Gate Park in an area called Dark Valley. A hooded, caped figure with a sickle stepped out of the darkness and raised an arm, and the cape touched them as they passed. They say that within that week their best friend, not the friend on the bike, died in a motorcycle crash near the beach. The host suggests the figure may have been the Grim Reaper, and the caller ends by warning against Ouija boards.

    Human figuresMore than one witness
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    55
  212. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A bath-time candle relights itself in an old Golden, Colorado house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Golden, Colorado, tells Art Bell that they live in what they describe as a roughly 112-year-old house in a historic district. They say that late one night, while they took a bath with a candle burning, the candle went out and then came back on by itself about five minutes later. They say they stayed in the tub, frightened, until the water went cold. The story ends without explanation or follow-up.

    Cold spots, smells, and marks
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    58
  213. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A caller sees an occult-minded acquaintance appear in their locked bedroom and vanish at the kitchen light

    A caller from Ojai, California, tells Art Bell that in 1981, at age 19 and living in Arkansas, they spent an evening with an acquaintance who was “into the occult.” After they went home and to bed, they say, they turned over and saw that same man standing in their locked bedroom. They followed the man to the kitchen and switched on the light, and the man disappeared. The door stayed deadbolted and chained. The caller says they were not frightened at the time but slept with the light on for a long while afterward. When they asked the man about it the next day, the man only chuckled.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    47
    Originality
    54
  214. 1996·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A mother’s phone warning before a 1975 carrier collision

    A letter read on air by the host, signed “jerry,” describes the writer’s 1975 service aboard the USS Roosevelt on a Mediterranean cruise. According to the letter, their mother answered a USO phone call from Sicily in distress and made them promise not to sail again. They arranged to travel overland to Naples. The carrier later collided with a Liberian freighter in the Messina Straits and collapsed the berthing area where they say they would have been sleeping.

    Warnings and premonitions
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    26
    Originality
    58
  215. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Colorado officer meets the same roadside man twice, then the man vanishes

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Denver, tells what they call another Colorado law-enforcement ghost story about an unnamed veteran officer. The caller says that a couple of years earlier, the officer was on patrol on a misty night in a desolate part of Colorado. The officer stopped a man beside the road, questioned him, found he had no ID, and let him go. Twenty or thirty miles on, the officer met what they took to be the same man, who disappeared when the officer got out of the car to question him further. The caller offers no explanation and says only that they have the story on very good authority. The officer and the agency remain anonymous.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    51
  216. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Voice says “Get out” in a bathroom at a housewarming party

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Savage, Minnesota, describes going into the restroom during a coworker’s housewarming party about five years earlier. They report a sudden cold shiver and a voice in their head, not their own, screaming “get out.” The caller then left. They say they later learned from a friend who grew up in the area that a woman had shot herself in that bathroom about twenty years before. The call ends with the caller saying they now firmly believe [quote withheld]

    VoicesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    59
  217. 1996·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    San Jose apartment with occult remains and blue light pillars

    A letter read on air, with the writer’s name withheld, describes working for an apartment-management company in East San Jose, California, in 1971. The writer reports being sent to clean a second-floor unit after an eviction. They say they found black walls, red bulbs, a pentagram, altars, and animal remains. After warnings from two strangers, they say they saw two pillars of blue light at the foot of their bed at about 2 a.m. The letter ends with the writer saying they never returned to the address.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesSéances, rituals, and blessingsCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    72
    Originality
    58
  218. 1996·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Radio volume turns itself up while listening to a poltergeist broadcast

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from El Cajon, California, tells the host that a couple of days earlier they were listening to a broadcast about a poltergeist. The caller says their radio turned its volume all the way up by itself. For a few seconds it would not respond when they tried to turn it down or off. They say they do not know what happened and that the radio has worked normally since. The host makes a speculative remark about the program and then takes the next call.

    Lights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    59
  219. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    [name withheld]’s secondhand story of a babysitter, a changing house, and a Ouija board

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Juneau, Alaska, tells Art Bell a story they say they heard from their best friend. The friend babysat in a house that had been a “warm happy home” until a new family moved in. [name withheld] reports that the house grew gloomy, a two-year-old went into trances no one could rouse her from, a dog acted wildly, and water in a tub and a sink turned on by itself. The story ends with a priest’s blessing, a Ouija board thrown out the door, and the house later standing abandoned.

    Poltergeist activityOuija boards and automatic writingDemons and hostile presences
    Believability
    43
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    58
  220. 1996·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Anvil moves in basement after teenagers’ pentagram ritual

    The host reads a letter attributed to [name withheld] in Kansas City. It is about two cousins, teenage brothers, who slept in an old house’s basement about 25 years earlier. The younger was angry at his divorced father. The boys drew a pentagram with candles and tried to raise a spirit to act against him, then went to bed when nothing happened. Early the next morning they reportedly heard the anvil scraping and found it had moved several feet. The elder cousin avoided the basement afterward.

    Séances, rituals, and blessingsObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    52
  221. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A Waikiki dancer and a figure reported over a wife’s bed

    A caller who gives their name as “[name withheld],” from San Diego, tells Art Bell about a night in Hawaii about two years earlier. They watched a Waikiki dance show, became unsettled by the female dancer, and returned to their hotel room. The caller says their sleeping wife then woke screaming and clawed at the room door. Afterward she told them something had stood over the bed looking down at her. The caller ends by saying they concluded the dancer’s “familiar” had followed them to the room. The story is left unresolved.

    Bedroom visitorsPublic buildings and businessesPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    54
  222. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Gray figures circling and red eyes in Genesee Park at the summer solstice

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that they and a group went to Genesee Park at the summer solstice to see tree spirits. They saw red eyes and gray figures circling in a meadow, fled, and were stopped by a police officer. The caller says they returned the next day to find thousands of ladybugs at the spot. They say they later learned the park is built over an Indian burial ground.

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    61
  223. 1996·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Lights from a farmhouse window before a Piper Cub crash

    A caller introduced as [name withheld] from South Dakota tells Art Bell a childhood story from when they were about 8 years old in Fort Madison, Iowa. The caller reports seeing car-like lights leave a highway and disappear into a pasture valley two nights in a row. Days later they watched a Piper Cub hit phone wires and crash near the same spot. They tentatively suggest the earlier lights were a premonition. No documentation or independent check is reported.

    Warnings and premonitionsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    56
  224. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Black figure at foot of bed in a Redlands home

    A caller describes living in Redlands, California, when they were first married to a husband who flew C-141s at Norton Air Force Base. The caller reports a period of uneasiness and cold in their new home. A moving garage-door doorknob made their dog bark and led them to call police. One night they woke in bed and saw a black figure at the foot of the bed that cast no reflection in a mirror. The caller says they were paralyzed and prayed the Lord’s Prayer. The figure disappeared, and the house warmed. The caller adds that they thought they imagined it and did not share it for a while.

    Shadow peopleBedroom visitorsParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    60
  225. 1996·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps and a felt presence on a gravel path at Custer Battlefield

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], listening on KOMO from the Seattle area, says that about five years earlier they walked alone at the Custer Battlefield after their family had gone on ahead. The caller reports hearing distinct footsteps on a gravel path behind them, twice, with no one in sight. They later say aloud that they felt a definite presence. The host responds with his own assertions that battlefields and sites of violent death are haunted.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  226. 1996·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A sister’s illness, angel sightings, and a post-death garden vision

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] recounts, on the Wild Card Line, a family story about their younger sister’s illness and death in 1980. The caller relays that during a month of incoherence after strokes she described a [quote withheld] in their parents’ room. The caller says their grandfather reported angelic figures over her on three occasions and their father reported Lucifer appearing to him in the orchard. After her burial, the caller says, their grandfather described a vision of her in a garden. The story ends with the host’s closing remarks and the caller adding that a man in California told them he had seen the identical vision at the same time.

    VisitsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    53
  227. 1997·Host's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Loud crash on the host’s radio room door during a broadcast break

    The host tells of a single loud crash on the door of his home radio room the previous night, during a break in an interview with a guest. He reports finding nothing outside the door. He checked the house with a weapon, woke his wife (who denied any part), and found all three cats asleep on the bed. He says he does not know what caused it but is certain it was “not nothing.”

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsPoltergeist activityHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    42
  228. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Cold spots, footsteps, and a bang in an attic at a friend’s house in Oswego

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Syracuse, New York, says they are a hobby parapsychologist. The caller describes staying two nights at their friends’ house in Oswego. They report hot and cold spots on the first night. On the second night they report footsteps down the stairs, more hot and cold spots, and a loud bang in the attic. The friend attributes the spots to their dead father, who looks after them. The host cuts to a break at the bang and later says he lost the caller, leaving the story unresolved.

    Haunted homesCold spots and sudden heatFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    51
  229. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Shadowy figure bows silently, then a phone call confirms a grandfather’s death

    [name withheld] says they are a truck driver calling from their truck near Finley, Ohio. They tell of an event when they were 12. They were sitting on a bench outside a family house in Missouri with their older brother. They report seeing a dark, shadowy figure drift silently across a gravel road. After they thought “Grandpa is dead,” it bowed its head and drifted away. The two went inside to say their grandfather had died, and the phone rang moments later with their father confirming it. [name withheld] calls it [quote withheld]

    Shadow peopleSigns at the moment of deathMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    52
  230. 1997·Article read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Associated Press wire article on reported ghosts at the White House

    Art Bell reads on air an Associated Press wire article stating that working at the White House has made some of President Clinton’s aides believers in ghosts. According to the article as read, Press Secretary Mike McCurry said they had heard that Lincoln still lurks in the Lincoln Bedroom and that aides had seen a dead former usher walking the halls. The article also mentions older reported sightings of Abigail Adams and Lincoln. McCurry declined to explain how the White House handles such reports and joked about the Secret Service. Bell closes by noting that the AP is reporting on White House manifestations.

    Public buildings and businessesHuman figures
    Believability
    39
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    44
  231. 1997·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Figures in a field, a shrinking shape, and a child’s face in a drain pipe

    [name withheld], calling from Lakewood, Colorado, tells Art a firsthand story they say they also told on the program about two years earlier. The caller reports that many years ago, driving home after taking their grandfather to a sporting event, they stopped at a bend in a country road. They saw two figures in the grass that appeared to shrink into a black-and-white furry shape, which ran into a roadside drainage pipe. A child’s face then appeared at the mouth of the pipe. The caller says their father later told them a woman at that spot had lost a child and was said to have used black magic. The caller concludes they saw that child’s ghost. The story ends unresolved, with Art reflecting on a trapped spirit versus a repeating “loop.”

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    60
  232. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Car dies on the Mass Turnpike and restarts after a plea to the caller's late father

    A caller who gives only that they are calling from Boston tells Art Bell that their car shut off completely in the middle lane of the Massachusetts Turnpike. The caller was driving home from work, about three years after their father died. They say they asked their late father to get them to safety. The car then reportedly started and moved to a turnoff, where it died again. The caller sees the event as their father's continued presence, not as something spooky.

    Signs and messagesVisitsShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    54
  233. 1997·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Motel night clerk takes a call from an empty room

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, tells Art Bell about their most recent ghost encounter. About three years earlier they worked the night shift as a motel desk clerk. The caller reports that around 1 a.m. the desk phone showed a call from a room with no registered guest. A brief old woman's voice said it had the wrong party. The caller found the room empty, with the phone on the hook. Their own explanation is that the dead mother of a resident in the next room had been looking for her son. The host notes that the motel phone system is private.

    Phones, radio, and TV
    Believability
    74
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    61
  234. 1997·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Furnished apartment of a deceased tenant and a door held shut

    A caller who says only that they are calling from Texas tells Art Bell that at nineteen they rented a furnished apartment. The previous tenant, an elderly woman, had died with nobody to inherit her belongings. The caller reports that cleaning supplies and dirty dishes vanished whenever the phone rang, their cat went berserk, and windows and the front door were found open despite the bolts. Finally, a door would not open against two people until they spoke a phrase they had been using. They say they packed up their cat and left.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    58
  235. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    An 1880 house with chairs moving, a door opening, and rose and tobacco scents

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Kinsman, Ohio, tells Art Bell that their house was built in 1880 and that odd things have happened since they moved in. They say kitchen chairs move at night while they lie in bed, and a bedroom door opens by itself. The caller and their husband have also seen a gray-and-white outline of a person in the barn and upstairs. They say a clairvoyant reassured them that the presence was a spirit trying to get their attention and was not harmful. Art says he would move out.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    56
  236. 1997·Host's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Loud bang on the host's studio door during a broadcast

    In this part of the broadcast, the host tells his audience about a loud bang on his studio door the night before. He says it came as he was going into a break during an interview with Brad Steiger. He says he has no idea what caused it. He insists it was nothing alive in the house and nothing outside the house, and says he “totally freaked out.” He ends by saying he does not want to hear any crashes that night.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    39
  237. 1997·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Nurse's faxed letter about a patient's death and alarm clocks at 11:07

    A faxed letter read on air by the host, from a registered nurse in Sandy, Utah, describes a night shift in a 120-bed facility. A patient the letter calls [name withheld] was expected to die. The writer reports that [name withheld]'s breathing and heartbeat stopped at 11:07 p.m. At that same minute, six alarm clocks on the hall went off and a call light in the now-empty room came on. The letter ends with the writer's line, [quote withheld]

    Lights and appliances acting upPublic buildings and businessesSigns and messages
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    54
  238. 1997·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Childhood sighting of a semi-transparent cocktail party in a Minneapolis apartment

    An unnamed caller in Santa Cruz, California, tells of a childhood memory from a new Minneapolis apartment. At about seven or eight, they say, their mother woke them to see a semi-transparent cocktail party in the kitchen. They report that a man in a dark suit tucked blankets around them before the group stopped or drifted off. They say their mother confirmed the memory before she died. They favor a time-slip explanation over spirits.

    Human figuresTime slipsMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    57
  239. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports friend's Ouija board spelled out “death”

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Oakdale, Long Island, New York, tells Art Bell about a friend the caller says they never met. The friend had told the caller the friend was [quote withheld] with another person, and it spelled out “death.” The caller says the two were badly frightened and got rid of the board. They say they have not heard of any death since. Bell asks how many people used the board, says he would never touch one again, thanks the caller, and moves on.

    Ouija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    47
  240. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Scent of carnations in a van on Highway 99 after a grandmother's death

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] and says they are calling from Reno describes a car trip about ten years earlier. The caller and their mother were driving along Highway 99 to clear out the apartment of their grandmother, who had just died. The caller reports that an overwhelming smell of flowers filled the van, that their mother smelled it too, and that the smell was not present outside. The call ends with the host remarking that other callers have described presences making themselves known by odor.

    Signs and messagesSmells with no source
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    55
  241. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A bell heard in the car and a puff of air in the shower after a boyfriend's death

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell that a boyfriend was killed about fifteen years earlier. After that, they say, they repeatedly heard a bell-like sound from the passenger side of their car, and a friend also reported hearing it. The caller also says they once felt a puff of air enter their ear in a locked bathroom. The caller puts both down to the dead boyfriend, partly on the advice of a psychic. The host cuts the call off at the top of the hour.

    VisitsSigns and messagesVoices and sounds with no source
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  242. 1997·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Dark cloud and disturbances at a remote lakeside recording studio in Oklahoma

    Art Bell reads a letter on air from a fellow ham named [name withheld], who says they built and ran a recording studio for a well-known rock star in eastern Oklahoma. [name withheld] describes a malevolent dark cloud that appeared in their room one night. [name withheld] also describes later disturbances that drove the first guests away from the finished studio. The letter ends with the “spirit” said to make life hell for anyone it disliked.

    Partial figures and mistsNon-human creaturesDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    64
    Originality
    56
  243. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A 1964 television that kept playing after being unplugged

    A caller named [name withheld], from Oak Cliff in Dallas County, tells Art Bell about a night in 1964. The 19-inch black-and-white television that her six-year-old son slept beside kept switching itself on. She says it kept playing even after she unplugged it from the wall. She reports giving the set away, moving soon after, and taking her children to her mother's house in the middle of the night. She asks whether it could have been a ghost, and says no one has ever explained it to her.

    Lights and appliances acting upHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    56
  244. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Voice and sudden cold in a bedroom after a caller asked for a devil's deal

    An anonymous male caller tells Art Bell that he asked a self-described witch, on a previous broadcast, to help him make a deal with the devil. Two days later, he says, he was [quote withheld] He reports lying in the dark in his room with the radio off when he felt very cold and then heard a voice asking whether he was sincere about what he had asked for. He says he answered no, turned the lights on, and sat up all night. The host congratulates him and ends the call, then says in the studio that he is [quote withheld]

    VoicesCold spots and sudden heatBedroom visitors
    Believability
    30
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    55
  245. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Green gaseous presence over the bed in a Sedona home

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Sedona, Arizona, tells one brief story. Lying in bed in the dark one night, they say, they opened their eyes and saw a green, gaseous, blob-like form that felt like a presence and seemed to be watching them. They say it appeared far larger and higher than the room allowed. They felt calm while it was there and were frightened only after it vanished. Their parents, sleeping on the floor above, later told them they had felt something. Asked what they thought it was, they say it was something else studying them.

    Partial figures and mistsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    33
    Originality
    51
  246. 1997·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A white cat petted in the bathroom while the family cat sat on the bed

    Art Bell reads a letter on air from an unnamed man who says he heard his wife in the bathroom talking to Bart, their white cat. At that moment, he says, Bart was sitting at the foot of the bed watching him. He reports that his wife then screamed. When calmed, she said a white cat she took for Bart had followed her in, her hand passed through it when she reached to pet it, and its eyes were blue, not Bart's gold. The letter adds that they had no other white cats at the time.

    Ghostly animals
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    59
  247. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Blue streak through a closed window and a light bulb behind a radiator

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about two days at their home. They say a large lightning bolt struck outside their upstairs sunroom window in what they describe as storm-free weather. They say a thin blue streak came off the bolt, entered through the crack of the closed window, and hit a lamp. The next day, they say, the bulbs were blown. While replacing one, it slipped from their hand. They report searching for it and finding it hours later crammed behind a radiator, where they say it could not fit. They characterize it as [quote withheld]

    Objects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting upLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    52
  248. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Floating light over a hill during a night hike in Babler State Park

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld] describes a night hike with friends in Babler State Park near St. Louis. The caller says the group heard dogs barking everywhere and then saw a completely white, basketball-sized light come over a hill about 200 feet away. The caller says the light moved down toward them, switched off and on, floated back up the hill, and rose above the tree line. Then it panned them as they ran for their car. They reached the parking lot without seeing it again and left safely. The caller offers no explanation for the light.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    45
  249. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A felt presence at night and creased pants on a bedroom chair

    A caller who identifies himself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a first-person story about a night in the summer of 1973, when he was 13. Lying in bed near midnight, he says, he felt as though someone had entered his room and was watching him. He stayed still for about two hours before sleeping. He reports that the next morning the freshly laundered pants folded on a chair at the foot of his bed were creased as though someone had been sitting on them. The story ends there, and the caller moves on to a separate one.

    Bedroom visitorsMarks and traces
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  250. 1997·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Phantom hoofbeats on a gravel driveway at 10 p.m.

    A caller, who gives no name or location, describes hearing what sounded like a horse clip-clopping up the circular gravel driveway of the rural home where they lived. The caller was getting ready for work, some seven years after an earlier incident in the same house. The caller says their mother, in the back of the house with the television on, heard the same sound. The caller saw nothing at the window or from the front porch. No cause is offered, and the story ends there.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    50
  251. 1997·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A shadow resembling the writer’s late father, popcorn and cigar

    Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to [quote withheld] The writer describes watching his father’s shadow on the wall as a boy. He recalls a prediction by his father that he would join him in America on his 66th birthday, and an Ouija board spelling “DAD” years later. He then describes an apparent shadow of his father in his kitchen on that birthday, which he says came just before a heart attack. The letter ends with the writer’s claim that his wife later smelled popcorn and cigar smoke at home, and that he had never told anyone what he saw until now.

    Shadow peopleVisitsOuija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    70
  252. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Unplugged CD player repeating one song after a friend’s death

    A caller named [name withheld], speaking from Boise, Idaho, in 1997, describes an experience they say happened in 1989 while living in Dallas, Texas. It involved a woman the caller knew only as a telephone friend. The caller reports that she told them a CD player given to her by her father kept playing the song [quote withheld] over and over, and that she and her father pulled its plug and the song continued. [name withheld] ends by saying the caller still cannot explain it. Art Bell offers general remarks about electronics and about people attaching the explanations they are willing to accept.

    Lights and appliances acting upMusic with no sourceSigns and messages
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    53
  253. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Previous owner’s presence, baked smell and rearranged dishes in an estate-sale house

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld], from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, describes buying a house in an estate sale. The caller reports several strange events there over about three years. The caller was woken as if shaken. There was a recurring smell of baking. Dishes were rearranged in a sideboard. The caller’s small daughter spoke in her room to someone she called “[name withheld].” A next-door neighbor reportedly told the caller the previous resident baked for neighborhood children and was called [name withheld], Dutch for grandmother. The caller ends by affirming that they believed the activity was the old lady. Art Bell thanks the caller and offers his own remarks about children and cats seeing things adults do not.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownChildren who see presences
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    53
  254. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Picture of Jesus falls off a bedroom wall and strikes a girlfriend

    A caller who says she is in Honolulu tells Art Bell a brief story. As a teenager, staying at her grandmother’s house, she and her girlfriend were laughing and swearing on a brass bed. A framed picture of Jesus above the bed came off the wall and hit her girlfriend in the head. She says the picture’s wire was unbroken and the nail was set at an angle, and that they stopped laughing immediately. The host then raises the idea of “teenage girls' energy,” and the caller moves on to a second, unrelated story.

    Objects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    57
  255. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Nighttime evil presence and a geometric screen vision in an apartment

    A caller tells Art Bell that about two months earlier, while lying in bed in their apartment, the caller felt an evil presence watching them. Then, as the caller began to dream, they saw a black geometric pattern pulled down over their vision like a screen. They felt dread and a fear of being possessed. The caller reports that prayer, and asking God to send their angel, made the fear and the vision stop. Afterward the caller used sage and sea salt and came to regard the episode as a test of their faith.

    Bedroom visitorsPossessionNon-human creatures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    60
  256. 1997·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Face with electrical sound in a darkened Miami bedroom

    In a letter read on air by Art Bell, an unnamed writer describes an encounter in Miami in the early 1980s. While drifting off to sleep, the writer awoke to a face in their darkened bedroom, mouth open with teeth showing, with a sound like an electrical discharge. They recited Psalm 23, turned on the lights, and avoided sleep for weeks. Then they left Florida. The writer says the face never returned.

    Bedroom visitorsPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    52
  257. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps from the basement, a shotgun and knives moved in a childhood home

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld], from Wichita, tells Art Bell about the house the caller lived in as a child. The caller says they and their sister heard footsteps coming up from the basement every night. The caller describes a night when their father found the locked-away shotgun lying at the bottom of the steps with shells around it. On another occasion, the kitchen knife drawer was found pulled out and knives were scattered on the floor. The story ends with the sister and parents swapping bedrooms and Art Bell suggesting the haunting followed the family rather than the family moving into haunted houses.

    Objects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    54
  258. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports their deceased father sitting on the couch with a message

    A caller named [name withheld], who gives their location as Elyria, Ohio, tells Art Bell that their father died in 1988. They say they later saw their father sitting on the couch at home, spoke with him, and received a message to take care of their mother. They say they and their mother had both felt a presence in the house beforehand. They report that their father then got up, walked into the dining room, and disappeared. Art Bell thanks the caller and closes the segment without further questions.

    VisitsHuman figures
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    50
  259. 1997·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A figure in white and a toddler’s “lady in the white dress”

    A letter sent by [quote withheld] and read aloud by the host describes two linked events in her own home. First, she woke at night and saw what she took to be her ten-year-old daughter in a long white nightgown, gliding through the hallway. She then found the child asleep in dark pajamas. Several days later, her two-year-old said a [quote withheld] would not let her go into the bedroom. The letter ends with the mother walking the child back to the room and finding no one there.

    Human figuresChildren who see presencesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  260. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Deceased sister appears and grows up by a lake after an all-night ceremony

    A caller from Montreal, Canada, tells Art Bell that two years earlier, after an all-night Native American church ceremony, they walked down to a lake to meditate. They reportedly saw a young girl come out of the mist, and they recognized her as their sister, who had died in 1961. They say she appeared to grow into a young woman as she came toward them. Then she spoke to the caller from the far side of the lake. Frightened, they report, they ran back to the teepee, where an elder told them she had come to thank them for letting her go. The call ends with Art thanking the caller and moving on.

    VisitsHuman figuresSigns and messages
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    61
  261. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Figure at foot of bed walks through bedroom wall, father’s childhood story

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] retells a story their father told them. It is about an event when the father was about four years old, in Canada. The father and his sisters were in bed around 2 a.m. when a figure appeared at the foot of the bed, looked at him, then turned and walked through the bedroom wall. The caller says their father, now 72, has never worked out who or what it was. Art Bell responds by remarking that physical adults do not walk through walls.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    52
  262. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Duplex poltergeist, a figure at the wall, and a hidden room of the former police chief

    A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes living in a California duplex apartment at age 21. They say objects flew from a kitchen cupboard and a young neighbor also experienced activity. They report being shaken awake one night and seeing a man standing at the wall of their bedroom, whose face then appeared in a mirror. Moving the mirror revealed a concealed room full of guns, knives, Confederate money, and flags. They say police told them the former chief of police had lived and died there, that the removal of the weapons ended the activity, and that they moved out.

    Objects moved or thrownHuman figuresBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    58
  263. 1997·Letter read on air·4 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A cardiologist's notes on a patient's near-death experience

    The host reads a letter from a listener whose uncle is described as a cardiologist. The listener asked him about near-death experiences (NDEs) in his patients, and the letter relays the uncle's notes on one case. According to the letter, a 23-year-old male patient awaiting a pacemaker implant had an NDE during a resuscitation. He described being struck on the chest, then floating in blackness. He saw a conveyor belt of puzzle pieces fitted [quote withheld] a blazing light and tunnel, a burning black lake, figures moving aimlessly, and a dead friend who did not greet him and was dragged away screaming. The letter ends with the patient saying he kept repeating “Jesus is God” and returned as stitches were being placed. The host calls it the NDE of someone who “went to hell.” No names, dates, or locations are given.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesVisits
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    52
  264. 1997·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Caller senses their late father, phone problems, photo found in hallway

    A caller tells Art Bell that they have felt close to their late father, who died almost two decades earlier, especially since their own near-death experience and neurological surgery. On the night James Vaughn (as spoken) was a guest, they say they felt their father's presence strongly and tried repeatedly to phone the show. They experienced dead lines and bells on the phone. Later they found an old photograph of their father, normally kept in a drawer, lying in the middle of their hallway. They present the incident as comforting rather than frightening.

    VisitsPhones, radio, and TVObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  265. 1997·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Discarded stuffed Ewok and scratching sounds from a bedroom closet

    A letter read on air tells of a stuffed Ewok toy found in an outside trash can, brought back into the house, and placed in the writer's mother's bedroom closet. The mother reportedly woke that night to rustling and scratching from the closet. The toy was returned to the trash can the next morning. The writer closes with a joking remark about not keeping such things in closets.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    54
  266. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Revolving sound, buckling walls, and oozing moisture in a Clayton, Victoria, home

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] in southern Victoria, Australia, relays a secondhand story on the international line. The caller says that about ten years earlier a distraught family in Clayton, Victoria, rang emergency services about a sound revolving around the perimeter of their large wooden home. Police who came reportedly dismissed the family. Then they heard the sound and saw the walls shake and bend, called for more officers, and never found its source. The call ends with thanks from the host and no resolution or stated cause.

    Poltergeist activityVoices and sounds with no sourceHaunted homes
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    62
  267. 1997·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    A small limping figure, a 1932 diary, and a drowned boy identified

    A caller who identifies herself only by her location tells Art Bell that a small, limping gray figure, a mold smell, a clock chiming thirteen times, and a failing light bulb began recurring in her home at 10 after 11 each night. She links the events to a 1932 child's diary that she says appeared on her kitchen counter. It led her to a boy said to have drowned in the neighboring town. A Catholic priest reportedly told her it was a soul that did not rest. She says that after she showed the boy his death certificate, the events stopped.

    Human figuresHaunted homesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    64
  268. 1997·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Transparent old man and smell of dirt, rot, and alcohol in a Missouri house

    A letter read on air, attributed to [name withheld] in Anchorage, Alaska, describes events when the writer was 24 and stationed at an Air Force base at Knob Noster, Missouri. The writer lived in a roughly 150-year-old remodeled house. Over successive nights the writer reports being woken by a smell of dirt, rot, and alcohol. On the third night the writer saw an old man described as transparent sitting at the foot of the writer's bed. A co-worker whose father owned the house told the writer about the previous elderly couple and the husband's death in that bedroom. The writer says they then told the figure to leave. The writer reports that he disappeared and never returned, and neither did the smell.

    Smells with no sourceBedroom visitorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    57
  269. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A wedding ring removed before death and a ring found in a dead aunt's hands

    [name withheld], calling from Stanaway, Washington, recounts the death of their 97-year-old aunt two years earlier and two strange events with rings. Their own gold ring disappeared from their finger during the death. Later, a substitute ring they placed in the aunt's pocket was found inside the aunt's clasped hands at the funeral. [name withheld] says no one knew how it got there and that they cannot explain it. The call ends with an unrelated aside about their husband and a submarine story.

    Objects moved or thrownSigns and messages
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    56
  270. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A mother's warning about a plane crash and a reported haunted airliner crew

    A caller named [name withheld], from Oroville, California, tells of their family's years in Miami. Their mother, described as “quite the psychic,” begged their brother, and then his friend, not to go frogging in the Everglades one night because there would be a plane crash. A crash followed. [name withheld] adds a later hospital episode involving a nurse and the movie premiere of the Ghost of Flight. The caller also repeats a claim that salvaged aircraft parts carried the dead crew onto other planes, and the host asserts that airline crews have reported seeing that crew on current flights. No documentation is examined, and the call ends with the host thanking the caller.

    Warnings and premonitionsShips, planes, and carsVisits
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  271. 1997·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Fax: Root beer carried down stairs by itself at a 40-day memorial gathering

    A fax read on air by the host is attributed to a writer who calls themselves [quote withheld] It describes a family gathering held 40 days after their father's death in 1992. The writer reports that a six-pack of root beer came down the stairs into the kitchen as if carried by someone and then stopped. The writer says cabinet doors, other doors, footsteps, and a feeling of closeness still occur. They take this to mean their father is still taking care of the family, and say the family is not scared.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  272. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Respiratory therapist reports seeing a newly dead patient among his family in an ER lobby

    A caller who gives their location as Lynchburg, Virginia, says that while working as a respiratory therapist on a Code Blue team in Houston, Texas, they saw a newly dead patient standing among his family in an emergency room lobby. The caller says the man, still wearing the clothes he died in, appeared translucent and seemed to be trying to get his family's attention. He was mouthing words such as [quote withheld] and [quote withheld] The caller says an unnamed partner also saw it. The call ends with the host commenting on people who do not seem to understand that they have died.

    Human figuresMore than one witness
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    55
  273. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Dog appears to be petted at a late husband's chair, then watches the kitchen

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] from Chicago tells Art Bell that about two years after their husband [name withheld] died, their dog, which had known him, behaved as though greeting and being petted by someone at the chair their husband always used. The dog then watched the kitchen. The caller says they spoke to their husband aloud and were happy rather than frightened. Art replies that their husband “probably was” there.

    VisitsSigns and messages
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    57
  274. 1997·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Board operator's letter on a red light tracked on Reno radar

    Art Bell reads a short letter he attributes to [name withheld], who identifies themselves as the board operator at KOH in Reno, Nevada. According to the letter, listeners phoned the station about a red light moving very slowly south of town, and the writer went outside and saw it themselves. Reno-Tahoe Airport staff were also taking calls. The tower reportedly saw it and had it on radar without identifying it, and a departing flight reportedly placed the object at about 9,000 feet. The host closes by calling it a Halloween sighting. No identification or resolution is given.

    UFOs and alien encounters
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    40
  275. 1997·Host's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Host reports loud pounding on his studio door during a broadcast

    The host of the program tells listeners that a few nights earlier, during the Brad Steiger interview, something pounded loudly on the door of his home studio just as a break ended. He says he opened the door immediately and found nothing there. The only other occupants of the house, three cats and his wife, were asleep on the bed. He ends by saying he has no idea what made the sound and that the experience was truly frightening to him.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    40
  276. 1997·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter read on air: Red stain and handprint in a Santa Barbara shower

    Art Bell reads a message he says came from a listener named [name withheld] in Santa Barbara. [name withheld] reports returning home shortly before the broadcast to find the bottom of their shower and tub red with what they describe as looking like blood. There was also a red handprint-shaped stain on the shower wall. The writer says they live alone and have been there about a year with nothing similar before. The writer is shaking, could not reach their landlady, and is thinking of going to a motel. The host advises the writer to call 911 rather than assume a Halloween prank.

    Marks and tracesHaunted homes
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  277. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Gray mist at the foot of the bed before a woman’s illness

    A caller who gives their location as “Cape Junction, Oregon” tells Art Bell that several years earlier they woke at about 3 a.m. at their mother’s house and saw a gray mist at the foot of the bed. The caller says it looked like the Grim Reaper. The caller says their “would-be wife” also woke and saw it before it went away. The caller reports that she became seriously ill a week later and was eventually found to have a ruptured appendix after two misdiagnoses. The caller adds that they have made predictions that came true. The host ends the call and comments on the body’s ability to heal.

    Partial figures and mistsBedroom visitorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    52
  278. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Childhood waking, a hooded figure, and floating to the living room

    A caller who identifies themselves on air as [name withheld], from the island of Kauai, describes something that happened when they were about six years old. The caller reports waking around 4 a.m. and seeing a black-hooded figure with no visible face. The caller says it looked like the Grim Reaper. They then closed their eyes and found themselves floating on their back down the hallway. About a minute later they woke on the living-room floor under the coffee table. The caller says they stayed there until sunrise and that they still do not know what happened.

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figuresHappened in childhood
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  279. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A photograph, a lamp, and a grinning reflection on a dark TV screen

    A caller from New Orleans tells Art Bell a story they connect to Marie Laveau. The caller found and hung a photograph of a woman who played Marie Laveau. They then report seeing a mad, grinning face reflected on their dark TV screen on two nights. Moving the picture made it stop. The host suggests a distorted reflection.

    Strange photos and video
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  280. 1997·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    A burned radio plays inside a sealed footlocker after a caller asks for a sign

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] and says they are from Gulfport, Florida, tells Art Bell about a Halloween night around 1977 or 1978. The caller came home to the Chicago apartment they shared with other men and found roommates in the basement trying to summon a demon. The caller says they sarcastically asked for a sign. A burned transistor radio inside a footlocker that reportedly could not be opened then began playing a song about a “devil woman.” Art ends the call by joking about the state of the caller’s soul.

    Lights and appliances acting upSéances, rituals, and blessingsMusic with no source
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  281. 1997·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Stolen skull, flames, and a smoke image in a mirror in a Fort Lauderdale apartment

    A caller who calls themselves “Lady of Kinnick” and says they are in Kinnick, Alaska, tells Art Bell about events they place about 23 years earlier in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The caller reports taking a realistic plaster skull from a commercial haunted-house exhibit. The caller says they later saw flames shoot from it and found the insides of two wooden shoes charred. The caller says two teenage visitors reported a picture of the caller asleep formed in smoke in their mirror. The caller says they moved out that day. The call ends with the caller speaking to a third person about Satan, and Bell saying he has no way of being as sure as they are.

    Marks and tracesVoicesPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  282. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A woman’s head and shoulders emerging from an attic closet in an old converted home

    A first-time caller named [name withheld], calling from Kansas City, says that in 1980 they were staying in the converted attic bedroom of a man they were dating. Knocking woke them, and they saw a woman’s head and shoulders come out of a long closet. They say the man, once woken, told them not to worry. He said he had seen the woman before and that she was “real nice.” [name withheld] ends by saying they ended the relationship.

    Partial figures and mistsHaunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  283. 1997·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Vancouver house with reported voodoo history and a priest who would not enter

    An unnamed caller on the international line, who gives their location as Vancouver, Canada, describes growing up in a house from the 1920s that their father bought cheaply. The seller returned two weeks later begging to buy it back and told of a claimed voodoo history. The caller reports years of strange events: a cross falling from the wall, their mother’s paralysis and chest pressure at night, cold areas, and footsteps. The caller also describes a priest who refused even to step onto the sidewalk in front of the house. The caller says the activity faded once the children were grown. The host suggests the children may have been the source.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  284. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Featureless black figure reported at a roller hockey rink

    A caller from Waterloo, Illinois, tells Art Bell that their friend’s parents bought a sports complex with a roller hockey rink. The caller says they felt cold spots during remodeling and later heard “strange stuff” at night. The caller relays that their friend [name withheld] reported seeing a seven-foot black, featureless figure that walked out an exit. Three weeks later, the caller says, their friend [name withheld] saw something reach for [name withheld] and vanish. A third, unrelated player later described the same thing in the locker room. The story ends with Art calling it [quote withheld]

    Shadow peoplePublic buildings and businessesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    52
  285. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Labored breathing, darkness, and pressure in a master bedroom in McKeesport

    [name withheld], calling from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, tells Art Bell a story they say is [quote withheld] In 1972, at age 22 and just back from Vietnam, they moved into their mother’s master bedroom. They report hearing what sounded like labored breathing at night, the room darkening, and a pressure pushing them into the mattress. They say they then left the room and never slept in it again. They add that a son-in-law and a niece who stayed in the house also would not stay. Art closes by calling it another haunted house.

    Paralysis and pressureBeing touched, pushed, or heldVoices and sounds with no source
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    51
  286. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    White-haired woman with a white dog beside a desert road

    A caller named [name withheld], from Salt Lake, tells Art Bell a story dated to 1981. [name withheld] says they and four friends were driving home from a California graduation trip. On a desolate desert road outside Palm Springs, they saw a white-haired woman in white holding a white dog on a chain. The woman’s dress and hair blew without wind, and her head turned unnaturally far to follow their car. The friends reportedly felt a horrible feeling and still discuss the encounter years later.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    78
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    49
  287. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Moved tables and wheelchairs in an American Legion hall in Bremerton

    A caller from Reno recounts an experience from the 1970s at an American Legion hall in Bremerton, Washington. The building is said to have been moved from a shipyard in the 1940s and to have crushed a man during the move. The caller, who was tending bar, describes doors that kept opening and alarms that kept going off, which the staff blamed on that man. The caller also describes one Thursday night when scraping noises upstairs came before the discovery that all the tables, chairs, and stored wheelchairs had been moved. The story ends with the staff leaving the locked building for the night and returning in the morning.

    Objects moved or thrownPublic buildings and businessesDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    54
  288. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Deceased father appears at the foot of the bed and speaks to his son

    A caller who describes themselves as a truck driver and says they are in Memphis tells Art Bell that their father died when the caller was 12. The caller says they woke one night, were wide awake, and saw their father standing at the foot of the bed. Their father called the caller by a nickname and told the caller not to worry because everything would be all right. The caller says they have not been frightened of such things since.

    VisitsBedroom visitorsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    47
  289. 1997·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Rented Memphis house: light switch, waterbed displacement, ankle grab

    A caller the host calls only “[name withheld]” describes a rented house in northeastern Memphis where they lived about four or five years before the broadcast. The caller says a light switched on and off while they showered in a locked house. The caller says something sat down on their waterbed and later grabbed their ankle. The caller’s roommate, girlfriend, and later wife and daughter are said to have had similar experiences. The caller says they never felt the presence was hostile, treated it casually, and eventually moved out while the roommate stayed on. The host closes by saying he doesn't believe the caller could have gone back to sleep.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldLights and appliances acting upHaunted homes
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    57
  290. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Old man’s head with a stretched neck hanging in a workshop

    A caller from Paso Robles, California, tells Art Bell that a few nights earlier they were working on rocks and jewelry in their shop after midnight and listening to the program. The caller heard a creaking and saw the lights surge. The caller then looked to their right and saw an old man’s head hanging in midair, the neck stretched out about a foot, watching them. The caller says they told it they did not mind it hanging around but that it was “your pad” and to leave them alone. Art comments that he finds it as hard to believe as the earlier ankle-grabbing story, restates the image, and moves on. No outcome or follow-up is reported.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    61
  291. 1997·Letter read on air·4 min· not yet checked

    Anonymous Border Patrol agent’s fax: shadowy figures in fog at San Diego cliffs

    Art Bell reads a fax he says he received from a person who identifies themselves as a Border Patrol agent in the San Diego area and wishes to remain nameless. The writer says they were working alone at night in an area where one of two agents had died falling from a cliff. The writer says they saw shadowy figures running through fog, followed footprints to a cliff edge, and found no one at the bottom of the canyon. The writer concludes that what they saw were the “spiritual remnants” of people who had died there. Bell later calls it a “tape loop” of spirit activity.

    Shadow peopleRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  292. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A child sees a man in a recliner, and the recliner's footrest moves by itself

    A caller who gives her name as [name withheld], from Redding, California, tells Art Bell that she and her young daughter moved into her boyfriend's late grandfather's house. The daughter said she woke to see an old man sitting in the grandfather's recliner. He told her to go back to sleep. About six months to a year later, [name withheld] says, she woke alone from a nap to the sound of the recliner's handle-operated footrest going up and down. She concluded it was the grandfather.

    Human figuresVisitsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    55
  293. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ghost called Charlie reported to follow a family through moves

    A caller who says they are a truck driver in Denham Springs, Louisiana, tells Art Bell that a presence the caller named “Charlie” has followed them across several homes. The caller says it began when they were about fifteen and first dating their future wife. The caller reports repeated leg-bumping and objects moved and hidden. More recently, the caller says, their wife saw a figure in a doorway, and something grabbed their 11-year-old daughter in the bath and left a mark on her shoulder. The caller says the presence does not really bother them. The caller ends by saying they are only worried it might become more physical. Art says that when a presence leaves marks, it is time to consider professional (religious) help.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldObjects moved or thrownHuman figures
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    55
  294. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Voice in the kitchen, a loosened bulb, and a face in a burnt furnace

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, describes several events in an old farmhouse they shared with their husband and two small children. A voice in the kitchen said the caller's name. A range-hood bulb had to be tightened again every night for a month, the caller says. A garbage bag moved, with a smell of perfume. After a January 1996 house fire, the caller says, a face was burned into the furnace. The story ends with Art Bell asking the caller to send photographs of the furnace face.

    Haunted homesVoicesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  295. 1997·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Daytime sleep paralysis, a woman speaking in a man's voice, and nails in the head

    A caller named [name withheld], speaking from L.A. and formerly of the Truckee area near Donner Pass, reports a series of daytime nap experiences over about two and a half weeks. The caller describes waking up paralyzed and feeling someone sit on the bed. It ended one afternoon, they say, when they saw a woman on the bed who spoke in a man's voice. She told the caller to pull out three nails they felt in their head, and she showed the caller their own body lying beside her. The caller says they refused, returned to their body, and the experience never happened again.

    Paralysis and pressureBedroom visitorsHuman figures
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    65
  296. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Coon hunter reports six glowing chanting figures in Pennsylvania woods

    A caller who gives no name tells Art Bell that while coon hunting one fall night near Fredonia, Pennsylvania, they came upon six glowing, chanting figures on their property. The caller says the figures did not react when they shouted, fired a warning shot, or aimed and fired at one. Then they disappeared. The caller no longer hunts at night.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    49
  297. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Usher figure falls from the balcony of the Capitol Theater, Flint

    A first-time caller who gives the name [name withheld], from St. Louis, describes working at the Capitol Theater in Flint, Michigan. Staff played laser tag after hours in the closed building. The caller reports hearing footsteps and breathing behind them in a dark area. Then they saw a man smoking on the balcony who tumbled to the main floor and disappeared. The caller says their friends in the lobby told them they had “met the usher,” a man said to have died in the building after falling or being thrown from that balcony.

    Human figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangsPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  298. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Photograph found in a used book after asking a deceased mother for a sign

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld] tells Art Bell a story the caller describes as [quote withheld] The caller says their mother died in March 1996. On the night before their birthday, they asked their mother for a sign. The next day a black-and-white photograph dated October 1955, the month and year of the caller's own birth, fell out of a used book they had bought. The caller sees the photograph as their mother's way of showing she is “still around.”

    Signs and messagesVisits
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    58
  299. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A woman steps from a curtained closet and removes a crying child's skates

    A caller on the first-time caller line says that at about four years old they were crying alone in their grandfather's house after adults put a pair of shoe skates on them. An elderly woman came out of a curtained closet, silently took the skates off, tied the caller's shoes, and tickled the caller's chin. Then she walked back into the closet, which the caller found empty. The caller says their grandfather identified her as “Grandma,” that at thirteen they recognized her in a World War II Army photograph, and that an aunt later explained their grandmother had been unable to speak because cancer had taken her throat.

    Human figuresHappened in childhoodHaunted homes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    26
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    63
  300. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Children startle a transparent figure in an unfinished basement

    A caller from Vancouver, British Columbia, tells Art Bell about something the caller says happened when they were about four or five, while visiting their godparents. The caller and their brother went down to an unfinished basement to find their cousin. They saw a transparent white figure in an old-style suit peering around a door frame. The children shouted, and the figure reportedly spun around as if startled and fled the length of the basement. The door it reached opened and shut. Their parents searched the backyard, assuming a burglar had been seen, and found nothing.

    Human figuresHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  301. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dog growls and dark figure at foot of bed after wife's ex-husband dies

    A caller who gives no name, from west of the Rockies, asks Art Bell whether dogs can see ghosts. The caller then says that since their wife's ex-husband was killed in a car wreck last December, their little dog has barked and growled at the air. The caller reports that the other night, lying upstairs next to their wife, they felt a tap on their shoulder. They saw a big dark figure at the end of the bed that seemed to be trying to pull their soul out. The host interrupts for a break before the story is resolved.

    Bedroom visitorsShadow peopleBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    56
  302. 1997·Caller's story·48 s· not yet checked

    Caller describes aftermath of an encounter with something unseen and caring for two children

    In a continuation after a break, a male caller tells Art Bell that an earlier experience has made him re-evaluate his life and fear where he will go after death. He also says that he and others are taking care of two children left by a man who died, one of whom was born after the man died. The host connects the story to near-death experience and hell research. The original frightening event is not described in this part of the broadcast.

    Anything else
    Believability
    30
    Evidence
    2
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    36
  303. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Night vision goggles, an upside-down man, and a sheep on a Colorado farm

    A caller tells Art Bell that while attending a religious school in Canyon City, Colorado, they repeatedly saw one sheep standing motionless and refusing to eat by day. The rancher reportedly said it only ate at night. One dark night, using cheap night vision goggles, the caller says they saw an upside-down man who seemed to be hand-feeding the sheep. They also saw other inverted figures and dog-like shapes. The caller says they threw a rock and the figures vanished. Then red dots chased them until they hid in a combine.

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    61
  304. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Journal of a great-grandfather: hair-covered man on horseback who said he was Cain

    A caller, greeted by the host as “Wild Zard Line,” reads a story from the journal of their great-grandfather. The caller describes the great-grandfather as a leader in the early Mormon church in Missouri before the move to Utah. The journal is said to describe the great-grandfather riding about 100 yards ahead of a group of men when a man covered from head to toe in hair came out of the bushes. Standing on the ground, the man met him “eyeball to eyeball.” The figure is said to have called himself Cain, condemned to walk the earth in misery and unable to find death. The caller ends by wondering whether such descriptions explain Bigfoot sightings, and the host asks them to send a copy of the journal. The story ends there. The creature “wandered away,” and nothing more is reported.

    Bigfoot and other creaturesHuman figures
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    49
  305. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ham operator's recurring dream of their reissued call sign

    A caller who gives no name, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, tells Art Bell they are a ham radio operator and offers what they call [quote withheld] The caller describes a recurring dream during daily naps that someone is in their basement using their call sign. Later the caller decided that in the dream they are dead and hearing the call sign after it has been reissued. The caller says the dream stopped after that realization. Bell jokes that it means the caller will indeed become a ghost.

    Anything else
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    63
  306. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Vision of a little girl kissing the caller’s cheek during an adoption decision

    A caller named [name withheld], from Sacramento, California, tells Art Bell about a private adoption they were pursuing that kept stalling. The caller reports that one night, drifting in and out of sleep on their sofa, they woke to a little girl kissing their cheek and felt an overwhelming sense of love. They say the adoption did not go through in the end. They never worked out whether the girl was the child they had hoped to adopt or a child “waiting” for them.

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figuresSigns and messages
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    56
  307. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    White-robed figure at the foot of a bed in Kentucky

    A caller who is addressed as [name withheld] says that at age 17, before entering the military, they visited their grandfather in Kentucky. They say they woke in their uncle’s boarded-up bedroom with a tingling feeling and saw a white-robed, human-like figure at the foot of the bed. When they spoke, it turned and looked at them. They say they went back to sleep and later told their grandfather and aunt. The host then questioned whether the story was believable. No explanation is given.

    Human figures
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    61
  308. 1997·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Host rejects bedside-ghost stories and recalls a loud bang on his door

    In this part of the broadcast the host speaks, not a caller. He says he has spoken tonight with three or four people who reported their ankles being pulled or a presence on the bed. He says he cannot accept that anyone would simply go to sleep after such an experience. He compares it to his own recent experience of a loud bang on his door and the adrenaline rush it caused. No caller tells a story about a white-robed figure or a Kentucky house in these lines.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    48
  309. 1997·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Legend of a headless rider at a frontier fort in Oklahoma

    A caller introduced as [quote withheld] tells a legend their mother told about a frontier fort north of the Red River in central Oklahoma. In the legend, an officer beheaded his wife and another officer. Riders passing the fort at night were joined by the officer’s wife, “Aunt [name withheld],” riding headless behind them. The caller offers no personal experience and no date. The host makes a brief comment and moves on.

    Human figuresMilitary sites
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    55
  310. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Driverless 1961 Chevy chase in Peninsula, Ohio

    Believability
    –
    Evidence
    –
    Creepiness
    –
    Originality
    –
  311. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Trucker's family tale of Aunt [name withheld] stirring apple butter with her arm

    A caller driving in Central California tells a family story that they say is about one hundred years old. It was passed down from their father through his father. The story is about their grandfather's great-uncle and the great-uncle's brother, who met a local woman called Aunt [name withheld], reputed in folklore to be a witch. In the story, Aunt [name withheld] was making apple butter in her front yard when the men warned her it would pop and burn her. She reportedly smiled, said something transcribed as [quote withheld] and then stirred the apple butter with her bare arm. The host asks whether she was a relative. The caller says the great-uncle would be like a great-great-great-uncle. The call then ends.

    Anything else
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    50
  312. 1997·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home

    A caller named [name withheld], from Kohala, Hawaii, says they live in an old plantation town in a century-old house once occupied by a mill manager. They say the house is haunted “back and forth.” They tell of two family experiences. Their mother, alone upstairs at night, saw a transparent figure in an aloha-shirt pattern with dark skin, rocking back and forth. Their father, scraping paint during repairs, heard someone ask what he was doing when no one was in the house. [name withheld] also says they once asked their mother about an infant who had reportedly died in the home, and she was not receptive to the question.

    Haunted homesPartial figures and mistsVoices
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  313. 1997·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Tugging during naps and a waterbed that seemed to leak in a San Rafael apartment

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], living in San Rafael just north of the city, describes strange experiences in an apartment they rented for about eight years. During afternoon naps on a waterbed they felt tugging and pressing sensations, and the bed seemed to leak though it had no holes. The caller and their girlfriend moved out after a flood in 1982. [name withheld] says the landlord later told them a later tenant reported the same sensations and died by suicide, and that a man had died in the bedroom before [name withheld] rented it. [name withheld] believes spirits were in the apartment. The story ends without an explanation.

    Paralysis and pressureObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    62
  314. 1997·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Glowing figure on a rock during a moonlit hike off Mount Shasta

    A caller tells of “the other thing,” a night hike off Mount Shasta. The caller felt something behind them and then saw a glowing, statue-like figure standing on top of a rock. They say they thanked it, checked again that it was still there, and then [quote withheld] The caller tells the host that afterward they moved and the caller has had no other strange experiences.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    48
  315. 1997·Caller's story·10 min· not yet checked

    Students re-enact a Civil War battle in a campus auditorium said to be haunted

    A caller who gives the pseudonym “John” and says they are in Tennessee describes a night in a campus auditorium during their college days, with a fellow student the caller does not name. The caller had been told the auditorium was once a Civil War fort and the site of battles. They report a hostile atmosphere, dark figures in the balcony, and a battlefield trench that gave them dark feelings. The two then staged a North-versus-South re-enactment on the auditorium stage to help the spirits. The caller says that during the acting they believed they were a dying soldier. Afterward their friend denied making a shout that the caller had clearly heard.

    Shadow peoplePublic buildings and businessesVoices
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    61
  316. 1998·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Listener letter: A weekend at the Hotel del Coronado as “Kate's guest”

    A listener’s letter, read on air by the host in the first person, describes a four-day weekend at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. The writer reports no ghosts or “funky stuff.” The writer reports a string of coincidences and freebies: a calendar picture of the hotel at the hospital, a free upgrade, drinks and dinner that were paid for, and a stay that never appeared on their credit-card bill. They put all this down to being “Kate's guest.” The letter ends with the writer calling her “a fine hostess” and saying they hope to return.

    Signs and messagesPublic buildings and businessesAnything else
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    61
  317. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Missing items and a refilled coffee cup in a former funeral home in Providence

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Eugene, Oregon, tells a story they say comes from their boyfriend's brother. He moved into a house in Providence, Rhode Island, and later learned it had been a funeral home with cremation facilities in the basement. The caller reports items going missing, a coffee cup found refilled and still hot after the roommate left the room, occasional door slams, and one time the brother left the house in fear after noises on the walls. The call ends with the caller asking where to find a specialist. Art names his guest for Monday, Jerome Clark.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  318. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A foggy light aura in a hallway of a late mother-in-law’s house

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that their wife felt intensely watched after the family moved into their late mother-in-law’s empty house in March 1998. On the evening of March 16, 1998, the caller says, they saw an indistinct, foggy light aura in the shape of a woman down the hallway. Their wife, sitting beside them, responded “You too?” The story breaks off at a station break and is continued later.

    Partial figures and mistsHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    44
    Originality
    53
  319. 1998·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Late mother-in-law appears in her former bedroom; a footprint in the carpet

    A caller identified on air only as “the gentleman” continues a story he began earlier in the program. He says he saw his dead mother-in-law leaning over the dresser area in the bedroom that had been hers. He also describes a bare footprint in the white carpet that his wife said was her mother’s, a constant feeling of being watched, and the dog staring into the bedroom. Later, he says, his vision blurred and [quote withheld] appeared in the dark. He also reports thumping on the wall and phone calls with nobody on the line. He says nothing has happened since the family moved to a new home. This is the second part of the call. The earlier part is not in this transcript.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  320. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes seeing their own spirit during an out-of-body experience

    [name withheld] from Auckland, New Zealand, tells Art Bell they often have out-of-body experiences and once saw their own ghost. They say part of them separated while their vision stayed in their physical body, and they saw themselves walking across the room from a third-person view. They report no lasting effect and say they have had more hair-raising experiences.

    Doubles of living peoplePsychics and mediums
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    66
  321. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller’s secondhand story of a figure on the stairs in a Salem house

    A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Austin, Texas, tells a story their mother told them about events before [name withheld] was born. [name withheld]’s parents were newly married and living in Salem, Massachusetts. The cats behaved oddly, a bathroom door jammed and the room seemed far colder, and the father felt a hand on his neck. The story ends with the father reportedly seeing a woman in old-fashioned clothes on the stairs, feeling cold as they passed, and watching the figure vanish. [name withheld] says nothing happened after that.

    Human figuresCold spots and sudden heatDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    52
  322. 1998·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter from Canada about cats gathering in woods where a man reportedly died

    The host reads a letter from Canada. The unnamed writer says the woods near their house are where a man reportedly hanged himself about seventy years earlier. The writer says that every so often ten to twenty cats gather in those woods, and calls the woods “pretty freaky.” The writer concludes that the cats are gathering in the man’s name and offers to send a photograph if it happens again.

    Signs and messagesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    58
  323. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Glowing human-shaped figure at the foot of a bed in a Kauai resort

    [name withheld], calling from Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, tells Art Bell a story they say they first told him briefly a few years earlier. The caller and their wife [name withheld] were staying at the Coco Palms resort on Kauai, before Hurricane Iniki. [name withheld] says they woke in the night to a large, glowing, human-shaped figure at the foot of the bed. The caller was petrified and unable to move, and closed their eyes. Days later, [name withheld] says, the caller’s wife told them she had seen it too. She described a very large Hawaiian figure that floated in through the window and stood at the foot of the bed, and she called it “very pissed off.” [name withheld] guesses it was a Hawaiian ghost reacting to a local woman with a white man. [name withheld] says they both got “chicken skin.”

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figuresParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    59
  324. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A poke through the mattress and weight on the legs in a dying man's bedroom

    A caller who lives in Hawaii, and whom the host addresses as “[name withheld],” tells of staying in their in-laws' bedroom in Waimea on the Big Island. The caller’s wife's terminally ill father was dying in the living room. About three days before the father's death, at around 11 p.m., the caller reports a sharp poke through the mattress into their ribs, and then the pressure of someone sitting on their legs. The caller and their wife swapped rooms with their sister-in-law, and the father died shortly afterward. The caller says they are leery about returning to the house.

    Being touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    51
  325. 1998·Caller's story·9 min· not yet checked

    Fire dispatch dormitory and a dream of an 1864 village by the Santa Ana River

    An unidentified caller says they are in Birch Bay, Washington, and that in 1984 they worked at a fire communications center on the banks of the Santa Ana River. The caller reports that they felt something lay across their legs and saw a fog-like form in the dispatch dormitory. The caller then had a vivid dream set in 1864 of a dying woman in a small village. In the dream they merge with a young woman, are shown a dying old woman, and are then confronted by the faces of villagers whose deaths they say they felt. The caller says a fellow dispatcher reported feeling watched and refused to sleep in the dormitory. Art closes by suggesting dispatch centers, as places of crisis, are places of haunting.

    Public buildings and businessesTime slipsPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    55
  326. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Unplugged television explodes in a basement gathering; a dark man reappears

    [name withheld], from London, Ontario, Canada, calls to describe something that happened when they were about eight years old. During a gathering in a basement, [name withheld] says, an old unplugged television glowed and exploded, and only the caller saw a dark man seated on it. [name withheld] says the same dark man has since appeared to the caller out of the corner of their eye, and that they have heard their name called. The host warns the caller about the figure, while the caller says they think it may be protective.

    Human figuresLights and appliances acting upSéances, rituals, and blessings
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    59
  327. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Hands pressing him down in bed; uncle later recalls a murder in the flat

    A caller, reached by the host while sitting out on his porch, tells a story he says goes back to 1983. That year he moved with his wife and baby to Long Beach, California, and took a free one-bedroom apartment in his uncle's building. He reports that his baby woke screaming nightly for about a month. Some weeks after the couple switched rooms, he woke from a frightening dream to something pressing him face down into his waterbed. He could not breathe or speak until his wife woke and turned on the light. The next day, he says, his uncle told him a previous tenant, a drug dealer, had been shot to death in that same room. The caller says the experience converted him to belief in ghosts.

    Paralysis and pressureBeing touched, pushed, or heldMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    50
  328. 1998·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Rummaging sounds and a hair pull in USS Enterprise switchgear rooms

    A caller from Tampa, Florida, who says they joined the Navy in 1980 as a nuclear power electrician, describes standing mid-watches in the switchgear rooms of the USS Enterprise after being told the spaces were haunted. The caller reports hearing someone rummaging in a back room that turned out to be empty. Later, the caller says, they felt their hair yanked while they pretended to doze off on watch. The caller ends by saying others on the ship could verify it and that they personally were never much bothered.

    Ships, planes, and carsMilitary sitesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    64
  329. 1998·Host's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A San Antonio railroad crossing where cars are reportedly pushed off the tracks

    In this part of the broadcast, the host, whom a second speaker addresses on air as “Mr. Bill,” tells a short story that he presents as true. It concerns a train crossing in San Antonio, Texas. He says a school bus full of children stalled on the track and was struck broadside by a train, killing all or most of the children. Ever since, he says, cars left in neutral on the tracks are pushed off to safety. He adds that testers have put talcum powder on cars and afterward found children's handprints in the powder, and that this reportedly happens again and again.

    Marks and tracesObjects moved or thrownRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    50
  330. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Bleeding man on a San Diego corner who vanished when officers turned back

    A caller identified as [name withheld], a San Diego police officer of twelve years, describes something that happened about twelve years earlier. [name withheld] was just out of the academy and working with a veteran field training officer in the city's southeast area. The caller says that at about 3 a.m. they saw a man bleeding heavily from the head and face at a residential street corner. When they turned the patrol car around seconds later, the man was gone, and they found no blood or other trace. The caller says no report was written and that they told no one at the time.

    Human figuresMore than one witnessVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  331. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Knocking, pulled covers, and a figure in 1920s dress on a hotel's fifth floor

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] from Sacramento, a stuntman, describes one night on the fifth floor of a large hotel in Coral Gable, Florida, while working on a film. They report knocking at their door with nobody outside, their bed covers being pulled off them repeatedly, and a man in 1920s formal dress at the end of the hallway. The next morning, they say, a woman at a hotel historical society booth told them the place is [quote withheld] She also said the fifth floor had been the morgue when the building was a wartime hospital. They then asked to be moved off that floor.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    59
  332. 1998·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Voice in a bathroom attributed to Russ Colombo at Rosemary Clooney's house

    An unnamed male caller tells the host that he heard a man's voice behind him while using a bathroom at Rosemary Clooney's house, which he says once belonged to the crooner Russ Colombo. The voice asked what he thought he was doing. He says he jumped out and ran to the front room. There Rosemary Clooney's son, [name withheld], laughed and said the voice was Colombo, who he says has been dead since being shot in the head. The host thanks him and ends the call without further detail.

    VoicesHaunted homesVisits
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    55
  333. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia

    A caller who gives their name as Mary tells Art Bell they once lived in a garage apartment in Covington, Georgia. It stood behind a mansion and overlooked the cemetery on Elm Street. Alone there one night in early 1975, they report the television acting strangely, an apartment that would not stay warm, a face seen in a small window at the top of the landing, and a humming they describe as a voice, not anything mechanical. The next morning, walking the cemetery, they say they found a tombstone for a young woman named [name withheld] who died in 1873 at sixteen. They note their own maiden name was Robin. They say they got out of there.

    VoicesPartial figures and mistsHaunted homes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    60
  334. 1998·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Caller [name withheld] from northern New Jersey begins a story about a 1980 puppy

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from northern New Jersey, begins a story that they say is a little long. They say they got their parents a puppy in 1980 because their father had recently lost his hearing. Art Bell agrees about the healing benefits of pets and then takes a break before the story continues. This part of the broadcast ends before any strange event or the main part of the story is given.

    Anything else
    Believability
    30
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    0
    Originality
    48
  335. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Paw-print indentations appear on a bed after a dog's euthanasia

    A caller whom the host addresses as [name withheld], said to be in New Jersey, describes their Cairn Terrier's cancer treatment, remission, and euthanasia in 1993. They also describe a prayer they made for a sign that the dog was all right. They report that the next morning, sitting on their bed in their apartment, they heard a thump to their left and turned to see four paw-print indentations pressed into the mattress. They take this as a sign from God that their dog was fine. The host tells the caller he believes the story.

    Signs and messagesMarks and traces
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    53
  336. 1998·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Séance contact with a presence claiming to be John Dillinger

    A caller from Monticello, Minnesota, who says they and a partner do semi-professional ghost work in the Twin Cities, describes a group gathering held about a year and a half earlier. It took place on the anniversary of John Dillinger's death. They say the group first invited whatever spirits wished to come, then called on Dillinger. Something claiming to be Dillinger answered questions aloud, through what they call psychic impressions, for roughly half an hour. They report that the tape of the first half of the evening recorded only room noise and conversation, while the tape of the Dillinger session went blank. Several people at the table believed the presence was lying about the fate of gang member Red Hamilton.

    Séances, rituals, and blessingsVoices on recordingsMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    62
  337. 1998·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Waking paralysis, chest pressure, and moving curtains in upstate New York

    A letter read on air by Art Bell describes a listener's experience of waking in an old upstate New York home, unable to move or speak. The writer felt as though a person were kneeling on their chest while their husky-Shepherd dog barked and growled. They say the pressure eased when they concentrated on the dog. The room's curtains were then shoved aside although the window was closed. They stayed with friends for several nights afterward.

    Paralysis and pressureBedroom visitorsObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    54
  338. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Father hears lamp pull-chains jingle and a moan in his ear, 1961

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Woodland Hills, California, tells a story they attribute to their father. One night in 1961 in Dana Point, California, the father was living in an add-on structure behind a partly burned house. According to the caller, he heard the room’s lamp pull-chains jingle. Then he felt a moan and a breath blown into his ear. It happened three times. He fled the room and never slept there again.

    VoicesObjects moved or thrownBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    54
  339. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board counts six people in a room holding five

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Metairie, Louisiana, tells Art Bell about a Ouija board session they set up on a Friday night around 1988 with four other people. They describe setting it up so the two operators looked eye to eye. They say the board answered questions and, when asked how many people were in the room, spelled out six. They say the group felt a presence and that they have never touched a Ouija board again.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingDemons and hostile presences
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    51
  340. 1998·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Flying boxes, voices behind a bolted hatch, and a spinning compass at sea

    A caller who says they were a Navy cook describes events during temporary duty aboard the USS Independence in the mid-1980s. They report music with no source and boxes flying in a galley storage void. They report muffled banging and voices pleading [quote withheld] behind a bolted hatch. They report instruments blanking and a compass spinning on the bridge. They say a shipmate told them the voices were those of sailors drowned when a torpedo hit a jet fuel tank in wartime. The host remarks that electromagnetic disturbance is fairly common, and the call ends.

    Objects moved or thrownVoicesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  341. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Mother kneeling at grandparents’ grave in Lodi reports a film before her

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sacramento, California, relays a telephone report from their mother. The day before, their mother visited the cemetery in Lodi where [name withheld]’s grandparents are buried. According to [name withheld], their mother is not a believer in ghosts. She knelt at the grave saying prayers when “this film” appeared in front of her. It vanished shortly afterward. [name withheld] begins to mention other odd things connected to that plot, but the host cuts them off before they describe them.

    Partial figures and mistsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    24
    Originality
    54
  342. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Natchez burial lore and reported noises in a New Orleans East subdivision

    A caller who says they are calling from New Orleans tells Art Bell that they live in the New Orleans East suburbs, in a subdivision they call Village de Lesse. Local lore holds that the land was once Natchez Indian territory and that the Natchez placed their dead in oak trees. They report that many houses in the subdivision, especially on one block where a friend lives, are said to be haunted. The reports include late-night bells, beating on walls, and small gusts of wind from nowhere. Art Bell cuts the caller off at the bottom of the hour before they finish.

    Haunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    53
  343. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Sage burning by [name withheld]’s uncle and “evil spirits” in a house (continuation of an earlier call)

    A male caller continues an earlier story about a haunted house. He relays what [name withheld]’s uncle told him and others about the spirits there. According to the caller, the uncle said the spirits were evil and upset because they were stuck in limbo. He said the group had “shook something up” and been [quote withheld] and that a good spirit had been holding the evil ones back. The caller states that from the day the uncle burned sage, no further incident occurred in the house.

    Haunted homesSéances, rituals, and blessingsDemons and hostile presences
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    65
  344. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Nightly 12:26 wakings, cool fingers, and a child’s invisible playmate

    A caller who identifies herself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that about three years earlier her daughter, then two, woke screaming every night at 12:26. After the caller scolded the presumed spirit, she felt cool fingers cross her neck, and the room cooled by 15–20 degrees. She took this as an apology. She says she took the presence to be a little boy who became her daughter’s friend for a time. The two walked hand in hand, and, she says, a chair tipped over as they passed. She says nothing threatening ever happened. She gives no final resolution.

    Children who see presencesBedroom visitorsBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    47
    Originality
    56
  345. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    House lights, pounding, and a whispered encouragement in a junior high theater

    A 15-year-old caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Redding, California, describes an eighth-grade school play staged in an old junior high theater said to date from 1911. They report house lights switching on and off by themselves, pounding like footsteps on the catwalk, curtains moving, and a girl’s whisper in their head urging them on. The play went ahead, and the audience took the disturbances as part of the act.

    Lights and appliances acting upFootsteps, knocks, and bangsVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    13
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    64
  346. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board session with an 89-year-old landlady

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that about 24 years earlier they were living in a large house owned by an 89-year-old woman. She invited them to play a game that turned out to be a Ouija board session. The board spelled old-fashioned first names that the landlady said were her husbands’. The planchette moved faster and eventually flew off the table, and the caller says they felt eerie. The host cuts the call short at the top of the hour.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    57
  347. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    1840 Underground Railroad house: a ball slides to a child and a door latch moves

    A caller who gives their name as Jo, from Jamestown, New York, tells Art Bell about their 1840 home in a small New York town. They say it was part of the Underground Railroad. They report that shortly after they moved in with their one-year-old daughter, a ball slid about six feet across the floor to the child. An iron door latch moved up and down by itself, with a knocking warning before it. Indistinct voices can be heard from downstairs. They say they regard the presence as friendly. The host interrupts before they finish and begins telling a different story.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesVoices
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    52
  348. 1998·Host's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Host retells a listener’s account of voices audible only at one moving spot

    The host retells, from memory, a letter he says a male listener sent him. The man wrote about indistinct voices that woke his small children at night and could be heard only from one precise spot in the house. According to the retelling, the spot where the voices were audible moved about an inch or two each day. Over several months it went out of the house and across the backyard. The host says the man ruled out RF from a nearby radio station. He offers his own guess about a [quote withheld] The story ends with the spot still moving.

    VoicesHaunted homesChildren who see presences
    Believability
    43
    Evidence
    3
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    55
  349. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Figure standing in the road at the site of a fatal crash, and a message to a bereaved sister

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Crowhart, Wyoming, tells of events they date to 1976 in Oregon. They say that after a fatal car crash on the rural road they drove home from their late shift, they saw a figure they describe as “this Aborigine” standing in the road with his hands raised. They saw him on three or four nights in a row. They say the sightings stopped after they told the dead driver’s injured sister that the crash was not her fault. The call ends with the host’s question [quote withheld] and the caller’s “Oh, definitely.” The caller then begins a separate 1980 story.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsVisits
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  350. 1998·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Scent of a grandfather’s breakfast and a growling dog before news of his death

    A caller to Ghost to Ghost tells Art Bell about a 1980 episode. While living in a small trailer, the caller repeatedly smelled what they took to be their grandfather’s breakfast odor, and their dog kept looking behind itself and growled. The following day, they say, their mother telephoned to tell them that their grandfather, who lived in New York, had died. They say they knew he had been there and take the episode as his way of checking on their family.

    Signs and messagesSmells with no sourceSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    55
  351. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller sets up a 1991 story in Parkston, South Dakota, before being put on hold

    A first-time caller reaches Art Bell and says they are in Kansas City, Missouri. They say their story does not happen there but in central South Dakota, specifically Mitchell. They report that in mid-1991 they had just filed for divorce, learned by letter that they were pregnant with their second child, and were living with a family in Parkston, South Dakota, while considering an abortion. The host interrupts for a break before any strange event is described.

    Anything else
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    3
    Creepiness
    5
    Originality
    48
  352. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Silhouette with red eyes in a South Dakota basement

    A caller addressed as [name withheld] in their own story describes a difficult period when they took a part-time job in South Dakota, moved in with a 73-year-old woman, and returned to church. They say they woke in their basement room to slamming doors, a television switching off, a dark silhouette with two red eyes, and a voice telling them to come with it. They were unable to move. They report that a pastor anointed the doorknobs and blessed the house, after which the activity stopped.

    Shadow peopleBedroom visitorsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    13
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    59
  353. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Six nights in an abandoned rural house: Odors, Ouija board, and footsteps

    A caller who says they are a county fraud investigator tells Art Bell they spent six nights with their girlfriend and her daughter in an unoccupied house about 25 miles up a dirt road in Northern California. Local people had told them it was haunted. They report a rotting-flesh smell, cold spots, a chair that flew back and injured the girlfriend’s knee, a door handle turning, footsteps and a slammed door upstairs, a child’s “help me” captured on a tape recorder, and orbs in several hundred photographs. The call ends with the host asking for the caller’s e-mail and website link.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    32
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    56
  354. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Man’s ghost in a basement and a cat-sized figure in a new house

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that about fourteen months earlier they moved into a house with their wife, dog, and child. While showing their stepfather the basement, they say, they saw the ghost of a man walking behind the stepfather toward the back door. The caller later reports a cat-sized figure moving past them in the same basement toward the back door. They say their wife saw a similar figure moving from the kitchen to the living room. The story ends with the neighbors’ statements about a previous resident and a cat, and the caller’s own description of it as [quote withheld].

    Human figuresGhostly animalsHaunted homes
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    53
  355. 1998·Caller's story·59 s· not yet checked

    Figure seen in peripheral vision in a restaurant dish room

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell a brief story about a night job washing dishes in a restaurant. The caller says the building had earlier been a marine base and then a church. They report seeing a figure out of the corner of their eye about two feet away. When they turned to look, it was gone, and they say they left quickly. Bell responds that he has seen similar figures in his peripheral vision.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    49
  356. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A figure in period flying gear in the cockpit of a parked F-4 at an Air Force hangar

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Santa Fe, tells Art Bell that about five years earlier they were stationed at an Air Force base in California. They were on a midnight duty post outside a hangar where Vietnam-era jets were on public display during an air show. After hearing a tap on the canopy glass, they say, they looked up and saw what appeared to be a person in the cockpit of an F-4, dressed in goggles, a scarf, and a cap, and grinning at them. They say they left the hangar and told a friend only that they felt sick. They told no one the reason until about two weeks before the broadcast.

    Human figuresMilitary sitesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    62
  357. 1998·Letter read on air·56 s· not yet checked

    Letter read on air: USS Independence correction and a chief’s ghost aboard USS Ranger

    Art Bell reads a letter from a listener named [name withheld], who gives a last name that Bell declines to read. [name withheld] corrects a previous caller’s claim about the USS Independence. They then say the carrier they liked best, the USS Ranger, had the ghost of a chief who wanders through the ship’s galley. The chief was killed in a fire in main machinery room number three.

    Military sitesShips, planes, and carsHuman figures
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    61
  358. 1998·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A smoky kneeling figure at a student’s bedside and a presence across the hall

    In a listener letter read on air by the host, an unnamed student describes waking twice in the night to a smoky, almost transparent, man-shaped figure at the bedside. The second time, the writer felt something grab and hold their arm. The writer says they told only two close friends. Then, at a school function, they heard a classmate report a presence in the apartment the classmate shares with a roommate. The letter ends with the writer noting that those two students live directly across the hall.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    53
  359. 1998·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Shadowy figure at the door of a Nebraska church parsonage bedroom

    A letter read on air by the host, said to be from a police officer, tells of a night when the writer was 13 and lived in an old church parsonage on the Saline/Seward County line in Nebraska. They say they saw a tall, featureless, shadowy figure with a white collar enter their bedroom. The host reads the letter up to the point where the writer describes their father’s later account of unexplained pounding on the parlor doors. The host then says there is not enough time to finish it.

    Shadow peopleFootsteps, knocks, and bangsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  360. 1998·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Lights, a door, and voices in a boarded-up plantation house outside New Orleans

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that they were visiting their sister in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans. At night, they, their sister, and their wife trespassed into a boarded-up plantation house owned by a sugar company. They report a light sweeping across a room, light appearing through floorboard cracks above them, the sound of a metal-handled door swinging shut, a sudden drop in temperature, and finally what they took to be men’s voices calling. The story ends abruptly when the host enforces a time limit before the caller can finish.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesHaunted homesVoices
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    53
  361. 1998·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Retired fire lieutenant relays bunk-room pressure story from Rescue 1

    [name withheld], calling from Southwest Florida and describing themself as a retired New York City fire lieutenant, tells Art Bell a story they say they heard secondhand in about 1977 from a firefighter named [name withheld]. [name withheld] is said to have felt an unseen pressure climb from their ankles up their legs while lying in the dark second-floor bunk room of Rescue 1 on 43rd Street. When they turned on the lights, nobody was there. The story ends with a claimed record check matching the hour and date to a fireman’s death in that same bed about twenty years earlier, and with the firehouse later burning down.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    55
  362. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Police officer recalls a dog-headed figure entering their childhood bedroom

    A caller who says they are a police officer in Charleston, South Carolina, describes an experience from when they were about six or seven years old, after their family moved into a new house they call “really odd”. They report hearing footsteps approach their bedroom door. Then they saw a figure about six to seven feet tall with a dog’s head, matted fur, upward-pointing fangs, and long fingernails. They say it came with an odor they call “pure death,” walked toward their bed, and leaned over them. Art Bell stops them at the top of the hour and asks them to hold through the news, so the story is incomplete here.

    Ghostly animalsNon-human creaturesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    72
    Originality
    64
  363. 1998·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Police officer describes a dog-like creature; their brother later described the same

    A caller reached in Charleston, South Carolina, whom the host introduces as “the police officer” and who is continuing a story begun earlier, says they once met a creature that looked like a dog but seemed physically present rather than spiritual. It frightened them into covering up and praying. They say they kept the experience secret until, talking with their brother (also a police officer) about old houses, the brother described the same creature, which he had seen while home sick on a couch. The host reads a listener letter calling the being [quote withheld] then closes this part of the broadcast.

    Bigfoot and other creaturesMore than one witness
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  364. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps on the stairs and a cold, angry presence in a Colorado Springs house

    A caller who says they are in Reno tells Art Bell about a house they lived in, in the northwest part of Colorado Springs. They say they heard something walk up and down the stairs. After they spoke aloud to it, asking whether it could materialize or speak, they report that it came right up beside them. They suddenly felt freezing, their hair stood up, and they felt anger. The story ends with their comparison of the sensation to knowing when someone is angry at you, and with the host’s approving reply.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsCold spots and sudden heatHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    9
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    50
  365. 1998·Caller's story·15 s· not yet checked

    Windows, doors, lights, and pounding in a previous house

    A caller on Ghost to Ghost 1998, whose name and location are not given, briefly reports that in a previous house windows and doors used to fly open, lights went on, and there was banging and pounding on doors. The caller says they called them Bob. The host responds that he does not like the pounding on doors part, and the story ends without more detail.

    Doors, windows, and locksLights and appliances acting upFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    34
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    54
  366. 1998·Host's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Host recalls a loud boom on his studio door with nothing outside

    In a monologue during the broadcast, the host says that many strange things have happened to him over the years he has been doing these programs. He says he is becoming convinced that talking about such things invites them. He then recalls one occasion during one of his ghost-to-ghost shows when he heard an impact like a pile driver on the door of the studio he converted inside his home. He ran to the door, opened it, and says there was absolutely nothing there. This part of the broadcast breaks off as he begins to state a conclusion.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsPoltergeist activity
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    50
  367. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Truck driver reports numbness and a rising sensation in a sleeper berth at a New Mexico rest area

    A female long-haul truck driver, calling from Ludlow, California, tells Art Bell about an episode in the sleeper berth of the truck she drives with her husband. It happened at an I-25 rest area outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, near mile marker 163. She says that shortly after lying down, and not yet asleep, her body went numb and she could not move. A gurgling sound came from her mouth, and she felt the middle of her body rising. It ended when her husband woke and spoke to her. She offers no settled explanation. She raises the possibility that she was simply asleep, then doubts it.

    Paralysis and pressureShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  368. 1998·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Locked bedroom door found ripped from its hinges in an old Detroit house

    An unnamed caller describes themselves as a federal law enforcement officer. They decline to say where they are calling from. They recount an experience from about age 17 in their family’s old house in Detroit. They say one part of the house always had strange happenings, and they put locks on their bedroom door as things got worse. They say they woke one night to find the door torn off its hinges and lying on the floor. They say they slept through it. They say they never slept in that part of the house again. The host asks where the door ended up, and the caller then begins a second, separate story.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homesPoltergeist activity
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    51
  369. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Two officers chase a fast-moving shadow through a closed area

    A caller on the telephone says they were with “another officer.” They describe entering a closed area through a gate, seeing something there, and chasing it in a truck. They report that a shadow ran in front of the vehicle at an estimated 70 miles an hour. They rounded a corner and found no one. The caller ends by saying they do not know what to say and thanks the host.

    Shadow peopleRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    60
  370. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A floating translucent man and a flying shed roof at a Fig Springs, Arizona, trailer

    A caller (name not given) tells Art Bell about a night, when they were young, at a property called Fig Springs in Arizona. They report seeing a partly see-through man floating about a foot above a bed in the trailer’s living room. Leaving the trailer, the caller says the group heard clunking behind them. A piece of metal, identified the next day as part of a porch-shed roof, flew overhead in a circle before crashing. The caller says that after telling the story to several people, they were told of a shooting in that trailer. They then found bullet holes under duct tape by the back door.

    Human figuresObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  371. 1998·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes a black void figure entering a childhood bedroom

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about something they say they saw as a child of about seven or eight, when they shared a bedroom with their sister. They describe a black head with no dimensions coming through the bedroom door at head height. Then they saw a full black figure with a round, mannequin-like head and arms ending in long tendrils. It moved like a tiptoeing burglar. They say they felt a presence of evil. They claim the thing was “from hell.” Art Bell then calls it classically like a shadow person story.

    Shadow peopleHappened in childhoodBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    55
  372. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Retired sheriff's captain reports a ghost cat and a figure in an old courthouse

    A caller who says they are a retired sheriff’s captain tells Art Bell about a night they went with a dispatch supervisor into an old western courthouse to get computer paper. The caller reports a ghost cat on the stairs that hissed, attacked, and ran up their body. Then they saw a ghostly man at the top of the stairs who faded away. The dispatch supervisor reportedly said the cat passed through the caller and that the supervisor would never go back into the building.

    Ghostly animalsHuman figuresPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  373. 1998·Caller's story·50 s· not yet checked

    Fragment: Prayer to cast an unwanted presence out of a room

    An unidentified caller describes, in a fragment, an intense and tense experience in their room. The caller says they prayed to Jesus and the Lord to cast “whatever it was” out. They say it took [quote withheld] with no unit given, but felt like an hour. The host adds that it smelled really bad. He dubs it [quote withheld] says it hovered over the caller and was foul, and asks what these things are.

    Possession
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    63
  374. 1998·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A push on the top bunk and handprints on a boy's chest

    An anonymous caller tells Art Bell an “entity attack story” from his childhood. At about age eight, he was lying awake on the top bunk of a bunk bed in a house shared with his grandparents and father. He says he felt a presence and was pushed hard on the chest, bouncing into the ceiling. He says his father came in after he called out and found two handprints on his chest. The caller then offers his own theory that such things come from within and are generated by fear. The host closes the call after a discussion of fear and love.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldHappened in childhoodMarks and traces
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    56
  375. 1998·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Weight pressing a sleeper onto the mattress, Houston, c. 1979

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that around 1979, while sleeping beside their wife, they woke to something pressing down on them. They could not breathe or call out. They struggled until the pressure let up and the mattress rose [quote withheld] The caller offers no cause, says they were in a panic, and then changes the subject to a Bigfoot recording. The story ends with the caller saying the force felt heavier than they were, at about 200 pounds.

    Paralysis and pressureBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  376. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ball of light approaches campers near 29 Palms and scans caller

    A caller on the Wildcard Line tells Art Bell that in March 1993 they and their girlfriend were camping near 29 Palms when they saw distant lights moving south to north. The caller says a basketball-sized ball of light came out of a large craft and approached within about 48 inches. It seemed to scan their brain, then focused on their girlfriend before returning to the craft. The caller reports she was traumatized and spent about eight months in therapy. The call ends with Art Bell’s speculation about downloaded information.

    UFOs and alien encountersLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    58
  377. 1998·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Hooded faceless figure in the bedroom and a return during a cardiac arrest

    A caller identified on air as [name withheld] of Sacramento describes himself as a 6'9", 370-pound pastor. He says a faceless, handless, hooded figure came through his bedroom door in March of that year and threatened him. It then threw his wife off the bed by the ankles and left what he describes as bleeding hand imprints. He says the same figure appeared beside him a month later when his heart stopped during a hospital stay in San Francisco. It told him it was time to come with it. He says he refused and was revived. He ends by telling the host he believes the figure was probably following him after he once helped a Catholic pastor with an exorcism.

    Attacks and harmHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    74
    Originality
    62
  378. 1998·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Circle of watching angels seen with a Job Corps friend

    A caller introduced by the host as “[name withheld]” says that at Job Corps in the early 1980s they met a man who described his family being attacked by demons. While the two were talking one night, the caller says they both saw what they describe as tens of thousands of angels in a circle with eyes beaming down on them. The host suggests it may have been a circle of protection, and the caller says it may have been.

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyesMore than one witness
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    52
  379. 1998·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dark woman from the attic and phantom table-setting in a childhood home

    A caller tells Art Bell about a childhood haunting in their family home. The caller says they and their brother were visited at night by a dark female figure they called the doll stall woman, who came down from the attic through a closet. They later heard table-setting sounds and saw white legs in old-fashioned pajamas moving around the dining table. Then a spirit entered their room and grabbed their legs. The caller says this is the first time they have told anyone about it.

    Human figuresHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    78
    Originality
    60
  380. 1998·Caller's story·35 s· not yet checked

    Caller says rocks rained on them for three days in California, Missouri

    An unidentified caller tells Art Bell that they were among the people who had rocks rain on them for three days in California, Missouri. The story is very brief. No cause, date, number of witnesses, or outcome is given. The host says another caller recently gave the same story and asks whether there were photographs. No answer is present in this part of the broadcast.

    Objects moved or thrownMore than one witness
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    56
  381. 1998·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Lifelong bedroom attacks and a black figure with red eyes

    A caller who gives their name as Mary, in Hickson, Tennessee, tells Art Bell that they and their family have been attacked “all my life,” mostly in the bed or bedroom. The caller reports a night when something grabbed their hand as if to pull them out of bed. On other nights they woke unable to breathe, scream, or move, while seeing two red eyes and a black figure. They say it also happened to their husband and brothers. The call ends with the caller saying they sense things about people, believe their father was possessed, and know when people are going to die.

    Paralysis and pressureShadow peopleLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    54
  382. 1999·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter describing a spirit beckoning in a cemetery and a photograph

    Art Bell reads a letter from an unnamed listener who says they are a student of religious demonology and photographs spirits in cemeteries. The writer says they followed a spirit they sensed telepathically to a freshly dug grave, took photographs, and sent one photograph to Art. The letter ends with a request to check Art’s website for the image.

    Strange photos and videoPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  383. 1999·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Perfume smell aboard a Navy ship at the reported time of an aunt’s death

    [name withheld], a caller from Manhattan Beach, California, describes a wartime experience aboard a Navy attack transport near Okinawa. The caller woke suddenly around 3 a.m. to a sweet floral powder smell that they recognized as their Aunt [name withheld]’s. They say they later learned by letter that she had died that day. They say that after a time conversion, her death matched the moment they woke. The story ends with the host’s comments on visits from the dying.

    Signs at the moment of deathSmells with no sourceSigns and messages
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    60
  384. 1999·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Shadowy figure with red eyes beneath a son’s bed

    A first-time caller, whose name and location are not given, tells Art Bell that their son and a friend called them into their son’s bedroom one night. The caller says they saw a shadowy figure with red eyes under the bed. They say they called their husband in, and he also reacted to it. Their son later reported seeing the same figure again in his room and at the caller’s mother’s house, where the boy reportedly threw a rock at it. The caller says they have no idea what it is. They add that they would immediately think of the devil and that they are a Christian who prays. The host ends the call.

    Shadow peopleLights, orbs, and glowing eyesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    50
  385. 1999·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Ghost of a woman passing through a university sleep laboratory

    A caller named [name withheld] tells Art Bell that they were working toward a degree in parapsychology and running an overnight sleep-mapping experiment with Kirlian photography at a Sacramento State sleep lab. [name withheld] reports that their assistant [name withheld], inside the anechoic chamber, said a woman walked through him. Both then watched a misty form turn solid as an older woman in a flower-print dress. She floated through walls and shelving and disappeared out an outside wall. [name withheld] says she showed herself a second time. [name withheld] half agrees with Art’s suggestion that the experiment itself may have opened a door.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    61
  386. 1999·Letter read on air·4 min· not yet checked

    Man in trench coat and stovepipe hat with bicycle on Phoenix street

    The host reads a letter on air from [name withheld] in Phoenix, Arizona. [name withheld] reports that in the summer of 1981, at age 17, they came home about 3 a.m. They saw a silent man in a trench coat and stovepipe hat standing with an older-style bicycle, and felt very cold as they ran past. The next morning, a neighbor says the man pedaled away and vanished. [name withheld] says this left them troubled and sleepless.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and timeCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    56
  387. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Thin five-foot figure with a gigantic head among oak trees; cat found de-gutted

    A caller identified only as [name withheld], listening from Las Vegas, tells Art Bell about something that happened in 1984. Around midnight, after hearing rustling and fluttering in the leaves near their third-story house, the caller went outside with a butcher knife. They saw a thin, black, five-foot-high shape with a gigantic head moving among the oak trees. When they jumped past the tree, it had vanished. The caller says that three days later they found one of their cats completely de-gutted, with a razor-sharp cut down the center. They offer [quote withheld] as their own explanation and only partly connect the two events.

    Shadow peopleNon-human creatures
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    57
  388. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Childhood “imaginary friend” Sam reported seen by family in mother’s house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, tells Art Bell that their brother and sisters say they had an imaginary friend called Sam as a small child. Sam was a tall man in black clothes, a broad-brimmed hat, and long black hair. The caller says the same figure was later reportedly seen walking through their mother’s living room in front of family and friends, eight times. They say their wife recently reported seeing him again. The story ends without resolution. Art Bell jokes that the next sighting may be the caller’s last.

    Human figuresHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    56
  389. 1999·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Caller relays sister’s report of a Native American woman at foot of her bed

    An unnamed caller passes on a story they say their sister told them. The sister woke in the middle of the night and saw a Native American woman standing at the end of her bed, who then disappeared. This happened three or four times in one house. The caller says the sister later reported seeing the same woman after moving to Germany, where she was stationed in Stuttgart with the army. The sister has seen the woman everywhere she has gone, and the caller says the sister believes it is probably a “guardian spirit.” The sister never speaks on air, and the story ends without resolution.

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figures
    Believability
    47
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    53
  390. 1999·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Whistling to call ghosts at Spouting Horn, Kauai; a cousin held down

    A caller who says they are originally from Hawaii and are listening to the show on 105.1 in Las Vegas describes a night in the early 1970s on Kauai. The caller and four others drove to Spouting Horn, whistled to call ghosts, and played a prank on a cousin by driving off and leaving him. The caller reports seeing the cousin crouching. When they returned, they heard Hawaiian chanting with no instruments. They found the cousin crying, and the caller’s brother could not lift him. The cousin later said something held him down. The host cuts the call off for time. The caller adds that their grandmother saw a spirit behind the cousin and that he still wears something she gave him.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldMusic with no sourceRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    58
  391. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports kitchen doorbell ringing after its wires were removed

    An unidentified first-time caller tells Art Bell they are 28, have never believed in ghosts, and still are not sure. They describe something that happened about twelve years earlier. They say they were sitting at their kitchen table after their father had taken apart the kitchen doorbell speaker, leaving the bare wires hanging down. The doorbell then rang with no wires attached. The host asks whether they have an explanation. The caller says they have none but do not believe a being was responsible. The host closes the call.

    Lights and appliances acting upHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    55
  392. 1999·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A Confederate figure in a log hospital on the Pleasant Hill battleground

    [name withheld] in Shreveport, Louisiana, a Civil War relic collector, tells what the caller says the reenactment commander told them about staying overnight in an old log house used as a hospital at Pleasant Hill. According to [name withheld], a ragged Confederate figure came in and gave the commander a guard-duty order. Then the figure lay on a cot and dissolved. The host responds that battlefields have long been haunted.

    Human figuresMilitary sites
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    63
  393. 1999·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Relic hunter’s companion feels something pass over him in a Civil War ditch

    A caller who says they hunt Civil War battlefields with a metal detector describes taking a New York man named [name withheld] to a ditch where the caller says the 173rd New York was wiped out. Lying in the ditch on a hot day, [name withheld] reportedly jumped up saying something had passed over him and insisted on leaving. The caller teased him about his kinfolk being killed there. The story ends with [name withheld] running to the car after a hunter’s horn sounded, saying something had been in the ditch with him.

    Military sitesBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    57
  394. 1999·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Child’s night visitor “[name withheld]” matched to a gravestone and a photograph

    A caller who identifies herself only as a woman in Texas, who previously lived on Long Island, tells Art Bell that a “resident ghost” shared her home when her son was about three. She reports that the boy spoke of a night visitor named [name withheld] who took him through the ceiling into the attic. He later pointed out a gravestone reading “[name withheld].” Years later, she says, a coworker with the maiden name [name withheld] confirmed an ancestor named [name withheld], and a photograph of him turned up in a dead aunt’s attic. Her teenage son recognized the face. The story ends with minor household disturbances still blamed on [name withheld].

    Human figuresChildren who see presencesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    65
  395. 1999·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Grandparents' handbuilt Sacramento house: light switches, toilet, cigar smoke (part 1)

    A caller from Sacramento tells Art Bell about living in a handbuilt house their grandfather bought in the 1930s. The caller reports the deaths of their grandfather and grandmother, then moving in with their girlfriend. Small strange events followed: clicking light switches, a bathroom light, a jarring door and flushing toilet, and cigar smoke linked to the grandfather. Art Bell interrupts for a break, so the story is incomplete.

    Haunted homesLights and appliances acting upSmells with no source
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    54
  396. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Cigar smoke, a cement mixer, and moved chairs in a grandfather’s house

    A caller (addressed by a companion as “[name withheld]”) continues a story about their grandparents’ self-built house. Smells, lights, sounds, and moved objects were reported there after the grandparents died. The caller describes cigar smoke, their grandmother’s perfume, a cement mixer heard running in an empty shed, overturned chairs, a hand felt on their girlfriend’s back in the bath, and two of their father’s childhood toy cars reappearing on a cleared shelf. The caller concludes the grandparents are “still there” and “not happy” about the sale of the property, though they say the presence was not evil.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    55
  397. 1999·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports a Pan Am flying boat appearing alongside their Cessna near Ukiah

    A first-time caller named [name withheld], from Alameda, California, says they were flying a Cessna 172 back from Ukiah at about 11:30 p.m. in January 1998. They heard a voice over their headset, saw a glowing green light close on them, and lost control of the aircraft. Then they saw a large old Pan Am-type flying boat pull alongside and wave before vanishing. The caller links the aircraft to an M-130 Philippine Clipper they had read about in a book their mother had given them. The caller says it crashed in the Ukiah area on January 21, 1943. The caller says ATC reported no planes near them on radar. The call ends with the host calling it a ghost plane and asking whether it was a time slip or the crashed plane’s occupants.

    Ghostly figures and lightsShips, planes, and carsVoices
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    63
  398. 1999·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Two red eyes seen briefly in a dark bedroom

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Walton Beach, tells Art Bell that they repeatedly felt a presence while lying in a dark bedroom. On one occasion they sat up quickly and say they saw two red eyes looking at them for about two seconds before they vanished. The caller says it has happened to them twice. The host and caller compare it to the red eyes in “The Amityville Horror.”

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesBedroom visitorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    43
  399. 1999·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller relays a friend’s story of children and a fatal house fire

    A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], from Hayworth, Illinois, passes on a secondhand story. He says an unnamed friend told it to him a few years earlier. It concerns a family of five in a house in a small town south of where he was calling. After the three young children were put to bed one evening, the parents reportedly did not take seriously whatever the children said, and reassured them. A few days later, he says, the house burned down and the three children were killed. He offers no cause and no explanation beyond calling it “pretty strange.”

    Warnings and premonitions
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    52
  400. 1999·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Armored figures lacking feet reported near a Japanese women’s college

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Fukuoka City in Kyushu, Japan, describes a women’s college where they teach. The caller says it is built on a battlefield from 1300. The caller reports that villagers and campus security guards have seen armored warrior figures there, and that the town holds a yearly group exorcism of the ground. At the end they ask to mention a folklore book they have written, and the host asks them to send a copy.

    Human figuresMilitary sitesPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    34
    Originality
    64
  401. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A caped figure, a skeleton, and two strangers at Redondo Beach

    A truck driver who calls themselves [name withheld], phoning from a truck stop in Milan, New Mexico, tells Art Bell a story they date to the late 1970s at Redondo Beach, California. The caller says they and their girlfriend chased a fast-moving black cape-like figure on their motorcycle at dusk. It turned and looked like a skeleton. When it vanished around the corner of a building, two oddly dressed strangers were suddenly standing there. One of them grabbed their girlfriend’s hands and repeated a warning. The caller ends by passing on a friend’s opinion that they had met something supernatural. The host calls it not easily explained.

    Human figuresBeing touched, pushed, or heldMore than one witness
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    61
  402. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A translucent figure walks onto a Florida TV studio set

    A caller named [name withheld], from Minneapolis, tells the host that several years earlier they were working at a Florida television station. They arrived at about 3 a.m., heard unexplained noises, and saw a translucent girl walk onto the studio set and sit down before everything went dark. Weeks later, they say, a colleague told them that a girl had killed herself on that set in the late 1960s. The story ends without further resolution.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    58
  403. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Light switches moving by themselves and an exercise bike pedaling in a basement

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Minneapolis, is calling with friends in the room. They report three incidents in their family home: a two-switch light turning itself on, an exercise bike in the basement pedaling by itself, and, six months before the broadcast, a light switch turning the light off while they watched. They say the house was built in the late 1800s and that a previous occupant named [name withheld] died, they believe, in the 60s. The host closes by wondering why a spirit would need physical exercise.

    Lights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  404. 1999·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Drumming heard for weeks in an old Kansas house said to stand on a burial ground

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that several years earlier, while living with their parents in an old house in Kansas, they heard drumming in the house at night. It went on for several weeks. They say they then checked town records and a local library and found that the house and the neighboring church were built in the late 1800s on an Indian burial ground. They say the drumming was all they themselves experienced. Their sister claimed to see other things they cannot confirm. The experience frightened them after they learned the history.

    Music with no sourceFootsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    36
    Originality
    50
  405. 1999·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Woman in a rocking chair beside an infant’s crib in a rented farmhouse

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Victoria, tells a story they say their sister and mother told them about when they were about 10 months old. According to the caller, their sister woke one night, went downstairs, and reported a lady in a rocking chair beside their crib. Their mother told her to go back to sleep, but the caller says their mother had seen the same thing and felt it was not harmful. They add that their mother later heard the previous occupants’ history, in which a husband’s heart attack trapped his wife and she suffocated. The family moved out shortly afterward, before their father returned.

    Human figuresHaunted homesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    47
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    56
  406. 1999·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board session in 1964 matching a deceased family friend named [name withheld]

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Long Beach, California, describes a 1964 Ouija board session with their wife-to-be, her girlfriend, and a friend who owned the board. According to [name withheld], the board brought up something said to be from Texas that had died some time earlier and had lost money in silver and gold investments. They say this matched a family friend named [name withheld], who had committed suicide a couple of years before and had lost money in a silver mine. The call ends with [name withheld] mentioning Art Bell’s books and the host promoting them.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingVisits
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    51
  407. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Cold bedroom, tall figures, and cigarette smoke in a moved mobile home

    [name withheld], from Woodbridge, New Jersey, calling on the wild card line, describes the mobile home the caller and their family moved into in 1984. They say one bedroom stayed freezing and their 11-year-old daughter refused to sleep in her own room. A black kitten would not come inside. They report seeing tall figures in the dark hallway, along with cigarette and rubbing-alcohol smells. They say they later learned the previous occupants had both committed suicide. Art Bell cuts them off before they can tell what they call “part two,” a “visitor.”

    Human figuresCold spots and sudden heatSmells with no source
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    56
  408. 1999·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Child reports a man drinking in the window of an empty neighboring house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Big Harbor, Washington, tells Art Bell that when they were about 15, they and their mother moved into a house in the Cleveland, Ohio, area beside an empty old Victorian. Their sister, about three years old, was on the back porch and said she saw a man drinking in the window of the empty house. The family later learned, the caller says, that a man who had died there was an alcoholic. The story ends with the host and caller joking about an alcoholic afterlife.

    Human figuresChildren who see presencesHaunted homes
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    54
  409. 1999·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Attic noises and a presence in a family’s Victorian house

    A caller tells Art Bell about an old Victorian house they and their mother moved into, which they had been told was haunted. They heard dragging noises in the attic. The caller and their friend [name withheld] went up to investigate, both flashlights failed, and they fell down the stairs. The caller later made the attic their bedroom. They had keys disappear, smelled flowers, and felt an oppressive presence, and they moved back downstairs.

    Haunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangsObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    53
  410. 1999·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Dream of a grandmother at the door saying “There is no heaven,” and a father’s parallel dream

    A caller named [name withheld], from Philadelphia, recounts a dream from about ten years earlier, three days after their grandmother’s death. In the dream, the grandmother stands at their door barefoot in the snow, scratches the glass, and asks to be let in. The caller refuses and tells her [quote withheld] and she answers [quote withheld] After waking they tell their family, and their father describes a parallel dream from years before about a neighbor, [name withheld], who died shortly afterward. The caller says they do not believe it was the actual spirit.

    VisitsSigns at the moment of deathNon-human creatures
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  411. 1999·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Deceased cat Bucky reported as a cloudy shape in a photo of rescued kittens

    A letter attributed to [name withheld] and [name withheld] of Charleston, South Carolina, read aloud on air by the host, describes a black cat named Bucky who lived with the couple for fifteen years and died the previous January. The letter says the couple bottle-raised four premature kittens. In the upper corner of one photograph there is a fuzzy, cloudy shape they recognize as Bucky. The writers offer to send the picture and say they now have eleven cats and kittens. They call it a loving prank by the cat after her death. The host agrees with the sentiment and moves to the next caller.

    Ghostly animalsStrange photos and videoSigns and messages
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    52
  412. 1999·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Knocking doors and a shadow figure in an Alaska church residence

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Oregon, tells Art Bell about events when they were about 14. Their family had moved to an Alaskan town so their father could be caretaker of a large church, and the family lived in an apartment attached to it. They report repeated knocking at the church doors with no one there. They also report a dark crouched figure they saw many times in the youth pastor’s office. Later came nights of furniture being thrown and a doorknob rattling in a room built for them off an upstairs classroom. This lasted until they were sent to live with an uncle in Wisconsin in September 1984. The caller states no cause, and the story ends with their departure from the household.

    Doors, windows, and locksShadow peopleObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    69
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  413. 1999·Caller's story·9 min· not yet checked

    Hawaiian cemetery prank, a shaking car, and bite marks

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Northern California, relays a story they say their former Boy Scout leader told them about ten years earlier. The leader was a Hawaiian man named [name withheld]. As a teenager in Hawaii, [name withheld] and a friend took two girls to a cemetery as a prank. The parked car they returned to was shaking violently, with the girls screaming and “red eyes” at the windows. [name withheld] is said to have found a bite mark on his ankle that night. His older brother mocked the family’s warning, and the two returned to run over graves and kick over food. The brother is said to have had more than 200 bites counted on his body and to have needed hospital stitches. The caller ends by saying they were shown [name withheld]’s lasting bite marks years later and by discussing Hawaiian cemetery customs.

    Attacks and harmLights, orbs, and glowing eyesMarks and traces
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    55
  414. 2000·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Police officer reports a man and dog who vanished on a foggy road near an old homestead

    A fax read on air by the host is attributed to a police officer in Salina, Kansas. The officer says that while on patrol they saw an old bloodhound and a man in bib overalls and a straw hat carrying a feed sickle. They were beside a new street near the site of an old river homestead. The officer says that when they circled back within seconds, both had vanished and left no sign. The letter ends with the writer saying they used to play at that homestead as a child, where local children said the grounds were haunted, and that they now wonder.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and timeRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    51
  415. 2000·Discussion·4 min· not yet checked

    Reported figure between candidates in a televised Democratic debate still

    Host Art Bell recounts a call he says he received the previous night from a listener. The listener told him an “evil entity” is visible between Al Gore and Bill Bradley in a Democratic debate broadcast. Bell says he looked at a still grab of the debate, agrees something is there, and says he has posted the image on his website. The segment ends with Bell saying he does not know what it is and inviting listeners to judge for themselves.

    Strange photos and videoNon-human creatures
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    38
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    60
  416. 2000·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Man in a hat seen at window and bedside in a Nebraska rental house

    Caller [name withheld], calling from Bellevue, Nebraska, describes roughly fifteen years of activity at a rental property they and their wife bought about twenty-two years before the broadcast. They report their two young sons describing an old man with a hat looking through their window, and their wife seeing a silhouette over her bed. Doors and electronics operated by themselves. Eventually the caller saw a man in a hat walk past them in the basement bedroom. They say a deputy sheriff’s inquiry and a client’s photograph linked the figure to a man killed by a semi in the abandoned house across the street. They say the disturbances ended after the city demolished that house.

    Human figuresHaunted homesChildren who see presences
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  417. 2000·Letter read on air·4 min· not yet checked

    Church windows close one by one during a funeral in Montreal

    Art Bell reads aloud a letter said to be from Montreal and signed “[name withheld].” It describes the writer’s brother-in-law’s funeral on July 24, 1991. According to the letter, the five open windows along the left wall of the church closed in rapid succession during a pause in the service. Two windows beside the altar closed next. No wind blew and no one was near them. Candles at the coffin bent toward the left and then straightened. The service was interrupted while the parish priest blessed and anointed the coffin. Afterward the priest reportedly told the deceased’s mother that it was “a manifestation” without explaining further.

    Doors, windows, and locksCold spots, smells, and marksMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    62
  418. 2000·Letter read on air·8 min· not yet checked

    Airman reports a translucent figure at the foot of his bed at Kunsan Air Force Base

    The host reads a letter he introduces as a brief bio and story from a man who describes himself as a former US Air Force airman and later a police officer. The writer says that in the fall of 1977 he was stationed at Kunsan (transcribed “Kusan”) Air Force Base in Korea. He was woken at exactly 0100 on three nights in a row. On the third night he saw a small, stocky Korean male figure in shades of gray in his barracks room. He swung a knife through its throat without effect and watched it touch the blanket over his feet before rising into the air and vanishing. The letter ends with the writer saying he is withholding further detail for privacy and asking the host what he thinks the man saw.

    Human figuresMilitary sitesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  419. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A Dutch artist paints his ghost to stop it frightening him

    A caller who says they are at the Flatiron Arts Building in Chicago’s Wicker Park describes an artist from Holland. The caller says the building has two ghosts, and this artist’s ghost reappeared to him at night after several years in Amsterdam. On the caller’s advice, the artist painted the ghost. The caller says it has since bothered him only occasionally, and no longer in a frightening way. The caller relays the story secondhand. It ends before a second, unrelated story about a Japanese artist is told.

    Ghostly figures and lights
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    54
  420. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller says a Japanese art student was followed by a ghost from her family’s farm

    A caller linked to an artists’ building, which they call the “All Artist Building,” tells Art Bell about a young woman from Japan who attends the Art Institute of Chicago. The caller says a ghost from her family farm in northern Japan has followed her. Most of the call is the caller’s general remarks that ghosts live in buildings and neighborhoods and [quote withheld] and that their community welcomes ghosts. The call ends with the host’s good wishes. No more detail about the woman or any specific event is given.

    Ghostly figures and lights
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    49
  421. 2000·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Wailing in two bivouacked rooms in bombed Aachen, 1945

    Art Bell reads a letter attributed to a US Army soldier of the 303rd Medium Maintenance Company. The soldier was billeted in two adjoining rooms of a ruined apartment building in Aachen in 1945. The writer says the soldiers restarted a stopped grandfather clock, and an “unearthly” wailing broke out at 2 a.m. It lasted eight to ten minutes. All twelve men in the two rooms heard it, but no one outside did. The letter ends with the men choosing to sleep elsewhere.

    VoicesMilitary sites
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    57
  422. 2000·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Disappearing objects and a front door that opened by itself in an old house

    A caller who gives the name [quote withheld] describes a run-down, turn-of-the-century house they say they bought just outside the city. The caller and their wife reportedly felt watched, saw movement at the corner of the eye, and had small objects (a necklace) vanish and reappear. The caller describes researching the property’s history. The caller then tells of a daytime gathering of friends at which a cat stared over the caller’s shoulder and the latched front door reportedly opened by itself. The call ends when the host, after one story, declines a second story and moves on.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksShadow people
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    53
  423. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Childhood memory of rainbow-colored blindness in Key West sunlight

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld] tells Art Bell that at four years old in Key West, Florida, they walked out the back of their grandfather’s house and were blinded by the sun with a “rainbow effect.” They turned away and were blinded again. When they looked back, what they had first seen was gone. They say they have only recently formed a clear idea of what it was. The caller tells the host they believe it was the “sixth sense” young children have. The exchange ends with the host restating that idea and the caller agreeing.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesHappened in childhoodPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    66
  424. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A 1920s scene in a cloud seen from a kindergarten swing set

    An unidentified caller tells Art Bell about a memory from when they were five years old at a private kindergarten. They say they sat alone on a swing set, looked up, and were shown what they describe as a short movie-like scene on a cloud. It looked like a 1920s back alley, and then it vanished. The caller calls it [quote withheld] and the conversation turns to old souls and reincarnation.

    Time slipsHappened in childhoodPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    47
  425. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Successive owners report a tall figure and a rocking-chair woman in a Victoria house

    [name withheld], calling from Victoria, British Columbia, tells Art Bell that their parents bought a house in that city about 1941. The caller believes two ghosts remain there: their brother Jim, killed in an accident in 1957, and their mother, who died of cancer in 1983. The caller says two families who owned the house in turn each contacted them and their sister about odd happenings. They described a tall young man in the basement and, in the second case, a rocking chair that moved by itself with a woman sitting in it. The call ends with the caller’s own thoughts on what the dead may experience and Art Bell’s closing remarks.

    Human figuresHaunted homesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    59
  426. 2000·Caller's story·10 min· not yet checked

    Family house in Syracuse: man on the telephone, bed presence, and deceased parents

    [name withheld], from Syracuse, New York, tells Art Bell that their family home, owned by the family since 1950, has been the setting for a series of strange events. Both their parents died there. The caller reports a 1989 ghost of a young man talking on their telephone and walking through a wall. The caller also describes a presence that got into bed with them, a phone call in which a doctor’s office said it had spoken to a man named [name withheld], a green film, a smell of spaghetti sauce, and a later vision of their mother. The call ends with the host closing the segment after the mother’s reported insurance detail.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    60
  427. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Boy’s ghost in the attic said to climb into bed with previous owner’s son

    [name withheld], calling from Cincinnati, tells Art Bell that they live in what they would call a haunted house, though they say they have no problems with the ghost there. The main story is secondhand. [name withheld] says the previous owner’s son told them of repeated meetings with the spirit of a young boy while sleeping in a converted attic room. The boy ghost climbed into bed with him. [name withheld] says the son reported that the ghost felt cold, that his dog would leave the bed, and that over the years the ghost seemed to grow up along with him.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    61
  428. 2000·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Dark winged figure flying above trees at a farm at 3 a.m.

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell a short story about what they call an apparition. On a cold February morning at 3 a.m., with fresh snow down, they looked up behind their mother’s house. The caller saw a dark, human-shaped figure with large wings flying through the air above the trees. The caller says it did not look down at them and they let it pass. The host thanks the caller and ends the call. No name, location, or year is given.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    3
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    54
  429. 2000·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A 12-year-old in Denver, a red-outlined being, and a bed impression

    Art Bell reads a letter about the writer’s best friend, who was about 12 years old and growing up in Denver. The friend fought with their parents and screamed “I hate you” from their room until they were hoarse. The friend then reportedly saw the red outline of a being near them, felt a chill, and saw the bed press down as it sat. The friend screamed “Jesus” and apologized to their mother. The letter ends with the thing shooting up through the ceiling and the friend’s conclusion that their chanting had invited it in.

    Partial figures and mistsBedroom visitorsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    64
  430. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    An oval clock found across the room in a Chicago apartment

    A caller who gives her name as [name withheld], from Christopher, tells Art Bell about something that happened in 1988. She was a single mother living in a Chicago apartment. While watching a movie alone, she says, she heard a crash and then a second impact against the wall. She found her oval wall clock lying on the floor on the far side of the room. She says it is the only experience in her life that she has never been able to explain.

    Objects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    31
    Originality
    51
  431. 2000·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: White mist in the shape of a dog appears the night the dog dies

    Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to [quote withheld] The writer describes a late-summer night when they saw a huge white mist in the shape of their mother’s dog Jigs pass through their bedroom wall and evaporate on the bed. The next morning, they write, their mother telephoned to say Jigs had died the night before, at what they call the exact time of the sighting, after being attacked by a bear.

    Ghostly animalsSigns at the moment of deathBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  432. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Walking boots without a body on a logging road near Knoxville

    A caller named [name withheld], phoning during a commute between Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, tells Art Bell that some years earlier the caller and a friend were walking with BB guns on a logging road near their Knoxville home. They saw a pair of old boots walking toward them with no body or legs. The caller says the boots stopped in front of them, the caller bent down and could not grab them, and then they vanished. The caller and their friend ran back to the house. The caller reports telling their father, who said he had heard about Civil War activity in the area but was not certain what had happened there.

    Partial figures and mistsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    59
  433. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Vanishing fisherman and black triangle inside an Alaska mountain base

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a firsthand story they say happened about four years earlier. It involved a trip inside a military base built into a mountain near Anchorage, Alaska. The caller says they saw a man fishing late at night at a lake inside the mountain. The man looked past them and then vanished when a black triangle vehicle appeared overhead. The story ends without an answer, and the host comments on how strange it is.

    Human figuresUFOs and alien encountersVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  434. 2000·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    A child's late-night phone call reporting their father's death

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], calling from Redmond, Washington, says their father was murdered in 1976, when they were nine. The caller reports that at about 11 p.m. on the night of his death they woke at their aunt's house, walked through the dark house, and answered a ringing telephone. A voice the caller did not recognize told them their father had been shot, and then the line went dead. The caller’s aunt, who had not heard the phone ring, called it a bad dream. The caller says the call came around the time he died, and that their mother, fifteen miles away, woke with a start at the same moment. The caller says their uncle can confirm the caller telephoned him, but no one can confirm the incoming call. Asked what they think it was, the caller says they do not know.

    Phones, radio, and TVSigns at the moment of deathHappened in childhood
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  435. 2000·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death

    A caller phoning from Wabash, Indiana, describes events they say began about 1989. Their then-wife’s grandmother was found dead in her garage in East Tennessee, and the family’s suspicions fell on the wife’s father, [name withheld]. The caller says that in their Middle Tennessee home, the children saw something in their bedroom and their wife saw shadows. The caller felt their bed shake, felt someone move their hair and sit on the bed, and heard a whisper of the name “[name withheld].” They say the activity stopped the day [name withheld] died in a car accident. The caller says they believe the grandmother was telling them [name withheld] killed her.

    Haunted homesBeing touched, pushed, or heldLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    59
  436. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Faceless woman in period clothing walking on a snowy road near Yellowstone

    An unnamed caller says that in 1975 they were driving with their girlfriend toward Yellowstone Park in a small yellow Volkswagen. It was around midnight, and snow was falling. The caller saw a woman walking in the center of the road in old-fashioned clothing. The caller’s girlfriend told them not to stop or look in the mirror and said the woman was a ghost with no face. They drove past and found the park gate closed by snow. They spent the rest of the night at a nearby motel.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    51
  437. 2000·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Man reports wife’s double at bathroom door while she lies in bed

    Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to [quote withheld] The writer describes a night roughly 30 years earlier in a newly bought house in the northwest San Fernando Valley. Half awake in bed, he says he saw his wife standing at the open bathroom door. Then he realized from her reply that she was lying beside him, and the figure vanished. The letter gives no cause.

    Doubles of living peopleHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    50
  438. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A voice singing along with Beatles records in an empty living room

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], in Oklahoma City, tells Art Bell that in about 1965 the caller and their brother were playing Beatles albums on a portable stereo in the kitchen. A voice in the living room, roughly fifteen to twenty feet away, began singing along with the record. The caller says nobody else was home. The caller says the voice was not one of the Beatles and did not come from the record player’s speakers. When the two of them walked into the living room, nobody was there. The caller says they do not remember how the voice stopped. The caller adds that strange things happened in that house “all the time,” and then begins a second story that falls outside this segment.

    VoicesMore than one witnessHaunted homes
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    56
  439. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A sliding couch and a giant hand reported in a childhood home in Oregon

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about events in their family’s house in Milwaukee [as spoken], Oregon, when they were five or six years old. The caller says a couch slid across the living room, a huge hand appeared from behind it and moved toward them and their sister, and the same hand later hovered over them in the bedroom. The story ends with a rattling attic door handle that night and the couch found slightly out of place the next morning.

    Partial figures and mistsObjects moved or thrownHappened in childhood
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  440. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A cold, leathery foot under a friend's couch while retrieving a toy car

    A caller tells Art Bell that, at about age 14, the caller was retrieving a toy car from under a friend’s couch. The caller says they saw and touched what they describe as a naked human foot that was cold and leathery. The caller says they could swear it was not human, and they ran out of the house. No resolution or backing from anyone else is reported.

    Partial figures and mists
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    50
  441. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Neighbor's farewell and a felt premonition before a 707 crash

    A caller tells the host about a neighbor across the street, a Pan Am flight engineer with [quote withheld] On the day before a trip, the man said goodbye to every one of his children. The caller says they learned this later. Walking out to the school bus, the caller reports making direct eye contact with the man and having an unexplained sense that the man knew he was not coming back. The caller says the man died when his plane, on his first flight as engineer on a 707 from Africa into Kennedy, was hit by lightning and blew up.

    Signs at the moment of deathWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    54
  442. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A daughter reports talking with her deceased grandmother

    A caller who says he is in Phoenix tells Art Bell that his daughter, then 11, reported seeing and talking with her deceased grandmother, who had died about a year and a half earlier. The caller relays the child’s statements and a chill his ex-wife reportedly felt. He says the matter-of-fact communication is still going on now that his daughter is 15.

    VisitsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    55
  443. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Clairvoyant medium’s message and apparitions of deceased aunt and uncle

    A caller who says they are a clairvoyant medium tells of visiting a spiritualist church in Toronto. A guest medium gave them a message about their dead aunt “Bert”/“Bertha.” The caller later saw their dead uncle [name withheld], and then their aunt and uncle together, hanging in the air. They say the aunt fell, was hospitalized, and died of pneumonia between the visions. They take the final vision to mean the couple came to say goodbye.

    VisitsHuman figuresPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    59
  444. 2000·Caller's story·52 s· not yet checked

    Host speculates about ex-spouses waiting in the afterlife

    This part of the broadcast (1:05:39–1:06:30) has no caller story. It is commentary by Art Bell, who wonders who might be waiting on “the other side” and asks what happens if a former spouse, rather than a current partner, is there. It ends with his rhetorical question about whether that could be heaven. The caller story named in the provisional title (a deceased aunt and uncle) comes only in lines marked [context], before the marked story span.

    Contact from the dead
    Believability
    10
    Evidence
    2
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    57
  445. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Two figures seen through sheer curtains at an old roadhouse near Prescott, Arizona

    A caller who says they are calling from Alaska and is originally from Prescott, Arizona, describes buying a cheap trailer as a high school senior. It stood next to an old roadhouse at the junction of 89 and 89A. The caller reports that objects were moved and bumps were heard while they worked there. One night the caller and a girlfriend stepped out to an outhouse and saw two figures moving inside the house through sheer curtains. The caller says they left shortly afterward and does not know what the figures were, suggesting “other dimensions.”

    Human figuresHaunted homesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    49
  446. 2000·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    A moving cold spot and a self-operating elevator in a suburban restaurant

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], president of the Ghost Hunter Society in Schaumburg, Illinois, describes an early “hands-on” ghost-hunting visit to an unnamed restaurant in the northwest suburbs. A night manager they knew arranged the visit. The caller says they were shown the basement elevator shaft area, where the elevator came down toward the group. Later, in the dark upstairs dining room, they felt a moving cold spot that backed them and their friend [name withheld] against a wall. The wall turned out to be the elevator doors, and they opened. The caller says the owners and tenants later left, and the property stayed on the market.

    Lights and appliances acting upCold spots and sudden heatPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  447. 2000·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    A girl named [name withheld] who vanished in a Denton, Texas graveyard

    A caller tells Art Bell about driving a girl they had just met, known to them only as “[name withheld],” from a Fort Worth party. They thought it would be a short trip home. Instead they ended up in a graveyard in Denton, Texas. The caller reports seeing seven white doves, hearing her recite Bible prophecy about the birds, and turning to find her gone. The caller says a gas station attendant later told them a girl had died there a couple of years before.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    54
  448. 2000·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A father hears a moan at the time of his mother-in-law's death

    Art Bell reads a letter that he attributes on air to “Chris in Mesa.” The letter describes the writer's father hearing a deep moan on a deserted path in northern Marin County, California, on the afternoon the writer's grandmother died. The father noted the time on his wristwatch as 2:40 p.m. A nurse later phoned the family at 2:50 p.m. to say the grandmother had died ten minutes earlier. The letter closes by saying an Irish friend told the father this was known as the [quote withheld]

    Signs at the moment of deathVoices
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    56
  449. 2000·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    A healing workshop at a retreat convent: Shared dreams and popping light bulbs

    [name withheld], calling from Larkspur near San Francisco, tells Art Bell about a 1988 teacher-training workshop they attended at a retreat convent belonging to a nun's order. The caller says they and the other participants felt a thick, creepy atmosphere in the house. Several of them had the same dream of faces begging for help. A ceremony asking permission seemed to change the atmosphere, and light bulbs repeatedly failed when they operated switches. The caller says psychics they later consulted linked the site to an Indian burial or ceremonial ground, and that the bulb and appliance disturbances faded after a few weeks.

    Public buildings and businessesLights and appliances acting upMore than one witness
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  450. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Faceless green caped figure in the left lane on a night drive to Peoria

    A caller who identifies themselves only by their location, “Moroa, Illinois,” tells Art Bell about a drive with a friend toward Peoria on a clear June night around 11:45 p.m. The caller says a seven-foot green caped figure with no face appeared out of mist in the left-hand lane and stood motionless. They thought of the Grim Reaper but kept it to themselves, until their passenger said it out loud. The caller reports never seeing it again and ends the call by saying the experience was as real as the conversation itself.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    52
  451. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Stove glass bursts after a request for a sign; a toddler waves at an empty room

    A caller from a town given as “Napomo, California,” says their brother disappeared and was later found dead. While cleaning out the brother’s desert property, the caller asked for an unmistakable sign. Within seconds, the glass front of a wood-burning stove reportedly blew out. The caller also reports that a renter’s two-year-old daughter later waved and spoke at the empty room. Art Bell cuts the call short.

    Signs and messagesObjects moved or thrownChildren who see presences
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  452. 2000·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Cold spot, woman, and giant arm during a church overnight

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Pearl, Mississippi, tells Art Bell about a night they and about half a dozen friends spent in their church at the end of a summer. The caller reports a cold spot, a woman seen in the hallway, a huge arm reaching around a classroom door, a moving white pattern on a window, and a face with glowing eyes before the group fled and huddled together. The caller says nothing else happened that night and that they are the only one who has told anyone. The caller thinks the beings were angelic and demonic rather than the dead.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    60
  453. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board and a Portuguese message for an arriving friend

    A caller, whose name and location are not stated, reports a Ouija-board session in a three- or four-room apartment with about fifteen to twenty people present. The board allegedly repeated a meaningless letter pattern until a friend who had learned some Portuguese entered. After that, the letters changed and were read as Portuguese-language messages. The caller says they never touched a Ouija board again. The host later offers the audience an explanation based on subconscious movement.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  454. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Séance in a Knoxville apartment and a swollen window that fell

    An unnamed male caller, speaking from New Orleans, tells Art Bell about a summer night in 1956 when he was a freshman at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He says he and a group of friends at a party in his downstairs apartment held a séance. They deliberately tried to contact Lucifer and then cursed him. On the caller’s turn, he says, a window that had taken two people to force open fell shut. He says the party ended, the guests left in silence, and he never did anything of the kind again.

    Séances, rituals, and blessingsObjects moved or thrownNon-human creatures
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  455. 2000·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Invisible two-legged walker and hoof prints in snow, Palmer, Alaska, 1971

    Art Bell reads a letter about an event the writer says happened in the middle of winter 1971 in Palmer, Alaska. The writer, then a child taking out the household trash at night, says they heard crunching footfalls in the snow that came toward them although nothing was visible. They then found hoof prints where the unseen walker, which they say moved on two legs, had been. The story ends with the writer running home and saying they do not know what it was.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsMarks and tracesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    58
  456. 2000·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Blind caller guided by a mortician with no arm in his suit

    The caller, whom Art Bell addresses as sightless, recounts an early-morning encounter from their school years. They walked into a building, heard soft, slow organ music, and were greeted by a man with a British accent. He asked whether the caller had come to view the body. The caller later concluded the man [quote withheld] The caller says a return visit turned up no one by the name he had given them.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesMusic with no source
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    67
  457. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Attic thumps and old glass negatives in a Hyde Park house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Grosse Ile, Michigan, describes moving as a five-year-old in 1965 or 1966 into an old wood-frame house in Hyde Park, on Chicago's south side. They say the family heard repeated thumps and footsteps and saw a light in the attic. They say the activity ended after their father packed up boxes of old glass negatives found in the attic and shipped them away. They believe the disturbances were tied to a maid who they think died in an attic fire.

    Haunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangsLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    54
    Originality
    60
  458. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Equipment failures and a truck fire at a logging site said to be a burial ground

    An unnamed caller on the Wild Card Line tells Art Bell that in the mid-to-early 1990s they were logging in Northern California in a lightning burn that contained what they call an [quote withheld] They report that brand-new machines would not start, that one truck caught fire, and that another truck's 40-foot trailer broke in half. They say they finished the job anyway and that life has “been all right” since. The caller never says the site caused any of it.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    57
  459. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A friend's demon seen only in reflections, and a face in a truck mirror

    A caller from the Rockies tells Art Bell about a high-school friend who said a demon followed them and could be seen only in reflections, never when looked at directly. The caller says they eventually saw the same face themselves in the mirror of a truck while backing up to unload hay. The host asked the caller to compare it with a photograph on the host's website. The host cuts the call off for a break before the caller finishes.

    Non-human creaturesShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  460. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Radio found switched off after falling asleep to a broadcast

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Rhode Island, tells Art Bell that about a week and a half earlier they fell asleep on the couch while listening to the program. The caller woke to find the broadcast over and the radio “completely off.” The caller says the set has no sleep timer. The host questions the caller briefly about it, and the caller repeats that they cannot understand what happened. The call ends without any explanation.

    Lights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    46
  461. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Computer typed overnight messages about “Vernon”; objects thrown in a house

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that a computer in their home produced pages of typed text overnight that they had not written. Most of it was gibberish, but it contained sentences they could read, including warnings about the “Antichrist” and a coming evil character called “Vernon.” The caller reports that the activity later grew to electrical failure and objects, notably Visine bottles, flying down from an empty upstairs loft. The story ends with the caller saying they moved out and put the computer in storage, keeping only the printouts. Art Bell jokes that the sequel would be “You die.”

    Lights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrownVoices and images on recordings
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    59
  462. 2000·Caller's story·9 min· not yet checked

    Woman in black, locked doors, and a priest's blessing in a Dodge City rental

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sumner, Washington, describes a house their family moved into in Dodge City, Kansas, about fifteen years earlier. The caller reports flooding, a woman in a black dress seen by their daughter, doors that shut and locked family members in, whispering, a fetal-position stain on the carpet, and footsteps on the stairs. After researching records, the caller and their sister concluded that an elderly former resident was earthbound. A priest blessed the house and fell ill. The caller says they later blessed it themselves and believes the woman went to the light.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    57
  463. 2000·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Boy with leukemia said his hospital visitor was his deceased great-grandmother

    Caller “[name withheld],” from Gilbert, Arizona, tells the story of a friend, [name withheld], who died of leukemia at age eight. The caller reports that [name withheld] told his mother a lady came to his hospital bedside at night to sing to him and rub his forehead. He later called her his guardian angel. During a family-tree photo project, he identified her picture as his great-grandmother, who had died before he was born. The caller says the identification comforted [name withheld]’s mother.

    VisitsHuman figuresChildren who see presences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    58
  464. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Girl finds a deceased boy’s obituary on a classroom newspaper page after baking cookies

    A caller, the parent of a 12-year-old daughter named [name withheld], tells Art Bell about a family Christmas cookie-baking session in memory of a boy named [name withheld] who had died the previous February. The next morning, the caller says, [name withheld] opened a page of newspaper in her classroom to cover her desk. She found [name withheld]’s obituary from that February, with his picture. The call ends with the host’s brief thanks. [name withheld]’s reported reading of the event as a message from [name withheld] is quoted.

    Signs and messages
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    61
  465. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Spirit called Henry: pinches, a boy’s ghost, and a fallen picture

    A caller (name and location not stated) continues a story about something unseen they call “Henry.” The story starts mid-way, after Art Bell remarks that Henry had been drinking. The caller reports pinching, a tipped-over beer bottle, a large man’s sighting of a translucent boy who smiled and vanished, a sudden cold room, and later a fallen picture and malfunctioning appliances in a girlfriend’s apartment. It ends with the caller saying the woman told the presence [quote withheld] and left.

    Poltergeist activityBeing touched, pushed, or heldLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    56
  466. 2000·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A girl named [name withheld] in a Trenton attic and a found ring

    A letter read on air, signed [quote withheld] describes an event said to have happened several years earlier at an old house in Trenton, New Jersey, that had been moved from Bordentown. The writer's friend's cousin was converting the attic into a daughter's bedroom. The letter reports disturbances during the remodel and says that on visiting the attic the writer saw a young girl of about 14 or 15 who said she had lost her ring and that her room was being taken. The story ends with the girl, reportedly named “[name withheld],” being led to the light. The cousin then produced a ring they said they had found in the kitchen faucets, which the writer says bore the initials “SC.”

    Human figuresHaunted homesBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  467. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Documentary crew films a figure at an English estate

    An unidentified caller reached [quote withheld] tells a secondhand story about their ex-husband, whom they describe as an award-winning documentary producer early in his career. The caller says he and his crew traveled to England to film stately old estates. They were told one area of a house was haunted, and they left a camera running there overnight under ultraviolet lights. The caller reports that they [quote withheld] They say they never viewed the footage themselves, and the exchange ends in a discussion of fear rather than any further description of the recording.

    Strange photos and videoPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    54
  468. 2000·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Deceased mechanic reported on wooden roller coaster track at night

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Quartz Hill, and says they are a ride mechanic at a Southern California amusement park, tells a ghost story about a wooden roller coaster. According to [name withheld], about a year after a mechanic died of a heart attack at home, an electrician checking track switches at night saw the dead man and heard him say the switches were good. A few workers later reportedly saw the glow of a cigarette on the track. The story ends unresolved.

    Human figures
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    50
  469. 2000·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports a felt presence in their house, later confirmed by a neighbor

    An unidentified caller tells Art Bell a brief second story. After moving into a house, the caller repeatedly felt a frightening presence, especially at night. They eventually confronted it aloud and received what they call “concepts” rather than a voice. The caller says they learned who the presence was and why it was there but declines to give details on air. The caller says an unnamed neighbor down the street confirmed that person had lived in the house and what had happened to them. The story ends with Art saying that such confirmation would not sit lightly with him.

    Haunted homesBedroom visitorsPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    54
  470. 2000·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Percolator parts found reassembled on a windowsill

    A caller tells Art Bell that in 1976, while making coffee in an old Chicago house, percolator parts they had set aside vanished and later appeared assembled and standing on a windowsill. The caller and their wife searched for about half an hour before finding them. The story ends with them moving out soon afterward.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    59
  471. 2000·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Chain-dragging clanks overhead in the attic of the caller's parents' house

    An unidentified male caller tells Art Bell that, when he was much younger and living in his parents' house about a year after the family moved in, he lay in bed one Saturday morning and heard rhythmic clanking sounds crossing above his head in the attic. He says nobody lived up there and it held only a couple of old boxes, and that it sounded like someone dragging a heavy chain. He went up to check and found nothing. Art replies “Nothing human,” advises him to be careful, and ends the call.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    54
  472. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Figures in a lakeside park and the same tall man in a kitchen

    A caller who gives her name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that at about age 13 she and a friend were sitting by a fountain in a lakeside park at night when a horse-like shape turned into roughly 25 people walking toward them, some of them shadows, one staring at her. She says she later saw the same tall man walk toward her in the kitchen of her roughly 150-year-old house. About a year afterward she learned she was descended from Amish settlers, and she came to think the figure was connected to her family's religious history.

    Human figuresShadow peopleMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    56
  473. 2000·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    A presence before conception and a child’s talk of heaven

    Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to a woman named [name withheld] in San Francisco. She says she sensed a presence throughout two and a half years of unsuccessful attempts to conceive. She reports a small shadow or wisp passing her at a fixed height in the air. She comes to see it as her future daughter and says she conceived after giving up. The letter ends with her five-and-a-half-year-old daughter talking about heaven and saying she visited [name withheld] before being born.

    Partial figures and mistsDreams that came true
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    63
  474. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Deceased father appears beside the bed and tucks the caller in

    A caller who gives their name on air as [quote withheld] says that in the late 1980s, during a time of grief and job trouble, they felt a presence and a weight on the other side of their bed. The caller turned and saw their recently deceased father sitting there in solid form. According to the caller, the two embraced in silence and they fell asleep with their head on their father’s chest. When the caller woke, the figure was gone and they had been tucked into bed with the covers pulled up.

    VisitsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    54
  475. 2000·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Child shoved from bed in a reportedly haunted guest room, Chinese Camp

    In a letter read by Art Bell, Amy S. of Santa Cruz says that at age seven they stayed overnight with their aunt in Chinese Camp, California. Amy says they were shoved from the guest-room bed, could not find the door, and were found crying against the wall. They later learned that the original owner had hanged herself in the attic, whose door had been walled off.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldHuman figuresHaunted homes
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    55
  476. 2000·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Reported music, elevator doors, and a rooftop push in a Saskatoon hotel building

    A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell they work in an old hotel building in Saskatoon that they call “the Haunted Hotel.” They report unexplained music and thumps, elevator doors that work by themselves, a shoulder grab felt by a coworker named [name withheld], smells of fresh bread and coffee at night, a push they felt while on the roof, and a name given through a Ouija board. They offer their own explanation, a psychic impression of the place, and the host ends the call for time.

    Public buildings and businessesMusic with no sourceDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    58
  477. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Unseen hand presses sailor’s shoulder before hoses fall on USS Savannah

    A first-time caller who identifies as a former Navy member tells Art Bell about an incident aboard the USS Savannah AOR-4 in the Tonkin Gulf in 1973. The caller reports that an unseen hand pressed firmly on their right shoulder three times at their refueling station. After they moved about eight feet away, a rack of fuel hoses and aluminum saddles collapsed onto the spot where they had been standing.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    70
  478. 2000·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Reported red-eyed funnel-shaped figure at the foot of a bed

    [name withheld] from Florence, Alabama, tells Art Bell that when they were about 15 or 16 they woke around 3 a.m., felt watched, and saw a pair of red eyes attached to a black, spinning, funnel-like form at the foot of their bed. They report being unable to scream or move. When the form moved around the bed, they fled to their mother’s room. With the light on, nothing was there. Their mother called it a nightmare. [name withheld] says they still believe it was real and are still scared by the memory.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    74
    Originality
    57
  479. 2000·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Aunt’s magician dream and the coworker’s husband’s matching dream

    [name withheld], calling from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, tells Art Bell a story they say their aunt in Ontario told them about five years earlier. She reports waking from sleep, going to the basement, and being threatened and chased by a man dressed as a magician with a butcher knife. This happened several times that night. The next day, according to [name withheld], her best friend at work said their husband had spent the night dreaming he was in the aunt’s basement dressed as a magician trying to kill her. [name withheld] says the story is true, and the host says it resembles an urban legend.

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figuresMore than one witness
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    52
  480. 2001·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    A detective's email: a boy's ghost and a murder weapon

    Art Bell reads aloud an email he says he received from an unnamed homicide detective, whom he describes as a non-believer in the paranormal. The writer says that while working the murder of a young woman, they twice saw a boy's figure that faded and vanished. They say they later recognized the boy in a photograph at the victim's mother's home as her grandson (the victim's child, dead two years). They then found the bloody knife and fingerprints at the spot where the figure had appeared. The email ends by asking Bell to explain the events. Bell replies that he cannot.

    Human figuresVisitsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  481. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Dark presence and being thrown in a Yosemite employee tent cabin

    A first-time caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld], from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, tells Art Bell a story they say took place about ten years earlier, while they worked as a photo lab assistant in Yosemite National Park, California. They report feeling an unpleasant presence inside their employee tent cabin at dusk and seeing a darkness “darker than black” that seemed to turn and look at them. They say they were then rushed and knocked 15 feet from their door, blacked out, and heard a scream. They offer the idea that it was connected to [quote withheld] and say they cannot really explain it.

    Shadow peopleBeing touched, pushed, or heldCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    60
  482. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Motorcyclist who vanished from a campground after supper and a conspiracy talk

    A caller from Winnipeg, Manitoba, tells Art Bell that while tenting in a campground one summer night, a man rode up on an old Indian motorcycle and was given supper. The man talked about the moon landings being faked and Apollo 13 not happening as reported. The caller walked to the outhouse, and when they returned the man was gone. No one else in the campground had seen him. The caller says they do not know whether the visitor was a ghost, a time traveler, or something else.

    Vanishing places, people, and timeHuman figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    51
  483. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Glowing faceless figure at the foot of the bed and a golf ball next morning

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] of Macon, Georgia, tells Art Bell that around 1975, at about age six, they were staying in a room their late grandfather had designed and built in their grandmother's house in Macon. They say they woke at night to see a glowing, faceless white figure at the foot of the bed. They hid under the sheets, peeked and found it still there, then fell asleep. The next morning, they say, a golf ball was lying near the foot of the bed. Art proposes it was a sign from their golfer grandfather. [name withheld] says it was either that or an elaborate hoax, and that the ball may simply have been in the room already.

    Bedroom visitorsPartial figures and mistsSigns and messages
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  484. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A voice saying “only fools pay” in a 7-Eleven

    An unnamed caller takes a “ghost story” call. They say that back in 1993 they were in a 7-Eleven when they heard a voice out of nowhere say “only fools pay.” Two people in red clothes stood a few feet in front of them, and when they looked around, nobody there had spoken. They offer no explanation of what caused it. The host suggests instead that it was the caller’s own “inner voice.” The story ends unresolved, with the host joking about it and moving to the next caller.

    Voices
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    60
  485. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Woman in one color seen at a childhood bedroom window on Long Island

    A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Orlando, describes a ghost they say they saw as a six- or seven-year-old child at the window of their bedroom on Long Island. It was a woman in her thirties, all greenish-gray, whose face they recall as compassionate. They say they ran out of the room screaming and told no one until about age 25. Their sister then told them she had seen the same thing in the house. They mention that their family moved out about a year later and that the buyers left about two months after that, without claiming a link.

    Human figuresHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  486. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports seeing their living father walk through the family house

    A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Colorado Springs, Colorado, describes a night in the late 1980s, about eight months before they joined the Army in the summer of 1989. They say they saw their living father, who had been living elsewhere for four or five months, walk through the family house in a small Minnesota town at about 9:30 p.m. They followed the figure into their parents' bedroom and felt a presence there. Then they met their brother, who asked whether Dad had just walked by. [name withheld] says their father is still alive. They raise the word doppelganger, and the host offers his own commentary on [quote withheld]

    Human figuresDoubles of living peopleParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    53
  487. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A horned, red-eyed figure at the foot of the bed and a friend’s matching story

    An unnamed first-time caller tells Art Bell that they woke to see a huge horned figure with bright red eyes at the foot of their bed and in their doorway. When they said “in the name” of Jesus, “be gone,” it walked back through the door and faded away. The caller reports that a friend later described the same figure, with “horns” like a Viking cap, and that the two discovered a shared ancestor in Ireland. The caller sees such figures as demonic manifestations rather than ghosts.

    Non-human creaturesBedroom visitorsLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    56
  488. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Human head seen in a Norwegian mine and its disappearance

    A caller named [name withheld], from Washington, tells Art Bell about a 1991 student trip in Norway. [name withheld] and a fellow student, [name withheld], enter a mine and see a human head with purple skin, no eyes, sunken cheeks, and brown disheveled hair. When [name withheld] looks away and back, the head is gone. The host thanks [name withheld] for the call.

    Partial figures and mists
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    61
  489. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller recalls being born dead and watching from the ceiling

    A caller on Art Bell's “clinical death” line says that in the fall of 1983, while walking on their farm in Arkansas, they had a sudden flash of their own birth. They saw themselves [quote withheld] at a nurse holding them and a doctor removing their gloves. They say they later confronted their mother, who they say confirmed they were born dead and that oxygen was used. Bell asks whether it was a dream, and the caller says no. The call ends with Bell thanking the caller and speculating about when a soul enters a fetus.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    59
  490. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Retired officer hears thumping in empty condo above where a man died

    A caller who identifies themselves as a retired police officer from the Midwest tells Art Bell about a disturbance call roughly fifteen years earlier. A downstairs resident reported loud thumping from the condominium above her. The caller says they and the building manager found that the noise came from above the spot where the previous occupant, [name withheld], had died of a heart attack. The caller says they wrote the incident up, that the resident later moved out because the thumping continued, and that it has bothered them ever since.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  491. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller says they were haunted by a dead cheerleader during Air Force training

    Calling on the KFI Los Angeles line and giving their name as [name withheld], the caller says they have been haunted by the ghost of a dead cheerleader. The caller says she was murdered by a photographer later convicted of the killing. The caller reports that she haunted them in 1973 while they were in the Air Force. The haunting led to an incident in formation when they found themself wearing a cheerleader outfit with pom-poms. The caller adds that Brigadier General Chuck Yeager later interviewed them about it. The host rejects the story outright and moves to the next caller.

    VisitsAnything else
    Believability
    36
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    56
  492. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A buffalo soldier reported in a dormitory office at F.E. Warren Air Force Base

    An unnamed caller who identifies themself as retired Air Force tells Art Bell that, while on active duty at F.E. Warren Air Force Base and working a late-night dormitory shift, they saw a “buffalo soldier” in full buckskin regalia come into their office at about three in the morning. The caller says the figure was solid, then left and “disappeared” or “vaporized” in front of their eyes. The caller says they were frightened, that others in the dormitory heard about it within minutes, and that they had never believed in such things before. The host closes with a reflection on battlefields and ghosts.

    Human figuresMilitary sites
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    57
  493. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Highway spin-out and a figure seen in the rearview mirror

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that in early 1986, driving from the Dallas–Fort Worth Airport toward Irving, Texas, their new car was cut off and went into 360-degree spins at rush hour. The caller says that while sliding backward they saw someone sitting in their back seat in the rearview mirror, and that the car stopped about three feet short of the median barrier, undamaged. The caller understood the episode as a protective, angelic intervention. The story ends with the host putting that interpretation to them and the caller agreeing.

    Human figuresShips, planes, and carsAnything else
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    55
  494. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Evil presence, a figure saying “I want you,” and strange events ending after a house fire

    [name withheld] from Harrisburg, Oregon, calls to describe a series of experiences in their house. They include a feeling of evil in the bedroom, a touch across their feet, and a hiss around 3 a.m. The caller also reports that their husband saw a figure in the doorway and later heard it say “I want you.” The caller links the activity to witchcraft books found upstairs. After an upstairs house fire and a remodel, the caller says, nothing has happened since.

    Demons and hostile presencesHuman figuresBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    57
  495. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A hand from under the driver's seat stops a teenager before a runaway gravel truck

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from St. Joseph, Missouri, tells Art Bell what they introduce as [quote withheld] As a 16-year-old driver in El Paso, Texas, they say, a hand came out from under their seat, grabbed their ankle, and kept their foot off the accelerator. Two seconds later, a runaway gravel truck crossed the red light in front of them. [name withheld] says they are now 59, that the memory is “very clear,” and that they believe a spirit protected them.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldAnything else
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    62
  496. 2001·Caller's story·28 s· not yet checked

    Handprints on the front of a car that stopped before a cliff

    A caller tells Art Bell, briefly and at the host’s prompting, about a drive two weeks after an earlier incident. They say they were on [quote withheld] in the rain when they began to lose grip of the car and started to go over a cliff. Then the car stopped suddenly. They say they got out and saw handprints on the front of the car, which they take as evidence that unseen beings were protecting them. The host calls the story interesting and compares it to [quote withheld]

    Being touched, pushed, or heldRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    53
  497. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A campfire cat that a camper’s hand reportedly passed through

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes camping with [name withheld] at White Pines in northern Illinois in mid-July. They sat around a campfire and tried to tell ghost stories. [name withheld] says a small black cat came out of the trees and walked among the group, rubbing against people who said they felt its fur. Then it vanished after a woman reached to scratch it and her hand passed through it. A flashlight search of the nearby thicket reportedly found nothing. The caller offers no explanation.

    Ghostly animalsMore than one witness
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    53
  498. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller recounts grandmother’s breathlessness at the time of her father’s death

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] and their location as Elmira, Oregon, retells a story they say came from their grandmother. While doing dishes at home, the grandmother reportedly could not breathe for about fifteen minutes. Then her mother and a minister told her that her father had died in the hospital. The caller adds that weeks before the broadcast, their ailing great-grandmother was heard saying the name “[name withheld].” The caller takes this as their great-grandfather trying to help the great-grandmother through. The call ends with the host saying that the dying and the very young see “through the veil.”

    Signs at the moment of deathSigns and messages
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    58
  499. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Noises of a file cabinet being ransacked below a Plymouth, New Hampshire apartment

    An unnamed caller on the wildcard line tells Art Bell that, while renting an apartment above an accounting office in Plymouth, New Hampshire, they heard what sounded like an intruder slamming a door and ransacking a file cabinet below them one night around 10 p.m. They shouted down that they had a gun and called the police. The noise stopped about when officers arrived, and they searched and found no one. The next morning the accountant, who was also the caller’s landlord, reportedly told the caller nothing was out of order and that it had felt as if someone was holding the door when the landlord tried to enter.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    56
  500. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes seeing themselves from the corner of their ICU room after flatlining

    A caller who calls themselves [quote withheld] tells Art Bell they flatlined during a case of meningococcal meningitis and were “gone” for a couple of seconds. They report a brief experience of driving along Highway 80 between Arlington and Fort Worth, then a bright flash and an awareness of standing in the corner of their intensive care room, looking at their own body in bed. Art cuts the call short after the caller says they had been told they might not live through the night.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    54
  501. 2001·Caller's story·10 min· not yet checked

    Banging, moved objects, and a statue’s eyes at an abandoned courthouse

    [name withheld], calling from Castro Valley, California, says that in 1980, as a high-school sophomore in Auburn, California, they got a key to the long-abandoned Auburn courthouse to shoot an amateur film with friends. The caller reports banging from the upper floors. The caller says a script and a camera strap went missing and turned up neatly arranged on a judge’s bench, and a holding-cell door slammed shut by itself. The caller says the eyes of a courthouse statue of justice opened and then closed while the caller and a friend watched. The caller says they left and never went back.

    Objects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  502. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Shadow figures running past a bed and blinking clock radios in an Atlanta apartment

    A caller named [name withheld], from Atlanta, Georgia, describes dark figures running in front of their bed toward a lit bathroom after they fell asleep very late. Later they found clock radios blinking and the date on their computer changed. They call the figures “angels” and connect the events to a recent broadcast. The host offers an electromagnetic explanation, then takes the next call.

    Shadow peopleLights and appliances acting upBedroom visitors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    54
  503. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Near-death caller recalls watching their ER resuscitation from the ceiling

    A caller on Art Bell's “clinical death line” gives their first name as [name withheld] and says they are in Montana. They describe a pulmonary embolism in 1987 and what they report as a near-death experience. They say they watched their own emergency-room resuscitation from the ceiling and heard a nurse say [quote withheld] and that they objected. They say they returned to their body as the doctor withdrew a needle from their heart. The story ends with the caller saying the experience changed their life, and the host moves to the next caller.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    50
  504. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller relays friend's story of a black semi-human figure on a bike trail

    A caller named “[name withheld],” who says they are calling from what they describe as “Eastern North America,” tells Art Bell a brief secondhand story. A friend told the caller that while riding a bike along a trail, the friend saw a human-like black figure, described as “semi-human, semi-animal.” It ran across the trail and jumped up onto a fence, where it perched. The caller adds that the figure made a noise, which the caller found notable, and that the friend said it slowly faded away. The host asks a follow-up question, offers his own reaction, and moves on to the next caller. No date, location, or further detail is given.

    Shadow peopleBigfoot and other creatures
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    62
  505. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Deputy draws his pistol on a translucent elderly woman in his kitchen

    A caller who gives his name as [quote withheld] says he is a sheriff’s deputy. He describes coming home on a dinner break at about 3 a.m. to his recently bought house, which is roughly 70 years old, and finding the silhouette of a person at the kitchen sink. He says he drew his pistol, then saw that the figure was a translucent elderly woman who grinned at him and disappeared. He adds that his dog sometimes yips in the kitchen, which he half-jokingly blames on the same figure. The host ends with remarks that seeing is believing.

    Human figuresHaunted homesPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  506. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Family friend's reported vision of devils and fire during clinical death

    [name withheld], calling from Chicago on WLS, tells Art Bell about a family friend they say was pronounced clinically dead. According to [name withheld], the friend later told [name withheld]'s parents he had seen devils, fire, and tortured souls during the experience. He remained afraid that this was what awaited him at death. [name withheld] adds that he became “very pleasant” afterward.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesNon-human creatures
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    55
  507. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Laughing in the basement, a woman in white, and shadow figures in a family home

    A caller who gives the name “[name withheld]” and says they are on Long Island, New York, describes a series of incidents the caller attributes to their family home. They begin at age four, when the caller heard laughing from the basement while their sister was outside, and continue through their teens. The caller reports unexplained walking overhead at night and a woman in a long white gown at the edge of their parents’ bed. The caller also reports a voice and television sound in an empty house, and two small hatted shadow figures at their bedroom door followed by something grabbing their feet. The host cuts the call short and ends the segment.

    Human figuresShadow peopleFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    56
  508. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller's friend's mother revives in a body bag after a birth hemorrhage

    The caller, whose name and location are not given, tells Art Bell a secondhand story. The mother of their best friend from high school hemorrhaged badly after her last child, was pronounced dead in the hospital, and was placed in a body bag. The caller says the husband insisted on going back in to see her. She began moving in the bag and was found to have come back to life, reportedly describing a frantic sense that she was not really dead. Asked whether the woman saw herself placed in the bag, the caller says they are not sure.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    48
  509. 2001·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Vanishing shack and field of Corvairs near a suspected haunted house

    A caller named [name withheld], who gives their location as Canal, Winchester, Ohio, tells Art Bell that on Halloween night about nine years earlier, the caller and friends went to look at a house they suspected was haunted. They say they saw a shack with a figure holding a shotgun. As they approached, the shack vanished and a field of thirty to fifty Corvairs appeared. Months later, a friend reportedly saw Corvairs around the house, and [name withheld] says the house was then totally destroyed.

    Vanishing places, people, and timeHuman figuresHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  510. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Near-death experience in sleep ended by a neighbor's barking dog

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Mesa, Arizona, tells Art Bell they had a near-death experience around 1992 or 1993 while asleep at home in their bed. They describe darkness and a dome of light like headlights on the horizon. They felt themselves moving toward it and made out silhouettes and white shadows. They say they would not have minded dying in their sleep. They say the neighbor's dog barking through the townhouse wall brought them back. The call ends with Bell's brief remarks.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    60
  511. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Sister’s feet grabbed and a breathing presence at Fort Meade, Maryland

    A caller who says he is from Indiana and a private in the US Army describes his sister’s story of something scratching and grabbing at her feet at night while the family lived on an army base at Fort Meade, Maryland. He also describes his own memories of being woken by breathing in his face and of apparently floating out of his bed. The call is cut short when the host says that physical grabbing makes the situation serious. No resolution or cause is given.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldBedroom visitorsMilitary sites
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  512. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Florida caller on being pronounced dead at 16 in a head-on collision (part 1)

    An unnamed caller on the first-time caller line, who says they are in Florida and 28 years old, tells Art Bell that at 16 they were in a head-on car collision and were pronounced dead. They say a paramedic later saw them breathing. Asked whether they remember anything from that period, the caller says they do not and that the subject is hard to explain. The host breaks for a commercial and holds the caller on the line. The story continues after the break, which is not included in this part of the broadcast.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    54
  513. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Childhood closet and bedroom doors, a green light, and paralysis

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] recounts events from when they were six years old. They watched their closet doors and bedroom door night after night. One morning the closet doors were fully open. They were unable to move in bed at times. One night the bedroom door appeared lit from behind with green light and mist before falling backward away from them. The caller says they then ran to their parents’ room and slept there, and that their parents acted as if nothing was wrong. The story ends there, and the host moves to the next caller.

    Paralysis and pressureDoors, windows, and locksPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    56
  514. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board contact with two drowned boys at a Hollywood Hills pool

    A caller who gives the name JD, calling from San Diego, tells Art Bell a story from their early twenties in the Hollywood Hills. The caller says an Ouija board session at the mansion of a girlfriend’s father put them in contact with two boys, [name withheld] and [name withheld], ages seven and four. They said they had drowned in the house’s pool about twelve years earlier. The following day, the caller says, the girlfriend’s sister told the same drowning story without being asked. The story ends with the father returning early from a trip and throwing the caller out. The caller says they broke their foot when something unseen tripped them as they ran off with the board.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingBeing touched, pushed, or heldMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  515. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes a month-long coma and a feeling of having been somewhere else

    A caller to Ghost to Ghost describes being in a car collision and waking from a coma of about a month. The caller reports no memories of that time, but a felt sense of having been “somewhere else” and of having lived a lifetime of experience. Art Bell thanks the caller and offers his own speculation about time during a coma.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    48
  516. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ghost drums at a reenactor rendezvous at Fort Ouachita

    [name withheld], calling from the Springfield, Missouri Ozarks, says they are a Cherokee historic reenactor. They describe an eleven-day rendezvous in 1994 at Fort Ouachita, Oklahoma, an old Confederate fort and cemetery. After most camps left on Sunday, the caller and their husband stayed overnight. The caller reports fear, birds screaming at midnight, ghost drums, waves of ghosts, dress jingles, a moved teepee door, and a fire that went out cold. The host closes with comments, and the story ends without resolution.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMusic with no sourceDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    58
  517. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A childhood vision of six tornadoes and the 1976 Sedalia, Missouri, storm

    A caller whom the host calls “[name withheld]” tells Art Bell that they have had visions since childhood. They describe one in which they saw six tornadoes around a great big tornado. They say they warned friends daily for two weeks. They say a tornado then devastated the town they lived in, Sedalia, Missouri, in 1976, two weeks from the day they say they predicted it. The host asks the caller to keep in touch and email future visions so they can be put on air.

    Warnings and premonitionsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    58
  518. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home

    A live caller tells Art Bell that their current home has had unexplained activity since the family moved in when it was newly built. The caller reports objects moving, vanishing, and reappearing. The caller says their older brother’s hair began burning while the brother read a book. The caller also reports nightly activity aimed at the caller and their mother, and interference with their music equipment. Art compares it to a poltergeist. The call ends with the activity still going on.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  519. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice

    A caller who gives their location as Connecticut and their birth date as December 25, 1957, describes an elderly next-door neighbor the neighborhood called “Miss Pree” (given as Preamula Abuhak). She read to the caller from the Quran, rubbed their head when they had severe headaches, and was said always to smell of roses. The caller reports hearing her voice and smelling roses just before two dangers: running up a hill that turned out to be a cliff, and a car ride in which a truck raced past after they told the driver to stop. Art Bell tells the caller she is “watching over” them. The call then moves to a different topic.

    VisitsSigns and messagesVoices
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    59
  520. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps and wet footprints in a Route 66 service station

    [name withheld], calling from Oklahoma, tells Art Bell that at nine years old the caller and their seven-year-old brother were alone in the home attached to their father’s Route 66 service station on a rainy night. They heard the station door open, then footsteps, then the partition doorknob turning. The caller phoned their father at the family restaurant. He came with a pistol, searched, and found no one. The caller says they then saw wet footsteps leading from the front door to the partition door, which the father did not look down to see.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsDoors, windows, and locksMarks and traces
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    53
  521. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A police officer’s question about a man walking through a house

    A caller tells the host about the caller’s father, who the caller says died in 1973, and about the father’s wife, who the caller says died three weeks later. According to the caller, two caregivers later said that on the day the stepmother died at home, a police officer sent to verify the death asked who “the man” was who had just walked through the house. The story ends with the host’s general remarks and no further detail from the caller.

    Human figuresVisitsMore than one witness
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    54
  522. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A glowing headstone in a Byron Center, Michigan, cemetery, and a figure standing near it

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Largo, Florida, tells of a local legend in Byron Center, Michigan. A cemetery headstone off 100th Street reportedly glows on clear full-moon nights. The caller says they saw the glow as a high-school visitor. They saw it again years later on a night-time trip, when they also saw an old man standing about ten feet from the stone. The caller ends by saying a friend told them such sightings are common and that a chunk of the stone reportedly tested as ordinary granite and graphite.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsLights, orbs, and glowing eyesHuman figures
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    57
  523. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Unseen runner and a struck fence at an abandoned slaughterhouse

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Susanville near Reno, tells Art Bell that they went with their boyfriend and one other friend to an abandoned slaughterhouse that local kids said was haunted. On one visit the group heard a woman humming a tune in a field where their flashlights showed nobody. On a later night, alone inside the shed, the caller says they heard something unseen running through the tall weeds and something slamming into the fence and shaking it. The caller says they dropped to their knees crying and their boyfriend carried them out. The caller ends by asking whether it could have been a cow trying to get out and whether animals have souls.

    Public buildings and businessesMusic with no sourcePoltergeist activity
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  524. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Orbs, a freight-train rumble, and a shadow orb in a former chicken coop

    A caller in northern New Mexico tells Art Bell that their house has had activity since they moved in two years ago. They say the government built it in the 1950s as a chicken coop. They report hundreds of orbs in developed photographs about a year ago. They also report a freight-train-like rumble that shook windows and upset their dogs that evening, and a “shadow orb” that flew at their face while they were reading in bed the previous night. The host interrupts the caller before they finish another story, about feeling something like a cat on their bed.

    Haunted homesStrange photos and videoFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  525. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Car reportedly pushed off railroad tracks at a Clarksville, Tennessee, crossing

    A caller tells Art Bell that a restaurant customer of theirs recently returned from Clarksville, Tennessee, and reported the same [quote withheld] story that Bell had already told about San Antonio, Texas. The caller relays the customer’s account of buttering and powdering the bumper to reveal the prints. The caller also relays the local backstory of a 1930s school bus struck by a train, and says the customer’s wife was badly shaken. The story ends unresolved, with the caller voicing disbelief and Bell commenting on the idea of children’s souls remaining to push cars.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsBeing touched, pushed, or heldMarks and traces
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    45
  526. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Flickering lights, a truck radio, and birthday phone calls after a brother’s death

    A live caller, located only as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about the violent death of their brother. The brother had practiced astral travel and promised to signal the family. A series of events followed: flickering room lights and a coke machine at the funeral home, and a pickup-truck radio that had never worked playing one song as they drove away. Flickering lights reportedly moved from one street or apartment light to the next. A phone rings at one minute past midnight on their mother’s birthday and answers to a dial tone. The caller says their wife has come to believe because the light flickering also happens at the mall. The caller concedes the birthday calls could be a prank. The events are described as still going on when the host ends the call.

    Signs and messagesLights and appliances acting upPhones, radio, and TV
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    59
  527. 2001·Caller's story·41 s· not yet checked

    Invisible animal’s paw prints cross a bed in an apartment

    A caller tells Art Bell that one night, while they were reading in their apartment, they saw four small paw-print dents move across the end of their bed, as though an invisible kitten or puppy had jumped up and run toward them. The dents vanished when they reached the caller’s leg. Asked by the host whether animals have souls, the caller says they did not used to think so but are unsure. The story ends when the host thanks the caller for it.

    Ghostly animalsMarks and traces
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    53
  528. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Feeling a cat walk on the bed when the cat was elsewhere

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that the previous night, after a shadow orb reportedly flew at them and knocked a book from their hands, they felt what seemed like their cat walking on their bed. They say they were lying too close to the edge for a cat to have room, and their cat was in its basket in the pantry. They also report earlier strange events in the house and dogs reacting at night. The host asks them to call back if anything else happens.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldLights, orbs, and glowing eyesHaunted homes
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  529. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Glowing figure and face in a photograph at Santa Barbara mission graveyard

    A caller describes walking out of a Santa Barbara graveyard in the late afternoon after feeling a wonderful love. The caller then asked St. Michael to let “them” appear in a photograph their husband took. The caller says the film was developed about a year later and showed a giant white glow around the caller, hands that looked on fire around two St. Michael’s medallions, and a face. A friend who is a graphic artist later found another face above the cross on the mission steeple. The story ends with another friend’s reported panic at the same graveyard.

    Strange photos and videoLights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    62
  530. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Gray figure and male scream in a rented Union, Missouri house

    A caller who gives their name as “[name withheld],” from Union, Missouri, tells Art Bell that the previous June their family moved into an older rented house. The caller says they saw a smoky gray figure of a man and heard a scream from the house. The family left that night but returned about a week later for financial reasons. They reportedly experienced a rattling door, a second scream from the basement, and a sudden cold before moving out about two weeks later.

    Partial figures and mistsHaunted homesVoices
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    55
  531. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Near-drowning in an underground water tunnel and a warming light

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from San Diego, describes a near-drowning in 1982, when they were an 18-year-old student at Chico State in Northern California. They were pulled under and carried through what they call an underground tunnel of water about 60 feet long. They report seeing an intense, beautiful, warming light during the passage. They say that when they came out they were deeply saddened and did not want to return. They describe lasting effects: a sense of “something greater” and no fear of death. They also say they learned later that three people had died in the same tunnel.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    61
  532. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Driver reports hitting an elderly man and dog on a road outside Chicago

    A caller who gives their location as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, describes hitting what they call a ghost, an elderly man and his dog, with a borrowed car on a road outside Chicago while two teenage passengers screamed. The caller says the figures looked completely lifelike, yet the car struck nothing, with no sound or impact. The caller says they took the girls home and told no one. Years later, the caller says, an elderly neighbor at a relative’s Christmas party confirmed that a man with a dog had been killed by a car on that road. The caller says they still do not understand it.

    Human figuresGhostly animalsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    49
  533. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Handcuff marks, “help” in frost, and a light orb at a Phantom Lake house

    An unnamed caller on the Wildcard Line tells Art Bell about an old house on Phantom Lake in northern Canada, which the caller places in “Plumfall, Manitoba.” The caller says they and a friend entered the house on a summer evening and found it abnormally cold. They saw a bed said to have been used to chain a woman, with handcuff marks on its mattress. They heard a deep mumble and saw the word “help” on a frosted window with steam rising from it. Then they saw a light orb move past them before they ran out and never returned.

    Marks and tracesLights, orbs, and glowing eyesVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  534. 2001·Discussion·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller’s medical commentary on a reported near-death experience during surgery

    An unidentified caller from Albuquerque phones in to comment on a near-death story, the “[name withheld] story,” that Art Bell aired the previous week. The caller does not describe seeing anything themselves. They argue from anesthesia, hypothermia, and bypass physiology that the reported experience could not have been a hallucination. Bell agrees. He says a doctor is being scheduled who he is told will back up the story, and he says he is not finished with it.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    42
  535. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller relays friend’s account of two headless men in black suits crossing a field

    A caller named [name withheld], originally from Alabama and then living in Burlington, Vermont, relays a story that their close friend of twenty-five years, [name withheld], has told them several times. [name withheld] says that when [name withheld] was a boy of about six, around 1971–72, he was standing at the edge of a South Alabama pea field where his family was working. He saw what he described as two headless men in black suits walking across the field toward him. In [name withheld]’s telling, the boy was badly frightened and the figures vanished. [name withheld] says they believe their friend believes it, and they wish the friend were present to verify it. The host then muses about why a spirit would appear headless.

    Human figuresChildren who see presences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  536. 2001·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Transcendental meditation group at a public high school career day (story cut off)

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], calling from Rancho Santa Fe, California, begins a story about a transcendental meditation group that came to their public high school on career day when the caller was a junior in the 1970s. The caller says the group told school officials that meditation would improve students’ grades and called the program [quote withheld] The caller says their mother and nearly everyone at the school took it up. A station break interrupts the story before any strange event is described.

    Anything else
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    8
    Originality
    53
  537. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Vision of hellfire, a figure in the doorway, and a child-sized shape in the hallway

    A male caller who does not give his name tells Art Bell about a night at home in bed with his wife. He felt something was in the room, then had what he calls a vision of [quote withheld] He says he then saw a figure move from the bathroom into the doorway. He also saw a small, child-sized figure run from the bathroom into his son’s room, where both children were asleep. He reports that his wife afterward described to him the same person he had seen. The host closes by commenting on prayer and on whether such a thing is “erased” or merely “released.”

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  538. 2001·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Clinical death and an out-of-body experience during childbirth in Germany

    A caller from east of the Rockies, who is addressed in the broadcast as [name withheld], tells Art Bell about a delivery in Germany during which she says her heart gave out and she was clinically dead for 47 minutes. She reports going “inside myself” to help push her baby down the birth canal. She then emerged into a place of warm, round light, where a male voice told her [quote withheld] and she woke on a gurney. She says she learned only afterward that she had died, and she blames her lifelong chronic joint pain on that episode.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    60
  539. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A figure watching from a child’s bedroom window in a rented house

    A caller named [name withheld], from Temecula, California, tells Art Bell about a rented house outside Portland, Oregon, where their family lived when the caller was about six. The caller says they and their father felt something odd about the house. During that year, the caller says, they saw a thing they call pure evil sitting at their bedroom window at night, watching them. The caller says they felt safe inside their room because the thing would not enter unless invited, and that it was “out there. Waiting.”

    Bedroom visitorsNon-human creaturesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    48
  540. 2001·Letter read on air·42 s· not yet checked

    Fax reporting a man in lumberjack dress at a ninth-floor window

    Art Bell reads a short fax (a “fast blast”) that he attributes to [quote withheld] who says they cannot call from work. In it the sender reports that they saw a burly man dressed as a lumberjack, in a flannel cap and suspenders, at their window that night. He was looking in and seemed tired and lost. The sender adds that they are on the ninth floor of a high-rise. The host reads the note without further discussion and moves on to the next caller.

    Human figuresHaunted homes
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    57
  541. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Daughters’ dreams of a “red lady” in a sublet house where a suicide occurred

    A caller who gives their name as Nathan, from Sacramento, tells Art Bell that about fifteen years earlier, while their family sublet a house for a summer, both of their four-year-old daughters reported dreaming of a “red lady” in their room. Before moving out, the caller says, neighbors told the family that the previous owner’s wife had killed herself in that same children’s room. The caller explains the dreams as leftover energy from the death. The host adds his own view that suicides tend to remain behind, and the call ends with the host thanking the caller.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    55
  542. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Haunted family house in Lorain, Ohio: Slapping, shadows, and something on the bed

    A caller from Lorain, Ohio, tells Art Bell they are speaking from what they call a haunted house, the home their grandfather built. They say strange events have gone on since they were about five. The caller reports having seen clouds, formations, and shadows, and hearing voices calling names. They say friends were slapped in the face while sleeping over, and that they feel something sit on their bed at night. They say their mother consulted a parapsychologist who believed it was a child that likes to play games. The host, running out of time, warns of danger and tells the caller to get out.

    Haunted homesBedroom visitorsBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  543. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    A door, a figure on a cross, and footsteps in a rented 110-year-old house in Paw Paw, Michigan

    [name withheld], calling from Bradley, Illinois, says that in the summer of 1989, when they were fourteen, they were living in a rented 110-year-old house in Paw Paw, Michigan, opposite a cemetery. They report that the upstairs door opened by itself and that they then saw [quote withheld] at the stairs. Later, as a depressed teenager, they asked a spirit for help and heard footsteps coming down the stairs. They then decided it was the devil and asked it to go away. The call ends with Art Bell calling the reversal a “foxhole conversion.”

    Human figuresDoors, windows, and locksFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    58
  544. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Investigator reports tripod pulled by nothing and shadow silhouette on a stairway wall

    A caller who gives no name and describes themselves as an investigator tells Art Bell about two incidents at a site they were investigating. First, the caller felt something pull the extended leg of their tripod and found the team member they suspected standing about fifteen feet away. On a later visit, while videotaping at the top of a stairway, they saw a shadow silhouette of a male figure on the wall behind them. It was still there after they turned around and found no one present.

    Shadow peopleObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    54
  545. 2001·Caller's story·9 min· not yet checked

    Childhood near-death experience under ether after a horse wreck

    A caller, unnamed in the transcript, says they are near Yosemite National Park, California. They recount an operation in the 1950s after they were trampled in a horse-and-mule wreck at the age of six or seven. They say they were overdosed with ether, that staff called out “we've lost her,” and that they watched from above as a presence waited to their left. They were revived and put in a body cast. They end by saying they still have a scar on their arm from a dropped surgical instrument, and that they have discussed post-hypnotic regression with a hypnotherapist so they can look at whatever was with them.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesHappened in childhoodMarks and traces
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    54
  546. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Screaming, shaking, and red eyes at an Alabama plantation slave cabin

    A first-time caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] tells of a trip they say they and some friends made in about 1988 or 1989 to a decrepit old plantation house and its fallen-down slave quarters in Alabama. The caller had heard the site was the scene of a mass killing. They say that when they touched the door of one cabin, screaming and banging broke out and the whole shack shook “like an earthquake.” The noise seemed to stay right over their heads as they ran, and the caller saw big bright red eyes looking out the cabin window at them. They say the group drove off and never returned to the area.

    Haunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangsLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    57
  547. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Shadow figure at a bedroom window and a child found on the roof

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sarasota, Florida, tells Art Bell that at about age five, which they place around 1966, they saw a shadow figure in a hat and long coat at their bedroom window one winter night. Their parents reportedly saw the same figure crossing the schoolyard outside and found no footprints. The caller also relays, secondhand through their wife, that about a week earlier their parents had found them missing from bed and finally discovered them sitting on the roof with no apparent way up. Asked what they think happened, they say they have no idea. The call ends with a discussion of streetlights going out around them, which the story leaves unresolved.

    Shadow peopleHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    59
  548. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Haunted house fundraiser in an old Vermont school building

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Florida on station WSKY, tells Art Bell that around 1979 they were recruited as a makeup artist for a yearly theatrical haunted-house fundraiser in their Vermont hometown. The caller describes the venue as an old, partly disused school building, Victorian and redstone. The caller says they [quote withheld] which implies it was genuinely haunted. The story breaks off when Art puts the rest off until after a commercial break. No strange event is described in this part of the broadcast.

    Public buildings and businesses
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    58
  549. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Deceased truck driver reportedly visits a Colorado ranch and leaves Pepsi cans

    A caller named [name withheld], from Northern California, tells Art Bell about their former partner [name withheld], a truck driver they describe as a good stepfather to their children, who took his own life. About a year later, the caller says, their fifteen-year-old son said [name withheld] drove a diesel truck up to their isolated 800-acre Colorado ranch one night and visited him. The caller reports their son said they talked and drank Pepsi for a couple of hours, and that in the morning the family found Pepsi cans on the table. Art closes the call with remarks about those who take their own lives.

    VisitsHuman figuresMarks and traces
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    25
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    58
  550. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Woman in white in their daughter's doorway who moved with the family

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that they, and later their husband, saw a glowing woman dressed head to toe in white standing in the doorway of their infant daughter's bedroom. [name withheld] says the figure came back, that their husband confirmed he had seen her too, and that the figure followed the family when they moved and seemed to stand guard over the baby. [name withheld] says the woman has not been seen for a few years. The host tells [name withheld] to look at a photograph posted on the show's website.

    Human figuresMore than one witnessChildren who see presences
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    50
  551. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Figure in an old Portland house points to the door and says “get out of my house”

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Eugene, Oregon, and originally from Portland, tells Art Bell about visiting a century-old house in what they call the Selwood District of Portland. A chiropractor friend named Art had invited them. The caller reports that while walking through an upstairs room they saw a large bald man in a brown suit and white shirt. He was translucent and had no feet. He pointed at the door and said [quote withheld] The caller says they fled downstairs and their friend then wanted to meditate for the spirit to leave. During the meditation, the caller says, they both heard footsteps leave the room and come down the stairs, and they ran out. The caller says they never went back in.

    Human figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  552. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A voice calling the caller’s name and a mismatched phone alarm

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from south Texas, tells Art Bell that while they were off work with a back injury, they were woken several times by what they took to be someone calling their name. On the last occasion, a voice said it was time to get up. They say their phone alarm was due within about a minute, but the phone’s clock was wrong. Art Bell offers explanations based on medication and disturbed sleep. The segment ends with him saying the caller can look at it either way.

    VoicesSleep paralysis and bedroom visitors
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    33
    Originality
    61
  553. 2001·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Twin's grandfather reportedly announces brother alive and trapped in Vietnam

    A caller who says they are a twin, on holiday in Western Canada, tells Art Bell that their brother was believed killed in Vietnam and their grandfather then died. The caller says the grandfather appeared to them twice, in their bedroom and in the den, and said their brother was alive and trapped. They say they later got a phone call from the grandfather saying the brother was alive. They found him in a Greek Orthodox mission hospital in Vietnam and brought him home. Years later, the caller says, a realtor reported that every door in the house had sealed shut.

    VisitsPhones, radio, and TVDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    46
    Originality
    65
  554. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    An out-of-body view of themselves after smoking a found cigar (caller, Salinas, California)

    A caller who gives their location as Salinas, California, tells Art Bell that at age 18 they found what they took to be a regular cigar in a bag at school. They took it home and smoked it, their first time smoking anything. They report becoming frightened, seeming to see themselves from above as a small person, and being taken by ambulance to a hospital, where they say staff told them they had nearly died. They end by recalling the warning they say they were given about drugs.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  555. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Woman in white waving arms on an Arizona highway, then a crashed car

    A caller phoning from Central City, Nebraska, says that in the mid-1970s they drove a tractor-trailer with their father, hauling produce from Florida to the West Coast. The caller reports that while driving through Arizona at night they twice saw what appeared to be a woman with long hair in a long white dress standing in their lane and waving her arms at them. Both times they stopped and found no one. The story ends with their father taking over the driving and coming upon an overturned car in the median, in which, the caller says, a woman in a wedding dress had broken her neck.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    52
  556. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports a card-and-dice vision during a clinical death in surgery

    The caller, who gives their name as “[name withheld],” phones from Cleveland, Ohio, via WTAM 1100. They tell Art Bell that at age 14, around 1961, they were clinically dead during an appendectomy after the surgeon cut a vein and blood in their lungs suffocated them. They say that while it happened they could hear the surgical team speaking but saw a black velvet surface with poker hands, a roulette wheel, and dice. They describe being revived and waking up protesting that they were not dead. They say that at 56 they have never forgotten it.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    59
  557. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Red eyes at 3:15 a.m. emerging from a bedroom closet

    An unidentified caller (no name or location given) tells Art Bell that during their school and college years they repeatedly woke at exactly 3:15 a.m. with a sense that something was in their room. Years later, while married, the caller says they dreamed of being chased through a tunnel with slimy walls by red eyes and woke up screaming at 3:15. A month or two later, the caller says, they lay in bed and saw red eyes come out of their closet door. The host cuts the story short, saying he does not want to hear more.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesBedroom visitorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    50
  558. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Music box sounds at close range and a smashed attic door in a house-sitting stay

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Temecula, California, tells Art Bell that they and their wife were house-sitting for her parents, in the house she grew up in. Twice, late at night, they heard music-box-like chiming that seemed to come [quote withheld] from their faces. They took their baby and went home. When they returned the next morning, the caller says, the attic door, which was latched to the wall, was lying in pieces on the stairs. The caller says it had to have come from the inside. The caller offers a resident ghost as the only explanation the couple could imagine.

    Music with no sourceDoors, windows, and locksHaunted homes
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    55
  559. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A black form, the family cats, and a brother’s hypothermia in an Edison, New Jersey, farmhouse

    A caller who says they are calling from Fairborn, Ohio, tells Art Bell that around 1970, when they were nine or ten, their family lived in an old farmhouse on 12 acres in Edison, New Jersey. They report waking at 3 or 4 a.m. and seeing a black, indistinct oval form in the hallway that “slammed into” them and told them “don’t go in.” They then found their younger brother being enveloped by it in their shared bedroom while the family’s cats attacked it. The story ends with their father, described as a police officer, running in with a gun as the thing slid through a window. The brother was reportedly kept overnight in the hospital for hypothermia the next morning.

    Shadow peopleBeing touched, pushed, or heldCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    74
    Originality
    58
  560. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Grandmother sits up in her casket and later appears in the caller’s bed

    [name withheld], a caller from Evansville, Indiana, tells Art Bell that they lived with their grandmother until they were seven, when she died. At the funeral home, the caller says, they saw her sit up in her casket and turn to look at them. They say no one else saw it and that they were not afraid. The same night they woke in bed lying on top of her. They spoke to her, never saw her again, and went back to sleep.

    VisitsBedroom visitorsHuman figures
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  561. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Black car, red window light, and a note in an orchard

    A caller describes two nights in a row on a country road near the research center where they had just started work as a custodian. On the first night the caller reports a black car and an old woman with a “grotesque wrinkled face” staring at them at a stop sign. Their passenger said he could not see her. On the second night the caller reports a red light in an upstairs window and a light in an orchard behind the house, where their friend found a note. The caller says the note, read later at home, said [quote withheld]

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyesMarks and traces
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    25
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    55
  562. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Out-of-body experience and light while drowning at Jones Beach

    A caller named [name withheld], speaking from Richmond, Virginia, tells Art Bell they nearly drowned at Jones Beach on Long Island at age 16, around 1969, during a church beach party. They report going too far out while jumping waves, being thrown around in the water, and then watching themselves drown from outside their body. They then had an experience of light and music that they describe as beautiful. They say they told no one at the time. They later found a description of the music in Betty Eadie's book Into the Light. They are now 51 and have no fear of death.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesMusic with no source
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  563. 2001·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Figure and hearse at “Sleepy Hollow” in Brea, and a car crash afterward

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Flagstaff, tells of a night in 1962, the summer after their high school graduation. The caller and a friend drove the caller’s first car to a spot in Brea, California, that the friend called “Sleepy Hollow.” The caller reports that their headlights lit a parked 1939 Cadillac hearse and a figure the caller compares to the Phantom of the Opera. When the two drove back minutes later, both were gone, with no tracks left behind. Shortly afterward, the caller says, their car flipped over three times on Brea Canyon Boulevard. The caller offers to send the host signed affidavits, and the story ends with the host’s remarks about it being a warning.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    74
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    54
  564. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A fourth laugh and a figure that vanishes at a campfire

    A caller recounts a camping incident from their teens in which three friends around a fire heard a fourth person laughing. The caller says a man appeared among them, dressed like them but with odd eyes, and that when their friend [name withheld] challenged him the man laughed, stood up, walked about three steps, and disappeared. The group, unable to search in the dark, moved their camp nearer to other people that night.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    46
    Originality
    47
  565. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board spells “Clock” and a Panama-shaped clock turns in Gamboa

    An unnamed caller from west of the Rockies tells Art Bell about a Ouija board session roughly ten to fifteen years earlier at their sister's home in Gamboa, in the Panama Canal Zone. The caller says the board spelled out “Calibra” (Culebra) as the spirit's origin and then spelled “clock” after their sister asked for a presence. Minutes later, the caller says, the sister's cats ran wild and a clock cut in the shape of Panama was found turned 45 degrees. The caller says they never used the board again.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    56
  566. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Near-death experience after a penicillin injection in 1974

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Dallas, recounts a 1974 medical emergency and near-death experience. They say that after an elderly doctor gave them a large penicillin injection, they collapsed, were given adrenaline, and lost consciousness into a dark void. There they heard voices telling them it was not their time and to go back. They then saw a golden light and a form they took to be Jesus. They say they returned to awareness of people around them, able to see their [quote withheld] before the host ended the call.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    62
  567. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Fireplace doors, an orb, and moaning in a Branson-area bed and breakfast

    [name withheld], from St. Louis, Missouri, tells of staying with their mother at a bed and breakfast outside Branson, in Walnut Shade. One morning alone, the caller reports, fireplace doors opened and closed, shopping-bag handles moved on request, a toilet and interior doors operated by themselves, and a glowing orb appeared in the stairwell. The caller says their mother did not believe them. On another night they heard moaning behind a downstairs bed, and their mother dismissed it as a wild imagination.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  568. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Figure in a black hat standing over a bed and walking through a window

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] from Iowa tells Art Bell that at age 17 they woke in bed to see a man they called a spirit standing over them. The caller describes him as wearing a black hat, a red shirt, and black jeans. The caller says they could partly see through him, and that he walked through their bedroom window. The caller then looked out and found no one. The host thanks the caller and moves on.

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    51
  569. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Voices, a child's closet figure, and shadows seen in a Pahrump single-wide

    A caller who identifies only as the program's final Wild Card Line caller tells Art Bell that in the summer of 1997, while living in Pahrump with a girlfriend in a single-wide house, they heard unexplained voices. The caller says their girlfriend's four-year-old daughter repeatedly reported a man in her closet, and their girlfriend once reported hearing a toilet flush while alone in the house. The caller says they and another person watched the house one night from about a block away and saw shadows moving inside. They moved to another house across town. The caller says they have since moved back to Nebraska.

    Haunted homesShadow peopleVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    53
  570. 2001·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Agnostic caller’s near-death experience and beings they call alien-like

    A caller named [name withheld] tells Art Bell that they were clinically dead in their twenties after a heart attack. They say they experienced a light-filled dimension with telepathic beings who refused to let them stay. They report waking in an ambulance and a life afterward of lost looks, career, and money. They remain agnostic. They describe the beings as not angels but something like aliens playing a game.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    60
  571. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Voices in the basement and a touch in the shower of a rental home

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Washington, describes living in a rental home that they call the weirdest experience of their life. The caller reports voices, whispering, and banging coming up from an unfinished basement, and nightly stomping up the stairs into loft rooms. The caller also reports a sensation of hands touching them in the shower when nobody was in the house. The caller says they were twenty-two at the time. The caller offers no explanation and stayed only until their lease was up. The host closes with a remark about the other side.

    Voices and sounds with no sourceVoicesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  572. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A woman in 1800s dress, a boulder death, and a disturbed forest circle

    Mary, calling from Salem, Oregon, tells Art Bell a story they call [quote withheld] about their brother-in-law, [name withheld]. Mary says that during a birthday party they went out for burgers and, waiting out front, saw a woman in 1800s clothing whose feet they could not see. When they looked back, the woman was gone. Mary reports that while they were away, [name withheld] was struck by a boulder on a forest trail and died. Months later, Mary says, an acquaintance said a ceremony [name withheld] had been performing was interrupted when the acquaintance stubbed out a cigarette in his circle and a growling, monster-like sound came down the hill. Mary says some of them think that whatever it was came and got him.

    Human figuresWarnings and premonitionsNon-human creatures
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    58
  573. 2001·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Leg broken by an unseen kick on lava rock at Kaneohe Marine base

    A caller named “roger,” who gives their location as Kailua, Hawaii, says that while fishing alone on a dry lava-rock flat at the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe, their left leg was suddenly thrown above their head and broken, with no visible cause. They report that two people who had followed them at a distance saw the leg fly up and that the back of their calf bore a black mark in the shape of a bare footprint. They say they were treated at the base hospital and then at Tripler Army Hospital, and they state they still do not know what struck them.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldMarks and tracesMilitary sites
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    25
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    61
  574. 2001·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A coma, three selves, and walking with Jesus after a 1980 car crash

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes a December 1980 car accident in which they were thrown through the driver's window and lay unconscious for thirty-three days. They report regaining consciousness in a Utah hospital and perceiving three versions of themselves in the room. The room then darkened, and shadow-like objects seized one of the figures. After that came a bright place in which they walked hand in hand with Jesus Christ. They say they woke up after thirty-three days. Art Bell calls it [quote withheld]

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesDoubles of living peopleLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    63
  575. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Dream of an emaciated creature as a message from a deceased grandmother

    [name withheld], calling from Clearwater, Florida, tells Art Bell that in 1988 they were near the end of their alcoholism. They followed a friend’s suggestion and asked their deceased grandmother to visit them in a dream. They report dreaming of a skeletal, hairless creature falling onto a dusty road, then recognizing it as themselves. They took it as their grandmother’s warning that they were close to death and should do something. The story ends without a stated outcome. The host suggests it may have been “the bottom.”

    Signs and messagesSleep paralysis and bedroom visitors
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    59
  576. 2001·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Pitchfork reportedly pushes open a closet door in an abandoned house

    [name withheld] calls from Jacksonville, Florida, and says they are originally from St. Louis, Missouri. They tell a childhood story about exploring an abandoned house and its attached garage with a girlfriend when they were about 11. They say she was reading an old newspaper article about a man who killed his family with a pitchfork when the upstairs closet door fell open. The door was described as pushed open by a pitchfork. The two ran out. [name withheld] presents the event as a remarkable coincidence, not as a ghost.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksHappened in childhood
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  577. 2001·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Deceased grandfather seen peeking into a pot in the family restaurant

    A caller, whose name and location are not given, tells Art Bell that about two months after their grandfather died, they saw him out of the corner of their eye. He was on tiptoes, peeking into a pot of boiling potatoes in the family restaurant where the caller worked. The caller says they looked away, and when they looked back, the figure was gone. The caller ends by saying that such experiences have given them peace and a sense that there is an afterlife.

    VisitsHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    12
    Originality
    54
  578. 2001·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Friend hears crying through a bathroom wall; neighbor found dead

    A caller who calls themselves [quote withheld] tells a story they attribute to a friend in Victoria in 1987. The friend rented a suite in a converted Victorian mansion. While bathing there, the friend reportedly heard the woman in the next suite crying through the thin wall on about three or four nights. Then the friend noticed the room turning cold and a bad smell coming from the other side. According to the caller, the caretaker and police entered the neighboring suite and found the woman dead in her bathtub from slit wrists. The caller says she had died about two weeks earlier. The friend moved out shortly afterward. The host reacts with surprise and offers his own suggestion that the moaning might have been a plea for the body to be found.

    VoicesHaunted homesSmells with no source
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    62
  579. 2003·Caller's story·12 min· not yet checked

    Body in the surf at Galveston and a figure who named himself [name withheld]

    [name withheld], a first-time caller from Arkansas, tells Art Bell about an end-of-summer trip they say they took to Galveston with their nine-year-old son. They report finding a dead man lying in the surf while hunting for shells at midnight low tide. They say they heard a male voice say “no, not yet.” The caller was then visited at their beach house by a figure who gave his name as [name withheld]. They say the first name matched a later newspaper identification. They say the contact continued until they left and ended with the sensation of being hugged.

    Human figuresVisitsVoices
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  580. 2003·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Atlanta house, dog avoiding the bedroom, and a black dog seen during an out-of-body experience

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] describes a house they bought in downtown Atlanta in the early 1990s. Their Jack Russell Terrier refused to sleep in the bedroom. They say that after practicing out-of-body experiences for several months, they saw a small black dog during one of them. It was lapping at the floor beside the wall where the dog’s mouse blood was regularly splattered. The dog and any liquid were gone when they returned to their body. Years later, as they sold the house, a next-door neighbor told them of a couple who lived there in the 1950s and of a suicide in that bedroom. She said the couple had owned a small black dog.

    Ghostly animalsHaunted homesSleep paralysis and bedroom visitors
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    61
  581. 2003·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Lady in Red: a patient’s sighting on a naval hospital psychiatric ward

    A caller named [name withheld] says that while they were stationed at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, they worked night shifts on a third-floor psychiatric ward in the original 1830 building. Staff told them about a ghost called the Lady in Red, said to be a Civil War-era nurse who hanged herself there. One night around 3 to 4 a.m., an 18- or 19-year-old patient reported seeing a woman in old-fashioned clothing floating and circling a pool table at the back of the ward. [name withheld] and another corpsman searched with flashlights and saw nothing. A senior nurse later told [name withheld] such things happened regularly.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  582. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Poltergeist activity in a shared Fargo house and a butcher knife in bed

    [name withheld], calling from Bismarck, North Dakota, on KFYR 550, tells Art Bell that in the early 1970s they lived with friends in a house in Fargo, North Dakota, while attending college. They say they and their housemates had poltergeist-type events daily. They report lights turning on, doors opening, a pantry curtain flying out, a hall curtain catching fire, footsteps on the attic stairs, possessions thrown during lightning storms, and a dog reacting. The caller ends with finding a butcher knife beside them in their locked bedroom, and their roommate’s reaction on seeing the caller carrying it. The call ends with Art’s own comments on the story.

    Objects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting upDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    56
  583. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Premonitions of a father’s death and a family cat’s disappearance

    [name withheld], a caller from Albany, New York, says that in 1974 they began having premonitions of their father’s death while living in Manhattan. After a premonition about the family cat, they learned to drive and moved back to their parents’ upstate New York home. They report that their father died in their arms months later. They say the warning helped them prepare to care for their disabled mother.

    Warnings and premonitions
    Believability
    78
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    54
  584. 2003·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Father’s figure in the rearview mirror before a Manhattan car crash

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that in 1977 they were driving downtown on Upper Manhattan in a Pinto after a 16-hour night shift. They say they glanced in the rearview mirror and saw their father, who they say had died two years earlier. Their father was leaning forward with an urgent look and his hands on the back of the bucket seat. A bang followed, they say, and the car careened out of control and hit a concrete pillar at 74th Street. After the wreck they opened the glove box and found that a dollar bill their father had given them “for luck” was gone. The host, noting time was nearly up, closed the call.

    VisitsHuman figures
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  585. 2003·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Post-funeral Wienermobile coincidences read as a message from a deceased father

    A caller named [name withheld], from Dallas, Texas, tells Art Bell that about twelve years after their father’s sudden death, a cluster of Oscar Mayer Wienermobile events happened around his funeral. They report that their sister saw a Wienermobile on the drive to the funeral. A student found a Wienermobile picture in an old classroom magazine on the caller’s first day back. The caller’s young daughter was holding a red weenie whistle the same day. The caller and their sister read the events as a message from their father.

    Signs and messages
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    60
  586. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A young boy reported by residents at a Maryland assisted living facility

    [name withheld], a first-time caller from the eastern shore of Maryland on Chesapeake Bay, says they are a director of nursing at an assisted living facility in a building over 100 years old. They report that several residents repeatedly complained to the caller about a young boy who pestered them, rode the elevator, climbed on their dressers, and taunted them. The caller never saw him. Long-serving employees told the caller the boy had shown himself for years. They identified him as the young son of the bride to whom the building was originally given. This part of the broadcast ends with the caller’s note that the residents involved are mostly Alzheimer’s patients, and with the host’s closing remarks.

    Human figuresLights and appliances acting upBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    57
  587. 2003·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Pounding on doors and a cold sensation at a friend’s new Houston house

    [quote withheld] tells Art Bell about a night, several years earlier, that the caller spent at a friend’s newly bought house in an exclusive part of Houston while their husbands were away hunting. The caller reports waking to the caller’s daughter and the friend’s daughter screaming. A cold sensation spread through the caller’s body while they were briefly unable to move. Then came loud pounding that moved between the doors and patio doors with nobody visible. The police the caller called reportedly heard the pounding and found no footprints in the rain. The story ends with the friend’s account that a previous owner had hanged herself in the kitchen and that her husband shot himself in the backyard. The caller says they think this explains the pounding.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homesParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  588. 2003·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Injured, one-legged figure with a lantern on Roberts Road

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Chicago, tells Art Bell that about eleven years earlier they and a friend were driving home from a party at around 3 a.m. They saw a man standing by the curb with a lantern on Roberts Road. The caller says the figure stepped in front of the car and walked toward them, looking injured and see-through, with a missing leg. The caller says a following car drove right through the figure as it walked toward a cemetery. The caller says they and their friend both saw it, that they called Justice Police and later [name withheld], and that the experience unsettled them for about a year.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    54
  589. 2003·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports kitchen door and brother’s voice four hours after his death

    [name withheld], calling from Phoenix, Arizona, says they have had ghost encounters since childhood and tells of their late brother [name withheld]. They report a severe headache and sick feeling around the time he was shot. Then, four hours after he was pronounced dead, they heard the kitchen door open and slam and heard his voice say, [quote withheld] The caller’s mother later tells them she heard the same thing at the same time.

    VisitsVoicesDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  590. 2003·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board reportedly names a Tijuana partygoer’s death night

    A caller, “[name withheld],” who says they are calling from Vista, California, tells a secondhand story they attribute to a female friend from Tijuana, Mexico. They say she witnessed it about five or six years earlier. According to [name withheld], a man at a neighborhood party insulted a Ouija board and asked it when he would die. It spelled out “Esta Noche” (“this night”). The man was reportedly killed by a truck while walking across the street after the party broke up around 1 a.m. The host closes by saying the Ouija board is [quote withheld] and wondering aloud whether what answered could arrange a death date.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    51
  591. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A watchmaker’s death and a new Concord watch that stopped

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], listening in Phoenix, tells Art Bell about their grandfather’s death when [name withheld] was about 15. The grandfather was a watchmaker. [name withheld] says their brother-in-law, then traveling in Israel, noticed that his new Concord watch had stopped. The family later worked out that this was the time the grandfather died. [name withheld] calls the coincidence spooky rather than frightening, and suggests it was a trick their grandfather would pull.

    Signs at the moment of deathSigns and messages
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    62
  592. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Voices and a name called at the back gate of a Hawaii Marine base

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Seattle, tells Art Bell that in 1995, as a Marine lance corporal stationed at a Hawaii air station, the caller pulled evening duty at the base’s back gate (“Bravo Gate”). The caller says they heard what they thought were voices, including a voice saying “Hey” two or three times. An MP friend who came out with the caller’s dinner was unsurprised. The friend said they had heard the same thing and had their own name called there, and that an MP had shot themselves at that gate a couple of years earlier. The friend’s reported story of a failed murder-suicide plan comes last. Art closes by noting how many of that morning’s calls involved suicides followed by appearances.

    VoicesMilitary sites
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  593. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A nursing home elevator reported running by itself and attributed to a resident named [name withheld]

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] is a nurse of twenty-three years. [name withheld] says they are on duty at a prison. The caller describes something that they say happened about twenty years earlier, when they were the night supervisor at a nursing home. A second-floor elevator began opening and closing and running up and down around one o’clock in the morning. An aide told the caller it was “[name withheld],” a former resident in a wheelchair who used to ride the elevator all day. The behavior began when [name withheld] died and usually came in the early hours. [name withheld] says they checked the switches and found nothing wrong, and that it continued until about 4:30 a.m. [name withheld] says staff came to “cohabitate with” it and that it is [quote withheld] The host then closes the call with two speculative theories.

    Lights and appliances acting upPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    52
  594. 2003·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Deceased father appears in a truck and warns of coming events

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that their father, who died on January 31, 1981, later appeared beside them in their truck on a rural back road and warned them of coming hardships. The caller says they heard the voice first. Then they saw a translucent, bluish-gray figure in the passenger seat, which vanished at the pond near their house. The caller says the predicted events later happened: their mother’s death, a layoff, and a divorce.

    VisitsHuman figuresWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  595. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    San Diego caller says a bird led them across a cemetery to a grave

    A caller named [name withheld], from San Diego, tells Art Bell that about twenty years earlier they learned by telephone that a man they had loved had died and been buried without their knowledge. They say they traveled to the large cemetery in a small town to search for the grave. A bird repeatedly flew ahead of them through the trees and then straight across the cemetery. They followed it and found the grave. The host thanks them and remarks that there may be “something about birds.”

    Signs and messagesContact from the dead
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    7
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    66
  596. 2003·Host's story·53 s· not yet checked

    Bat on the host’s porch on the day his father died

    Between callers, the host tells a brief personal story. On the day his father died, a bat flew onto their porch and would not move, although it appeared healthy. He says they moved it into the shade and that it left when night came. He stresses that this had never happened before. No name, place, or year is given for the event.

    Signs and messagesMore than one witness
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    57
  597. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A woman’s figure in the bedroom corner and a simultaneous pain in the eye

    A caller named [name withheld], from the greater Detroit area, tells Art Bell about a memory from 1953, when they were three years old. They say they woke in their bedroom and saw part of a pale, dark-haired woman in the corner where the wall meets the ceiling. She summoned them, then said “stop” and vanished as they felt a sharp pain in their left eye. They say they then went back to sleep.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    9
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    51
  598. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports seeing a smoke-like form leave their father’s body at death

    [name withheld], calling from West Dundee, Illinois, tells Art Bell that in 1997 they saw what they took to be their father’s soul leave his body at the moment of death. [name withheld] describes a small smoke-like form coming out of their father’s chest, floating to the bedroom door, and dissipating. [name withheld] says they were not afraid and later returned to church.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    60
  599. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Guests report an unknown boy helping a toddler on a Cleveland staircase

    A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that when their daughter was about 18 months old, the family lived in a big brick house in Cleveland, Ohio. The toddler repeatedly climbed out of her crib at night to play on the staircase. One night out-of-town friends slept in the living room. At breakfast the guests said they had seen two children playing on the stairs the night before and that “your son” had led the little girl back upstairs. [name withheld] says they have no son, only the one daughter. Afterward they wondered whether their daughter had a nighttime playmate.

    Human figuresMore than one witnessHaunted homes
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    51
  600. 2003·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A ghost, eye pain, and a triangle mark in the caller’s pupil

    A caller on Art Bell’s guest line says that a “seductive ghost” they had described earlier appeared to them and vanished when they stepped toward her. The caller says they felt a sharp pain in their left eye at that moment. The caller reports that years later, in the early 1960s, an ophthalmologist found a geometric mark in that pupil. The caller says the triangular mark was still there roughly fifty years later, including after LASIK surgery. They believe the mark came from the being passing through their eye as she left.

    Human figuresMarks and tracesBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  601. 2003·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Repeated 4 a.m. phone calls with a strange voice and a reported hag

    An unidentified caller on the “first-time caller” line says their household telephone rang at 4 a.m. It rang three times that night. An unintelligible voice came through the speakerphone and sounded like “go to sleep.” The phone was later found in the bathroom, with no matching caller ID record. The caller also relays that their friend’s girlfriend, who lives there, said she had seen the ghost before and described it as [quote withheld] The host treats it lightly, saying such calls are usually nuisance calls, and jokes that the caller should have gone to sleep.

    Phones, radio, and TVLights and appliances acting upHuman figures
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  602. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Train passenger repeats a phrase and is then reported absent

    A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Oklahoma while listening to a San Antonio station, tells of their father’s death about fifteen years earlier and a clock that stopped afterward. The caller also tells of a stranger on an overnight train from St. Louis to Minneapolis who told them their dead father was proud of them. People at the hospital had already used that phrase. [name withheld] asked the train steward to check on the elderly passenger, and the steward reportedly found no one there.

    Signs and messagesContact from the deadVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    60
  603. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Deceased grandfather appears to mother; dream of a full lake

    A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] is a truck driver speaking from the roadside outside Gallup, New Mexico. The caller tells Art Bell that after their grandfather’s death around 1993, their mother reported waking in the dark in their Tennessee house and seeing the grandfather standing there. The grandfather told her to stop grieving. [name withheld] says they did not believe it. About two years later they dreamed of their grandfather at a lake on their grandmother’s farm that had never held water. [name withheld] says they found it full the next day, despite about six months without rain.

    VisitsSigns and messagesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    55
  604. 2003·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A rented house on the Outer Banks and lights on a nearby dune

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Alexandria, Virginia, describes a friend’s rented house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina that the family says is haunted. The caller relays that a woman in old-fashioned clothing is seen walking through a bedroom and that a figure reportedly passed through a crib. Boot stamping on the porch drove a sleeping guest indoors, and there were winter lights and party noise in the empty house. A local psychic reportedly told the family the house had been built over a shipwreck. When asked to leave, the ghosts reportedly moved to a nearby dune, where lights and laughter are still reported.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    58
  605. 2003·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Dream-guided trip, two figures in black, and a black net in a valley

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes a series of vivid dreams or waking dreams over seven to nine months, at some point about fourteen years before the broadcast. In them a voice told them of a place near Papua New Guinea. The caller says they traveled there, encountered a man and a woman dressed in black at an airport, and was then engulfed by a black net in a valley at night before calling on spirits and escaping. The caller says they later came home by way of the Philippines on Halloween and concluded that a spirit watches over them.

    Dreams that came trueAttacks and harmHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    60
  606. 2003·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Pool cues, an eight ball, and a front door that opened and slammed

    A caller named [name withheld], speaking from Los Angeles, describes being home alone at about fourteen and hearing a crash from the family pool room late at night. The caller reports pool cues out of place, a ball rolling through the table’s chute, and the eight ball in the return. The front door would not open, then opened and pushed them back. It slammed shut behind them as they fled to a neighbor’s. The caller says they later learned their father and brother had also had strange experiences in the house.

    Objects moved or thrownDoors, windows, and locksHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  607. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Deceased neighbor [name withheld] materializes in a rocking chair and shakes hands

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] (formerly of Bend, Oregon, then of Applegate, Oregon) tells Art Bell that their elderly neighbor [name withheld] used to feed their cats and watch their house while they traveled to art shows. One night after [name withheld] had died, [name withheld] appeared to the caller. They say the rocking chair beside them started to rock, [name withheld] materialized fully, and they shook his hand. [name withheld] told the caller he was dead and asked them to tell his wife everything was okay. The caller adds that they thought it was cool and that similar things have happened to them over the years. The story ends without saying whether the message was delivered.

    Human figuresVisitsHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    60
  608. 2003·Caller's story·56 s· not yet checked

    Fading runner and a woman who vanishes from the back seat on the highway

    A caller to Ghost to Ghost AM says that while driving home there was “always a runner” on the highway who faded away when greeted. The caller also describes a “beautiful blonde gal” who walked the highway, got into the back seat of the car, and then faded out. No name, place, date, or explanation is given for either figure. The host responds that such hitchhiker stories are said to be common in Oregon. The call ends as he takes the next one.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and timeRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    52
  609. 2003·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    A paper Ouija board, a spirit called Tommy, and wall scratches

    A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] says they have been sensitive to spirits since childhood. They say a hostile spirit that gave its name as Tommy attached itself to them after a session with a homemade Ouija board about ten years earlier. They describe objects moving, a shadow figure, and their name being called. They also describe a shadow seen in a car and on a porch, and scratches that appeared on their girlfriend’s bedroom wall. They say the activity has largely stopped as long as they do not engage with it. The host tells the caller the spirit is still with them and advises them to get help.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingShadow peopleObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    60
  610. 2003·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Yellow eyes and an unseen figure at the top of the stairs on a 13th birthday

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld], calling from Port St. Lucie, Florida, tells Art Bell about “strange things” in the house where the caller and their sister grew up. They end with an encounter on their 13th birthday, when they say they struck something unseen at the top of the stairs and saw yellow eyes. The host asks whether they brought it on themselves, and the caller agrees, saying [quote withheld]

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesObjects moved or thrownLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    55
  611. 2003·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Basement clip lamp shakes, emits flame, and a dark object flies at a girl

    [name withheld], calling from Buffalo/Kenmore, New York, tells Art Bell about something that happened when she was about 12. A jury-rigged clip lamp over the basement washing machine buzzed, shook violently, and shot out a flame, and a small black object flew at her head. She checked for insects and found none. The lamp’s bulb was intact, and the lamp worked after she switched it back on. She says she would love to call it a ghost or poltergeist but does not know.

    Lights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    78
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    58
  612. 2004·Article read on air·16 min· not yet checked

    [name withheld] W. Meek’s Spiricom: Recorded claims of two-way communication with the dead

    This part of the broadcast is not a caller’s story. It is a recorded documentary narration, presented by Art Bell as the voice of [name withheld] W. Meek, about Meek’s EVP and Spiricom research from 1971 onward. The narration reports contacts with deceased communicators called “[name withheld],” Dr. [name withheld], and [name withheld]. It gives dates, a claimed death certificate, and a social security number, and audio excerpts are played on air. The segment ends partway through the feature, as the host returns to describe the Spiricom Mark IV device.

    Voices on recordingsPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    57
  613. 2004·Article read on air·14 min· not yet checked

    Spiricom tape excerpts presented as communication with the late Dr. [name withheld]

    In this part of the broadcast, Art Bell plays a supplied production about George W. Meek and a device the tape’s narrator calls Spiricom. The device is said to have produced two-way voice communication with a deceased man called Dr. [name withheld]. Excerpts described as coming from 1981 sessions are played. In them, [name withheld] is said to diagnose a fault in experimental video equipment and to speak about surgery and about his own death. Art Bell then stops the tape and says the schematics and documentation are posted on the show’s website. He thanks two people for passing the material on.

    Voices on recordingsVisitsPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    53
  614. 2004·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Entity attacks on a child in a late-1800s house in Needles, California

    A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about what they call an “entity attack” that began when they were about four years old, in a family house in Needles, California. He reports a presence coming through the wall at night, grabbing and dragging them, and family-wide problems with furniture moving. In a final incident, their father was trapped in the basement under a chest freezer. They say the family moved out about two weeks after that, and that they still sleep with their head under the covers.

    Attacks and harmBeing touched, pushed, or heldObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    22
    Creepiness
    72
    Originality
    55
  615. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Knocking doors and a bony-handed presence in a relative’s house near Sparta

    [name withheld], calling from New York, New York, tells Art Bell about a night in the mid-1980s at their uncle’s and grandmother’s house in southern Greece, near Sparta. They report knocking and violently shaking doors. They then woke to what they call an entity on their back and bony hands holding them face-down. It ended when they screamed and pushed up. A cousin later implied he had a similar experience.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldDoors, windows, and locksFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    57
  616. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Paralysis and a presence lying on the caller in a former mortician’s house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Atlanta, tells Art Bell that they live in what they call a haunted house, previously owned by someone they describe as a mortician. They report moving objects, noises, and mocking voices. They describe going to bed and feeling something creep up the bed and lie on them while they were unable to move or scream. Later they describe a sensation they call an attempt at sexual contact. They say the experience changed their life and that they now stay up at night until sunrise.

    Bedroom visitorsBeing touched, pushed, or heldHaunted homes
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    52
  617. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A kick to the side and spit landing on a pillow in a locked bedroom

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Ohio by way of station WKBN, tells Art Bell a short story about a single early-morning event about 15 years earlier. They say they were asleep on the floor of their locked bedroom at the break of dawn when a kick to their side woke them. They then report seeing two large globs of spit or phlegm land on their pillow. They end by saying they felt someone was standing over them doing it. The host moves on to the next caller.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldMarks and tracesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  618. 2004·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A sensed presence with a tail and blunted nails during an out-of-body experience

    A live caller, introduced by the host as being [quote withheld] says they have been a spiritual person since the age of two. They say an “essence” came around them about twelve years ago when their sister died and has come and gone since. They say the one time this presence turned angry and violent was as they were returning from an out-of-body experience in their bed. It disappeared into “some hole,” leaving a long, heavy, grayish tail in view. They say it still visits and presses long, sharp nails into their back at night. They report feeling only blunted pressure and take that as a sign they are protected.

    Non-human creaturesAttacks and harmBedroom visitors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    25
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    60
  619. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Teen and mother reportedly held down at the same moment in a Missouri home

    A first-time caller tells Art Bell that at about age 14, in a small two-bedroom house in a small town in Missouri, they and their mother were each held down and unable to move at the same moment in the middle of the night. The caller says neither of them saw anything and that it lasted perhaps 15 to 20 seconds. They learned it had happened to both of them only when they ran to their mother’s room afterward. They add that the house was only six or seven years old but that other strange things happened there, including Ouija-board use and a priest’s visit. The family later moved about an hour and a half away. The caller says they are not a “true believer” and that there must be some explanation.

    Paralysis and pressureOuija boards and automatic writingMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    54
  620. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Wartime story of a figure at a wrought iron fence and a graveyard

    A caller recounts a story they say their grandfather told them many times. According to the caller, during World War II in England the grandfather and a friend were riding in a horse-drawn carriage at night. The friend threw an empty bottle over a wrought iron fence. A figure reportedly walked through the fence, stopped the horse, and passed a finger through the friend’s boot. The friend reportedly died of blood poisoning two days later. When the grandfather returned about a week later, he found that the fence bordered a graveyard. The caller says their grandfather believed a ghost killed his friend.

    Human figuresAttacks and harmRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    59
  621. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports fingers closing on their wrists and ankles after mocking a friend

    A caller from Mississauga, Ontario, tells Art Bell that they mocked a female friend’s story of being attacked by “this thing.” About a week later, the caller says, the same thing came to them while they slept. The caller reports fingers curling one at a time around their wrists and then their ankles, and says they bolted upright to find nothing there. They also say their boyfriend later told them the thing came to him in a dream. The call ends abruptly as the host wraps it up.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldBedroom visitorsAttacks and harm
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    63
    Originality
    54
  622. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Elderly woman figure reported by eight people in a Cape Cod summer house

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], listening in Providence, Rhode Island, retells a story they say comes from their parents. On a vacation in the early 1940s, they and three other couples stayed at a Cape Cod summer house that had been closed for years. The caller says that during the night all eight of them sensed, and then saw, an elderly woman in a house coat who walked through a wall. The caller ends by stressing that all eight people saw her. The host thanks them and takes the next call.

    Human figuresMore than one witnessHaunted homes
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    49
  623. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Figure on all fours between twin beds and ski poles strewn in a Billings basement

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld], phoning from Vancouver, British Columbia, tells Art Bell a story they say happened to them in Billings, Montana. The caller reports that they and their older sister shared a basement bedroom and that the sister woke nightly with nightmares. One night, while turning on the light, the caller saw something scurry between their twin beds and out the door on all fours. Their sister then said a person was attacking her with a ski pole. The next morning, the caller says, all the family’s skis and poles were found strewn through the laundry room. The caller adds that they later learned their homes were built on an Indian burial ground.

    Human figuresObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    0
    Evidence
    0
    Creepiness
    0
    Originality
    39
  624. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Moving curtains and deceased relatives appearing in dreams

    A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that the curtains and other things in their apartment move “all the time,” and that deceased loved ones now come into their sleep. They are an uncle and a boyfriend who died in 1996. The caller says the dream figures talk to them about the man they are currently seeing, and that in the caller’s dreams the figures’ hands are outstretched, trying to grab the caller and the caller’s boyfriend. The call ends when the host remarks it may be [quote withheld] and moves to the next caller. Nothing is resolved.

    VisitsObjects moved or thrownBedroom visitors
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    49
  625. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller [name withheld] says he and his twin saw their mother’s head float down the hallway

    A caller who gives his first name as [name withheld], and who says he is in Colorado Springs, tells Art Bell that as a child he and his twin brother both woke and found their mother after a suicide attempt. That night, he says, lying awake in bed, he saw his mother’s head, with nothing below the neck, move down the hallway toward him and grow larger as it came. He says he only recently learned that his twin brother saw the same thing. The transcript never states whether their mother survived.

    Partial figures and mistsHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    55
  626. 2004·Caller's story·29 s· not yet checked

    Childhood unease and a ceramic sailor’s face in a family house

    An unnamed caller recalls childhood experiences in a family house, which the transcript renders as [quote withheld] The caller says they would get [quote withheld] and would see a small ceramic sailor-boy face in the kitchen that was [quote withheld] No date, place, name, or other witness is given, and the caller says outright that they will not label the experience. The story breaks off mid-sentence when the host cuts in.

    Haunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    24
    Originality
    58
  627. 2004·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Reported shoulder nudge while at a computer browsing a website

    A caller tells Art Bell that [quote withheld] while at their computer browsing the Coast to Coast website, the caller felt a hard nudge on their shoulder. The caller says they thought their wife had touched them, looked up, and found no one there. Art Bell then offers a theory linking computer frequencies to a different vibrational state.

    Being touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    40
  628. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Wife reports unseen hands holding her under bathwater

    A caller tells Art Bell that their wife phoned them at work asking them to come home and that the caller found her in bed trembling. According to the caller, she said unseen hands had grabbed her shoulders and held her under bathwater. The caller reports that she has had similar episodes and claims she was sexually assaulted by “something.” The host links it to other callers’ reports. The story ends unresolved.

    Attacks and harmVisitsParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    35
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    78
    Originality
    56
  629. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Brother falls ill and says beings are coming through the walls after mocking noises

    A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] says that when they were younger they and their brothers heard noises in their house, and that after they mocked the noises one brother became ill. The next day the family heard the brother screaming upstairs. He was red, sweating, and mumbling incoherently, and said [quote withheld] The host suggests fevered delirium and notes it is the second such story. No outcome is stated.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    53
  630. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Bedroom attack by a creature “astride” the caller, later called a succubus

    A live caller who identifies themself as [name withheld] from Santa Rosa tells Art Bell they were attacked in bed by a creature they describe as a mixture of animals sitting astride them. The caller says it briefly paralyzed them and came back once in the same night. The caller says they fought it off and drove it away by covering their navel and genitals, something they say they had learned from friends. Asked what they encountered, the caller says it was a “succubus”/“incubi” that feeds on sexual energy. The host calls such stories “pretty common” and says such things [quote withheld]

    Paralysis and pressureNon-human creaturesAttacks and harm
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    57
  631. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A purple mass on a rainy road and a police car that vanished

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld], calling from Mexico, tells Art Bell how a purple mass on a rain-slicked hill road appeared to shoot at their car and pass through it. A moment later, the police car and officer they had stopped near were gone when they looked again. They say the encounter was [quote withheld] The host then remarks generally that many law enforcement officers report seeing things.

    Vanishing places, people, and timePartial figures and mistsHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  632. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Hot water turning on by itself in a Sedalia, Missouri, home after the father’s death

    [name withheld], calling from Sedalia, Missouri, recounts a strange event that happened in 1967, shortly after their father died. Two weeks after the funeral, the hot water in the family bathroom began running on its own. It kept doing so even after the plumbing was replaced. The event caused significant emotional distress for the family, and they eventually sold the house.

    Signs and messagesHaunted homes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    64
  633. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Erotic dreams and a doorway figure in a former SS barracks apartment

    An unnamed first-time caller tells Art Bell that while working in Germany in 1980 they lived for a year in a one-bedroom apartment in an old barracks that they say had been used by the SS. They report recurring sensual dreams of a man in high boots and a white shirt. They say their girlfriend and their visiting mother each reported a similar dream or a sighting of the same man. The call ends with the caller saying they warned the apartment’s next tenant and could not stop the experiences.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsMilitary sites
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    53
  634. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Papers swirl after a caller mocks a house ghost named [name withheld]

    [name withheld], calling from Pennsylvania, says that in 1996 in Dubuque, Iowa, they mocked coworkers’ talk of a ghost named [name withheld]. Later, alone during election work, they say, a stack of papers rose and swirled around them until they said they believed. The papers then stopped. The host notes that [name withheld] is about the fourth caller that morning whose experience followed mocking.

    Objects moved or thrownHuman figures
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  635. 2004·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Recurring episodes of waking unable to move

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell about repeated episodes beginning [quote withheld] earlier in which they wake with their mind fully awake but cannot move anything, sometimes feeling they are going to die. The caller says outright that they have never related the episodes to a spiritual or ghost experience. The host responds that there is a condition called sleep paralysis and that it may not be ghostly.

    Paralysis and pressure
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    45
  636. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A promised sign and a floral clock that fell at a neighbor’s wake

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about events the caller places in 1955, when the caller was 18. After their father’s wake, the caller says, the neighbor [name withheld] told them he would be next and made them promise to attend his wake. He promised them a sign so he would know they had come. The caller says [name withheld] died two months later, and that at his wake a spray of yellow flowers arranged as a clock showed the time of his death. As the caller went to kneel at the casket, the spray fell from the wall onto the casket and at their feet. The caller and their sister, the caller says, took it as the promised sign, and the caller tells Art they do not believe in coincidences.

    Signs and messagesObjects moved or thrownWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    69
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    60
  637. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Laughing woman on the bed and a head that comes off in the caller’s hand

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Juneau, Alaska, describes a bedroom experience the caller says happened about twenty years earlier during a difficult divorce, when the caller had been given sleep medication. The caller reports a heavy weight settling on the bed, an inability to turn over, a raspy female laugh, and something that flung itself on top of them. The caller says they grabbed its hair and the head came off in their hand. The caller reports fainting, waking to their dog whimpering, and finding a few strands of hair that were gone the next morning. The caller was left frightened.

    Paralysis and pressureBeing touched, pushed, or heldBedroom visitors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    59
  638. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Legless woman saying “I can't sleep” in a rented house where a woman was shot

    An unnamed caller traveling east of St. Louis tells Art Bell a story from 1990, when the caller was 18 and shared a rented house with friends. The caller says a friend, sleeping over on a couch in the caller's room, later described a woman who appeared and repeated “I can't sleep” before flying out the open door. The friend noticed she had no legs. The caller adds that the friend's father, a former police officer, said he had once been called to that house, where a lady was shot and killed through the front window.

    Human figuresVoicesHaunted homes
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  639. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ghost boy and dog from a bedroom wall; caller falls after mocking

    A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] says they are calling from Arc City, Kansas, on Halloween night after taking their children trick-or-treating. The caller retells a story from their friend [name withheld] about a little boy and a dog that came out of the wall of [name withheld]'s childhood bedroom. Then the caller reports falling flat on their face moments after saying they did not believe in ghosts, while walking past the now-bulldozed house with [name withheld]. The host links the fall to a recurring theme that night: people who mock do not fare well. He ends the call.

    Human figuresGhostly animalsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    53
  640. 2004·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A hearse, a voice, and white figures on a winter road in northern Canada

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] tells of something the caller says happened to them in high school, when they were 16 or 17, in a small town in northern Canada. The caller was walking alone at night on a snowy road after their friends drove off. The caller reports a panicky feeling, a big black car the caller took for a hearse, a voice quietly saying their name from behind them, and two white figures that moved toward them while calling their name. Then they ran into town. The caller ends by reporting that their friends said they had each felt that [quote withheld] and had turned the car around for them. The host thanks the caller and moves to the next caller.

    Human figuresVoicesMore than one witness
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    51
  641. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Paralysis, a shaking bed, and a smiling girl with empty eyes

    A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Virginia, tells Art Bell about a night in August 2000. The caller says they woke in bed to sudden cold, total paralysis, a shaking bed, and the sight of a smiling girl of about eight or nine with “empty” eyes. The caller says they prayed and everything stopped. Their mother, their grandmother, and later their wife each told the caller the same thing had happened to them.

    Paralysis and pressureBedroom visitorsHuman figures
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    57
  642. 2004·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Cold plume and opening door in a Beijing hotel bathroom

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] from Phoenix tells the host about a stay with friends in Beijing, China. The caller reports that while showering at the Hua Bei Hotel, they heard a knock and a door pushed open. The bathroom became super cold, and a gigantic plume entered and blew open the shower curtain. The caller says they took it to be a presence, possibly an old Chinese warrior. It went away after the caller placed red Chinese dream catchers around the room.

    Partial figures and mists
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    67
  643. 2004·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Broken sink handle and a matching handle found in a Hawaii hallway

    A caller (first name not given) tells Art Bell a second, short anecdote. While working security in an apartment complex in Hawaii, they broke a sink handle on their first night on post. Later that same night they found a matching handle lying in the middle of a hallway floor and fitted it to the sink. They report no figure, sound, or named source, only that they [quote withheld] in the building beforehand. The host ends the call by saying he is not sure what to make of it and calling it [quote withheld]

    Objects moved or thrown
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    60
  644. 2004·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Cyclist's blackout and a round mark on the wrist

    A caller giving their first name as [name withheld], in Sun City, California, tells Art Bell that while riding their bicycle up a hill on the way home everything suddenly “stopped,” and that they next remember waking in their own bed, scabbed on the shoulder, with their bike neatly stowed in the backyard and the house locked. They describe a perfectly round circle on their wrist with a line near its center, which they say is not consistent with a fall. They offer no explanation, and the host says he is not sure what to attribute it to.

    Vanishing places, people, and timeMarks and traces
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    53
  645. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Silhouetted figure on a foggy Rhode Island bike path named “Mr. Colt”

    A caller identifying himself as [quote withheld] a musician, says he was recording an album in Warren, Rhode Island, in 1997 and running his usual nightly route on a bike path. The first night, he was unable to enter a foggy wooded stretch. The next night, a silhouetted man in a long trench coat and huge boots charged at him and vanished as he reached him. The caller says the studio owner afterward told him the figure was “Mr. Colt” and that [quote withheld] He says he later found a photograph online and recognized the figure's form and coat. The host ends the call. The caller reports no injury and no resolution.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    58
  646. 2004·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Painting of a chained figure and disturbances in an 1800s San Francisco house

    A caller who identifies themself only as calling from the Bay Area, San Francisco, tells Art Bell that they grew up in a house built in the late 1800s, where they felt a presence as a teenager. They say poltergeist-like disturbances (overturned furniture, thrown magazines, dishes out of cupboards) began after their mother's artist boyfriend hung a painting of a chained humanoid figure. A medium known to their mother and several friends tried to make contact by holding a pencil by the eraser. The paper produced “chained,” the name “[name withheld],” and the age “10.” The caller says their mother's later lookup at the Historical Society found that the house's builder had a son named [name withheld] who died of “rheumatoid fever,” and that removing the painting ended the events.

    Objects moved or thrownOuija boards and automatic writingHaunted homes
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    56
  647. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Police officers report a child's laughter from the woods of a private estate

    A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld], a police officer in northeastern Ohio, describes hearing a small child laughing from the woods of a private estate. [name withheld] was on a midnight-shift call about four years before the broadcast. [name withheld] and a fellow officer, [name withheld], both say they heard it. They found nothing when they searched with flashlights. About four months before the broadcast, the caller says, a caretaker at the same estate told [name withheld] that two children of an earlier owning family had drowned in the estate pond and that laughter had been heard from those woods ever since. The call ends with [name withheld] saying they made no mistake about what they heard, followed by the host's own thoughts on the story.

    VoicesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    52
  648. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Mother sees an old woman in her armchair the night her mother died in Glasgow

    [name withheld], calling from Greenfield Park, Quebec, recounts an event from their childhood in mid-1950s Alberta, where their Canadian-forces father was posted. [name withheld] says their mother, who had emigrated from Glasgow decades earlier and never returned, woke in the small hours and went downstairs. She reportedly saw an old woman sitting in her armchair in the living room. A search by their father found no one. The next morning, [name withheld] says, a telegram reported that their mother's mother had died in Glasgow the night before in a fire after a lightning strike.

    Signs at the moment of deathHuman figuresVisits
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  649. 2005·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    A 10- to 12-foot shadow with red eyes on a marsh shortcut in Freeport, New York

    A caller identifying themself as [name withheld] from North Bend, Oregon, tells Art Bell about a night roughly 25 years earlier. At 17, they took a shortcut through a marshy area behind an old railroad station in Freeport, New York, on Long Island. They say they heard what sounded like dog tags clinking and then two-footed footsteps coming toward them from out of sight, and decided to run. As they reached a hill, a 10- to 12-foot dark outline with red beady eyes stepped up from the bank in front of them. They report freezing, then fleeing about two miles home. They say they never told their parents and have told only one person since. They describe the encounter as possibly a “bridge” to something else rather than naming it.

    Shadow peopleLights, orbs, and glowing eyesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    57
  650. 2005·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Upside-down face at a motorhome window on a night drive near Chico

    A caller identifying themself as [name withheld] from San Antonio tells Art Bell a story from when they were about four years old, living in Chico, northern California. They say that while riding in the family motorhome at night they saw an upside-down man's face with glowing eyes at the back window. After the motorhome was stopped, their father and a family friend reported a small, skinny, college-aged man on the roof who ran into a field and disappeared. They say they are still not sure what they saw, but that it seemed to have no good intentions.

    Human figures
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  651. 2005·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Empty charred casket and a freshly dug hole in a cemetery found as boys

    A caller named [name withheld], from Arizona, tells Art Bell a story from his childhood. After a sleepover at his aunt and uncle's farm beside the old Mesa Cemetery, he and his cousin and two younger boys walked into the cemetery early one morning. They found a freshly dug hole with a pile of dirt, and beside it a casket burned out on the inside, empty, and still warm to the touch. The boys carried the casket to a friend's barn, where, he says, it was later used for haunted houses and spook alleys. He ends by saying he still does not know whether it was damnation, resurrection, or grave robbers.

    Marks and tracesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  652. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A felt hug from a presence, and a relative's death the same night

    A caller identifying themself as [name withheld], calling from Phoenix, Arizona, tells Art Bell about sitting alone in a semi-darkened living room. They sensed a presence and felt great fear coming from it. They told it to go outside, then felt a powerful but physically unfelt hug before it vanished. The next day their mother-in-law found her 90-year-old brother-in-law, Uncle [name withheld], dead in his chair. The family's best guess was that he died at the time of the experience. [name withheld] says they have no doubt the hug came from Uncle [name withheld].

    Signs at the moment of deathVisitsBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    55
  653. 2005·Host's story·47 s· not yet checked

    Host’s bat on the porch on the morning his father died

    The host, Art Bell, tells a brief firsthand story about a little bat that landed on his porch on the morning his father died. It stayed the day and then left. He takes the bat as a possible sign from his father. He ends with his belief that the dead try to let the living know they are still there.

    Signs and messages
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    55
  654. 2005·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Children’s laughter in a church camp shower at dawn

    [name withheld], from Vancouver, Washington, calls Ghost to Ghost AM to describe an early-morning experience when they were about 11 at a church camp called Sky Lake in the Damascus area of New York. They say they sensed a presence and heard a child’s giggle, then children’s laughter, in the camp shower building while everyone else was asleep. The story is incomplete. It cuts off just after they say the laughter began to scare them.

    VoicesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    59
  655. 2005·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Children’s laughter heard in a shower at a church camp

    A caller named [name withheld], of Vancouver, Washington, tells Art Bell the later part of a story about hearing children laughing while in a shower, in a setting they link to church camp. The caller says the laughter began once their head was wet and grew louder as their fear increased. They sang praise songs until they could rinse off and run out. The host closes the call by saying [name withheld] is the first person he has spoken to who handled such a thing by singing.

    VoicesPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    63
  656. 2005·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], of Rochester, New York, describes living in a Tucson, Arizona, house connected to their husband’s first wife. The caller says the woman killed her two children and herself in 1977. [name withheld] reports a burglar alarm sounding at exactly 2 a.m. on nights their husband was away, children’s whispering, moved objects, and a living room that stayed cold in summer. The caller says a responding policeman advised them to leave, and they did. The caller says they later concluded the dead woman had been trying to drive them and their children away from their husband.

    Haunted homesLights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    58
  657. 2005·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dress pulled on the bedroom door and fern stems in the washing machine

    [name withheld], calling from Jacksonville, Florida, after a hurricane, tells Art Bell that the caller’s household had had [quote withheld] The caller describes one recent one. After staying up all night, they lay down. They woke to find their bedroom door shut and the dress hanging on it apparently being pulled away, as if someone were looking at it. Later they found three stems of leather leaf fern inside their washing machine. The caller says that at that point they [quote withheld] They explain that their mother had been a “dress nut” who used to make the family dresses. The story ends abruptly there, and the caller moves on to what the transcript marks as a separate incident.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesSigns and messages
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    52
  658. 2005·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Moving ladder, a fall, and a psychic’s identification of a brother-in-law

    The caller is addressed in the transcript as [name withheld] but is later thanked as [name withheld] by the host. The caller says their husband fell from a roof after the ladder kept moving. He struck his head on concrete and was declared dead for about an hour before reviving. The caller says a visiting psychic later identified the spirit in the house as their brother-in-law [name withheld]. The psychic said [name withheld] made the ladder move to warn their husband, and then described him standing behind the caller making coffee.

    VisitsObjects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    64
  659. 2005·Caller's story·34 s· not yet checked

    Grandchild identifies man crossing yard as deceased father-in-law

    A caller, addressed by the host as “[name withheld]” at the close, says a grandchild saw an old man walking across the yard to the shed. The caller says they showed the child a picture, and the child identified the man as the father-in-law. The caller adds that they have had many instances and that the father-in-law [quote withheld] The host then thanks the caller and moves on.

    Human figuresVisitsChildren who see presences
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    58
  660. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Shape-changing creature seen from a porch and driveway at night

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Sutherland, Oregon, says that at about 1 a.m. they stepped onto their front porch to feed a cat. The caller saw a small, round creature with no visible legs and long brown hair on their driveway. The caller says that as it moved away it grew taller. Its hair changed from long brown to short dark and then grew into long black hair. It became deer-like before running off silently across the street. A couple of days later, the caller says, a neighbor in the cul-de-sac remarked only that she sees animals come up from the creek.

    Bigfoot and other creaturesMarks and tracesGhostly animals
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  661. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Doors slamming in an abandoned Minnesota tuberculosis sanitarium

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Hastings, Minnesota, describes themselves as the author of a book about their experiences as a “sensitive” person. They recount exploring the abandoned Mineral Springs Sanitarium near Cannon Falls, Minnesota, in high school. The caller says that on a night visit with a female friend, a door slammed behind them. Then all the doors on the third floor began opening and slamming on their own. They add that the building later burned down under disputed circumstances and that an unmarked cemetery for unclaimed tuberculosis patients had been on the site.

    Doors, windows, and locksPublic buildings and businessesMore than one witness
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    53
  662. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Two floating featureless figures on a Colorado mountain road

    [name withheld], calling from St. Louis, Missouri, tells Art Bell about a nighttime drive they say they took in the mid-1980s while living in Colorado Springs. The caller says they and their girlfriend parked on a dark mountain road above town and saw two black, featureless head-and-torso figures floating silently and rapidly toward them. They fled by car. [name withheld] says their girlfriend later gave a matching account and added that the figures were nearly upon them as they drove off.

    Shadow people
    Believability
    74
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    69
    Originality
    55
  663. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Talking toys with no batteries in a cousin’s nursery; an unpopular upstairs room

    A caller who gives her first name as “Kila” (the host repeats it as “Keela”) and her location as Wartburg, Tennessee, tells Art Bell about a cousin’s nursery. She says two talking toys were heard talking to each other there, with their switch off and no batteries in them. She sets this against her childhood home, where an upstairs room she eventually occupied was said by visiting relatives to be troubling. She says her cousin moved out of the house not long afterward.

    Lights and appliances acting upHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  664. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Voices and a light on an abandoned hospital floor

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, describes a night on an abandoned, earthquake-retrofitted hospital floor in Southern California where they were working. The caller says they heard two voices that stopped when they approached. A bathroom light was on again each time they returned, and they found a nurse’s station empty. The caller adds an unnamed colleague’s separate report of a flash of movement and a call light that came on by itself. The caller calls the story odd rather than frightening, and the host closes the segment without further comment.

    VoicesLights and appliances acting upPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    36
    Originality
    49
  665. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Deceased mother appears healthy in the kitchen and says not to worry

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Jonesboro, Arkansas, tells Art Bell that roughly three months after their mother died of alcoholism, they saw their mother standing beside them in their father’s kitchen. Their mother looked healthy, glowing, and smiling, and [name withheld] heard her say not to worry because she was happy now. The figure disappeared when [name withheld] looked away and back. The caller says they never told their father. The caller rejects the host’s suggestion that their mind produced it, but also says they still question the experience.

    VisitsHuman figuresVoices
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    56
  666. 2005·Caller's story·8 min· not yet checked

    Smoke-like ghosts and an aggressive figure in a Fulton, Missouri, home

    A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], in Portland, tells Art Bell he had a “ghost experience” in 1988 while a student at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He was in his cousin’s home with his cousin [name withheld] and a friend, [name withheld]. He says smoke-like, see-through figures appeared one after another in the living room: an older woman, three boys playing jacks, then a girl doing cartwheels. Then an angry man burst in and swung at him without making contact. He says he remembers little afterward, that the friends were whimpering, and that one of them quit school. He says it changed their lives.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsAttacks and harm
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    17
    Creepiness
    64
    Originality
    60
  667. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A truck pushed at San Antonio train tracks and children’s crying

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] and their location as San Antonio tells Art Bell that on Halloween they and friends repeatedly drove a large pickup truck over the local train tracks. On the third pass, after the driver braked on the slope and released, the caller says the truck was pushed over the tracks and that they and the others heard children crying. The host warns the caller that testing it that way was going too far.

    Roads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsVoicesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    50
  668. 2005·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    A white cat and unseen footsteps at Charleville Castle, Ireland

    [name withheld], calling from Traverse City, Michigan, tells Art Bell about a visit the caller and their wife made to Charleville Castle in Ireland. They slipped away from a wedding party and wandered into the dungeon. There they heard construction noises and footsteps with no apparent source while a white cat followed them. About 6 p.m. on a Friday they left as the only car in the lot. On a return trip in September 2005, the castle’s owner reportedly told them the white cat had been dead since 2001. The caller says that a year later they saw two ghostly cat figures and orbs in their digital photographs.

    Ghostly animalsFootsteps, knocks, and bangsPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    58
  669. 2005·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Sensed presence and French windows opening by themselves in a rented Portland duplex, 1977

    A caller named [name withheld], a former Portlander phoning from Seattle, tells Art Bell about events they say happened in 1977, in the first days after they rented half a duplex in Portland’s West Hills. They say they sensed a tall male presence and greeted it. Later that night, they say, they woke to find both roller shades flying up and the French-window latches turning, so that the windows opened by themselves. They say they later learned from two previous tenants that the place had a ghost.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homesObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  670. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A voice calling a child's name in her bedroom, c. 1959

    A caller who gives the name “Don” and says the call is from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, tells one of “three little stories” she emailed about being [quote withheld] It is the first and most frightening incident. The caller, then about seven years old and getting ready for bed, says she heard her name spoken, written as “Donna” in the transcript. Then a voice said “don't be afraid” and [quote withheld] and she says she could not make a sound. Her father came to comfort her. She later refused to sleep in that room. Her father later said he had experienced similar things in the house. She suggests the episode might have been [quote withheld] Art Bell then remarks on time travel or an entry into another realm.

    VoicesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  671. 2005·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A cabin in the woods near Cloudcroft furnished only from the 1940s

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Houston, Texas, describes going into an apparently empty cabin in the woods near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, in 1957, when they were twelve. They say everything in it was from the 1940s. They report no figure or sound, only the dated furnishings and the sense that nothing in the cabin came from the 1950s. They say they and a friend left in fear. They now think it may have been a slip into another time. They connect it to their father, who died in 1945 before they were born.

    Time slipsHappened in childhoodMore than one witness
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    64
  672. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Invisible force pulls caller by the arm at their grandmother's doorway

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from San Antonio, Texas, tells Art Bell that many years earlier, at their grandmother’s house, an invisible force grabbed their arm at the doorway, burned it, and pulled them up off the ground. A dog barked and family members struggled to hold them. The caller says their mother and grandmother were drawn into the tug-of-war, and that their grandmother’s words and knife-waving made the force let go, leaving three long red marks on their arm. The caller sees the episode as demonic and says it started their ongoing search for what they call the third dimension.

    Attacks and harmBeing touched, pushed, or heldMarks and traces
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    25
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    59
  673. 2005·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Caller recounts husband's changed state and energy transfer after suicide attempt

    A caller named [name withheld], who says they are calling from the [quote withheld] describes events they place in 1988, while they were living in Hawaii. After they found out about their husband’s affair, they consulted fortune-tellers, who said he would try to kill himself. They returned home to find him seemingly changed. They report the screen door shaking, the TV going fuzzy, and a force entering and choking their body. Then, they say, energy passed to them when he took their hands. They end by saying they think a “dark power” he once accepted as a teenager had taken his confidence, and that his spirit left his body and was in the tree outside the door.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldLights and appliances acting upDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    61
  674. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Security guard reports a following sound and orange orbs at the Yorktown Victory Center

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Hampton, tells Art Bell about a night on their security-guard shift at the Yorktown Victory Center. They say they glimpsed a figure they took to be George Washington inside the museum. Then, outdoors behind the camp, they heard a sound following them and saw two glowing orange orbs. They say they then traced both to ordinary causes: a turkey feather caught in a spider web dragging behind them, and lights reflecting from a black powder musket firing range and the maintenance area. The story ends with the host agreeing that everything had an ordinary explanation.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    78
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    55
  675. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Dreams of a missing friend asking to be buried, later found in a car

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld] and says the call is from [quote withheld] passes on a secondhand story from a friend named [name withheld]. According to the caller, [name withheld], [name withheld], and [name withheld] all dreamed of their missing friend [name withheld] appearing in a window and saying “bury me.” The dream image reportedly began to look like a decomposing body. Then [name withheld] was found dead by suicide in a car with a hose from the exhaust. The host sums it up as a decomposing man entering his friends’ dreams and begging to be buried.

    VisitsMore than one witness
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    59
  676. 2005·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Struck by a hearse at six, an out-of-body experience, and later night visitations

    A caller who gives her name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that at about age six she was hit by a hearse while crossing a street. She then found herself floating above her own body, looking down at herself on the ground. She says this was the start of recurring nighttime “visitations by ghosts” that came before a close friend or relative in her family died. She describes one night when she felt fingers crawling up her neck and grabbing her hair while she lay in bed beside her sleeping husband. The story ends with her reporting later visitations in which she saw shadows moving on the wall. The host then comments generally on near-death experiences and the events that follow them.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesHappened in childhoodVisits
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  677. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Trucker hears a voice, glimpses a girl in white, and finds a wet seat near Pacheco Pass

    A caller who identifies themself only as a trucker tells Art Bell of a night drive on Highway 152 through central California several years earlier. The caller says they heard a small voice say “lovely night” and briefly glimpsed a blonde girl in a white dress beside the cab. When the caller later stopped at a Denny’s, the passenger seat was wet and they could not explain why. The caller reports learning months afterward, from other drivers, a story of a bride who drowned in a crash at Pacheco Pass. The caller leaves the matter without a stated conclusion.

    Human figuresVoicesMarks and traces
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    52
  678. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Hunters report formally dressed couple who vanish and leave no tracks in snow

    A caller named [name withheld], from Pennsylvania, tells Art Bell that while hunting in 1995 they and two others saw a formally dressed man and woman in deep snow. The couple vanished, and later no footprints from them could be found. The caller wonders if they had seen a time window connected to an old farm site in the area.

    Human figuresVanishing places, people, and timeTime slips
    Believability
    75
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    61
  679. 2005·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Sleep paralysis, a dream of a grandfather, and a voice heard through the caller

    A caller who says only that they are [quote withheld] describes an episode of sleep paralysis about four years earlier. It led into a dream of a grayish hallway, their dead grandfather, and a woman in a blue gown. They say they woke to find their girlfriend at the time crying, and that she told them she had heard the woman’s voice through them. At that moment, they say, their nose bled. Host Art Bell suggests the caller gave in to the paralysis rather than escaping it.

    Paralysis and pressureVisitsVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  680. 2005·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Sounds, a voice, and a horned face in a school dormitory room at night

    [name withheld], calling from Brighton, Colorado, says that as a 16- or 17-year-old student at a School for the Visually Impaired in Louisiana, they heard kicking and scratching outside their dormitory window. Then they heard a voice telling them to sleep. Then they woke to their bed shaking and an orange-red, horned face at their closet door. They say they felt frozen, prayed, and were carried out of the room, their feet not touching the floor, to their best friend’s room, where they stayed the rest of the night. Asked for their present view, they say they never figured out what it was. They agreed with the host’s suggestion that they may have a guardian angel.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    58
  681. 2005·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Childhood events in an Oregon City rental house: a hand in the bath and a laugh

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about events in an old rented house in Oregon City, Oregon, where their family lived from about the time the caller was six until they were eleven. They describe lights switching on and off, strange sounds, chairs sliding, footsteps, and a feeling of being watched in the basement. Their parents dismissed all of it. The climax they describe is in the bathroom at about age eleven. They say they felt a hand stroking their neck and then felt snakes falling from the ceiling onto them, followed by a cackling laugh they call the most evil they have ever heard. They say they spoke to a priest about it. Art Bell ends the call because the show was short on time.

    Poltergeist activityBeing touched, pushed, or heldLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    57
  682. 2006·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Email: Sister reports Confederate soldiers in a Gettysburg basement

    Art Bell reads an email from a listener about the listener’s sister, who is described as having inherited family psychic abilities. She was asked to smudge a house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. According to the email, while blessing the house the sister went into a dirt basement and reported seeing a rifle in her face and then two frightened young Confederate soldiers huddled together. The residents asked her to return for more smudging, but she declined. The owners abandoned the house months later. The reading ends with the line [quote withheld]

    Human figuresHaunted homesAnything else
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    59
  683. 2006·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    A woman walking up an off-ramp, later listed in the obituaries of a fatal crash

    A listener’s letter read on air describes a man and his wife detouring around a fatal interstate wreck. From a bridge over the road, he says, he saw a woman walking up the off-ramp. Days later he recognized her picture among the people killed in that wreck. He ends by saying that somewhere inside he already knew, but dismissed it as fantasy.

    Signs at the moment of deathHuman figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    13
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    52
  684. 2006·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    E-mail: Floating woman in nightgown crossing road by old church, 1978

    An e-mail read on air from an unnamed listener who describes themselves as a longtime shortwave listener and Coast to Coast AM fan. They recount a night in 1978. They say they were driving their date home in a secluded rural area after midnight when they saw what appeared to be a woman in an old-style nightgown and nightcap cross the road in front of the car by an old church with a graveyard. She was floating above the ground, with no legs and eyes that were “just dark holes.” The woman continues through roadside vines, their date is nearly hysterical, and the writer insists it was [quote withheld]

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    55
  685. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board reportedly asks for caller on night their father died

    A caller the host identifies as [name withheld], in Miami, Florida, describes going to a Halloween party at a fraternity house on a college campus. They say a Ouija board repeatedly asked for the caller. The next day, they say, their mother told them their father had died the night before, around the same time. The caller and the host later take the board’s contact to be their father.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  686. 2006·Host's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Host mentions an ancient Ouija board and an incident he declines to describe

    The host tells of an ancient-looking Ouija board mailed to him years earlier, with no note or explanation, and says that “something truly awful” followed. He refuses to describe what happened on air. He says he and [name withheld] disposed of the board, and that the incident frightened him badly. He then moves on to the next caller.

    Ouija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    51
  687. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Burning smell, figure at corner of bed, and a toy from the other side

    A caller, addressed by the host as “[name withheld]?” in a context line, tells of lifelong encounters with spirits and one night when a recurring burning-wood smell woke them. The caller reports waking suddenly, colliding with a figure at the corner of their bed, seeing its eyes and open mouth, and being shown a toy the figure claimed as its own, by telepathy. The host stops the story for a break before they can describe the toy.

    Bedroom visitorsSmells with no sourcePartial figures and mists
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  688. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    [name withheld]’s sleep-related entities, a lattice-like figure, and a claimed photograph

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld] gives a mid-conversation account. They tell of unseen beings they say they fled from, and of something they felt trying to get into them as they reached their kitchen. They also describe a figure they call “the toy,” which they say was made of crossed lines. They say they have a color photograph of a beautiful female figure leaning over their head. The excerpt ends as the host thanks the caller and moves to the next caller.

    Bedroom visitorsGhostly figures and lightsSmells with no source
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    27
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    60
  689. 2006·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Shadow figures and white figures in a rented room at the Gable House

    [name withheld] of Durango calls Ghost to Ghost AM and tells Art Bell about a night about twenty years earlier. They were a college student renting a third-floor room in a large old Durango house they call the Gable House, which they say was once the city’s first hospital. They report waking in the night to see three dark “shadow people” confined in a small circle to their right. Then they saw three white figures at ceiling level to their left. One came down, put its arm around them, and said it was there to protect them. They say they fell asleep instantly and slept until morning. The story is entirely their own word. No witness speaks on air.

    Shadow peopleHuman figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  690. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Army recovery hospital house, a watched feeling, and a nurse figure at a kitchen window

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Nebraska describes the house they lived in at about age 9 or 10, which they say they were told had been an Army recovery hospital. They report a recurring feeling of being watched. They pass on a secondhand report that their brothers saw bandaged people in the basement. They also describe a Saturday-morning sighting of a woman in nurse’s clothing crossing a kitchen window at sunrise, after which they found no one there. They end by saying they believe the house was somewhat haunted and that every house they have lived in had activity.

    Human figuresHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    53
  691. 2006·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    A keychain squeeze toy sounding twice by itself on Halloween night

    A caller the host addresses as “[name withheld]” says that on one Halloween night a squeeze toy on their brother’s mother-in-law’s keychain sounded by itself across the room. It says “I love chocolate” when pressed. It then sounded a second time by itself just after they had squeezed it and sat back down. They describe being startled but call the whole thing [quote withheld] The host thanks them and moves on.

    Lights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    56
  692. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Felt presences and an unseen couch sitter in a Mackinac Island house

    A caller the host identifies as [name withheld], calling from Colorado, tells Art Bell that as a boy of about 12 he stayed one summer at a great aunt’s and uncle’s place on Mackinac Island, Michigan. He reports feeling “something weird” on entering and having to step around unseen people on the stairway. He felt someone sit down beside him on a couch while he watched television. He also had a constant sense of not being alone, including “eyes glaring” at him in the bathroom. The telling is cut off when the host takes over, and the story ends with no stated resolution.

    Haunted homesBeing touched, pushed, or heldHappened in childhood
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    52
  693. 2006·Letter read on air·5 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Ceiling noises, a weeping ghost, and bones found in an attic

    Art Bell reads a letter from a writer named [name withheld]. [name withheld] says that six years earlier, while recovering from a bad accident, they heard nightly noises from their bedroom ceiling and were visited by a crying ghost that floated through their window. They set up a video camera in the attic and found roof rats. Then an extermination crew cleaning the attic reportedly found the bones of a woman, which the writer links to the ghost. The writer says the visits stopped after the discovery. They offer their own view that the ghost was a murdered woman whose remains needed to be found.

    Haunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangsHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  694. 2006·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Glowing green clothed skeleton in Navy housing and a stepfather’s change

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld], calling from San Diego, describes an incident in Navy housing in 1971 (later said to be 1974). They say they saw a luminescent green, fully clothed skeleton with an evil grin inside their bedcovers while they were unable to move. They say they later learned the previous tenant, a man, had died driving home from hunting, matching the hunting cap and jacket they say the figure wore. They link the sighting to a lasting change for the worse in their stepfather’s personality. The host suggests that the figure inhabited the stepfather, and the caller says they believe so. The caller ends with a brief remark that their late mother visits them.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    64
  695. 2006·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Late wife’s three-part contact: Blown bulbs, a bluebird, and a bedroom vision

    A first-time caller the host identifies as [quote withheld] describes three events they say followed their wife’s death in a 2003 motorcycle accident. Before her death, the couple had promised each other to make contact if possible. They report three kitchen bulbs blowing at once after they spoke her name. They describe a blue bird at her grave that matched the color of her favorite dress. They also describe a vision of her coming out of their walk-in closet at 4 a.m., saying there is an afterlife and that she is okay. They say nothing has happened since and that the experiences convinced them they will see her again.

    VisitsSigns and messagesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    26
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    61
  696. 2006·Host's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Bird flies into the host’s face on the porch before an RV trip

    Speaking on air, the host (addressed as Art) tells of what he calls the second of two bird-related experiences. A sparrow or common desert bird flew onto his porch and straight into his face one day before an RV trip. A person with him, referred to only as “she,” is said to have seen it too. He frames the event as an omen, with birds as “harbingers of something,” but says he is not sure. The story ends without saying what, if anything, the bird was thought to foretell.

    Signs and messagesWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    51
  697. 2006·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Nebraska farmhouse room and an aunt’s story of a barrier in the doorway

    A caller the host identifies as [name withheld] from Denver tells about a room in an old Nebraska farmhouse where they stayed as a teenager. They report a foreboding feeling there and tell their aunt’s story that she could not enter the room through an open doorway. The host interrupts for a break before the caller describes their own nighttime experience.

    Haunted homesDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    49
  698. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Closet doors roll open in a grandparents' bedroom after a silent challenge

    A caller the host calls [name withheld] describes lying awake at night in a bedroom of their grandparents' house, frightened by stories their aunts had told them. They silently dared whatever might be in the room to [quote withheld] The caller says they then heard the accordion closet doors roll open on their tracks in the dark. Their next memory, they say, is of being downstairs in the living room. They add that their family dismisses the idea and that one aunt believes them. The caller says they have slept in the room many times since without any further problem.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    47
  699. 2006·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A key in the door and a solid figure in a Reno apartment

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld] tells Art Bell that they had rented a small apartment in Reno for three months when a noise woke them on their couch. They say someone entered with a key, made a phone call about a deal, packed clothes, and took a banana from their refrigerator. They then saw that he had no hands or feet. Police found no one. The next morning the chain lock was on, the windows were locked, and a banana peel was in their trash. The previous tenant's mail stopped arriving. They say the apartment manager identified the man they described as the tenant who had lived there before them.

    Human figuresHaunted homesMarks and traces
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    69
  700. 2006·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Circuit breakers flipped off in a farmhouse basement

    A caller identified on air as [name withheld] from Michigan describes a night in 1994 alone in their parents' large 1870s farmhouse. They came home to a dark house and found every light and appliance dead. Going down to the basement to the circuit box, they say they felt an increasingly malevolent presence. They say the family cat hissed, clawed its way out of their arms, and fled upstairs. At the box they found every breaker flipped to the off position in a house they say was locked. They switched them on and left the house.

    Lights and appliances acting upHaunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    57
  701. 2006·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Paramedic’s 1981 suicide call and a later claim that the house was haunted

    [name withheld], from Ohio, tells Art Bell that in 1981, as a paramedic in a Cincinnati suburb, they responded to their first suicide, a gunshot death in a house. In 2002, they say, they met a woman in Gettysburg who claimed the same house was haunted, that the dead man had been murdered, and that the man had appeared to her son. [name withheld] maintains that the 1981 death was a suicide. Art Bell then comments that suicides and murders leave spirits behind.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresChildren who see presences
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  702. 2006·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: A child hears a pleading girl in a window eight blocks from home

    The host reads a letter attributed to [quote withheld] The writer says that as a young child she had past-life memories of another family and believed she had been adopted. She reports that whenever her family drove past that family's house, about eight blocks from her own, she heard a girl pleading for help. Eventually she saw the girl's silhouette in a window, while her parents could not hear anything. She says she later concluded the family was her own past life and that the pleading ghost was herself. The letter ends with her question about what a ghost is if not an earthbound soul, and the host moves on to the next caller.

    Partial figures and mistsVoicesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    67
  703. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Out-of-body story from a father during a stroke in a Brampton house

    A caller speaking from Toronto tells Art Bell about the house they grew up in, in Brampton, Ontario. They say they, their mother, and their brother had gentle hauntings there. They focus on their father, a skeptic, who had a stroke in the living room. About a week later he told the family he had had an out-of-body experience during it. He said he watched the scene from near the ceiling and saw an elderly man and woman watching too.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiencesHuman figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    60
  704. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Late-night phone call from an aunt later found dead in the snow

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says that years earlier, during a very cold winter, he got a telephone call around 11:30 p.m. from his aunt in Sault Ste. Marie. She asked to speak to his mother and asked the family's forgiveness. The next day, he says, the family learned the aunt had had a heart attack and frozen to death that night, around 9 p.m. The host concludes the call [quote withheld] The caller states no conclusion of his own.

    Phones, radio, and TVVisitsMore than one witness
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    50
  705. 2006·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Light switches cut power in a funeral home holding a biker's body

    A caller tells Art Bell that, as a teenager in the late 1970s, they worked six-to-midnight shifts in a funeral home alongside a licensed embalmer they call [name withheld]. The caller reports that the hallway light switches controlling the room's circuits clicked off by themselves three times while they vacuumed. A fourth time the switches clicked off while [name withheld] stood facing the caller, leaving the room dark. The caller says they concluded that the body of a locally known biker lying in the next room did not want them there. The caller and [name withheld] locked up and went home for the night.

    Lights and appliances acting upPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    53
  706. 2006·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Automatic writing hand continues figure eights until commanded to stop

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld] tells Art Bell that they had tried automatic or spirit writing before without results. On their last try, their hand moved in a figure-eight pattern, sped up, dug into the paper, and would not stop until they told it out loud to go away. Days later, the caller says, a book in a secondhand bookstore fell open to a passage claiming that a figure eight in spirit writing means an evil spirit. They took that as a sign never to do it again. They report that they have not done it since.

    Ouija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    62
  707. 2006·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A deceased neighbor's chest stored in a boy's bedroom—Part 1

    A caller the host addresses as “[name withheld]” begins a story from his childhood in an apartment building about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He says an elderly Italian couple in the building asked his father to store belongings while they moved after the wife died. A chest from those belongings was put in his bedroom, with the instruction not to open it. He says he opened it that night and looked through a wedding dress, dishes, and pictures. He hid it again when his father came down the hall. The host cuts the call short for a station break before any activity by a spirit is described.

    Anything elseHuman figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    22
    Originality
    59
  708. 2006·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A boy, a woman's hope chest, and a furious figure above the bed

    [name withheld], calling from Pennsylvania on Ghost to Ghost AM, finishes a story he had begun earlier. As a boy, he says, he rummaged through a woman's hope chest in his room. Then he heard his name whispered from his closet and saw a furious, smoky figure he took to be that woman hovering above his bed. He says he fled screaming to his parents, who had the chest removed from the room that night. Since then, he says, he has never doubted there is something after this life.

    Human figuresVoicesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    58
  709. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Unseen grab while opening a Colorado restaurant where the caller worked

    A first-time caller the host calls [name withheld] in Burbank tells Art Bell they were a skeptic until something they could not see grabbed them from behind. They were three months into a job at a restaurant in Colorado and bending over to set out trays. They ran to the kitchen and found only the chef just arriving. Afterward they called their mother, whose friend reportedly confirmed that such things can make physical contact. They end by saying they now believe such stories.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldPublic buildings and businessesSéances, rituals, and blessings
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    57
  710. 2006·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dark figure in a hallway after a husband's remark about selling his soul

    A caller who says they are [name withheld] in Chicago tells the host a secondhand story about a friend and the friend's husband. About 32 years earlier, the caller says, they were woken at night by a smell of something burning. Then they saw a large dark figure in the hallway of their apartment. The friend told the caller that the friend and the friend's husband knelt, prayed, and cried until the figure vanished. Earlier that day, the friend said, the friend's husband had said he would sell his soul to the devil over financial troubles. The friend was convinced the devil had come to collect. The host replies that such a deal, once made, is done, and moves on to the next caller.

    Shadow peopleSmells with no sourceNon-human creatures
    Believability
    49
    Evidence
    7
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    60
  711. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A pale woman in period dress, a ringing phone, and a heater in an apartment

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], on air from Redding, California, tells what they call a “brief ghost story” about a small apartment they once lived in. They report that objects moved by themselves. They once saw a pale woman in period dress standing by their living-room door before she faded away. Their telephone and an old heater behaved oddly at night. They then say a female figure appeared in a dream and claimed responsibility for the “pranks.” They end by describing a local news report, about a year later, that a nearby Walmart construction site had been halted over a sacred Indian burial site. They say they think there might be a link to the woman.

    Human figuresLights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    60
  712. 2006·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Woman in black knocking on a window from inside a Chicago house, 1982

    A caller the host calls [name withheld], phoning from Miami, recounts an October 1982 night in her Chicago home. She and her husband heard hard knocking on the window of a back room. She says her husband, who worked in law enforcement and had his gun, went to investigate and came back terrified. He later told her he had seen a woman all in black knocking on the window from the inside. The knocking is said not to have come back after that night.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  713. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports praying and seeing a stabbing victim’s spirit in an emergency room

    [name withheld] in Florida, a caller, says they were watching a TV news report about a local high-school stabbing when they began praying and felt transported to the emergency room. They report seeing the 15-year-old victim’s spirit standing beside his body and speaking with him. He said he was afraid to die, and the caller reassured him. The host cuts the caller off before they say whether the victim survived.

    Deathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    49
  714. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Out-of-body comfort for a dying stabbing victim before a TV death announcement

    In this part of the broadcast, the caller (identified in a context line as [quote withheld]) continues a story about a claimed out-of-body experience at the bedside of a dying stabbing victim. They report comforting his spirit with prayer, watching a light flood his spirit, and then being “sucked back” into their living room. They say a television report then said he had died about 20 to 30 minutes later. The story ends with the host telling the caller they gave the man comfort to pass.

    Signs at the moment of deathDeathbed visions and near-death experiences
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    59
  715. 2006·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Cemetery security guard sees misty figure at office window

    A caller who says they were a security guard at a cemetery tells Art Bell that they were packing up at the end of a shift when they felt as though someone was watching them. They then saw a foggy, person-shaped light at the office window that moved away. They say they ran outside to check whether it was a car light or a person, found no one, and do not know what it was.

    Partial figures and mistsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    54
  716. 2006·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Cemetery guard hears casual voices in an empty back office

    A caller the host addresses as “[name withheld]” says that while working as a security guard at a cemetery, they were resting in a back office between rounds and thought they heard voices in another room. They report searching the building and the front of the cemetery and finding nobody. They describe the sound as low, casual conversation. The host responds with a remark about cemetery guard work and his own view on spirits and bodies, and the story ends.

    VoicesPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    55
  717. 2006·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Teenage blood-curse ritual and a warning phone call from “[name withheld]”

    A caller the host identifies as [name withheld] in Wisconsin tells of an episode from their teens in Racine, Wisconsin. They and two friends tried to perform a ritual they believed was a blood curse, using instructions said to come from a manual “written in blood.” [name withheld] describes losing about an hour in a haze, later misfortunes among people involved, and a phone call from a man calling himself “[name withheld],” who told them to destroy what they had made. The host cuts the call short for time and warns listeners not to attempt such things.

    Séances, rituals, and blessingsPhones, radio, and TVVanishing places, people, and time
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    58
  718. 2006·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Cemetery worker describes a smiling figure that faded away

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says they mow cemeteries. They describe a single daytime encounter with a figure they glimpsed while working. They say the figure, which the caller compares to a short, fat Abraham Lincoln with something on his head, turned, smiled at them, and seemed to speak to them in their head, telling them [quote withheld] Then it walked away and faded. The story ends with the caller saying they really believe they saw a ghost that day and the host replying that not all ghosts are scary.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    65
  719. 2006·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Newspaper carrier reports a translucent man pumping water that never overflows

    A caller identified on air as [name withheld] from Iowa says that as a teenager delivering the Des Moines Register at about 3:30 a.m., they saw a translucent old man at an outdoor water pump beside a new subdivision. The man wore a wide-brimmed hat, flannel shirt, baggy pants, and boots. The caller says they froze for about ten seconds, then spoke with the figure for 15 to 20 minutes until they ran out of things to say. The host then comments that freezing was probably the wiser reaction, and the story ends.

    Human figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangsMarks and traces
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    62
  720. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Figure leaning over a bed in a Calgary apartment; activity ends after a note

    The host introduces the caller as [name withheld] in Calgary. The caller says that at about age 20 they moved into an apartment with their friend [name withheld]. They heard nightly breath-like and clicking sounds while falling asleep. One night they opened their eyes and saw someone leaning over their bed, about two inches from their face. They say the figure jumped back and ran behind a bookshelf and was not there when they turned on the light. After they wrote a note suggested by [name withheld], the experiences stopped.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  721. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Trucker reports girl they held at a crash later appearing in their cab

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] in Nebraska, a former over-the-road trucker, says that years earlier they held a young girl in shock at a rollover crash on I-40 in New Mexico and were later told she had died. They report that when they finally drove that stretch again, at the mile marker of the crash, their dog panicked and a translucent girl appeared in their passenger seat. She said [quote withheld] and vanished. The host closes by calling it a heartwarming story.

    Human figuresVisitsVoices
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  722. 2006·Caller's story·9 min· not yet checked

    Old man walks through a cabin door and makes tea while a witness cannot get up

    [name withheld] in Canada tells Art Bell that they and their boyfriend were working at a fly-in fishing lodge in northern Ontario/Manitoba. They report waking in their bush cabin needing the outhouse and being unable to get up. They then saw an old man walk through the screen door and make tea while they stayed unable to move. After he left, the lodge’s Aboriginal fishing guide seemed to know already about “the old man” and asked whether he had his cup of tea.

    Human figuresParalysis and pressureHaunted homes
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    64
  723. 2006·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Truck driver and their wife report the same presence in a one-bedroom apartment

    An unnamed caller who says they are an overnight truck driver, on the line from [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that a couple of weeks earlier they saw a ghost in front of their closed bedroom door at about 2 a.m. while sitting at their computer. The next morning, they say, their wife described a being in her room at the same hour, shaking her bed and leaving her frozen and unable to scream. The caller treats the two reports as the same presence. The story ends without any identification of it.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureGhostly figures and lights
    Believability
    56
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    52
  724. 2006·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Ghost of a murdered upstairs neighbor in a rented downstairs house

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says they rented the downstairs of an older house, where a door resisted closing in a way they read as a warning. They report that they later heard, from below, a man beat the upstairs woman to death. They then saw her ghost in their bedroom telling them not to come up to help. Police came the next day. The caller ends by saying she gave them strength and that they are ready if evil comes again.

    Human figuresVisitsDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    72
    Originality
    58
  725. 2007·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Transparent figure of a deceased grandfather in a spare bedroom

    A letter from a writer the host identifies as “[name withheld]” from Springfield, Illinois, read aloud on air, describes seeing a transparent figure resembling their grandfather coming out of a wall in a spare bedroom about three weeks after his death in February 1978. They say they told no one at the time. They say that twenty years ago they learned their son had seen the same ghost roughly three months later in a front bedroom. They also report other family members seeing dark forms and lights and doors behaving oddly. The letter ends with the writer saying they will never know whether it was a ghost or a demon, but that they believe they saw it.

    VisitsHuman figuresShadow people
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    59
  726. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Rake-like scratches on the caller’s body in a duplex, ending after they moved out

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Tacoma, Washington, tells Art Bell that roughly 20 years earlier, while sharing a duplex with a friend, they began finding four parallel, rake-like scratches on soft parts of their body, including behind their neck. They say the marks appeared at any time of day, were barely felt when they occurred, sometimes nearly drew blood, and stopped after they moved out of the duplex. They say they did not know what to call it until other people later described them as having been [quote withheld]

    Being touched, pushed, or heldHaunted homes
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  727. 2007·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Nightly alarms in sealed missile silo Kilo 11 after a worker’s death

    A caller who says they spent ten years as a security policeman at F.E. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, tells what they call a famous base story. A missile maintenance worker was crushed by a silo clamping arm and spoke to his wife by radio before dying at Missile Silo Kilo 11. Afterward, an alarm inside the sealed silo went off almost every night. The story ends with the men having to respond repeatedly. No resolution is stated, and the host adds his own commentary.

    Lights and appliances acting upMilitary sites
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  728. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps of “Footie Pajamas” and a depressed bed at a Mayport military home

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] says they were in the military, stationed in Mayport, Florida, living in on-base housing with their wife and two small sons. They report hearing child-like “footie pajama” footsteps come to the headboard at night and finding the sons asleep. One night, the caller says, they felt the foot of the bed press down, but nobody was visible when they looked. They say they could not cry out. Then, they report, they suddenly lost all fear and emotion, and that made them lie back down. The host closes the call for a break.

    Bedroom visitorsFootsteps, knocks, and bangsBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    56
  729. 2007·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Letter from a retired police officer: dead man's arm rises while hands are bagged

    A letter read aloud on air, attributed to a self-described retired police officer, describes a single event around 1990. The writer says they were bagging the hands of a robber shot dead by police. As they leaned over the body, the writer says, the dead man's arm lifted straight up at a 90-degree angle. A hospital attendant in the room is said to have reacted at the same time. The letter ends with the writer calling the movement a “dead man's spasm” while calling the timing eerie.

    Cold spots, smells, and marksBeing touched, pushed, or held
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  730. 2007·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Motion-sensor porch light after a cat's death read as a goodbye

    A caller on the line the host greets as [quote withheld] tells a short story about a porch motion-sensor light that kept turning on with no one around, shortly after their cat was killed by a car. The caller gives no date, place, or other witness. They read the light as the cat “saying goodbye.” The host counters that insects commonly trip such sensors and later remarks that people make these connections because they want to say goodbye. The call ends there, and the host moves to the next caller.

    Signs and messagesLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    14
    Originality
    57
  731. 2007·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Red glowing figure playing a child's organ at home

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Sacramento, describes a childhood incident they say they have told few people about. They were alone at home with their grandfather one summer. They heard music coming from an old organ in their room, walked down the hallway, and report seeing a red, glowing being with yellow eyes using its fingers on the organ. They say they commanded it to leave in the name of Jesus and that it vanished. They believe it was a demon.

    Non-human creaturesLights, orbs, and glowing eyesMusic with no source
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    26
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    64
  732. 2007·Discussion·1 min· not yet checked

    Host describes a listener's photograph of a uniformed figure in a hospital mirror

    In this part of the broadcast, the host (Art Bell) describes a photograph he says a listener named [name withheld] sent him and that he has posted on the show's website. According to the host, the picture was taken in an ICU room in a Colorado hospital by a nurse testing a new camera's flash, with nobody else in the room. A mirror in the frame appears to show a figure in what he takes to be an old uniform, [quote withheld] He says he found nothing bogus in the image and thanks [name withheld]. No caller speaks about the photograph in this part of the broadcast.

    Strange photos and videoHuman figures
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    42
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    60
  733. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Cemetery legend: a grave said to answer “nothing at all” at midnight

    A caller who calls themselves [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that, as a high-school freshman, they and other teenagers were told by an older boy about a cemetery grave with a very tall upright headstone. The legend says to stand at its foot at the stroke of midnight and ask the old man what he is doing there, and he will answer “nothing at all.” [name withheld] says the older boy drove them out to the cemetery, they walked up at midnight and did as instructed, and the reply was “nothing at all.” Art asks whether they heard it clearly. The segment ends with the pun acknowledged and Art's remark about repetition among spirits.

    VoicesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsMore than one witness
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    54
  734. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Archaeology crew's equipment failures and scattered camp at a burial site

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Southern California, says they are an archaeologist with a master's degree. They describe a survey and excavation where laptops and generators failed inside a flagged area and camp equipment was found scattered. They report that human remains were uncovered. An elder's spiritualist prescribed a sweat lodge and colored cloth ribbons. Crew members who took part reported nothing further, while those who did not said the disturbances started again.

    Lights and appliances acting upObjects moved or thrownSéances, rituals, and blessings
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  735. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Civil War figures reenact a bayonet killing in an aunt's basement

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Virginia, describes a childhood night spent in their aunt's furnished basement, in an area they say was a Civil War battlefield. They report seeing a woman in a gown and a man in a blue uniform embrace. Then a man in gray ran up and bayoneted the man in blue again and again, with faint crying and groans audible. They say the figures vanished instantly, and the call ends.

    Human figuresHappened in childhoodHaunted homes
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    60
  736. 2007·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Letter on deaths and reported hauntings at the Penfield Place in Illinois

    The host reads a letter attributed to [name withheld] in Rockford, Illinois. It recounts the history of a house in north-central Illinois that locals call the Penfield Place. The letter tells of a series of deaths, a bride's disappearance and the later discovery of her dismembered remains, and strange events reported by later tenants. It ends by describing the house as still standing, decaying and in ruins. No document or second witness is presented on air.

    Haunted homesShadow peopleBedroom visitors
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    57
  737. 2007·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Doll moves its arm; a dark figure at the mother's bedside

    A caller named [name withheld], from Huntsville, Alabama, tells Art Bell that a large childhood doll they kept in their bedroom raised and lowered its arm while they read. They say the doll was passed to their mother. Their mother then reported a dark figure beside her bed and a potted plant that shook by itself. The doll was eventually put out with the trash.

    Objects moved or thrownShadow peopleMore than one witness
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    53
  738. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dark figure beckoning from under a kitchen table in Bishop, California

    A male caller on the [quote withheld] line, who does not give his name, says that while on vacation he slept in his uncle's sister's house in Bishop, California, in the living room facing the kitchen. He reports waking at three in the morning to a voice calling him from the kitchen. He saw a dark figure under the table beckoning him with its hand. The call ends with the caller saying he refused the invitation and with Art Bell explaining that he had to edit a word out of the call.

    Shadow peopleVoicesHaunted homes
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  739. 2007·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board threat, a voice in the ear, and a man in the passenger seat

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Los Angeles, tells of a Ouija board session years earlier. The caller and a friend contacted what they call an evil spirit that threatened to kill the friend. Walking away from the friend's apartment at about 2 a.m., the caller says they heard a voice scream in their ear telling them not to help the friend. Later, driving home on the freeway, they report that a fully formed, solid-looking man appeared in the passenger seat, smiled, waved, and vanished. They took him to be the friend's guardian angel. They add that they used Ouija boards a few more times, linked those periods to things going badly in their life, and eventually got rid of their board.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingHuman figuresVoices
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    52
  740. 2007·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Child figure in the Harnden house and a newspaper article of a 1958 murder-suicide

    A caller recounts that in 1958, when they were 10 years old, they and their father stopped at an abandoned Tennessee house the family called the Harnden house. Upstairs, the caller says, they saw a three-year-old blonde-haired girl, who fled into a bedroom. The door resisted their father, and a search of the room found no one. The story ends with a local chief showing them a newspaper article describing a doctor's murder-suicide in the house. The host asks whether the girl's spirit remained.

    Human figuresHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    75
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    62
    Originality
    59
  741. 2007·Letter read on air·36 s· not yet checked

    Narcotics detective reports a dead man standing over his own body

    The host reads a brief letter from [name withheld] of Plainfield, Illinois, who says they were a narcotics detective called to a drug-related murder scene. [name withheld] says they saw a man standing over the dead body, telling the victim to get up. The letter ends by saying it was the dead man yelling at his own corpse. The letter is presented as a “fast blast,” and no further details or resolution are given.

    Human figuresVoices
    Believability
    38
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  742. 2007·Letter read on air·4 min· not yet checked

    Newborn revives and grandmothers appear in a hospital window reflection

    A letter read on air by the host, attributed to a listener named [name withheld], describes events said to begin in 2000. A premature son is born without a heartbeat and is revived. The writer reports seeing both of the baby's grandmothers in a hospital window reflection, smiling toward the baby. The son, now seven, is said to talk about “angels” he sees at night and to have identified a grandmother's photograph. The letter closes with the writer's conclusion that the grandmothers came to help.

    VisitsChildren who see presencesVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    27
    Originality
    59
  743. 2007·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Door held shut by something with dog-like feet; Cracker Jacks toy taken

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Pennsylvania, tells a childhood story that lasts about a minute. At seven or eight, they put a Cracker Jacks toy in an upstairs drawer. When they came back, they say, the door would not open, even though it had no lock. They say they looked under the door and saw feet that looked like dog feet. Then the door opened, they saw something going out the window, and the toy was gone. They do not say what they think it was, and the story ends there.

    Doors, windows, and locksObjects moved or thrownPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    58
  744. 2007·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    A 2 a.m. feeling that something was wrong with their father, then a phone call

    A caller tells Art Bell that when they were about 14 and their parents were separated, they woke around 2 a.m. with what they describe as a big explosion in their head. They told their mother something was wrong with their father. They say that about an hour later their mother got a phone call saying their father had been hit by a truck and killed. Art Bell offers condolences and says relatives often seem to know when something awful has happened.

    Warnings and premonitionsSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    47
  745. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    EVP saying “go home” recorded in a Niagara-on-the-Lake graveyard

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Niagara Falls, Canada, tells Art Bell that they, their boyfriend, and a friend went ghost hunting with digital recorders in a graveyard in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The caller says that as they were about to leave, the friend remarked about someone coming home with them. On playback in the car, they heard a voice say “go home” clearly on the recording. The caller says none of them spoke those words. The story ends there, with the host commenting on EVP rather than the caller reporting any further event.

    Voices on recordingsVoices
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    56
  746. 2007·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    A white indistinct form in a truck's passenger seat in 1970s Pennsylvania

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Wyoming, tells Art Bell that while driving across Pennsylvania in the 1970s their truck became “awful cold inside,” and they saw a white form in the passenger seat. Asked to describe it, they say it was a [quote withheld] and that they cannot say it had a human form. They say it did not bother them and they stayed on the road. Art replies that he does not understand that at all.

    Partial figures and mistsCold spots and sudden heatShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    51
  747. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Chest pressure and a scream saying “save me” in bed after moving to Washington State

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from west of the Rockies, says they had recently moved to Washington State when they had two similar experiences while lying in bed. Each time, they say, they felt someone approach and something lean on their chest, followed by a scream in their right ear. The second scream said “save me.” The caller says they were not greatly frightened and tried to sleep. The caller offers no settled explanation, but mentions their boyfriend’s idea that a tree falling near the house might have been connected.

    Bedroom visitorsParalysis and pressureVoices
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    54
  748. 2007·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Voices, a shadow figure, and gray figures near Waverly Hills Sanatorium, 1993

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Indianapolis, tells Art Bell that as a high-school senior in Kentucky in 1993 they took a jogging shortcut through the grounds of the abandoned Waverly Hills Sanatorium. The caller says they heard a chorus of voices that stopped when they told them to. The caller says they saw a black, shadow-like figure with red eyes in a shed window. They met a bearded man with a Rottweiler who vanished after telling them not to look back. Then they saw more than a hundred gray figures in a field. The caller says they ran to school and that nobody believed them until they later learned the site was said to be haunted.

    Shadow peopleVoicesHuman figures
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    61
  749. 2007·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    X-ray technician reports a man in the control room before a patient's death

    This first-person story is presented as a letter or written account and is credited on air to [quote withheld] The writer says that while working alone as an x-ray technician in an Arizona hospital in the winter of 2006, an older man appeared at the control-room door, spoke briefly, and disappeared from a secure area. The story ends when the writer reaches trauma room one and sees the physician declare the time of death for the man they say they had just seen in the control room.

    Human figuresSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  750. 2007·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Basement door, a shared dream, and a slow-burning teddy bear in a country home

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Dayton, Ohio, describes several “spooky moments” in a country home that the caller and their husband bought in the mid-1970s. A basement door opened by itself each evening at supper time. Their son said something was coming into his room. One night the caller and their husband reportedly shared the same vision of their daughter being raised out of bed and slammed to the floor. They found the daughter asleep and unharmed on the floor. They concluded there was an entity in the home. They blessed the rooms with holy water and burned a handmade teddy bear the caller distrusted, which, the caller says, took hours to burn. The caller says they left the house with their children a few months later.

    Doors, windows, and locksHaunted homesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    60
  751. 2007·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Funeral home worker reports a conversation with a cryonics patient in transit

    A caller who says their family owned a funeral home describes being hired to remove a hospital patient who was being prepared for cryonic suspension. They were driving the body to the funeral home with a heart-lung machine running in the back of the station wagon. They say they heard a voice ask [quote withheld] and saw the man sit up in the rear-view mirror. They say they pulled over and spoke with the man. They told him he could not stay at the funeral home and should go with his body in the ambulance. They say they have told almost no one since.

    VoicesHuman figuresShips, planes, and cars
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    64
  752. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A toilet torn from the floor and thrown down the stairs of a vacant farmhouse

    A live caller, who gives no name and whom the host describes as calling from east of the Rockies, tells of a night in the early 1980s when they and five teenage friends explored a vacant farmhouse from the 1800s. The caller and three girls were on the second floor when they heard a crash. They found that a toilet, which the caller says was bolted to the floor, had been torn out and thrown down the stairs. The group fled the building, and the caller offers no explanation for what did it.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    57
  753. 2007·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Noose reported suspended from nothing in a rented former church rectory

    A letter read on air, credited by the host to [name withheld] in Alberta, Canada, describes a family that rented a small-town house beside a church and graveyard in the mid-1990s. They decorated it for Halloween with headstones and a hangman's noose. The writer says a scream from downstairs woke them after midnight, and that the writer and their 11-year-old daughter saw a hangman's noose suspended from seemingly nothing on the stairs, which then fell. The writer says they learned the next day that the house had been the old church rectory and that a former pastor of the neighboring church had hanged himself there.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    57
  754. 2007·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    A deceased man at the foot of the bed in a family funeral home

    The host reads a letter from [name withheld] in Morris Plains, New Jersey, describing the writer's childhood in a family funeral home during World War II. The writer says they felt watched by an older man's body in the casket showroom, and later woke to see him standing at the foot of their bed. The letter ends with the writer's theory that the man was a child molester who could not adjust to death and their hope that he stays buried.

    Bedroom visitorsHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    75
    Originality
    55
  755. 2007·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Art student draws a tombstone named [name withheld], then meets a woman of that name at work

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], who lives in Austin, Texas, and is originally from Victoria, B.C., Canada, tells Art Bell about their time in art school. They worked part-time at a small grocery store and, on a class field trip, visited a grave site and drew a tombstone bearing a woman's name. A couple of weeks later, the caller says, a woman in a long black dress with grayish skin came into the store. When asked her name, the woman said “[name withheld]” and said she did not know where she was. The story ends with [name withheld] saying the experience still unsettles them and that they rarely tell the story.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    56
    Originality
    58
  756. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Voices from the basement and footsteps on the stairs in a rented Atlanta room

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], a trucker from Houston, Texas, tells Art Bell that a few years earlier they were renting a room in a house in Atlanta, Georgia. They say they heard voices from the basement and then the stairs creaking as something came up toward them. They say something unseen came close to them while they were in bed. They prayed until it seemed to leave. They later learned, they say, that the house was said to have been the site of a killing in the basement. Art thanks them and remarks on the poor quality of cell-phone audio.

    Haunted homesVoicesFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    55
  757. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Dream of father-in-law searching for his body and wife hearing the caller's voice

    [name withheld] from Milwaukee tells Art Bell that two years after marrying and moving into a house, they dreamed of their dead father-in-law in a cemetery. The figure said, [quote withheld] [name withheld] says they woke unable to move, and their wife later told them they had sounded like her father when they called her name. [name withheld] offers narcolepsy and cataplexy, or something supernatural, as possible explanations. Art suggests sleep paralysis or a takeover.

    VisitsParalysis and pressureMore than one witness
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    55
  758. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Bright light, chimes, and a floating paper in their late uncle’s handwriting

    A first-time caller from Los Angeles gives their age at the time as about 21 and says they had just returned from Vietnam. The caller tells of sleeping in their late uncle’s bed at their grandmother’s home. The caller reports a great light and chimes as they were falling asleep, and a sheet of paper floating in the air. Later they found a paper on the floor that relatives said bore their uncle’s handwriting. The host cuts the call short to keep to one story per caller.

    Signs and messagesLights, orbs, and glowing eyesMusic with no source
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  759. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Staged Ouija board prank and an improvised number reported correct

    A self-described first-time caller from Idaho tells Art Bell about an Ouija board session they say they staged with their brother at a mid-1980s Halloween party. The caller admits they fed the board phone numbers they already knew while their brother made ghost noises in another room. The caller says the one number they were asked for and did not know, a local lingerie shop, they improvised on the spot. Their brother told them the next day it was correct. The call ends with the host’s remark that the Ouija board “unfortunately worked.”

    Ouija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    15
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    54
  760. 2007·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Letter: Crying child and a locked room in a Victorian university office

    The host reads a letter attributed to [quote withheld] In it, the writer says they worked in the 1980s for a university journalism department housed in an old off-campus Victorian building. They report hearing a child crying that they could never find, a chilling cold on the stairs, and a third-floor door they could not unlock. The letter ends with a friend opening the door, a child’s footprint in dust, a cold vortex on the stairs, and a psychic’s story of a boy’s fatal fall and his mother’s imprisonment there.

    Public buildings and businessesVoicesCold spots and sudden heat
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    26
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    61
  761. 2007·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A floating translucent man at the caller's bedside at seventeen, and a warning five years later

    [name withheld], calling from Grants Pass, Oregon, tells the host that at seventeen they woke in bed to a translucent man floating about a foot above the floor, who they say had been shaking them. They fled the house, and their mother told them it was a dream. Five years later, they say, the same figure came to them in a dream and warned that their boyfriend, their son’s father, would hurt them. The following day, they report, he choked them. They end by saying they would listen to the presence next time.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsDreams that came true
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    60
  762. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    1965: A ten-second TV lag and a shadow man in a hat seen by children

    A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a story the caller dates to 1965, when they were about five and their parents were working late at their pharmacy. The caller reports that the upstairs television began broadcasting about ten seconds after the downstairs set. The caller says they and their brothers saw a shadow man on the wall of the upstairs bedroom and again from their sisters’ room. The caller says their parents, on returning home, did not believe any of them.

    Shadow peopleLights and appliances acting upHappened in childhood
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  763. 2007·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Dead uncle seen in boys’ bedroom on the day he had promised to visit

    A caller who identifies himself only as a longtime listener describes an event from his childhood, around age eight or nine, in the early 1970s. His uncle, who had promised before his death to visit the family’s new house on a particular Thursday, is reported to have appeared on that Thursday in the bedroom the caller shared with his twin brother. Banging noises were then heard downstairs. The story ends with the boys’ father going down to investigate. The caller gives no further outcome, and the host then speculates about a period after death in which such a visit might be completed.

    VisitsHuman figuresFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  764. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Palm reader relays a family’s story of a dead mother’s warning to rescue [name withheld]

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] a palm reader, describes a reading they gave in a small town between Salt Lake City and Yellowstone Park. They say the client told them that the client’s dead mother had appeared separately to the client’s girlfriend and to the client’s father, urging them to [quote withheld] The family found [name withheld] in an alley at a gas station with a motorcycle gang. The story ends with [name withheld] describing how the ages shown by the palm lines matched the ages at which the ghosts were reported. The host then reflects on whether the dead can send a message.

    VisitsPsychics and mediumsMore than one witness
    Believability
    42
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    55
  765. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Bluish-white pillar becoming a woman’s ghost on a rural road at night

    A caller who identifies himself as [name withheld] from Arizona tells Art Bell that as a boy of about nine or ten he was on a picnic at a country lake with his mother and grandmother. Driving home after dark, his grandmother took a wrong turn down a long dirt road. There the three of them saw a bluish-white glowing pillar that became a woman’s ghost drifting toward the car, and they fled.

    Human figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    53
  766. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Callback: A dead uncle’s footsteps and a father seen in a shared dream

    An unidentified caller, placed by the host [quote withheld] phones back to finish a story cut off earlier in the broadcast about his dead uncle. He says his uncle appeared in his and his brother’s bedroom and that they heard him walking. His father heard a disturbance in the kitchen, found pots and pans strewn on the floor, and later told them he had seen Uncle. The caller then adds that when his father died some years later, he and two other brothers all had the same dream of their father in heaven being greeted by the uncle. The host then closes the call.

    VisitsBedroom visitorsFootsteps, knocks, and bangs
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    54
  767. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Action figure falls from shelf into an open drawer while reading The Exorcist

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] tells Art Bell that about ten years earlier, while they were reading The Exorcist at midnight in their apartment, a Morbius the Living Vampire action figure fell from a shelf above their dresser into an open drawer of underwear. Only that figure fell. The caller says it was “kind of weird” and wonders whether spirits were trying to say something or be funny. The caller reports nothing further. The host jokes about it and takes the next call.

    Objects moved or thrown
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    62
  768. 2007·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Radio switches itself back on and retunes to Ghost to Ghost

    A caller who identifies himself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that he was listening to Ghost to Ghost for the first time in his family’s old house. The radio he tried to switch off with a remote kept coming back on. He says he pulled that radio out of the wall, after which a radio in another room switched on and tuned to the program. The next morning, he says, the set that had been on FM had been changed to AM.

    Lights and appliances acting upHaunted homesPhones, radio, and TV
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    53
  769. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A room in a Waterbury grandmother’s house said to bring nightmares and illness

    A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] recounts a secondhand story from an EMT partner whose grandmother lived in Waterbury, Connecticut. The caller says one room in the grandmother’s house gave every family member who slept there nightmares. They say their partner dreamed of a man in turn-of-the-century dress walking up the stairs, and that the family’s later description of the house’s ghost matched the dream figure. They end by reporting that the grandmother fell ill, including a case of flesh-eating bacteria, while sleeping in that room, and that her problems stopped when she returned to her own bedroom.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresSleep paralysis and bedroom visitors
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  770. 2007·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Trailer door found open and cat found in sealed cavity

    A caller who identifies themselves as [name withheld] says they lived alone in a 31-foot trailer in Bellingham, Washington, and repeatedly found their locked door open with their cat outside. They fixed the door so the cat could not open it. Then they came home one night to find the door closed but the cat missing. They eventually found the cat inside a cavity under a twin bed that they say could be reached only by pulling out a large drawer. The cat ran out and was gone for two days. The host joked that cats have mystical powers.

    Anything elseDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    20
    Originality
    50
  771. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller says they are possessed by three named ghosts they summoned

    A caller on the “Wild Card Line” tells Art Bell they are possessed by three ghosts whom they summoned themselves and who, the caller says, told the caller their identities. The caller names them as Carlos Castaneda, [name withheld], and [name withheld], calls them evil predators, and says they want to kill rather than exorcise them. The host suggests the caller see an exorcist. No outcome is reported.

    PossessionVoicesNon-human creatures
    Believability
    37
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    46
  772. 2007·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller reports a lady appearing in bed after they lay in an open grave

    A caller describes escorting a friend whose boyfriend had just died. While at the cemetery, the caller lies down in an open grave meant for the next day’s burial. They report that the same night, a lady appears in their bed and says she does not appreciate them lying where she will be laid to rest. The story ends with the caller climbing out of the grave when their friend calls them, frightening her.

    Human figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    51
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  773. 2010·Letter read on air·3 min· not yet checked

    Ham radio contacts attributed to a deceased operator

    The host reads an email letter said to come from [quote withheld] about the writer’s father, an avid ham radio operator who died on April 22, 1987. About a week and a half after the death, the writer says, they sat in their father’s backyard radio shack and heard operators calling the father’s call sign and arranging to meet him. They went on the air and told the operators the father had died. The letter ends with the writer’s guess that the father stayed around briefly to say goodbye. The host remarks that the story affected him.

    Phones, radio, and TVVisitsVoices
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    62
  774. 2010·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Bearded figure with a funny hat seen through a bedroom door

    An unnamed caller on Art Bell’s wildcard line, addressed by their girlfriend’s father as “[name withheld],” describes a night about 20 years earlier. The caller was sleeping on the couch at their girlfriend’s parents’ house when they saw a transparent figure at the parents’ bedroom door. It became a bearded man in a funny hat, whose head appeared to pass through the door and who yelled at them without a sound. They say they fled to their girlfriend’s bedroom and later told her father. The father did not punish them. He said he believed them and described his own repeated mirror sightings in the house. The caller gives no location, date, or second witness. The story ends with the father’s admission and Art Bell closing the call.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsHaunted homes
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    59
  775. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Bed covers held up by an unseen helper after a child’s request

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from San Diego, tells Art Bell they grew up in a haunted house. They say that at about six years old, while making their bed, the covers kept falling and they asked out loud for help. They report that the two corners at the foot of the bed then stayed up in the air until they lowered their own end. They say they were both glad the ghost helped and scared.

    Objects moved or thrownHappened in childhoodHaunted homes
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    54
  776. 2010·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Girl in white dress at the foot of the bed in a Sacramento house

    This is an emailed first-person letter read on air by the host and credited afterward to “[name withheld].” The writer says that at twelve years old, in the late 1950s in Sacramento, California, she saw a girl in a white ruffled dress sitting on the edge of her bed at night. When she tried to shove the girl off with her foot, her foot went through the figure. She reports keeping it secret into adulthood. Later, after her father said the previous occupants had lost a little girl, she concluded the figure was that child.

    Human figuresHaunted homesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    54
  777. 2010·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Ghost with a bone knife in a father-in-law’s Florida house

    A caller who gives their current location as southeastern Oregon tells Art Bell that about fifteen or sixteen years earlier, when they were roughly twenty and newly married, they saw a figure in a ceremonial headdress enter the back room of their father-in-law’s house in central Florida and raise a bone knife toward them. They report screaming and reaching out, after which the figure was gone, and a search of the house found no intruder. They say they later understood it as a ceremonial sacrifice. They also say they later learned the area had once been Seminole and Creek hunting ground and a reservation for tribes moved into the tip of Florida.

    Human figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    57
  778. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Child reports transparent man in buckle shoes in grandmother’s hallway

    [name withheld], calling from Anchorage, Alaska, says that in 2007, when they were six, they stayed home from school and saw a transparent man in old-looking buckle shoes at the end of their grandmother’s hallway. They say they told their grandmother and mother. They later describe a bedroom light turning on unexpectedly at night. Art thanks them for the story and ends the call.

    Human figuresHappened in childhoodLights and appliances acting up
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    57
  779. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Caller describes a black shape in a NIST-released 9/11 video clip

    A caller who goes by [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that shortly before the call they were browsing a large release of 9/11 video footage obtained from NIST. At “video 147,” the caller says, they saw a large black shape that they compare to a ghost. The caller describes the shape moving up and along one building, then down at a 45-degree angle to another building, wrapping around it, and descending again. Art says similar strange things were captured during the attacks and suggests the caller send the clip to Coast to Coast AM. The caller does not give a file name or link.

    Strange photos and videoShadow people
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    25
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    57
  780. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Lemur on the pool patio the night of the caller’s father’s visitation

    A caller introduced as [name withheld] from Houston, Texas, tells Art Bell that on the night of their father’s visitation in April 1999 they drove home, let their dog out on the patio, and saw a lemur walk out of the shadows and look at them. The caller says they checked the animal afterward against internet photographs. Then they read that “lemur” comes from a Latin word meaning “walking dead.” The caller concludes that their father chose to appear as the lemur to assure them they were all right. The host notes the alternative, that this was the meaning the caller’s mind gave it, and thanks the caller for the call.

    Ghostly animalsSigns and messagesVisits
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    58
  781. 2010·Host's story·48 s· not yet checked

    A bat lands on the porch on the morning of the host’s father’s death

    The host tells a brief story about a bat that came to their desert home on the morning his father died, landing on the porch in the sun. He says he and at least one other person picked the bat up and carried it into the shade, where it stayed all day. It flew away that night after sunset. He calls the arrival odd and notes the timing, without stating a cause.

    Signs and messages
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    53
  782. 2010·Article read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    Retired guard’s story of Ted Bundy’s ghost in the Florida electric chair

    On the broadcast the host reads an account he attributes to a retired Florida state prison guard, unnamed at the guard’s own request, who is said to have told his story to a Tampa newspaper reporter in April 2001. According to the host’s reading, after Ted Bundy’s execution guards would enter the electric chair room and find Bundy sitting there smiling. He vanished when they approached or spoke to him. Other guards also reported seeing him near his former cell, where he was said to repeat [quote withheld] The guard further said the warden threatened to fire any guard who reported the activity, that several guards quit, and that Ted was not the only ghost haunting the prison.

    Human figuresPublic buildings and businessesVoices
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    56
  783. 2010·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Voice telling a caller to leave a room in a London cathedral

    A caller whom the host introduces as [quote withheld] tells a “church ghost story” set in London. In 1994, on a Glee Club tour from Michigan, the caller entered an upper-floor room in a dark Gothic cathedral, and says they heard a voice telling them to get out. The caller says two companions waiting in the hallway looked past them and told them to turn around. The caller found a plaque beside the door stating that someone had been beheaded in that room. The host says he believes the caller and links the message to an earlier EVP program.

    VoicesPublic buildings and businessesPsychics and mediums
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    58
  784. 2010·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Black butterflies and a face image in a bedroom window after a husband’s death

    A caller introduced by the host as [name withheld] from Texas says that years ago, shortly before their husband died, he told them to watch out for black butterflies. Since his death the caller sees black butterflies [quote withheld] wherever they go. The caller also reports a [quote withheld] in their bedroom window that frightened them, and asks the host for guidance on what it might have been. The caller says they do not know whether it was their husband visiting. This part of the broadcast ends with the request for help and does not include a reply.

    Signs and messagesPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    46
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    55
  785. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    A mist and a figure in a hat photographed while praying over an elderly man

    An unidentified caller says that after caring for an elderly man in his 80s, described as a retired colonel, they saw his moods darken and his voice change into blasphemy and abuse. The caller and a friend wondered whether he was possessed. While the caller recited a Bible passage over him, a gentleman at the house took instant-developing photographs. The caller reports that they show a grayish-white mist and the outline of a man in a hat with a cape. The caller says the mist later sank into the floor and disappeared, and the man never troubled them again. The caller says they still have one of the photographs, and Art asks the caller to send a copy.

    Strange photos and videoPartial figures and mistsPossession
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    32
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    66
  786. 2010·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A face materializing in the caller’s own vision, followed by a dream

    A caller addressed by the host as [name withheld] from California tells of sitting in their living room on the phone about 15 years earlier when a gray spot in the corner of their vision grew and materialized into what they could barely make out as a non-human face. The caller says it went around a corner smiling at them and that they ran out of the room. The caller later had a dream of an abyss and something screaming for them to come outside. The host cut in to say they were out of time, and the call ended.

    Partial figures and mistsNon-human creaturesAnything else
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    65
  787. 2010·Letter read on air·1 min· not yet checked

    Soldier ghost at a child’s bed and a later Air Force echo

    Art Bell reads an emailed letter signed “Ryan from Indiana,” in which the writer describes waking around 3 a.m. at age eight in a small home in Terre Haute, Indiana. They saw what they describe as a ghost, a soldier in full military gear standing in front of their bed. According to the letter, the figure asked what they were doing by its bed. They saw a military-style bunk on their bedroom floor, and the figure vanished when they looked back. The letter then reports that twelve years later, at a training mission at Fort Dix, New Jersey, they saw a young airman going through their things near their bunk and asked him the same question. It ends with the writer wondering whether the ghost could have been themselves at a future time. The host calls it a case of haunting oneself.

    Human figuresTime slipsBedroom visitors
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    60
  788. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Tall hooded figure with a black face reported at age ten

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], from Corpus Christi, Texas, tells Art Bell they are 27. They describe something that happened when they were 10, at their mother’s boyfriend’s house. They say that while they were trying to fall asleep, they saw a tall figure with a white hood and a black face coming toward them. They felt frozen, hid under the covers, and saw it disappear. They say it came back six months later. They still cannot explain what it was or why it kept coming back. The host suggests the story may not be finished.

    Human figuresBedroom visitors
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    47
  789. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Caller says a ghostly image appeared in a photograph of a Chicago murder scene

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], calling from Chicago on a cell phone, says that [quote withheld] they photographed a murder scene. They say the developed image shows a strange sparkly shape above the spot where a newspaper photograph had shown blood on the sidewalk. They say they shoot negative film and develop it themselves in a darkroom. Of three such scenes they have photographed, only this first one shows anything. The host advises the caller to send a good photograph to the Coast to Coast AM website. The host then offers his own remarks about hauntings at scenes of violent death.

    Strange photos and videoRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    65
  790. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    An image on a rice-field bridge and at a bathroom window

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], from Colorado, describes two sightings on the same day while staying with a girlfriend in [quote withheld] in the Philippines. The first was a fleeting “third image” behind them on a small rice-field bridge. The second came that evening, when the same image appeared in a bathroom window and seemed to pass through the wall. They say they shouted at it and were then startled when their girlfriend opened the bathroom door, which ends the story on a comic note. They say they [quote withheld] and had no more experiences like this. The host closes with remarks about alcohol rather than about the sighting.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mistsHaunted homes
    Believability
    57
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    54
  791. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Tall shadow figure in woods linked by caller to neighbors’ candles

    [name withheld], calling from Atlanta, Georgia, tells Art Bell a story they say began years earlier at their own house. It involves their wife and the neighbors of her ex-husband, who they say were practicing an occult tradition. The caller reports orbs and nighttime footsteps on the nights the neighbors’ candles were lit. Then came a bang on the roof and a large shadowy figure in the woods across the street. The caller and their wife finally watched it run into the light and seem to vanish, while its footsteps stayed audible. The story ends with the caller praying over the property and the activity stopping. Art comments that people who dabble in such things live to regret it.

    Shadow peopleFootsteps, knocks, and bangsSéances, rituals, and blessings
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    59
  792. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Deceased friend’s voice warns a caller about a new boyfriend

    A caller introduced as [name withheld], from Northern Arkansas, says that a few months after their best friend [name withheld] died, they began hearing his voice warn them that the man they had started dating was [quote withheld] The caller reports that when they raised it with the man at their dining table, their normally quiet dog looked at nothing and barked. The caller says the man then left.

    VisitsVoicesSigns and messages
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    61
  793. 2010·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    A figure dancing on a fence post on a country road in northern Alberta

    Art Bell reads a letter from a listener named [name withheld]. It describes a walk home along a country road in northern Alberta about fifteen years earlier. [name withheld] writes that they and their friend [name withheld] saw a thin, emaciated human form standing on a roadside post, slowly dancing. Months later, [name withheld] was diagnosed with cancer and died. [name withheld] concluded that the figure had been [name withheld] himself.

    Human figuresMore than one witnessWarnings and premonitions
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    11
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    58
  794. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Toaster oven glass shatters at the reported hour of a cremation

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Montreal, Missouri, tells Art Bell that around 1980–81 their stepsister’s ex-husband died of cancer and was cremated. [name withheld] says they were close to the man. [name withheld] reports that on that day their sister was making toast in a toaster oven when the glass window blew out and shattered, and that she found the appliance unplugged. [name withheld] says the glass shattered at what [name withheld] claims was the exact time of the cremation. Art Bell calls it weird and suggests coincidence.

    Lights and appliances acting upSigns and messages
    Believability
    48
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    59
  795. 2010·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    A locked basement safe found open with its bolts still extended

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], from Seattle, describes a business trip back east. There, the daughter of a dead, wealthy patriarch told the caller she had repeatedly seen her father in the house he built. She showed the caller a basement safe that had stayed locked since his death. The caller checked the safe and found it solidly locked. Later the caller found its door standing open even though the steel locking bolts were still extended. The caller reports the safe was empty and says they read the opening as a message from the dead man.

    Objects moved or thrownVisitsMore than one witness
    Believability
    64
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  796. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Morse code reported coming from a microwave after the caller’s mother died

    A caller the host calls “Alabama Annie” tells Art Bell that after their mother died the previous February, they took their mother’s childhood mirror and put it in front of a microwave. They then began hearing Morse code coming from the appliance. The caller says they taped what they could and still have the tapes. The caller says they could hear only one side of what seemed like an exchange, and partly decoded letters and numbers but no clear message. Art says he would like to hear the tapes and offers an ordinary possibility for the sounds.

    Lights and appliances acting upVoices on recordingsPhones, radio, and TV
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    28
    Creepiness
    32
    Originality
    68
  797. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Hooded shadow figure during an episode of sleep paralysis

    A caller named “[name withheld],” from Pittsburgh, tells Art Bell about an encounter roughly two to three years earlier. The caller says they came out of a nightmare into sleep paralysis and saw a hooded, pitch-black shadow figure to their left. The caller says they mentally swung an “astral fist” through it twice and felt a cold, static-like sensation. The figure disappeared as they came out of the paralysis with a scream. They offer a theory that such beings are interdimensional and drawn by fear, and the host agrees.

    Shadow peopleParalysis and pressure
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    54
  798. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Deceased mother and two aunts appear in a motel room; hairstyle later matches funeral home styling

    [name withheld], from Denton, Texas, tells Art Bell that after their mother died in 1995 they went to a motel to sleep. The caller says they woke to see their mother, Aunt [name withheld], and Aunt [name withheld] standing together in a white, cloud-like frame. The caller describes a conversation about card games and their mother’s restyled hair, which the caller says matched the styling they were shown at the funeral home the next day. The caller says their mother has appeared to the family since. The host cuts the call short for time.

    VisitsVoicesBedroom visitors
    Believability
    63
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    14
    Originality
    55
  799. 2010·Letter read on air·2 min· not yet checked

    A hooded figure at a California motel, later described by the writer’s son

    Art Bell reads a letter from an unnamed woman. She says that on her 1997 honeymoon she woke in a California motel room to a hooded figure in a dark brown cloak leaning over the bed and stroking her cheek. She says it rose and dissolved into mist, and her husband searched the locked room. Thirteen years later, she says, her eight-year-old son ran in at sunset and said he had seen a ghost near her bedroom window that was [quote withheld] She asks Art what it means. He answers that he has no idea.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    57
  800. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A Santa-suited figure, a fallen well, and three extra presents at Christmas

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell a Christmas memory from when he was [quote withheld] A man in a Santa suit stumbles down his street and falls down a well. The street then goes back to its ordinary paved state. Hours later, the same figure is reported floating over the boy’s bed saying [quote withheld] The story ends with three extra presents under the tree that the caller’s father reportedly could not account for. One of them was an old wooden handmade train.

    Human figuresHappened in childhoodTime slips
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    28
    Originality
    60
  801. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Door closes and room turns cold as a child greets his late mother

    A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], a truck driver going through Amarillo, Texas, says that about twenty-five years earlier their then-wife’s sister was killed in a car crash. Her nearly three-year-old son was in the car. On the boy’s third birthday, in the room in his grandmother’s house where his mother had grown up, the caller says a door with no lock swung shut and locked. The room turned cold enough to see breath, and the child greeted “mommy” and said goodbye. The caller says the room then warmed and the door swung open again.

    VisitsCold spots and sudden heatDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  802. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Figure in trench coat and fedora at a Dallas window

    A caller who says they live in Dallas, Texas, tells Art Bell that one night, after coming downstairs to get a sandwich, they looked out their grandparents’ living-room window. They say they saw a tall, faceless man in a trench coat and fedora appear at the magnolia tree outside. They say he took one step toward the window and that they felt him looking at them. When the caller blurted an exclamation, he stepped back and faded into the night. No other witness is named and no documentation is presented.

    Human figuresPartial figures and mists
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    57
  803. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Family account of shut cemetery gates and robed figures at Saint James

    A first-time caller tells Art Bell a ghost story they say their mother and older brother told them. According to the caller, they were at Saint James Cemetery on Cal Sag in the middle of the day when the gates shut, church bells rang, and they saw translucent figures in robes coming from the church. The caller says the figures vanished and the gates opened easily when their father arrived.

    Human figuresDoors, windows, and locksMusic with no source
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    59
  804. 2010·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Girl in a raincoat with a flashlight reported in a basement and a cul-de-sac

    An unnamed caller from southeastern Wisconsin tells of an event [quote withheld] when they were about 17, sleeping in their friend [name withheld]’s basement after a band recording session. The caller says they felt a cold spot, saw a small hooded blonde girl holding a flashlight by the door, woke [name withheld], and were given a blessed object to hold. A week later, a mutual friend reported seeing a matching figure in the cul-de-sac outside [name withheld]’s house. The caller offers no explanation, and the story ends with the host’s brief remarks about faith and spirits.

    Human figuresCold spots and sudden heatHaunted homes
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    59
  805. 2010·Caller's story·1 min· not yet checked

    Noises and cold chills in an old house in Chattanooga (part 1)

    A caller who gives their location as Chattanooga, Tennessee, tells Art Bell that about ten years earlier, when they were around eight, they moved into an old house with their mother and brother after their parents’ divorce. The caller says they found the house creepy from the start and that noises and cold chills occurred there. They have just begun describing one night alone at home with their mother, while they were in the bathtub. Art Bell cuts them off for a station break before any specific incident is described in this part of the broadcast.

    Haunted homesVoices and sounds with no sourceHappened in childhood
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    48
  806. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Shadow figure in a bathroom doorway, Chattanooga

    A caller identified on air as [name withheld], in Chattanooga, tells Art Bell that as a young child they were in the bathtub one night when they saw a dark figure standing in the bathroom doorway. They describe it with the show’s term “shadow person.” They say it stayed a couple of minutes, then vanished, and that they ran naked to their mother, who told them they were imagining things. They say that only after the family moved out did their mother tell them the previous occupants had left the house because of bad experiences with ghosts there.

    Shadow peopleHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    54
  807. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    House-wide music heard twice in one day, once confirmed over the phone

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], in California, reports that a few days after a death in their family, they heard what they describe as “angelic music” filling their whole house at about 1:30 in the afternoon. They heard it again that night at about 9 p.m. while they were on the phone with their son, who said he could hear it too. The caller says neighbors heard nothing, and the host remarks that it is interesting the music was heard over the phone. The caller offers no firm explanation.

    Music with no sourceSigns and messages
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    18
    Originality
    52
  808. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A faceless girl on a rural road near Cabot, Arkansas

    A caller the host introduces as “daniel in california” recounts that in 1986 their mother, driving to night work outside Cabot, Arkansas, saw a girl run across a four-way intersection near a church and cemetery. Months later, they say, they were a small child in the front seat and saw a girl with a dress and hair but no facial features on the same road. The story ends with their description of a 1990s Fox “Sightings” reenactment of a 1960s vanishing-girl story on the same road. The host then offers an “echo” idea. The caller claims no cause.

    Human figuresRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoorsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    53
  809. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Teenage boy on a headstone identified from a photo as the caller’s uncle

    Chad, calling from a truck somewhere in Pennsylvania, tells Art Bell that about three years after their grandmother died in 1991, several family friends reported a teenage boy sitting on her headstone who would run off when approached. Chad says they went to the grave themselves and saw the boy drinking a Coke while perched on the headstone. They chased the boy and watched him stop, smile, and disappear at the treeline. Their grandfather then showed them a photograph and identified the figure as Chad’s uncle, the grandmother’s brother, who died in 1988. The grandfather said the uncle was watching over her as he had been asked to do.

    Human figuresVisitsRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    30
    Originality
    59
  810. 2010·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A lost ringtone plays, then a dark figure leaves the bedroom

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] describes events beginning about two and a half years after a friend’s suicide. The caller reports that a ringtone they had lost from their cell phone sounded from the bathroom one night. The next morning they woke unable to move, heard a toilet flush with no one else in their apartment, and saw a dark unclothed figure apparently leaving their bedroom. The caller says they do not know whether it was their friend reassuring them. The host offers association or coincidence, and the call ends there.

    Paralysis and pressureLights and appliances acting upShadow people
    Believability
    59
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  811. 2010·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Caller [name withheld]’s dream of a death in their car (part one)

    Caller [name withheld], reached on the wildcard line from Fort Myers, Florida, according to the host, begins a two-part story said to date from 1971. They say they were twenty-one, on vacation, and had left their first car at home in Hollywood, Florida. On the last day they had a horrible dream that someone in their car was going to die as it rolled down a highway with them unable to control it. The host asks whether anyone actually died in the car. [name withheld] says no and that there is another half of the story, which the host promises after the break.

    Anything else
    Believability
    40
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    45
  812. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A voice tells a woman to play a record after her sister’s fatal car crash

    An unnamed caller continues a story she calls the premonition part. She reports that her sister [name withheld] and a friend were killed in the caller’s car by an off-duty, drunk police officer. After the funeral, she says, a voice in her head told her to play a record left untouched on the stereo. The song was Neil Young’s [quote withheld] which she says described the accident. The host calls it a coincidence and says such things do not make sense.

    Signs and messagesVoicesDreams that came true
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    62
  813. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A girl figure seen twice in a sister’s house; a later vision of a murder-suicide

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] tells of seeing a girl standing behind their sister in the doorway of her bedroom, in the family’s three-bedroom house, during the day. The girl walks past the caller and disappears, and the door she seemed to enter is found shut. About a month later, they say, a worker named Guy reported seeing the same figure walk through the same door and vanish into the room across the hallway. The call is cut off as the caller describes a later “vision” of a murder-suicide that they present as explaining who the girl was.

    Human figuresMore than one witnessHaunted homes
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    54
  814. 2010·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Paralysis in bed and a house beside a cemetery in LaGrange, Georgia

    The caller gives their name as [name withheld], and the host introduces the call as coming from Athens, Georgia. They describe staying in a house in LaGrange, Georgia, beside a cemetery while helping a friend with a computer store. They report one night of feeling paralyzed and pressed down into the bed and of waking with the sense that they had been in a conversation all night. They later recount what the friend’s father and the woman who owns the house told them about the property. They end by saying they now sleep beside a gargoyle their girlfriend brought back from New Orleans after speaking with voodoo practitioners there.

    Paralysis and pressureHaunted homesDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  815. 2010·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board spirits, a ball of light, and an old man with shark-like teeth

    A caller named [name withheld], from Pahrump, Nevada, tells Art Bell that at about age 17 in Houston they used a Ouija board alone and spoke with spirits, including one called [name withheld] and a dark spirit called Baal. They report a ball of light appearing near a model airplane. About three days later, they say, they saw an old man in a brown leisure suit who seemed to move instantly across the street and smiled with shark-like teeth before vanishing. The story ends with Art Bell warning against casual use of the Ouija board.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingLights, orbs, and glowing eyesHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    70
    Originality
    60
  816. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Contest winner discusses the “Babushka” photograph taken by a co-worker in 2007

    [name withheld], announced by the host as the winner of the show’s ghost photo contest, tells how a co-worker at the time, named [name withheld], showed the guest a photograph [name withheld] had taken at [name withheld]’s sister’s house. [name withheld] said the household had been experiencing “creepy stuff.” The guest entered that photograph, titled “Babushka,” in the contest and says they had never seen anything like it. The call ends with prize details and no description of what the photograph actually shows.

    Strange photos and video
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    15
    Originality
    51
  817. 2013·Caller's story·10 min· not yet checked

    Military trucks starting and a horn sounding by itself at Camp Stanley, Korea

    A caller from Tennessee, addressed by Art Bell as “[name withheld],” describes their 2002–2003 military tour at Camp Stanley in Korea, where they worked night guard duty at a gate controlling an ammunition holding area. They report that a HEMTT truck started by itself one night. A week or two later, a truck horn sounded by itself around 2 a.m. A second guard is said to have been present. The story ends with the caller saying they do not understand how such things could happen, noting that a soldier had reportedly died in the area.

    Lights and appliances acting upMilitary sitesMore than one witness
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    38
    Originality
    53
  818. 2013·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    A nine-drawer dresser blocking a bedroom door in an Eldridge, Iowa, house

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] says they bought a house in Eldridge, Iowa, around 1982. While moving in, they and their son carried a nine-drawer dresser into a bedroom. They say it then moved in front of the door while no one was inside. The caller and their wife changed the room from their daughter’s bedroom to a poker room, and they say their dog would never enter it. They end with a 2005 return visit, when a realtor told them the house had sold seven times since they owned it and said the realtor did not want to hear the caller’s story.

    Objects moved or thrownHaunted homes
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    57
  819. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Shadow figure behind a sapling and streetlights going out on a drive home

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Louisiana tells, secondhand, what their wife reportedly told them when they were newlyweds. Driving home from her mother’s at night, she said she felt watched. She saw a shadow figure standing behind a roadside sapling and watched its head follow her as she passed. Then the neighborhood streetlights went out one at a time until they reached her. She reversed back to the spot and found only a sapling, and the lights came back on at once. The caller says the incident ended there, and they offer no explanation.

    Shadow peopleLights and appliances acting upRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    56
  820. 2013·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Border Patrol trainees and a robed group around a bonfire near the Rio Grande

    A live caller to Ghost to Ghost 2013, addressed by the host as “[name withheld]” and said to be calling from Texas, says that about twenty-five years earlier they and a partner, both brand-new Border Patrol agents, came upon fifteen to twenty people in brown full-length robes. The group was circling a large bonfire on a hill near the river at about two in the morning. Two of the robed people ran toward the agents, who reversed away without lights and did not slow down until they reached the highway. The caller says they and their partner told no one for about twenty years. The caller says that years later a student of theirs described coming across the same scene. The caller says they still do not know who the group was or what they were doing.

    Anything elseMore than one witness
    Believability
    67
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    52
    Originality
    57
  821. 2013·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Two men who asked about a missing gate vanish on a rural gas road

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says that when they were 15, in eastern Kentucky, they met two men on a dirt gas road. The men asked how the caller had gotten past a gate that the caller says had been removed years earlier. When the caller turned around a few steps later, the men were gone. The caller says they ran home and told their mother that two men were trying to kill them. The caller says they never told the story because they did not know whether it was a ghost story. The host suggests the men may have gone back to a time when the gate still existed, calling it “just a guess.”

    Vanishing places, people, and timeHuman figures
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    54
  822. 2013·Caller's story·10 min· not yet checked

    A deadbolted fire door opening repeatedly, and a child seen in a window at a state institution

    A caller the host identifies as [name withheld], a corrections officer and zone sergeant at a large state institution, describes a heavy steel fire door in an unused former mental-health building. The caller says the door was found open at least twice a week for about six weeks, though no one inside the perimeter held a key. After an inspection at about 3 a.m., they say, they and four officers saw a blonde girl of roughly eight to ten years old in a second-floor window. She waved. The caller reports no further trouble with the door.

    Doors, windows, and locksHuman figuresChildren who see presences
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    46
    Originality
    60
  823. 2013·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    A colonial-dressed luminous figure in a Boston apartment doorway

    A caller tells Art Bell a story that they say happened while they and their fiancée [name withheld] lived in a Boston building for about two to three years during their grad school years. About a month before they moved back to Brooklyn, they say, they woke in bed with a sense of being watched. Then they saw a glowing, slightly see-through man in colonial dress in the apartment doorway. Their partner is said to have woken and also seen the figure, which then vanished. They say they could not sleep again that night. The host then reflects on the story before taking the next call.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsHaunted homes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    52
  824. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Tall shadow figure in a bowler hat gliding through a grandmother’s basement

    [name withheld], calling from Minnesota on a Halloween broadcast, says that roughly fifteen years earlier, when they were nine or ten, they saw a tall, pitch-black shadow figure in a bowler hat glide through the living room of their grandmother’s basement. They ran upstairs and say their grandmother did not believe them. They add that they and their mother had several other experiences in the house and that things were moved without the caller moving them.

    Shadow peopleHaunted homesHappened in childhood
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    54
  825. 2013·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Daughter’s imaginary friend “Roger” and the cigarette butts in the garden

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Melbourne, Australia, describes their young daughter’s long-running imaginary friend. She called him Roger, a tall old man, and talked with him, played with him, and held tea parties with him. The caller says the household had no other paranormal activity. But their daughter once told them Roger disliked them because they threw cigarette butts into the garden, a habit the caller says she did not know about. The story ends with the host’s reaction and no resolution.

    Children who see presencesHuman figuresMore than one witness
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    52
  826. 2013·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Volunteer firefighter senses dead crash victim, then an unexplained phone call

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Texas describes working a fatal rollover as a new volunteer firefighter in East Texas. They say they sensed the dead driver’s presence at the scene and felt that the man followed them home. They say that after they spoke aloud to the unseen presence and it faded, their mother phoned to say they had just called her. The number was their own cell phone, which they say had no service. They think the call was placed by the dead man or by a guardian angel to put them at ease. The host calls it a cool story and offers his own belief about the recently dead.

    Contact from the deadPhones, radio, and TVRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    56
  827. 2013·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Gray-eyed man on a friend’s couch after a Ouija session

    A caller from Colorado says a high school friend, with whom they had once used a Ouija board, phoned them at about 3:30 a.m. in December. The friend was crying and standing outside their own house in the snow. The friend said they had come home to a smell of sulfur and found a well-kept man sitting on their couch with entirely gray eyes. The friend had broken their bedroom window to escape. The caller and their mother later entered the wrecked house and had priests bless it.

    Human figuresNon-human creaturesOuija boards and automatic writing
    Believability
    52
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    68
    Originality
    59
  828. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A banishing ritual and candles that ping and catch fire

    A caller named [name withheld], in Oakville, Canada, describes a banishing ritual a friend performed the year before. The friend dabbles in the occult, and the ritual was meant to clear bad dreams troubling [name withheld]’s visiting uncle. During the ritual, [name withheld] says, one candle pinged repeatedly and the flames of two others jumped onto their cases. The caller says their uncle’s nightmares stopped afterward.

    Séances, rituals, and blessingsCold spots, smells, and marks
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    58
  829. 2013·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Electrical faults and a voice in TV static in a Tucson college house

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], calling from California, describes living in a rented house near the University of Arizona about ten to twelve years before the broadcast. They report repeated electrical failures and an electric can opener that started by itself. Then came an occasion when they and a woman with them heard a voice through the static on a TV with no cable, saying there were no ghosts there. The story ends with the two of them running out of the house.

    Lights and appliances acting upPhones, radio, and TVObjects moved or thrown
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    16
    Creepiness
    50
    Originality
    59
  830. 2013·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Recorded EVP at a party and a friend’s coma at 11 p.m.

    A caller tells Art Bell about filming a house party with night vision. They say a demonic-sounding voice was captured on the tape when they greeted their friend [name withheld]. Years later, while driving with their girlfriend at 11 p.m., they suddenly remembered the story and told it to her. The next day they learned that a friend, named [name withheld] in the transcript, was in a coma. The friend died three days later. They say a friend, [name withheld], reported the coma began around 11 that Saturday night, close to when they were telling the story. They are unsure whether there was a connection.

    Voices on recordingsWarnings and premonitionsSigns at the moment of death
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    54
  831. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Dream of an elevator operator identified as Satan in a strange city

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Texas describes a dream they say they had about ten years earlier, while living and working in Phoenix. They found themselves in an unfamiliar city, something like New York, climbed the stairs of a high-rise, and were drawn to a bank of elevators. In the second elevator stood a sharply dressed operator whom the caller says they immediately took to be Satan himself. When the caller asked whether they were going up or down, the operator said there was [quote withheld] for them. They say they woke up sweating and still do not know what it means. They say the experience has [quote withheld] but do not explain. The host closes by calling it a dream.

    Human figuresNon-human creatures
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    6
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    58
  832. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Whistling, flying knives and a figure in a TV reflection in an 1860s Stillwater house

    [name withheld], calling on Skype from Stillwater, Minnesota, hands the phone to his wife [name withheld]. She says they moved two years ago in April into a house in historic Stillwater built in the 1860s, and strange events have grown worse since. She reports muffled whistling and music like an old record. She reports the sound of a glass being set down and a knock from inside the front door when the house was empty. She says kitchen knives flew off the table and stuck point-down in the floor inches from her husband. She also says she saw a full-bodied male figure walking toward her in the reflection of the switched-off television. She says they are still in the house and are looking at other houses, and that the spirit cuts off their phone calls when they discuss it.

    Haunted homesObjects moved or thrownHuman figures
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    58
  833. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Backyard bone find at a rented house and blessed herbs to clear it

    An unnamed caller continues an earlier story about a presence in their rented home. They say their landlord dug up the rotting old deck and turned over the front half of the backyard. They then found a human tooth, what they took to be 50–60 human bones, teeth, and early-1900s coins, and they called the police. They also report that activity in the house is increasing “almost every day.” A friend connected to the Dalai Lama sent blessed herbs to burn in every room to remove what they call “the evil.” This part of the broadcast ends when the host says the caller was cut off mid-call.

    Haunted homesMarks and tracesSéances, rituals, and blessings
    Believability
    60
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    60
    Originality
    58
  834. 2013·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Ouija board at parents' restaurant and blue flashes from a mirror

    A caller introduced by Art Bell as [quote withheld] describes using a Ouija board at their parents' restaurant as a teenager. They say the presence on the board claimed to be female and “from hell.” The caller says that one night they and two friends saw three blue flashes come out of a mirror, and they fled. They repeatedly hedge their story. They add a later claim about doors slamming, which they say they only heard about.

    Ouija boards and automatic writingLights and appliances acting upDoors, windows, and locks
    Believability
    55
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    51
  835. 2013·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling

    A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Virginia, describes a house the caller and their wife bought in Ohio. The caller tells of the strange events they say they experienced there over their years in the house. They include whispering and noises, a violent racket in an empty closet, and three knocks on a closed bedroom door that their wife denied making. They also include a cat's travel cage bouncing off the kitchen floor and a low growling from the basement corner that the caller says could not have come from their cats. The caller does not say what caused any of it. The story ends with the host remarking on moving in and the sage left on the mantle.

    Objects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangsVoices
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    14
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    57
  836. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Secondhand story: Security guard hears a child laughing at a mansion alarm panel

    A caller who says they are calling from Finland (the host addresses the caller on air as “Aku” and “Roswell”) tells a story the caller plainly labels secondhand. It is about a friend who works as a security guard at a nearby mansion. The caller says the friend repeatedly hears a child laughing when they enter their code at the alarm panel. The friend finds nothing inside when they check, and the laughter stops after one more try. The host closes by remarking that it is either a bad alarm system or [quote withheld]

    VoicesLights and appliances acting upHaunted homes
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    5
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    58
  837. 2013·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    A shove on a dark street and a figure in a photograph, Louisville

    A caller the host calls [name withheld], calling from New Mexico, tells of a ghost tour in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Halloween weekend 2011. While lingering to photograph the Brennan House, the caller says they were shoved hard in the left shoulder with nobody in the street. The next morning, a photograph taken of the caller is said to show streaking lights and the face of a man above their head. The story ends with the photograph and the host's closing remarks before a break.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldStrange photos and videoHuman figures
    Believability
    70
    Evidence
    30
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    53
  838. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A radio station at 666 Main Street, Deadwood, and a ghost called Doc Smiley

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld], said to be calling from Colorado, tells of working as an overnight DJ in college at K-Sky Radio in Deadwood, South Dakota. They say the station was at 666 Main Street. They describe the staff's knowledge of a ghost called “Doc Smiley.” They also describe a man in Old West clothing seen through a newsroom window and gone when approached, clocks and commercial carts found upside down, dark figures glimpsed in the hallway, and doors creaking and slamming on their own. They end with a night during a blizzard when, about 3:30 a.m., they heard a loud “demonic roar” from down the hall. They ran after a friend they assumed was pranking them and found no tracks in the snow outside.

    Public buildings and businessesHuman figuresShadow people
    Believability
    66
    Evidence
    20
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    60
  839. 2013·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Recurring evening thump at the door and a cat watching something in the room

    A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], on Skype, describes an unexplained thump at their front door. The caller says it has happened every evening between about seven and nine o'clock for the twelve years they have lived in the house, with nothing ever visible through the peephole. The caller says they once sat outside until about 9:30 to check whether children were responsible, went back inside, and got another thump. The caller also reports that three weeks earlier they told the host their cat watches something flying around the room. The host advises the caller to keep an eye on their cat.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homes
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    8
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    49
  840. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Sensing a deceased twin brother outside the shower curtain

    [name withheld], a caller from Texas, tells Art Bell about their identical twin brother [name withheld], who the caller says took his life in December 2003. Four or five months later, while showering after work in Austin, the caller says a Smiths song came into their head. They began singing and instantly sensed [name withheld] standing just outside the shower curtain. The host suggests the experience may have been [name withheld]'s own mind providing comfort.

    VisitsSigns and messages
    Believability
    54
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    57
  841. 2013·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Toddler asks to give a french fry to a man on the staircase in Guam

    A first-time caller introduced as [name withheld] tells Art Bell that she and her daughter, about two years old, were eating lunch in the living room of their home in Guam. The child looked toward the staircase and asked whether she could give “that man” a french fry, then asked where he had gone. The caller says she never saw anyone there. This part of the broadcast ends with Bell saying he is unsure what to make of it. There could have been a man there, or a man only the child saw. The caller offers no explanation of her own.

    Human figuresChildren who see presencesHaunted homes
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    51
  842. 2013·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Rented split-entry house: orbs, mist, whispers and a white figure on the stairs

    [name withheld], a caller from New Hampshire, tells Art Bell about strange events the caller says began on the first night their family moved into a rented split-entry house about twenty-three years earlier, when they were sixteen. The caller reports a dream of an old man with hollowed-out eyes, then waking to balls of light zigzagging through their room. Later came a mist and cold in the hallway, whispering and footsteps at night, a face staring over their shoulder at the computer, and a white figure with bulging eyes on the stairs. The caller says their brother [name withheld] reported the same experiences. The host ends this part of the broadcast by telling the caller they are haunted.

    Haunted homesHuman figuresLights, orbs, and glowing eyes
    Believability
    62
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    66
    Originality
    59
  843. 2013·Caller's story·7 min· not yet checked

    Dreams, levitation and handprint marks on a Clarksburg property

    A caller the host addresses as [name withheld], from Washington, tells a long, rambling story about a property near Clarksburg, California. He covers its late-1800s reclamation and landscaping history and what he describes as Native American burial use of the land. He says he had recurring dreams of being lifted up through a ceiling light socket and woke with marks, including handprints on his ankle that he says he could not have made. He ends with a night when a woman he was with held him down because, in her words, he kept levitating off the bed. The host cuts the call short.

    Haunted homesSleep paralysis and bedroom visitorsMarks and traces
    Believability
    53
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    40
    Originality
    53
  844. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    A hospital legend of the “Gray Lady” who offers tea to dying patients

    A caller the host introduces as “bill” from Texas, who says they are a 67-year-old doctor, tells a story they heard as a medical exchange student at the University of London's Middlesex Hospital in the 1970s. The caller says hospital staff shared a belief that a ghost called the Gray Lady, dressed as an old-style nurse, appeared to patients shortly before they died and offered them tea. The caller reports that staff told of apparently well patients who saw her and then died within 24 hours. The caller passes on the staff's theory that she was a former nurse making amends for a forgotten cup of tea.

    Human figuresDeathbed visions and near-death experiencesPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    45
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    61
  845. 2013·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Granddaughter reports two black figures at a friend's house

    A caller the host identifies as [quote withheld] says her adopted 10-year-old granddaughter went to a friend's house for a sleepover. The next morning the girl called, demanding to be picked up. She later described two black figures in that house, something breathing in her ear, being pulled by the ankle, and a presence behind the shower curtain. The grandmother says she herself saw nothing. She telephoned the friend, who “completely fell apart,” and the girl stayed frightened for months. The story ends with the girl sleeping beside the grandmother's bed and a change of shower curtain.

    Shadow peopleBeing touched, pushed, or heldChildren who see presences
    Believability
    50
    Evidence
    10
    Creepiness
    65
    Originality
    57
  846. 2013·Caller's story·6 min· not yet checked

    Footsteps and grunting in an abandoned 1920s building in Lake Elsinore

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] tells a first-person story set in June 1985. The caller visited a childhood friend in Lake Elsinore and explored a large abandoned 1920s structure at night. The caller says they heard footsteps come from the lower level up to where they and their friend were sitting. The next day they could find no route for the source except through ceiling and walls. On a second night visit the caller reports a loud boom, bats flying out of a small broken bathroom, and two low guttural grunts. The story ends without resolution.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsMore than one witnessPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    18
    Creepiness
    58
    Originality
    53
  847. 2013·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    Backing into an unseen solid body at a Pasadena garden center

    An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that in 1988, shortly after graduating high school, they backed into what they describe as a ghost. They were cutting paper in a room of a garden center in Pasadena, California. They report feeling a body, stepping on its foot and pushing it back, then finding the room empty. The caller says they ran outside, then returned and were told by employees that up to three people had killed themselves on the site.

    Being touched, pushed, or heldPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    47
    Originality
    56
  848. 2013·Caller's story·4 min· not yet checked

    Slow, heavy footsteps in a dark Phoenix hallway, heard by two people

    A caller named [name withheld], calling from Phoenix, Arizona, tells Art Bell that several years ago, close to Halloween and close to midnight, the caller and their husband were watching a televised ghost-hunting séance with the house lights off. The caller says they heard slow, heavy footsteps in the hallway. They say they and their husband each later reported hearing the other walking down the hall, though neither had been there. [name withheld] says they do not know what it was. Art Bell offers his own view that watching séances and Ouija boards invites such things.

    Footsteps, knocks, and bangsHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    68
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    45
    Originality
    57
  849. 2013·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Foot tug and a friend’s death reported on the radio

    [name withheld], whom Art calls a caller from Indiana, tells of a friend named [name withheld] from the 1980s, when [name withheld] lived in Illinois. [name withheld] says someone tugging their foot woke them from sleep, and they understood it as [name withheld] saying goodbye. Later that morning they heard a radio news report that [name withheld] had died in a car accident about three miles south of where [name withheld] was. Art and the caller then discuss the farewell.

    Signs at the moment of deathVisits
    Believability
    65
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    35
    Originality
    56
  850. 2013·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Pinkish light grows and moves through trees into a lake during night fishing

    [name withheld], a caller from North Carolina, tells Art Bell about a night fishing trip with their best friend [name withheld]. [name withheld] reports seeing a pinkish light near the lake headwaters. It grew larger and moved through the trees while staying visible. It eventually went into the water, and they lost sight of it. The host says he has no explanation and calls it a cross between a ghost story and a UFO story.

    Lights, orbs, and glowing eyesRoads, cemeteries, and the outdoors
    Believability
    72
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    42
    Originality
    46
  851. 2013·Caller's story·5 min· not yet checked

    Weights restacked in a lighthouse exercise room

    A caller the host calls [name withheld] in Maryland describes a 1978 visit to the New London Ledge Lighthouse. He was a 20-year-old Navy student in Groton, Connecticut, and the guest of a Coast Guard keeper friend named [name withheld]. Twice during an evening of watching television, the four men present heard loud bumping from the upstairs exercise room. The second time, free weights that had been scattered on the floor were found stacked neatly from largest to smallest. The next day [name withheld] showed him old lighthouse log books with entries about ghostly events. [name withheld] concluded that the dead keeper was still doing his duties. Art Bell closed by treating the lighthouse as haunted.

    Objects moved or thrownFootsteps, knocks, and bangsPublic buildings and businesses
    Believability
    75
    Evidence
    26
    Creepiness
    55
    Originality
    60
  852. 2013·Caller's story·2 min· not yet checked

    An old man in coveralls pointing at a light switch in a Western Washington cabin

    A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] tells a story about their friend [name withheld]’s cabin in Western Washington. [name withheld]’s younger brother had long said one room was haunted. The family tried to sell the cabin back to the family they had bought it from. That family’s son refused it and described an old man in coveralls pointing at a light switch. The caller says this was the same description [name withheld]’s brother gave, ten years apart.

    Human figuresHaunted homesMore than one witness
    Believability
    44
    Evidence
    12
    Creepiness
    25
    Originality
    58
  853. 2013·Caller's story·3 min· not yet checked

    Childhood sighting of a man over the bed in an old Annapolis Royal house

    A caller named [name withheld], from Nova Scotia, Canada, tells Art Bell that as a child of about eight they woke around two in the morning and saw a man standing over their bed. This was in the caller’s family’s roughly 200-year-old house in Annapolis Royal. They ran to their parents, who dismissed it as a bad dream. The caller later says older residents told them the house was built by African American settlers who came after the expulsion of the Acadians and were hanged by white settlers. They say they got “more verification” of a name from a “DEA office.” The host cuts them off for time and closes by asserting the caller did see a ghost.

    Human figuresBedroom visitorsHappened in childhood
    Believability
    58
    Evidence
    15
    Creepiness
    48
    Originality
    53