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.
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The story as told
A caller who gives their location as Little Lake, California, tells Art Bell they would like to share [quote withheld] Only the first falls inside this part of the broadcast. The caller says that on the first occasion they ever had [quote withheld] they were lying in their bed with their eyes closed and could see faces floating through their room. The caller describes the faces as [quote withheld] and compares them to [quote withheld] The caller says they were at first [quote withheld] and that the episode [quote withheld] The caller reports thinking to themselves, directed at the faces, that if they were there for good they could stay, and if they were there for no good, they should go now. According to the caller, the faces disappeared immediately after this. The caller gives no date, no cause, and no other witnesses, and does not say whether they told anyone at the time. The call then moves to a second story, about the caller’s husband serving in the Pacific during the war, which lies outside this story. No second person speaks about this first experience on air.
Reported events, in order
- 0:11
The caller tells the host they are in Little Lake, California, and want to share three stories. The caller then begins the first, calling it the first strange experience they ever had.
- 0:21
The caller reports that while lying in their bed with their eyes closed they could see faces floating through their room.
- 0:34
The caller describes the faces as hollow-eyed with gaping mouths and compares them to faces from the death pits of concentration camps.
- 0:37
The caller says they were at first mystified by what they were seeing.
- 0:42
The caller says the experience seemed like minutes but they are sure it was only seconds.
- 0:46
The caller reports thinking that if the faces were there for good they could stay, and if not, they should go now.
- 0:58
The caller says the faces disappeared immediately after the caller told them to go.
Claims
Each claim is labeled as something the person telling the story noticed (observation), what they made of it (interpretation), something others told them (hearsay), or something the host said (host statement).
- observation· 0:21
While lying in bed with their eyes closed, the caller says they could see faces floating through their room.
- observation· 0:34
The caller describes the faces as hollow-eyed with gaping mouths, like faces from concentration-camp death pits.
- observation· 0:42
The caller says the episode lasted seconds, though it seemed like minutes.
- observation· 0:52
The caller spoke to the faces, saying that if they were there for good they could stay, and if not they should go now.
- observation· 0:58
The caller says the faces disappeared immediately after the caller spoke to them.
Scores, with reasons
An AI model gave these scores using a fixed set of scoring rules (scoring-v1). They are editorial judgments and rough guides, not the odds that anything paranormal happened. How scoring works.
A brief but coherent first-person story of a single episode that ended on its own, with some concrete detail and an explicit statement about how long it seemed versus how long the caller believes it lasted. No one else backs it up, and an ordinary explanation (images seen with the eyes closed) fits easily.
Evidence for and against
- A firsthand, direct-witness telling, not hearsay.
- Concrete description of what the caller says they saw: [quote withheld]
- A clear sequence with a stated end point: faces appear, the caller responds, they disappear.
- The caller is careful about duration rather than inflating it: [quote withheld]
- No date, no further detail about the place, and no way to verify it.
- The whole episode is reported to have lasted seconds.
- An ordinary explanation fits closely: the images came with the eyes closed.
- No indication of when this happened or how old the caller was.
- It is not stated whether the caller felt the faces were in the room or only images with their eyes closed.
- 0:21
- 0:42
- 0:58
What the model inferred (not said on air): The strong internal consistency and the caller’s restraint about duration are the basis for scoring above the [quote withheld] anchor. The ease of an ordinary explanation from images seen with the eyes closed, and the lack of anything that can be checked, keep it from rising higher.
The story rests solely on the caller’s own word. No physical evidence, documentation, or second witness on air is claimed, and nothing can be checked beyond a stated town.
Evidence for and against
- The caller gives their location as Little Lake, California.
- No photograph, recording, mark, or document is said to exist.
- No other person is said to have witnessed it, and none speaks on air.
- No date or address is given that could in principle be checked.
- It is not stated whether any record of the story exists outside the broadcast.
- 0:11
What the model inferred (not said on air): With only the caller’s word and no outside check, the score sits in the bottom range for evidence strength.
The image of hollow-eyed, gaping-mouthed faces drifting through a bedroom is unsettling and intrudes into a safe space. But there is no threat, contact, escalation, or ominous ending. The episode ends at once on the caller’s command.
Evidence for and against
- The setting is the caller’s bed, a private space.
- Vivid, disturbing description: [quote withheld]
- The comparison to concentration-camp death pits adds a grim association.
- No malevolence, injury, or physical contact is reported.
- The episode is reported to have ended immediately.
- The caller says they were “mystified” rather than threatened.
- It is not clear whether the faces seemed to be inside the room or only images behind closed eyelids.
- 0:34
- 0:58
What the model inferred (not said on air): A judgment of the effect on listeners only: the bedroom setting and the faces raise the score, while the instant, non-threatening ending keeps it near the middle.
Faces seen in the bedroom is a familiar motif. But the closed-eyes setting, the concentration-camp comparison, and the immediate disappearance after a spoken dismissal give it a moderately distinctive shape.
Evidence for and against
- The caller reports seeing the faces with their eyes closed rather than as a sighting with their eyes open.
- Unusual comparison: [quote withheld]
- A spoken dismissal followed immediately by disappearance.
- Faces floating in a bedroom is a recurring ghost-story element.
- The story is very short and gives no wider setting.
- How new this story is compared with the rest of the archive cannot be judged from this one call. The figure compared with the archive is provisional.
- 0:21
What the model inferred (not said on air): A familiar pattern plus one or two distinctive details, so a mid-range model score is fitting.
Scoring confidence 0.50 · analysis confidence 0.60 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand account on air; No physical evidence claimed; No second witness on air. The originality score blends the model's score (45) with how rare the story's details are across the archive. This method is still provisional.
Ordinary explanations to consider
These are possibilities only. None is a finding about what happened.
- Images seen with the eyes closed, of the kind common when relaxed and awake or while falling asleep, could account for seeing faces while lying still with the eyes closed. · The caller states they were [quote withheld] when they [quote withheld]
- The immediate disappearance of the images could reflect a change in the caller’s attention or state after their own words, rather than a response by something outside them. · The caller says the faces disappeared “immediately” after they thought the words “go. Go now.” No other cause is described.
What stands out
The caller reports the images entirely with their eyes closed rather than as a sighting in the room. The story is resolved in the same moment the caller challenges the faces: they speak, and the faces are said to vanish at once.
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