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.
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The story as told
The caller, who gives no name or location, tells Art about a second incident involving an angel. She says that a couple of years earlier her area had a [quote withheld] that blew down trees. She lives among old-growth trees and very big firs that she says have little root system, and many went down. About three weeks later, she says, another bad windstorm hit. She reports being frightened, with her heart pounding. She had just read a book called Where Angels Walk and decided to try prayer. She says she believed in guardian angels as a kid, then prayed, [quote withheld] According to her, the wind stopped immediately. She adds that her daughter was on her way to school and the bus stop that morning. The daughter later told her, [quote withheld] saying it had been blowing and then all of a sudden it was [quote withheld] The caller says this made her know [quote withheld] The host thanks her and calls the incidents [quote withheld] The caller replies that she loves the program and is listening with all her lights on. She never says she saw an angel, only that the incident [quote withheld]
Reported events, in order
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The caller introduces a second incident as involving an angel, though she says she never saw the angel.
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The caller reports a big inaugural day storm that blew down trees.
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She describes living among old-growth trees and very big firs with little root system. Many went down.
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About three weeks later another bad windstorm hit. She says she was frightened and her heart was pounding.
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She says she had just read a book called Where Angels Walk and decided to try prayer.
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She says she believed in guardian angels as a kid.
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She reports praying for angels to protect her and stop the wind. It stopped immediately.
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She says her daughter was on her way to school that morning.
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Her daughter told her the event was weird.
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Her daughter described the wind as blowing and then suddenly just like somebody turned off the switch.
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The caller says she knew it was not her imagination.
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· 0:38
The wind stopped immediately after the caller prayed for angels to protect her and stop it.
- interpretation· 0:00
The incident involved an angel or angelic help, though the caller says she never saw the angel.
- hearsay· 0:52
The caller's daughter reported that the wind suddenly stopped, like a switch being turned off, while she was on the way to the bus stop.
- interpretation· 0:57
The caller concluded the event was not her imagination.
- host statement· 1:38
The host states that people can provide an atmosphere that allows the entrance of [quote withheld]
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.
This is a brief, clear firsthand story with a claimed second witness. But it lacks details that can be checked, and the wind stopping is easily explained by a natural lull or the storm passing.
Evidence for and against
- The caller was there: she describes her own prayer and the wind stopping.
- Some concrete detail: old-growth trees, big firs, shallow roots, heart pounding, daughter on the way to the bus stop.
- The caller makes clear that she never saw the angel.
- No exact date, place, or full name is given.
- The wind stopping has a common ordinary explanation (a lull or the storm passing).
- The daughter's backing is secondhand, and she does not speak on air.
- The labels showing who is speaking are inconsistent for the prayer lines.
- The story is short and part of a longer call.
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What the model inferred (not said on air): The caller was there herself and the story hangs together, which supports a middling score. The lack of checkable detail and an easy ordinary explanation keep it in the lower middle.
Only the caller's word is available. The daughter is a claimed witness, not one heard on air. No names, dates, records, or physical evidence are supplied.
Evidence for and against
- The caller reports a firsthand experience.
- She reports a second witness, her daughter, who described the same sudden stop.
- No details that can be checked independently are given.
- No photograph, recording, or document is mentioned.
- The daughter's story is relayed by the caller rather than heard directly.
- The prayer lines may be credited to the wrong speaker, the host or the caller.
- The story is very short.
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- 0:52
What the model inferred (not said on air): This is in the low part of the scoring guide because the support is essentially the caller's word plus a claimed second witness who does not speak.
The story is framed as protective and comforting. The only tension is the caller's fear during the windstorm, which ends with the reported calm.
Evidence for and against
- The caller says she was frightened and her heart was pounding during the storm.
- The ending is an immediate stop after prayer and a protective-angel reading.
- No threat, sighting of a being, physical contact, or lasting dread is reported.
- The story ends with thanks and light-hearted host chatter.
- This part of the broadcast includes host chatter that is not part of the story.
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What the model inferred (not said on air): Creepiness is low because this is a story of rescue and protection rather than a threat.
A familiar [quote withheld] story with a protective-angel frame. The daughter's switch-like description is a modestly unusual detail.
Evidence for and against
- A specific detail: the daughter says it was [quote withheld]
- The caller says she never saw the angel, making it an indirect protective rescue.
- The core idea, a prayer or command stopping a strange event, recurs in these stories.
- No unusual being, setting, or sequence beyond the wind stopping.
- Not yet compared with the rest of the archive; this is a provisional score.
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What the model inferred (not said on air): A familiar frame with one unusual detail from a second witness, so a middle score.
Scoring confidence 0.70 · analysis confidence 0.75 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller's firsthand story; A claimed secondhand report from the daughter, not on air; No names, dates, location, records, photographs, or recordings. The originality score blends the model's score (50) 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.
- A natural lull, or the passing of the storm's strongest gusts, could have produced the reported sudden calm. · The caller describes a bad windstorm and says it “immediately stopped.” Her daughter describes it as blowing and then suddenly stopping.
- The prayer and the storm's natural end may have coincided. The caller had just read Where Angels Walk and decided to try prayer at that moment. · She says she had just read the book and then prayed, right before the wind stopped.
What stands out
This is a story of protection rather than a ghost sighting. The caller says she never saw an angel, and the strange claim is that a windstorm stopped abruptly. The daughter's relayed description, [quote withheld] gives a second claimed observer for the same change.
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