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.
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The story as told
[name withheld], calling from Denver, tells Art Bell that they were living in an apartment complex and working in the legal field when a man they met asked them to check whether the man's wife had been married before. [name withheld] says they did the check and gave the man the information, and the man then came to [name withheld]'s home crying. According to [name withheld], they took the man to their apartment to calm him, but the man went into a rage, tearing telephones out of the wall and breaking lamps and tables. [name withheld] says the man then came at [name withheld] as if to attack, fell down, and began to convulse. [name withheld] says they first thought the man had epilepsy, but the man jumped up and collapsed the same way again. [name withheld] reports that the man's eyes rolled back, he foamed at the mouth, and he spoke out of his own mouth, cursing [name withheld], in multiple voices. [name withheld] says the voices sometimes sounded like one, two, three, five, or six. [name withheld] says the man stopped breathing, so they checked his pulse and gave CPR. Because the phone had been pulled from the wall, [name withheld] ran to neighbors to call the police. Police, fire, and EMTs came and took the man to the ER, [name withheld] says. About 4 a.m., [name withheld] says, the man was released and came back to [name withheld]'s apartment, and [name withheld] told him to leave. Five months later, [name withheld] says, they met the man in a shopping-center parking lot. The man blamed the police for what happened to his apartment, and [name withheld] corrected him. The man then said he was an immigrant from France, that he had been in an orphanage, and that two priests there had told him he was possessed. [name withheld] says they asked whether the man was epileptic, and the man said no. The call ends with [name withheld] saying they did not talk to him after that.
Reported events, in order
- 0:03
The caller identifies themselves as [name withheld] from Denver and says they have a story about spirits or ghosts.
- 0:24
They say they were living in an apartment complex and met a man by chance.
- 0:30
They say they were working in the legal field, and the man asked them to check whether the man's wife had been married before.
- 0:42
They say they did the check, gave the man the information, and the man came over.
- 0:48
The host asks whether the wife had been married before. The caller says the man was married to her for ten years and she never got a divorce.
- 1:01
They say the man came over crying.
- 1:05
They say they took the man to their apartment and tried to calm him down.
- 1:09
They say the man went into a rage.
- 1:11
They say the man tore telephones out of the wall and broke lamps and tables.
- 1:19
They say the man came at them as if to attack, got close, fell down, and began to convulse.
- 1:28
They say they thought the man had epilepsy or something.
- 1:29
They say the man jumped up and did the same thing again.
- 1:42
They describe the man's eyes rolling back and the man foaming at the mouth, and say the hair on their own head stood up.
- 1:52
The host asks whether the man was in combat with a force. The caller says they do not know what was going on.
- 2:04
They say multiple voices were coming out of the man.
- 2:07
They say sometimes it sounded like one voice, sometimes like two, three, five, or six.
- 2:13
They say the man stopped breathing and was foaming at the mouth.
- 2:19
They say they checked the man's pulse and gave him CPR to get him breathing again.
- 2:26
They say they ran to the neighbors to ask them to call the police because the phone had been pulled from the wall.
- 2:35
They say police, the fire department, and EMTs all came over.
- 2:42
The caller says the responders took the man to the ER.
- 2:55
The host asks whether the man was possessed or being beaten by an outside force.
- 3:01
The caller repeats that voices came out of the man's body while his eyes were rolled back, and that he was foaming at the mouth and writhing on the floor.
- 3:30
They say that at about 4 in the morning the man was let out of the ER and came back to the caller's apartment.
- 3:36
They say they told the man to get out and leave.
- 3:42
They say that about five months later they met the man in a shopping-center parking lot.
- 3:56
They say the man asked if they could imagine what the police did to his apartment. They say they told the man the police had not done anything and that the man had done it.
- 4:08
They say the man told them he was an immigrant from France.
- 4:12
They say the man had been in an orphanage in France.
- 4:16
They say they asked the man if he was epileptic, and the man said no.
- 4:24
They say the man told them that two priests in the orphanage had told him he was possessed.
- 4:33
They say that was the end of it, and they did not talk to the man after that.
- 4:38
The host ends the call and comments on unseen beings that invite themselves in and take the minds that can be taken.
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· 2:04
Multiple voices came out of the man's mouth.
- observation· 2:07
The number of voices varied between one and several.
- observation· 2:13
The man stopped breathing and was foaming at the mouth.
- observation· 3:10
The man was writhing on the floor while voices came out of his body.
- hearsay· 4:24
The man said that two priests in a French orphanage had told him he was possessed.
- host statement· 4:58
The host later says unseen beings can take the minds of those who can be taken.
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.
The caller is a firsthand witness to the events they report, and gives a coherent sequence with some concrete details: Denver, an apartment complex, work in the legal field, a marriage-record check, 11 p.m., 4 a.m., a meeting five months later, France, and an orphanage. However, no one else backs up the core events. An ordinary medical explanation such as a seizure easily fits the convulsions, foaming, and stopped breathing. The caller raises it by saying they thought the man had epilepsy.
Evidence for and against
- Firsthand witness language: [quote withheld] and [quote withheld]
- A concrete sequence with times: [quote withheld] and [quote withheld]
- The caller reports what they saw separately from what they concluded, for example, [quote withheld]
- No second witness to the voices speaks on air.
- An ordinary medical explanation fits the convulsions, eyes rolling back, foaming, and stopped breathing.
- Some details are vague or may be mistranscribed, for example, the wife's prior-marriage answer and “VR” for ER.
- The man and his wife are not named, and no date or address is given.
- The labels showing who is speaking may be imperfect in the automatic transcript.
- The caller does not claim to know the cause and does not directly say the man was possessed.
- 0:24
What the model inferred (not said on air): I place this in the middle of the range because it is a detailed firsthand story but is not backed up by anyone else, and the physical signs the caller reports make a medical explanation easy to consider.
The evidence comes down to the caller's word, plus some checkable details such as Denver, France, work in the legal field, and a marriage-record request. None of these are checked in the transcript. No photograph, recording, document, or second witness on air is presented.
Evidence for and against
- The caller names Denver as the location and describes a task that sounds checkable: finding out whether the man's wife had been married before.
- The caller gives times and a later meeting place: [quote withheld] [quote withheld] and a shopping-center parking lot.
- No physical evidence is said to exist, and none is examined.
- No emergency responder, no neighbor, and not the man himself speaks on air to confirm the story.
- The possession detail is secondhand. It comes from the man, who is said to be repeating what priests told him.
- The man's name and the wife's name are not given, which makes records checks hard from the transcript alone.
- The transcript does not include any outside check.
- 0:03
What the model inferred (not said on air): The score is low on the scoring guide because the story offers no examined documents and no independent witness on air. Checkable details alone do not raise it beyond the low teens.
The story includes a man coming at the caller as if to attack, repeated convulsions, eyes rolling back, foaming at the mouth, stopped breathing, multiple cursing voices, and an unresolved claim of possession. The setting is an apartment at night, and the threat briefly enters the caller's personal space. However, the episode ends with emergency services taking the man away.
Evidence for and against
- The man reportedly came at the caller [quote withheld]
- The caller describes convulsions, eyes rolling back, and foaming at the mouth.
- Multiple voices reportedly cursed the caller and varied in number, which is unsettling during a medical emergency.
- The caller is not physically harmed in the story.
- The event ends with emergency responders taking the man away, and the later meeting is described calmly.
- The story is brief and lacks lasting dread over a long period.
- The transcript does not make clear whether the rage and convulsions happened in the caller's apartment or the man's apartment.
- The automatic transcript has some unclear phrases.
- 1:19
What the model inferred (not said on air): I rate this as truly unsettling rather than extreme. The story has threat and bodily horror, but it is short, ends with responders arriving, and does not keep building over days or weeks.
A possession-style convulsion with multiple voices is a familiar exorcism and possession theme. The distinctive details are the legal-records backstory about whether the man's wife had been divorced, and the later claim that two priests in a French orphanage had told the man he was possessed.
Evidence for and against
- The core events are a common exorcism and possession frame: convulsing, eyes rolling back, foaming, multiple voices, and a claim of possession.
- The legal-records check and the French orphanage detail are unusual specifics within that frame.
- Most elements are stock possession imagery rather than a rare event.
- The story does not introduce an unfamiliar mechanism or a new setting.
- How new the story is compared with the rest of the archive is not worked out here.
- The automatic transcript makes some details uncertain.
- 4:24
What the model inferred (not said on air): I give a provisional score of 50 because the frame is familiar, but the legal backstory and the orphanage detail make it somewhat distinctive. The published score, adjusted by comparison with the rest of the archive, would have to be worked out across the whole archive.
Scoring confidence 0.72 · analysis confidence 0.78 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller's firsthand story only; No photograph, recording, document, or physical trace described; No second witness speaks on air; Checkable details mentioned but not checked: Denver, legal-field work, marriage-record request, France, orphanage, and priests. 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 seizure or other sudden medical event could explain the convulsions, eyes rolling back, foaming at the mouth, and stopped breathing. · The caller says they first thought the man had epilepsy, and later asked the man whether he was epileptic. The man reportedly said no. The caller describes convulsions, eyes rolling back, foaming, and stopped breathing.
- A sudden psychiatric, stress-related, or other medical crisis could explain the crying, the rage, the broken objects, and the agitated sounds the man made. · The caller reports that the man was crying, then went into a rage, tore telephones out of the wall, and broke lamps and tables before the convulsions. No medical assessment is reported beyond the man being taken to the ER.
What stands out
The story pairs a possession-style convulsion and multiple voices with an ordinary legal-records backstory: checking whether the man's wife had been divorced. It adds a later claim that two priests in a French orphanage had already told the man he was possessed.
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