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]
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The story as told
[name withheld] (as they give their name) tells the host that their experience happened [quote withheld] when they went to a housewarming party given by an acquaintance from work. During the party, they say, they went into the restroom. While they were standing there, a cold shiver came over them, and then they heard a voice in their head, which they stress was not their own voice, screaming “get out.” [name withheld] says they left. They then say that a friend who grew up in the area, and other people they hunt with every year, knew the house’s history. About twenty years before their own experience, the mother of a man they hunt with [quote withheld] in the bathroom with a gun, according to their answer to the host. They add that they questioned another friend who grew up in the area, without first telling that friend about their own experience, and that friend told them all about it. [name withheld] says they had never believed in [quote withheld] before, but that they firmly believe these days. The host answers with a general remark that such spirits seem to linger or not know how to move on, and then ends the call. No other witness to the bathroom experience speaks on air. [name withheld] learned the house history secondhand, from people they name only by relationship (a hunting acquaintance, “another friend”).
Reported events, in order
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[name withheld] says they had an experience about five years before the call.
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They say they went to a housewarming party given by an acquaintance from work.
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They say they went into the restroom during the party, felt a cold shiver, and heard a voice in their head, not their own, screaming “get out.”
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They say they left. The transcript labels that line as the host’s, though it follows [name withheld]’s story.
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They mention a friend who grew up in the area and others they hunt with every year.
- 0:51
They say that about twenty years before, the mother of a man they hunt with committed suicide in that house.
- 0:56
They say she did it with a gun in the bathroom.
- 1:15
They say they questioned another friend who grew up in the area and were told all about it, having not told that friend their own experience.
- 1:29
They say they never believed in that kind of stuff before but firmly believe these days.
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· 0:18
During a housewarming party, while standing in the restroom, the caller felt a cold shiver and then heard a voice in their head, not their own, screaming “get out.”
- observation· 0:32
They left the house after the experience.
- hearsay· 0:51
About twenty years before, a hunting acquaintance’s mother committed suicide in that house with a gun in the bathroom. Others told the caller this. They did not witness it.
- hearsay· 1:15
They questioned a friend who grew up in the area, who told them the history of the house.
- interpretation· 1:29
The caller now firmly believes in that kind of thing, having not believed before.
- host statement· 1:08
The host says such spirits seem to be stuck, linger, or not know to move on.
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 clear firsthand story with some concrete details (a coworker’s housewarming party, a restroom, a voice they say was not their own, a later-reported death in the same room). No one backs it up, the strange element is internal rather than external, and an ordinary reading fits fairly easily.
Evidence for and against
- Firsthand witness reporting their own experience.
- They give a time frame and an occasion: [quote withheld] and [quote withheld]
- They separate the voice from their own: [quote withheld]
- They note their own earlier disbelief: [quote withheld]
- No second witness to the experience speaks on air, and the house history is secondhand.
- The voice is described as internal (“in my head”), which allows ordinary explanations.
- A very short story with few details that can be checked (no house address, no names for the friends).
- One line describing their departure is labeled as the host’s, so who says it is unclear.
- The automatic transcript may have garbled some passages.
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What the model inferred (not said on air): Source proximity and internal consistency were rated toward the top of the firsthand range because they tell it as their own experience in a coherent sequence. The specificity and alternative-explanations scores are my judgment that an internal voice fits ordinary experiences.
The story rests on the caller’s word alone. It has a few details that could be checked (Savage, Minnesota; a housewarming party about five years earlier; a house with a reported suicide in its bathroom), but nothing was checked. The other witnesses are named only by relationship and do not speak on air.
Evidence for and against
- Named town: [quote withheld]
- A place and event that could in principle be looked up: [quote withheld]
- A claimed secondhand source for the house history: [quote withheld]
- No documents, recording, photograph, or record is presented.
- No second witness speaks on air.
- Times and places are approximate, and the house is never identified.
- The transcript does not show whether the friends mentioned would confirm the history.
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- 1:15
What the model inferred (not said on air): Rated in the 11–25 band because details that could be checked are given but not checked, and a witness is claimed but does not appear. No outside check was done.
The picture of an internal voice screaming “get out” in a bathroom, paired with a reported suicide by gun in that same room, is genuinely unsettling. But the story is short, with no threat, physical contact, or escalation, and it ends with the caller leaving rather than with lasting dread.
Evidence for and against
- A voice commanding the caller to leave: [quote withheld]
- The place is linked to a reported suicide with a gun: [quote withheld]
- It happens in a private room of a house during a social gathering.
- A very brief, single event with no later strange events described.
- No harm, pursuit, or malevolence is attributed to anything.
- No victims other than the reported past death.
- The caller does not say whether the voice felt threatening or merely urgent.
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- 0:56
What the model inferred (not said on air): My judgment of the story’s effect on a listener, based on the intrusion into a private room and the link to the suicide.
A voice telling someone to “get out” of a house, and a death in the same building learned of later, are familiar ghost-story setups. The distinctive element is that the voice is described as inside the head, not heard from outside, and that the link is made only after they learned the history.
Evidence for and against
- “Get out” as a ghostly message is a stock device: [quote withheld]
- A death in the building, reported later by acquaintances: [quote withheld]
- The voice is explicitly internal: [quote withheld]
- The caller does not claim to have seen anything or to have had repeated experiences.
- The published originality score is compared with the rest of the archive and is provisional for this pilot.
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What the model inferred (not said on air): A provisional estimate from the content. A comparison with the rest of the archive is not available here.
Scoring confidence 0.60 · analysis confidence 0.70 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand story (live call); A secondhand claim of a past suicide in the same bathroom, attributed to friends who do not speak on air; No documents, recordings, or photographs presented or examined. The originality score blends the model's score (40) 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.
- An ordinary bodily reaction (a sudden chill) together with an intrusive thought from their own mind could account for the report. The caller puts the voice “in my head” and describes a bodily shiver, not a sound from outside. · [quote withheld]
- The caller says they learned the house’s history only afterward, from friends. So the link between the voice and the suicide may be one they made later between two separately reported facts, not a feature of the experience itself. · [quote withheld] The caller learned the history after the event, not before.
What stands out
A short story in which the strange element is a voice inside the caller’s own head, not a sound from outside. It is linked only by coincidence of place to a reported suicide in the same room twenty years earlier.
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