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]
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The story as told
Speaking live on air, a male caller (addressed by the host as “Enzo”) says he telephoned the program the previous week while a self-described witch he calls “Pathy” was a guest. He asked the witch to help him make a deal with the devil. Asked why, he says [quote withheld] He declines to give his identity, saying [quote withheld] He tells the host that two days later, on the Saturday night of the program's repeat broadcast, he was [quote withheld] He says he was in his room, lying in the dark with the radio turned off and getting ready to sleep, when he [quote withheld] Then he heard a voice asking whether he was sincere about what he had asked for. He says he was not prepared for it and that it scared him. Asked by the host what he said, he replies “I said no.” He says he then turned the lights on and sat up all night. The host calls it a [quote withheld] and ends the call. In studio commentary, he recalls the earlier broadcast and describes the caller as having asked the guest to help him [quote withheld] He says he is [quote withheld] and congratulates the caller on his decision, calling it “An important moment.” The caller describes no further incident.
Reported events, in order
- 0:00
The caller comes on air, and the host frames him as calling from [quote withheld]
- 0:04
The caller reminds the host that he called the previous week during the program with the witch he calls “Pathy.”
- 0:09
The caller says he asked the witch to help him make a deal with the devil, giving [quote withheld] as his reason.
- 0:34
The caller says he was [quote withheld] two days later.
- 0:51
The caller says he declines to identify himself.
- 1:15
The caller says he was in his room on the Saturday night of the repeat broadcast, lying in the dark with the radio off, getting ready to sleep.
- 1:26
He says he began to feel cold, “very cold.”
- 1:35
He says he heard a voice asking if he was sincere about what he had asked for.
- 1:54
He says he was not prepared and that it scared him.
- 2:09
Asked by the host what he said, he says he replied “no.”
- 2:18
He says he turned the lights on and sat up all night.
- 2:22
The host congratulates him, tells him to [quote withheld] and ends the call.
- 2:32
The host comments in the studio about the earlier witch program and the caller's request.
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· 1:26
He felt a sudden, intense cold while lying in the dark in his room.
- observation· 1:35
He heard a voice that asked whether he was sincere about what he had asked for.
- interpretation· 0:34
He concludes that what came to him was a presence.
- observation· 0:09
The caller had earlier asked a self-described witch to help him make a deal with the devil.
- host statement· 3:17
The host states his own conclusion that the caller was visited.
- host statement· 2:55
The host sums up the earlier request as a request for a deal with Satan.
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.
Firsthand but very brief and mostly without detail: no place, no date beyond “that Saturday night,” and no description of the voice itself. The sequence hangs together and the caller answers the host's questions. But the cold and voice coming on while he lay in the dark before sleep sit easily with ordinary experiences while falling asleep, which the caller neither addresses nor rules out.
Evidence for and against
- A firsthand report of the caller's own experience ([quote withheld]).
- Consistent with his own earlier request, described at the start of the call ([quote withheld]).
- No location, no date that can be checked, and no description of the voice (he says only that it asked about sincerity).
- The event happened while [quote withheld] when explanations tied to sleep fit readily and are not addressed.
- The labels showing who is speaking in this part of the broadcast appear to be wrong in several lines. For example, [quote withheld] is labeled as the host but reads as the caller.
- The name “Enzo” may be a transcription error.
- 1:26
- 1:35
What the model inferred (not said on air): My scoring weighs how close the caller was to the event (in his favor) against the missing detail and an unaddressed ordinary explanation (against). I am not judging whether he is truthful, only how the story reads as testimony.
The only support for the reported event is the caller's own unsupported word. The one element that could be checked, the earlier on-air call, is said by the host to be remembered ([quote withheld]). But that bears on the earlier request, not on the reported visitation.
Evidence for and against
- The host says he remembers the caller's previous call ([quote withheld]).
- No recording, photograph, document, or physical trace is presented or examined on air.
- No second witness is named for the reported visitation.
- Whether the earlier broadcast exists in any archive is not established in this part of the broadcast.
- 0:14
- 3:17
What the model inferred (not said on air): I place this at 0 to 10 because nothing outside the caller's own words is on the table. The host's remark is his reaction, which the scoring guide says not to reward.
The story puts an unseen voice and a sudden deep cold inside a dark bedroom at the moment of falling asleep, right after the caller asked for a devil's deal, and leaves it without reassurance or explanation. It relies on suggestion, not vivid images, and the host's congratulating tone takes some of the edge off.
Evidence for and against
- An intrusion into the bedroom while lying in the dark before sleep ([quote withheld]).
- The caller reports sharp fear and sits up all night ([quote withheld]).
- No harm, threat, physical contact, or visual ghost is reported.
- The host's closing ([quote withheld]) supplies a reassuring frame.
- The voice's tone, its content beyond one question, and how long it lasted are not stated, so the scene is only partly drawn.
- 1:35
- 2:18
What the model inferred (not said on air): The discomfort comes from the setting (bed, dark) and the implied will behind the voice. I am not treating the caller's fear as evidence of anything other than how the story reads.
Cold and a voice in a dark bedroom are familiar themes. But the setup is unusual: the voice follows the caller's own on-air request to a witch for a devil's deal and asks whether he meant it. That gives a stock “night visitor” story an odd, self-referring shape.
Evidence for and against
- The visit is tied to a request made live on a prior broadcast ([quote withheld]).
- The voice's single reported line is a check on how sincere that request was ([quote withheld]).
- The individual elements, sudden cold, a voice with no body at night, and a bedroom, are common ghost-story building blocks.
- No distinctive detail is given about the voice, the timing, or the setting.
- How new it is compared with the rest of the archive cannot be judged from this part of the broadcast alone.
- 0:12
- 1:26
What the model inferred (not said on air): The rating reflects the combination (routine themes plus a specific, unusual setup), not any judgment of whether it is true.
Scoring confidence 0.55 · analysis confidence 0.60 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller's firsthand testimony on air (short, without much detail).; The host says he remembers the caller's earlier call on a previous broadcast (not examined here).; No recordings, photographs, documents, or physical traces presented..
Ordinary explanations to consider
These are possibilities only. None is a finding about what happened.
- An experience while falling asleep: sensations and brief voices are commonly reported in the moments before sleep. · The caller says he was [quote withheld] and [quote withheld] when the cold and then the voice came.
- Expectation or suggestion following his earlier request and the repeat broadcast that same night. · He says the episode happened [quote withheld] which is right around a program that replayed the setting of the request.
- An ordinary drop in room temperature or a draft could account for the reported cold. · He reports only [quote withheld] The transcript says nothing about the room's heating or windows, or whether the cold had a source or affected anything else.
What stands out
The reported event is a voice that follows the caller's own on-air request for a devil's deal and asks him to confirm he meant it. It is not a visual ghost or a haunting of a place. It is also a follow-up from the same caller: the host says he remembers the earlier call, and the caller gives almost no detail about the voice itself.
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