Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice
A caller who gives their location as Connecticut and their birth date as December 25, 1957, describes an elderly next-door neighbor the neighborhood called “Miss Pree” (given as Preamula Abuhak). She read to the caller from the Quran, rubbed their head when they had severe headaches, and was said always to smell of roses. The caller reports hearing her voice and smelling roses just before two dangers: running up a hill that turned out to be a cliff, and a car ride in which a truck raced past after they told the driver to stop. Art Bell tells the caller she is “watching over” them. The call then moves to a different topic.
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The story as told
The caller says they are in Connecticut and were born on December 25, 1957. As a young boy they lived next to an elderly woman whom the neighborhood called “Miss Pree.” They say their mother gave her name as Preamula Abuhak, and that the neighborhood [quote withheld] witch. They say she always called the caller her child and favored them. When the caller visited her house, she made them take off their shoes and read a book to them. They say they now know [quote withheld] to them. When they had severe headaches ([quote withheld]), doctors were consulted. But when she read something over them and rubbed their head, the pain went away. They report she always had the smell of roses around her. About ten years before the broadcast, they say, they became a Muslim. They later studied in Saudi a recitation practice they call “arukia” (reading certain Quran verses over a person), which they connect to what she did.
They then describe two incidents. Once, as a boy at a family reunion, they were running up a steep hill away from boys chasing them. They planned to run down the far side. They say they heard her voice say [quote withheld] that the voice brought them to their knees, and that looking over the hill they saw a deep cliff they would have gone over. They say that as soon as they heard the voice they smelled roses all around them. The second time was after high school. The caller and a friend were driving down a busy street on a Friday to a bar, and the friend was about to make a wild left turn. They heard a voice say “stop,” smelled roses, and told the friend to stop. They say a truck raced past them and would have crushed them. They say this [quote withheld]
Reported events, in order
- 0:05
The caller says they are in Connecticut and gives their birth date as December 25, 1957.
- 0:32
The caller describes the elderly next-door neighbor called “Miss Pree,” whom the neighborhood called a witch. Their mother gave her name as Preamula Abuhak.
- 1:29
The caller says she made them take off their shoes and read a book to them, which they later identified as the Quran.
- 1:46
The caller reports that when they had severe headaches, her reading over them and rubbing their head made the pain go away.
- 2:26
The caller says she always had the smell of roses around her.
- 2:35
As a boy at a family reunion, the caller ran up a steep hill and heard her voice say to slow down and stop, which made them kneel. Over the hill was a deep cliff.
- 3:03
The caller says they smelled roses all around them when they heard the voice.
- 3:07
After high school, driving with a friend on a busy street, the caller heard a voice say “stop” and smelled roses. They told the friend to stop, and a truck raced past.
- 3:36
The caller says this had happened several times.
- 3:40
Art Bell tells the caller she is obviously watching over them. The caller answers, “I hope so.”
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· 1:57
The neighbor’s reading over the caller and rubbing their head ended their severe headaches.
- observation· 2:26
The neighbor always carried a smell of roses.
- observation· 2:49
The caller heard her voice tell them to slow down and stop as they ran toward what turned out to be a cliff.
- observation· 2:58
Over the crest of the hill was a deep cliff they would have fallen from.
- observation· 3:26
On a later car trip, the caller again heard a voice and smelled roses before a truck passed them.
- interpretation· 1:40
The caller identifies the woman as a Muslim who read the Quran to them. This is their later interpretation of what she was doing.
- host statement· 3:40
Art Bell asserts the woman is watching over the caller.
- hearsay· 0:39
The neighborhood called the woman a witch.
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 firsthand account with specific details that could be checked in principle: a location, a birth date, a named neighbor, and two incidents from the caller’s life. It stays consistent through the host’s questions. But it does not address the easy ordinary explanations for the warnings and the rose smell.
Evidence for and against
- The person involved tells both incidents firsthand.
- The caller gives concrete specifics: the location (“Connecticut”), their birth date (“December 25th, 1957”), and a named neighbor.
- The caller tells a coherent sequence and answers consistently when the host asks about the reading, the name, and the incidents.
- The caller considers no ordinary explanation. They present the voice and smell as direct interventions.
- The identity of the voice rests on the caller’s own attribution. The neighbor’s death is relayed through the caller’s mother.
- Apart from the rose smell, there are few sensory details, and the two incidents are told briefly.
- The labels showing who is speaking are scrambled in the transcript, so some lines marked as the host are plainly the caller’s speech.
- The name is given in more than one form (Miss Pree, Preamula Abuhak, Abahak) and may be mistranscribed.
- The decade of the events is never stated.
- 0:05
- 0:25
- 2:58
What the model inferred (not said on air): The score is built from parts: source proximity 20 (direct participant), specificity 13, internal consistency 16, alternative explanations 8, and calibration 7. Nothing in the transcript lets us check any detail. So the total stays near the level for [quote withheld]
Nothing beyond the caller’s own word is present. There are no documents, recordings, or marks, and no second witness speaks on air. The caller gives details that could be checked (a location, a birth date, a named neighbor), but they were not checked.
Evidence for and against
- The caller supplies details that could be checked in principle: [quote withheld] [quote withheld] and a neighbor named in two forms.
- A second person was in the car, though nothing is said about what that person perceived.
- No physical or documentary evidence is claimed anywhere in the story.
- The claimed second person in the car does not speak on air and is not said to have heard or smelled anything.
- No outside checks were made for this analysis.
- The spelling of the neighbor’s name is uncertain in the transcript, which would complicate any check.
- No dates are given for the events themselves.
- 3:11
- 0:05
What the model inferred (not said on air): The score falls in the 11 to 25 range because checkable specifics and a claimed bystander exist. But no evidence was examined, and no witness confirmed the strange events on air. The cap of 50 was respected.
The frame is protective, not threatening, and the near misses end safely. Still, there is mild unease in a dead woman’s voice speaking a warning and in the two sudden reminders of mortal danger.
Evidence for and against
- Two apparent near-death moments: [quote withheld] and [quote withheld]
- A bodiless voice giving commands: [quote withheld]
- The caller sees the presence as affectionate and protective, and the host calls it a watching-over.
- No threat, ill will, or physical contact is reported.
- The caller does not say whether they mean the story to be comforting or eerie.
- 3:33
- 3:40
What the model inferred (not said on air): The score is lowered because the story’s emotional frame is protective. It stays above 20 because of the unexplained voice and the near-miss imagery.
The frame is a familiar one: a dead neighbor warns a child of danger. The particulars are distinctive, though: Quran recitation, a lasting rose scent as the sign of her presence, and a warning that forced the caller to kneel.
Evidence for and against
- An unusual sign of the presence: a rose scent at both warnings.
- A religious frame for the protective act, Quran recitation, which the caller later links to a recitation practice.
- A warning reported as forcing the boy to his knees at the crest of a hill.
- The core structure (a dead protector warns of an accident) is a common ghost-story shape.
- Both warnings are simple spoken commands to stop.
- How the story compares with the rest of the archive cannot be judged from a single excerpt.
- 3:26
- 2:53
What the model inferred (not said on air): This is an estimate only. The distinct details (rose scent, Quran, forced kneeling) raise it above the score of 20 for stock elements only. But the underlying frame is widely used.
Scoring confidence 0.62 · analysis confidence 0.68 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand story (live call); A claimed second person in the car, who does not speak on air and is not said to have perceived anything; No documents, photographs, recordings, or physical traces. 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.
- The warnings may be ordinary self-protective reactions in risky moments (a child running downhill, a passenger in a car about to turn across traffic) that the caller later linked to the remembered neighbor. · The caller says they were running from boys chasing them toward a hilltop they planned to run down, and that the driver [quote withheld]
- The recurring rose smell may have had an ordinary source in the surroundings and may not be tied to the woman. · The caller reports the smell as a general trait of the woman ([quote withheld]) and as present outdoors at a family reunion and in a car.
- The relief from headaches after head-rubbing may come from ordinary effects of rest, attention, or massage rather than the reading. · The caller says [quote withheld] and that she would [quote withheld]
What stands out
The story combines a protective warning with a religious frame. The caller identifies the woman’s reading as Quran recitation and links it to a recitation practice they say they later studied. The sign of her presence is a rose scent, not a visible figure.
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