Laughing woman on the bed and a head that comes off in the caller’s hand
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Juneau, Alaska, describes a bedroom experience the caller says happened about twenty years earlier during a difficult divorce, when the caller had been given sleep medication. The caller reports a heavy weight settling on the bed, an inability to turn over, a raspy female laugh, and something that flung itself on top of them. The caller says they grabbed its hair and the head came off in their hand. The caller reports fainting, waking to their dog whimpering, and finding a few strands of hair that were gone the next morning. The caller was left frightened.
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The story as told
[name withheld], calling from Juneau, Alaska, says the experience happened about twenty years before the broadcast, while the caller was going through what the caller describes as a bad divorce with violence in the marriage. The caller says a doctor had given them medication to help them sleep. The caller reports lying on their stomach in bed when the caller felt a very heavy pressure settle on the side of the bed beside them. The caller says they tried to get up because they thought it might be their soon-to-be ex-husband, but they could not turn around. The caller then reports hearing what sounded like a woman’s laugh, raspy and gravelly, [quote withheld] The caller says they tried to sit up again and that the presence [quote withheld] laughing repeatedly. [name withheld] says the caller reached an arm around, grabbed the hair on the head, and pulled, and the head came off. The caller says they were holding it by the hair and looked at it, describing [quote withheld] The caller says they fainted, and that it [quote withheld] When the caller came to, the caller says, their dog was whimpering and sniffing at them. The caller says they found a few strands of hair in their hand and considered throwing them away, but instead put them down. The caller sat up a long time, then the dog settled and the caller went back to sleep. The next morning, the caller says, the hairs were gone. The caller ends by saying they were “so very terrified.” The host closes the call and then comments on it before taking the next caller.
Reported events, in order
- 0:58
[name withheld] says the experience happened about twenty years earlier, during a bad and violent divorce, when a doctor had given them medication to help them sleep.
- 1:18
The caller reports lying on their stomach in bed when a very heavy pressure settled on the side of the bed next to them.
- 1:24
The caller says they tried to get up, thinking it might be their soon-to-be ex-husband, but could not turn around to see.
- 1:35
The caller reports hearing a raspy, gravelly woman’s laugh, which the caller compares to a heavy smoker’s laugh.
- 2:02
The caller says they tried to sit up again and that [quote withheld] laughing and laughing.
- 2:13
The caller says they reached an arm around, grabbed the hair on the head, and pulled, and the head came off.
- 2:27
Holding it by the hair, the caller says, they looked at [quote withheld]
- 2:38
The caller says they fainted, and that [quote withheld]
- 2:51
The caller says they came to with their dog whimpering and sniffing at them.
- 3:02
The caller says there were a few strands of hair in their hand. The caller thought of throwing them out but put them down instead.
- 3:27
The caller says they sat up in bed for a long time until the dog settled and they went back to sleep.
- 3:38
The next morning the caller says they looked for the hairs where they had put them and the hairs were gone. The caller says they were “so very terrified.”
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· 1:18
A heavy weight settled on the side of the bed beside the caller.
- observation· 1:35
The caller heard a raspy, gravelly female laugh.
- observation· 2:02
Something the caller refers to as “she” threw itself onto them and laughed.
- observation· 2:13
Grabbing the hair, the caller says, the head detached.
- observation· 2:27
The detached head had a wrinkled, aged face.
- observation· 2:38
The head the caller was holding appeared to wake up.
- observation· 3:02
Strands of hair were in the caller’s hand after they came to.
- observation· 3:38
The hairs the caller had set down were missing the next morning.
- host statement· 4:01
The host calls the being a ghost.
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.
Evidence for and against
Evidence for and against
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Scoring confidence 0.50 · analysis confidence 0.60 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand story.; Claimed strands of hair that the caller says were in their hand and later disappeared; not preserved or examined.. The originality score blends the model's score (65) 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 sleep-paralysis-like episode at the edge of sleep, possibly influenced by the sleep medication the caller says they had been given, could produce the felt pressure, the inability to move and turn, and a vivid hallucinated figure. · [quote withheld]; [quote withheld]; [quote withheld]
- A living person in the room, which the caller themselves considered, could account for the weight on the bed before the experience escalated. · [quote withheld]
- The dog’s reported whimpering and sniffing could reflect the animal reacting to the caller’s own distress or movement rather than to anything else in the room. · [quote withheld]
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