Voice telling a caller to leave a room in a London cathedral
A caller whom the host introduces as [quote withheld] tells a “church ghost story” set in London. In 1994, on a Glee Club tour from Michigan, the caller entered an upper-floor room in a dark Gothic cathedral, and says they heard a voice telling them to get out. The caller says two companions waiting in the hallway looked past them and told them to turn around. The caller found a plaque beside the door stating that someone had been beheaded in that room. The host says he believes the caller and links the message to an earlier EVP program.
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The story as told
The caller, introduced by the host as [quote withheld] says they are [quote withheld] but occasionally get “glimpses, these feelings.” The caller reports that in 1994, while on a tour with a Glee Club they had been part of back in Michigan, the group stopped at an unnamed Gothic cathedral in London. On the main floor the caller photographed mausoleums where people had been buried in the church, and says they [quote withheld] The caller offers to say more about that later. The caller went up to the second level, which they describe as very dark, black and brown, with small stained-glass windows letting in little light. The caller entered a room other visitors were leaving and found themselves alone there. The caller describes a pew for kneeling, a small stained-glass window, dust, and a damp, mildew-like smell. There the caller says they could “literally” hear a voice telling them to get out, to leave, to go away. The caller calls the message “really strong.” The caller reports feeling extremely uncomfortable, with energy “sort of surrounding” them. The caller said aloud that they heard what was being said and would leave, and went out. In the hallway two companions said the caller [quote withheld] The caller told the companions what happened, and they looked past the caller, over the caller’s shoulder. The caller turned and saw a plaque next to the door. The caller says they do not recall the year on it, [quote withheld] and that it stated someone had been beheaded in that room. The host told the caller he believed them, linked the message to an earlier EVP program, and called it a frequent message [quote withheld]
Reported events, in order
- 0:10
The caller, introduced by the host as [quote withheld] says they have a “church ghost story” set in London. The caller prefaces it by saying they are [quote withheld] but sometimes get “glimpses, these feelings.”
- 0:35
The caller says that in 1994, while on a tour with a Glee Club they had been part of back in Michigan, the group did some sightseeing and stopped at a Gothic-style cathedral in London.
- 1:02
On the cathedral’s main floor the caller photographed mausoleums where people had been buried in the church, and says they [quote withheld] (the caller puts off giving details).
- 1:16
The caller goes up to the second level and describes the inside as very dark, “black and brown,” with small stained-glass windows letting in little light.
- 1:33
The caller enters a room that other people were leaving and finds themselves alone with a kneeling pew, a small stained-glass window off to one side, an old dusty cathedral, and a damp, mildew-like smell.
- 2:09
The caller says they “literally” heard a voice telling them to get out, to leave, to go away, and that it was “really strong.”
- 2:28
The caller reports feeling extremely uncomfortable and feeling an energy “sort of surrounding” them. The caller says aloud that they can hear what is being said and that they are going to leave, then exits the room.
- 2:45
In the hallway, two companions who were with the caller see the caller leaving the room and say the caller looks “kind of funny.” The caller tells the companions what happened.
- 3:12
The companions look past the caller, over the caller’s shoulder. When the caller asks what they are looking at, the companions tell the caller to turn around and look.
- 3:21
The caller turns and sees a plaque next to the door. The caller says they do not recall the year on it, only that it was [quote withheld] and that it stated someone was beheaded in that room.
- 3:45
The host says he believes the caller, relates the “get out” message to a recent EVP show, and describes such a message as frequent [quote withheld] He then moves to the next caller.
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· 1:02
The caller says that on the main floor of the cathedral, while photographing the mausoleums, they began to feel something that they do not describe in this part of the broadcast.
- observation· 2:14
The caller says that alone in an upper-floor room in the cathedral they heard a voice telling them to leave, to get out, to go away, and that the message was “really strong.”
- observation· 2:20
The caller says the voice was heard, not imagined: [quote withheld]
- observation· 2:31
The caller says they felt extremely uncomfortable and felt an energy surrounding them.
- hearsay· 3:18
The caller reports that the two companions with them, after hearing the caller’s story, looked past the caller and told the caller to turn around and look.
- observation· 3:39
The caller says a plaque beside the door stated that someone had been beheaded in that room. The caller says they do not recall the year, only that it was [quote withheld]
- host statement· 3:59
The host asserts that a voice, [quote withheld] telling people to get out is a pattern he has encountered on an earlier EVP program.
- host statement· 4:12
The host asserts that this is a frequent message [quote withheld]
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 clear, consistent firsthand story with a specific setting and sequence, but with no details that can be verified and no attention to ordinary explanations. It sits just above the [quote withheld] mark.
Evidence for and against
- Firsthand, direct experience told by the person who reports it.
- Concrete sequence and setting: year (1994), city (London), type of building, floor, features of the room, sounds, and smells.
- The caller separates what they perceived from what they concluded, saying [quote withheld] without naming a cause.
- No self-contradiction or shifting detail across the story.
- No cathedral name, no plaque year, no names of the companions, and no detail that could be checked independently ([quote withheld]).
- The caller’s opening is a genre label: [quote withheld]
- The claimed companions do not speak on air, and their reactions are only reported by the caller.
- Possible ordinary sources of the voice (an adjacent room, the hallway, visitors leaving) are neither raised nor ruled out.
- The labels showing who is speaking are mixed up mid-sentence (host lines inside the caller’s sentences; one line), so the exact wording of a few phrases is uncertain.
- The caller offered more about the mausoleums ([quote withheld]) that is never given.
- 0:32
- 2:14
- 2:20
- 3:28
What the model inferred (not said on air): I scored source proximity near the top of the firsthand range and specificity in the middle, because the surroundings are described in some detail while all identifying particulars (cathedral, companions, plaque year) are missing. Alternative explanations were scored low because a plausible ordinary source for a voice in a public building is neither addressed nor ruled out.
The only support is the caller’s assertion, plus claimed witnesses who are not heard on air and a claimed plaque that was not examined. That places it at the low end of the [quote withheld] range.
Evidence for and against
- Specifics that could be checked in principle are offered (1994, London, a Gothic cathedral with mausoleums, an upper-floor room, a plaque recording a beheading), but none is checked.
- Two companions are claimed as present, though they are said to have witnessed the caller’s exit and the plaque rather than the voice.
- No documentation is produced or described as examined. The plaque itself is only described from memory.
- The companions are claimed but do not speak on air.
- No name, date on the plaque, or building name is given that an archive could check.
- It is not stated whether any photograph the caller took of the mausoleums was ever developed or examined.
- It is unknown whether the companions would back up anything if asked.
- 2:45
- 3:35
What the model inferred (not said on air): I kept this near the bottom of the 11 to 25 range because the specifics given are too vague to check (an unnamed cathedral, a year the caller does not remember) and no object or recording is presented.
Unsettling rather than frightening: an invasive command in a confined, dark space, plus a violent historical detail attached to the same room, but no described threat, contact, or lasting escalation.
Evidence for and against
- A disembodied command to leave, described as “really strong.”
- An enclosed, dark, old interior with little light and a damp, mildew smell.
- The caller reports extreme discomfort and energy surrounding them.
- The plaque’s statement that someone was beheaded in the same room, which changes how the earlier event reads.
- No threat of harm, no physical contact, and no escalation beyond a single room and a single moment.
- The caller leaves the room, and the story ends quietly with a plaque and a supportive comment from the host.
- The caller does not describe the voice (man or woman, loud or a whisper, spoken or not) or where in the room it seemed to come from.
- 2:14
- 2:28
- 3:39
What the model inferred (not said on air): The rating is an editorial judgment about the story as heard, not a judgment about whether anything happened. The intrusion into a small enclosed room and the beheading plaque do most of the work.
A familiar [quote withheld] story with a distinctive pairing of cathedral burial vaults and a beheading plaque beside the doorway. Provisional; the part of the score that compares it with the rest of the archive carries little weight while the archive is small.
Evidence for and against
- The setting is specific and less usual: mausoleums on the main floor of a working cathedral and a small upper-floor prayer room with a kneeling pew.
- The aftermath is distinctive: two companions silently looking past the caller over the caller’s shoulder at a plaque recording a beheading in the same room.
- A voice telling someone to “get out” is treated by the host as a common motif ([quote withheld]).
- An uneasy feeling in an old, dark building followed by a disembodied warning is a familiar pattern.
- The caller’s unexplained “feelings” on the main floor may have included further unusual detail that is not in this part of the broadcast.
- 1:33
- 3:18
What the model inferred (not said on air): The score reflects my comparison against recurring ghost-story motifs only. No comparison with the rest of the archive is available here, so the published value should be treated as provisional.
Scoring confidence 0.65 · analysis confidence 0.70 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand spoken story only; Two companions claimed to have been present in the hallway but who do not speak on air; No photograph, plaque text, cathedral name, or plaque year produced or examined. 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.
- Speech from another person still in the room, or from people in the hallway, heard and wrongly credited to an unseen speaker. · The caller entered the room just as other visitors were leaving, and two companions were nearby in the hallway.
- Expectation and little to see in a dim, enclosed space may have shaped how the caller interpreted ambient sound or their own discomfort. · The caller states they sometimes get “glimpses, these feelings” and describes entering a dark, enclosed, unfamiliar room with only a small window letting in light.
- Discomfort from an old, dusty, damp building, reported in terms of the senses and then attributed to a presence outside themselves. · The caller describes the room’s dust and damp, mildew-like smell and says they felt “extremely uncomfortable.”
What stands out
The strange part here is a command rather than an appearance: the caller reports hearing a voice ordering them out of a room. The detail that seems to back it up, which the caller was shown afterward, is a plaque recording a beheading in that same room. The two companions are said to have reacted visibly to something behind the caller, but what they saw is never described.
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