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A face materializing in the caller’s own vision, followed by a dream
A caller addressed by the host as [name withheld] from California tells of sitting in their living room on the phone about 15 years earlier when a gray spot in the corner of their vision grew and materialized into what they could barely make out as a non-human face. The caller says it went around a corner smiling at them and that they ran out of the room. The caller later had a dream of an abyss and something screaming for them to come outside. The host cut in to say they were out of time, and the call ended.
A black mass invitation, a stalled dorm elevator, and a body in the college lake
A caller who gives their location as Gainesville, Georgia (WDUN), tells of their freshman year at a small southern college. A man in the student center claimed to be a black witch and invited their group to a black mass. The caller did not go. That night a fire alarm sent them outside, where they saw their returning friends looking [quote withheld] before the dorm elevator they boarded stalled between floors. The caller says they later learned that one man had disappeared and that his body was found in the college lake about three weeks afterward, with his throat cut. The host cuts the caller off for time.
Nighttime evil presence and a geometric screen vision in an apartment
A caller tells Art Bell that about two months earlier, while lying in bed in their apartment, the caller felt an evil presence watching them. Then, as the caller began to dream, they saw a black geometric pattern pulled down over their vision like a screen. They felt dread and a fear of being possessed. The caller reports that prayer, and asking God to send their angel, made the fear and the vision stop. Afterward the caller used sage and sea salt and came to regard the episode as a test of their faith.
Shadow figure at a bedroom window and a child found on the roof
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sarasota, Florida, tells Art Bell that at about age five, which they place around 1966, they saw a shadow figure in a hat and long coat at their bedroom window one winter night. Their parents reportedly saw the same figure crossing the schoolyard outside and found no footprints. The caller also relays, secondhand through their wife, that about a week earlier their parents had found them missing from bed and finally discovered them sitting on the roof with no apparent way up. Asked what they think happened, they say they have no idea. The call ends with a discussion of streetlights going out around them, which the story leaves unresolved.
Banging, moved objects, and a statue’s eyes at an abandoned courthouse
[name withheld], calling from Castro Valley, California, says that in 1980, as a high-school sophomore in Auburn, California, they got a key to the long-abandoned Auburn courthouse to shoot an amateur film with friends. The caller reports banging from the upper floors. The caller says a script and a camera strap went missing and turned up neatly arranged on a judge’s bench, and a holding-cell door slammed shut by itself. The caller says the eyes of a courthouse statue of justice opened and then closed while the caller and a friend watched. The caller says they left and never went back.
Border Patrol trainees and a robed group around a bonfire near the Rio Grande
A live caller to Ghost to Ghost 2013, addressed by the host as “[name withheld]” and said to be calling from Texas, says that about twenty-five years earlier they and a partner, both brand-new Border Patrol agents, came upon fifteen to twenty people in brown full-length robes. The group was circling a large bonfire on a hill near the river at about two in the morning. Two of the robed people ran toward the agents, who reversed away without lights and did not slow down until they reached the highway. The caller says they and their partner told no one for about twenty years. The caller says that years later a student of theirs described coming across the same scene. The caller says they still do not know who the group was or what they were doing.
Letter: A child hears a pleading girl in a window eight blocks from home
The host reads a letter attributed to [quote withheld] The writer says that as a young child she had past-life memories of another family and believed she had been adopted. She reports that whenever her family drove past that family's house, about eight blocks from her own, she heard a girl pleading for help. Eventually she saw the girl's silhouette in a window, while her parents could not hear anything. She says she later concluded the family was her own past life and that the pleading ghost was herself. The letter ends with her question about what a ghost is if not an earthbound soul, and the host moves on to the next caller.
Email: Sister reports Confederate soldiers in a Gettysburg basement
Art Bell reads an email from a listener about the listener’s sister, who is described as having inherited family psychic abilities. She was asked to smudge a house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. According to the email, while blessing the house the sister went into a dirt basement and reported seeing a rifle in her face and then two frightened young Confederate soldiers huddled together. The residents asked her to return for more smudging, but she declined. The owners abandoned the house months later. The reading ends with the line [quote withheld]
A barefoot footprint at an Arctic creek and a legend of an immortal shaman
A caller from Anchorage tells Art Bell they found a single large barefoot human footprint in fresh sand at an abandoned gold-mine creek near Teller, Alaska, in 1961. The caller says their Eskimo companions, [name withheld] and a cousin, walked away in apparent fear. [name withheld] later told the caller a legend of a huge shaman from the turn of the century who was said to be immortal and “still here.” The caller finishes the legend, and Art thanks the caller and comments that sailors would not put to sea under such conditions.
Repeated waking dreams of a school bus and the caller's sister
A caller reached in Pahrump, Nevada, describes a night as a high-school junior when they waited in their car at the school for their sister's junior-varsity bus. They report falling asleep and dreaming three times that the bus arrived, and they say their sister was at the car in the third dream, asking to be let in. They say they had more and more trouble waking, finally screamed themselves awake, drove home, and waited for a phone call.
Highway spin-out and a figure seen in the rearview mirror
A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that in early 1986, driving from the Dallas–Fort Worth Airport toward Irving, Texas, their new car was cut off and went into 360-degree spins at rush hour. The caller says that while sliding backward they saw someone sitting in their back seat in the rearview mirror, and that the car stopped about three feet short of the median barrier, undamaged. The caller understood the episode as a protective, angelic intervention. The story ends with the host putting that interpretation to them and the caller agreeing.
A hand from under the driver's seat stops a teenager before a runaway gravel truck
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from St. Joseph, Missouri, tells Art Bell what they introduce as [quote withheld] As a 16-year-old driver in El Paso, Texas, they say, a hand came out from under their seat, grabbed their ankle, and kept their foot off the accelerator. Two seconds later, a runaway gravel truck crossed the red light in front of them. [name withheld] says they are now 59, that the memory is “very clear,” and that they believe a spirit protected them.