Cold spots, smells, and marks
Changes in a room with no visible cause.
Hooded faceless figure in the bedroom and a return during a cardiac arrest
A caller identified on air as [name withheld] of Sacramento describes himself as a 6'9", 370-pound pastor. He says a faceless, handless, hooded figure came through his bedroom door in March of that year and threatened him. It then threw his wife off the bed by the ankles and left what he describes as bleeding hand imprints. He says the same figure appeared beside him a month later when his heart stopped during a hospital stay in San Francisco. It told him it was time to come with it. He says he refused and was revived. He ends by telling the host he believes the figure was probably following him after he once helped a Catholic pastor with an exorcism.
A black form, the family cats, and a brother’s hypothermia in an Edison, New Jersey, farmhouse
A caller who says they are calling from Fairborn, Ohio, tells Art Bell that around 1970, when they were nine or ten, their family lived in an old farmhouse on 12 acres in Edison, New Jersey. They report waking at 3 or 4 a.m. and seeing a black, indistinct oval form in the hallway that “slammed into” them and told them “don’t go in.” They then found their younger brother being enveloped by it in their shared bedroom while the family’s cats attacked it. The story ends with their father, described as a police officer, running in with a gun as the thing slid through a window. The brother was reportedly kept overnight in the hospital for hypothermia the next morning.
San Jose apartment with occult remains and blue light pillars
A letter read on air, with the writer’s name withheld, describes working for an apartment-management company in East San Jose, California, in 1971. The writer reports being sent to clean a second-floor unit after an eviction. They say they found black walls, red bulbs, a pentagram, altars, and animal remains. After warnings from two strangers, they say they saw two pillars of blue light at the foot of their bed at about 2 a.m. The letter ends with the writer saying they never returned to the address.
Entity attacks on a child in a late-1800s house in Needles, California
A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about what they call an “entity attack” that began when they were about four years old, in a family house in Needles, California. He reports a presence coming through the wall at night, grabbing and dragging them, and family-wide problems with furniture moving. In a final incident, their father was trapped in the basement under a chest freezer. They say the family moved out about two weeks after that, and that they still sleep with their head under the covers.
Family haunting in Louisiana tied to an uncle who kept his wife's corpse
A caller from Austin, Texas, tells a family story they say took place in Louisiana about a hundred years before the broadcast and is still going on. An uncle, said to be devastated by his young wife's death, kept her corpse in an upstairs bedroom for six months while he waited for a glass coffin ordered from New Orleans. He reportedly kissed it nightly and talked to it over a Ouija board. The caller passes on servants' reports of candles that would not light, cold air, whispers, falling objects, and nighttime conversations with another voice. The caller says relatives kept avoiding the room and feeling a cold presence into the 1970s. The caller says the woman is still buried in Metairie Cemetery, that a family member holds the key to the crypt, and that they themselves would go in out of curiosity.
Hawaiian cemetery prank, a shaking car, and bite marks
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Northern California, relays a story they say their former Boy Scout leader told them about ten years earlier. The leader was a Hawaiian man named [name withheld]. As a teenager in Hawaii, [name withheld] and a friend took two girls to a cemetery as a prank. The parked car they returned to was shaking violently, with the girls screaming and “red eyes” at the windows. [name withheld] is said to have found a bite mark on his ankle that night. His older brother mocked the family’s warning, and the two returned to run over graves and kick over food. The brother is said to have had more than 200 bites counted on his body and to have needed hospital stitches. The caller ends by saying they were shown [name withheld]’s lasting bite marks years later and by discussing Hawaiian cemetery customs.
Woman in black, locked doors, and a priest's blessing in a Dodge City rental
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sumner, Washington, describes a house their family moved into in Dodge City, Kansas, about fifteen years earlier. The caller reports flooding, a woman in a black dress seen by their daughter, doors that shut and locked family members in, whispering, a fetal-position stain on the carpet, and footsteps on the stairs. After researching records, the caller and their sister concluded that an elderly former resident was earthbound. A priest blessed the house and fell ill. The caller says they later blessed it themselves and believes the woman went to the light.
Ghost drums at a reenactor rendezvous at Fort Ouachita
[name withheld], calling from the Springfield, Missouri Ozarks, says they are a Cherokee historic reenactor. They describe an eleven-day rendezvous in 1994 at Fort Ouachita, Oklahoma, an old Confederate fort and cemetery. After most camps left on Sunday, the caller and their husband stayed overnight. The caller reports fear, birds screaming at midnight, ghost drums, waves of ghosts, dress jingles, a moved teepee door, and a fire that went out cold. The host closes with comments, and the story ends without resolution.
Gray-eyed man on a friend’s couch after a Ouija session
A caller from Colorado says a high school friend, with whom they had once used a Ouija board, phoned them at about 3:30 a.m. in December. The friend was crying and standing outside their own house in the snow. The friend said they had come home to a smell of sulfur and found a well-kept man sitting on their couch with entirely gray eyes. The friend had broken their bedroom window to escape. The caller and their mother later entered the wrecked house and had priests bless it.
Boulders thrown around a camper on the Queets River
Caller [name withheld], from Graham, Washington, describes four men playing poker in a camper beside the Queets River. Around 1:30 a.m., rocks began landing around the vehicle for about three hours, along with grunts that he and Art Bell compared with a recorded “Sasquatch” sound. In the morning, [name withheld] says, large boulders lay in a circle around the camper, and it took two trucks to move them. He dates the event to 1975, says he has never returned to the spot, and offers no cause beyond “something awfully big.”
Six nights in an abandoned rural house: Odors, Ouija board, and footsteps
A caller who says they are a county fraud investigator tells Art Bell they spent six nights with their girlfriend and her daughter in an unoccupied house about 25 miles up a dirt road in Northern California. Local people had told them it was haunted. They report a rotting-flesh smell, cold spots, a chair that flew back and injured the girlfriend’s knee, a door handle turning, footsteps and a slammed door upstairs, a child’s “help me” captured on a tape recorder, and orbs in several hundred photographs. The call ends with the host asking for the caller’s e-mail and website link.
Rented split-entry house: orbs, mist, whispers and a white figure on the stairs
[name withheld], a caller from New Hampshire, tells Art Bell about strange events the caller says began on the first night their family moved into a rented split-entry house about twenty-three years earlier, when they were sixteen. The caller reports a dream of an old man with hollowed-out eyes, then waking to balls of light zigzagging through their room. Later came a mist and cold in the hallway, whispering and footsteps at night, a face staring over their shoulder at the computer, and a white figure with bulging eyes on the stairs. The caller says their brother [name withheld] reported the same experiences. The host ends this part of the broadcast by telling the caller they are haunted.
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- AP item on reported spirits and a bread smell at the US Capitol1 min
- Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house6 min
- Wounded Marine sniper reports ancestor in Civil War uniform freezing his wound3 min
- Doorbell rings and scent of roses after a son's death2 min
- A barefoot footprint at an Arctic creek and a legend of an immortal shaman4 min
- A former priest blesses the house of a dead radio singer3 min
- Sensed presence of previous owner “[name withheld]” in a purchased house3 min
- A silver figure, footprints on a sleeping mother's arm, and a “vortex” in Long Beach2 min
- A cloud at a mother-in-law's death and ongoing house disturbances4 min
- Disturbances in a rented upstairs apartment above an old store5 min
- Childhood home in Granite City, Illinois, with flying plates and slamming doors4 min
- Letter about a stone mason's photograph in an old L.A. home's wine cellar2 min
- Ouija board session said to contact a grandfather in a coma4 min
- Windstorm stops after prayer to angels; daughter reports sudden calm2 min
- Woman in white and vandalized cemetery at Indiana University4 min
- Letter describing a haunted house where unseen presences are treated as roommates1 min
- A floating female figure, immobility, and being carried out a bedroom window3 min
- Ouija seance, a door swinging shut, and a trident impression in a vestibule carpet2 min
- Ouija session: light forms in mid-air and room turns cold4 min
- Caller recounts her mother smelling flowers before her sister's death58 s
- Recurring sweet pea scent after mother's death2 min
- Phantom fire in a converted railway station restaurant2 min
- A repaired semi truck, a recurring cold feeling, and a buried trailer2 min
- Caller reports scalp touch and sticky goo in bathroom2 min
- Covers that would not come off and a scream in the ear at 3:30 a.m.3 min
- Rocking chair and voices in an 1880s Ashland rental house5 min
- Horses, war cries, and an arrowhead in a tree near Pipestone, Minnesota3 min
- A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home4 min
- Rented Ohio mining-town house: footsteps, greyhounds, and a man at the door3 min
- Ghost tracks and a truck pushed over a San Antonio rail crossing5 min
- Caller relays aunt’s story of a goat-like figure and hoof prints in an Ohio cellar4 min
- A Denver officer’s letter: A woman in a red dress at a courthouse and the elevator5 min
- Fax confirming a San Antonio “school-bus ghost tracks” story1 min
- Daughter’s invisible friend Daggett and a cold chair in a Kansas City-area house3 min
- A voice named Harry and charred lumber in a Washington cabin5 min
- Childhood sounds and a cold presence in a Pomona house; a white figure in Ontario6 min
- A bath-time candle relights itself in an old Golden, Colorado house2 min
- A caller sees an occult-minded acquaintance appear in their locked bedroom and vanish at the kitchen light2 min
- Voice says “Get out” in a bathroom at a housewarming party2 min
- Black figure at foot of bed in a Redlands home3 min
- Cold spots, footsteps, and a bang in an attic at a friend’s house in Oswego2 min
- An 1880 house with chairs moving, a door opening, and rose and tobacco scents3 min
- Scent of carnations in a van on Highway 99 after a grandmother's death4 min
- Dark cloud and disturbances at a remote lakeside recording studio in Oklahoma3 min
- Voice and sudden cold in a bedroom after a caller asked for a devil's deal3 min
- A felt presence at night and creased pants on a bedroom chair2 min
- Letter: A shadow resembling the writer’s late father, popcorn and cigar2 min
- A small limping figure, a 1932 diary, and a drowned boy identified6 min
- Letter: Transparent old man and smell of dirt, rot, and alcohol in a Missouri house3 min
- Letter read on air: Red stain and handprint in a Santa Barbara shower2 min
- Stolen skull, flames, and a smoke image in a mirror in a Fort Lauderdale apartment6 min
- Vancouver house with reported voodoo history and a priest who would not enter6 min
- Featureless black figure reported at a roller hockey rink2 min
- Voice in the kitchen, a loosened bulb, and a face in a burnt furnace3 min
- Daytime sleep paralysis, a woman speaking in a man's voice, and nails in the head5 min
- Late mother-in-law appears in her former bedroom; a footprint in the carpet8 min
- Caller’s secondhand story of a figure on the stairs in a Salem house3 min
- A San Antonio railroad crossing where cars are reportedly pushed off the tracks2 min
- Knocking, pulled covers, and a figure in 1920s dress on a hotel's fifth floor3 min
- Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia3 min
- Paw-print indentations appear on a bed after a dog's euthanasia4 min
- Nightly 12:26 wakings, cool fingers, and a child’s invisible playmate5 min
- Scent of a grandfather’s breakfast and a growling dog before news of his death1 min
- Lights, a door, and voices in a boarded-up plantation house outside New Orleans6 min
- Police officer recalls a dog-headed figure entering their childhood bedroom3 min
- Footsteps on the stairs and a cold, angry presence in a Colorado Springs house2 min
- A push on the top bunk and handprints on a boy's chest5 min
- Perfume smell aboard a Navy ship at the reported time of an aunt’s death8 min
- Man in trench coat and stovepipe hat with bicycle on Phoenix street4 min
- Grandparents' handbuilt Sacramento house: light switches, toilet, cigar smoke (part 1)2 min
- Cigar smoke, a cement mixer, and moved chairs in a grandfather’s house4 min
- Caller reports a Pan Am flying boat appearing alongside their Cessna near Ukiah5 min
- Cold bedroom, tall figures, and cigarette smoke in a moved mobile home4 min
- Attic noises and a presence in a family’s Victorian house4 min
- Church windows close one by one during a funeral in Montreal4 min
- Family house in Syracuse: man on the telephone, bed presence, and deceased parents10 min
- Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death6 min
- A moving cold spot and a self-operating elevator in a suburban restaurant8 min
- Cold spot, woman, and giant arm during a church overnight7 min
- Invisible two-legged walker and hoof prints in snow, Palmer, Alaska, 19713 min
- Spirit called Henry: pinches, a boy’s ghost, and a fallen picture3 min
- Letter: A girl named [name withheld] in a Trenton attic and a found ring3 min
- Reported music, elevator doors, and a rooftop push in a Saskatoon hotel building6 min
- Dark presence and being thrown in a Yosemite employee tent cabin5 min
- Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice4 min
- Footsteps and wet footprints in a Route 66 service station2 min
- Car reportedly pushed off railroad tracks at a Clarksville, Tennessee, crossing2 min
- Invisible animal’s paw prints cross a bed in an apartment41 s
- Gray figure and male scream in a rented Union, Missouri house4 min
- Handcuff marks, “help” in frost, and a light orb at a Phantom Lake house3 min
- Vision of hellfire, a figure in the doorway, and a child-sized shape in the hallway5 min
- Childhood near-death experience under ether after a horse wreck9 min
- Deceased truck driver reportedly visits a Colorado ranch and leaves Pepsi cans4 min
- Black car, red window light, and a note in an orchard5 min
- Leg broken by an unseen kick on lava rock at Kaneohe Marine base7 min
- Friend hears crying through a bathroom wall; neighbor found dead3 min
- Empty charred casket and a freshly dug hole in a cemetery found as boys6 min
- Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room8 min
- Shape-changing creature seen from a porch and driveway at night3 min
- Invisible force pulls caller by the arm at their grandmother's doorway5 min
- Trucker hears a voice, glimpses a girl in white, and finds a wet seat near Pacheco Pass3 min
- Burning smell, figure at corner of bed, and a toy from the other side3 min
- [name withheld]’s sleep-related entities, a lattice-like figure, and a claimed photograph3 min
- A key in the door and a solid figure in a Reno apartment5 min
- Dark figure in a hallway after a husband's remark about selling his soul2 min
- Newspaper carrier reports a translucent man pumping water that never overflows4 min