Dreams that came true
Dreams that later events matched.
A floating translucent man at the caller's bedside at seventeen, and a warning five years later
[name withheld], calling from Grants Pass, Oregon, tells the host that at seventeen they woke in bed to a translucent man floating about a foot above the floor, who they say had been shaking them. They fled the house, and their mother told them it was a dream. Five years later, they say, the same figure came to them in a dream and warned that their boyfriend, their son’s father, would hurt them. The following day, they report, he choked them. They end by saying they would listen to the presence next time.
Dream-guided trip, two figures in black, and a black net in a valley
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes a series of vivid dreams or waking dreams over seven to nine months, at some point about fourteen years before the broadcast. In them a voice told them of a place near Papua New Guinea. The caller says they traveled there, encountered a man and a woman dressed in black at an airport, and was then engulfed by a black net in a valley at night before calling on spirits and escaping. The caller says they later came home by way of the Philippines on Halloween and concluded that a spirit watches over them.
Teen dream of a house and pasture, later found ruined near St. Louis airport
A caller who gives no name or location says that in their teens they had two dreams in one night. The first showed an idyllic road with grazing livestock and an old house; the second showed the same road with dead animals and an axe attack. About six months later, the caller says, they and two companions found a ruined house off a driveway near the St. Louis airport, felt a presence, and fled when their Jeep would not start. The caller ends by saying that over the years, the only explanation they and their cousin agreed on was an economic one.
Letter claims mother and son had matching dreams of a shooting and met on the stairs
The host reads a letter in which the writer tells a story about [quote withheld] The letter says the son, sleeping in the basement, dreamed he walked upstairs and stood over his blood-covered parents with a gun in his hands. At the same time, his mother upstairs dreamed he was entering her bedroom and shooting her and her husband. She woke, went downstairs, and met him coming up the stairs, with no gun in his hands. The two ended up crying in each other's arms. The letter ends by asking whether something was driving him toward the gun or protecting the family, and the host says the guess is as good as his.
A voice tells a woman to play a record after her sister’s fatal car crash
An unnamed caller continues a story she calls the premonition part. She reports that her sister [name withheld] and a friend were killed in the caller’s car by an off-duty, drunk police officer. After the funeral, she says, a voice in her head told her to play a record left untouched on the stereo. The song was Neil Young’s [quote withheld] which she says described the accident. The host calls it a coincidence and says such things do not make sense.
Roommate's night vision of her dead father warns of her sister's car accident
A caller who calls themself an atheist tells Art Bell that at age 20 they shared a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate who was a single mother. One night, the caller says, she ran into the caller's room crying. She said she had seen her dead father standing over her sister's casket, warning that the sister would be hurt but would not die. The next day, the caller says, the roommate's mother telephoned to report that the sister had been badly hurt in a car wreck and was in intensive care. The caller says the sister recovered, but the timing has always bothered them.
Recurring dream of a jeep on a desert hill, then a matching real road
[name withheld], from Los Angeles, describes a dream they say they had about every couple of months from roughly age seven to fifteen. In it, two men in an old jeep drive a deserted desert road, and the dream ends in terror and a wrecked jeep. At fifteen, on a desert road near the Salton Sea with a school friend, they say the same landscape and the dream's fear returned, and they refused to go over the crest of the hill. They turned around. [name withheld] says the dream never came back.
Teenage dream of a casket foretelling an uncle's death two days later
A caller tells Art Bell that as a teenager they dreamed they were holding up a casket. They woke screaming and told their mother that the person inside was their mother's brother. The caller reports that two days later their mother received word that he had died. The caller says they saw his face in the casket in the dream, and that their mother, [quote withheld] believed them.
Two fortune tellers’ warnings and a 1945 dream of a factory explosion
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a story they date to 1945, when their newly married husband had just left for Navy service. The caller reports that two separate fortune tellers, weeks apart, gave them the same message: their husband would be fine, but they should take care of themselves. The caller says they later dreamed of an explosion at the factory where they worked, then were hurt in a real explosion about a week afterward. The host cuts the call off for time before they finish.
A dream of a family death, a waking premonition, and a phone call, Utah, 1955
A caller tells Art Bell that after their family moved from Ely, Nevada, to Provo, Utah, they woke on December 18, 1955, from a dream that someone in the family had died. The caller says they telephoned a cousin in Ely, who reported everything was fine. Then on December 21 they woke around 12:30 a.m. with the thought that “somebody's gone” and waited for the phone. It rang with news that their cousin's uncle had died in a car accident.
Caller's employee dreams of three dead relatives; a grandmother dies two days later
A caller named [name withheld], in Phoenix, tells of an employee who came to work about a week earlier and described a dream. In it, the employee filmed from a front yard as three recently deceased people walked through a gate: their own mother, their girlfriend's grandfather, and their girlfriend's grandmother. The employee reportedly did not recognize the last woman, but their girlfriend identified her as her grandmother. Two days later, the caller says, the employee arrived late because that grandmother had died.
A grandfather's voice and a dream of grandparents before deaths
A letter read on air, from [quote withheld] describes two experiences tied to deaths in the family. In January 1976, in Mesa, Arizona, the writer says they heard a voice calling their name the way their grandfather used to. Shortly afterward a sister called to say the grandfather had died. In July 1980 the writer reports a dream of both grandparents, young and dancing in wedding clothes. The next morning they learned their grandmother had died.