Around 3 a.m.
Reported red-eyed funnel-shaped figure at the foot of a bed
[name withheld] from Florence, Alabama, tells Art Bell that when they were about 15 or 16 they woke around 3 a.m., felt watched, and saw a pair of red eyes attached to a black, spinning, funnel-like form at the foot of their bed. They report being unable to scream or move. When the form moved around the bed, they fled to their mother’s room. With the light on, nothing was there. Their mother called it a nightmare. [name withheld] says they still believe it was real and are still scared by the memory.
Evil presence, a figure saying “I want you,” and strange events ending after a house fire
[name withheld] from Harrisburg, Oregon, calls to describe a series of experiences in their house. They include a feeling of evil in the bedroom, a touch across their feet, and a hiss around 3 a.m. The caller also reports that their husband saw a figure in the doorway and later heard it say “I want you.” The caller links the activity to witchcraft books found upstairs. After an upstairs house fire and a remodel, the caller says, nothing has happened since.
Knocking doors and a bony-handed presence in a relative’s house near Sparta
[name withheld], calling from New York, New York, tells Art Bell about a night in the mid-1980s at their uncle’s and grandmother’s house in southern Greece, near Sparta. They report knocking and violently shaking doors. They then woke to what they call an entity on their back and bony hands holding them face-down. It ended when they screamed and pushed up. A cousin later implied he had a similar experience.
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.
A translucent figure walks onto a Florida TV studio set
A caller named [name withheld], from Minneapolis, tells the host that several years earlier they were working at a Florida television station. They arrived at about 3 a.m., heard unexplained noises, and saw a translucent girl walk onto the studio set and sit down before everything went dark. Weeks later, they say, a colleague told them that a girl had killed herself on that set in the late 1960s. The story ends without further resolution.
Injured, one-legged figure with a lantern on Roberts Road
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Chicago, tells Art Bell that about eleven years earlier they and a friend were driving home from a party at around 3 a.m. They saw a man standing by the curb with a lantern on Roberts Road. The caller says the figure stepped in front of the car and walked toward them, looking injured and see-through, with a missing leg. The caller says a following car drove right through the figure as it walked toward a cemetery. The caller says they and their friend both saw it, that they called Justice Police and later [name withheld], and that the experience unsettled them for about a year.
Black car, red window light, and a note in an orchard
A caller describes two nights in a row on a country road near the research center where they had just started work as a custodian. On the first night the caller reports a black car and an old woman with a “grotesque wrinkled face” staring at them at a stop sign. Their passenger said he could not see her. On the second night the caller reports a red light in an upstairs window and a light in an orchard behind the house, where their friend found a note. The caller says the note, read later at home, said [quote withheld]
Covers that would not come off and a scream in the ear at 3:30 a.m.
Mary from Bakersfield calls live near the end of the broadcast. The caller describes a winter night when they were about 18 or 19. The caller says that after they pulled the covers over their head in bed, they became frightened and could not pull them off. Then they heard a shrill scream in their ear and could not call out until they managed to say “daddy,” and at that point the covers came off. The caller gives no cause and says they have never slept with the covers over their head since.
Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home
A live caller tells Art Bell that their current home has had unexplained activity since the family moved in when it was newly built. The caller reports objects moving, vanishing, and reappearing. The caller says their older brother’s hair began burning while the brother read a book. The caller also reports nightly activity aimed at the caller and their mother, and interference with their music equipment. Art compares it to a poltergeist. The call ends with the activity still going on.
Red eyes at 3:15 a.m. emerging from a bedroom closet
An unidentified caller (no name or location given) tells Art Bell that during their school and college years they repeatedly woke at exactly 3:15 a.m. with a sense that something was in their room. Years later, while married, the caller says they dreamed of being chased through a tunnel with slimy walls by red eyes and woke up screaming at 3:15. A month or two later, the caller says, they lay in bed and saw red eyes come out of their closet door. The host cuts the story short, saying he does not want to hear more.
Legless woman saying “I can't sleep” in a rented house where a woman was shot
An unnamed caller traveling east of St. Louis tells Art Bell a story from 1990, when the caller was 18 and shared a rented house with friends. The caller says a friend, sleeping over on a couch in the caller's room, later described a woman who appeared and repeated “I can't sleep” before flying out the open door. The friend noticed she had no legs. The caller adds that the friend's father, a former police officer, said he had once been called to that house, where a lady was shot and killed through the front window.
Red eyes in a tree, a transforming figure, and a drive-by rescue
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Birmingham, Alabama, describes to Art Bell events they say they have shared with their best friend [name withheld] since they met. They report a nighttime encounter in Huntsville: barking dogs, red glowing eyes in a tree, a neighborhood blackout, and a white tiger-like shadow that they say changed into an Egyptian man who promised protection. They then describe a Christmas incident in which they say they and [name withheld] were thrown back from a door shortly before a drive-by shooting passed the house. The call ends with [name withheld] saying they and [name withheld], now in Germany and at home, are still having the same strange dreams.