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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.
Dreams of a missing friend asking to be buried, later found in a car
A caller who gives the name [name withheld] and says the call is from [quote withheld] passes on a secondhand story from a friend named [name withheld]. According to the caller, [name withheld], [name withheld], and [name withheld] all dreamed of their missing friend [name withheld] appearing in a window and saying “bury me.” The dream image reportedly began to look like a decomposing body. Then [name withheld] was found dead by suicide in a car with a hose from the exhaust. The host sums it up as a decomposing man entering his friends’ dreams and begging to be buried.
Two floating featureless figures on a Colorado mountain road
[name withheld], calling from St. Louis, Missouri, tells Art Bell about a nighttime drive they say they took in the mid-1980s while living in Colorado Springs. The caller says they and their girlfriend parked on a dark mountain road above town and saw two black, featureless head-and-torso figures floating silently and rapidly toward them. They fled by car. [name withheld] says their girlfriend later gave a matching account and added that the figures were nearly upon them as they drove off.
Woman in a white dress pursues a car on Monterey Highway, 1951
A caller named [name withheld], from Los Banos, California, relays a story they say their father told them about their father's cousin [name withheld]. According to [name withheld], in 1951 [name withheld] was driving north from a movie theater in Morgan Hill toward San Jose on a stretch of the Monterey Highway known as “Blood Alley.” A woman in a white dress at the roadside kept pace with the accelerating car and then appeared at the window as a skeletal face. [name withheld] says [name withheld] braked, prayed, and drove back to [name withheld]'s mother's house instead.
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.”
White-haired woman with a white dog beside a desert road
A caller named [name withheld], from Salt Lake, tells Art Bell a story dated to 1981. [name withheld] says they and four friends were driving home from a California graduation trip. On a desolate desert road outside Palm Springs, they saw a white-haired woman in white holding a white dog on a chain. The woman’s dress and hair blew without wind, and her head turned unnaturally far to follow their car. The friends reportedly felt a horrible feeling and still discuss the encounter years later.
A caped figure, a skeleton, and two strangers at Redondo Beach
A truck driver who calls themselves [name withheld], phoning from a truck stop in Milan, New Mexico, tells Art Bell a story they date to the late 1970s at Redondo Beach, California. The caller says they and their girlfriend chased a fast-moving black cape-like figure on their motorcycle at dusk. It turned and looked like a skeleton. When it vanished around the corner of a building, two oddly dressed strangers were suddenly standing there. One of them grabbed their girlfriend’s hands and repeated a warning. The caller ends by passing on a friend’s opinion that they had met something supernatural. The host calls it not easily explained.
Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death
A caller phoning from Wabash, Indiana, describes events they say began about 1989. Their then-wife’s grandmother was found dead in her garage in East Tennessee, and the family’s suspicions fell on the wife’s father, [name withheld]. The caller says that in their Middle Tennessee home, the children saw something in their bedroom and their wife saw shadows. The caller felt their bed shake, felt someone move their hair and sit on the bed, and heard a whisper of the name “[name withheld].” They say the activity stopped the day [name withheld] died in a car accident. The caller says they believe the grandmother was telling them [name withheld] killed her.
Figure and hearse at “Sleepy Hollow” in Brea, and a car crash afterward
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Flagstaff, tells of a night in 1962, the summer after their high school graduation. The caller and a friend drove the caller’s first car to a spot in Brea, California, that the friend called “Sleepy Hollow.” The caller reports that their headlights lit a parked 1939 Cadillac hearse and a figure the caller compares to the Phantom of the Opera. When the two drove back minutes later, both were gone, with no tracks left behind. Shortly afterward, the caller says, their car flipped over three times on Brea Canyon Boulevard. The caller offers to send the host signed affidavits, and the story ends with the host’s remarks about it being a warning.
A woman in 1800s dress, a boulder death, and a disturbed forest circle
Mary, calling from Salem, Oregon, tells Art Bell a story they call [quote withheld] about their brother-in-law, [name withheld]. Mary says that during a birthday party they went out for burgers and, waiting out front, saw a woman in 1800s clothing whose feet they could not see. When they looked back, the woman was gone. Mary reports that while they were away, [name withheld] was struck by a boulder on a forest trail and died. Months later, Mary says, an acquaintance said a ceremony [name withheld] had been performing was interrupted when the acquaintance stubbed out a cigarette in his circle and a growling, monster-like sound came down the hill. Mary says some of them think that whatever it was came and got him.
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.
A cloud at a mother-in-law's death and ongoing house disturbances
A caller who says they are calling from Santa Rosa tells the host that in 1989, on Thanksgiving Day, their mother-in-law died. The next day, they say, they and their husband watched a large brown mist cloud dissipate on the sidewalk outside. They go on to describe a series of household disturbances: objects moved, a music box starting by itself, and odd smells. They also describe family upheavals involving their husband and their son. They blame all of it on demons. They say the situation is still going on. The host closes by telling them he believes they are in a dangerous situation.
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- Sudden pain coinciding with a young friend’s fatal truck accident4 min
- Two lightning bolts cross a truck after a driver asks for a sign3 min
- Mother's dream warning before a motorcycle wreck and a later check on her father3 min
- Repeated waking dreams of a school bus and the caller's sister3 min
- Pursuit on a Nevada highway, a flat tire at an isolated house later found boarded3 min
- Caller reports ex-husband's pre-death visits and a vision of a small plane4 min
- Caller reports seeing husband in a passing car before learning of his death3 min
- Dream of a school friend who said he had been hurt in a car wreck1 min
- College radio expedition to a reservoir reports a woman in white on the road3 min
- Pale, unresponsive hitchhiker figure on Piper's Gap Road4 min
- Caller reports their mother saw a boyfriend in her bedroom the night he died1 min
- Man in a black robe at a remote mountain campsite2 min
- Elevator doors reopening in a Florida hospital after a father's death2 min
- Recurring dream of a jeep on a desert hill, then a matching real road3 min
- A man in a checkered suit lying on a Santa Cruz Mountains road2 min
- Classical music in a 1949 Ford that had no radio2 min
- A repaired semi truck, a recurring cold feeling, and a buried trailer2 min
- Roommate's night vision of her dead father warns of her sister's car accident4 min
- Caller on their late brother's near-death experience and a felt presence2 min
- Cyclist reports seeing their dead riding partner on the road at night2 min
- A round light moving like a walking man on a hill at Rockwoods Park5 min
- Ghost tracks and a truck pushed over a San Antonio rail crossing5 min
- Fax confirming a San Antonio “school-bus ghost tracks” story1 min
- Ouija board session in a box canyon and a spirit speaking through a participant4 min
- Presences and voices reported at World War II monuments in southern Okinawa2 min
- Hooded figure with sickle in Golden Gate Park before a friend’s motorcycle death3 min
- Colorado officer meets the same roadside man twice, then the man vanishes2 min
- Gray figures circling and red eyes in Genesee Park at the summer solstice4 min
- Lights from a farmhouse window before a Piper Cub crash2 min
- Car dies on the Mass Turnpike and restarts after a plea to the caller's late father3 min
- Scent of carnations in a van on Highway 99 after a grandmother's death4 min
- A bell heard in the car and a puff of air in the shower after a boyfriend's death4 min
- Floating light over a hill during a night hike in Babler State Park3 min
- Listener letter: A weekend at the Hotel del Coronado as “Kate's guest”3 min
- A San Antonio railroad crossing where cars are reportedly pushed off the tracks2 min
- Bleeding man on a San Diego corner who vanished when officers turned back3 min
- Figure standing in the road at the site of a fatal crash, and a message to a bereaved sister4 min
- Truck driver reports numbness and a rising sensation in a sleeper berth at a New Mexico rest area5 min
- Two officers chase a fast-moving shadow through a closed area2 min
- Vanishing fisherman and black triangle inside an Alaska mountain base5 min
- Faceless woman in period clothing walking on a snowy road near Yellowstone3 min
- Faceless green caped figure in the left lane on a night drive to Peoria2 min
- Equipment failures and a truck fire at a logging site said to be a burial ground3 min
- A friend's demon seen only in reflections, and a face in a truck mirror2 min
- A detective's email: a boy's ghost and a murder weapon3 min
- Motorcyclist who vanished from a campground after supper and a conspiracy talk3 min
- Highway spin-out and a figure seen in the rearview mirror2 min
- A hand from under the driver's seat stops a teenager before a runaway gravel truck3 min
- Handprints on the front of a car that stopped before a cliff28 s
- Caller describes seeing themselves from the corner of their ICU room after flatlining2 min
- Vanishing shack and field of Corvairs near a suspected haunted house8 min
- Florida caller on being pronounced dead at 16 in a head-on collision (part 1)2 min
- Caller describes a month-long coma and a feeling of having been somewhere else3 min
- Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice4 min
- Car reportedly pushed off railroad tracks at a Clarksville, Tennessee, crossing2 min
- Flickering lights, a truck radio, and birthday phone calls after a brother’s death3 min
- Driver reports hitting an elderly man and dog on a road outside Chicago5 min
- Screaming, shaking, and red eyes at an Alabama plantation slave cabin4 min
- Deceased truck driver reportedly visits a Colorado ranch and leaves Pepsi cans4 min
- Woman in white waving arms on an Arizona highway, then a crashed car5 min
- Black car, red window light, and a note in an orchard5 min
- A coma, three selves, and walking with Jesus after a 1980 car crash4 min
- Premonitions of a father’s death and a family cat’s disappearance4 min
- Father’s figure in the rearview mirror before a Manhattan car crash2 min
- Post-funeral Wienermobile coincidences read as a message from a deceased father6 min
- Ouija board reportedly names a Tijuana partygoer’s death night5 min
- Deceased father appears in a truck and warns of coming events5 min
- Fading runner and a woman who vanishes from the back seat on the highway56 s
- A paper Ouija board, a spirit called Tommy, and wall scratches6 min
- Upside-down face at a motorhome window on a night drive near Chico6 min
- A truck pushed at San Antonio train tracks and children’s crying3 min
- A white cat and unseen footsteps at Charleville Castle, Ireland7 min
- Struck by a hearse at six, an out-of-body experience, and later night visitations4 min
- Trucker hears a voice, glimpses a girl in white, and finds a wet seat near Pacheco Pass3 min
- E-mail: Floating woman in nightgown crossing road by old church, 19783 min
- Late wife’s three-part contact: Blown bulbs, a bluebird, and a bedroom vision5 min
- Letter: A child hears a pleading girl in a window eight blocks from home2 min
- Trucker reports girl they held at a crash later appearing in their cab3 min
- Motion-sensor porch light after a cat's death read as a goodbye1 min
- Ouija board threat, a voice in the ear, and a man in the passenger seat4 min
- EVP saying “go home” recorded in a Niagara-on-the-Lake graveyard2 min
- A white indistinct form in a truck's passenger seat in 1970s Pennsylvania1 min
- Funeral home worker reports a conversation with a cryonics patient in transit7 min
- Palm reader relays a family’s story of a dead mother’s warning to rescue [name withheld]3 min
- Bluish-white pillar becoming a woman’s ghost on a rural road at night2 min
- Trailer door found open and cat found in sealed cavity3 min
- Lemur on the pool patio the night of the caller’s father’s visitation3 min
- Girl in a raincoat with a flashlight reported in a basement and a cul-de-sac5 min
- A faceless girl on a rural road near Cabot, Arkansas4 min
- Caller [name withheld]’s dream of a death in their car (part one)2 min
- A voice tells a woman to play a record after her sister’s fatal car crash4 min
- Military trucks starting and a horn sounding by itself at Camp Stanley, Korea10 min
- Shadow figure behind a sapling and streetlights going out on a drive home4 min
- Border Patrol trainees and a robed group around a bonfire near the Rio Grande7 min
- Volunteer firefighter senses dead crash victim, then an unexplained phone call5 min
- Recorded EVP at a party and a friend’s coma at 11 p.m.2 min
- Foot tug and a friend’s death reported on the radio3 min