Clock stops or behaves oddly
Shadow figures running past a bed and blinking clock radios in an Atlanta apartment
A caller named [name withheld], from Atlanta, Georgia, describes dark figures running in front of their bed toward a lit bathroom after they fell asleep very late. Later they found clock radios blinking and the date on their computer changed. They call the figures “angels” and connect the events to a recent broadcast. The host offers an electromagnetic explanation, then takes the next call.
A radio station at 666 Main Street, Deadwood, and a ghost called Doc Smiley
A caller the host addresses as [name withheld], said to be calling from Colorado, tells of working as an overnight DJ in college at K-Sky Radio in Deadwood, South Dakota. They say the station was at 666 Main Street. They describe the staff's knowledge of a ghost called “Doc Smiley.” They also describe a man in Old West clothing seen through a newsroom window and gone when approached, clocks and commercial carts found upside down, dark figures glimpsed in the hallway, and doors creaking and slamming on their own. They end with a night during a blizzard when, about 3:30 a.m., they heard a loud “demonic roar” from down the hall. They ran after a friend they assumed was pranking them and found no tracks in the snow outside.
Intruder-shaped silhouette ascends and vanishes after a Ouija session
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from the Reno/Sparks, Nevada, area, tells Art Bell about something that happened a week after they and their then-wife “horsed around” with a Ouija board. They say they were dozing off in bed when they heard the back door open and heavy boots cross their kitchen. They say they took a 9mm pistol from a dresser drawer and confronted a stocky figure about 6'3" in the living room. They report that the silhouette shot straight up like a spring-loaded window shade and vanished. They add that other things happened in the same house, including clocks sliding off a shelf onto the floor, and then ask to get off the air.
Nurse's faxed letter about a patient's death and alarm clocks at 11:07
A faxed letter read on air by the host, from a registered nurse in Sandy, Utah, describes a night shift in a 120-bed facility. A patient the letter calls [name withheld] was expected to die. The writer reports that [name withheld]'s breathing and heartbeat stopped at 11:07 p.m. At that same minute, six alarm clocks on the hall went off and a call light in the now-empty room came on. The letter ends with the writer's line, [quote withheld]
Wailing in two bivouacked rooms in bombed Aachen, 1945
Art Bell reads a letter attributed to a US Army soldier of the 303rd Medium Maintenance Company. The soldier was billeted in two adjoining rooms of a ruined apartment building in Aachen in 1945. The writer says the soldiers restarted a stopped grandfather clock, and an “unearthly” wailing broke out at 2 a.m. It lasted eight to ten minutes. All twelve men in the two rooms heard it, but no one outside did. The letter ends with the men choosing to sleep elsewhere.
A felt presence at night and creased pants on a bedroom chair
A caller who identifies himself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a first-person story about a night in the summer of 1973, when he was 13. Lying in bed near midnight, he says, he felt as though someone had entered his room and was watching him. He stayed still for about two hours before sleeping. He reports that the next morning the freshly laundered pants folded on a chair at the foot of his bed were creased as though someone had been sitting on them. The story ends there, and the caller moves on to a separate one.
A small limping figure, a 1932 diary, and a drowned boy identified
A caller who identifies herself only by her location tells Art Bell that a small, limping gray figure, a mold smell, a clock chiming thirteen times, and a failing light bulb began recurring in her home at 10 after 11 each night. She links the events to a 1932 child's diary that she says appeared on her kitchen counter. It led her to a boy said to have drowned in the neighboring town. A Catholic priest reportedly told her it was a soul that did not rest. She says that after she showed the boy his death certificate, the events stopped.
Ouija board spells “Clock” and a Panama-shaped clock turns in Gamboa
An unnamed caller from west of the Rockies tells Art Bell about a Ouija board session roughly ten to fifteen years earlier at their sister's home in Gamboa, in the Panama Canal Zone. The caller says the board spelled out “Calibra” (Culebra) as the spirit's origin and then spelled “clock” after their sister asked for a presence. Minutes later, the caller says, the sister's cats ran wild and a clock cut in the shape of Panama was found turned 45 degrees. The caller says they never used the board again.
Train passenger repeats a phrase and is then reported absent
A caller named [name withheld], phoning from Oklahoma while listening to a San Antonio station, tells of their father’s death about fifteen years earlier and a clock that stopped afterward. The caller also tells of a stranger on an overnight train from St. Louis to Minneapolis who told them their dead father was proud of them. People at the hospital had already used that phrase. [name withheld] asked the train steward to check on the elderly passenger, and the steward reportedly found no one there.
A watchmaker’s death and a new Concord watch that stopped
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], listening in Phoenix, tells Art Bell about their grandfather’s death when [name withheld] was about 15. The grandfather was a watchmaker. [name withheld] says their brother-in-law, then traveling in Israel, noticed that his new Concord watch had stopped. The family later worked out that this was the time the grandfather died. [name withheld] calls the coincidence spooky rather than frightening, and suggests it was a trick their grandfather would pull.
Clock strikes oddly at the reported moment of a relative's death
A caller to Ghost to Ghost tells a brief family story about their father's sister, who was not expected to live. The caller says that about four days after their father traveled to see her, the family's clock struck differently in the middle of the night, and their mother said the sister had just died. The caller says she did. The host thanks the caller and moves on.
A promised sign and a floral clock that fell at a neighbor’s wake
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about events the caller places in 1955, when the caller was 18. After their father’s wake, the caller says, the neighbor [name withheld] told them he would be next and made them promise to attend his wake. He promised them a sign so he would know they had come. The caller says [name withheld] died two months later, and that at his wake a spray of yellow flowers arranged as a clock showed the time of his death. As the caller went to kneel at the casket, the spray fell from the wall onto the casket and at their feet. The caller and their sister, the caller says, took it as the promised sign, and the caller tells Art they do not believe in coincidences.