Learned of a death afterward
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.
Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house
A caller from Alameda, California, tells Art Bell that she and her five children were hearing slamming doors, footsteps, and other disturbances in a large old house. She says each of them had kept it from the others. She reports a shadow that appeared in daylight, an unsuccessful first appeal to a priest, and a house blessing. Finally, she says, a voice said “your brother.” She then learned her brother had died about two months earlier.
Recorded EVP at a party and a friend’s coma at 11 p.m.
A caller tells Art Bell about filming a house party with night vision. They say a demonic-sounding voice was captured on the tape when they greeted their friend [name withheld]. Years later, while driving with their girlfriend at 11 p.m., they suddenly remembered the story and told it to her. The next day they learned that a friend, named [name withheld] in the transcript, was in a coma. The friend died three days later. They say a friend, [name withheld], reported the coma began around 11 that Saturday night, close to when they were telling the story. They are unsure whether there was a connection.
Dream of a grandmother at the door saying “There is no heaven,” and a father’s parallel dream
A caller named [name withheld], from Philadelphia, recounts a dream from about ten years earlier, three days after their grandmother’s death. In the dream, the grandmother stands at their door barefoot in the snow, scratches the glass, and asks to be let in. The caller refuses and tells her [quote withheld] and she answers [quote withheld] After waking they tell their family, and their father describes a parallel dream from years before about a neighbor, [name withheld], who died shortly afterward. The caller says they do not believe it was the actual spirit.
A child's late-night phone call reporting their father's death
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], calling from Redmond, Washington, says their father was murdered in 1976, when they were nine. The caller reports that at about 11 p.m. on the night of his death they woke at their aunt's house, walked through the dark house, and answered a ringing telephone. A voice the caller did not recognize told them their father had been shot, and then the line went dead. The caller’s aunt, who had not heard the phone ring, called it a bad dream. The caller says the call came around the time he died, and that their mother, fifteen miles away, woke with a start at the same moment. The caller says their uncle can confirm the caller telephoned him, but no one can confirm the incoming call. Asked what they think it was, the caller says they do not know.
A woman walking up an off-ramp, later listed in the obituaries of a fatal crash
A listener’s letter read on air describes a man and his wife detouring around a fatal interstate wreck. From a bridge over the road, he says, he saw a woman walking up the off-ramp. Days later he recognized her picture among the people killed in that wreck. He ends by saying that somewhere inside he already knew, but dismissed it as fantasy.
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.
Shadowy figure bows silently, then a phone call confirms a grandfather’s death
[name withheld] says they are a truck driver calling from their truck near Finley, Ohio. They tell of an event when they were 12. They were sitting on a bench outside a family house in Missouri with their older brother. They report seeing a dark, shadowy figure drift silently across a gravel road. After they thought “Grandpa is dead,” it bowed its head and drifted away. The two went inside to say their grandfather had died, and the phone rang moments later with their father confirming it. [name withheld] calls it [quote withheld]
Tugging during naps and a waterbed that seemed to leak in a San Rafael apartment
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], living in San Rafael just north of the city, describes strange experiences in an apartment they rented for about eight years. During afternoon naps on a waterbed they felt tugging and pressing sensations, and the bed seemed to leak though it had no holes. The caller and their girlfriend moved out after a flood in 1982. [name withheld] says the landlord later told them a later tenant reported the same sensations and died by suicide, and that a man had died in the bedroom before [name withheld] rented it. [name withheld] believes spirits were in the apartment. The story ends without an explanation.
A figure at the foot of the bed on the night the caller's grandfather died
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Canton, Ohio, says that at the age of five they woke in the night and found family members gathered and upset. They then saw a greenish-white shape at the foot of their bed that they came to think looked like their grandfather. The caller says they learned the next morning that their grandfather had died in an emergency room that night. The host closes the call by saying the grandfather [quote withheld] and describing such stories as a type that comes up again and again.
Caller reports ex-husband's pre-death visits and a vision of a small plane
A caller, [name withheld] of Toppenish, Washington, tells Art Bell that their ex-husband would get sudden impulses to visit relatives, who died just before he arrived. They say they once had a vision of a tiny airplane with three angels and a passenger in a gray jacket. They say the vision matched their husband's later arrival by chartered plane around the time their foster father died. The host cuts the call short.
Air Force captain's ghost at a gate shack after a B-52 crash
A caller named [name withheld], from Chico, California, says that in 1973, while on gate-shack duty for a SAC detachment out of Mississippi, they saw a man in an Air Force captain's uniform who asked, [quote withheld] The figure disappeared when the caller closed and reopened their eyes. The next morning, they report, they found a record of a B-52 that left the base at 3.05 a.m. and crashed seven minutes later, flown by a [name withheld].
38 more stories
- A dream of a family death, a waking premonition, and a phone call, Utah, 19552 min
- Sudden pain coinciding with a young friend’s fatal truck accident4 min
- Wounded Marine credits his deceased father for bringing him back across no man’s land1 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
- Teenage dream of a casket foretelling an uncle's death two days later46 s
- Clock strikes oddly at the reported moment of a relative's death1 min
- A grandfather's voice and a dream of grandparents before deaths1 min
- Letter: Grandmother's sightings of a lady in black and family deaths29 s
- Grandmother seen descending from the ceiling at the hour of her death2 min
- A brush slides off a roof at the time their father's wife dies4 min
- Caller's employee dreams of three dead relatives; a grandmother dies two days later2 min
- Deceased mother reportedly appears at a newborn's crib and vanishes2 min
- Refusing a cave after a strange sound; a body reported found there4 min
- A call to a South Dakota tribal office on the father's unknown birthday1 min