Mirror
Black figure at foot of bed in a Redlands home
A caller describes living in Redlands, California, when they were first married to a husband who flew C-141s at Norton Air Force Base. The caller reports a period of uneasiness and cold in their new home. A moving garage-door doorknob made their dog bark and led them to call police. One night they woke in bed and saw a black figure at the foot of the bed that cast no reflection in a mirror. The caller says they were paralyzed and prayed the Lord’s Prayer. The figure disappeared, and the house warmed. The caller adds that they thought they imagined it and did not share it for a while.
Duplex poltergeist, a figure at the wall, and a hidden room of the former police chief
A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] describes living in a California duplex apartment at age 21. They say objects flew from a kitchen cupboard and a young neighbor also experienced activity. They report being shaken awake one night and seeing a man standing at the wall of their bedroom, whose face then appeared in a mirror. Moving the mirror revealed a concealed room full of guns, knives, Confederate money, and flags. They say police told them the former chief of police had lived and died there, that the removal of the weapons ended the activity, and that they moved out.
Vibrating vase and mirror, and a shattering glass in a mid-1970s house
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Rockford, Illinois, describes a house the caller and their new wife moved into in the mid-1970s. Both of them separately heard a vibrating noise. The caller says they traced the vibration first to a vase and later to a wall mirror, and each time they stopped it by touching the object. Roughly a week later, the caller says, a piece of glass from a toaster-oven door exploded upward into their face from the sink and cut their cheek. The caller says the activity never came back after that. The caller offers their own view that a spirit upset by their presence caused it.
Stolen skull, flames, and a smoke image in a mirror in a Fort Lauderdale apartment
A caller who calls themselves “Lady of Kinnick” and says they are in Kinnick, Alaska, tells Art Bell about events they place about 23 years earlier in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The caller reports taking a realistic plaster skull from a commercial haunted-house exhibit. The caller says they later saw flames shoot from it and found the insides of two wooden shoes charred. The caller says two teenage visitors reported a picture of the caller asleep formed in smoke in their mirror. The caller says they moved out that day. The call ends with the caller speaking to a third person about Satan, and Bell saying he has no way of being as sure as they are.
Bloody Mary mirror ritual in seventh grade and a toothbrush impact
An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that in seventh grade they performed a Bloody Mary mirror ritual alone at night. The caller reports seeing a face with blood on one side and then being hit in the head by something they took to be a toothbrush. The caller also reports that friends said they had been scratched doing the same ritual. The host closes this part of the broadcast with comments about mirrors and inviting something in.
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.
Bathroom mirror found raised and refastened in mother's trailer
A caller says that about four years before the 1993 broadcast, they found a lengthwise mirror in their mother's trailer-house bathroom unexpectedly raised about two feet above the doorway and fastened tight with all of its screw latches. The caller says there was no forced entry, that only the mother and father had keys, and that the bedridden grandmother could not have reached the room. The story ends with the mother upset by the mirror, the grandmother muttering the grandfather's name, and the caller getting rid of the mirror the next day.
Dark cloud and a black face seen in an F.E. Warren AFB dormitory
A caller from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, who says he was once stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, describes seeing a dark, gas-like cloud above his bed and down the hall of his dormitory. He also describes a black face with navy-blue eyes, and hands, peeking around a corner. Both were gone when he looked straight at them. He also repeats claims that the base is haunted, including ghosts of dogs in the dormitory. This part of the broadcast ends while he is still telling the story. His next story, about an attempted astral projection, falls outside it.
Biological father emerges from a bedroom mirror (1970)
A woman caller tells Art Bell that in 1970 she was visited in her bedroom mirror by her biological father. She says she had not seen him since she was three years old and did not know he was dead. She reports a light growing brighter in the mirror, a solid figure stepping out of it, and a brief conversation in which he told her not to be afraid and to [quote withheld] Art ends this part of the broadcast abruptly ([quote withheld]), so the story is cut off before she says what happened afterward.
Deceased girlfriend reported in a mirror and a window at a Halloween party
A caller from Seattle tells Art Bell that about eleven years earlier their girlfriend, [name withheld], was killed by a drunk driver. On the following Halloween night her former roommates held a party in the house where she had lived. The caller reports that the band’s lead singer, who they say knew nothing about [name withheld], screamed in the bathroom after seeing a different face in the mirror. She then described the face as [name withheld]’s. Later that night, the caller says, they themselves saw [name withheld]’s reflection in a window and heard her voice asking them to leave. The caller says they believe she came back because she did not want people sitting there getting drunk.
A photograph, a lamp, and a grinning reflection on a dark TV screen
A caller from New Orleans tells Art Bell a story they connect to Marie Laveau. The caller found and hung a photograph of a woman who played Marie Laveau. They then report seeing a mad, grinning face reflected on their dark TV screen on two nights. Moving the picture made it stop. The host suggests a distorted reflection.
A friend's demon seen only in reflections, and a face in a truck mirror
A caller from the Rockies tells Art Bell about a high-school friend who said a demon followed them and could be seen only in reflections, never when looked at directly. The caller says they eventually saw the same face themselves in the mirror of a truck while backing up to unload hay. The host asked the caller to compare it with a photograph on the host's website. The host cuts the call off for a break before the caller finishes.