Music heard
Ghost drums at a reenactor rendezvous at Fort Ouachita
[name withheld], calling from the Springfield, Missouri Ozarks, says they are a Cherokee historic reenactor. They describe an eleven-day rendezvous in 1994 at Fort Ouachita, Oklahoma, an old Confederate fort and cemetery. After most camps left on Sunday, the caller and their husband stayed overnight. The caller reports fear, birds screaming at midnight, ghost drums, waves of ghosts, dress jingles, a moved teepee door, and a fire that went out cold. The host closes with comments, and the story ends without resolution.
Red glowing figure playing a child's organ at home
A caller named [name withheld], calling from Sacramento, describes a childhood incident they say they have told few people about. They were alone at home with their grandfather one summer. They heard music coming from an old organ in their room, walked down the hallway, and report seeing a red, glowing being with yellow eyes using its fingers on the organ. They say they commanded it to leave in the name of Jesus and that it vanished. They believe it was a demon.
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.
Whistling to call ghosts at Spouting Horn, Kauai; a cousin held down
A caller who says they are originally from Hawaii and are listening to the show on 105.1 in Las Vegas describes a night in the early 1970s on Kauai. The caller and four others drove to Spouting Horn, whistled to call ghosts, and played a prank on a cousin by driving off and leaving him. The caller reports seeing the cousin crouching. When they returned, they heard Hawaiian chanting with no instruments. They found the cousin crying, and the caller’s brother could not lift him. The cousin later said something held him down. The host cuts the call off for time. The caller adds that their grandmother saw a spirit behind the cousin and that he still wears something she gave him.
Caller reports a Pan Am flying boat appearing alongside their Cessna near Ukiah
A first-time caller named [name withheld], from Alameda, California, says they were flying a Cessna 172 back from Ukiah at about 11:30 p.m. in January 1998. They heard a voice over their headset, saw a glowing green light close on them, and lost control of the aircraft. Then they saw a large old Pan Am-type flying boat pull alongside and wave before vanishing. The caller links the aircraft to an M-130 Philippine Clipper they had read about in a book their mother had given them. The caller says it crashed in the Ukiah area on January 21, 1943. The caller says ATC reported no planes near them on radar. The call ends with the host calling it a ghost plane and asking whether it was a time slip or the crashed plane’s occupants.
A former priest blesses the house of a dead radio singer
In a letter read on air by the host, the writer says they were an Eastern Orthodox priest for many years. They describe a 1974 case. A close friend's father, said to have been a popular radio singer and guitar player in the 1940s, died alone of a heart attack. About two months later the friend's mother reported hearing her dead ex-husband singing, seeing him in a rocking chair, and feeling pinches that left welts. The letter writer says they blessed the house with holy water. During the bedroom blessing the mother was thrown backward into the hallway. The writer says they saw welts on her legs afterward, and that the problems stopped after the blessing.
Music box sounds at close range and a smashed attic door in a house-sitting stay
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Temecula, California, tells Art Bell that they and their wife were house-sitting for her parents, in the house she grew up in. Twice, late at night, they heard music-box-like chiming that seemed to come [quote withheld] from their faces. They took their baby and went home. When they returned the next morning, the caller says, the attic door, which was latched to the wall, was lying in pieces on the stairs. The caller says it had to have come from the inside. The caller offers a resident ghost as the only explanation the couple could imagine.
Flying boxes, voices behind a bolted hatch, and a spinning compass at sea
A caller who says they were a Navy cook describes events during temporary duty aboard the USS Independence in the mid-1980s. They report music with no source and boxes flying in a galley storage void. They report muffled banging and voices pleading [quote withheld] behind a bolted hatch. They report instruments blanking and a compass spinning on the bridge. They say a shipmate told them the voices were those of sailors drowned when a torpedo hit a jet fuel tank in wartime. The host remarks that electromagnetic disturbance is fairly common, and the call ends.
Unseen runner and a struck fence at an abandoned slaughterhouse
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Susanville near Reno, tells Art Bell that they went with their boyfriend and one other friend to an abandoned slaughterhouse that local kids said was haunted. On one visit the group heard a woman humming a tune in a field where their flashlights showed nobody. On a later night, alone inside the shed, the caller says they heard something unseen running through the tall weeds and something slamming into the fence and shaking it. The caller says they dropped to their knees crying and their boyfriend carried them out. The caller ends by asking whether it could have been a cow trying to get out and whether animals have souls.
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.
Blind caller guided by a mortician with no arm in his suit
The caller, whom Art Bell addresses as sightless, recounts an early-morning encounter from their school years. They walked into a building, heard soft, slow organ music, and were greeted by a man with a British accent. He asked whether the caller had come to view the body. The caller later concluded the man [quote withheld] The caller says a return visit turned up no one by the name he had given them.
Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia
A caller who gives their name as Mary tells Art Bell they once lived in a garage apartment in Covington, Georgia. It stood behind a mansion and overlooked the cemetery on Elm Street. Alone there one night in early 1975, they report the television acting strangely, an apartment that would not stay warm, a face seen in a small window at the top of the landing, and a humming they describe as a voice, not anything mechanical. The next morning, walking the cemetery, they say they found a tombstone for a young woman named [name withheld] who died in 1873 at sixteen. They note their own maiden name was Robin. They say they got out of there.