Objects thrown or falling
Family haunting in Louisiana tied to an uncle who kept his wife's corpse
A caller from Austin, Texas, tells a family story they say took place in Louisiana about a hundred years before the broadcast and is still going on. An uncle, said to be devastated by his young wife's death, kept her corpse in an upstairs bedroom for six months while he waited for a glass coffin ordered from New Orleans. He reportedly kissed it nightly and talked to it over a Ouija board. The caller passes on servants' reports of candles that would not light, cold air, whispers, falling objects, and nighttime conversations with another voice. The caller says relatives kept avoiding the room and feeling a cold presence into the 1970s. The caller says the woman is still buried in Metairie Cemetery, that a family member holds the key to the crypt, and that they themselves would go in out of curiosity.
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.”
Six nights in an abandoned rural house: Odors, Ouija board, and footsteps
A caller who says they are a county fraud investigator tells Art Bell they spent six nights with their girlfriend and her daughter in an unoccupied house about 25 miles up a dirt road in Northern California. Local people had told them it was haunted. They report a rotting-flesh smell, cold spots, a chair that flew back and injured the girlfriend’s knee, a door handle turning, footsteps and a slammed door upstairs, a child’s “help me” captured on a tape recorder, and orbs in several hundred photographs. The call ends with the host asking for the caller’s e-mail and website link.
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.
Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house
A caller from Kelso, Montana, tells Art Bell about a night several years earlier when the caller and a girlfriend were alone in a large old ranch house. The caller reports hearing a wood-chopping sound outside, then seeing a tall dark shadow float across a propane tank toward them. The next day they found chopped wood scattered around the yard. The caller also reports hearing their mother's voice call them inside the house when no one was there. They say they think the home's earlier large family “were still there.”
Childhood home in Granite City, Illinois, with flying plates and slamming doors
A caller who gives their location as Granite City, Illinois, says they were raised in a house from birth to age thirteen. The caller says plates and cups flew and smashed there, cold spots and strange smells occurred, footsteps and slamming doors were heard, and a dog watched unseen things. The caller says their parents brought about four people to drive out ghosts and that someone said a man had hanged himself in the basement. The caller says the activity went on until the family moved out after thirteen years. The caller says they were a child with no choice and would not live in such a house now.
Dolls moved overnight in an antique shop in a former Kansas City orphanage
An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that they and their wife bought an old house, restored it, and opened an antique store. Children’s toys and dolls were repeatedly found off their shelves in the morning. The caller reports a child crying at night and a burned doll found behind a knocked-out wall. The activity stopped while the doll was on display and started again after the doll was sold. The caller says they are now trying to buy it back.
Computer typed overnight messages about “Vernon”; objects thrown in a house
An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that a computer in their home produced pages of typed text overnight that they had not written. Most of it was gibberish, but it contained sentences they could read, including warnings about the “Antichrist” and a coming evil character called “Vernon.” The caller reports that the activity later grew to electrical failure and objects, notably Visine bottles, flying down from an empty upstairs loft. The story ends with the caller saying they moved out and put the computer in storage, keeping only the printouts. Art Bell jokes that the sequel would be “You die.”
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.
Vancouver house with reported voodoo history and a priest who would not enter
An unnamed caller on the international line, who gives their location as Vancouver, Canada, describes growing up in a house from the 1920s that their father bought cheaply. The seller returned two weeks later begging to buy it back and told of a claimed voodoo history. The caller reports years of strange events: a cross falling from the wall, their mother’s paralysis and chest pressure at night, cold areas, and footsteps. The caller also describes a priest who refused even to step onto the sidewalk in front of the house. The caller says the activity faded once the children were grown. The host suggests the children may have been the source.
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.
Knocking doors and a shadow figure in an Alaska church residence
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Oregon, tells Art Bell about events when they were about 14. Their family had moved to an Alaskan town so their father could be caretaker of a large church, and the family lived in an apartment attached to it. They report repeated knocking at the church doors with no one there. They also report a dark crouched figure they saw many times in the youth pastor’s office. Later came nights of furniture being thrown and a doorknob rattling in a room built for them off an upstairs classroom. This lasted until they were sent to live with an uncle in Wisconsin in September 1984. The caller states no cause, and the story ends with their departure from the household.