Police, military, or medical witness
Pounding on doors and a cold sensation at a friend’s new Houston house
[quote withheld] tells Art Bell about a night, several years earlier, that the caller spent at a friend’s newly bought house in an exclusive part of Houston while their husbands were away hunting. The caller reports waking to the caller’s daughter and the friend’s daughter screaming. A cold sensation spread through the caller’s body while they were briefly unable to move. Then came loud pounding that moved between the doors and patio doors with nobody visible. The police the caller called reportedly heard the pounding and found no footprints in the rain. The story ends with the friend’s account that a previous owner had hanged herself in the kitchen and that her husband shot himself in the backyard. The caller says they think this explains the pounding.
Noises of a file cabinet being ransacked below a Plymouth, New Hampshire apartment
An unnamed caller on the wildcard line tells Art Bell that, while renting an apartment above an accounting office in Plymouth, New Hampshire, they heard what sounded like an intruder slamming a door and ransacking a file cabinet below them one night around 10 p.m. They shouted down that they had a gun and called the police. The noise stopped about when officers arrived, and they searched and found no one. The next morning the accountant, who was also the caller’s landlord, reportedly told the caller nothing was out of order and that it had felt as if someone was holding the door when the landlord tried to enter.
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.
Revolving sound, buckling walls, and oozing moisture in a Clayton, Victoria, home
A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] in southern Victoria, Australia, relays a secondhand story on the international line. The caller says that about ten years earlier a distraught family in Clayton, Victoria, rang emergency services about a sound revolving around the perimeter of their large wooden home. Police who came reportedly dismissed the family. Then they heard the sound and saw the walls shake and bend, called for more officers, and never found its source. The call ends with thanks from the host and no resolution or stated cause.
Letter from a retired police officer: dead man's arm rises while hands are bagged
A letter read aloud on air, attributed to a self-described retired police officer, describes a single event around 1990. The writer says they were bagging the hands of a robber shot dead by police. As they leaned over the body, the writer says, the dead man's arm lifted straight up at a 90-degree angle. A hospital attendant in the room is said to have reacted at the same time. The letter ends with the writer calling the movement a “dead man's spasm” while calling the timing eerie.
Sudden pain coinciding with a young friend’s fatal truck accident
A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], from Anderson, California, says that a couple of years before the broadcast he doubled over in extreme pain at a friend’s house at about 1 a.m. The next day, he says, he learned that a young woman he had mentored, [name withheld], had been killed by a truck at roughly that time. He says a sheriff’s deputy later told him the impact was on her right side. He states his belief that she came to say goodbye. The call ends with him asking Art Bell for an address for a book he and a friend are researching, and with Bell praising the program.
Two officers chase a fast-moving shadow through a closed area
A caller on the telephone says they were with “another officer.” They describe entering a closed area through a gate, seeing something there, and chasing it in a truck. They report that a shadow ran in front of the vehicle at an estimated 70 miles an hour. They rounded a corner and found no one. The caller ends by saying they do not know what to say and thanks the host.
Colorado officer meets the same roadside man twice, then the man vanishes
A caller named [name withheld], calling from Denver, tells what they call another Colorado law-enforcement ghost story about an unnamed veteran officer. The caller says that a couple of years earlier, the officer was on patrol on a misty night in a desolate part of Colorado. The officer stopped a man beside the road, questioned him, found he had no ID, and let him go. Twenty or thirty miles on, the officer met what they took to be the same man, who disappeared when the officer got out of the car to question him further. The caller offers no explanation and says only that they have the story on very good authority. The officer and the agency remain anonymous.
A police officer’s question about a man walking through a house
A caller tells the host about the caller’s father, who the caller says died in 1973, and about the father’s wife, who the caller says died three weeks later. According to the caller, two caregivers later said that on the day the stepmother died at home, a police officer sent to verify the death asked who “the man” was who had just walked through the house. The story ends with the host’s general remarks and no further detail from the caller.
Narcotics detective reports a dead man standing over his own body
The host reads a brief letter from [name withheld] of Plainfield, Illinois, who says they were a narcotics detective called to a drug-related murder scene. [name withheld] says they saw a man standing over the dead body, telling the victim to get up. The letter ends by saying it was the dead man yelling at his own corpse. The letter is presented as a “fast blast,” and no further details or resolution are given.