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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.
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.
Nightly object movement and a brother’s singed hair in a modern home
A live caller tells Art Bell that their current home has had unexplained activity since the family moved in when it was newly built. The caller reports objects moving, vanishing, and reappearing. The caller says their older brother’s hair began burning while the brother read a book. The caller also reports nightly activity aimed at the caller and their mother, and interference with their music equipment. Art compares it to a poltergeist. The call ends with the activity still going on.
Investigator reports tripod pulled by nothing and shadow silhouette on a stairway wall
A caller who gives no name and describes themselves as an investigator tells Art Bell about two incidents at a site they were investigating. First, the caller felt something pull the extended leg of their tripod and found the team member they suspected standing about fifteen feet away. On a later visit, while videotaping at the top of a stairway, they saw a shadow silhouette of a male figure on the wall behind them. It was still there after they turned around and found no one present.
College radio expedition to a reservoir reports a woman in white on the road
In a letter read on air, the host presents a story from [name withheld] in Bellevue, Washington. It describes an early-1970s college radio expedition on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The station set out on a Halloween special to look for a local “Easton monster.” Waiting in three cars by a reservoir at night, at least one person in each car reportedly shouted to leave at the same moment. Back at the station, the group wrote down separately what had frightened them, and all described a transparent woman in a long white gown on the road. The letter says the special was canceled and listeners were told there were technical difficulties.
Ouija board session in a box canyon and a spirit speaking through a participant
A caller addressed as [name withheld] describes a 1982 Ouija board session in a box canyon with the caller’s friend [name withheld] and their wives. The caller reports that two women got answers. The caller was later told they had been chanting in an altered state. [name withheld] wrote pages in an unfamiliar script, and [name withheld]’s wife spoke in a low voice that the caller took to be a spirit. The caller says the spirit identified itself as an unburied Indian hunting party and that [name withheld] guided the spirits to cross over. The caller says a coworker later reported that the poster-tearing in their son’s room had stopped.
Letter: Ceiling noises, a weeping ghost, and bones found in an attic
Art Bell reads a letter from a writer named [name withheld]. [name withheld] says that six years earlier, while recovering from a bad accident, they heard nightly noises from their bedroom ceiling and were visited by a crying ghost that floated through their window. They set up a video camera in the attic and found roof rats. Then an extermination crew cleaning the attic reportedly found the bones of a woman, which the writer links to the ghost. The writer says the visits stopped after the discovery. They offer their own view that the ghost was a murdered woman whose remains needed to be found.
A mist and a figure in a hat photographed while praying over an elderly man
An unidentified caller says that after caring for an elderly man in his 80s, described as a retired colonel, they saw his moods darken and his voice change into blasphemy and abuse. The caller and a friend wondered whether he was possessed. While the caller recited a Bible passage over him, a gentleman at the house took instant-developing photographs. The caller reports that they show a grayish-white mist and the outline of a man in a hat with a cape. The caller says the mist later sank into the floor and disappeared, and the man never troubled them again. The caller says they still have one of the photographs, and Art asks the caller to send a copy.
Letter describing a spirit beckoning in a cemetery and a photograph
Art Bell reads a letter from an unnamed listener who says they are a student of religious demonology and photographs spirits in cemeteries. The writer says they followed a spirit they sensed telepathically to a freshly dug grave, took photographs, and sent one photograph to Art. The letter ends with a request to check Art’s website for the image.
Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that they worked as a custodian at a six-screen movie theater where one of the projectionists died of a heart attack. The caller says that a couple of days later employees were reporting flickering lights, slamming doors, and an ice machine “falling apart.” A system manager said they heard their name called. The caller says five workers left a tape recorder in an empty theater and later heard a chair spring up by itself on the recording. They then tracked faint music to the projection doorway. A projectionist said no such radio was in the projection room, which the caller calls the strangest part. The host then offers general remarks about spirits remaining where they died.
Host describes a listener's photograph of a uniformed figure in a hospital mirror
In this part of the broadcast, the host (Art Bell) describes a photograph he says a listener named [name withheld] sent him and that he has posted on the show's website. According to the host, the picture was taken in an ICU room in a Colorado hospital by a nurse testing a new camera's flash, with nobody else in the room. A mirror in the frame appears to show a figure in what he takes to be an old uniform, [quote withheld] He says he found nothing bogus in the image and thanks [name withheld]. No caller speaks about the photograph in this part of the broadcast.
EVP saying “go home” recorded in a Niagara-on-the-Lake graveyard
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Niagara Falls, Canada, tells Art Bell that they, their boyfriend, and a friend went ghost hunting with digital recorders in a graveyard in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The caller says that as they were about to leave, the friend remarked about someone coming home with them. On playback in the car, they heard a voice say “go home” clearly on the recording. The caller says none of them spoke those words. The story ends there, with the host commenting on EVP rather than the caller reporting any further event.