Religious object, prayer, or holy water
Basement door, a shared dream, and a slow-burning teddy bear in a country home
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Dayton, Ohio, describes several “spooky moments” in a country home that the caller and their husband bought in the mid-1970s. A basement door opened by itself each evening at supper time. Their son said something was coming into his room. One night the caller and their husband reportedly shared the same vision of their daughter being raised out of bed and slammed to the floor. They found the daughter asleep and unharmed on the floor. They concluded there was an entity in the home. They blessed the rooms with holy water and burned a handmade teddy bear the caller distrusted, which, the caller says, took hours to burn. The caller says they left the house with their children a few months later.
Cold spot, woman, and giant arm during a church overnight
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Pearl, Mississippi, tells Art Bell about a night they and about half a dozen friends spent in their church at the end of a summer. The caller reports a cold spot, a woman seen in the hallway, a huge arm reaching around a classroom door, a moving white pattern on a window, and a face with glowing eyes before the group fled and huddled together. The caller says nothing else happened that night and that they are the only one who has told anyone. The caller thinks the beings were angelic and demonic rather than the dead.
Nighttime evil presence and a geometric screen vision in an apartment
A caller tells Art Bell that about two months earlier, while lying in bed in their apartment, the caller felt an evil presence watching them. Then, as the caller began to dream, they saw a black geometric pattern pulled down over their vision like a screen. They felt dread and a fear of being possessed. The caller reports that prayer, and asking God to send their angel, made the fear and the vision stop. Afterward the caller used sage and sea salt and came to regard the episode as a test of their faith.
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.
Paralysis in bed and a house beside a cemetery in LaGrange, Georgia
The caller gives their name as [name withheld], and the host introduces the call as coming from Athens, Georgia. They describe staying in a house in LaGrange, Georgia, beside a cemetery while helping a friend with a computer store. They report one night of feeling paralyzed and pressed down into the bed and of waking with the sense that they had been in a conversation all night. They later recount what the friend’s father and the woman who owns the house told them about the property. They end by saying they now sleep beside a gargoyle their girlfriend brought back from New Orleans after speaking with voodoo practitioners there.
Girl in a raincoat with a flashlight reported in a basement and a cul-de-sac
An unnamed caller from southeastern Wisconsin tells of an event [quote withheld] when they were about 17, sleeping in their friend [name withheld]’s basement after a band recording session. The caller says they felt a cold spot, saw a small hooded blonde girl holding a flashlight by the door, woke [name withheld], and were given a blessed object to hold. A week later, a mutual friend reported seeing a matching figure in the cul-de-sac outside [name withheld]’s house. The caller offers no explanation, and the story ends with the host’s brief remarks about faith and spirits.
Shadow figures and white figures in a rented room at the Gable House
[name withheld] of Durango calls Ghost to Ghost AM and tells Art Bell about a night about twenty years earlier. They were a college student renting a third-floor room in a large old Durango house they call the Gable House, which they say was once the city’s first hospital. They report waking in the night to see three dark “shadow people” confined in a small circle to their right. Then they saw three white figures at ceiling level to their left. One came down, put its arm around them, and said it was there to protect them. They say they fell asleep instantly and slept until morning. The story is entirely their own word. No witness speaks on air.
Church windows close one by one during a funeral in Montreal
Art Bell reads aloud a letter said to be from Montreal and signed “[name withheld].” It describes the writer’s brother-in-law’s funeral on July 24, 1991. According to the letter, the five open windows along the left wall of the church closed in rapid succession during a pause in the service. Two windows beside the altar closed next. No wind blew and no one was near them. Candles at the coffin bent toward the left and then straightened. The service was interrupted while the parish priest blessed and anointed the coffin. Afterward the priest reportedly told the deceased’s mother that it was “a manifestation” without explaining further.
A blindfolded Ouija session in Hawaii and a planchette that flew off
A returning caller, whose name is not given, tells Art Bell that she and a friend were playing a Ouija board in Hawaii when her husband, [name withheld], blindfolded them. She says the planchette flew out from under their fingers. [name withheld] said he had held a crucifix over it. She says she wrote Art a letter about it a year earlier, and Art says he remembers the story. The call ends with Art advising listeners not to play with Ouija boards.
Glowing figure and face in a photograph at Santa Barbara mission graveyard
A caller describes walking out of a Santa Barbara graveyard in the late afternoon after feeling a wonderful love. The caller then asked St. Michael to let “them” appear in a photograph their husband took. The caller says the film was developed about a year later and showed a giant white glow around the caller, hands that looked on fire around two St. Michael’s medallions, and a face. A friend who is a graphic artist later found another face above the cross on the mission steeple. The story ends with another friend’s reported panic at the same graveyard.
Picture of Jesus falls off a bedroom wall and strikes a girlfriend
A caller who says she is in Honolulu tells Art Bell a brief story. As a teenager, staying at her grandmother’s house, she and her girlfriend were laughing and swearing on a brass bed. A framed picture of Jesus above the bed came off the wall and hit her girlfriend in the head. She says the picture’s wire was unbroken and the nail was set at an angle, and that they stopped laughing immediately. The host then raises the idea of “teenage girls' energy,” and the caller moves on to a second, unrelated story.