Said to be built on a burial ground
Gray figures circling and red eyes in Genesee Park at the summer solstice
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that they and a group went to Genesee Park at the summer solstice to see tree spirits. They saw red eyes and gray figures circling in a meadow, fled, and were stopped by a police officer. The caller says they returned the next day to find thousands of ladybugs at the spot. They say they later learned the park is built over an Indian burial ground.
Disorientation, a dry river crossing, and a chair-shaped rock in the Wind River Range
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Sacramento, describes a 1976 National Outdoor Leadership mountaineering trip in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. [name withheld] says the caller and a camp partner became disoriented in sudden darkness while fetching water. They woke at dawn across the river with dry shoes, sitting 25 feet up a cliff in a rock hollow shaped like a chair. [name withheld] says a guide later told them the spot was a Shoshone burial ground and that they had experienced a “Wind River turnaround.”
Leg broken by an unseen kick on lava rock at Kaneohe Marine base
A caller named “roger,” who gives their location as Kailua, Hawaii, says that while fishing alone on a dry lava-rock flat at the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe, their left leg was suddenly thrown above their head and broken, with no visible cause. They report that two people who had followed them at a distance saw the leg fly up and that the back of their calf bore a black mark in the shape of a bare footprint. They say they were treated at the base hospital and then at Tripler Army Hospital, and they state they still do not know what struck them.
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.
Chains, a plea for peace, and grave markers in a Logan County field
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] and their location as “Portland, KX” relays a story they say their grandfather told them about land the family bought in Logan County, West Virginia. They say plowing turned up what looked like makeshift grave markers. One night a family member was woken by rattling chains and a plea to be left in peace in death. The caller says the family stopped plowing the land and left it alone. The host closes the call with his own thoughts on spirits and buried bodies.
A healing workshop at a retreat convent: Shared dreams and popping light bulbs
[name withheld], calling from Larkspur near San Francisco, tells Art Bell about a 1988 teacher-training workshop they attended at a retreat convent belonging to a nun's order. The caller says they and the other participants felt a thick, creepy atmosphere in the house. Several of them had the same dream of faces begging for help. A ceremony asking permission seemed to change the atmosphere, and light bulbs repeatedly failed when they operated switches. The caller says psychics they later consulted linked the site to an Indian burial or ceremonial ground, and that the bulb and appliance disturbances faded after a few weeks.
Voices and a name called at the back gate of a Hawaii Marine base
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Seattle, tells Art Bell that in 1995, as a Marine lance corporal stationed at a Hawaii air station, the caller pulled evening duty at the base’s back gate (“Bravo Gate”). The caller says they heard what they thought were voices, including a voice saying “Hey” two or three times. An MP friend who came out with the caller’s dinner was unsurprised. The friend said they had heard the same thing and had their own name called there, and that an MP had shot themselves at that gate a couple of years earlier. The friend’s reported story of a failed murder-suicide plan comes last. Art closes by noting how many of that morning’s calls involved suicides followed by appearances.
Archaeology crew's equipment failures and scattered camp at a burial site
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Southern California, says they are an archaeologist with a master's degree. They describe a survey and excavation where laptops and generators failed inside a flagged area and camp equipment was found scattered. They report that human remains were uncovered. An elder's spiritualist prescribed a sweat lodge and colored cloth ribbons. Crew members who took part reported nothing further, while those who did not said the disturbances started again.
Dreams, levitation and handprint marks on a Clarksburg property
A caller the host addresses as [name withheld], from Washington, tells a long, rambling story about a property near Clarksburg, California. He covers its late-1800s reclamation and landscaping history and what he describes as Native American burial use of the land. He says he had recurring dreams of being lifted up through a ceiling light socket and woke with marks, including handprints on his ankle that he says he could not have made. He ends with a night when a woman he was with held him down because, in her words, he kept levitating off the bed. The host cuts the call short.
Drumming heard for weeks in an old Kansas house said to stand on a burial ground
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that several years earlier, while living with their parents in an old house in Kansas, they heard drumming in the house at night. It went on for several weeks. They say they then checked town records and a local library and found that the house and the neighboring church were built in the late 1800s on an Indian burial ground. They say the drumming was all they themselves experienced. Their sister claimed to see other things they cannot confirm. The experience frightened them after they learned the history.
A pale woman in period dress, a ringing phone, and a heater in an apartment
A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], on air from Redding, California, tells what they call a “brief ghost story” about a small apartment they once lived in. They report that objects moved by themselves. They once saw a pale woman in period dress standing by their living-room door before she faded away. Their telephone and an old heater behaved oddly at night. They then say a female figure appeared in a dream and claimed responsibility for the “pranks.” They end by describing a local news report, about a year later, that a nearby Walmart construction site had been halted over a sacred Indian burial site. They say they think there might be a link to the woman.
Equipment failures and a truck fire at a logging site said to be a burial ground
An unnamed caller on the Wild Card Line tells Art Bell that in the mid-to-early 1990s they were logging in Northern California in a lightning burn that contained what they call an [quote withheld] They report that brand-new machines would not start, that one truck caught fire, and that another truck's 40-foot trailer broke in half. They say they finished the job anyway and that life has “been all right” since. The caller never says the site caused any of it.