See-through figure
A floating translucent man at the caller's bedside at seventeen, and a warning five years later
[name withheld], calling from Grants Pass, Oregon, tells the host that at seventeen they woke in bed to a translucent man floating about a foot above the floor, who they say had been shaking them. They fled the house, and their mother told them it was a dream. Five years later, they say, the same figure came to them in a dream and warned that their boyfriend, their son’s father, would hurt them. The following day, they report, he choked them. They end by saying they would listen to the presence next time.
Letter: Transparent figure of a deceased grandfather in a spare bedroom
A letter from a writer the host identifies as “[name withheld]” from Springfield, Illinois, read aloud on air, describes seeing a transparent figure resembling their grandfather coming out of a wall in a spare bedroom about three weeks after his death in February 1978. They say they told no one at the time. They say that twenty years ago they learned their son had seen the same ghost roughly three months later in a front bedroom. They also report other family members seeing dark forms and lights and doors behaving oddly. The letter ends with the writer saying they will never know whether it was a ghost or a demon, but that they believe they saw it.
A translucent figure walks onto a Florida TV studio set
A caller named [name withheld], from Minneapolis, tells the host that several years earlier they were working at a Florida television station. They arrived at about 3 a.m., heard unexplained noises, and saw a translucent girl walk onto the studio set and sit down before everything went dark. Weeks later, they say, a colleague told them that a girl had killed herself on that set in the late 1960s. The story ends without further resolution.
Injured, one-legged figure with a lantern on Roberts Road
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Chicago, tells Art Bell that about eleven years earlier they and a friend were driving home from a party at around 3 a.m. They saw a man standing by the curb with a lantern on Roberts Road. The caller says the figure stepped in front of the car and walked toward them, looking injured and see-through, with a missing leg. The caller says a following car drove right through the figure as it walked toward a cemetery. The caller says they and their friend both saw it, that they called Justice Police and later [name withheld], and that the experience unsettled them for about a year.
Smoke-like ghosts and an aggressive figure in a Fulton, Missouri, home
A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], in Portland, tells Art Bell he had a “ghost experience” in 1988 while a student at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He was in his cousin’s home with his cousin [name withheld] and a friend, [name withheld]. He says smoke-like, see-through figures appeared one after another in the living room: an older woman, three boys playing jacks, then a girl doing cartwheels. Then an angry man burst in and swung at him without making contact. He says he remembers little afterward, that the friends were whimpering, and that one of them quit school. He says it changed their lives.
Gray figure and male scream in a rented Union, Missouri house
A caller who gives their name as “[name withheld],” from Union, Missouri, tells Art Bell that the previous June their family moved into an older rented house. The caller says they saw a smoky gray figure of a man and heard a scream from the house. The family left that night but returned about a week later for financial reasons. They reportedly experienced a rattling door, a second scream from the basement, and a sudden cold before moving out about two weeks later.
Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open
A first-time caller to a Ghost to Ghost broadcast says she is in Red Desert, Wyoming, with a residence in Oregon. She tells one of two incidents: a mobile home she moved into about thirteen years earlier, where objects went missing, faint figures were seen in the living room, and doors and appliances were found open. She reports that a neighbor said the site was on the old Barlow Trail, where a party of settlers was said to have been massacred. She says the activity ended after a night when the back door flew open and nothing was found outside.
Letter: A smoky kneeling figure at a student’s bedside and a presence across the hall
In a listener letter read on air by the host, an unnamed student describes waking twice in the night to a smoky, almost transparent, man-shaped figure at the bedside. The second time, the writer felt something grab and hold their arm. The writer says they told only two close friends. Then, at a school function, they heard a classmate report a presence in the apartment the classmate shares with a roommate. The letter ends with the writer noting that those two students live directly across the hall.
Airman reports a translucent figure at the foot of his bed at Kunsan Air Force Base
The host reads a letter he introduces as a brief bio and story from a man who describes himself as a former US Air Force airman and later a police officer. The writer says that in the fall of 1977 he was stationed at Kunsan (transcribed “Kusan”) Air Force Base in Korea. He was woken at exactly 0100 on three nights in a row. On the third night he saw a small, stocky Korean male figure in shades of gray in his barracks room. He swung a knife through its throat without effect and watched it touch the blanket over his feet before rising into the air and vanishing. The letter ends with the writer saying he is withholding further detail for privacy and asking the host what he thinks the man saw.
Figure in an old Portland house points to the door and says “get out of my house”
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Eugene, Oregon, and originally from Portland, tells Art Bell about visiting a century-old house in what they call the Selwood District of Portland. A chiropractor friend named Art had invited them. The caller reports that while walking through an upstairs room they saw a large bald man in a brown suit and white shirt. He was translucent and had no feet. He pointed at the door and said [quote withheld] The caller says they fled downstairs and their friend then wanted to meditate for the spirit to leave. During the meditation, the caller says, they both heard footsteps leave the room and come down the stairs, and they ran out. The caller says they never went back in.
Fax about a translucent figure in cowboy clothes reported in a Phoenix-area home
Art Bell reads a fax on air from an unnamed sender whose cousin, called “Linda” in the letter, lived in a house bought about six years earlier in a suburb of Phoenix. Her four-year-old son woke her to say a stranger was in his room. The letter says she then saw a translucent, glowing man in a plaid cowboy shirt, blue jeans, and a cowboy hat standing behind the boy. She is said to have fled with her sons to her mother's house. The letter adds that her brother claimed to have seen the same man about two weeks later.
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.
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- Letter: A white cat petted in the bathroom while the family cat sat on the bed1 min
- Letter: Transparent old man and smell of dirt, rot, and alcohol in a Missouri house3 min
- Respiratory therapist reports seeing a newly dead patient among his family in an ER lobby3 min
- Children startle a transparent figure in an unfinished basement4 min
- Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home4 min
- Successive owners report a tall figure and a rocking-chair woman in a Victoria house5 min
- Letter: A 12-year-old in Denver, a red-outlined being, and a bed impression1 min
- Letter: White mist in the shape of a dog appears the night the dog dies2 min
- Spirit called Henry: pinches, a boy’s ghost, and a fallen picture3 min
- A detective's email: a boy's ghost and a murder weapon3 min
- Glowing faceless figure at the foot of the bed and a golf ball next morning4 min
- A campfire cat that a camper’s hand reportedly passed through3 min
- Deputy draws his pistol on a translucent elderly woman in his kitchen4 min
- Figure in a black hat standing over a bed and walking through a window2 min
- Late wife’s three-part contact: Blown bulbs, a bluebird, and a bedroom vision5 min
- Woman in black knocking on a window from inside a Chicago house, 19824 min
- Cemetery security guard sees misty figure at office window1 min
- Newspaper carrier reports a translucent man pumping water that never overflows4 min
- Trucker reports girl they held at a crash later appearing in their cab3 min
- Bearded figure with a funny hat seen through a bedroom door5 min
- Girl in white dress at the foot of the bed in a Sacramento house2 min
- Child reports transparent man in buckle shoes in grandmother’s hallway3 min
- Deceased mother and two aunts appear in a motel room; hairstyle later matches funeral home styling4 min
- Family account of shut cemetery gates and robed figures at Saint James2 min