Self-described skeptic
Hawaiian cemetery prank, a shaking car, and bite marks
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Northern California, relays a story they say their former Boy Scout leader told them about ten years earlier. The leader was a Hawaiian man named [name withheld]. As a teenager in Hawaii, [name withheld] and a friend took two girls to a cemetery as a prank. The parked car they returned to was shaking violently, with the girls screaming and “red eyes” at the windows. [name withheld] is said to have found a bite mark on his ankle that night. His older brother mocked the family’s warning, and the two returned to run over graves and kick over food. The brother is said to have had more than 200 bites counted on his body and to have needed hospital stitches. The caller ends by saying they were shown [name withheld]’s lasting bite marks years later and by discussing Hawaiian cemetery customs.
Disturbances in a rented upstairs apartment above an old store
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Portland, Oregon, describes living with their wife and mother in an upstairs apartment above a store they call the Liberal Store, north of a town they pronounce Malala. The caller reports a room that stayed cool in extreme summer heat, their mother being touched and smelling lilac, dishes found dumped in the sink, a dog refusing to enter a bathroom, Bibles found on the floor open to passages about King David, and knocking on the upstairs door and windows. The caller says the family moved out and that their wife and mother still will not enter the store.
Daytime sleep paralysis, a woman speaking in a man's voice, and nails in the head
A caller named [name withheld], speaking from L.A. and formerly of the Truckee area near Donner Pass, reports a series of daytime nap experiences over about two and a half weeks. The caller describes waking up paralyzed and feeling someone sit on the bed. It ended one afternoon, they say, when they saw a woman on the bed who spoke in a man's voice. She told the caller to pull out three nails they felt in their head, and she showed the caller their own body lying beside her. The caller says they refused, returned to their body, and the experience never happened again.
Usher figure falls from the balcony of the Capitol Theater, Flint
A first-time caller who gives the name [name withheld], from St. Louis, describes working at the Capitol Theater in Flint, Michigan. Staff played laser tag after hours in the closed building. The caller reports hearing footsteps and breathing behind them in a dark area. Then they saw a man smoking on the balcony who tumbled to the main floor and disappeared. The caller says their friends in the lobby told them they had “met the usher,” a man said to have died in the building after falling or being thrown from that balcony.
Unseen runner and a struck fence at an abandoned slaughterhouse
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Susanville near Reno, tells Art Bell that they went with their boyfriend and one other friend to an abandoned slaughterhouse that local kids said was haunted. On one visit the group heard a woman humming a tune in a field where their flashlights showed nobody. On a later night, alone inside the shed, the caller says they heard something unseen running through the tall weeds and something slamming into the fence and shaking it. The caller says they dropped to their knees crying and their boyfriend carried them out. The caller ends by asking whether it could have been a cow trying to get out and whether animals have souls.
Figure leaning over a bed in a Calgary apartment; activity ends after a note
The host introduces the caller as [name withheld] in Calgary. The caller says that at about age 20 they moved into an apartment with their friend [name withheld]. They heard nightly breath-like and clicking sounds while falling asleep. One night they opened their eyes and saw someone leaning over their bed, about two inches from their face. They say the figure jumped back and ran behind a bookshelf and was not there when they turned on the light. After they wrote a note suggested by [name withheld], the experiences stopped.
Bathroom mirror found raised and refastened in mother's trailer
A caller says that about four years before the 1993 broadcast, they found a lengthwise mirror in their mother's trailer-house bathroom unexpectedly raised about two feet above the doorway and fastened tight with all of its screw latches. The caller says there was no forced entry, that only the mother and father had keys, and that the bedridden grandmother could not have reached the room. The story ends with the mother upset by the mirror, the grandmother muttering the grandfather's name, and the caller getting rid of the mirror the next day.
Roommate's night vision of her dead father warns of her sister's car accident
A caller who calls themself an atheist tells Art Bell that at age 20 they shared a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate who was a single mother. One night, the caller says, she ran into the caller's room crying. She said she had seen her dead father standing over her sister's casket, warning that the sister would be hurt but would not die. The next day, the caller says, the roommate's mother telephoned to report that the sister had been badly hurt in a car wreck and was in intensive care. The caller says the sister recovered, but the timing has always bothered them.
A Denver officer’s letter: A woman in a red dress at a courthouse and the elevator
Art Bell reads a letter from a listener who describes themselves as a police officer working [quote withheld] The writer says they were sent on October 29, 1993, to a distressed courthouse janitor who reported a figure that dissolved. Later the same day, the writer says, a detective reported a woman in a red dress who vanished inside an elevator. The writer says they then returned to the courtroom at midnight with a fellow officer and the officer’s friend. The writer felt cold and a presence. They were told a spirit wanted permission to leave, and they gave it. The cold and the presence stopped.
Reported music, elevator doors, and a rooftop push in a Saskatoon hotel building
A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell they work in an old hotel building in Saskatoon that they call “the Haunted Hotel.” They report unexplained music and thumps, elevator doors that work by themselves, a shoulder grab felt by a coworker named [name withheld], smells of fresh bread and coffee at night, a push they felt while on the roof, and a name given through a Ouija board. They offer their own explanation, a psychic impression of the place, and the host ends the call for time.
Silhouetted figure on a foggy Rhode Island bike path named “Mr. Colt”
A caller identifying himself as [quote withheld] a musician, says he was recording an album in Warren, Rhode Island, in 1997 and running his usual nightly route on a bike path. The first night, he was unable to enter a foggy wooded stretch. The next night, a silhouetted man in a long trench coat and huge boots charged at him and vanished as he reached him. The caller says the studio owner afterward told him the figure was “Mr. Colt” and that [quote withheld] He says he later found a photograph online and recognized the figure's form and coat. The host ends the call. The caller reports no injury and no resolution.
Caller reports sister's sightings of a child and a bearded man in her duplex
A caller who says only that they are calling from San Diego passes on what their sister told them during a recent family conversation. She says she has repeatedly seen a small child in old-fashioned clothing in her son's bedroom and a dark-bearded man in her hallway. The caller describes themselves as skeptical and a nonbeliever. They say they have no explanation, and the call ends with the host thanking them.