Smell of tobacco or smoke
Small sample: these figures describe only these 5 stories.
Cold bedroom, tall figures, and cigarette smoke in a moved mobile home
[name withheld], from Woodbridge, New Jersey, calling on the wild card line, describes the mobile home the caller and their family moved into in 1984. They say one bedroom stayed freezing and their 11-year-old daughter refused to sleep in her own room. A black kitten would not come inside. They report seeing tall figures in the dark hallway, along with cigarette and rubbing-alcohol smells. They say they later learned the previous occupants had both committed suicide. Art Bell cuts them off before they can tell what they call “part two,” a “visitor.”
Letter: A shadow resembling the writer’s late father, popcorn and cigar
Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to [quote withheld] The writer describes watching his father’s shadow on the wall as a boy. He recalls a prediction by his father that he would join him in America on his 66th birthday, and an Ouija board spelling “DAD” years later. He then describes an apparent shadow of his father in his kitchen on that birthday, which he says came just before a heart attack. The letter ends with the writer’s claim that his wife later smelled popcorn and cigar smoke at home, and that he had never told anyone what he saw until now.
An 1880 house with chairs moving, a door opening, and rose and tobacco scents
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Kinsman, Ohio, tells Art Bell that their house was built in 1880 and that odd things have happened since they moved in. They say kitchen chairs move at night while they lie in bed, and a bedroom door opens by itself. The caller and their husband have also seen a gray-and-white outline of a person in the barn and upstairs. They say a clairvoyant reassured them that the presence was a spirit trying to get their attention and was not harmful. Art says he would move out.
Cigar smoke, a cement mixer, and moved chairs in a grandfather’s house
A caller (addressed by a companion as “[name withheld]”) continues a story about their grandparents’ self-built house. Smells, lights, sounds, and moved objects were reported there after the grandparents died. The caller describes cigar smoke, their grandmother’s perfume, a cement mixer heard running in an empty shed, overturned chairs, a hand felt on their girlfriend’s back in the bath, and two of their father’s childhood toy cars reappearing on a cleared shelf. The caller concludes the grandparents are “still there” and “not happy” about the sale of the property, though they say the presence was not evil.
Grandparents' handbuilt Sacramento house: light switches, toilet, cigar smoke (part 1)
A caller from Sacramento tells Art Bell about living in a handbuilt house their grandfather bought in the 1930s. The caller reports the deaths of their grandfather and grandmother, then moving in with their girlfriend. Small strange events followed: clicking light switches, a bathroom light, a jarring door and flushing toilet, and cigar smoke linked to the grandfather. Art Bell interrupts for a break, so the story is incomplete.