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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.
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.
Laughing in the basement, a woman in white, and shadow figures in a family home
A caller who gives the name “[name withheld]” and says they are on Long Island, New York, describes a series of incidents the caller attributes to their family home. They begin at age four, when the caller heard laughing from the basement while their sister was outside, and continue through their teens. The caller reports unexplained walking overhead at night and a woman in a long white gown at the edge of their parents’ bed. The caller also reports a voice and television sound in an empty house, and two small hatted shadow figures at their bedroom door followed by something grabbing their feet. The host cuts the call short and ends the segment.
Unplugged television explodes in a basement gathering; a dark man reappears
[name withheld], from London, Ontario, Canada, calls to describe something that happened when they were about eight years old. During a gathering in a basement, [name withheld] says, an old unplugged television glowed and exploded, and only the caller saw a dark man seated on it. [name withheld] says the same dark man has since appeared to the caller out of the corner of their eye, and that they have heard their name called. The host warns the caller about the figure, while the caller says they think it may be protective.
Man in a hat seen at window and bedside in a Nebraska rental house
Caller [name withheld], calling from Bellevue, Nebraska, describes roughly fifteen years of activity at a rental property they and their wife bought about twenty-two years before the broadcast. They report their two young sons describing an old man with a hat looking through their window, and their wife seeing a silhouette over her bed. Doors and electronics operated by themselves. Eventually the caller saw a man in a hat walk past them in the basement bedroom. They say a deputy sheriff’s inquiry and a client’s photograph linked the figure to a man killed by a semi in the abandoned house across the street. They say the disturbances ended after the city demolished that house.
Shadow figures running past a bed and blinking clock radios in an Atlanta apartment
A caller named [name withheld], from Atlanta, Georgia, describes dark figures running in front of their bed toward a lit bathroom after they fell asleep very late. Later they found clock radios blinking and the date on their computer changed. They call the figures “angels” and connect the events to a recent broadcast. The host offers an electromagnetic explanation, then takes the next call.
Silhouette with red eyes in a South Dakota basement
A caller addressed as [name withheld] in their own story describes a difficult period when they took a part-time job in South Dakota, moved in with a 73-year-old woman, and returned to church. They say they woke in their basement room to slamming doors, a television switching off, a dark silhouette with two red eyes, and a voice telling them to come with it. They were unable to move. They report that a pastor anointed the doorknobs and blessed the house, after which the activity stopped.
Caller recounts husband's changed state and energy transfer after suicide attempt
A caller named [name withheld], who says they are calling from the [quote withheld] describes events they place in 1988, while they were living in Hawaii. After they found out about their husband’s affair, they consulted fortune-tellers, who said he would try to kill himself. They returned home to find him seemingly changed. They report the screen door shaking, the TV going fuzzy, and a force entering and choking their body. Then, they say, energy passed to them when he took their hands. They end by saying they think a “dark power” he once accepted as a teenager had taken his confidence, and that his spirit left his body and was in the tree outside the door.
Electrical faults and a voice in TV static in a Tucson college house
A caller the host introduces as [name withheld], calling from California, describes living in a rented house near the University of Arizona about ten to twelve years before the broadcast. They report repeated electrical failures and an electric can opener that started by itself. Then came an occasion when they and a woman with them heard a voice through the static on a TV with no cable, saying there were no ghosts there. The story ends with the two of them running out of the house.
Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia
A caller who gives their name as Mary tells Art Bell they once lived in a garage apartment in Covington, Georgia. It stood behind a mansion and overlooked the cemetery on Elm Street. Alone there one night in early 1975, they report the television acting strangely, an apartment that would not stay warm, a face seen in a small window at the top of the landing, and a humming they describe as a voice, not anything mechanical. The next morning, walking the cemetery, they say they found a tombstone for a young woman named [name withheld] who died in 1873 at sixteen. They note their own maiden name was Robin. They say they got out of there.
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.
1965: A ten-second TV lag and a shadow man in a hat seen by children
A caller who identifies themself as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell a story the caller dates to 1965, when they were about five and their parents were working late at their pharmacy. The caller reports that the upstairs television began broadcasting about ten seconds after the downstairs set. The caller says they and their brothers saw a shadow man on the wall of the upstairs bedroom and again from their sisters’ room. The caller says their parents, on returning home, did not believe any of them.