Voice calling the teller's name
Dreams of a missing friend asking to be buried, later found in a car
A caller who gives the name [name withheld] and says the call is from [quote withheld] passes on a secondhand story from a friend named [name withheld]. According to the caller, [name withheld], [name withheld], and [name withheld] all dreamed of their missing friend [name withheld] appearing in a window and saying “bury me.” The dream image reportedly began to look like a decomposing body. Then [name withheld] was found dead by suicide in a car with a hose from the exhaust. The host sums it up as a decomposing man entering his friends’ dreams and begging to be buried.
Rented split-entry house: orbs, mist, whispers and a white figure on the stairs
[name withheld], a caller from New Hampshire, tells Art Bell about strange events the caller says began on the first night their family moved into a rented split-entry house about twenty-three years earlier, when they were sixteen. The caller reports a dream of an old man with hollowed-out eyes, then waking to balls of light zigzagging through their room. Later came a mist and cold in the hallway, whispering and footsteps at night, a face staring over their shoulder at the computer, and a white figure with bulging eyes on the stairs. The caller says their brother [name withheld] reported the same experiences. The host ends this part of the broadcast by telling the caller they are haunted.
Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house
A caller from Kelso, Montana, tells Art Bell about a night several years earlier when the caller and a girlfriend were alone in a large old ranch house. The caller reports hearing a wood-chopping sound outside, then seeing a tall dark shadow float across a propane tank toward them. The next day they found chopped wood scattered around the yard. The caller also reports hearing their mother's voice call them inside the house when no one was there. They say they think the home's earlier large family “were still there.”
Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death
A caller phoning from Wabash, Indiana, describes events they say began about 1989. Their then-wife’s grandmother was found dead in her garage in East Tennessee, and the family’s suspicions fell on the wife’s father, [name withheld]. The caller says that in their Middle Tennessee home, the children saw something in their bedroom and their wife saw shadows. The caller felt their bed shake, felt someone move their hair and sit on the bed, and heard a whisper of the name “[name withheld].” They say the activity stopped the day [name withheld] died in a car accident. The caller says they believe the grandmother was telling them [name withheld] killed her.
Sounds, a voice, and a horned face in a school dormitory room at night
[name withheld], calling from Brighton, Colorado, says that as a 16- or 17-year-old student at a School for the Visually Impaired in Louisiana, they heard kicking and scratching outside their dormitory window. Then they heard a voice telling them to sleep. Then they woke to their bed shaking and an orange-red, horned face at their closet door. They say they felt frozen, prayed, and were carried out of the room, their feet not touching the floor, to their best friend’s room, where they stayed the rest of the night. Asked for their present view, they say they never figured out what it was. They agreed with the host’s suggestion that they may have a guardian angel.
A hearse, a voice, and white figures on a winter road in northern Canada
A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] tells of something the caller says happened to them in high school, when they were 16 or 17, in a small town in northern Canada. The caller was walking alone at night on a snowy road after their friends drove off. The caller reports a panicky feeling, a big black car the caller took for a hearse, a voice quietly saying their name from behind them, and two white figures that moved toward them while calling their name. Then they ran into town. The caller ends by reporting that their friends said they had each felt that [quote withheld] and had turned the car around for them. The host thanks the caller and moves to the next caller.
A paper Ouija board, a spirit called Tommy, and wall scratches
A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] says they have been sensitive to spirits since childhood. They say a hostile spirit that gave its name as Tommy attached itself to them after a session with a homemade Ouija board about ten years earlier. They describe objects moving, a shadow figure, and their name being called. They also describe a shadow seen in a car and on a porch, and scratches that appeared on their girlfriend’s bedroom wall. They say the activity has largely stopped as long as they do not engage with it. The host tells the caller the spirit is still with them and advises them to get help.
A boy, a woman's hope chest, and a furious figure above the bed
[name withheld], calling from Pennsylvania on Ghost to Ghost AM, finishes a story he had begun earlier. As a boy, he says, he rummaged through a woman's hope chest in his room. Then he heard his name whispered from his closet and saw a furious, smoky figure he took to be that woman hovering above his bed. He says he fled screaming to his parents, who had the chest removed from the room that night. Since then, he says, he has never doubted there is something after this life.
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.
Dream of a grandmother at the door saying “There is no heaven,” and a father’s parallel dream
A caller named [name withheld], from Philadelphia, recounts a dream from about ten years earlier, three days after their grandmother’s death. In the dream, the grandmother stands at their door barefoot in the snow, scratches the glass, and asks to be let in. The caller refuses and tells her [quote withheld] and she answers [quote withheld] After waking they tell their family, and their father describes a parallel dream from years before about a neighbor, [name withheld], who died shortly afterward. The caller says they do not believe it was the actual spirit.
Haunted family house in Lorain, Ohio: Slapping, shadows, and something on the bed
A caller from Lorain, Ohio, tells Art Bell they are speaking from what they call a haunted house, the home their grandfather built. They say strange events have gone on since they were about five. The caller reports having seen clouds, formations, and shadows, and hearing voices calling names. They say friends were slapped in the face while sleeping over, and that they feel something sit on their bed at night. They say their mother consulted a parapsychologist who believed it was a child that likes to play games. The host, running out of time, warns of danger and tells the caller to get out.
Voice in the kitchen, a loosened bulb, and a face in a burnt furnace
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, describes several events in an old farmhouse they shared with their husband and two small children. A voice in the kitchen said the caller's name. A range-hood bulb had to be tightened again every night for a month, the caller says. A garbage bag moved, with a smell of perfume. After a January 1996 house fire, the caller says, a face was burned into the furnace. The story ends with Art Bell asking the caller to send photographs of the furnace face.