Warning or message
Hooded faceless figure in the bedroom and a return during a cardiac arrest
A caller identified on air as [name withheld] of Sacramento describes himself as a 6'9", 370-pound pastor. He says a faceless, handless, hooded figure came through his bedroom door in March of that year and threatened him. It then threw his wife off the bed by the ankles and left what he describes as bleeding hand imprints. He says the same figure appeared beside him a month later when his heart stopped during a hospital stay in San Francisco. It told him it was time to come with it. He says he refused and was revived. He ends by telling the host he believes the figure was probably following him after he once helped a Catholic pastor with an exorcism.
A black form, the family cats, and a brother’s hypothermia in an Edison, New Jersey, farmhouse
A caller who says they are calling from Fairborn, Ohio, tells Art Bell that around 1970, when they were nine or ten, their family lived in an old farmhouse on 12 acres in Edison, New Jersey. They report waking at 3 or 4 a.m. and seeing a black, indistinct oval form in the hallway that “slammed into” them and told them “don’t go in.” They then found their younger brother being enveloped by it in their shared bedroom while the family’s cats attacked it. The story ends with their father, described as a police officer, running in with a gun as the thing slid through a window. The brother was reportedly kept overnight in the hospital for hypothermia the next morning.
San Jose apartment with occult remains and blue light pillars
A letter read on air, with the writer’s name withheld, describes working for an apartment-management company in East San Jose, California, in 1971. The writer reports being sent to clean a second-floor unit after an eviction. They say they found black walls, red bulbs, a pentagram, altars, and animal remains. After warnings from two strangers, they say they saw two pillars of blue light at the foot of their bed at about 2 a.m. The letter ends with the writer saying they never returned to the address.
Ghost of a murdered upstairs neighbor in a rented downstairs house
A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says they rented the downstairs of an older house, where a door resisted closing in a way they read as a warning. They report that they later heard, from below, a man beat the upstairs woman to death. They then saw her ghost in their bedroom telling them not to come up to help. Police came the next day. The caller ends by saying she gave them strength and that they are ready if evil comes again.
Ouija board spirits, a ball of light, and an old man with shark-like teeth
A caller named [name withheld], from Pahrump, Nevada, tells Art Bell that at about age 17 in Houston they used a Ouija board alone and spoke with spirits, including one called [name withheld] and a dark spirit called Baal. They report a ball of light appearing near a model airplane. About three days later, they say, they saw an old man in a brown leisure suit who seemed to move instantly across the street and smiled with shark-like teeth before vanishing. The story ends with Art Bell warning against casual use of the Ouija board.
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.
A caped figure, a skeleton, and two strangers at Redondo Beach
A truck driver who calls themselves [name withheld], phoning from a truck stop in Milan, New Mexico, tells Art Bell a story they date to the late 1970s at Redondo Beach, California. The caller says they and their girlfriend chased a fast-moving black cape-like figure on their motorcycle at dusk. It turned and looked like a skeleton. When it vanished around the corner of a building, two oddly dressed strangers were suddenly standing there. One of them grabbed their girlfriend’s hands and repeated a warning. The caller ends by passing on a friend’s opinion that they had met something supernatural. The host calls it not easily explained.
Figure and hearse at “Sleepy Hollow” in Brea, and a car crash afterward
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Flagstaff, tells of a night in 1962, the summer after their high school graduation. The caller and a friend drove the caller’s first car to a spot in Brea, California, that the friend called “Sleepy Hollow.” The caller reports that their headlights lit a parked 1939 Cadillac hearse and a figure the caller compares to the Phantom of the Opera. When the two drove back minutes later, both were gone, with no tracks left behind. Shortly afterward, the caller says, their car flipped over three times on Brea Canyon Boulevard. The caller offers to send the host signed affidavits, and the story ends with the host’s remarks about it being a warning.
Two tomb robbers found dead in a New Orleans above-ground cemetery
[name withheld], calling from New Orleans, tells Art Bell that they and their younger son were visiting and cleaning their grandmother's tomb in an old above-ground cemetery. They found several tombs broken into. In the tomb of a girl said to have died in a scarlet fever epidemic, they found the recent bodies of two young men. The caller says the cemetery keepers called the police and that they later heard both men had died of heart attacks. The call ends with the caller saying the little girl took her revenge on the men who tried to break into her tomb.
Computer typed overnight messages about “Vernon”; objects thrown in a house
An unnamed caller tells Art Bell that a computer in their home produced pages of typed text overnight that they had not written. Most of it was gibberish, but it contained sentences they could read, including warnings about the “Antichrist” and a coming evil character called “Vernon.” The caller reports that the activity later grew to electrical failure and objects, notably Visine bottles, flying down from an empty upstairs loft. The story ends with the caller saying they moved out and put the computer in storage, keeping only the printouts. Art Bell jokes that the sequel would be “You die.”
Ouija board session said to contact a grandfather in a coma
A caller on the first-time caller line tells a story they say their friend [name withheld] told them in “the utmost seriousness.” According to the caller, when [name withheld] was sixteen and his brother about twenty-one, a group of friends used a Ouija board alone. One of them appeared to make contact with [name withheld], the brothers' grandfather, who had been in a coma for two to three years. The story ends with the board spelling rapid messages and the boy at the board being pulled away in a shocked state. The host then warns against Ouija boards.
A sister’s illness, angel sightings, and a post-death garden vision
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] recounts, on the Wild Card Line, a family story about their younger sister’s illness and death in 1980. The caller relays that during a month of incoherence after strokes she described a [quote withheld] in their parents’ room. The caller says their grandfather reported angelic figures over her on three occasions and their father reported Lucifer appearing to him in the orchard. After her burial, the caller says, their grandfather described a vision of her in a garden. The story ends with the host’s closing remarks and the caller adding that a man in California told them he had seen the identical vision at the same time.
40 more stories
- Deceased great-aunt seen at cemetery and in hospital room4 min
- Ouija board session and a phone voice saying “You shall”2 min
- Mother's dream warning before a motorcycle wreck and a later check on her father3 min
- A brother's dream phone call from his deceased father, who spent his prayers on the call4 min
- Two fortune tellers’ warnings and a 1945 dream of a factory explosion4 min
- Host's story of a witch caller who left him an old Ouija board2 min
- Two gray-skinned figures in a hospital corridor thrift store4 min
- A voice and an arm on a hotel staircase, then news of a brother's death3 min
- Man in a black robe at a remote mountain campsite2 min
- Recurring dream of a jeep on a desert hill, then a matching real road3 min
- A blindfolded Ouija session in Hawaii and a planchette that flew off2 min
- Roommate's night vision of her dead father warns of her sister's car accident4 min
- A childhood vision of six tornadoes and the 1976 Sedalia, Missouri, storm2 min
- Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice4 min
- Clinical death and an out-of-body experience during childbirth in Germany7 min
- Agnostic caller’s near-death experience and beings they call alien-like7 min
- Dream of an emaciated creature as a message from a deceased grandmother3 min