Whispering
Family haunting in Louisiana tied to an uncle who kept his wife's corpse
A caller from Austin, Texas, tells a family story they say took place in Louisiana about a hundred years before the broadcast and is still going on. An uncle, said to be devastated by his young wife's death, kept her corpse in an upstairs bedroom for six months while he waited for a glass coffin ordered from New Orleans. He reportedly kissed it nightly and talked to it over a Ouija board. The caller passes on servants' reports of candles that would not light, cold air, whispers, falling objects, and nighttime conversations with another voice. The caller says relatives kept avoiding the room and feeling a cold presence into the 1970s. The caller says the woman is still buried in Metairie Cemetery, that a family member holds the key to the crypt, and that they themselves would go in out of curiosity.
Woman in black, locked doors, and a priest's blessing in a Dodge City rental
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sumner, Washington, describes a house their family moved into in Dodge City, Kansas, about fifteen years earlier. The caller reports flooding, a woman in a black dress seen by their daughter, doors that shut and locked family members in, whispering, a fetal-position stain on the carpet, and footsteps on the stairs. After researching records, the caller and their sister concluded that an elderly former resident was earthbound. A priest blessed the house and fell ill. The caller says they later blessed it themselves and believes the woman went to the light.
Letter on deaths and reported hauntings at the Penfield Place in Illinois
The host reads a letter attributed to [name withheld] in Rockford, Illinois. It recounts the history of a house in north-central Illinois that locals call the Penfield Place. The letter tells of a series of deaths, a bride's disappearance and the later discovery of her dismembered remains, and strange events reported by later tenants. It ends by describing the house as still standing, decaying and in ruins. No document or second witness is presented on air.
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.
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.
Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], of Rochester, New York, describes living in a Tucson, Arizona, house connected to their husband’s first wife. The caller says the woman killed her two children and herself in 1977. [name withheld] reports a burglar alarm sounding at exactly 2 a.m. on nights their husband was away, children’s whispering, moved objects, and a living room that stayed cold in summer. The caller says a responding policeman advised them to leave, and they did. The caller says they later concluded the dead woman had been trying to drive them and their children away from their husband.
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.
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.
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.
Voices in the basement and a touch in the shower of a rental home
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Washington, describes living in a rental home that they call the weirdest experience of their life. The caller reports voices, whispering, and banging coming up from an unfinished basement, and nightly stomping up the stairs into loft rooms. The caller also reports a sensation of hands touching them in the shower when nobody was in the house. The caller says they were twenty-two at the time. The caller offers no explanation and stayed only until their lease was up. The host closes with a remark about the other side.
Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], from Virginia, describes a house the caller and their wife bought in Ohio. The caller tells of the strange events they say they experienced there over their years in the house. They include whispering and noises, a violent racket in an empty closet, and three knocks on a closed bedroom door that their wife denied making. They also include a cat's travel cage bouncing off the kitchen floor and a low growling from the basement corner that the caller says could not have come from their cats. The caller does not say what caused any of it. The story ends with the host remarking on moving in and the sage left on the mantle.
House lights, pounding, and a whispered encouragement in a junior high theater
A 15-year-old caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Redding, California, describes an eighth-grade school play staged in an old junior high theater said to date from 1911. They report house lights switching on and off by themselves, pounding like footsteps on the catwalk, curtains moving, and a girl’s whisper in their head urging them on. The play went ahead, and the audience took the disturbances as part of the act.