Woman in white or a long dress
Evil presence, a figure saying “I want you,” and strange events ending after a house fire
[name withheld] from Harrisburg, Oregon, calls to describe a series of experiences in their house. They include a feeling of evil in the bedroom, a touch across their feet, and a hiss around 3 a.m. The caller also reports that their husband saw a figure in the doorway and later heard it say “I want you.” The caller links the activity to witchcraft books found upstairs. After an upstairs house fire and a remodel, the caller says, nothing has happened since.
Woman in a white dress pursues a car on Monterey Highway, 1951
A caller named [name withheld], from Los Banos, California, relays a story they say their father told them about their father's cousin [name withheld]. According to [name withheld], in 1951 [name withheld] was driving north from a movie theater in Morgan Hill toward San Jose on a stretch of the Monterey Highway known as “Blood Alley.” A woman in a white dress at the roadside kept pace with the accelerating car and then appeared at the window as a skeletal face. [name withheld] says [name withheld] braked, prayed, and drove back to [name withheld]'s mother's house instead.
White-haired woman with a white dog beside a desert road
A caller named [name withheld], from Salt Lake, tells Art Bell a story dated to 1981. [name withheld] says they and four friends were driving home from a California graduation trip. On a desolate desert road outside Palm Springs, they saw a white-haired woman in white holding a white dog on a chain. The woman’s dress and hair blew without wind, and her head turned unnaturally far to follow their car. The friends reportedly felt a horrible feeling and still discuss the encounter years later.
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.
A woman in 1800s dress, a boulder death, and a disturbed forest circle
Mary, calling from Salem, Oregon, tells Art Bell a story they call [quote withheld] about their brother-in-law, [name withheld]. Mary says that during a birthday party they went out for burgers and, waiting out front, saw a woman in 1800s clothing whose feet they could not see. When they looked back, the woman was gone. Mary reports that while they were away, [name withheld] was struck by a boulder on a forest trail and died. Months later, Mary says, an acquaintance said a ceremony [name withheld] had been performing was interrupted when the acquaintance stubbed out a cigarette in his circle and a growling, monster-like sound came down the hill. Mary says some of them think that whatever it was came and got him.
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.
E-mail: Floating woman in nightgown crossing road by old church, 1978
An e-mail read on air from an unnamed listener who describes themselves as a longtime shortwave listener and Coast to Coast AM fan. They recount a night in 1978. They say they were driving their date home in a secluded rural area after midnight when they saw what appeared to be a woman in an old-style nightgown and nightcap cross the road in front of the car by an old church with a graveyard. She was floating above the ground, with no legs and eyes that were “just dark holes.” The woman continues through roadside vines, their date is nearly hysterical, and the writer insists it was [quote withheld]
Art student draws a tombstone named [name withheld], then meets a woman of that name at work
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], who lives in Austin, Texas, and is originally from Victoria, B.C., Canada, tells Art Bell about their time in art school. They worked part-time at a small grocery store and, on a class field trip, visited a grave site and drew a tombstone bearing a woman's name. A couple of weeks later, the caller says, a woman in a long black dress with grayish skin came into the store. When asked her name, the woman said “[name withheld]” and said she did not know where she was. The story ends with [name withheld] saying the experience still unsettles them and that they rarely tell the story.
Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah
Art Bell reads a newspaper piece he identifies as the Gateway Gazette of Thursday, October 28. The article, titled [quote withheld] is by staff writer [name withheld] and is about the Mizpah Hotel Casino in Tonopah, Nevada. It strings together a bar patron's remark about a “hologram” of a woman in the elevator, the legend of a “lady in red” said to have been murdered on the fifth floor, a keno board said to light up though it is not connected to power, and stories from several named employees. Bell stops reading partway through the article, saying there is more.
Woman in white and vandalized cemetery at Indiana University
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], a cab driver from Portland, tells Art Bell about an event on June 11, 1970, while they were attending a drama conference at Indiana University in Bloomington. They say they saw a woman in white, dressed in 1930s style, in woods near campus. She vanished, and after following a hedge they found an old cemetery with a shattered headstone for a woman named Mary who died in 1936. They report seeing the woman again before she faded away, and then running from the vandalized cemetery. They believe she wanted someone to see the damage.
College radio expedition to a reservoir reports a woman in white on the road
In a letter read on air, the host presents a story from [name withheld] in Bellevue, Washington. It describes an early-1970s college radio expedition on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The station set out on a Halloween special to look for a local “Easton monster.” Waiting in three cars by a reservoir at night, at least one person in each car reportedly shouted to leave at the same moment. Back at the station, the group wrote down separately what had frightened them, and all described a transparent woman in a long white gown on the road. The letter says the special was canceled and listeners were told there were technical difficulties.
Letter: A figure in white and a toddler’s “lady in the white dress”
A letter sent by [quote withheld] and read aloud by the host describes two linked events in her own home. First, she woke at night and saw what she took to be her ten-year-old daughter in a long white nightgown, gliding through the hallway. She then found the child asleep in dark pajamas. Several days later, her two-year-old said a [quote withheld] would not let her go into the bedroom. The letter ends with the mother walking the child back to the room and finding no one there.