Other experiences
Stories that aren't about ghosts or don't fit the categories above.
Boulders thrown around a camper on the Queets River
Caller [name withheld], from Graham, Washington, describes four men playing poker in a camper beside the Queets River. Around 1:30 a.m., rocks began landing around the vehicle for about three hours, along with grunts that he and Art Bell compared with a recorded “Sasquatch” sound. In the morning, [name withheld] says, large boulders lay in a circle around the camper, and it took two trucks to move them. He dates the event to 1975, says he has never returned to the spot, and offers no cause beyond “something awfully big.”
A face materializing in the caller’s own vision, followed by a dream
A caller addressed by the host as [name withheld] from California tells of sitting in their living room on the phone about 15 years earlier when a gray spot in the corner of their vision grew and materialized into what they could barely make out as a non-human face. The caller says it went around a corner smiling at them and that they ran out of the room. The caller later had a dream of an abyss and something screaming for them to come outside. The host cut in to say they were out of time, and the call ended.
A black mass invitation, a stalled dorm elevator, and a body in the college lake
A caller who gives their location as Gainesville, Georgia (WDUN), tells of their freshman year at a small southern college. A man in the student center claimed to be a black witch and invited their group to a black mass. The caller did not go. That night a fire alarm sent them outside, where they saw their returning friends looking [quote withheld] before the dorm elevator they boarded stalled between floors. The caller says they later learned that one man had disappeared and that his body was found in the college lake about three weeks afterward, with his throat cut. The host cuts the caller off for time.
Ball of light approaches campers near 29 Palms and scans caller
A caller on the Wildcard Line tells Art Bell that in March 1993 they and their girlfriend were camping near 29 Palms when they saw distant lights moving south to north. The caller says a basketball-sized ball of light came out of a large craft and approached within about 48 inches. It seemed to scan their brain, then focused on their girlfriend before returning to the craft. The caller reports she was traumatized and spent about eight months in therapy. The call ends with Art Bell’s speculation about downloaded information.
Nighttime evil presence and a geometric screen vision in an apartment
A caller tells Art Bell that about two months earlier, while lying in bed in their apartment, the caller felt an evil presence watching them. Then, as the caller began to dream, they saw a black geometric pattern pulled down over their vision like a screen. They felt dread and a fear of being possessed. The caller reports that prayer, and asking God to send their angel, made the fear and the vision stop. Afterward the caller used sage and sea salt and came to regard the episode as a test of their faith.
Shadow figure at a bedroom window and a child found on the roof
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sarasota, Florida, tells Art Bell that at about age five, which they place around 1966, they saw a shadow figure in a hat and long coat at their bedroom window one winter night. Their parents reportedly saw the same figure crossing the schoolyard outside and found no footprints. The caller also relays, secondhand through their wife, that about a week earlier their parents had found them missing from bed and finally discovered them sitting on the roof with no apparent way up. Asked what they think happened, they say they have no idea. The call ends with a discussion of streetlights going out around them, which the story leaves unresolved.
Atlanta house, dog avoiding the bedroom, and a black dog seen during an out-of-body experience
A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] describes a house they bought in downtown Atlanta in the early 1990s. Their Jack Russell Terrier refused to sleep in the bedroom. They say that after practicing out-of-body experiences for several months, they saw a small black dog during one of them. It was lapping at the floor beside the wall where the dog’s mouse blood was regularly splattered. The dog and any liquid were gone when they returned to their body. Years later, as they sold the house, a next-door neighbor told them of a couple who lived there in the 1950s and of a suicide in that bedroom. She said the couple had owned a small black dog.
Red eyes in a tree, a transforming figure, and a drive-by rescue
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Birmingham, Alabama, describes to Art Bell events they say they have shared with their best friend [name withheld] since they met. They report a nighttime encounter in Huntsville: barking dogs, red glowing eyes in a tree, a neighborhood blackout, and a white tiger-like shadow that they say changed into an Egyptian man who promised protection. They then describe a Christmas incident in which they say they and [name withheld] were thrown back from a door shortly before a drive-by shooting passed the house. The call ends with [name withheld] saying they and [name withheld], now in Germany and at home, are still having the same strange dreams.
Banging, moved objects, and a statue’s eyes at an abandoned courthouse
[name withheld], calling from Castro Valley, California, says that in 1980, as a high-school sophomore in Auburn, California, they got a key to the long-abandoned Auburn courthouse to shoot an amateur film with friends. The caller reports banging from the upper floors. The caller says a script and a camera strap went missing and turned up neatly arranged on a judge’s bench, and a holding-cell door slammed shut by itself. The caller says the eyes of a courthouse statue of justice opened and then closed while the caller and a friend watched. The caller says they left and never went back.
Palm reader relays a family’s story of a dead mother’s warning to rescue [name withheld]
A caller who identifies themselves as [quote withheld] a palm reader, describes a reading they gave in a small town between Salt Lake City and Yellowstone Park. They say the client told them that the client’s dead mother had appeared separately to the client’s girlfriend and to the client’s father, urging them to [quote withheld] The family found [name withheld] in an alley at a gas station with a motorcycle gang. The story ends with [name withheld] describing how the ages shown by the palm lines matched the ages at which the ghosts were reported. The host then reflects on whether the dead can send a message.
Gray mist at the foot of the bed before a woman’s illness
A caller who gives their location as “Cape Junction, Oregon” tells Art Bell that several years earlier they woke at about 3 a.m. at their mother’s house and saw a gray mist at the foot of the bed. The caller says it looked like the Grim Reaper. The caller says their “would-be wife” also woke and saw it before it went away. The caller reports that she became seriously ill a week later and was eventually found to have a ruptured appendix after two misdiagnoses. The caller adds that they have made predictions that came true. The host ends the call and comments on the body’s ability to heal.
Border Patrol trainees and a robed group around a bonfire near the Rio Grande
A live caller to Ghost to Ghost 2013, addressed by the host as “[name withheld]” and said to be calling from Texas, says that about twenty-five years earlier they and a partner, both brand-new Border Patrol agents, came upon fifteen to twenty people in brown full-length robes. The group was circling a large bonfire on a hill near the river at about two in the morning. Two of the robed people ran toward the agents, who reversed away without lights and did not slow down until they reached the highway. The caller says they and their partner told no one for about twenty years. The caller says that years later a student of theirs described coming across the same scene. The caller says they still do not know who the group was or what they were doing.
43 more stories
- A bell heard in the car and a puff of air in the shower after a boyfriend's death4 min
- Caller senses their late father, phone problems, photo found in hallway6 min
- Board operator's letter on a red light tracked on Reno radar1 min
- Caller describes aftermath of an encounter with something unseen and caring for two children48 s
- Journal of a great-grandfather: hair-covered man on horseback who said he was Cain2 min
- Ham operator's recurring dream of their reissued call sign4 min
- Trucker's family tale of Aunt [name withheld] stirring apple butter with her arm2 min
- Listener letter: A weekend at the Hotel del Coronado as “Kate's guest”3 min
- Caller describes seeing their own spirit during an out-of-body experience2 min
- Caller [name withheld] from northern New Jersey begins a story about a 1980 puppy1 min
- Caller sets up a 1991 story in Parkston, South Dakota, before being put on hold2 min
- Police officer describes a dog-like creature; their brother later described the same3 min
- Childhood memory of rainbow-colored blindness in Key West sunlight2 min
- A 1920s scene in a cloud seen from a kindergarten swing set2 min
- Vanishing fisherman and black triangle inside an Alaska mountain base5 min
- Clairvoyant medium’s message and apparitions of deceased aunt and uncle4 min
- Caller reports a felt presence in their house, later confirmed by a neighbor2 min
- Caller says they were haunted by a dead cheerleader during Air Force training3 min
- Highway spin-out and a figure seen in the rearview mirror2 min
- A hand from under the driver's seat stops a teenager before a runaway gravel truck3 min
- Caller relays friend's story of a black semi-human figure on a bike trail2 min
- Transcendental meditation group at a public high school career day (story cut off)1 min