Partial figures and mists
Part of a body, a face, a mist, or a see-through or blurry shape.
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.
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.
A Waikiki dancer and a figure reported over a wife’s bed
A caller who gives their name as “[name withheld],” from San Diego, tells Art Bell about a night in Hawaii about two years earlier. They watched a Waikiki dance show, became unsettled by the female dancer, and returned to their hotel room. The caller says their sleeping wife then woke screaming and clawed at the room door. Afterward she told them something had stood over the bed looking down at her. The caller ends by saying they concluded the dancer’s “familiar” had followed them to the room. The story is left unresolved.
Cold spot, woman, and giant arm during a church overnight
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Pearl, Mississippi, tells Art Bell about a night they and about half a dozen friends spent in their church at the end of a summer. The caller reports a cold spot, a woman seen in the hallway, a huge arm reaching around a classroom door, a moving white pattern on a window, and a face with glowing eyes before the group fled and huddled together. The caller says nothing else happened that night and that they are the only one who has told anyone. The caller thinks the beings were angelic and demonic rather than the dead.
Caller [name withheld] says he and his twin saw their mother’s head float down the hallway
A caller who gives his first name as [name withheld], and who says he is in Colorado Springs, tells Art Bell that as a child he and his twin brother both woke and found their mother after a suicide attempt. That night, he says, lying awake in bed, he saw his mother’s head, with nothing below the neck, move down the hallway toward him and grow larger as it came. He says he only recently learned that his twin brother saw the same thing. The transcript never states whether their mother survived.
Letter: Crying child and a locked room in a Victorian university office
The host reads a letter attributed to [quote withheld] In it, the writer says they worked in the 1980s for a university journalism department housed in an old off-campus Victorian building. They report hearing a child crying that they could never find, a chilling cold on the stairs, and a third-floor door they could not unlock. The letter ends with a friend opening the door, a child’s footprint in dust, a cold vortex on the stairs, and a psychic’s story of a boy’s fatal fall and his mother’s imprisonment there.
Dark cloud and disturbances at a remote lakeside recording studio in Oklahoma
Art Bell reads a letter on air from a fellow ham named [name withheld], who says they built and ran a recording studio for a well-known rock star in eastern Oklahoma. [name withheld] describes a malevolent dark cloud that appeared in their room one night. [name withheld] also describes later disturbances that drove the first guests away from the finished studio. The letter ends with the “spirit” said to make life hell for anyone it disliked.
Smoke-like ghosts and an aggressive figure in a Fulton, Missouri, home
A caller who gives his name as [name withheld], in Portland, tells Art Bell he had a “ghost experience” in 1988 while a student at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He was in his cousin’s home with his cousin [name withheld] and a friend, [name withheld]. He says smoke-like, see-through figures appeared one after another in the living room: an older woman, three boys playing jacks, then a girl doing cartwheels. Then an angry man burst in and swung at him without making contact. He says he remembers little afterward, that the friends were whimpering, and that one of them quit school. He says it changed their lives.
A cloud at a mother-in-law's death and ongoing house disturbances
A caller who says they are calling from Santa Rosa tells the host that in 1989, on Thanksgiving Day, their mother-in-law died. The next day, they say, they and their husband watched a large brown mist cloud dissipate on the sidewalk outside. They go on to describe a series of household disturbances: objects moved, a music box starting by itself, and odd smells. They also describe family upheavals involving their husband and their son. They blame all of it on demons. They say the situation is still going on. The host closes by telling them he believes they are in a dangerous situation.
Letter: Face with electrical sound in a darkened Miami bedroom
In a letter read on air by Art Bell, an unnamed writer describes an encounter in Miami in the early 1980s. While drifting off to sleep, the writer awoke to a face in their darkened bedroom, mouth open with teeth showing, with a sound like an electrical discharge. They recited Psalm 23, turned on the lights, and avoided sleep for weeks. Then they left Florida. The writer says the face never returned.
Family house in Syracuse: man on the telephone, bed presence, and deceased parents
[name withheld], from Syracuse, New York, tells Art Bell that their family home, owned by the family since 1950, has been the setting for a series of strange events. Both their parents died there. The caller reports a 1989 ghost of a young man talking on their telephone and walking through a wall. The caller also describes a presence that got into bed with them, a phone call in which a doctor’s office said it had spoken to a man named [name withheld], a green film, a smell of spaghetti sauce, and a later vision of their mother. The call ends with the host closing the segment after the mother’s reported insurance detail.
Childhood closet and bedroom doors, a green light, and paralysis
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] recounts events from when they were six years old. They watched their closet doors and bedroom door night after night. One morning the closet doors were fully open. They were unable to move in bed at times. One night the bedroom door appeared lit from behind with green light and mist before falling backward away from them. The caller says they then ran to their parents’ room and slept there, and that their parents acted as if nothing was wrong. The story ends there, and the host moves to the next caller.
49 more stories
- Figures in a field, a shrinking shape, and a child’s face in a drain pipe7 min
- An 1880 house with chairs moving, a door opening, and rose and tobacco scents3 min
- Green gaseous presence over the bed in a Sedona home3 min
- Gray mist at the foot of the bed before a woman’s illness3 min
- Stolen skull, flames, and a smoke image in a mirror in a Fort Lauderdale apartment6 min
- A woman’s head and shoulders emerging from an attic closet in an old converted home3 min
- Old man’s head with a stretched neck hanging in a workshop2 min
- Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home4 min
- A foggy light aura in a hallway of a late mother-in-law’s house4 min
- Late mother-in-law appears in her former bedroom; a footprint in the carpet8 min
- Fire dispatch dormitory and a dream of an 1864 village by the Santa Ana River9 min
- Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia3 min
- Mother kneeling at grandparents’ grave in Lodi reports a film before her3 min
- Letter: A smoky kneeling figure at a student’s bedside and a presence across the hall2 min
- Letter: A 12-year-old in Denver, a red-outlined being, and a bed impression1 min
- Walking boots without a body on a logging road near Knoxville3 min
- A sliding couch and a giant hand reported in a childhood home in Oregon4 min
- A cold, leathery foot under a friend's couch while retrieving a toy car2 min
- Faceless green caped figure in the left lane on a night drive to Peoria2 min
- A presence before conception and a child’s talk of heaven3 min
- Bearded figure with a funny hat seen through a bedroom door5 min
- Black butterflies and a face image in a bedroom window after a husband’s death1 min
- A mist and a figure in a hat photographed while praying over an elderly man2 min
- An image on a rice-field bridge and at a bathroom window4 min
- A hooded figure at a California motel, later described by the writer’s son2 min
- Figure in trench coat and fedora at a Dallas window3 min