Signs at the moment of death
A person appears, or a sign comes, at about the time they die, before anyone knows.
Recorded EVP at a party and a friend’s coma at 11 p.m.
A caller tells Art Bell about filming a house party with night vision. They say a demonic-sounding voice was captured on the tape when they greeted their friend [name withheld]. Years later, while driving with their girlfriend at 11 p.m., they suddenly remembered the story and told it to her. The next day they learned that a friend, named [name withheld] in the transcript, was in a coma. The friend died three days later. They say a friend, [name withheld], reported the coma began around 11 that Saturday night, close to when they were telling the story. They are unsure whether there was a connection.
Dream of a grandmother at the door saying “There is no heaven,” and a father’s parallel dream
A caller named [name withheld], from Philadelphia, recounts a dream from about ten years earlier, three days after their grandmother’s death. In the dream, the grandmother stands at their door barefoot in the snow, scratches the glass, and asks to be let in. The caller refuses and tells her [quote withheld] and she answers [quote withheld] After waking they tell their family, and their father describes a parallel dream from years before about a neighbor, [name withheld], who died shortly afterward. The caller says they do not believe it was the actual spirit.
A child's late-night phone call reporting their father's death
A caller who gives the name [name withheld], calling from Redmond, Washington, says their father was murdered in 1976, when they were nine. The caller reports that at about 11 p.m. on the night of his death they woke at their aunt's house, walked through the dark house, and answered a ringing telephone. A voice the caller did not recognize told them their father had been shot, and then the line went dead. The caller’s aunt, who had not heard the phone ring, called it a bad dream. The caller says the call came around the time he died, and that their mother, fifteen miles away, woke with a start at the same moment. The caller says their uncle can confirm the caller telephoned him, but no one can confirm the incoming call. Asked what they think it was, the caller says they do not know.
A woman walking up an off-ramp, later listed in the obituaries of a fatal crash
A listener’s letter read on air describes a man and his wife detouring around a fatal interstate wreck. From a bridge over the road, he says, he saw a woman walking up the off-ramp. Days later he recognized her picture among the people killed in that wreck. He ends by saying that somewhere inside he already knew, but dismissed it as fantasy.
Shadowy figure bows silently, then a phone call confirms a grandfather’s death
[name withheld] says they are a truck driver calling from their truck near Finley, Ohio. They tell of an event when they were 12. They were sitting on a bench outside a family house in Missouri with their older brother. They report seeing a dark, shadowy figure drift silently across a gravel road. After they thought “Grandpa is dead,” it bowed its head and drifted away. The two went inside to say their grandfather had died, and the phone rang moments later with their father confirming it. [name withheld] calls it [quote withheld]
A figure at the foot of the bed on the night the caller's grandfather died
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Canton, Ohio, says that at the age of five they woke in the night and found family members gathered and upset. They then saw a greenish-white shape at the foot of their bed that they came to think looked like their grandfather. The caller says they learned the next morning that their grandfather had died in an emergency room that night. The host closes the call by saying the grandfather [quote withheld] and describing such stories as a type that comes up again and again.
Caller reports ex-husband's pre-death visits and a vision of a small plane
A caller, [name withheld] of Toppenish, Washington, tells Art Bell that their ex-husband would get sudden impulses to visit relatives, who died just before he arrived. They say they once had a vision of a tiny airplane with three angels and a passenger in a gray jacket. They say the vision matched their husband's later arrival by chartered plane around the time their foster father died. The host cuts the call short.
Letter: White mist in the shape of a dog appears the night the dog dies
Art Bell reads a letter he attributes to [quote withheld] The writer describes a late-summer night when they saw a huge white mist in the shape of their mother’s dog Jigs pass through their bedroom wall and evaporate on the bed. The next morning, they write, their mother telephoned to say Jigs had died the night before, at what they call the exact time of the sighting, after being attacked by a bear.
Woman in white waving arms on an Arizona highway, then a crashed car
A caller phoning from Central City, Nebraska, says that in the mid-1970s they drove a tractor-trailer with their father, hauling produce from Florida to the West Coast. The caller reports that while driving through Arizona at night they twice saw what appeared to be a woman with long hair in a long white dress standing in their lane and waving her arms at them. Both times they stopped and found no one. The story ends with their father taking over the driving and coming upon an overturned car in the median, in which, the caller says, a woman in a wedding dress had broken her neck.
Mother sees an old woman in her armchair the night her mother died in Glasgow
[name withheld], calling from Greenfield Park, Quebec, recounts an event from their childhood in mid-1950s Alberta, where their Canadian-forces father was posted. [name withheld] says their mother, who had emigrated from Glasgow decades earlier and never returned, woke in the small hours and went downstairs. She reportedly saw an old woman sitting in her armchair in the living room. A search by their father found no one. The next morning, [name withheld] says, a telegram reported that their mother's mother had died in Glasgow the night before in a fire after a lightning strike.
Ouija board reportedly asks for caller on night their father died
A caller the host identifies as [name withheld], in Miami, Florida, describes going to a Halloween party at a fraternity house on a college campus. They say a Ouija board repeatedly asked for the caller. The next day, they say, their mother told them their father had died the night before, around the same time. The caller and the host later take the board’s contact to be their father.
A 2 a.m. feeling that something was wrong with their father, then a phone call
A caller tells Art Bell that when they were about 14 and their parents were separated, they woke around 2 a.m. with what they describe as a big explosion in their head. They told their mother something was wrong with their father. They say that about an hour later their mother got a phone call saying their father had been hit by a truck and killed. Art Bell offers condolences and says relatives often seem to know when something awful has happened.
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