Strange photos and video
Figures, faces, or lights in photos or video.
Entity attacks on a child in a late-1800s house in Needles, California
A first-time caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about what they call an “entity attack” that began when they were about four years old, in a family house in Needles, California. He reports a presence coming through the wall at night, grabbing and dragging them, and family-wide problems with furniture moving. In a final incident, their father was trapped in the basement under a chest freezer. They say the family moved out about two weeks after that, and that they still sleep with their head under the covers.
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.
Six nights in an abandoned rural house: Odors, Ouija board, and footsteps
A caller who says they are a county fraud investigator tells Art Bell they spent six nights with their girlfriend and her daughter in an unoccupied house about 25 miles up a dirt road in Northern California. Local people had told them it was haunted. They report a rotting-flesh smell, cold spots, a chair that flew back and injured the girlfriend’s knee, a door handle turning, footsteps and a slammed door upstairs, a child’s “help me” captured on a tape recorder, and orbs in several hundred photographs. The call ends with the host asking for the caller’s e-mail and website link.
Man in a hat seen at window and bedside in a Nebraska rental house
Caller [name withheld], calling from Bellevue, Nebraska, describes roughly fifteen years of activity at a rental property they and their wife bought about twenty-two years before the broadcast. They report their two young sons describing an old man with a hat looking through their window, and their wife seeing a silhouette over her bed. Doors and electronics operated by themselves. Eventually the caller saw a man in a hat walk past them in the basement bedroom. They say a deputy sheriff’s inquiry and a client’s photograph linked the figure to a man killed by a semi in the abandoned house across the street. They say the disturbances ended after the city demolished that house.
Orbs, a freight-train rumble, and a shadow orb in a former chicken coop
A caller in northern New Mexico tells Art Bell that their house has had activity since they moved in two years ago. They say the government built it in the 1950s as a chicken coop. They report hundreds of orbs in developed photographs about a year ago. They also report a freight-train-like rumble that shook windows and upset their dogs that evening, and a “shadow orb” that flew at their face while they were reading in bed the previous night. The host interrupts the caller before they finish another story, about feeling something like a cat on their bed.
A shove on a dark street and a figure in a photograph, Louisville
A caller the host calls [name withheld], calling from New Mexico, tells of a ghost tour in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Halloween weekend 2011. While lingering to photograph the Brennan House, the caller says they were shoved hard in the left shoulder with nobody in the street. The next morning, a photograph taken of the caller is said to show streaking lights and the face of a man above their head. The story ends with the photograph and the host's closing remarks before a break.
A white cat and unseen footsteps at Charleville Castle, Ireland
[name withheld], calling from Traverse City, Michigan, tells Art Bell about a visit the caller and their wife made to Charleville Castle in Ireland. They slipped away from a wedding party and wandered into the dungeon. There they heard construction noises and footsteps with no apparent source while a white cat followed them. About 6 p.m. on a Friday they left as the only car in the lot. On a return trip in September 2005, the castle’s owner reportedly told them the white cat had been dead since 2001. The caller says that a year later they saw two ghostly cat figures and orbs in their digital photographs.
A mist and a figure in a hat photographed while praying over an elderly man
An unidentified caller says that after caring for an elderly man in his 80s, described as a retired colonel, they saw his moods darken and his voice change into blasphemy and abuse. The caller and a friend wondered whether he was possessed. While the caller recited a Bible passage over him, a gentleman at the house took instant-developing photographs. The caller reports that they show a grayish-white mist and the outline of a man in a hat with a cape. The caller says the mist later sank into the floor and disappeared, and the man never troubled them again. The caller says they still have one of the photographs, and Art asks the caller to send a copy.
A photograph, a lamp, and a grinning reflection on a dark TV screen
A caller from New Orleans tells Art Bell a story they connect to Marie Laveau. The caller found and hung a photograph of a woman who played Marie Laveau. They then report seeing a mad, grinning face reflected on their dark TV screen on two nights. Moving the picture made it stop. The host suggests a distorted reflection.
Letter describing a spirit beckoning in a cemetery and a photograph
Art Bell reads a letter from an unnamed listener who says they are a student of religious demonology and photographs spirits in cemeteries. The writer says they followed a spirit they sensed telepathically to a freshly dug grave, took photographs, and sent one photograph to Art. The letter ends with a request to check Art’s website for the image.
Letter about a stone mason's photograph in an old L.A. home's wine cellar
Reading from a listener's letter on air, Art Bell presents a photograph said to have been taken by the letter writer's friend, a stone mason, while finishing a wine cellar in the basement of an old Los Angeles home. The letter says something appeared on the developed picture even though the mason saw nothing at the time. It also passes on the architect's story of work crews leaving the job after cold air and a push down the stairs. This part of the broadcast does not describe what the photograph actually shows.
Host describes a listener's photograph of a uniformed figure in a hospital mirror
In this part of the broadcast, the host (Art Bell) describes a photograph he says a listener named [name withheld] sent him and that he has posted on the show's website. According to the host, the picture was taken in an ICU room in a Colorado hospital by a nurse testing a new camera's flash, with nobody else in the room. A mirror in the frame appears to show a figure in what he takes to be an old uniform, [quote withheld] He says he found nothing bogus in the image and thanks [name withheld]. No caller speaks about the photograph in this part of the broadcast.