Voices and sounds with no source
Sounds with nothing there to make them.
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.
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.
Knocking doors and a bony-handed presence in a relative’s house near Sparta
[name withheld], calling from New York, New York, tells Art Bell about a night in the mid-1980s at their uncle’s and grandmother’s house in southern Greece, near Sparta. They report knocking and violently shaking doors. They then woke to what they call an entity on their back and bony hands holding them face-down. It ended when they screamed and pushed up. A cousin later implied he had a similar experience.
Childhood events in an Oregon City rental house: a hand in the bath and a laugh
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld] tells Art Bell about events in an old rented house in Oregon City, Oregon, where their family lived from about the time the caller was six until they were eleven. They describe lights switching on and off, strange sounds, chairs sliding, footsteps, and a feeling of being watched in the basement. Their parents dismissed all of it. The climax they describe is in the bathroom at about age eleven. They say they felt a hand stroking their neck and then felt snakes falling from the ceiling onto them, followed by a cackling laugh they call the most evil they have ever heard. They say they spoke to a priest about it. Art Bell ends the call because the show was short on time.
Bull-headed figure over a bed, a voice from a sleeping husband, and a trailer fire
The caller, [name withheld], from Cooley, Arizona, relays a story they say a friend told them about seven years earlier. The friend woke in bed beside their Native American husband and saw a bull's-head or demon-like form hanging over the bed. The friend heard a voice they could not understand coming from their husband's mouth. The story ends with the friend's trailer burning to the ground the next day. [name withheld] mentions a newspaper report of an electrical fire, a replacement trailer, and a witch doctor being brought to the property.
Woman in black, locked doors, and a priest's blessing in a Dodge City rental
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Sumner, Washington, describes a house their family moved into in Dodge City, Kansas, about fifteen years earlier. The caller reports flooding, a woman in a black dress seen by their daughter, doors that shut and locked family members in, whispering, a fetal-position stain on the carpet, and footsteps on the stairs. After researching records, the caller and their sister concluded that an elderly former resident was earthbound. A priest blessed the house and fell ill. The caller says they later blessed it themselves and believes the woman went to the light.
Ghost drums at a reenactor rendezvous at Fort Ouachita
[name withheld], calling from the Springfield, Missouri Ozarks, says they are a Cherokee historic reenactor. They describe an eleven-day rendezvous in 1994 at Fort Ouachita, Oklahoma, an old Confederate fort and cemetery. After most camps left on Sunday, the caller and their husband stayed overnight. The caller reports fear, birds screaming at midnight, ghost drums, waves of ghosts, dress jingles, a moved teepee door, and a fire that went out cold. The host closes with comments, and the story ends without resolution.
Paralysis and a presence lying on the caller in a former mortician’s house
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Atlanta, tells Art Bell that they live in what they call a haunted house, previously owned by someone they describe as a mortician. They report moving objects, noises, and mocking voices. They describe going to bed and feeling something creep up the bed and lie on them while they were unable to move or scream. Later they describe a sensation they call an attempt at sexual contact. They say the experience changed their life and that they now stay up at night until sunrise.
Letter on deaths and reported hauntings at the Penfield Place in Illinois
The host reads a letter attributed to [name withheld] in Rockford, Illinois. It recounts the history of a house in north-central Illinois that locals call the Penfield Place. The letter tells of a series of deaths, a bride's disappearance and the later discovery of her dismembered remains, and strange events reported by later tenants. It ends by describing the house as still standing, decaying and in ruins. No document or second witness is presented on air.
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.”
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.
Voices, a shadow figure, and gray figures near Waverly Hills Sanatorium, 1993
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Indianapolis, tells Art Bell that as a high-school senior in Kentucky in 1993 they took a jogging shortcut through the grounds of the abandoned Waverly Hills Sanatorium. The caller says they heard a chorus of voices that stopped when they told them to. The caller says they saw a black, shadow-like figure with red eyes in a shed window. They met a bearded man with a Rottweiler who vanished after telling them not to look back. Then they saw more than a hundred gray figures in a field. The caller says they ran to school and that nobody believed them until they later learned the site was said to be haunted.
227 more stories
- Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah9 min
- Reported poltergeist activity at the Provincetown Inn, Cape Cod4 min
- Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house6 min
- Ouija board session and a phone voice saying “You shall”2 min
- Deceased brother said to return each year on the caller’s birthday3 min
- Deceased girlfriend reported in a mirror and a window at a Halloween party3 min
- Recurring footsteps on a deck and a hammer thrown in a workshop1 min
- Metallic sounds, a figure by the partition, and a moving bed in a Taiwan apartment2 min
- Caller relates Yeats's poem “The Ghost of Roger Casement” and Irish neutrality1 min
- A former priest blesses the house of a dead radio singer3 min
- Chains, a plea for peace, and grave markers in a Logan County field2 min
- Disturbances in a rented upstairs apartment above an old store5 min
- Figure in hallway and crying girl in 1800s dress2 min
- Childhood home in Granite City, Illinois, with flying plates and slamming doors4 min
- A girl's laughter and a slamming door in a rented trailer in Cookville, Tennessee2 min
- A grandfather's voice and a dream of grandparents before deaths1 min
- Caller reports thirty-six years of shadows, moving doors, and lamps in a house tied to fires3 min
- Girlfriend reports sleeping caller conversing with a woman and boy3 min
- Voices upstairs in a new Missouri house, linked by the caller to an unearthed teacup4 min
- A sister reports a face at her second-floor window34 s
- House spirit, a child's great-grandfather, and keys turning in the lock3 min
- Invisible rocking chair heard by a blind woman at a YWCA2 min
- Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open5 min
- Widow reports late husband massaging her feet and putting her to sleep1 min
- Air Force captain's ghost at a gate shack after a B-52 crash2 min
- Letter about footsteps and knocking after a grandmother's funeral2 min
- Unseen running and a fall heard in an Illinois apartment hallway2 min
- Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death3 min
- A reported ghost dog in an old Bothell, Washington, apartment1 min
- Refusing a cave after a strange sound; a body reported found there4 min
- Footsteps on the roof while the caller's husband was at his shop3 min
- Disorientation, a dry river crossing, and a chair-shaped rock in the Wind River Range4 min
- Red eyes in the woods across from a rural Louisiana house3 min
- Caller describes a man convulsing and speaking in multiple voices in an apartment5 min
- Two gray-skinned figures in a hospital corridor thrift store4 min
- Ghost sailor reported aboard the icebreaker Glacier2 min
- A voice calling the caller's name on a night shift at a Lake Stevens plant53 s
- Hands on the shoulder and a voice in a karaoke bar4 min
- Phantom fire in a converted railway station restaurant2 min
- Classical music in a 1949 Ford that had no radio2 min
- Coast Guard member reports glowing three-masted ships in the Gulf of Mexico4 min
- Cyclist reports seeing their dead riding partner on the road at night2 min
- Covers that would not come off and a scream in the ear at 3:30 a.m.3 min
- Rocking chair and voices in an 1880s Ashland rental house5 min
- Horses, war cries, and an arrowhead in a tree near Pipestone, Minnesota3 min
- A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home4 min
- Rented Ohio mining-town house: footsteps, greyhounds, and a man at the door3 min
- Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house5 min
- Unexplained knocking on a signal-shack hatch aboard a Navy oiler4 min
- Caller relays aunt’s story of a goat-like figure and hoof prints in an Ohio cellar4 min
- Vibrating vase and mirror, and a shattering glass in a mid-1970s house5 min
- Daughter’s invisible friend Daggett and a cold chair in a Kansas City-area house3 min
- A voice named Harry and charred lumber in a Washington cabin5 min
- Ouija board session in a box canyon and a spirit speaking through a participant4 min
- Letter about Scrabble tiles rearranged overnight and a stereo changing channels2 min
- Dolls moved overnight in an antique shop in a former Kansas City orphanage4 min
- Presences and voices reported at World War II monuments in southern Okinawa2 min
- Falling darts and indoor thunder in a Hanford, California house3 min
- Lights, ringing phones, and footsteps at a southern Idaho radio station3 min
- Voice says “Get out” in a bathroom at a housewarming party2 min
- Footsteps and a felt presence on a gravel path at Custer Battlefield3 min
- Loud crash on the host’s radio room door during a broadcast break4 min
- Cold spots, footsteps, and a bang in an attic at a friend’s house in Oswego2 min
- Loud bang on the host's studio door during a broadcast1 min
- A bell heard in the car and a puff of air in the shower after a boyfriend's death4 min
- Dark cloud and disturbances at a remote lakeside recording studio in Oklahoma3 min
- Voice and sudden cold in a bedroom after a caller asked for a devil's deal3 min
- Phantom hoofbeats on a gravel driveway at 10 p.m.1 min
- Unplugged CD player repeating one song after a friend’s death3 min
- Footsteps from the basement, a shotgun and knives moved in a childhood home4 min
- Letter: Discarded stuffed Ewok and scratching sounds from a bedroom closet1 min
- Revolving sound, buckling walls, and oozing moisture in a Clayton, Victoria, home3 min
- Fax: Root beer carried down stairs by itself at a 40-day memorial gathering1 min
- Host reports loud pounding on his studio door during a broadcast3 min
- A burned radio plays inside a sealed footlocker after a caller asks for a sign7 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
- Vancouver house with reported voodoo history and a priest who would not enter6 min
- Featureless black figure reported at a roller hockey rink2 min
- Labored breathing, darkness, and pressure in a master bedroom in McKeesport4 min
- Moved tables and wheelchairs in an American Legion hall in Bremerton3 min
- Voice in the kitchen, a loosened bulb, and a face in a burnt furnace3 min
- Daytime sleep paralysis, a woman speaking in a man's voice, and nails in the head5 min
- Usher figure falls from the balcony of the Capitol Theater, Flint4 min
- Host rejects bedside-ghost stories and recalls a loud bang on his door1 min
- Transparent figure rocking upstairs in an old Hawaiian plantation home4 min
- Students re-enact a Civil War battle in a campus auditorium said to be haunted10 min
- Missing items and a refilled coffee cup in a former funeral home in Providence3 min
- Late mother-in-law appears in her former bedroom; a footprint in the carpet8 min
- Unplugged television explodes in a basement gathering; a dark man reappears4 min
- Rummaging sounds and a hair pull in USS Enterprise switchgear rooms6 min
- Knocking, pulled covers, and a figure in 1920s dress on a hotel's fifth floor3 min
- Voice in a bathroom attributed to Russ Colombo at Rosemary Clooney's house1 min
- Humming voice and a namesake tombstone in Covington, Georgia3 min
- Father hears lamp pull-chains jingle and a moan in his ear, 19614 min
- Flying boxes, voices behind a bolted hatch, and a spinning compass at sea6 min
- Natchez burial lore and reported noises in a New Orleans East subdivision3 min
- House lights, pounding, and a whispered encouragement in a junior high theater5 min
- 1840 Underground Railroad house: a ball slides to a child and a door latch moves5 min
- Host retells a listener’s account of voices audible only at one moving spot3 min
- Silhouette with red eyes in a South Dakota basement5 min
- A figure in period flying gear in the cockpit of a parked F-4 at an Air Force hangar3 min
- Shadowy figure at the door of a Nebraska church parsonage bedroom3 min
- Lights, a door, and voices in a boarded-up plantation house outside New Orleans6 min
- Police officer recalls a dog-headed figure entering their childhood bedroom3 min
- Footsteps on the stairs and a cold, angry presence in a Colorado Springs house2 min
- Windows, doors, lights, and pounding in a previous house15 s
- Host recalls a loud boom on his studio door with nothing outside2 min
- Whistling to call ghosts at Spouting Horn, Kauai; a cousin held down6 min
- Child’s night visitor “[name withheld]” matched to a gravestone and a photograph5 min
- Caller reports a Pan Am flying boat appearing alongside their Cessna near Ukiah5 min
- Drumming heard for weeks in an old Kansas house said to stand on a burial ground2 min
- Attic noises and a presence in a family’s Victorian house4 min
- Knocking doors and a shadow figure in an Alaska church residence6 min
- Man in a hat seen at window and bedside in a Nebraska rental house7 min
- Wailing in two bivouacked rooms in bombed Aachen, 19452 min
- Disappearing objects and a front door that opened by itself in an old house6 min
- An oval clock found across the room in a Chicago apartment4 min
- Bed trembling, a whispered name, and shadows after a grandmother’s death6 min
- A voice singing along with Beatles records in an empty living room2 min
- A sliding couch and a giant hand reported in a childhood home in Oregon4 min
- Two figures seen through sheer curtains at an old roadhouse near Prescott, Arizona3 min
- Letter: A father hears a moan at the time of his mother-in-law's death2 min
- Invisible two-legged walker and hoof prints in snow, Palmer, Alaska, 19713 min
- Blind caller guided by a mortician with no arm in his suit7 min
- Attic thumps and old glass negatives in a Hyde Park house4 min
- Chain-dragging clanks overhead in the attic of the caller's parents' house1 min
- Reported music, elevator doors, and a rooftop push in a Saskatoon hotel building6 min
- A voice saying “only fools pay” in a 7-Eleven2 min
- Retired officer hears thumping in empty condo above where a man died4 min
- Noises of a file cabinet being ransacked below a Plymouth, New Hampshire apartment2 min
- Banging, moved objects, and a statue’s eyes at an abandoned courthouse10 min
- Laughing in the basement, a woman in white, and shadow figures in a family home6 min
- Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice4 min
- Footsteps and wet footprints in a Route 66 service station2 min
- Unseen runner and a struck fence at an abandoned slaughterhouse4 min
- Orbs, a freight-train rumble, and a shadow orb in a former chicken coop5 min
- Gray figure and male scream in a rented Union, Missouri house4 min
- Handcuff marks, “help” in frost, and a light orb at a Phantom Lake house3 min
- Haunted family house in Lorain, Ohio: Slapping, shadows, and something on the bed4 min
- A door, a figure on a cross, and footsteps in a rented 110-year-old house in Paw Paw, Michigan6 min
- Screaming, shaking, and red eyes at an Alabama plantation slave cabin4 min
- Deceased truck driver reportedly visits a Colorado ranch and leaves Pepsi cans4 min
- Figure in an old Portland house points to the door and says “get out of my house”3 min
- A voice calling the caller’s name and a mismatched phone alarm3 min
- Music box sounds at close range and a smashed attic door in a house-sitting stay2 min
- Out-of-body experience and light while drowning at Jones Beach5 min
- Fireplace doors, an orb, and moaning in a Branson-area bed and breakfast4 min
- Voices, a child's closet figure, and shadows seen in a Pahrump single-wide2 min
- Voices in the basement and a touch in the shower of a rental home3 min
- Friend hears crying through a bathroom wall; neighbor found dead3 min
- Body in the surf at Galveston and a figure who named himself [name withheld]12 min
- Lady in Red: a patient’s sighting on a naval hospital psychiatric ward6 min
- Poltergeist activity in a shared Fargo house and a butcher knife in bed4 min
- Pounding on doors and a cold sensation at a friend’s new Houston house7 min
- Caller reports kitchen door and brother’s voice four hours after his death5 min
- Voices and a name called at the back gate of a Hawaii Marine base3 min
- A rented house on the Outer Banks and lights on a nearby dune5 min
- Dream-guided trip, two figures in black, and a black net in a valley8 min
- A paper Ouija board, a spirit called Tommy, and wall scratches6 min
- Police officers report a child's laughter from the woods of a private estate5 min
- A 10- to 12-foot shadow with red eyes on a marsh shortcut in Freeport, New York7 min
- Children’s laughter in a church camp shower at dawn2 min
- Children’s laughter heard in a shower at a church camp1 min
- Tucson house after a 1977 murder-suicide: Alarm, child voices, cold room8 min
- Voices and a light on an abandoned hospital floor3 min
- Deceased mother appears healthy in the kitchen and says not to worry5 min
- Smoke-like ghosts and an aggressive figure in a Fulton, Missouri, home8 min
- A truck pushed at San Antonio train tracks and children’s crying3 min
- A white cat and unseen footsteps at Charleville Castle, Ireland7 min
- A voice calling a child's name in her bedroom, c. 19595 min
- Invisible force pulls caller by the arm at their grandmother's doorway5 min
- Trucker hears a voice, glimpses a girl in white, and finds a wet seat near Pacheco Pass3 min
- Sleep paralysis, a dream of a grandfather, and a voice heard through the caller3 min
- Sounds, a voice, and a horned face in a school dormitory room at night4 min
- Letter: Ceiling noises, a weeping ghost, and bones found in an attic5 min
- Circuit breakers flipped off in a farmhouse basement5 min
- Letter: A child hears a pleading girl in a window eight blocks from home2 min
- Out-of-body story from a father during a stroke in a Brampton house3 min
- A deceased neighbor's chest stored in a boy's bedroom—Part 12 min
- A boy, a woman's hope chest, and a furious figure above the bed4 min
- Woman in black knocking on a window from inside a Chicago house, 19824 min
- Cemetery guard hears casual voices in an empty back office1 min
- Newspaper carrier reports a translucent man pumping water that never overflows4 min
- Figure leaning over a bed in a Calgary apartment; activity ends after a note3 min
- Trucker reports girl they held at a crash later appearing in their cab3 min
- Old man walks through a cabin door and makes tea while a witness cannot get up9 min
- Footsteps of “Footie Pajamas” and a depressed bed at a Mayport military home3 min
- Red glowing figure playing a child's organ at home5 min
- Cemetery legend: a grave said to answer “nothing at all” at midnight2 min
- Civil War figures reenact a bayonet killing in an aunt's basement3 min
- Dark figure beckoning from under a kitchen table in Bishop, California2 min
- Ouija board threat, a voice in the ear, and a man in the passenger seat4 min
- Narcotics detective reports a dead man standing over his own body36 s
- Newborn revives and grandmothers appear in a hospital window reflection4 min
- EVP saying “go home” recorded in a Niagara-on-the-Lake graveyard2 min
- Chest pressure and a scream saying “save me” in bed after moving to Washington State3 min
- Funeral home worker reports a conversation with a cryonics patient in transit7 min
- A toilet torn from the floor and thrown down the stairs of a vacant farmhouse3 min
- Voices from the basement and footsteps on the stairs in a rented Atlanta room3 min
- Bright light, chimes, and a floating paper in their late uncle’s handwriting3 min
- Letter: Crying child and a locked room in a Victorian university office3 min
- Dead uncle seen in boys’ bedroom on the day he had promised to visit4 min
- Callback: A dead uncle’s footsteps and a father seen in a shared dream2 min
- Caller says they are possessed by three named ghosts they summoned2 min
- Ham radio contacts attributed to a deceased operator3 min
- Retired guard’s story of Ted Bundy’s ghost in the Florida electric chair2 min
- Voice telling a caller to leave a room in a London cathedral5 min
- Tall shadow figure in woods linked by caller to neighbors’ candles4 min
- Deceased friend’s voice warns a caller about a new boyfriend3 min
- Deceased mother and two aunts appear in a motel room; hairstyle later matches funeral home styling4 min
- Family account of shut cemetery gates and robed figures at Saint James2 min
- Noises and cold chills in an old house in Chattanooga (part 1)1 min
- House-wide music heard twice in one day, once confirmed over the phone2 min
- A voice tells a woman to play a record after her sister’s fatal car crash4 min
- Whistling, flying knives and a figure in a TV reflection in an 1860s Stillwater house4 min
- Haunted house bought in Ohio: closet racket, knocks on a bedroom door, a bouncing cat cage, and growling6 min
- Secondhand story: Security guard hears a child laughing at a mansion alarm panel4 min
- A radio station at 666 Main Street, Deadwood, and a ghost called Doc Smiley4 min
- Recurring evening thump at the door and a cat watching something in the room2 min
- Rented split-entry house: orbs, mist, whispers and a white figure on the stairs5 min
- Footsteps and grunting in an abandoned 1920s building in Lake Elsinore6 min
- Slow, heavy footsteps in a dark Phoenix hallway, heard by two people4 min
- Weights restacked in a lighthouse exercise room5 min