Voices on recordings
Voices heard on tape or digital recordings, or through devices built to pick them up.
Small sample: these figures describe only these 8 stories.
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.
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.
Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that they worked as a custodian at a six-screen movie theater where one of the projectionists died of a heart attack. The caller says that a couple of days later employees were reporting flickering lights, slamming doors, and an ice machine “falling apart.” A system manager said they heard their name called. The caller says five workers left a tape recorder in an empty theater and later heard a chair spring up by itself on the recording. They then tracked faint music to the projection doorway. A projectionist said no such radio was in the projection room, which the caller calls the strangest part. The host then offers general remarks about spirits remaining where they died.
EVP saying “go home” recorded in a Niagara-on-the-Lake graveyard
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Niagara Falls, Canada, tells Art Bell that they, their boyfriend, and a friend went ghost hunting with digital recorders in a graveyard in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The caller says that as they were about to leave, the friend remarked about someone coming home with them. On playback in the car, they heard a voice say “go home” clearly on the recording. The caller says none of them spoke those words. The story ends there, with the host commenting on EVP rather than the caller reporting any further event.
Morse code reported coming from a microwave after the caller’s mother died
A caller the host calls “Alabama Annie” tells Art Bell that after their mother died the previous February, they took their mother’s childhood mirror and put it in front of a microwave. They then began hearing Morse code coming from the appliance. The caller says they taped what they could and still have the tapes. The caller says they could hear only one side of what seemed like an exchange, and partly decoded letters and numbers but no clear message. Art says he would like to hear the tapes and offers an ordinary possibility for the sounds.
Séance contact with a presence claiming to be John Dillinger
A caller from Monticello, Minnesota, who says they and a partner do semi-professional ghost work in the Twin Cities, describes a group gathering held about a year and a half earlier. It took place on the anniversary of John Dillinger's death. They say the group first invited whatever spirits wished to come, then called on Dillinger. Something claiming to be Dillinger answered questions aloud, through what they call psychic impressions, for roughly half an hour. They report that the tape of the first half of the evening recorded only room noise and conversation, while the tape of the Dillinger session went blank. Several people at the table believed the presence was lying about the fate of gang member Red Hamilton.
[name withheld] W. Meek’s Spiricom: Recorded claims of two-way communication with the dead
This part of the broadcast is not a caller’s story. It is a recorded documentary narration, presented by Art Bell as the voice of [name withheld] W. Meek, about Meek’s EVP and Spiricom research from 1971 onward. The narration reports contacts with deceased communicators called “[name withheld],” Dr. [name withheld], and [name withheld]. It gives dates, a claimed death certificate, and a social security number, and audio excerpts are played on air. The segment ends partway through the feature, as the host returns to describe the Spiricom Mark IV device.
Spiricom tape excerpts presented as communication with the late Dr. [name withheld]
In this part of the broadcast, Art Bell plays a supplied production about George W. Meek and a device the tape’s narrator calls Spiricom. The device is said to have produced two-way voice communication with a deceased man called Dr. [name withheld]. Excerpts described as coming from 1981 sessions are played. In them, [name withheld] is said to diagnose a fault in experimental video equipment and to speak about surgery and about his own death. Art Bell then stops the tape and says the schematics and documentation are posted on the show’s website. He thanks two people for passing the material on.