Voices
Speech, whispers, a name being called, crying, or laughter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Footsteps, a shadow at noon, and a voice saying “your brother” in an Alameda house
A caller from Alameda, California, tells Art Bell that she and her five children were hearing slamming doors, footsteps, and other disturbances in a large old house. She says each of them had kept it from the others. She reports a shadow that appeared in daylight, an unsuccessful first appeal to a priest, and a house blessing. Finally, she says, a voice said “your brother.” She then learned her brother had died about two months earlier.
Caller describes a man convulsing and speaking in multiple voices in an apartment
[name withheld], calling from Denver, tells Art Bell that a man they met asked them to check whether the man's wife had been married before. After [name withheld] gave him the information, the man reportedly came over crying. He then went into a rage, convulsed, appeared to stop breathing, and spoke in multiple voices before emergency services took him to the ER. The caller later says the man told them that two priests in a French orphanage had told him he was possessed.
Wood-chopping sound and floating shadow at a ranch house
A caller from Kelso, Montana, tells Art Bell about a night several years earlier when the caller and a girlfriend were alone in a large old ranch house. The caller reports hearing a wood-chopping sound outside, then seeing a tall dark shadow float across a propane tank toward them. The next day they found chopped wood scattered around the yard. The caller also reports hearing their mother's voice call them inside the house when no one was there. They say they think the home's earlier large family “were still there.”
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- Gateway Gazette article read on air: The lady in red at the Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah9 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
- Chains, a plea for peace, and grave markers in a Logan County field2 min
- Figure in hallway and crying girl in 1800s dress2 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
- Mobile home on the Barlow Trail: missing objects, faint figures, and a door that flew open5 min
- Air Force captain's ghost at a gate shack after a B-52 crash2 min
- Flickering lights, a name called, and faint music at a movie theater after a projectionist's death3 min
- Red eyes in the woods across from a rural Louisiana house3 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
- 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
- A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home4 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
- 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
- Voice says “Get out” in a bathroom at a housewarming party2 min
- Voice and sudden cold in a bedroom after a caller asked for a devil's deal3 min
- Stolen skull, flames, and a smoke image in a mirror in a Fort Lauderdale apartment6 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
- 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
- Unplugged television explodes in a basement gathering; a dark man reappears4 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
- 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
- Lights, a door, and voices in a boarded-up plantation house outside New Orleans6 min
- A voice saying “only fools pay” in a 7-Eleven2 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
- 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 voice calling the caller’s name and a mismatched phone alarm3 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 voice calling a child's name in her bedroom, c. 19595 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
- Letter: A child hears a pleading girl in a window eight blocks from home2 min
- A boy, a woman's hope chest, and a furious figure above the bed4 min
- Cemetery guard hears casual voices in an empty back office1 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
- 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
- Voices from the basement and footsteps on the stairs in a rented Atlanta room3 min
- Letter: Crying child and a locked room in a Victorian university office3 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
- 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
- A voice tells a woman to play a record after her sister’s fatal car crash4 min