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There's something uniquely unsettling about a phone ringing in the
middle of the night. Most of us know that feeling.
Instantly you wake up, you're half asleep, the room's dark,
the clock glows beside your bed, and somewhere nearby, the
phone starts ringing through the silence. Your stomach tightens instantly,
your pulse jumps, because deep down, most of us already
believe there's only one reason a phone rings at that hour,
something is wrong. And then you answer it, only to
be greeted by an impossible voice. On this episode, we're
diving into ghost phone calls, phantom voices, and the chilling
possibility that communication may not end with the physical body.
Stories of disconnected numbers calling back, voicemails left by people
who had already passed, emergency dispatchers receiving calls from from
places where nobody could have called, and witnesses who still
cannot explain the conversations they had with the dead whatever
this is, Something is happening that defies understanding and seems
to give us a glimpse into another layer of reality completely.
A lot of paranormal encounters happen in isolated places, in
the deep woods, old houses, abandoned roads, places where people
expect something strange to happen. But these stories are quite
a bit different. They happen in kitchens, in bedrooms, inside
park cars, at work, in the middle of completely ordinary moments.
Our phones are personal. They carry our conversations and our memories,
our photos, our last messages from people we love the
most most of us keep them within arm's reach almost
every hour of the day, and when something strange comes
through that line, it is suddenly happening inside of somebody's
everyday life. They seemed to occur in life's ordinary moments,
and reports of these encounters go back far longer than
most people realize. Long before smartphones, before taxting, before caller ID,
there were already stories about mysterious voices coming through the
telephone lines, people reporting calls from relatives who had just died,
operators hearing strange conversations on disconnected lines, and families receiving
calls from empty and abandoned houses. In some cases, the
voices sound distant and buried beneath static, and in others
they sounded perfectly normal. One of the earliest patterns people
began reporting involving phone calls arriving shortly after somebody had died.
Sometimes the calls came within hours, sometimes days later, and
in many of these cases, the person answering the phone
had no idea the caller was already gone. Witnesses described
the conversation starting completely normally, a familiar voice asking simple
questions or speaking the same way that they had always
spoken in life, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, even close friends.
Some of the calls were reportedly very short, ending almost
as suddenly as they began, and others lasted several minutes
before the line filled with static or disconnected completely. And
what stayed with many of the witnesses afterwards wasn't necessarily fear,
but confusion. Several people later said the voice sounded clear
and completely natural, as though they had simply been speaking
to someone still alive. A woman named Judy Guggenheim later
shared one of the more well known encounters connected to
this phenomena. After the sudden death of her husband, Wess.
According to her account, Wess had died unexpectedly from an
heart attack while he was traveling. In the days that followed,
Judy described herself as emotionally overwhelmed and absolutely struggling to
process the shock of losing him so suddenly. Then one evening,
the phone rang. When she answered it, she claimed she
heard her husband's voice on the other end of the line.
She later said the voice sounded completely clear and normal,
as though she were simply having another conversation with him.
The conversation itself was reportedly brief and calm. According to Judy,
West told her he loved her and that he was
all right before the line disconnected. At first, she questioned
whether the experience could have been tied to grief or
emotional exhaustion, but over time she became convinced the call
had been genuine, and encounters like hers may be less
rare than most people realize. Not every call came as
a goodbye. Some arrived later after the funeral was over
and the house had already started to feel normal again,
and described receiving repeated late night calls from her grandmother's
old phone number nearly a year after her death, At
first she ignored them, assuming it had to be some
kind of technical glitch or maybe the numb had been reassigned.
But the calls kept coming, and eventually she answered. For
several seconds, there was only heavy static on the line.
Then beneath it, she heard what sounded like her grandmother
softly saying her name. A moment later, the static swallowed
the voice completely and the line went silent. As strange
as those encounters are, some of the more unsettling reports
involved having entire conversations with someone they did not yet
realize was dead. One of the better known examples came
from a man who later described speaking with a close
friend over the phone one evening after work. According to
his account, nothing about the call seemed unusual at the time.
They talked casually for several minutes about everyday things, before
saying goodbye and eventually hanging up. It was only later
that night when he learned his friend had died earlier
that same day. At the time, most witnesses said the
conversations felt completely normal. It was only afterwards, once they
learned the person that had already died that the experience
became difficult to explain. Stories like that appear in paranormal
literature going back decades, and what stands out in many
of the accounts is how ordinary the conversation seemed while
they were happening. In some encounters, the phone calls reportedly
carried information the witness had no way of knowing at
the time. One woman described receiving a phone call from
her brother late one night while he was traveling out
of state. According to her account, the conversation itself was
short and strangely emotional. She said her brother sounded tired
and distracted, but repeatedly told her that he wanted her
to know he loved her. At one point during the call,
she reportedly asked if everything was all right. There was
a pause, and then he quietly told her that he
did not think he was going to make it home.
The line disconnected shortly afterward. By the following morning, the
family had learned he had died in a highway accident
just prior to the time the call had reportedly taken place.
In another account, a man described saving an old voicemail
from his father after he had passed away unexpectedly. According
to his account, he could never bring himself to delete it.
From time to time, he would just replay the message
just to hear his father's voice once again. For months,
the voicemail reportedly remained exactly the same. Then one night,
something changed. When he played the message again, he claimed
there was additional audio beneath the original recording. He described
hearing a low burst of static, followed by what sounded
like his father quietly saying his name a second time
near the end of the message. This shook him up,
so he replayed it repeatedly, trying to understand what he
had heard, But according to his account, the extra voice
was never heard on the voicemail again afterward. Another account
circulated for years that involved a man who claimed he
received a phone call from his brother after his brother
had died in a construction accident. According to the claim,
the call came late at night while he was alone
at home. He answered and immediately recognized his brother's voice.
He said the connection sounded unusually clear, which made the
conversation feel even more normal at first. During the call,
his brother reportedly apologized for things left unresolved between them
and told him to take care of their mother. The
conversation lasted less than a minute, then the line filled
with static and before the call disconnected completely. The witness
claimed he heard what sounded like his brother quietly saying
goodbye one final time. The following morning, he reportedly learned
about the accident that killed his brother and had found
it happened before the phone call actually took place. Telluphone
operator described an experience that stayed with her for the
entire rest of her life. According to her account, she
had been working a late overnight shift when she overheard
what sounded like a woman crying on one of the
lines moving through the switchboard system. At first, she assumed
someone had accidentally just remained connected after a call, but
when she listened more carefully, she realized the woman seemed
to be repeating the same sentence over and over again.
The operator claimed the voice sounded terrified, and according to
her accounts, the woman kept saying, please, please help me,
He's coming back, and then the line suddenly went silent.
Disturbed by the call, the operator reportedly tried tracing the
connection through the system, only to discover that that line
was no longer active. As telephone systems became more advanced
through the twentieth century, stories involving disconnected lines and impossible
calls only seemed to become more common. In one account
that circulated among teleph home workers for years, a technician
reportedly received repeated maintenance complaints connected to a rural line
that should no longer have existed. According to the story,
the home attached to the number had been abandoned after
a fatal house fire several years earlier. Service to the
property had supposedly been disconnected not long afterward, but complaints
about strange activity on the line continued. The technician claimed
that while testing the connection, he suddenly heard what sounded
like faint conversation moving beneath heavy static. At first, he
assumed cross signals from another line were bleeding into the connection,
but then he heard a woman crying. According to the account,
the voice sounded weak and distant, as though she were
speaking from very far away. He reportedly asked several times
if anyone was there. For a few two seconds, there
was only the static, and then the woman quietly replied,
please don't leave me here. The line went dead immediately afterward.
One retired emergency dispatcher described a call she claimed she
never forgot even decades after it happened. According to her account,
the call came in a little after two in the
morning from a rural area outside of town. The connection
was poor from the very beginning, filled with static and
broken audio, but she could hear what sounded like a
young woman crying. At first, the dispatcher assumed she was
dealing with a domestic violence situation or somebody stranded somewhere
without help. She repeatedly asked the caller to identify her location.
For several seconds, there was no response except heavy moving
across the line. Then the woman quietly gave an address.
The dispatcher said the moment she heard it, something felt
wrong because she recognized that location immediately. According to her account,
the house had been destroyed in a fire years earlier,
and the young woman believed to have died inside, had
never been found. Still, officers were sent to the property,
and when they arrived, they reportedly found nothing except the
burned remains of the old foundation, sitting alone in the dark.
There were no lights, no vehicles, and no indication that
anyone had been there at all. One police officer shared
an account involving repeated nine one one hang up calls
connected to an abandoned farmhouse outside a small Midwestern town.
According to the story, Dispatch had been receiving calls from
the property on and off over several weeks. Every time
someone answered, there was either silence or just heavy static
before the line disconnected. At first, officers assumed local teenagers
must be responsible, but the calls continued. Late one night,
the officer and his partner were sent back out to
the property after another nine one one call came through
from the same location. He described the farmhouse as completely
dark when they arrived, with most of the windows broken
out in the front poor beginning to collapse inward from
years of neglect. As they searched the property, the officer
reportedly heard what sounded like movement from somewhere inside the house,
and then a woman screamed. According to his account, the
scream sounded close enough that he immediately believed someone inside
the farmhouse was injured. The two officers rushed through the house,
searching room by room, but reportedly found nothing inside that
could explain the scream that they had both heard. When
they returned to their patrol vehicle a few minutes later,
dispatch informed them that another nine to one one call
had just come in from the farmhouse while they were
still inside searching it. One man described an experience involving
an old cell phone that had belonged to his wife
after she passed away from all long illness. According to
his account, he had kept the phone stored in a
bedroom drawer for nearly a year after her death because
he just couldn't bring himself to cancel the service or
to get rid of it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Then one night, the phone rang. At first, he thought
the sound had to be coming from somewhere else in
their house, but when he opened the drawer, he realized
the ring tone was coming from his wife's phone. The
screen reportedly showed no caller ID. He hesitated for several
seconds before finally answering it. At first, there was only silence,
and then he claimed he heard what sounded like faint
breathing on the other end of the line. According to
his account, he quietly said his wife's name several times,
asking who's there. For a moment, there was no response,
and then he heard what sounded like a woman softly
saying I miss you. The line disconnected immediately afterwards. The
man claimed he tried calling the number back repeatedly, but
each attempt returned an automated message stating the number was
no longer in service. One nurse shared an accounts that
reportedly took place during an overnight shift at a long
term care facility. According to her story, one of the
elderly patients under her care had passed away earlier that
evening after several days in declining health. Well not long afterward,
the nurse stepped into a small staff office to begin
updating paperwork connected with the death. As she sat working
at the desk, the office phone rang. She answered it,
expecting another staff member or possibly the front desk. Instead,
she claimed she heard the recently deceased patience speaking on
the other end of the line. At first, she reportedly froze,
unable to respond. According to her account, the woman's voice
sounded calm and clear as she quietly thanked the nurse
for taking care of her during her final days. The
nurse said the conversation lasted only a few seconds before
the line filled with static and eventually disconnected. Shaken, she
reportedly checked with the front desk moments later to find
out where the call had originated. Nobody could find any
record that a call had been transferred into the office
at all. One man described an encounter that reportedly began
with a missed call showing up on his cell phone
late one night after returning home from his father's funeral.
At first, he ignored it, but when he checked the
number a few minutes later, he realized the call appeared
to have come from his father's old cell phone, which
had supposedly been turned off and left in a drawer
at his parents house after the funeral earlier that day. Shaken,
he reportedly called the number back almost immediately to his surprise,
someone answered. According to his account, the connection was weak
and buried beneath heavy static, but he claimed he could
hear what sounded like his father speaking faintly on the
other end of the line, and at first he couldn't
make out the words very clearly, and then he heard
his father quietly say I'm still here. A few seconds later,
the connection dissolved completely into static before the call disconnected.
One woman shared an experience involving a voicemail that reportedly
arrived several hours after her grandfather's death. According to her account,
the family had spent most of the evening gathered together
after learning he had passed away peacefully in hospice care
earlier that afternoon. Some time after midnight, her cell phone
alerted her that she had received a new voicemail. At first,
she assumed it had to be a delayed message finally
coming through from earlier in the day, but when she
played it back, she claimed she heard her grandfather's voice
quietly saying good night to her. The message reportedly only
lasted a few seconds before finally dissolving into heavy static shaken.
She replayed it for several other family members, all of
whom reportedly identified the voice as belonging to her grandfather.
According to her account, the voicemail later disappeared from her
phone entirely before she could save a copy of it.
One emergency dispatcher described a call that reportedly came in
just after midnight from an elderly woman whispering that someone
was inside her house. According to the account, the caller
sounded frightened and out of breath, speaking so quietly at
times that dispatcher struggled to hear her clearly over the connection.
The woman repeatedly told the dispatcher that she believed someone
was moving through the house.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: At one point, the dispatcher asked whether she could safely
get outside, The woman reportedly answered no, She claimed she
was hiding in a bedroom and could hear footsteps somewhere
else in the home. Officers were immediately sent to the
address while the dispatcher remained on the line with her. Then,
without warning, the call disconnected. According to the story, officers
arrived within minutes and found the house completely dark, with
windows still locked and no vehicles anywhere outside. After searching
the home, they reportedly found no sign that anyone had
been inside at all. What they did discover was that
the elderly woman who had once lived there had died
several months earlier, and the phone service to the house
had supposedly been disconnected not long after the property was emptied.
The dispatcher claimed the nine one one system still showed
the emergency call originating from that address. One woman described
receiving a call from her mother's house several months after
her mother had passed away. According to her account, she
had been helping clean out the property throughout the week,
sorting through old photographs, clothing, and personal belongings before the
home could eventually be sold. Late one evening, after returning home,
her cell phone rang. When she looked down at the screen,
she reportedly saw the caller ID showing her mother's home
phone number.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: At first, she assumed another family member must still be
inside the house, but when she answered, nobody spoke. According
to her account, the line remained silent for several seconds
before she heard what sounded like faint creaking of a
rocking chair somewhere in the distance. Then she heard her
mother humming. The woman claimed it was the same melody
her mother used to hum while sitting in the living
room late at night. Frozen, she reportedly listened for several
more seconds before the line abruptly disconnected. When she immediately
called the number back, the answering machine picked up, and,
according to her account, the recording on the machine was
still her mother's voice. One former hospital security guard described
an experience that reportedly took place during a quiet overnight
shift in an older wing of the building that he
had not been fully used in years. According to his account,
he had been making his normal rounds a little after
three in the morning when a phone began ringing repeatedly
at an abandoned nurse's station near the end of the
empty hallway well. At first, he ignored it, but after
several minutes of continuous ringing, he eventually picked up the receiver,
expecting either a wrong extension or some kind of malfunction
in the old phone system. Instead, he claimed he heard
a woman softly asking for help. According to the guard,
the voice sounded weak and frightened, as though the caller
were struggling to speak clearly. He immediately asked who she
was and where she was calling from. For a few seconds,
there was only silence. Then the woman reportedly replied, I'm
still waiting. The line disconnected immediately after that. Disturbed by
the encounter, the guard checked hospital records connected to the
abandoned wing and reportedly learned that decades earlier, a patient
had died there repeatedly trying to call for assistance during
a nighttime medical emergency. One man described a series of
strange calls that reportedly began after he purchased an antique
rotary phone from a local estate sale. According to his account,
the phone was never connected to an active line. He
had bought it purely as decoration and kept it sitting
on a small table near the living room window. Several
weeks later, he claimed the phone rang shortly after midnight.
At first, he assumed the sound had just come from
the television in the other room, but then the phone
rang again. Curious and a little more than uneasy, he
eventually lifted the receiver. According to his account, he immediately
heard what sounded like distant conversation buried beneath layers of static.
He described the voices as faint and difficult to understand,
almost as though he were overhearing fragments of another conversation
happening very far away. Then one voice suddenly became clear.
The woman quietly said, can you hear me now? The
man reportedly froze before he could answer, the line filled
with loud static, and abruptly went dead. According to his account,
the disconnected antique phone reportedly rang several more times over
the following months, though he eventually removed it from the
house entirely after becoming convinced something about it was deeply wrong.
In another experience, one woman described an experience that began
with a call from her adult son's cell phone several
weeks after his death. According to her account, the phone
had been recovered with his personal belongings after the accidents
and was no longer even active. Still, late one night,
her own phone lit up with his name on the screen.
Well she stared at it for several seconds before finally answering.
When she picked it up, the line was faint and uneven,
with bursts of static breaking through every few moments. Then
she heard her son's voice. He sounded distance but calm.
According to her account, he said, mom, I'm okay. Before
she could respond, the connection crackled sharply and went silent.
When she checked the phone afterward, the call log still
showed his name. A former radio operator shared his story
that reportedly stayed with him for decades after his time
working overnight communications in a remote mountain region. According to
his account, weather conditions that night had been extremely poor,
with heavy rain and electrical interference affecting several of the
local frequencies. Sometime after midnight, he reportedly began hearing a
weak voice repeatedly breaking through the static on one of
the emergency channels. While at first he assumed another operator
was attempting to contact him from just too far outside
the normal range, but the signal continued drifting in and
out for several minutes. According to his account, the voice
sounded frightened and disoriented, repeatedly asking if anyone could hear her.
The operator claimed he attempted several times to respond and
identify the caller, but each time the signal would fade
beneath heavy bursts of interference before stabilizing once again. Then,
during one brief moment when the transmission became unusually clear,
the woman reportedly gave a location near an old hiking
trail deep in the mountains. Search teams were eventually sent
to the area the following morning. According to the story,
rescuers discovered evidence that a young woman had disappeared near
that same trail years earlier during a storm and had
never been found. In another of these events, one couple
described a series of strange calls that reportedly began shortly
after moving into an older farmhouse in Row pens of
According to their account, the house had sat vacant for
years before they purchased it, and several neighbors had warned
them that property carried a reputation for strange activity long
before they arrived. At first, the couple just dismissed the
stories completely, but then the phone started ringing. The calls
reportedly always came late at night, usually sometime between one
and three in the morning. Whenever they answered, there was
only silence on the other end of the line. At first,
they just assumed it was prank calls, but over time
things reportedly changed. According to the couple, faint sounds eventually
began coming through the receiver during some of the calls,
soft crying, whispering, and what sounded like distant conversation. Then night,
the husband claimed he heard a woman quietly say he's downstairs.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: The line disconnected immediately afterward. Disturbed by the repeated calls,
the couple spoke with an elderly neighbor who reportedly told
them a woman had once lived in the farmhouse decades
earlier and frequently called neighbors late at night, terrified that
someone was inside the house. According to local stories, she
was eventually found deceased in the basement under unexplained circumstances.
One man described an encounter that reportedly happened while driving
home alone along a remote stretch of highway late at night.
According to his account, his cell phone suddenly rang, despite
the area having almost no signal coverage at all. When
he glanced down at the screen, he reportedly sow ohw
the call was coming from his own phone number. Well.
At first, he assumed it had to be some sort
of technical glitch. Still, curiosity got the better of him,
and he answered. For several seconds, there was only static.
Then he heard his own voice. According to the story,
this voice sounded panicked and out of breath as it
repeatedly warned him to slow down. Confused, he reportedly asked
who he was speaking to, but before the voice could
answer again, the call abruptly disconnected. A short time later,
he claimed he came upon a sharp turn in the
road and nearly collided with a jackknife semi truck, blocking
both lanes of the highway ahead. A teacher from Ohio
once shared an experience that reportedly took place only a
few days after the death of one of her closest friends.
According to her account, the two women had spoken almost
every evening for years, often staying on the phone late
into the night, talking about work, family, and everyday life.
After her friend passed away unexpectedly, the teacher described feeling
unsettled by the sudden silence that followed. Then, one evening,
her phone rang at almost the exact same time her
friend normally used to call. Without thinking, she answered it immediately.
At first, she heard nothing except faint static moving across
the line, but then she heard laughter. According to her account,
the laugh sounded completely normal and exactly like her friend's voice.
The teacher claimed she sat frozen in silence for several
seconds before quietly saying her friend's name out loud, and
the laughter stopped instantly. After a moment, the line disconnected.
A former cable repair technician once described an encounter that
reportedly happened while working alone during a service call in
a nearly abandoned apartment building. According to his account, most
of the building had already been emptied before demolition, and
only a handful of units still had active utility service remaining.
While tracing a signal problem through the old phone lines
in the basement, he reportedly began hearing faint voices bleeding
through one of the disconnected connections.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: At first, he assumed crossed wires were picking up another
active conversation somewhere in the city, but as he listened
more carefully, he realized the same short conversation seemed to
be repeating over and over again. According to his account,
a frightened woman kept asking someone not to leave her alone.
Then a man's voice would answer something he could never
fully make out, before the line dissolved back into static.
The technician claimed. The repeating conversation continued for nearly twenty
minutes before abruptly stopping altogether. Disturbed by the experience, he
reportedly asked the building superintendent whether anyone had ever died
in the apartment complex. According to the story, the superintendent
became visibly uncomfortable before eventually telling him that years earlier,
a woman had been murdered in one of the apartments
by her boyfriend, shortly before the building began emptying out.
A retired railroad worker once described a call he claimed
to have received late one winter night while working alone
in a remote siguas station outside a small mountain town.
According to his account, heavy snow had been falling for hours,
and most rail traffic through the area had already been
suspended until the morning. Near the end of his shift,
the station phone rang. He said the call sounded strange
from the beginning. The connection faded in and out beneath
bursts of static, and for several seconds he couldn't hear
anything clearly enough to understand, and then a man's voice
came through, and according to the railroad worker, the caller
sounded panicked, and repeatedly warned him not to allow the
next train under the mountain pass ahead. At first, he
reportedly assumed another rail employee was attempting to report a
blockage somewhere further up the line, but before he could
gather more information, the connection abruptly cut out. Disturbed by
the call, the worker reportedly attempted to reach several nearby
stations to verify whether anyone had reported trouble on the tracks.
Nobody had. Still uneasy, he convinced another supervisor to delay
the next scheduled freight train until a maintenance crew could
inspect to pass ahead. According to the account, inspectors discovered
a massive rock slide covering part of the tracks further
up the mountain, The railroad worker becing convinced the warning
call had somehow come from a brakeman who had died
on the same stretch of track years earlier during another
winter accident. A woman from New England once shared an
experience that reportedly happened while she was staying alone at
her late grandmother's house after the funeral. According to her account,
most of the family had already gone home for the night,
leaving her alone in the old house. Surrounded by pack
boxes and unfinished cleaning. While unable to sleep, she stayed
awake in the living room, listening to the sound of
rain hitting the windows outside. Then the housephone rang. The
woman claimed the sound startled her immediately because the line
had supposedly been disconnected earlier that same week. Still, after
several moments of ringing, she answered. At first there was
only silence, and then she heard what sounded like her
grandmother softly asking if everyone had gotten home safely after
the funeral. Shaken, the woman reportedly told her yes. According
to the account, the grandmother quietly replied, good, I didn't
want anyone driving in the storm. The line remained silent
for several seconds afterwards, and then the connection faded into
static and disappeared completely. A former hotel manager described a
series of strange phone calls connected to a room that
had reportedly been vacant for years following a very violent death.
According to his account, the old roadside motel had slowly
fallen into decline over the years, and several of the
rooms in one wing of the property were no longer
rented to guests at all. One of those rooms, he claimed,
had developed a reputation among employees after repeated late night
calls began appearing from the disconnected room phone. While at
first staff assumed the aging phone system was malfunctioning, but
the calls continued. According to the manager, the front desk
phone would occasionally ring sometime after midnight, and whenever inl
eployees answered, they would hear what sounded like faint crying
on the other end of the line. Most workers refused
to answer the calls after a while, then one night
the manager picked it up himself. He claimed the connection
was filled with static at first, before a woman quietly
asked whether someone could please send help to her room.
The manager reportedly recognized the room number immediately. It was
the same room where a woman had reportedly been murdered
years earlier by her estranged husband during an argument. According
to his account, he rushed to check the room personally,
despite knowing nobody should have been inside. When he unlocked
the door, the room was empty, but the bedside phone
inside the room was reportedly off the hook and swinging
slowly back and forth beside the bed. A retired firefighter
once shared an account involving a call that reportedly came
through to a small town station house late one night
during the early nineteen seventies. According to his account, the
station had been quiet for most of the evening, with
several firefighters sitting around the kitchen area just drinking coffee
while waiting for the shift change. And then the emergency
line rang. The firefighter claimed the voice on the other
end belonged to a young girl who sounded frightened and
out of breath. According to the account, she repeatedly begged
for someone to come help her mother because there was
smoke everywhere inside the house. Dispatchers attempted to keep the
girl on the line while the firefighters were sent to
the address that she provided, but before they could gather
more information, the connection suddenly cut out. The crew reportedly
arrived at the location within minutes. What they found was
an empty lot. According to the firefighter, the house that
had once stood there had burned to the ground years
earlier in a fatal fire that killed a woman and
her young daughter. The firefighter claimed the little girl's voice
remained one of the most disturbing things he had ever
heard during his years working with emergency calls. A man
from Arizona once described a strange series of calls that
reportedly began after he inherited his late father's old workshop telephone.
According to his account, the phone had originally hung in
a detached garage behind his father's house, where the two
of them had spent years repairing old cars or together.
After his father passed away, the man brought the old
phone home, but never connected it to active line. Several
months later, the phone rang. At first, he reportedly believed
the sound had to be coming from somewhere else in
the house, but when it rang again, he realized the
disconnected workshop phone itself was making the noise very uneasily,
he answered. According to his account, he immediately heard the
familiar sounds of tools clinking faintly in the background, surrounded
by what sounded like an air compressor kicking on somewhere
in the distance, and then he heard his father laugh softly.
The man claimed he stood frozen holding the receiver while
the familiar garage noises continued for several seconds, and then
his father quietly said, hand me that wrench. Soon after,
the line is static and just went silent. A former
overnight janitor once described an experience that reportedly happened while
working alone inside an old County courthouse that was scheduled
for renovation. According to his account, most of the building
was empty after midnight, and the only sounds usually came
from the ventilation system and the occasional creaking of old
pipes in the walls. While cleaning offices on the second floor,
he reportedly heard a telephone ringing somewhere deeper inside the building.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: At first, he just ignored it, but the ringing continued,
and eventually he followed the sound down a dark hallway
toward an office that had supposedly been abandoned for years.
According to his account, the phone inside the office stopped
ringing the moment he stepped through the doorway. The room
was empty. Then, just as he turned to leave, the
phone rang again directly beside him. Shaken, he picked up
the receiver. At first there was only static. Then he
heard a man quietly say they never found me, The
janitor claimed. The voice sounded weak and exhausted, as though
the caller had been struggling to speak. Before he could respond,
the line abruptly disconnected. Local stories verified that a suspect
awaiting trial had disappeared from the building decades earlier, after
being moved through a basement holding area and was never
seen again. After hearing enough stories like these, you do
start noticing certain similarities between them. People describing calls during storms,
voice coming through heavy static phones, ringing from disconnected numbers,
encounters tied to grief, fear loss, or moments of emotional shock,
and whether someone believes these experiences are paranormal or not,
the emotional effect they leave behind is very real. A
lot of these encounters are not terrifying in the way
people usually think about ghost stories. Many of them are
profoundly and deeply personal. A mother checking to see if
her family made at home safely through a storm. A
husband hearing the voice of someone he thought he would
never speak to again. A final goodbye arriving through a
telephone line after death had already come and gone. Most
of us understand what it feels like to miss someone
we love, to wish for one more conversation, one more
chance to hear a familiar voice again. But all of
these stories are still difficult to explain. There's no clear
reason or idea why they happen. They're both incredibly profound
and incredibly disturbing. People receiving calls from disconnected numbers, hearing
voices through phones that should not even have been active anymore,
emergency calls connected to places where nobody was supposed to be.
And whether there is a paranormal explanation for those experiences
or not, they clearly leave a lasting impact on the
people who go through them. Maybe there are answers for
these experiences that we just simply don't understand yet, or
maybe in rare moments, something really is reaching back across
the distance between life and death trying to make contact
just one more time, all right, everybody, that's going to
wrap it up for us today. So I hope you
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