Phantom Phone Calls & Creepy Voicemails | Real Paranormal Phone Stories (x335)

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The ringing was coming from the dark hallway that I was scared of earlier and at the very end of the hall was a landline. I picked up the phone and it was completely disconnected. No dial tone, nothing. Todd's full name and 30-year-old phone number popped up on the screen. This theme is about phone hauntings.

Very spooky. Ring, ring, ring.

[laughter]

Ghost calling. But like actually.

[laughter]

This is Two Girls One Ghost.

Two Girls One Ghost.

And we are your ghostesses. That is Karen.

Hello.

I am Sabrina and this episode has nothing to do with phones. I'm just kidding.

[laughter]

Could you imagine?

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People can't cuz we've started things like that before.

psycho.

This is an encounters episode where you send emails in about your real-life haunted experiences. We pick some and we read them. And this theme is about phone hauntings.

Phone calls from the spirits on the other side or things happening with your phone.

Anomalies pertaining to the phones.

We did an episode a couple years ago about like haunted phone numbers.

Mhm. Mhm.

And after that episode so many people had hauntings and like weird experiences.

Didn't you? I feel like you got some weird

I can't remember cuz we've had so many weird experiences.

But I do think I played like a voicemail or something weird on that episode. Like I'll have to go back and relisten.

It wasn't that like weird podcast, was it?

No, that was different. I think that was a different episode, but that was also really weird. But after that episode we got a lot of emails

Mhm.

of people having like phone hauntings and being called by like really creepy

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numbers. And so my first story is that.

stop sending ghosts to me

Okay.

And it's called stop sending ghosts to me.

Aw, [laughter] sorry. Now I feel bad.

Well, this is from 2020. So

Are you okay now?

We don't know. This is from a listener Nancy and Nancy says, I've been a long time listener, but I had to take a break from the podcast a couple of times because yeah, it seems like your podcast really is haunted. My friend Tram, shoutout, told me about your podcast because we both enjoy spooky stories and although you guys give me the heebie-jeebies, I always come back. So as I was getting hooked on your podcast, it triggered some memories of my childhood that now send shivers down my spine. So like I said, I've had a couple of experiences because of your podcast. That one episode you read about the haunted phone numbers came out and I listened on my commute to work and I totally skipped the recording of the scary voicemail that a listener sent in. Thank you for that option cuz I didn't want to be scared.

Now I can't remember what it was. Now I I want to look back.

I know. We'll have to look up what what episode it was. Jamie will probably have

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the answer for you in the video on the bottom of the screen right there. And I ended up skipping perfectly, like right on time. I got to work as the episode ended and after hearing Sabrina freak out [snorts] about listening to that scary voicemail, I was so happy I didn't listen.

Now I want to hear it even more.

very tempted. I know, but my chicken [ __ ] brain said, nope, let's try to have a good day today. Well, guess what? As I was walking to work, I got a phone call from some weird number with symbols in it. I don't remember what it was, but I ignored it and it left a voicemail, which I listened to right away. It was garbled voices and static sounds. I hung up and deleted the voicemail right away. My heart was racing. I was terrified. I was thinking, why? But then I was also wondering if it was the same kind of voicemail that Sabrina had heard sent by the listener. Well, I don't know. I'm never going to go listen to that episode again to find out. I had to take a break after that episode, but I'm back. Don't worry, I'm listening to more episodes.

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Yep. Oh my gosh, I like I I don't know what to say.

try to find?

That's exactly Okay. I'm going to our Right on podcast. I'm going to search Two Girls One Ghost.

Cursed voicemail from Satan? Was it this? Probably. What episode did we read it on?

Oh, I don't I don't know if this is it. Okay, episode 111, Cursed AF, is when you talk about people calling the number 66666 like that one. Was that?

111?

Yeah.

Okay, I really want to listen to that voicemail, but we can't We just tried and we could not find what episode cuz the original episode we talked about haunted numbers was 111, but I do think we also did like any encounters with like creepy phone things.

Yeah.

So, if anyone knows

looking. Specifically, if we find it by the end of this

If it falls in your inbox, [laughter] into our laps. We get like a Or if we get a voicemail during this episode, we will play it.

Can you imagine?

That would be terrifying. Okay, as I've been listening to your podcast, so now

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Nancy has other experiences, I have remembered some memories from childhood that I seemingly forgot, which I kind of wish maybe I had. They now send shivers down my spine. So, when I was six or seven, I was watching TV when I had a feeling I was being watched or maybe saw something out of the corner of my eye. And there, standing behind the sofa, was a shadow person. Just standing there, no face, no clothes, just a black figure about 6 ft tall standing there.

Mm.

That's not all that was weird. It seemed to be fuzzy, like a static image, and the edges and outline of its body were like even more static-y. Interesting.

What I don't like about that is I feel like a lot of shadow people is just kind of like you see the shadow and it's unmoving, but when it's static-y, like makes it feel more alive cuz there is movement, even though

the figure itself is not moving.

But, what really terrified me was that once it noticed I had seen it, it jumped down crouching behind the sofa where I couldn't see it anymore. It was like,

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"Oops, she saw me. I need to hide real quick." That is terrifying. And when it jumped to crouch down behind the sofa, I actually heard the thud on the hardwood floors.

[gasps]

No, [clears throat] that's the worst part.

My heart was racing. I jumped out of my seat and I ran to the other side of the room, and I don't really remember what happened afterwards. I'm now 27. I just know that I was trying to make myself believe it was a bad dream, but I was standing there and it freaked me out.

Yeah, you can't even convince yourself at that point that you didn't experience anything. You would literally heard the thud.

Yeah.

Oh, gosh. Ooh, creepy.

Then, I had another experience where I saw the shadow person. This time was at night. I think I was eight or nine and I was walking to the bathroom, and on the way to the bathroom, you have to pass a laundry room, and this laundry room leads to the garage. The door was open as I passed the laundry room, and as I passed it, I saw the outline of a huge shadow person as tall as the door to the garage. I knew it was very tall because its shape stood out against the white door that led to the garage, and as soon

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as I walked past it and saw it, I ran back to my uncle to make him go check it out. I can't believe he actually went to go check it out, but he said he didn't see anyone. For the longest time, I tried to repress these memories and make myself believe that it was just a wild imagination, but after hearing all these stories on your podcast, I'm not so sure anymore. Okay, this next story is called little girl in my backyard. So, I have a pretty big backyard that is separated by a black gate, but it's fenced in all around with tall wooden fences. One side is a garden and the other side is cement and brick where I like to ride my bike. When I was whatever age, I was riding a tricycle. I would ride into the garden to go off-roading as I [laughter] called it. So cute. But, I'd have to kind of wiggle through the gate doors since my tricycle was wide. On this particular day, it was around sunset and I decided I'm going to go off-roading before I headed in for dinner. As I was trying to wiggle my way through the gate, I saw a little girl walking through my garden by herself. And in my head, it was so out of place that I just ditched my tricycle at the gate and ran inside my house. My uncle saw me leave my tricycle at the gate and told me to go put it away and I said I

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couldn't because there was a little girl in the backyard and she scared me. You're a creepy kid.

Oh.

So, he went out with me. He went into the garden to look for the little girl while I moved my bike back out of the doorway. And he said he didn't see anything, but I remember thinking to myself, "Wow, I really wouldn't go check. He's brave." It's weird because there was no way a little girl could get through the garden without going through this area that I had been playing in. Also, I live in a court where there were no other kids or adults with blonde hair and I had never seen her before. Not to mention, she was wearing a white nightgown and dress.

Mhm.

Yeah, even little kid me knew she must have been a ghost. So, yeah, you've also haunted me other times. I used to listen at home, but I would get a weird feeling of not being alone in my room after listening. So then, I would only listen during my 1 and 1/2 hour commute to work, which was fine, perfect time. But then, I would get hooked and want to listen at home. And so, instead of getting the heebie-jeebies in my room, I started playing it while I was in the shower. Which also, I feel like it's not a good place to listen.

That's like where the ghost like to

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touch you.

I know. With a skylight or something. I feel like I feel safer when bathrooms have skylights or like some type of sunlight.

Yeah.

But then at night,

skylights can be creepy.

But then it's way less creepier. Yeah, you're right.

So, my thought process was that I'd be out of the shower and get busy with something else in my room anyway. So, I would listen to random episodes or continue listening from previous sessions. But somehow, while I'm in the shower, every time I was listening to your podcast in the shower, a shower ghost story would be read. At first, I was like, "Okay, one time, scary." But then, it started happening every time.

Okay, and that's not that frequent. So, I feel like

That's a sign.

I feel [clears throat] like the ghost in your bathroom is trying to gently expose itself to you, if that makes sense.

[laughter]

In like a non-pervy way?

Right. Using our podcast to let you know it's there.

Yeah, can you please recognize that sometimes I'm in here, too?

I swear this happened four separate times while I was in the shower. So, now I don't listen in the shower anymore. Maybe you guys have a lot of shower stories and that's a coincidence. No.

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No, we don't.

Okay, and there's like 10 different stories that we've haunted, Nancy. But, there was one episode where it was a guy who that would sleepwalk and talk and it had to do with repetition. Midway through the story, Corinne started glitching on my podcast saying the same words over and over and over. I wasn't freaked out cuz I was like, "Okay, my internet sucks, whatever." But, then Sabrina started freaking out about Corinne glitching, too. And Corinne did her nervous laugh and glitched and repeated more words. I literally just had to be like, "Nope. Like, no thanks, Corinne. You're freaking me out right now. I need another break."

I hate that and it just triggered my own memory of on Patreon when

Oh, with the Whitney episode?

Yeah, when I said like, "If I die, if I die, if I die." And I kept glitching. And I was like, "Oh my god, I'm going to die, you know?"

Patreon has a lot of glitches and I don't necessarily think they're haunting. I think it's like the interface.

That is true because I've had to start using incognito mode just to do anything on Patreon cuz otherwise

it is haunted. I don't know. Maybe we have haunted all of Patreon.

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just our specific Patreon page like we can't get uh Things are like getting edited, deleted, text is changing. It's like we're not even doing anything.

Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, I have so many more encounters, especially from listening to your podcast. Let me know if you want to hear more, Nancy.

Wow, okay.

Which is technically phone glitching, too, because our podcast is being played on Nancy's phone.

Right. I think that there's a lot of uh spirit intervention here. It's beyond just like a little Sven haunting or something. I think there's something in Nancy's house that is just trying not not necessarily a bad thing, but just trying to be like, "I'm here. Hello."

Well, also I'm curious if this is the same house that Nancy grew up in because Nancy talks about the house as if like in my house, but it could have just been past tense. Cuz yeah, shadow figure, little girl, and um our podcast is haunted.

Oh, the thud. That is so I That's gross.

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payphone call from the other side

Okay. This is from Alyssa. Hi spooky friends. My name is Alyssa. I started listening to your podcast recently and now I cannot get through my boring work day without it. As I've been listening, I've been racking my brain thinking if I've ever had an encounter myself. I've always had those feelings, but really just chalk them up to me being scared. And I've never really been into horror or the paranormal. I always get really nervous when I'm watching scary movies.

[laughter] [gasps]

I have had super realistic dreams accompanied by sleep paralysis, but I never thought of it as anything more than that. I'm not religious, but I have always thought that the paranormal must be real. And after hearing some of your listener stories, I know I'm not alone.

Mhm.

Okay, so now onto my sweet, short, maybe encounter.

Okay.

Most of the time when people say that, it's 100% an encounter.

Obviously an encounter. But if you need

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room for for doubt to make you feel safer.

You do you, boo.

We won't allow it, but you can [laughter] allow it in your own life.

You live in do-lulu land. We will not.

[laughter]

I like how we Like some people would be like, "That is the most delusional thing to say ever." We're like, "Oh, you?"

Delusional or not, think that you're experiencing ghost stories.

the narrative here. [laughter]

Yeah, okay.

Two girls who spend their entire lives talking about ghosts, we're sane.

Yeah, we're the only normal ones here.

Everyone else, insane.

This is how cults begin.

[laughter]

My

You should disconnect from your family and only focus on us and ghosts and recruit multiple people. We kind of are a cult.

Oh.

But the kind that does let you live your own life however you want. My maternal grandfather's name was Allan. He passed away when I was in middle school. I'm 32 this year. Every Sunday my grandfather would come over to our home after church to spend time with us. He liked to play a little game with us kids with some spare change that he had

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on him. He would quickly show my brother and I the amount of change he had in his hand, then he would close his hand and make us guess how much money it was. Whoever guessed the closest amount won the money. Once he gave us our winnings, he would politely ask for two quarters back. He would say, "In case I need to use a payphone on my way home."

Oh.

My grandfather's death was incredibly devastating and to me it felt very sudden. He was 76 years old. That is sudden. That's still quite young.

And also when you're young like you don't understand like the age and like your parents have spent more time with this person but you you're like just getting to hang out with them.

had a moment the other day where based on someone's age they were like they called them elderly and then they were like, "Oh [ __ ] We're like 2 years younger than them."

too. I know. They're like, "Oh my god, we're elderly."

[laughter]

Very.

He was 76 years old and quickly declined from dementia.

Mhm.

He lived with us until it got too hard for my mom to care for him and then he lived and died in the nursing home. He

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was such a sweet man and we were very close.

Aw.

A few months after he passed away my parents were out with friends pretty late and my brother and I were home alone. It was probably around 11:00 at night when the phone rang. The caller ID on our house phone said, "Payphone, Rhode Island." At this time our parents had cell phones so I definitely didn't think it was them calling but I answered anyway just in case. When I said hello there was nobody on the other end of the phone. Just silence. I said, "Hello?" again and there was nothing. So I hung up the phone and I tried not to think too much about it. About an hour later the phone rang again. It's now midnight. Again it says the same thing, "Payphone, Rhode Island." I didn't answer this time. The phone ringing had woken me up and now I'm feeling a little bit scared. Once the phone stopped ringing there was no voicemail left on our machine.

Aw.

I got out of bed to see if my parents were home yet and their cars were still not in the driveway. So I stayed awake until my parents got home shortly after and then I told them what happened and

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they both insisted it must have just been someone calling the wrong number.

Yeah, but then you would have heard them say something.

Yeah. And why would they call back again an hour later?

You right.

But then I started to wonder. Could it have been my grandfather calling from beyond the grave to let us know that he was okay? He was the only person in my life at the time who didn't have a cell phone yet and who still used pay phones. I'd like to think that this was him. I still think about him all the time and I will occasionally have a dream about him that feels like he is visiting me. Since he's passed away, when I see a quarter I think of him and I remember the phone ringing in the middle of the night. Anyway, thank you for reading this. See you on the other side, Alyssa.

I absolutely believe it was Grandpa Allen.

Right?

For sure. And it's like a home alone. It's just the kids. It's the grandpa on them. Yeah.

Aw.

They're like waiting up for their parents to get home and he's like, "Oh, I'm just going to call and check in."

And like the memory's like so specific of when they would play that game. He always asked for two quarters back in

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case he needed a pay phone. Like that's such a specific characteristic of Grandpa Allen. Two quarters, two calls.

Yeah. Wait, there was a video I saw recently on TikTok where this guy bought old phone booths and like refurbished them and basically made them work and he put one in front of like a fast food restaurant and he put another at like a retirement home and it only calls each other.

Oh.

And so he was like trying to force like younger people to have conversations with elderly.

Oh, that's really

really sweet. Yeah.

That is so sweet. They like make versions of that now for phones that you can like pre-program for kids to use like the old kind of wired-ish phones but I think you pre-program them with certain people's numbers so they can

Or like relatives or like their girlfriends.

Yeah. Like only them. Yeah.

I miss a landline for that purpose and also like our phones are just like we're we're consuming too much.

And we we truly had to make an effort to

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have like real conversations. Like if you wanted to know if your friend wanted to come over, you're not sending them a text. You're not looking at find my friends to see where they are. Like

Yeah.

You were calling them. You're asking. First of all, you had their number memorized. Right.

And then you're asking their parents or older siblings or whoever picks up to speak with them. You're declaring who you are and then asking to speak with them. You're stating your intentions.

What [laughter] are your intentions?

Yes.

Um and then you could also listen in on people's conversations.

And people used to just like drop by.

I know. Okay, I was wondering like how I have an affinity for USPS and like the idea of getting snail mail is like I feel like everyone loves to get a letter. Like a handwritten letter in the mail like there's something nostalgic, there's something really special about it. Do you think we'll have that cuz I feel like and I admit like I also there are times where I do not want to talk on the phone. But do you think we'll get to a point where like getting a phone call is like a really special thing?

Oh.

Where you're like, oh I love when people call me. I love when people call me. Although like it has to be when I want to talk to someone on the phone cuz if

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I'm in a bad mood. But now like I know people don't love talking on the phone, but I get to like moments where I'm like I can't text about this like it's just too much. So I'll be like, hey, can I call you? Like I have to ask permission to call.

Yeah. I don't know cuz I feel like I'm getting to the point like I feel like I used to be that way, but now I'm getting to the point where it's like texting is so much more effort to like constantly go and respond and remember where we left off.

conversation over hours.

Yeah, like I almost feel like I do take phone calls more, but it's like I speak to a friend every like eight weeks or something and we're catching up for like an hour or two on the phone.

a few weeks. Yeah.

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Ghost Phone Call at My Job

So, I have one from our listener Mara and it is called ghost phone call at my job. Hello lovely ladies, I want to start this email with a little

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background. I never saw ghosts when I was little but my sister did. Instead, I was just fascinated by the paranormal at a very young age. And in high school that wore off until my senior year when I got into your podcast and the podcast Ghost Tease which we did a collab with. Around the same time, I regained this interest, something happened at my job.

Huh.

I work on a small lake and I clean boats in the summer. I feel like this is the perfect setting for a ghost story. Even my first week there and they had been dropping me off at our location where we hold the boats to be cleaned and summarized. The building is an old abandoned Kodak factory which is basically just a huge parking garage attached to abandoned old offices and photo labs. Also perfect location

[clears throat]

for hauntings. So, it's a 5-minute drive from our actual location and it has no service. So, it's a little anxiety-inducing being out there by yourself. On my second day of the job, I was dropped off early in the morning. I put in my AirPods and I started cleaning one of the many boats I was assigned. This

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boat was located in front of the doorway leading to a dark hallway of the abandoned offices. And I kept looking down that hall. Like I had this feeling like someone was there. The deck of the boat was right in front of the door. And so at one point I had to have my back turned to the door. And I could [clears throat] literally hear my heart in my ears. And the fear was all I could focus on. I didn't understand why I was so freaked out. But it got so bad that I straight up panicked and ran outside to get service and asked to be picked up.

Oh my god. That's when you like if everything in your body's telling you that this is super scary and you need to leave, that's listen to your intuition.

Later I went back and met the only other female worker who was just a few years older than me. She told me the older guys told her how I was scared there. And she then reassured me that in all the years she's worked there she hasn't dealt with anything frightening. And she was pretty down to earth, so I did feel a lot better. Eventually we decided to go divide and conquer the boats that we had. We went back to this area and we both had our headphones on listening to

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music. One of us had the vacuum, so it was pretty loud in that area. In the midst of cleaning, I could hear a phone ringing through my AirPod. And I wondered why she wasn't answering her phone. So I took out my headphones and said, "Hey, you going to answer that?" To which she looked at me and said, "I thought that was your phone."

Just a phantom phone.

We jumped and we ran to her car in fear, realizing that that phone call was coming from inside the building. We thought maybe someone was in the building, which is scary.

Oh, like someone else's phone ringing in their pocket not realizing that their like their phone's giving away that they're there.

Yes.

That was when I realized the ringing was coming from the dark hallway that I was scared of earlier. We drove back to our main location and grabbed one of the older men to bring back with us in case someone was loitering and potentially dangerous. We walked all of the hall, which was long, dark, filled with furniture and tons of doorways. And at the very end of the hall was a landline.

[sighs]

And that's when it clicked. The ringing that I had sound was 100% coming from a

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landline. Who is calling though? Very black phone. Yeah. I picked up the phone off of the landline and it was completely disconnected. There was no noise, nothing, no dial tone, nothing. But ever since this happened, I can't stop thinking about it and how scared I felt earlier. And then for that to happen hours later, I do believe my intuition was warning me of something. And what makes it crazier is that she was completely distraught because nothing like that had ever happened until I showed up.

Oh my god.

Later I found out from another coworker that our second location has had ghost hunters come investigate it and there were old cars that would be randomly moved into different areas of the parking garage.

What?

That's weird. Anyway, thanks for reading my story.

Mara. Like are they abandoned cars that are have been left there and then sometimes they move spots? Right.

Right.

Or is someone parking their cars there and like moving them around?

Or is there like some secret society dark [ __ ] happening that year? You have no clue.

Like what's happening at night there?

Yeah, and there's just like small little

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bits and pieces happening.

Oh, that's so creepy. The phone ringing.

kind of reminds me of some of the stuff that we I can't remember when this comes out, but we might have already talked about it, but the May Patreon bonus episode

When does this come out later?

talks about like undercover underground activities, hidden

Oh, so you guys got to go listen to the May Patreon bonus if you want to hear about that.

But dang, that is really scary. And I totally understand like the fear of being like, oh my god, someone else is in the building.

Right. But then what if they what if they had realized it was a landline in the moment? What would have happened if they picked up the phone?

Yeah.

Cuz it does sound it does feel like something is trying to get their attention or try to like speak to them.

The owner of the car. Hey, can you move my car for me?

Before it gets towed.

Geez.

It's creepy.

That is very creepy.

my phone call from beyond the grave

I know.

Okay, I have one that's like it's a little bit sad, a little bit

Oh.

I might skip over a couple sentences.

Okay.

Um my phone call from beyond the grave, and this is sent in by our listener

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Diane. In college, I dated Todd, a strange guy who turned out to be violent and abusive.

Oh, I'm sorry.

He slut-shamed me.

Ugh.

He worshipped his ex-girlfriend. He made me feel worthless. I always had really low self-esteem, and this was back in the 1980s when women were not as empowered as they are today. Now, there's a sisterhood, but back then it really did feel like you were on your own. Todd would say things to me like he'd followed me home from school or work or whatever, and then I better not ever look at another man. He told me he would kill me and put my body in a vat of acid so no one would ever find me. He was a powerlifter, and he also may have been on steroids at the time, but he denied it.

[sighs]

What the I hate that people like this exist.

Yeah, so terrifying. He was friends with Jim. Jim and I had been friends for a while while dating Todd, and our friendship developed into love eventually, and then we got married. Todd was pissed. He felt so

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betrayed by us, and he was so angry and so very bitter. Over the years, Todd would still call me. And he would say things like, "I see you're getting fat." Or some other stuff that I'm not going to repeat that's extremely dark.

Report him to the police.

He usually called around mine and Jim's anniversary or his birthday or other dates significant only to him. And he would try to guilt or shame me for different things from over the years, and you know, for the first few years it did affect me, but after a while, I was so over it and I was so over him.

You know what makes me so mad is that there's no like punishment for people unless they do a crime and commit a crime. Stalking is one of the scariest crimes to happen because I feel like the intervention for stalking

it's like well well we can't do anything unless he does something and it's like

well it's usually too late then.

Right, that's what I mean. And like the fact that this man is has threatened that he would kill her and put her body

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in a vat of acid. Like if someone makes threats like that and that's not a joke. That's a very real threat. Like there there should be some type of intervention that happens at that stage.

Yeah, I know I agree with you. And she she does say it's several homes and phone number changes later. So she's like trying to

stalking her. Yeah.

I finally stopped hearing from him. And then he disappeared off the map. And for me this was so great. Yeah. After a number of years Jim and I did get a divorce but we remained extremely close friends and we even lived together. So social media happened and I blocked several people that I never want to hear from. And Todd had not been on my mind in years. I didn't even think of blocking him when I first got my account. Every now and then Jim would ask me to look up some old friend or work acquaintance with him and I finally thought to look up Todd. He didn't have any social media accounts so I couldn't block him. So I decided I should Google him and see if I can find him so I could block him from ever contacting me again.

Mhm.

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And that's when I found his obituary.

Oh wow.

I was stunned and confirmed with Jim that it was him. For the first time in decades I felt like I could finally relax and I could breathe again.

Wow.

I had always been braced for that time that the other shoe would drop but now I knew it was never going to happen. Phew, what a relief. So one night last year close to mine and Jim's former anniversary date we were sitting in the living room watching TV when the phone rang. I have phone service through my cable company so whenever someone calls their name and number pop up on the TV screen. Todd's full name and 30-year-old phone number popped up on the screen. What the actual [ __ ] My heart stopped. I could not breathe. And my body was tingling from the top of my head down to my toes to my fingers in the way that you would only feel like when someone is watching you, but you're willing yourself not to acknowledge them to please look the other way. I look

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over to Jim. He looks at me. We both turn back to the TV to see the name and number as it continues to ring and we keep looking back and forth between the TV and each other. We both ask each other, are you seeing this? Is this really happening? My phone was in the bedroom and I was way too scared to move and I wasn't really sure if I wanted to even answer the phone and talk to whoever or whatever was on the other line.

Right.

We tried to continue the night as normal, but we just could not stop thinking about what just happened. Like that was so weird. So the next morning Jim called the funeral home where Todd's funeral had been held and confirmed that yes, the funeral really did occur. He was actually able to talk his way into having them send over a death certificate for us to confirm that he was really in the grave.

So.

Which you're like, the trauma that that man created

Right.

for Diane, but also for Jim to be like, no no no, we need to know that this man is dead.

Like I wouldn't put it past someone like that to fake their death or like do something like that to to like give you

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a false sense of right relief.

Yeah. Jim also called the number the next day and got a recording saying the number that had called me was not in service. So who or what called? What did they want to say? I kind of hope I never find out.

No, you didn't don't give even spirit version of Todd the time of day.

No. And this is from Diane.

Diane.

[gasps]

Well, I'm so sorry, but I'm also so glad that you have Jim. Whatever your relationship is, clearly like you guys are such good friends.

like best friends. Which I I that. Like sometimes, you know,

marriage puts pressure on things that

Right. And like, best friends are supposed to be best friends, and sometimes it gets confused and you end up in a relationship, and then if you if you're supposed to be best friends, you get to go back to being best friends.

Right. And you have

know people whose parents are like still best friends after being divorced, have lived together, and

Yeah.

It is really lovely.

For her and Jim to both have gone through this and to have each other in this moment, like I feel like they can

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understand it better than if like Diane was with someone random, you know? Yeah. When that happened or by herself.

Right.

But jeez.

Todd. Rest in death. Go go away.

let it go.

Leave everyone alone.

Really after this many years, decades later, you're going to spend your energy in the afterlife trying to torment someone else

Go away, Todd.

thought [clears throat] about you in a very long time.

Wild. That is scary.

Yeah.

Woo. Okay.

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Phone Calls from the Beyond

Well, I have a story from our listener Breanne and it's phone calls from the beyond. Hey spooky ladies, my name is Breanne. I'm a new fan of the podcast. It just popped up on my YouTube a couple of days ago and I've been binging ever since. I have a story that happened to me a couple of years ago where I was getting phone calls from, I don't know, maybe the other side. So for background, I was 18 at the time and I live with my

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friends from high school in an apartment. And very stupidly, my friends and I were interested in the paranormal and ghost hunting and all of the things. That part's not the stupid part. This part's the stupid part. We would visit a notoriously haunted cemetery in our area and one night we decided to bring a Ouija board with us to the cemetery. We followed all the rules of the Ouija board which, you know, looking back I wasn't that stupid, but I probably shouldn't have done it in the cemetery or maybe not at all. But I can't change the past. That night we used the Ouija board in the cemetery and we did not make contact with anyone as far as we knew. We packed up and we left and went home thinking we hadn't found anything. We reviewed the pictures we took that night and there was nothing in them. We didn't feel like we were being watched, nothing. Truly nothing weird like that. But then a couple nights later I went to my parents house. I was having a sleepover with my little sister and while I was in her room, it was like late at night around 10:00. I got a phone call and it was a local number, local area code and I answered it because I thought maybe somebody I knew and didn't have their number saved was

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calling. I answered the call and on the other line it kind of sounded like a scam call with a voice that was robotic, but it did sound like a person. Something wasn't right about it. Like it didn't sound fully human, but it also didn't sound fully robotic. And they were saying really insulting things, like mean things. So it wasn't a scam call where they were trying to sell me something. It was someone truly saying insulting words to me. And I was like, "Okay, whatever. Some kid's prank calling, whatever." So whoever's on the other line talked for a few seconds and hung up. My sister and I are like, "Oh, that's weird. Why would someone do that?" But whatever, wasn't a big deal. But probably 15 to 20 minutes later, I got another phone call. Same thing. A local number. I'm not sure if it was the same number. But again, not quite human voice, sounded like a scam call, like a teenager playing a prank call, but it was again being really mean. So, my sister was like, "I'm going to go get dad." So, she went, got my dad, and he came back in, took the phone, and said, "This is my daughter's phone. I'm not really sure why you're calling her, but you need to leave her alone. I know you

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called before." No voice spoke back, but whoever's on the other end hung up. So, we're all sitting there for a few minutes, and I texted a group chat I had with my roommates and said, "Hey, I just got this really weird phone call. You guys wouldn't believe it. But here's what we really wouldn't believe." Both those other girls had gotten phone calls very similar to the one I had gotten within minutes of me getting these phone calls.

So, who Did anyone know that they were together?

At the cemetery? I don't know, cuz they're not together in this moment.

Oh. Oh, [ __ ]

Yeah, so it's the roommate.

Cuz me, I was thinking, okay, like I had been there at like a girl's sleepover where you know, like you're calling like a couple people that you have crushes on. And it gets a little too late and the parent says, "Stop calling."

This is like she's 18 years old and going back home to have a sleepover with her sister. Her and her roommates are all alone in separate places.

I didn't realize that they had separated at this point.

Yeah. Okay, that Yeah, that is freaky.

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So, my parents immediately say, "This must be paranormal."

[laughter]

I love that. I love that.

My dad brought in a camera and set it up, and he's like, "If it calls again, I'll answer, and we'll get it on camera." So, maybe an [clears throat] hour goes by and I get another call, and I pick it up. My dad answers, and And time he just lets it talk. Local number, same kind of voice. This time it's something about a dog pooping in their yard and if you don't get your dog out of my yard, I'm going to kill it. My dad just listened and it kept talking. And then after like 20 seconds, it stopped and hung up. But we got it on camera. I told my roommates I got another call. So she's texting her roommates saying, I just got another one.

Yeah.

One of my other roommates had also gotten another call that night, but the other one didn't. After that, I didn't get any other calls. We were scared, but we calmed down and we went to bed.

I'm like racking my brain as to how someone could have all of their numbers and know that they were at the cemetery. Like

Yeah.

It has to be paranormal cuz it's not just some random guy who like is stalking one of them. Like how do you

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have everyone's number?

I don't know. So over the next couple of months, maybe three or four months, we kept getting calls like this. Always a local number, always with a voice that wasn't quite right, kind of robotic, kind of human, kind of sounded like a prank call, but it was always mean or insulting, like picking on you or threatening you, always. Never nice. It was never neutral. So arguably the weirdest part was we never got a call when all three of us were in the same room.

Mhm. This is so weird. I like I'm not I'm like not yet convinced that it's not a person. Like I'm waffling in between.

I know, but it's Whatever it is, it's really freaking weird.

This is very Pretty Little Liars.

Yes. It never called when all three of us were in the same room together. So at one point during this four months, one of my roommates ended up moving out with her boyfriend, so it was just me and the other girl left in our apartment. But the girl who had moved out got a lot of calls even after she moved out. We had a friend who was a medium and we told him what was going on and he went to the cemetery with us. He said he didn't

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really feel anything attached to us or coming through, but he said that whatever was happening did have like a negative energy to it and sounded negative.

Mhm.

And that we shouldn't feed it. If it calls, don't answer. So we stopped answering. But one time, our medium friend asked what it sounded like and he wanted to hear what it sounded like. So the next time it called, I picked up and I took a video of it to send to him. It truly never lasted more than 30 to 40 seconds and if you would speak to it, it wouldn't answer you. It wouldn't address you. Like it truly felt like it was an automated type of thing. Anyway, at a certain point we thought it was over cuz it started to fizzle out. We didn't really have any other experiences other than the phone calls and slowly they happened less and less. And then a couple weeks after somebody got the last call or what we thought was the last call, I was fishing with my mom, my current roommate and my sisters and I got a call and because it had been a while, I decided to pick up. As soon as I picked it up, my mom knew what it was and she asked what it was saying. So I put it on speaker. It was a guy saying something about a

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drug deal and how they're going to meet me at the spot and if you don't have my stuff, I'm going to shoot you. My mom said, "Let's just pack up and leave." So we packed up all of our gear, we drove away and that was it. I truly didn't get a phone call like this for I don't know two, maybe two and a half years. And then well after I moved out, I'm no longer friends with either of those roommates. I moved out of my parents' house and I lived with my fiance. This was all a old part of my life. I had truly forgotten about it. Then a couple weeks before I turned 21, I was sitting on my couch at my parents' house and I got a phone call. I answered it because I truly didn't even think of my experience from years prior. As soon as I picked up the call and said hello, my mom saw my face and she goes, "It's one of those calls, isn't it?" I put it on speaker and I don't remember what it said, but it was the same thing. It really felt like a prank call and I reached out to the other two girls who I lived with back then, even though I really hadn't talked to them in a few years, but I said, "Hey, just a warning, I got one. I don't know if you guys will, too." A few days went by and I got another one and then I got another one.

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So I stopped answering. Same thing like last time, when I didn't give it any attention, it slowly was over until I got another call. We were out on my 21st birthday and I went out with my parents and my boyfriend at the time, now fiance, and we were at hibachi. I was having a drink. It was a great night when my phone rang and I picked it up cuz I thought it was someone calling to tell me happy birthday. As soon as I picked it up, I knew it I had made a mistake because this time it was that same voice, but it was raspy and old singing happy birthday to me.

Uh.

They sang happy birthday for maybe 25 seconds. They used my name. And once they were done singing, it just hung up. I was terrified. I dropped my phone on the table. I almost fell out of the chair. But I didn't let it ruin my night. I got drunk like a girl should on her 21st birthday and had a great time. And I think that was the last time I ever got a phone call, or as far as I know. So, I still don't know what this was, but it all started like 2 days after we had used a Ouija board in the cemetery. Did

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something follow us home? Did we accidentally sign up for something? Was someone stalking us? I really don't know. But it definitely feels paranormal. All the love, Breanne.

It's so weird. Like my mind is going million places with this cuz I'm like, okay, when there are scam calls, the more you pick up, the more they call. But there's two issues with that. One is that if they respond, it's like it's not acknowledging. So, it's like what's the point of a of a scam if you're not actually collecting information from anyone?

Right.

And the other girls at the cemetery that night also were receiving the same thing. So, it's like that's strange. Then I started thinking about those services that like what used to be a prank thing where like you could put someone's number and then they would get blasted out to all these like fake

So, don't sign up. Don't do that.

Yeah. But basically it's like people would get bombarded with all these like random like stupid calls and texts or whatever that weren't real. But again, then it goes back to like those girls, like they were all together. I don't know.

And the last one being the same voice

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now singing happy birthday to her.

Like yeah, that's weird.

That feels so targeted, where the other ones could be scam calls. Yeah. I don't It's so weird.

Mhm.

I don't like it.

Cuz it's not your fault.

don't answer unknown numbers.

Call.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you don't have a number saved, let it go to voicemail. If it's something really important, they will

They'll text you.

They'll or they'll leave you a voicemail. Or they'll text you, cuz I feel like Actually, though, text scams have been getting really crazy, too.

Yeah.

I had one, and usually they're like the SMS messages, but recently I had a kind of iMessage one.

You did?

Yeah, and it was like, "My life feels empty without you." I literally thought it was my ex, so I sent a screenshot, and I was like, "Is this from you?" And he was like, "No."

They're really playing on people's emotions.

Right.

Oh my god. Cuz yeah, there'll be a lot that'll be like, "Oh wait, I have to cancel dinner." Or like, "Can you add so-and-so to the reservation?" Like things like that.

so many. They're just trying to get you to respond to know that it's an active number. The scariest ones are "There's a

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warrant out for your arrest" based on like a unpaid toll ticket or like a parking ticket.

god, I've been getting so many Well, I told you this already.

Yeah.

That I get so many It's it's it's the recent target for me, where it's like, "Unpaid toll. If you don't pay this" and it's for a toll in Vermont, which I'm like

Where there are no

There are no toll booths in Vermont.

Yeah.

You can't catch me on this one.

But it knows cuz your phone number is a Vermont Vermont number.

Yeah, yeah, I know. It's sending it to

to like all the Vermont numbers, cuz I get a lot of them for New Jersey, cuz my number is a New Jersey number. But my it like even says like, "Your New Jersey plates" and I'm like, "But I have California plates." So that's where

catch us.

I know you [laughter] fake.

I know you fake, man.

you fake. Damn.

Oh, this That actually just triggered a memory. We used to get when my parents had a landline, we used to get so many We think that they were scam calls. We actually have no idea, cuz it would all be in Vietnamese, because our last name VN is also It's a French last name, but

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it's also a Vietnamese last name. So I think we got put on a bunch of lists. Interesting. And so, they'd be like kind of lovely. They'd be like rhythmic. There'd be music in the background. We have no idea what they're asking us for.

Interesting.

But yeah, we used to get a ton of Vietnamese Christmas cards.

[laughter]

I wish I had them so we could translate what they were looking for now.

This feels so unrelated, but that reminded me and triggered a memory for me when we used to go to Mont Tremblant in Canada.

Mhm.

We

It's so It's like the most beautiful place. But we would go during the winter and we were young and we stayed at the Westin and they had a feature like on the phones in the hotel rooms that was bedtime stories.

Oh.

And you press the button and it was like a a human voice reading you a bedtime story.

It's like what the Hatch does now.

speaker of the of the phone.

Like a Tonie Box.

Yeah. But that's really lovely.

really, really nice.

That's ahead of ahead of the times.

Right.

Yeah.

That was them really thinking of like how do we give a vacation to the parents, too.

The bedtime stories.

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Sabrina's phone hauntings

I have two phone hauntings. One's personal, and I've shared them both No, I've shared them both on the podcast before, but I'll put them here as well because some people listen to random episodes and don't hear it all, but So, the first one was when my It's not my story, but it's my grandmother's story. I actually have three.

I remember one of yours specifically.

The from the house?

No. The hotel.

Oh, that's That's the one I was going to share. Well, I'll start with my grandma's. So, it was My grandfather had passed away, and every night after he passed away, my grandmother started getting a phone call, same time every single night.

Mhm.

But when she would like go to pick up the phone, the ringing would have stopped. Then finally on like the third night, the phone rang, and she realized it was her cell phone. And so, she picked it up, and on the other end was

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like static, but it kind of sounded like voices were trying to come through, and it was like very weird. She falls back to sleep. This is around like 3:00 a.m. It's like middle of the night.

Wow. [clears throat]

And the next morning, she looks at the number that had called, and it was her number with the number seven in front of it. And the phone calls literally happened every single night the exact same time for I think like 4 days. But we believe it was like the time that my grandfather had actually passed away.

Yeah.

And he was like trying to like communicate.

that it was. Like I I I hope that it would make sense. That would make the most sense.

negative vibes from it.

I know, but just like the pattern of of every time she In the beginning, when she tried to answer the phone, right? It stopping, I'd be like, "Who's watching me through the windows?"

Well, cuz it was like she would wake cuz her landline was downstairs. So, she would wake up to the ringing, and she'd be like, "That's weird. Why is someone calling me late at night?" But she also like left her her cell downstairs.

Mhm.

So, she'd have to like go walk to go downstairs and like by the time she would like get up to go, it would stop ringing.

Okay. Okay.

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wasn't like she was

No.

hand on the receiver about to

No.

answer.

And then, okay, my second one, this one's creepy. When we were looking at a house, this is when I was like in eighth grade, my family was moving. We were looking at a house in Princeton, New Jersey. We were looking at like three different houses and we were between a couple. My dad had traveled overseas a lot, so he hadn't been to see the two houses we were like between.

Mhm.

So, he comes home and goes with us to go see one of the houses. This is beautiful, brand new build. It's like tucked away, kind of in the woods, stunning.

Yeah.

But, weird vibes.

Yeah.

And we all kind of felt it, but like we didn't really think too much of it. And I think before this, we had all

the one that your dad was like, "There's no way we're living here."?

Yeah. But so, before this one time we went to go see the house, every time we'd gone to the house it was during the day. This time, we went at night. So, the feeling was even creepier.

Mhm.

We're in the house.

is creepy during the day.

Yeah.

A beautiful new build and you get creepy

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feelings during daylight hours?

Yeah. No.

Hard no.

We're in the house. My dad immediately is like, cuz my dad has a lot of paranormal stuff, immediately is like, "No. Like, th- there's something really strange about this house." At the time, my mom and dad both had Blackberries and this is when Blackberries were mostly for email, not for phone [clears throat]

Mhm.

calls, too. My mom had left hers in the car. My dad starts getting a call on his Blackberry and he like goes to pick up, nothing. Puts it away. Call again. He looks at it and sees that it's my mom's Blackberry calling him. My mom's Blackberry was not set up for phone calls and my mom's Blackberry was in the car.

Uh okay, I remember you talking about this. And I I feel like my dad was like, "We need to get out of here."

Which like honestly, your dad was the perfect person to have that happen in that moment because he always seems to have been like pretty spiritually in tune

Mhm.

and picking up on the right vibes. So, good I'm glad that that did happen.

Can you imagine if you grew up there?

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You already The second house you guys went to was haunted, too. And you lived there.

Yeah, that would have been really bad.

so much worse.

Yeah. But then, I I brought it up to my mom and my sister recently and they were like, "Oh my god, we forgot about that." And I was like, "Yeah, I'm the ghost girl." I remember all these.

You have to remember most of your stories.

But then we looked up the house and it like all these things are really weird about the house. Like the records of it are weird. Like almost as if it was

Like it's trying to cover up how many people have lived there and left.

Cuz when you look it up, it says it was built in 2008 or something like that. But the year we were looking at it was 2007. So, it's almost like after multiple people wouldn't buy it, they like did more construction or like pretended they were still building it. And the sales records are really weird. Yeah, it's There's something weird about that house.

Very weird.

Okay, then my last one is the one that you were thinking of.

The hotel.

I was staying at a hotel in Morristown, New Jersey. I was in the room alone and I woke up to the phone ringing. And I picked up no like dial tone. So, I hung

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it up and I like started getting like like I started feeling weird, too. And it's an old hotel. Again, it happens. And I was like, "Uh I don't like that." So, I called the front desk and I was like, "Hey, I keep getting phone calls to my room." And they were like, "Hey, like like I'll check in case like another room had accidentally called me or something like that." And according to their phone records, there had been zero calls to my phone.

[sighs and gasps]

Didn't you unplug the phone the rest of the time?

a mirror.

Oh, okay.

Cuz there was a mirror facing the bed and it freaked me out.

Yeah.

I left it plugged in cuz I was kind of like, "How many more times is it going to ring?" Who's going to call?

Are they going to say something the third time?

Never called a third time.

Very freaky.

I know I had some, some but I don't remember them anymore. It's okay. More stuff will happen. And I feel like a lot of you have had haunted phone calls and weird things happen with your phone, so please email them to us two girls one ghost podcast@gmail.com. Email us any paranormal encounters, weird things that have happened to you because we want to hear them all.

Thank you to Jamie Ryan who edits and produces this podcast.

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Uh join us on Patreon. You can watch us on YouTube. Rate and review us on iTunes and tell all of your friends about us because this is a cult and this is a pyramid scheme and yeah. And we will

see you on the other side.

Very spooky.