Creepy phone calls or messages

YES I HAVE!

You mean these kinds of calls?

[quote]there’s so many stories out there about creepy messages, phone calls from dead people or weird threatening calls.

There are?

[quote]It’s one of the things that scares me most.

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Really?

My friend, Diane, has a hyper/manic/impulsive sister. One time the sister picked up the phone to call Diane, but was in such a hurry that she misdialed and accidentally called some random older woman.

As soon as the woman picked up the call, the sister shouts: “Di”!!! After a moment of silence the woman on the other end let’s out a small moan/sigh and hangs up.

R4 - I totally fell for that one! lol

Yes, evil spirits seek me out and that's why I get calls like this ALL THE TIME.

"I know who you are& I know what you did"

^^SAW WHAT YOU DID^^^

Not creepy, but here's the story of the best voicemail ever.

Fred's mother when interviewed: Please leave a message for me and The Little Mermaid. Well, that's all I had to hear. I was so infuriated and so incensed, that without even thinking-- and I never ever say this word-- I said, Fred, you and The Little Mermaid can both go fuck yourselves.

R5 - That story is 100% TRUE!

I’ve told this story on DL before.

My maternal grandfather died after cell phones became popular, but before smartphones came out so my mother and aunts all had phones, but they weren’t on them at all times. In the immediate aftermath of his death their phones kept calling each other. A cell phone in a purse would be calling a cell phone in a jacket pocket in the closet.

He liked practical jokes.

I was very easily bored and very good at accents so would phone businesses in the evenings and leave messages on their answer machines like "I'm warning you Yvette, just stay away from Michael. I know what you're trying to do and it won't work. He will never love you because he knows why you went to prison".

and "It's me, Sharon's just called to say 3 police cars have pulled up outside Frank's and are searching his house. You did hide it safely didn't you? Delete this message"

R12 - instigator of random mischief and chaos

🎵 No more waking me up in the morning. With your disturbing phone calls NO MORE DRAMA

Never!

For some reason, as a child, I was on the receiving end of a lot of heavy breathing and "I am going to kill you" calls. I hope it was just because I answered the phone, and they were directed towards my mom or grandma. When I was about 9 or 10, I wrote down and called the number of a "for a good time call" on the wall of a men's bathroom stall, nervous I said something childish like "mmm,iwhannatouchyourpeepee" and hung up.

Of all my fears, fears of receiving phone calls from the dead is not on the list of My Top 10,000 Greatest Fears

Shortly after getting my first answering machine, I began to get messages from “Lauren,” who was very sad and asking why I hadn’t visited her lately. She said to look for the house with the red light when I come to visit. This went on for quite a while. When I called the number she called from, a very gruff-sounding man answered the phone, and I hung up. The calls stopped eventually. I refer to her as “Red-light Lauren.”

I could tell you a few stories

I love weird/supernatural stories. Do we have any previous threads on the subject?

One of the cheesier, but fun 80s songs...

Oops, I really did not see r19 - sorry!

The call is coming from inside the GRAVE

OP does the name Gary Sudbrink mean anything? Listen right before bedtime and let the nightmares commence

Zsa Zsa soundboard prank

Yes r24 that’s a creepy case

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The Cindy James death case, which has haunted every '80s/'90s kid who saw the Unsolved Mysteries episode—she alleged she had been stalked and harassed over a period of years in the Vancouver, B.C. area before she was finally found dead, hogtied in the backyard of an abandoned house. There is a lot of debate about whether or not she staged these incidents herself, or whether she was an actual victim of a stalker. I am on the fence, but this voice message that was left on her home answering machine is the stuff of nightmares.

It sounds like a woman trying to sound like man @R28

R5 that's what many people have said, and I agree. A lot of people think she was masquerading her own voice. Even still, I find it very creepy. Whether she was doing this all to herself or not, the entire series of events is sinister and disturbing. In a strange way, it's almost darker if she was the one behind it all.

R24, a guy sped up the voice and it’s Gary himself playing a tape recorder.

This case was the ultimate. A child calls taunting you all over the country at every business you own saying they’re coming to kill you.

I once returned messages for a group voicemail box. One message had a man saying "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god", and his voice sounded loud and upset. Perhaps he was dismayed that he had reached voicemail instead of a live person. The message ended abruptly, and he didn't leave his name or number.

I saved the message in the mailbox. Then every couple of weeks I would forward it to another team's group voicemail box.

My coworker in the next cube was checking our group's customer service email box. She said that a customer kept writing to her, saying things like she looked good and that he looked forward to seeing her. I told her that if someone was harrassing her, she should report the messages to the company CEO. (There were only 23 employees at the company.)

A few weeks later, when I was the only person working the day before a holiday, a call came in on our group's customer service line, and I took the call. 'The customer said he had recently received a letter from our CEO threatening to end his contract because of harassment. He explained that his computer had a virus and was sending out bizarre email messages to random addresses. Then he said that he was having his snail mail sent to his mother's house while he worked on different sites, and when his mother told him that he had received a letter from our company, he had asked her to read it to him over the phone.

The calls from the towers on 9/11. I heard some once....never again.

Getting calls from the dead terrifies me. But what’s even worse is having call waiting and you’re on the phone with the dead but you get another call and you have to ask the dead to hang on because someone else is calling.

Long ago back in the answering machine days I came home pretty baked one night around midnight - the machine message button was flashing so I played the message while getting ready for bed. The message started fairly chatty from someone who knew my name but whose name I didn't recognise, then the tone changed and the caller started describing how he would kill me the next time that he saw me. Even thirty years later it freaks me out to describe - it involved strangling me with piano wire and went on for some time in explicit detail.

I took the tape to the police first thing next morning (after sitting up all night with all the lights on) but they said there wasn’t anything that they could do without the culprit’s phone number.

I had recently written an opinion piece with my byline for one of the local gay papers - first time that I had done that - so I assumed that it was related to that but I never found out.

A police dispatcher received a call from an empty funeral home in Pueblo, Colorado in the early morning hours. The police checked it out and there was nobody there. Creepy as fuck.

When I was around twenty I got three of four calls (private number) over the space of a couple of weeks of some guy wanking. Heavy breathing, moaning, jerking noises, once I waited to listen to him cum and the others I hung up after a couple of minutes after I got bored 😂 wonder who it was.

R37 - That is freaky AF!

I would have totally stayed up all night with the lights on as well!!

Do heavy breather phone calls even exist anymore?

Years ago I got a wrong number call on my answering machine. It was a guy saying snarky things in a derisive, effeminate voice to someone named 'Roger'. After listening to it several times I surmised these guys had had a tryst and my caller was some psycho who wanted to freak the other one out. He ended the call with a loud burp, then shouted, "FAAAG!".

I had a female friend staying with me at the time (after a fight with her parents) and she heard the message, too. I don't think she ever believed the call wasn't for me. She moved back home soon afterwards.

[quote][R24], a guy sped up the voice and it’s Gary himself playing a tape recorder.

Yeah, it's obvious the closer you listen that you can hear a tape recorder rewinding. But the voice is creepy regardless. I don't know what podcast I was listening to when I first heard the case discussed but it was at night while I was in bed and I definitely couldn't sleep after hearing those calls. The popular theory is that he had one of those Talkboy toy recorders Macauley Culkin used in Home Alone 2 that can distort voices.

There's no fun to be had with phones .

We elders had so much fun making prank calls.

Our little group of friends were experts.

My mother laughed when she'd see me and my friends going upstairs with the MASSIVE FUCKING PHONEBOOK saying we were going to play and listen to records.

Back in the 90s I signed up for those personal ads in the back of the free local paper and you had to set up a voice mailbox to receive messages. I did it a few times and every time I got the same deep-voiced caller saying ominously, "Daddy wants to do you" with no other message or info. I'm sure he meant it to be sexy but to my ears at the time it sounded serial killer disturbing. Thinking about it now it just sounds laughable

When the poet W H Auden was living in bohemian quarters in NY, he had a call: "I'm going to castrate you, then kill you." In his fruity campy Oxford accent he replied, "I think you have the wrong number. Good day to you."

My mother had a caller telling her it was her lucky day because he'd DIALED her number with his ERECT PENIS. She thought it was funny and laughed.

It was my sister's second husband's brother.

I placed personal ads in the local rags in the 90s, trying to find a relationship, very inexperienced and naive. Once I got a reply from an older businessman from New Jersey. I guess he traveled regularly to my flyover city. We exchanged pictures once and talked on the phone a few times. He seemed cordial enough, though a little pushy. And the conversations were always sexual, despite my efforts to be chatty. He kept saying stuff like, "Ohhh, I would fuck yoouuu...".

The last call weirded me out. I came home and the phone was ringing, and I was trying to answer it and turn off the junky machine at the same time. It just went straight to record. When I listened to the message he was SHOUTING angrily- something unintelligible.

Never communicated with him again.

My mom got a temp job making gift baskets in a grocery store. She said one worker there named Cesare kept coming on to her, even though she was married. When she started getting obscene phone calls from someone rasping, "I wanna fuck you..." she sorta suspected it was him.

Not long after, I was outside on the patio when I heard my mom talking on the phone. I decided to eavesdrop and heard her just saying firmly over and over, "NO..... NO..... NO.".

Some bad actor was spoofing my phone number to call someone and the person receiving the calls called me and threatened me. The weird thing is that the caller suspected I wasn’t really the person calling him, but the caller threatened me for not doing anything to stop it.

Good call, R19!

Actually if I have any interaction with the dead at all, let it be by phone.

If a spectral entity swirls into my house, what am I going to do? Go get a priest? Call Bill Murray and Harold Ramis? It would simply ruin everything.

If I get a call from a spook, now THAT I can manage.

Me: Hello?

Ghost: Boooo…

Me: You’ve dialed the wrong number!

Ghost: Oh, I’m sorry.

Me: Sorry? What good is that? How can you ever repay the last thirty seconds you have stolen from my life? I hate you, your husband, your children, and your relatives!

(I hang up and flounce out of the room)

I’ve seen shadow people a few times in my life and I was shocked how not scary it was. Once was outside in daylight hours and my dog saw it too. Some people say they’re evil but I didn’t feel any kind of malice

When I was really young, someone called our house and accused my mother of being Alice Crimmins (who strangled her two young children to death…google her.)

Like Crimmins, my mom was a redhead born in the Bronx. I don’t remember much about it except my mother being so shaken and upset.

Unfortunately my mom is no longer with us but Crimmins is—out on parole, alive and well at 86.

When I was but a child, people would send us telegrams accusing my Uncle Nate of being a man named Farnsworth Smethington III.

Uncle Nate insisted he’d “never heard of the manjack,” but I could tell that our cat did not believe him.

A retired police dispatcher on YouTube did an analysis of the call at R38. The scary part is that isn't necessarily made clear is that the call came in and was dropped initially. The dispatcher, following standard protocol, called back, and the phone was picked up despite the fact that nobody was inside the funeral home. As she notes, there are sometimes glitches that could explain a call coming in, but the fact that the phone receiver was picked up when the 911 dispatcher called back is very bizarre.

The disturbing voicemail sent by Henry McCabe. It sounds like a demon had him for a midnight snack.