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After my aunt passed away from bone cancer, and her daughter had the land-line disconnected, my mother started receiving phone calls from that number. (They called each other daily, sometimes 2-3 times a day.) My mom was afraid to answer them at first as she knew the number was no longer in service - and she feared her sister was 'calling her to the grave' to join her. She called back twice, and got the "this number has been disconnected" recording. 

Once, she actually answered the call yet all she heard was static on the other end. This went on till my mother, afraid, got rid of that mobile phone and number. Then an old family friend started getting the calls. I Googled the phenomenon and even asked a local psychic with a paranormal team about it. She told me that my aunt only wanted my mom to know that she's okay where she is now. Has anyone else ever experienced this?

Source: : http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/3088361-phone-calls-dead.html

One day the man’s home phone rang, and when he picked it up he could hear his sister-in-law talking on the other end. Why would that be unusual? The woman had died three years earlier. “I have something to tell you,” she said. There was a pause, and the man could hear two people talking in the background. One was his wife who had died years earlier, and it sounded like his sister-in-law was trying to convince her to get on the phone to talk to him but she didn’t want to. 

Suddenly, the line went dead. The man was never able to figure out the meaning of the phone call, but he is absolutely certain that the voices he heard that day were those of his deceased wife and sister-in-law.

Source: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/3088361-phone-calls-dead.html

My grandmother and I were extremely close. She was my best friend. She passed away when I was 13. Fast forward 3 years. I was 16 and in my home with my best friend. I was folding laundry while we chatted and my phone, which I sat on top of the dryer, started to ring. The number was my grandmother's old number. I was more confused than scared and my friend just shrugged and said "answer it?". 

So I answered it. All I could hear was static and a very faint voice. I could never make out what was said but I kept asking "hello, can you hear me? I can't hear you...hello?" And the static noise just got louder. So I finally hung up. To this day, 10 years from then, I don't have answers as to how or why that happened.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/4m8cos/some_people_receive_phone_calls_from_the_dead/

My husband and I bought a severely neglected 1918 Craftsman home in the SF Bay Area. After toying with restoring it, the City called it a teardown and we had to start demo. I had placed ads locally to have people come and take original parts of the home. The door and sidelights, the old redwood on the walls, etc. I really felt like I should respect the house and say a silent thanks to the previous owners. The house tested positive for asbestos everywhere. By the time the abatement was done, the house was a bunch of sticks and foundation. We were getting ready for tearing down the rest of it. Suddenly I got a phone call from the police. They asked if I owned the property (of torn down house). 

They said someone is continually dialing 911 from that address. Every couple minutes. I explained that we tore down that house. That it's impossible. I said, maybe it has something to do with the wires. It will probably stop. The next day the police called me again. The 911 calls are non-stop and I will be charged for it. So I met an officer at the address of our torn down house. He gave me the phone number being used. It was my responsibility to call phone companies and figure out how to stop it. I called Verizon. They said it was AT&T. When I called AT&T they looked up the number and said, "This phone number was disconnected many years ago. It's impossible to make or receive calls from it. I have no explanation for how this could happen. Hopefully it will just stop on its own." The calls stopped that day.

Source: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/3088361-phone-calls-dead.html

I was in the car with a buddy of mine when he got a phone call. After he picked it up I saw his face turn pale and he threw his phone out the window and say in silence the test of the drive.

Turns out his grandpa who had passed a well earlier had called him. He picked it up cause the caller ID said out was his grandpa, thinking it was his aunt or something reaching out only to hear his grandpa saying "hey Jeremy how are you? ....Hello?"

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/4m8cos/some_people_receive_phone_calls_from_the_dead/

A month or so after my grandfather died an operator told my grandmother that she had a collect call from my grandfather and asked if she would 'accept the charges'.She freaked out,told the operator he was dead and hung up...…..I've always wondered what would have happened had she said yes.

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About a month after my mom died I got a text message from my DIL's phone number with no actual message. just a picture of my mom with her youngest great-grandchild; my granddaughter Sophia. It was almost 3 am but I thought just maybe ... my DIL had had to get up to nurse the baby & maybe just decided to send me the picture? I forgot about it for a couple of days & then realized I needed to text my DIL & say thanks for the pic. It really is a great pic taken two days before my mom died where both baby & great-grandma have their mouths open, looking at each other with a surprised 'peek-a-boo' look on their faces. Identical in angle of their heads & everything. Really cute. This is how the text convo worked out:

Me: 'BTW; thank you for the pic!'

DIL: 'What pic?'

Me: 'The one of Grandma & Sophia.'

DIL: 'When?'

Me: 'Didn't you text me a pic really late a few nights ago?'

DIL: 'No, I don't think so. Which one?'

So I forwarded the picture back to her & she says:

DIL: 'I didn't send that! I took that picture with my old phone that Dawson (my grandson) broke!'

Then after a few minutes:

DIL: 'I think I know who sent you that pic ...'

Me: 'Yeah, me too.'

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/3088361-phone-calls-dead-2.html

About 8 years ago, I was working for a company that set up our office like a trading floor with lots of open space. The group I worked in sat together in one area, and our director had a desk on the floor with us. He also had a separate office, but most of the time, he sat with us and had his phone set up to ring in our area. One day, our director was in a meeting. My group (there were five of us) was working, and we were all fairly occupied. A call came to our director’s line. It rang a few times and bounced over to us. They guy I sat next to answered the phone. It was clear that it was not a call related to our work, and my colleague kept asking the person on the other end to speak up. He wrote something down, and the call ended quickly thereafter. My colleague remarked that the person on the other end either got cut off, or hung up abruptly. Fifteen minutes later, or so, my director came back from his meeting. He asked if anything came up, and my neighbor told him that he received a call from a woman named Pam. 

He went on to say that she called him to say hello and that she missed him. My director said “Pam?” And my coworker said yes, that was the name she gave. He then said that she sounded like she was calling from the bottom of the ocean, and once she gave the message, she was abruptly disconnected, or hung up on him. The boss’ face turned gray. He told us that he only knew of one Pam. She was a friend of him and his wife who lived several states away, and she had just died of cancer the week before.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/3088361-phone-calls-dead-3.html

My grandmother passed away 6 years ago after a long illness. The day after the funeral, my parents returned to their home to get back to work. When my parents got home after driving three hours from where the funeral took place, they go in the house and my mother said that the landline phone was ringing. Not as it normally would, but alternating short and long rings that were not spaced apart as they typically would be. She answered the phone, and got an earful of static. Admittedly, this could have other reasons for occurring, but my mother is convinced that it was her mother’s way of saying goodbye to her.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/unexplained-mysteries-paranormal/3088361-phone-calls-dead-3.html

It was about 3pm in the afternoon in the year 1976. I was waiting for some friends to pick me up when I decided that I would call my friend, Myla, to ask why they were late. As I picked up the phone to call, I found that there was no dial tone so I decided to say hello, since during the 70’s, we had what you would shared ‘party lines’. These were often illegally connected to other peoples’ phone lines. But what I instead got was a friendly greeting from a friend named George.

He was interested in Myla, but Myla already had a boyfriend. He started by asking me to tell Myla he loved her very much and was also sorry for making trouble for her and her boyfriend and that he would leave them alone. He said take care of her. Then I told him that it is best to leave them alone since she was very much involved with her boyfriend. I told him maybe it’s best to tell her himself and apologize to both Myla and her boyfriend. I was waiting for a reply, but I thought he had hung up on me since he did not reply.

I decided to call Myla and tell her what had happened and that I was angry because he was rude to hang up on me. She asked me if I was joking, I said “NO, I just talked to him”. Then she told me that it was impossible to have spoken to him as his brother had just called and told her that George died the night before at 11pm.

Source: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2016/01/02/phone-call-from-the-dead/

Sometime in 1999, Judy W.'s phone was out. Her mother was at work and she was asleep when the phone rang and woke her up. She answered the phone but didn't hear anything. She listened and then this man said something that she did not understand. She said, "What?" Then the man repeated himself. He said, "Is this the barbershop?" To which Judy replied "No." Then she didn't hear anything else. 

The phone sounded dead, so she hung up. But she soon realized that the person sounded exactly like her grandfather, who had been dead for four or five years. The phone wasn't even working at the time it rang, because after it had rung she picked it up and the phone was still out! Judy says she is convinced it was her grandfather. 

Source: https://www.liveabout.com/freaky-phone-calls-2596706

Simma Lieberman said she’s experienced that ominous feeling and has never forgotten it – though it took place more than 40 years ago. Today, Lieberman is a workplace diversity consultant based in Albany, California. In the late 1960s though, she was a young woman in love. Her boyfriend, Johnny, was a mellow hippie “who loved everybody,” a guy so nice that friends called him a pushover, she said. She loved Johnny, and they purchased an apartment together and decided to marry.

Then one night, while Lieberman was at her mother’s home in the Bronx, the phone rang and she answered. Johnny was on the line, sounding rushed and far away. Static crackled. “I just want you to know that I love you, and I’ll never be mean to anybody again,” he said. There was more static, and then the line went dead. Lieberman was left with just a dial tone. She tried to call him back to no avail. When she awoke the next morning, an unsettled feeling came over her. She said it’s hard to put into words, but she could no longer feel Johnny’s presence.

Then she found out why. “Several hours later, I got a call from his mother that he had been murdered the night before,” she said. Johnny was shot in the head as he sat in a car that night. Lieberman thinks Johnny somehow contacted her after his death – a crisis apparition reaching out not through a vision or a whiff of perfume, but across telephone lines. She’s sorted through the alternatives over the years. Could he have called before or during his murder? Lieberman doesn’t think so.

This was the era before cell phones. She said the murderer wasn’t likely to let him use a pay phone, and he couldn’t have called after he was shot because he died instantly. Only years later, when she read an article about other static-filled calls people claimed to have received from beyond the grave, did it make sense, she said. Johnny was calling to say goodbye. “The whole thing was so bizarre,” she said. “I could never understand it.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/living/crisis-apparitions/

In an after-death communication, John receives a mysterious phone call from an old friend, Ted.

“While I was going through my divorce, I moved back into my parent’s home for a period of time, to get my life in order.”

“One day while I was out, an interesting phone call came. My father answered the phone to hear the caller asking for me. Since I wasn’t home at the time, my father took the man’s message. He gave his name. Then, he reminisced about how we once worked together, and wanted me to call him back, as soon as I got home.”

“Later, when I arrived home, my father gave me the message. With paper in hand, I dialed his number. Waiting patiently for someone to pick up the phone, a woman answered. When I asked for my friend, there was a long pause from his wife, followed by, “You must be mistaken. It is impossible for Ted to have called you. He died of lung cancer 3 months ago!”

Source: https://griefandmourning.com/phonecall-from-heaven

The audio is from a CC operator from a Children Foundation, who held a phone call with a man. The call goes as any regular phone call you’d expect. The operator even explains about the Foundation to the old man, seeking for donations. The man is really polite and sounds cheerful, though if you listen closely you realize that there’s no “hissing” noise resulting from the air blown through the lips onto the handset such as the noise you hear from the operator’s voice (and later that of the wife’s). 

After a short while, the man says he’ll have to consult with his wife about the donations and that he’ll be happy to pick up the call later, so the operator schedules a call after 6pm. When the second call is made a woman picks up the phone. 

The operator then asks for Mr. Gonzalo, the wife doesn’t seem at all surprised at first (As you’ll often pick up calls from CC from banks and stuff seeking for a relative that might be long gone) but her tone changes drastically upon learning that the operator had talked to her husband earlier that day to which the old woman replies that Mr. Gonzalo’s been dead for 14 months after a tragic traffic accident. The operator sounds baffled; of course you wouldn’t believe such a thing! So she insists about Mr. Gonzalo and after a few moments the wife broke in tears. She’s both happy and sad that her husband is still around, taking care of her.

The wife asks then if Mr. Gonzalo said anything about his wife to the operator (as it is often a common belief that dead relatives speaking to another living person would share a message from beyond for their loved ones), sadly this is not the case though. The operator remains in line for several minutes with the widow now, trying to cheer her up as she clearly heard Mr. Gonzalo quite happy. The widow keeps crying, repeating how she is happy that his loved husband is still there, caring for her even in the afterlife. Even the operator seems understanding due to the woman’s tears, until the call ends.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/2463tt/call_center_phone_call_with_a_ghost/

A timely call

My husband of 58 years passed away on December 9, 2014, the same day his mother died 41 years earlier. On the anniversary of his death in 2015, I received “thinking of you” flowers and phone calls from friends and family. That afternoon, my phone rang twice and stopped. Wondering who it had been, I checked the caller ID. To my surprise, it showed my husband’s name and phone number. I have never received calls like that before or after.

–Eva Dreucci, Washington, Pennsylvania

Source: https://www.rd.com/list/stories-of-messages-from-the-dead/

C'était après le déjeuner, un samedi de Juin 1960, Mme Fox était seule dans son appartement du quatrième étage à la périphérie de la ville canadienne de Toronto. Elle attendait un appel de sa maman d'une banlieue voisine mais elle n'était absolument pas préparée par l'incident qui allait se produire. De nombreuses années plus tard, elle raconte :

" J'ai pris le téléphone et j'ai failli m'évanouir quand j'ai entendu la voix. C'était ma fille Peggy, je n'ai eu aucun doute à ce sujet ! ". Elle disait : " Bonjour maman ! Pouvez-vous m'entendre ? Ne soyez pas triste ... Je suis tellement heureuse ". Puis la ligne a été coupée. " Je suis restée là, immobile, incapable de me déplacer sous le choc ". Ce qui n'est guère surprenant car elle prétend avoir entendu la voix de sa fille, Peggy Fox, qui était morte six mois plus tôt ...

Peggy était une jeune fille de 12 ans, joyeuse et espiègle. Elle est décédée à cause d'un mystérieux virus en hiver de 1959, et, malgré les meilleurs soins prodigués par l'hôpital, elle s'est éteinte deux semaines plus tard avec ses parents à son chevet.

Bien que naturellement bouleversée par la mort de son unique enfant, Mme Fox, une secrétaire à mi-temps, avait essayée de reprendre goût à la vie après le deuil de sa fille et elle semblait sur la bonne voie. Elle et son mari avaient parlé de la possibilité d'adopter un enfant et puis soudain, tout le chagrin entourant la mort de Peggy revinrent à eux. Au retour du mari une heure plus tard, il trouva sa femme pleurant sans cesse. Quand elle a expliqué ce qui s'était passé, Paul Fox a dit que ça devait être un canular de très mauvais goût ... Il a contacté la compagnie de téléphone pour trouver des traces de l'appel, mais en vain.

Deux jours plus tard, ça a recommencé. Cette fois, Paul était dans la salle quand sa femme a répondu et lui arracha le téléphone à temps pour entendre une voix qui disait : " C'est Peggy, maman ne pleurez pas ... ". Puis, une fois de plus, la ligne était coupée. Choqué, Paul Fox a eu la présence d'esprit de contacter la compagnie de téléphone et encore une fois on lui a répondu qu'il n'y avait aucune trace de l'appel. Par la suite, Paul Fox déclarait : " Je jurerais que c'était la voix de ma fille ... j'étais là quand son cercueil a été descendu dans la tombe ... ".

Au cours de la semaine suivante, Mme Fox a reçu un autre appel téléphonique dans lequel la voix disait : " Faites mes amitiés à minou " qui était apparemment le petit nom d'amitié de Peggy pour son grand-père maternel et que seule sa maman connaissait. Mme Fox déclarait plus tard : " Personne ne sait cela à part ma fille ... ". Les choses qu'elle disait puis le ton de sa voix étaient identiques à Peggy. " Elle a même eu la drôle de façon de prononcer le " th " que Peggy avait. Je refuse de croire que quelqu'un imitait ma fille ".

Que penser de ce que les Fox ont vécu ? Le cas a reçu une publicité nationale et a attiré l'attention du Dr John Craggs, psychologue à l'Université de Chicago et un des meilleurs chercheurs psychiques. Il a enquêté sur l'affaire qu'il a repris plus tard dans un livre. Il en est venu à la conclusion suivante :

" Je suis certain que Monsieur et Madame Fox disent la vérité au sujet des appels. Il n'y a absolument aucune raison de penser qu'ils mentent ". Avec l'accord de la famille, les Fox ont installé un dispositif d'enregistrement au téléphone, prêt à fonctionner lorsque le téléphone sonnera. 

Le 03 Août 1960, le téléphone a sonné et Mme Fox a répondu. Le dispositif mis en place a marché et la bande résultante est stockée dans les archives de la Société américaine pour la Recherche Psychique (American Society for Psychical Research). Voici une transcription de la conversation. La voix d'une fille dit : " [...] Je vous aime. Donnez mon amour au papa aussi. Je suis très heureuse. Ne pleurez pas s'il vous plaît comme vous avez fait la dernière fois ". Mme Fox : " Peggy, ma chérie, est-ce vraiment vous ? " 

La voix de Fille : " Vous ne devez pas être blessés. J'essayerai à ... " et le téléphone coupe.

Le Dr Craggs écrivit plus tard : " La cassette a été montrée à plusieurs amis de Peggy qui ont tous reconnu sa voix ". Une théorie pour expliquer ce genre d'affaire serait que les influences extérieures peuvent manipuler des impulsions électriques sur le téléphone. Il semble que cette solution soit farfelue mais dans le cas très étrange de Peggy Fox, personne n'a encore trouvé une meilleure hypothèse ...

Source: http://terre-enigmatique.overblog.com/le-myst%C3%A8re-des-appels-t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phoniques-de-l-au-del%C3%A0

Woman Texts Husband From the Coffin

Frank Jones, whose wife Sadie died five years ago, says he has been plagued by SMS messages and missed calls since she was buried—her beloved cellphone in the coffin beside her. The weirdest part of all of this is that 20 years ago, when Frank and his family moved into their house in the British resort town of Blackpool, they were plagued by paranormal behavior. Doors were slammed, bedclothes pulled off the kids while they slept, taps were turned on—and all this was put down to a malevolent presence called “The Thing.”

So, the Joneses called in Blackpool’s answer to Ghostbusters, the Fleetwood Spiritualist Church, who cleansed the property of The Thing, according to them a spirit “trapped between two worlds.” For five years everything was A-OK until the family was hit by a double tragedy: first the death of son Steven, then Sadie just three months later. After she was buried, the weirdness returned.

Shortly after his wife’s death, Frank claims to have had a missed call on his mobile, which didn’t ring. “The call was from my own home number, but there was nobody in the house,” he explains. “When I went inside there was a smell like cigarettes which Sadie used to smoke and the smell of her perfume.” The 59-year-old also claims that his late wife has been sending them all SMSes from beyond the grave. “There have been messages with words Sadie would say but there’s no number.”

Source: https://notebookofghosts.com/2016/03/20/phone-calls-and-more-from-beyond-the-grave/