- It's very comforting to hear the voice of a friend
or a loved one on the phone.
Whether you're close or far,
it's an easy way to connect with people.
However, like any other form of technology,
a simple phone call can be used by sinister individuals
to cause fear and terror.
(phone ringing)
- Hello. (screaming)
- Here are 10 terrifying mystery callers
with creepy messages.
(ominous music)
Number 10 is Outside Town.
Reddit is a great place
where people can share their experiences,
sometimes anonymously, sometimes not.
In one post, a Reddit user named David920
posted his experience of living in the countryside,
at least a 15-minute drive from the nearest town.
He was in the fifth grade at the time
and his parents were at work.
While hanging around his home passing the time,
the phone rang.
On the other end was the voice of a man.
In a low whisper,
the man described the clothes David was wearing.
It was then clear that the caller was watching him.
He then asked David where his parents were.
David lied and said that they were home,
to which the caller sarcastically answered,
"Sure," and started laughing.
David called the police, who were luckily nearby.
However, had they not been, who knows if the mystery caller
would've come knocking at the door, or worse.
Number nine in Nothingness.
Some calls are utterly mysterious.
One account describes just such a mystery.
In it, a man woke up one morning
to find that he had missed a call.
He wanted to call the number back,
but it was withheld or blocked.
Thinking nothing of it, he went about his day.
However, the very next morning, he had another missed call,
again from a blocked number.
This soon became a daily occurrence.
Eventually, he realized that the missed call
had always happened at the exact same time,
the stroke of midnight to be precise.
The man decided to find out who was calling,
so he stayed up until midnight.
The phone rang only once that night
and he wasn't able to answer it quickly enough.
This went on for months.
When he finally did react fast enough to answer,
there was only silence on the other end of the line.
It was as if nothingness itself had been calling.
Number eight is a Direct Line to Hell.
In some weird circumstances,
we're not called by mystery callers
but instead we become a mystery caller.
Take for example the experience of Elle on Reddit.
Elle was trying to get through to a friend.
After dialing the number, something strange happened.
There were no rings, just silence.
Then, suddenly, someone or something picked up.
At first, a strange noise sounded.
It was electronic, like an old fax machine.
However, soon this noise twisted and contorted
until it changed into the horrific screams
of countless people in pain.
The voices rose up to a crescendo,
becoming a terrible wailing sound.
Then the call ceased.
Elle's friend had no knowledge of the call
and Elle could only describe the experience
as being like calling a fax machine
if the machine was powered by human souls.
Number seven is Mother.
While working at the Apple Store,
one Redditor, we'll call her Sue,
had a traumatic experience with a mystery caller.
During a shift, a co-worker answered a phone in the store
and took a message.
When the co-worker relayed the message to Sue,
it was met with disbelief.
According to Sue's co-worker,
Sue's mother had just been on the phone.
Sue informed her co-worker that her mother had died
when she was just a kid.
Both Sue and her co-worker were certain
that it must have been a mistake.
However, the co-worker then revealed
that the caller had given not only Sue's name
but had also identified herself
using Sue's mother's real name.
They were unable to find a number to call back.
But most chilling of all
is the message which the mother had left.
She said, "Tell Sue I will be with her soon."
Number six is A Joke.
Sona was in her home one night when the landline rang.
At first, the person on the other end didn't say anything.
Eventually, the person revealed himself to be a man.
Sona didn't recognize the voice.
She was convinced that he was a stranger.
When she finally asked him, "Who is this,"
the mysterious caller replied grimly,
"Why do you want to know?"
Then, disturbingly, he said, "I can see you."
Sona laughed this off and thought it was a bad joke.
She even told the caller that his I-can-see-you routine
wasn't very original.
At this point, a train passed on the tracks
which laid close to Sona's house as loud as ever.
That was when she heard it,
the same train sound on the other end of the phone.
The mysterious caller hung up,
but he was most definitely nearby,
as his handset had picked up the same sound.
Number five is Let Me In.
(knocking)
In one Reddit post, a user, we'll call her Rachel,
shared her chilling experience.
It was 10 minutes after midnight
and Rachel was startled by a phone call.
When she answered, there was a woman on the line
who was calling from outside Rachel's apartment building.
Rachel had just moved across the country
and forgot that it was her last apartment
which had a call box outside.
If someone wanted to buzz in, they called from the call box
and then Rachel could buzz them in
using an app on her phone.
The woman kept using Rachel's name,
pleading to come inside, as she had nowhere to go.
Even though Rachel was certain she didn't know the woman,
she buzzed her in.
That was when she realized that she had buzzed a stranger
into her previous apartment building.
She never found out what that stranger wanted
or what they did once inside.
Number four is A Repeating Message.
Heavy breathing and mysterious callers
sitting silently on the other end of the line listening
are common components of creepy phone calls.
However, in some instances, full messages are left.
In a small number of these cases,
the messages aren't even from people.
One office worker from South Utica stayed late one night,
only to receive a call on her work phone.
When she answered it, a robotic voice repeated a message
about all members of the Department of Defense
needing to prepare for an immediate terrorist attack
and needing to avoid a specific location.
The call then ended.
The number was blocked and there was no way to call back.
The office worker was never sure if it was a hoax
or if the original owner of the number
had been more than a simple office employee.
Number three is a Missing Person.
In one harrowing mystery caller encounter,
a man discovered his new number had a terrifying history.
When an unfamiliar person called, he answered.
It was a young woman on the other end of the line.
And this happened many times,
but the woman did not identify herself
and kept saying it was a mistake.
Eventually, the call ceased.
Six months later, the man received another call,
this time from a different number.
When he answered it,
he was greeted by an angry middle-aged woman.
She said that her daughter had recently vanished
and that he was the last person anyone saw her with.
The man stated that he did not know
what she was talking about.
However, it soon became clear to him
that the calls were connected
and that the original caller
was probably the missing daughter.
To this day, nobody knows if she was ever found.
Number two is The Old Woman.
A Redditor by the name of Pure had an unnerving encounter
with a mystery when she was in high school.
One day, her cell phone rang.
However, Pure was not able to answer it.
The phone went to voicemail
and later she realized someone had left a message.
Listening to the voicemail,
Pure heard the voice of an elderly woman.
She gave her name, address, date of birth,
and her Social Security number.
She then said that it was urgent
and that whoever the call was intended for
should call her back immediately.
Worried that there was an emergency,
Pure dialed the number to let the elderly lady know
that she had dialed a wrong person.
A younger woman then answered the call.
When Pure told her what happened,
the woman abruptly said that her mother was dead
and then hung up the phone.
And number one is I Know You.
In one of the creepiest mystery phone calls ever reported,
a woman anonymously described her strange experience.
When Jill was still at school,
she was stopped in a parking lot by a stranger.
The stranger was a grown woman
and she had a phone in her hand.
She said Jill's name as though she knew her
and told her that someone needed to speak with her
on the phone.
Taking the phone, Jill heard another kid
about the same age as her on the line.
They had a conversation, but it was a strange one.
The kid on the phone never revealed her identity,
nor did the woman,
and yet the girl on the phone knew everything about Jill:
her name, her interests, everything.
After the conversation,
the woman took back the phone and walked away.
The mystery of who the girl on the phone was
and how she knew so much was never solved.
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