Encounters x335 - Phone Calls From the Other Side

Summary

Two Girls One Ghost – Encounters x335: Phone Calls From the Other Side

Podcast: Two Girls One Ghost
Hosts: Corinne Vien and Sabrina Deana-Roga
Date: June 11, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this chilling yet comedic Encounters episode, Corinne and Sabrina dive into the theme of “phone hauntings”—paranormal experiences involving mysterious calls, ghostly voicemails, and inexplicable technological glitches. Drawing from listener-submitted stories, personal experiences, and the hosts’ signature rapport, the episode explores how spirits might reach out from the other side, sometimes using the most mundane of objects: our phones.

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Key Discussion Points & Listener Stories

The Power and Haunting of Phones

• Corinne and Sabrina reminisce about past episodes involving haunted phone numbers, which sparked a surge of listener encounters involving eerie calls and technological anomalies.
• They note that their podcast sometimes seems to incite paranormal activity for listeners, particularly those listening in certain settings.

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1. "Stop Sending Ghosts to Me" (Nancy's Story)

• Timestamp: 03:40–13:13
• Nancy, a long-time listener, describes a sequence of encounters that began after listening to a prior TGOG haunted phone episode:
  • Creepy Phone Call: Listening to a haunted phone numbers episode, Nancy skipped the actual scary voicemail playback, only to receive a real-life call from a number with weird symbols. The garbled static-filled voicemail that followed left her terrified.
  • Childhood Encounters:
    • Shadow Figure: At ages 6–7, Nancy saw a tall, static, shadowy figure behind her couch. When noticed, it audibly thudded to hide, scaring her deep into adulthood.
      • Quote: “Once it noticed I had seen it, it jumped down crouching behind the sofa... I actually heard the thud on the hardwood floors.” (Sabrina reading Nancy’s story, 07:22)
    • Another Shadow Person: At 8–9, Nancy saw another huge shadow by the garage door during a nighttime walk to the bathroom—again, a memory triggered by listening to the podcast.
    • Little Girl Apparition: As a child, Nancy saw a bizarre little blonde girl in a white nightgown in her fenced backyard. Her uncle saw nothing.
  • Themed Coincidences: Whenever Nancy listened in the shower, the podcast repeatedly featured shower ghost stories, making her feel as if something in her home was aware and reaching out during those moments.
  • Glitchy Playback: Once, Corinne’s voice glitched and repeated in sync with a story about sleep-talking, unnerving Nancy and causing her to question whether the podcast was haunted.
• Hosts’ Take: Corinne speculates that Nancy's home may have something trying to reach out, not maliciously but for recognition, amplifying the eeriness. They encourage Nancy to share more stories.

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2. "Payphone, Rhode Island" (Alyssa's Story)

• Timestamp: 15:49–20:22
• Alyssa shares a sweet and subtle encounter she came to appreciate after her grandfather Alan’s passing:
  • Grandpa Alan’s Sunday visits always involved a “guess the change” game, followed by him asking for two quarters “in case I need to use a payphone.”
  • Shortly after his death, Alyssa and her brother received two late-night calls to the family landline; the caller ID read “payphone, Rhode Island.” Silence greeted Alyssa both times.
    • “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?” (Alyssa, read by Corinne, 19:51)
  • To this day, Alyssa feels warmth and reassurance from quarters, believing it was her grandfather checking in from the other side.
• Hosts’ Take: Both Sabrina and Corinne believe it was Alyssa's grandfather, highlighting how phones can serve as comforting paranormal links.

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3. "Ghost Phone Call at My Job" (Mara's Story)

• Timestamp: 23:21–27:33
• Mara recounts a haunting at her summer job cleaning boats in an old, abandoned Kodak factory:
  • She felt a strong sense of dread near the dark office hallway attached to the boat area.
  • While working with a co-worker, both heard a persistent phone ringing—each thought it was the other’s phone.
  • The source was traced to a disconnected landline in the darkest part of the hallway.
    • “That was when I realized the ringing was coming from the dark hallway I was scared of earlier.” (Mara, read by Sabrina, 26:04)
  • Later, they learned the location had previously attracted ghost hunters and sometimes contained mysteriously moved old cars.
• Hosts’ Take: Corinne and Sabrina note the validation of Mara's intuition and the classic haunted vibe of the setting, questioning what a ghost would want with a landline.

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4. "My Phone Call from Beyond the Grave" (Diane's Story)

• Timestamp: 28:19–34:43
• Diane shares a harrowing tale of abuse, escape, and eerie closure:
  • After years of harassment and threats from her abusive ex, Todd, Diane discovered his obituary years after losing contact.
  • Strangely, on the anniversary of her marriage to her now-close friend Jim, Diane and Jim received a call to their home; the caller ID showed Todd’s full name and (30-year-old) phone number though he was confirmed dead.
    • “My heart stopped. I could not breathe. And my body was tingling... in the way that you would only feel like when someone is watching you, but you’re willing yourself not to acknowledge them.” (Diane, read by Corinne, 32:53)
  • Jim confirmed Todd’s death, and the original number was disconnected, leaving the source of the call a mystery.
• Hosts’ Take: The hosts express their horror at Diane’s experience, commiserate about survivors’ safety, and emphasize that not all spirits are worthy of acknowledgment—sometimes, even in death, people need to “go away.”

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5. "Phone Calls from the Beyond" (Brianne's Story)

• Timestamp: 36:58–45:57
• Brianne describes a series of unnerving calls that began days after using a Ouija board in a cemetery with friends:
  • She and her roommates began receiving calls from local numbers; the voices were robotic but not entirely nonhuman, and delivered mean, taunting, or threatening messages. Sometimes, the calls referenced “dog poop,” sometimes threats of violence, intensifying their fear.
  • All three roommates began getting similar calls, always when alone—not together—over the span of months.
  • Attempts to ignore the calls or get help from a medium led to temporary relief, but calls would resume unpredictably, including a Happy Birthday serenade from the same “voice” on Brianne’s 21st birthday.
    • “It truly never lasted more than 30 to 40 seconds... it truly felt like it was an automated type of thing.” (Brianne, read by Sabrina, 43:13)
• Hosts’ Take: Both hosts debate possible explanations—scam calls, prank dialing services, or the supernatural—ultimately feeling the experience is too targeted and weird to dismiss easily.

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6. Corinne and Sabrina's Personal Phone Hauntings

• Timestamp: 49:41–54:34
• Sabrina recounts three personal stories:
  • Her Grandmother's Late-Night Calls: After Sabrina’s grandfather passed, her grandmother would receive nightly calls at the same time, eventually picking up to static and barely-audible voices. The call’s origin was her own number preceded by a ‘7’.
  • Creepy BlackBerry Incident: While touring a possible new house, Sabrina’s dad received a call from her mom’s BlackBerry, which was not set up for calls and left in their car. This, along with previously felt bad vibes, convinced them not to buy the house.
  • Haunted Hotel Phone: Staying alone in a Morristown, NJ, hotel, Sabrina received repeated calls to her room’s landline. The front desk confirmed no internal calls had been placed.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Phone-Based Hauntings:
  • “Is it just our specific Patreon page that, like, we can’t get to? Things are, like, getting edited, deleted. Text is changing. It’s like we’re not even doing anything.” – Corinne (12:32)
  • “Two quarters, two calls.” – Corinne (20:46)
  • “What if they had realized it was the landline in the moment? What would have happened if they picked up the phone?” – Sabrina (27:59)
• On Podcast-Induced Paranormal Events:
  • “I have remembered some memories from childhood that I seemingly forgot, which I kind of wish maybe I had.” – Sabrina, quoting Nancy (06:28)
  • “I feel like the ghost in your bathroom is trying to gently expose itself to you. In like a non-pervy way.” – Corinne (11:06)
• On Safety & Stalking:
  • “Stalking is one of the scariest crimes... Like, if someone makes threats like that... there should be some type of intervention that happens at that stage.” – Sabrina (30:13)
• On Scam Calls vs. Hauntings:
  • “When there are scam calls, the more you pick up, the more they call... but there’s two issues with that.” – Corinne (45:57)
  • “This is why you don’t answer unknown numbers call.” – Sabrina (47:00)

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Thematic Insights

• Phones as Portals: The entwining of old and new technology with the supernatural shows how the mundane—particularly phones—can become vehicles for ghosts, memories, and even lingering trauma.
• Patterns and Triggers: Stories frequently involve patterns—repeated times, anniversaries, or environmental cues (like listening to the podcast in the shower).
• Safety & Validation: Many stories underline the role of intuition: fear, dread, and physical responses often precede or validate a haunting, while digital evidence (like caller ID or voicemail glitches) gives weight to otherwise dismissible sensations.
• Blurring Boundaries: The episode highlights how “normal” glitches or scam-like occurrences can tip into the genuinely uncanny, especially when mirrored among several people or synchronized with emotional anniversaries or events.

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Noteworthy Timestamps

• [03:40] Nancy’s haunted phone call and childhood encounters
• [15:49] Alyssa’s payphone call from her grandfather
• [23:21] Mara’s haunted workplace and the landline call
• [28:19] Diane’s horrifying closure and deathly phone call
• [36:58] Brianne’s prolonged, targeted “ghost scam” saga
• [49:41] Sabrina’s three family-related phone hauntings

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Episode Summary & Final Thoughts

Through a series of chilling, touching, and sometimes humorous stories, Corinne and Sabrina reveal how the world of phones and the supernatural frequently collide. Listeners shared tales of loved ones who checked in from beyond, spirits who haunt via static and numbers, and possibly darker energies that use technology to make contact. The episode blends validation for listeners’ experiences with practical advice—and a big warning about answering unknown calls.

Closing Salvo:
“Thank you to Jamie Ryan who edits and produces this podcast. Join us on Patreon, watch on YouTube, rate and review. Tell all your friends because this is a cult… and we will see you on the other side.” (55:28–55:40)

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If you’ve experienced a haunted call, the TGOG hosts want to hear from you. But take their advice: if you don’t recognize the number, maybe let it go to voicemail… just in case.

Transcript

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[Sabrina]

Very spooky. Ring ring ring. Ghost calling.

[Corinne]

But like actually this is two girls, one ghost.

[Sabrina]

Two girls, one ghost and we are your ghostesses. That is Corinne. Hello, I'm Sabrina and this episode has nothing to do with phones. I'm just kidding.

[Corinne]

Could you imagine? Well people can because we've started things like that before.

[Sabrina]

We are psycho.

[Corinne]

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,

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

phone anomalies pertaining to the Phones.

[Sabrina]

We did an episode a couple years ago about, like, haunted phone numbers. And after that episode, so many people had hauntings and, like, weird experiences.

[Corinne]

Isn't you? I feel like you got some weird.

[Sabrina]

I can't remember because we've had so many weird experiences. I know, but I do think I played like, a voicemail or something weird on that episode. Like, I'll have to go back and re listen.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

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 of people having, like, phone hauntings and being called by, like, really creepy numbers. And so my first story is that.

[Corinne]

Wow, okay.

[Sabrina]

And it's called stop sending ghosts to me.

[Corinne]

Oh, sorry. Now I feel bad.

[Sabrina]

Well, this is from 2020.

[Corinne]

So are you okay now?

[Sabrina]

We don't know. This is from our 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 Shout out 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 because I didn't want to be scared.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

I know have to look up what. What episode it was. Jamie will probably have 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 about listening to that scary voicemail, I was so happy I didn't listen.

[Corinne]

Now I want to hear it even more.

[Sabrina]

I was very tempted, freaked out. I know, but my chicken chip 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 gonna 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. Yep.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

I'm trying to. Should we try to find.

[Corinne]

That's exactly.

[Sabrina]

Okay.

[Corinne]

I'm going into our write on podcast.

[Sabrina]

I'm gonna search.

[Corinne]

Two girls, one ghost, cursed voicemail from Satan. Was it this?

[Sabrina]

Probably. What episode did we rated on?

[Corinne]

Oh, I don't know if this is it. Okay. Episode 111, cursed AF, is when you talk about people calling the number 6, 6, 6 6. Like that one. Was that 111? Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Okay. I really want to listen to that voicemail. But we can't. We just tried and we could not find what episode because the original episode we talked about haunted numbers was 111. But I do think we also did like an encounters with like, creepy phone things. Yeah. So if anyone have to keep looking,

[Corinne]

specifically, if we find it by the end of this, if it falls into

[Sabrina]

our inbox, into our laps, we get like a. Or if we get a voicemail during this episode, we will play it.

[Corinne]

Can you imagine?

[Sabrina]

That would be terrifying. Okay. As I've been listening to your podcast, so now 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 6 or 7, 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 6ft tall standing there. 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 staticky. Interesting.

[Corinne]

What I don't like about that is I feel like a lot of shadow people. It's just kind of like you see the shadow and it's unmoving, but when it's staticky, it like, makes it feel more alive.

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

Cause there's energy even though the figure itself is not moving.

[Sabrina]

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, 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.

[Corinne]

No, that's the worst part.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

Then I had another experience where I saw a shadow person. This time was at night. I think I was 8 or 9. 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 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. I would ride into the garden to go off roading, as I called it.

[Corinne]

So cute.

[Sabrina]

But I'd have to kind of wiggle through the gate door 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 couldn't because there was a little girl in the backyard and she scared me. You're a creepy kid. 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. And not to mention she was wearing a white nightgown and dress. 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 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 is not a good place to listen. That's like where the ghosts like to touch ya.

[Corinne]

I know. Do you have a skylight or something? I feel like I feel safer when

[Sabrina]

bathrooms have skylights or like some type of sunlight. Yeah, but then at night skylights can

[Corinne]

be creepy, but then it's way creepier. Yeah, you're right.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

Okay. And that's not that frequent, so I feel like that's a sign. I feel like the ghost in your bathroom is trying to gently expose itself to you. If that makes in like a non pervy way.

[Sabrina]

Right. Like, hey, susing our podcast to let you know it's there.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Can you please recognize that sometimes. Sometimes I'm in here too.

[Sabrina]

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 it's a coincidence. No.

[Corinne]

No, we don't.

[Sabrina]

Okay. And there's, like, 10 different stories that we've haunted Nancy. But there was one episode where it was a guy 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. Cause I was like, okay, my Internet sucks. Whatever. But. 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.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

Oh, with the Whitney episode.

[Corinne]

Yeah. When I said, like, if I die. If I die. If I die. And it kept glitching. And I was like, oh, my God, I'm gonna die.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

That is true. Because I've had to start using incognito mode just to do anything on Patreon, because otherwise, maybe it is haunted.

[Sabrina]

I don't know. Maybe we've haunted all of Patreon. Yeah.

[Corinne]

Is it just our specific Patreon page that, like, we can't get to? Things are, like, getting edited, deleted. Text is changing. It's like we're not even doing anything. Yeah.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

Wow. Okay.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Right. I think that there's a lot of 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 necessarily a bad thing, but just trying to be like, I'm here. Hello.

[Sabrina]

Well, and 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. Cause, yeah, shadow figure, little girl. And our podcast is haunting you.

[Corinne]

The thud. That is so. I. That's gross.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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 watch. 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. Okay. So now onto my sweet, short, maybe, encounter.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Obviously an encounter. But if you need room for doubt to make you feel safer, you do.

[Sabrina]

You boo.

[Corinne]

We won't allow it. But you can allow it in your own life.

[Sabrina]

You live in Deluland. We will not.

[Corinne]

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 that you're experiencing ghost stories?

[Sabrina]

Rewrite the narrative here.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Okay.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Yeah. We're the only normal ones here.

[Sabrina]

Everyone else, insane.

[Corinne]

This is how cults begin.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

the kind that does let you live your own life that you want. My maternal grandfather's name was Alan. 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 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.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

with my parents had a moment the other day where based on someone's age, they were. They called them elderly. And then they were like, oh, shit, we're like two years younger than them. Like, oh my God, we're elderly.

[Sabrina]

Scary.

[Corinne]

He was 76 years old and quickly declined from dementia. 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 was such a sweet man and we were very close. 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 o' clock 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. 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 they both insisted it must have just been someone calling the wrong number.

[Sabrina]

But then you would have heard them say something. Yeah.

[Corinne]

And why would they call back again?

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

An hour later?

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

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 payphones. I'd like to think that this was him.

[Sabrina]

Me too.

[Corinne]

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.

[Sabrina]

I absolutely believe it was Grandpa Allen.

[Corinne]

Right?

[Sabrina]

For sure. And, like, they're home alone. He's like, on them. Yeah.

[Corinne]

They're like, waiting up for their parents to get Home. And he's like, I'm just gonna call and check in.

[Sabrina]

And, like, the memories, like, so specific of when they would play that game. He always asked for two quarters back in case he needed a payphone. Like, that's such a specific characteristic of Grandpa Allen.

[Corinne]

Two quarters, Two calls.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

Oh.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Oh, that's really sweet.

[Sabrina]

I was like, that's really sweet.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

call their relatives or, like, their girlfriends. Yeah, like, only them.

[Corinne]

Right.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

We truly had to make an effort to 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 are calling them. You're asking. First of all, you had their number memorized.

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

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 and stating your intentions.

[Sabrina]

What are your intentions?

[Corinne]

Yes.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

And people used to just, like, drop by.

[Sabrina]

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? Cause 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?

[Corinne]

Oh.

[Sabrina]

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, because if 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?

[Corinne]

Yeah. I don't know, because 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,

[Sabrina]

constantly go and respond and remember one conversation over hours.

[Corinne]

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. Right.

[Sabrina]

And it's kind of better than, like, the text that you could have over.

[Corinne]

We get way more information.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. 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 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.

[Corinne]

Huh?

[Sabrina]

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. It was 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 for hauntings. So it's a five 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 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 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.

[Corinne]

Oh, my God. Yeah, that's when you. Like, if everything in your body is telling you that this is super scary and you need to leave, that's. Listen to your intuition.

[Sabrina]

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 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 headphone and said, hey, you gonna answer that? To which she looked at me and said, I thought that was your phone.

[Corinne]

Just a phantom phone.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

Like their phone's giving away that they're there.

[Corinne]

Yes.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Who was calling, though?

[Sabrina]

Very black phone.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

Oh, my God.

[Sabrina]

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 have been left there and then sometimes they move spots.

[Corinne]

Right.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Or is there like some secret society dark shit happening that you're.

[Sabrina]

You have no clue, like, what's happening at night?

[Corinne]

Yeah. And there's just, like small little bits and pieces happening.

[Sabrina]

Oh, that's so creepy.

[Corinne]

The footage, which actually 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, this comes out later. Undercover underground activities. Hidden. Ooh.

[Sabrina]

So you guys gotta go listen to the May Patreon bonus if you want to hear about that.

[Corinne]

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.

[Sabrina]

But then what if they. What if they had realized it was the landline in the moment? What would have happened if they picked up the phone? Yeah, because it does sound. It does feel like something is trying to get their attention or try to, like, speak to them.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

me before it gets towed? Geez, it's creepy.

[Corinne]

That is very.

[Sabrina]

That's all I know.

[Corinne]

Okay, I have one that's like. It's a little bit sad, a little bit dark. Oh, I might skip over a couple sentences.

[Sabrina]

Okay.

[Corinne]

My phone call from beyond the grave. And this is sent in by our listener, Diane. In college, I dated Todd, a strange guy who turned out to be violent and abusive.

[Sabrina]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Corinne]

He slut shamed me. He worshiped 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 wherever and that 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.

[Sabrina]

What the. I hate that people like this exist.

[Corinne]

I know. Yeah. So terrifying. He was friends with Jim. Jim And I had been friends for a while while I was dating Todd. And our friendship developed into love eventually. And then we got married. Todd was pissed. He felt so 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 gonna repeat. That's extremely dark.

[Sabrina]

Report him to the police.

[Corinne]

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.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

Stalking is one of the scariest crimes to happen. Because I feel like the intervention for stalking, it's like, well.

[Sabrina]

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 has threatened that he would kill her and put her body 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 should be some type of intervention that happens at that stage.

[Corinne]

Yeah. No, I agree with you. And she does say several homes and phone number changes later. So she's, like, trying to.

[Sabrina]

He's, like, fully stalking her.

[Corinne]

Yes. I finally stopped hearing from him, and then he disappeared off the map. And for me, this was so great.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

After a number of years, Jim and I did get a divorce, but we remain 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. And that is 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.

[Sabrina]

Whoa.

[Corinne]

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 fuck? 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. And 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 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.

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

We tried to continue the night as normal, but we just could not talk. How do you 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 the public record anyway. Yeah. So which like the trauma that that man created.

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

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 a false sense of relief.

[Corinne]

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 cult, what did they want to say? I kind of hope I never find out.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

No. And this is from Diane.

[Sabrina]

Diane. 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.

[Corinne]

Yeah, they're like best friends. Which I love that like sometimes, you

[Sabrina]

know, marriage puts pressure on things that.

[Corinne]

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.

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

And, you know, I like, know people whose parents are, like, still best friends after getting divorced have lived together.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

Right.

[Sabrina]

But jeez, Todd, rest in death.

[Corinne]

Go away. Let it go.

[Sabrina]

Leave everyone alone.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

Go away.

[Corinne]

Who hasn't thought about you in a very long time.

[Sabrina]

Wild. That is scary.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

Hmm.

[Sabrina]

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, oh, okay, whatever. Some kids prank calling, whatever. So whoever's on the other line talked for a few seconds and hung up. My sister and I were 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 called before. No voice spoke back, but whoever was 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.

[Corinne]

Who did anyone know that they were

[Sabrina]

together at the cemetery? I don't know, because they're not together in this moment. Oh.

[Corinne]

Oh, shit.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. So it's the roommate for me.

[Corinne]

I was thinking, okay, like, I have been there at like a girls sleepover where, you know, like, you're calling like a couple people that you've crushes on and it gets a little too late and the parent says, no, stop calling.

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

I didn't realize that they had separated at this point. Yeah, okay, that. Yeah, that is freaky.

[Sabrina]

So my parents immediately say, this must be paranormal. 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 hour goes by, and I get another call, and I pick it up. My dad answers, and this 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 roommate 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.

[Corinne]

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, because it's not just some random guy who, like, is stalking one of them. Like, how do you have everyone's number?

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

It's very Pretty Little liars.

[Sabrina]

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 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 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 because 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 drug deal and how they're going to meet me at the spa 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'd 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, 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 because I thought it was someone calling to tell me happy birthday. As soon as I picked it up, I knew I had made a mistake. Because this time it was that same voice, but it was raspy and old, singing Happy Birthday to me. Oh. 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, two days after we had used a Ouija board in the cemetery. Did 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, Brianne.

[Corinne]

It's so weird. Like, my mind is going a million places with this because I'm like, okay, when there are scam calls, the more you pick up, the more they call,

[Sabrina]

the more they call.

[Corinne]

Yeah, 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?

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

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, used to be a prank thing where, like, you could put someone's number in and they would get blasted out to all these, like, fake things. So signed up.

[Sabrina]

Don't do that.

[Corinne]

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're all together. I don't know.

[Sabrina]

And the last one being the same voice now singing Happy Birthday to her.

[Corinne]

Like, yeah, that's Weird.

[Sabrina]

That feels so targeted. Where the other ones could be scam calls.

[Corinne]

Yeah, I don't.

[Sabrina]

It's so weird.

[Corinne]

Mm.

[Sabrina]

I don't like it because it's not. This is why you don't answer unknown numbers call. Yeah.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

They'll text you or they'll leave you

[Sabrina]

a voicemail or they'll text you. Because I feel like. Actually, though, text scams have been getting really crazy too. I had one and usually they're like the SMS messages, but recently I got an imessage one.

[Corinne]

You did?

[Sabrina]

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.

[Corinne]

They're really playing on people's emotions, right? Oh, my God. Because, yeah, there will be a lot. They'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 that are just trying to get you to respond to know that it's an active number.

[Sabrina]

The scariest ones are there's a warrant out for your arrest based on, like, a unpaid toll ticket or, like a parking ticket.

[Corinne]

Oh, my God. I've been getting so many. Well, I told you this already that I get so many. 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,

[Sabrina]

which I'm like, where there are no.

[Corinne]

There are no toll booths in Vermont. Yeah, you can't catch me on this one.

[Sabrina]

But it knows because your phone number is a Vermont. Vermont number. So. Yeah, I know, like, all the Vermont numbers because I get a lot of them for New Jersey, because 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

[Corinne]

plates, so that's why you can't catch us.

[Sabrina]

I know you fake.

[Corinne]

I know you fake.

[Sabrina]

I know you fake. Sam.

[Corinne]

Oh, this. That actually just triggered memory we used to get when my parents had a landline. We used to get so many. We think that they were scam crowds. We actually have no idea because it would all be in Vietnamese because our last name, Vien, is also. It's a French last name, but it's also a Vietnamese last name. So I think we got put on a bunch of lists.

[Sabrina]

Interesting.

[Corinne]

And so they'd Be, like, kind of lovely. It'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 voicemails. I wish I had them so we could translate what they were looking for.

[Sabrina]

Now this feels so unrelated, but that reminded me and triggered a memory for me. When we used to go to Mont Tremont in Canada, we.

[Corinne]

So pretty.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

It's like when the hatch does that,

[Sabrina]

like, through the speaker of the. Of the phone.

[Corinne]

Like a Tony box.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, but that's really lovely. It was really, really lovely.

[Corinne]

That's ahead of the time, right?

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

That was them really thinking of, like, how do we give a vacation to the parents, too? No bedtime stories.

[Sabrina]

I have two phone hauntings. One's personal, and I've shared them. Recent. 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.

[Corinne]

I remember one of yours, specifically the.

[Sabrina]

From the house?

[Corinne]

No, the hotel.

[Sabrina]

Oh, that's. That's when I was gonna share.

[Corinne]

Okay. Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Well, I'll start with my grandma. 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, 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, 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, 3am it's, like, middle of the night. 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, four days. But we believe it was, like, the time that my grandfather had actually passed away.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

And he was, like, trying to, like,

[Corinne]

humanitarian I hope that it was like. I hope that it would make sense. Yeah, that would make the most sense.

[Sabrina]

There was some negative vibes from it.

[Corinne]

I know, but just like the pattern of. Of every time she. In the beginning, when she tried to answer the phone.

[Sabrina]

Right.

[Corinne]

It stopping. I'd be like, who's watching me through the windows?

[Sabrina]

Well. Cause it was like she would wake. 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 cell phone downstairs, so she'd have to, like, go walk to go downstairs. And like. Yeah, by the time she would, like, get up to go, it would stop ringing.

[Corinne]

Okay.

[Sabrina]

So it was like.

[Corinne]

It wasn't like she was. No hand on the receiver, about to. No answer. And then.

[Sabrina]

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 traveled overseas a lot, so he hadn't been to see the two houses. We were like, between. So he comes home and goes with us to go see one of the houses. It's this beautiful brand new build. It's like tucked away kind of in the woods. Stunning.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

But weird vibes.

[Corinne]

Yes.

[Sabrina]

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. Is this the one that your dad

[Corinne]

was like, there's no way we're living here. Yeah.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

If the house is creepy during the day.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

A beautiful new build. And you get creepy feelings during daylight hours.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. No.

[Corinne]

Hard. No.

[Sabrina]

We're in the house. My dad immediately is like. Because my dad has a lot of paranormal stuff. Immediately is like, no. Like, 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 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.

[Corinne]

Okay. I remember you talking about this, and

[Sabrina]

I. I feel like my dad was like, we need to get out of here.

[Corinne]

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 and picking up on the right vibes.

[Sabrina]

So.

[Corinne]

Good. I'm glad that that did happen. Can you imagine if you grew up there? You already. The second house you guys went to was haunted, too, and you lived there.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. That would have been really bad.

[Corinne]

So much worse.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. But then 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'll remember all these.

[Corinne]

You have to remember most of your stories.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

Because 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 did more construction or pretended they were still building it. And then the sales records are really weird. Yeah, it's. There's something weird about that house.

[Corinne]

Very weird.

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

The hotel.

[Sabrina]

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, like, dial tone. So I hung it up, and I, like, started getting, like. I started feeling weird, too.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

And it's an old hotel again. It happens. And I was like, 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're like, hey, I'll check in case another room had accidentally called me or something like that. And according to their phone records, there have been zero calls to my phone.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

I covered a mirror.

[Corinne]

Oh, okay.

[Sabrina]

Because there was a mirror facing the bed, and it freaked me out. Yeah, I left it plugged in because I was kind of like, how many more times?

[Corinne]

Yeah, who's gonna call? Yeah, are they gonna say something? The third time.

[Sabrina]

Never called a third time.

[Corinne]

Very freaky. I know I had some too, but I don't remember them anymore. It's okay. More stuff will happen and I feel

[Sabrina]

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 goes podcastmail.com email us any paranormal encounters weird things that have happened to you because we want to hear them all.

[Corinne]

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

[Sabrina]

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

[Corinne]

will see you on the other side.

[Sabrina]

Very spooky.

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