Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and this week's four calls end with one of the most unsettling lines we've ever heard on this show.
Rock from Orange County returns with a story from his grandparents' motel in Pomona, where he witnessed a drive-by shooting outside a phone booth as a child. Nights later, at exactly 3am, a man appeared at the window, visible to Rock, his grandmother, and eventually his grandfather before vanishing entirely. The activity became so persistent his grandmother finally had curtains made. Years later, kids playing near the same phone booth answered a call that shouldn't have been possible, hearing a staticky voice say "help me" before the line dropped, and the phone continued ringing at 5pm and 10pm like clockwork until the booth was eventually removed.
Jacob, who worked on a paranormal investigation show filmed in a historic Denver mansion, calls in about being alone on the third floor while striking equipment after a shoot. Pulling on a cable made a distinct shhh sound, and a delayed echo of the exact same sound answered from inside a cracked-open closet door behind him, repeating each time he tested it.
Dave calls in about Bobby, a family friend who died in a car accident decades ago and who Dave's skeptical brother swears he heard calling his name at work. Years of unexplained presence in the restaurant's storage attic culminated during a paranormal event when an unfamiliar psychic pulled the specific nickname Bobby, unprompted, and said he was doing fine and still watching over them.
And Artemis from Los Angeles closes the episode with a staycation at a private Bowery Hotel townhouse in New York City. What began as an unsettling atmosphere escalated through a bathtub turning on by itself, repeated sightings of someone just out of view on the stairwell, a window slamming shut on its own, and running footsteps in the hallway, until both Artemis and his ex fled the hotel entirely in the middle of the night. When Artemis called the next morning to apologize for disturbing another guest, staff confirmed no one else had been staying there. The building's history later revealed it had once been an orphanage, and the room itself was the site of a fatal overdose in the early 2000s.
00:00 Intro
00:34 Rock and the phone booth ghost
04:58 Jacob and the delayed echo
07:56 Dave and the psychic who knew Bobby's name
09:55 Artemis and the haunted Bowery Hotel townhouse
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Theme music: Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade
Video Edited: Chelsi Johnston
Production: Newman Media