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Post by sugar on Feb 19, 2006 17:13:23 GMT -5
The Long Distance Phone Call
Urban Legend: An elderly woman, bed-ridden after her husbands death, receives strange phone calls that turn out to be from the dead husband.
The Story: An elderly woman receives a phone call on a dark, stormy night. She hears a moaning on the other end and a voice that sounds like her recently diseased husband. The calls torment her all night. The next day, she asks her driver to take her past the cemetery where her husband was laid to rest. They discover that during the storm, a phone line had fallen down ...........and was laying on her dead husbands grave! Were the phone calls she had received the night before made from beyond the grave by her dead husband? Another variation of this has the woman dying from shock in her bed after answering the phone call. Then, when she is being taken to the cemetery it is discovered that the phone line is laying on her husbands grave.
Origins: This legend has been told as having happened in various parts of the United States but no true origins can be found. A version of this legend showed up as an episode of the Twilight Zone on February 7th,1964, called "Night Call."
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Post by PsychoBlade13 on Feb 19, 2006 18:30:18 GMT -5
Maybe the old lady is going psycho.
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Post by Rini-chan on Feb 19, 2006 19:35:21 GMT -5
I think she was going psycho too..... btw: I'm not sure if this is off subject but I once got a call that said "Your dad's been kidnapped" ; I was so afraid I hung up the phone.
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Dr JNHardy
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Post by Dr JNHardy on Feb 23, 2006 16:14:33 GMT -5
that's really scary. i would've called my Dad on one phone and the police on another.
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Post by butterscotch on Feb 24, 2006 11:18:55 GMT -5
I heard a version of this where the husband was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a telephone installed in his crypt. His worst fears came true, but when he called his wife, she thought it was a prank call. The next day, she called the police, and they went to investigate the crypt. They figured it was some rowdy teens, but when they arrived there was no sign of forced entry. They opened the crypt and found the husband's body outside the coffin. A doctor did a second autospy and realized that the husband had been buried alive!
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Dr JNHardy
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Post by Dr JNHardy on Feb 28, 2006 16:14:12 GMT -5
kind of sad...
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