Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and this week's seven calls range from quietly unsettling to genuinely bizarre.
Stevie from California calls in about a solo camping trip on BLM land near Yosemite, locking herself and her dog Mochi into her car during a windstorm for extra warmth. Around 3am, Mochi began barking in a deep, unfamiliar growl completely unlike her usual voice. In the morning, Stevie found handprints and forehead smudges circling every single window of the car, as if someone had walked the entire perimeter trying to look inside.
Johnny from Kansas calls in about repeatedly sensing the presence of guitarist Randy Rhoads while playing his music, watching or lying beside him mid-practice. Rhoads, a founding member of Quiet Riot and lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, died in 1982 at just 25 years old when the small plane he was riding in crashed while attempting to buzz Osbourne's tour bus.
Frank calls in about a basement apartment where an unseen presence tinkered nightly in empty rooms, eventually escalating to a half-visible figure standing in his bedroom doorway. Exhausted from bartending, Frank finally sat up and firmly demanded to be left alone. The presence never returned.
Emily calls in about her toddler twins, who both independently and matter-of-factly described a girl standing at their bedroom window wanting to play, insisting their mother could see her too.
Erin from Bloomington, Indiana calls in about a quiet solo night at home, drifting off to sleep when a long, tired sigh came from directly beside her ear, close enough that she felt breath stir against her cheek, despite being completely and verifiably alone in a locked house.
Jess from Oregon calls in about the legendary Bandage Man of Cannon Beach, a figure said to be a badly injured logger lost forever on his way to find help. While parked near the coast one night, Jess and friends heard a thud against the truck's rear window and saw a bandaged figure pressed against the glass, gone without a trace the moment they fled.
And Cindy Ketron closes the episode with a decades-old family Halloween tradition, an elderly traveling woman encountered on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis in 1981, who accepted food and water from Cindy's family before opening her carpetbag to reveal an actual sack of human bones, laughing at their horror before walking calmly away.
00:00 Intro
00:35 Stevie and the handprints on the car
04:14 Johnny and the ghost of Randy Rhoads
07:52 Frank and the man who finally stopped visiting
09:36 Emily and the girl at the window
10:23 Erin and the sigh beside her ear
11:54 Jess and the Bandage Man of Cannon Beach
14:10 Cindy Ketron and the bag of bones
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