People Share Their Stories Of Phone Calls Made From Beyond The Grave
When a loved one passes away, we sometimes wish we could speak to them one last time. Some people report they received phone calls or voicemails they believe are from their deceased loved ones. Sometimes they come through as eerie otherworldly static, while other times the ghostly caller is able to communicate one last message. On Reddit, people are sharing phone calls and voicemails from beyond the grave that still defy explanation.
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Grandmother Who Had Passed Away Left Voicemail
From Reddit u/plankashtyn14:
This actually just happened to me. My grandmother... ended up having cancer in her liver, lungs, and the bottom of her esophagus... She was in the hospital for about 16 days and had a very small chemo treatment the day before she passed...
It had been about six months since she had passed when the phone calls occurred. Sine I worked in an ER at the time, I always wore my Fitbit in case there was ever an emergency at home and I didn’t have my phone on me. There had been a few family issues around this time with an aunt everyone hates selling things of hers and stealing from my grandpa... I cried and pleaded out loud for God or my grandma to ease my worries and hurt. I fell asleep soon after... I woke up suddenly to my Fitbit vibrating like CRAZZYYY! I look down and start checking who had texted me or called... it said “missed call from Grandma Brenda cell” and “missed call from Grandma Brenda home"...
I stared at my Fitbit and thought, “ Okay. #1. Her cell phone line is gone... #2. Even if the phone is still working, my grandpa has his own cell phone... #3. Why would my grandpa be up at 3:00 am and call me out of all people?" I grab my phone and see the notifications don’t even show up on my phone or in my call log... And then, all of a sudden, I get two notifications on my phone saying “voicemail from Grandma Brenda cell and voicemail from Grandma Brenda home.”...
I didn’t know if I should listen to them because I was freaked out. I did... and the first one was her saying, “I hope all is well with school, work and your mom. I love you and just remember that always. Put your stress and worries aside. Call me back soon."
That was enough for me. I didn’t even listen to the second voicemail.
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Great Grandmother Called To Say I Love You
From Reddit u/SaltyPanda93:
So about a week after my great-grandmother passed away, I was over visiting with my grandparents, and we were all sitting around talking as usual with nothing out of the ordinary. Well, suddenly their landline phone rings, and the number on the caller ID shows no name and only the numbers 000-000-000. My grandad does this joke when he gets a weird call from someone he doesn’t recognize and says, “I don’t know anyone named 000-000-000,” and lets the answering machine get it.
So a minute later, it shows that the ominous number left a message on the answering machine, and we play it. As the message plays, there is about 10 seconds of static noise, like someone has a bad connection, and then it stops, and we hear a woman’s voice say, “I love you,” and we all immediately turned and looked at each other and didn’t say a word. A few more seconds of static followed those words, and the message ends.
We all recognized the voice as belonging to my great-grandmother. What adds to my belief that it was her is that she had this weird thing where she would never say the words "I love you" to anyone. She was a sweet lady, but something about those words she would just never say, even if you said them to her. So I believe she regretted that and needed to pass that message along to my grandad. Nothing else happened since, but I will always remember that experience.
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Grandpa Left Voicemail On His Nurse's Phone
From Reddit u/Mandylynn1109:
When I was 11, almost 12, my Pop (grandpa) died after a long fight with lung cancer. We lived way down in the country (still live in the same area, just across the street), and the home health nurse who came three days a week for a year to care for him lived about an hour and 20 minutes away.
He died early in the morning on November 27, 1994. That afternoon, when the nurse got home, there was a message on her answering machine left at 1:30 pm, November 27, it was my Pop... He said, "Tell June I'm alright." June is what my Pop called my grandma, her name is Patricia.
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Grandma Called Company To Cancel Delivery
Reddit u/rizozzy1:
Just prior to my granny passing away, she had ordered some bits from a catalogue. My dad popped over to her house around two weeks after she died and found a “we missed you” card on the door mat. So he called the distributor to explain and to ask if he could cancel the order.
When he said he was phoning on behalf of Mrs. X from X address, the man stopped him saying he had a call from her two days ago cancelling her order. My dad explained that wasn’t possible. The guy insisted that’s what had happened, saying my granny had apologised and said she was unexpectedly going away.
Obviously, my dad had quite a few questions. Apparently, this wasn’t the first message he’d had from the other side via a phone call. Weirdest thing ever.
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Sister Called And Asked For Help
From Reddit u/needsanswersnows:
I lost my sister to "suicide". I put that in inverted commas because I still do not believe it was a suicide for the fact she left no explanation for anybody and more so, didn't tell me anything before it (being a year apart in age, her and I where extremely close).
I was asleep in my bed with my girlfriend when I was woken by my phone ringing ( It woke her up, too - this is how I know it wasn't me dreaming). It was 3:37 am - I know this because when it rang, I looked at the screen to see what number was calling me and saw the time. It was a private number (unknown number). Usually, I will not answer private number calls, but being half-asleep and guessing it was probably a drunk friend ringing to be picked up from somewhere, I answered.
I said hello, and all I could hear was this muffled kinda static sounds, No one replied, so again I said hello. Again no response, so I thought it was probably just a prank call or some sh*t and was about to hang up, when I heard my name get called. "Paul." It was clear as day and sounded 100% like my sister. I kinda froze and started to panic, said her name a few times, pretty much pleading it to be her.
Then all I heard was, "I'm sorry. I love you. Please help me." The last bit is what has made me really upset and uneasy, the "please help me".
I asked where she was, then I heard a really, really loud screeching sound, then it went back to the dial tone...
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Wife Received Loving Call From Her Husband
From Reddit u/lulaan:
My grandpa passed away a year ago almost, and I was sitting in the living room with my grandma, chatting and having some snacks. The house phone started ringing. She picks up the phone, and her face went completely pale, she hangs up and started crying. Now my grandpa had just passed at this moment, and we were all really sad and depressed, since he was such a kind and caring soul.
My grandma explained to me through tears that my grandpa had called her, she said she recognized his voice, and he was whispering that he was okay and that my grandma would be okay, too, even without him. They had been married for 61 years, and they were still madly in love when he left us. This helped my grandma a lot, and she wasn't a believer in paranormal stuff, but it made her think a lot about that and is really open-minded about this stuff now.
We often discuss this and we all agree that it wasn't some kind of bad joke... We had a lot of strange things happen after his death, but always on the good side of strange. I miss him a lot, but it helps me to think he's okay and he's showing us he is.
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Siblings Received Call From Dad After He Passed
From Reddit u/ThatCatJack:
My dad passed away in 2016. I had his phone after he died but I’d taken his SIM card out and put mine in, and so his was left in my bedroom at home. Anyway, I was walking to work, and my phone started ringing, and it was his number, and it still said “Dad” on the caller ID.
I was freaked out but I answered it, and all I heard was breathing, then he hung up. I was really frightened, and I phoned my sisters to ask if it was them, but they said they’d got the same call. Spooky stuff.
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Friend Left A Voicemail After She Passed Away
From Reddit u/MadameMalia:
I had this happen back in 2011. One of my best friends was passing away of a terminal illness. Back then, I only had a flip phone and barely used it. One day, I was in a grocery line, and the cashier and I knew each other because all three of us used to work together. He asked me how my friend was doing, so I told him that last I knew she was in a coma. The lady behind me in line asked me if I was talking about *insert friend's name here*, and we replied, "Yes." She informed us that my friend had passed away in her sleep two days prior. Shook me to my core.
A few days later, I got a missed call and voicemail with no call back number, it was my friend's voice, and she said, "MadameMalia, it's me!" (Used my real name, of course). I'll always regret not answering that call, maybe I could've talked to my friend from beyond. I went to her funeral the next week and held the top of her hand (her hands were folded over one another on her stomach) before I left.
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Unearthly Music From The Afterlife Being Sent By Father
From Reddit u/Haunted115:
I also received a phone call on my landline soon after my father passed in 2006. Mine came up as "unknown". I wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone, and let the answering machine pick up as I listened. What came through was nothing of this world. Unearthly music. Imagine the flowers and butterflies being able to sing... I don't have any words to describe what I heard. I was covered in goosebumps from head to toe.
I quickly went to listen to it again after it ended. There was no message on the machine, although there was plenty of room and no "unknown" number showed up on the caller ID. I believe it was a message from my dad. He didn't believe in an afterlife - he thought once you died, that was the end... lights out. Mom and I have had enough unexplained experiences that we believe there is more. I think it was his way of saying there is more.
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Uncle Made One Last Phone Call To Family
From Reddit u/ThredHead:
My wife’s uncle. The family was all in the car on the way to his funeral. This was at least ten years ago, so no spoofing numbers as far as I’m aware. All of a sudden, my wife’s mobile phone starts to ring. It’s an incoming call from her uncle.
She tries to answer it, but it won’t answer. It keeps ringing. Nothing works. She can’t stop it or even decline the call. Guess it was his way of saying a final goodbye to the family. The uncle's phone was switched off and in a drawer in an empty house at the time.
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Mysterious Call From A Body Already In Casket
From Reddit u/syrenxsong:
So brief background, I work for a company that answers phones and takes messages for businesses when they're closed, out to lunch, after hours, etc.
We answer for a variety of companies in different fields, including funeral homes. This situation has happened twice that I have talked to the person on the phone myself...
So the first time it happened, I took the message from this lady whose mother had passed recently. Body was already picked up and dressed and at the funeral parlor, visitation was scheduled for the following day. She calls and is weepy, and asks if her mother's phone is still in her jacket pocket, because they just got a call from her number. I end up dispatching the call (calling the director to deliver the message verbally), and he says that he'll call her, but the body is in the casket, and the casket is closed, waiting in their parlor. I say, "Wow, weird." And he kind of chuckles and says THIS KIND OF THING HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN YOU WOULD THINK.
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Best Friend's Phone Didn't Stop Calling Until After Her Funeral
From Reddit u/dotchianni:
When my best friend was murdered, I had multiple calls from her number.
First, right after she died. I figured this out by comparing notes with the friend that survived and telling her what I saw and when the call came through. There was only a whisper on the other end. I couldn't tell exactly what the voice said but it sounded like, "Help her." It was about 30 minutes to an hour before I was supposed to start calling the police to send for help (if they didn't return). I was so freaked out, I called a close friend and told her. She asked what my gut instinct said to do, to follow that, and call her back after I called the cops.
After the police showed up, I could hear them telling the murderer to sit down, and the murderer saying he didn't mean to. I was later told that there is no cell signal up there and that getting that call would be impossible. But I heard it clearly. The day after she was murdered, I got a call from her number and so did her husband, a friend of the family, and her sister.
Occasionally, we would get calls from her number until about a week after her funeral. The phone was in evidence with the battery removed.
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Call Came In From Grandparent's Disconnected Phone Number
From Reddit u/phospencer:
My grandmother died in February 1996. She outlived my grandfather who had died in 1989. After her death, my father handled having her utilities disconnected, and the home and farm were sold pretty quickly. In 1999, I was running my family's newly opened business that was in a town about 120 miles north of where my grandparents were from and are buried.
One day, when the phone rang, I couldn't believe what I saw on the Caller ID. It showed that the call was coming from my grandparents' long-disconnected phone number, and my grandfather's name was also displayed. When I answered, there was no one on the line. I have no explanation for how this happened.
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Phone Call From Long Deceased Aunt
From Reddit u/Essexhaunted:
When I was a kid, I picked up the phone with an old lady on the other side asking for my mum by name. When I asked who it was, she said, "Auntie May."
My mum looked shocked and picked up the phone, but she was gone. She was brought up by Auntie May, only Auntie May had died in 1962...
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Friend Made Weekly Calls To Check In
From Reddit u/Mysterylady234:
My childhood friend died three years ago. Each week, I would get a call and a text from my childhood friend... she died from leukemia.
She said she was calling to check on me. I freaked out so much. So I have been there.
