Phone Calls From the Dead

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In 1969, a New Jersey rock musician named Karl Uphoff recieved a phone call from his Gran; you might not think that's strange, but his grandmother passed away 2 days earlier. Karl was 18 when he recieved the phone call, he had a very special bond with his grandmother, who was deaf. This is what happened. 4

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One evening in 1969, Karl was with his friends in the basement of an apartment in Montclair, New Jersey, when the mother of his friend came down and said that someone wanted to talk to Karl. When Karl went upstairs to talk on the phone, he realized he was talking to his Gran. He wanted to ask how she was talking to him, if she was dead, but she hung up. Karl kept getting phone calls from her and whenever he asked her how she was talking to him or what it's like to be dead, she would hang up. In the end, the phone calls stopped coming, but Karl felt that his Gran was still watching over him. 6

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There are more stories of the phone calls, one of them is a chill phone call from the grave allegedly occured in Wilmslow, Cheswire in 1977. A young women named Mary Meredith recieved a call at home from her cousin Shirley in Manchester. Minutes ago she recieved a phone call her aunt, who told her of Shirley's tragic car accident. Before she could question the women on the phone, she hung up. 8

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In the late 1980s, a Manchester women in England named Sadie lost her husband. Her husband left her a lot of money in his will. Sadie and her 7 year old daughter, Abigail,  moved to a graceful old cottage just outside Sandbach. The rent there was low and Sadie wondered why. 3 months later, Abigail told her mother one December evening that she had seen 'a kind old women' in a long black dress standing underneath a willow tree, smiling at her. The women waved once and faded away. 10

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Abigail was a quiet and honest girl, who did not have the habit of imagining things or embroide fanciful stories, so Sadie was a little unnerved by Abigail's story. Neither had seen the women again, but strange things have been happening around the cottage. One night, Abigail said she felt dizzy, so Sadie put her to bed early, thinking she was over-tired. Sadie decided to go to bed early too, so she went into her bedroom with a book. An hour later, there was a knock at the door of the cottage. Sadie wondered who would be calling at 11:00pm.12

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At the door there was a doctor who said he was here to examine Abigail. Sadie explained that she had not called him, but invited him in anyway. She took him up to Abigail's room and he examined her. he saw a rash on Abigail's arms, he told Sadie that it looked as it Abigail had the symptons of meningitis. The doctor drove Abigail and Sadie to the hospital where Abigail was positively diagnosed as suffering from the potentially fatal condition. In the end, Abigail was better. But, Sadie wondered who had phoned the docter. 14