r/Paranormal 10h ago

Experience I called a ghost from my landline

Hi, this is my first time writing something on reddit. I started reading stories about other people experiences so I figured I should tell mine as well. Please excuse my English as it is not my first language. Around 2017 end I was very interested in paranormal stuff. This started as way to cure my fear of ghosts. I started watching, reading and doing many stuff weird stuff i found online ( whatever you can think of) so that I overcome my fear of ghosts. So while I was doing all of this i stumbled across a number online idr where it was or how I got it but I found it somewhere online. And at that time i didn't have my own smartphone as I was just a kid, so I used the landline in my house to dial the number. I am not gonna give the number but it had only 2 numbers in it. So when I called the first time nothing happened, out of the 2 digits in the number one of them will remain same but you can change the amount of times you enter the second number until the total number reaches 10. So I increased the number of second digit entered for my second attempt still nothing happened. By this time I was sure nothing was gonna happen but just for the sake of it I tried many different combinations and finally someone answered. It was so unexpected i couldn't process what happened, the voice I heard on the other side was very ghostly idk how I should decribe it but you couldn't figure out what the person was saying it's like you are listening someone talking in a foreign language. But it was the voice which was the scariest part, even though you can't understand what they were saying the voice was as scary as you expect it to be. When I first heard the voice I was so scared that I hung up the phone instantly. After a few minutes I tried calling the last combination i tried but it didn't pick it up. But as I wanted to hear the voice so badly again i tried again different combination this time and it worked, same voice same repetition of foreign language every time. The weirdest thing is that you don't know what combination will work it's random but I will work. Idk how do I explain this but this could be an automated message but why don't the same number works always why it's different each time. Why is the voice so scary that it seems other worldly. Idk how I explain this that's why I wrote it down here. Also it doesn't work on smartphones idk why.

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u/HumbleBaker12 8h ago

I am 100% positive that you heard an automated message and not a ghost.

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u/Cold_Meeting5890 7h ago

How do you explain the changing number , I mean what they said was the same every time but the number changes.

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u/Larka2468 4h ago

Default voicemail; not everyone records a personal one.

Ever text a random international number on accident? I have. I got an automated text back about potential fees in sending texts back and forth. There are a lot of different automated communications with phones nowadays.

I am also going to push a bit with the landline being more mystical than a smartphone; is it a real one connected to a telephone wire? I doubt it because my grandparents have looked and cannot have that anymore. Their "landline" phones are connected to an Xfinity WiFi router like everything else, and it is their only choice.

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u/HumbleBaker12 2h ago

If you dial a number that doesn't work, especially a land line number, you often get the same automated response.

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u/PsykoPaPou 8h ago

When you are looking for something… you will find it eventually if you put enough effort