Voices From Beyond the Grave
The first account of a phantom telephone call was detailed in the spiritualist journal ‘Borderland’ in 1896. A correspondent claimed that the psychic message ‘Go to your father’s house poor Nellie is dead’ was heard over the telephone at the moment of his sister’s death!
Telephone interference has also been reported in a number of poltergeist cases, most notable in the Rosenheim Poltergeist, case in Germany, in 1968.
Some believe that phantom phone calls represent a form of ‘electronic voice phenomena’, and that they are messages from the spirit world. Indeed the US journalist and parapsychologist, D Scott Rogo, published a number of claims of phone calls from deceased persons in his 1979 book, 'Phone Calls from the Dead'.
However, the claims were met with widespread scepticism and were ridiculed by Robert A Baker (psychologist) in his 1990 book 'Hidden Voices.'
But since then, reports of telephone calls from beyond the grave continue to appear in various publications.
Only last year, the Blackpool Gazette reported that Frank Jones who in lives in the town, put a mobile phone in his late wife Sadie's coffin. It was done in a light hearted way, as she spent so much time on it when she was alive.
But he wasn't laughing when he started receiving text messages from a withheld number.
He said: "Just after Sadie died I came home and I felt that I didn't want to go in the house."
Frank said this was because when he went inside there was a smell like the cigarettes which his dead wife had smoked and also of her perfume.
He said: " Then when I went inside I got a missed call on my mobile, but it didn't ring. The call was from my home number, although I was alone in the house."
The widower said that shortly afterwards he and his family received strange text messages, which they believe were from her, as they contained information that only she could know.
Frank said that at least he wouldn't have to worry about Sadie running up a huge phone bill in the afterlife!
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Posted on Thu 11th Jun 2009 16:00:00