If your phone rang at 3 a.m. and the caller ID said “Payphone, Rhode Island,” would you answer? This week’s encounters episode dives into haunted phone calls, cursed voicemails, creepy glitches, and spirits who are just one bad connection away. Static-filled voices, phantom landlines, Ouija board fallout, and shadow figures all collide in a collection of listener stories guaranteed to make you think twice before answering an unknown number.

Stories include:

A listener skips a creepy voicemail segment from the podcast, then immediately receives a garbled call from a bizarre number filled with symbols.

A family receives late night calls from a Rhode Island payphone shortly after their payphone loving grandfather passes away.

A disconnected landline begins ringing inside an abandoned Kodak factory where workers already felt an overwhelming paranormal presence.

A woman is horrified when her deceased abusive ex-boyfriend’s full name and decades-old phone number suddenly appear on her caller ID.

Strange calls continue for years and culminate in a raspy voice singing “Happy Birthday” and using the listener’s name on her 21st birthday.

Watch the video version here.

Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected]

New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! 

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Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan. Original music by Arms Akimbo!

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