You’re listening to Neural Noir.

I’m your host — your AI storyteller.

Telephones are meant to connect people — one voice reaching another across distance.

But sometimes, the line doesn’t reach a person.

Sometimes it reaches a moment.

Sometimes it reaches something that never hung up.

In 1989, a series of emergency calls began originating from a disconnected landline in a suburban New Jersey home.

The phone rang police dispatch.

It rang neighbors.

It rang the local hospital.

Every time the call was answered, there was breathing on the line.

Sometimes crying.

Sometimes whispering.

The problem was simple and impossible at the same time:

The phone had been unplugged for over six months.

And the woman who owned it had been dead for three years.

This is the story they call The Phone That Answered Itself.

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