Very weird phone call

Oh good god

This has just reminded me of a time I was driving to work at about 7:30am and my phone was ringing, didn't recognise the number but answered it and said hello and it was just my voice being repeated back to me.

(The Brian story earlier)

Sounds like the episode "Harry Called' on Uncanny podcast 😨

Sounds like a sick prank call. Someone randomly picked name and phone number out 192 or whatever. I assume landline is in your husbands name. We used to do it as kids, but childish funny stuff.

Op, it was just wrong number, it happens a lot, what exactly do you think the scam would be for goodness sake. Many of these are clearly just wrong numbers. It is simply co incidence you were close to their location yesterday.

We had something similar back in the Summer. It was early hours of the morning and the landline rings, we don't use the landline, aren't in the directory and the only people that have the number are my in laws and parents. You can imagine when it rings at 1am my DH leaps out of bed thinking something was wrong with one of the parents.... but this is where it gets freaky.... BEFORE DH even speaks, the man on the other end says DHs name, twice, (how did he know it was my DH picked up the phone and not me) then started saying he had run over our cat and he had it with him (we don't and never have owned a cat, and previous owners didn't either). By this time my DH had spoken, but the man was hysterical on the other end, then he said our address (even down to the name of the house, not just the number) and he was outside. DH shoots down the stairs, but nothing or nobody there. Man on the other end then starts making weird breathing noises, at which point my DH hangs up completely freaked out. DH picks the phone back up to see if the number was available and the man was still on the other end making the weird noises so it hadn't disconnected even though DH hung up. DH hung up again and then tried again to get the number, it was a mobile number but it isn't accessible.

We are in a little block of three houses, so I called both our 'neighbours' to see if someone had called them (one of them has cats) early hours and they had perhaps said no it wasn't theirs, but it might be our name and address... but neither of them had. Really freaked us out, more so the fact he said my DH's name before he had even spoken so knew he had picked the phone up and not me!

If anyone can explain that off as a scam of some sort, I'd be grateful as it still freaks me out when I think of it!! We unplugged the landline after that as we don't use it, and it's not been plugged back in since!

About 7 years ago i was with friends at mine having a drink and a laugh, my mobile phone sitting on the table not being touched for hours. Suddenly i get a text saying i just called them and they could hear me?? Then a little while later i get another message from my mum saying she got a 5 min voicemail and heard everything all of us said in that 5 mins. I checked my call log, nothing, i texted the text back telling them i was clueless to who they even were, number was not even stored in my phone and no calls or txts to this number, same with mum. To this day i have no idea how or why it happened and after that i used to put my phone in other rooms when having people over as not everything you talk about you want anyone and everyone to hear. Bizarre

@reddevil2811 eek that is spooky 😳

Animals usually are very sensitive to anything weird.

I comfort myself that my house is ghost- free as our cat is so chilled!

Nothing like this but I once had a lovely VM from a older lady about her holiday and confirming information.

She'd clearly misdialled as I googled who she was meant to be ringing and it was 2 numbers round the wrong way.

I didn't want to let her think the holiday company had her VM so rang her back to explain.

She was an absolute delight, we had a great chat about holidays and she was then going to ring the right number to get it sorted

[quote Davethecat2001]This is an old school friend of mine who posted this recording from his mothers office ansaphone in the 1970's.

Quite creepy.

Alone in the house the landline started ringing. When I answered there was silence, so I hung up and did 1471. It was my mobile which was locked in the car outside on my drive. A few days later the same thing happened to my OH - the landline rang, it was his mobile locked outside in his car. This was years back - never happened again

Yes. I was alone in my flat in 2012, no credit on my phone.
My buzzer was rang and I went down, a pizza man was there, with a pizza. He said 'here is your pizza' I kind of said what you on about?

He said you ordered by telephone, then got his phone out and showed me my number having called him.

I had no credit on my phone and had not called him.

I had a weird message from my brother and instantly thought he'd been hacked as it was a sexual giff he definitely wouldn't send. But I thought it was him at first because above it was a message I'd sent to him with the correct time and date of sending (birthday message). When I looked closely at the message I realised it was someone else's picture and a different number to my brothers actual number. When I looked at my brother's saved contact details, this random guy's number was saved alongside his actual number.

So creeped out. How did this happen? How did he get hold of the old message I sent to my brother?? How was his number saved under my brother?

I had sent my phone away for fixing recently...did they somehow hack me?

Over ten years ago, there was a brief period where I kept getting phone calls to my parents' place where I was staying, with strangers looking for a particular mental health charity. It always seemed to be me answering these calls. I checked, and the charity's local and national numbers were nothing like ours.

Present day - I now work at the exact same charity, and answer calls from people looking to refer to us. I only remembered the patch of crossed wires recently when a phone call jogged my memory.

I have a number stored in my phone, that says

I AM NOT YOUR CHILDS PIANO TEACHER, they haven't called for quite some time, I have probably jinxed myself now.

We are registered with TSP, we rarely get junks calls, anyway, we get calls for home insulation, I let them blather on and then say, oooh we haven't heard from you in ages, have you been in prison, they swiftly hang up.

This is an old school friend of mine who posted this recording from his mothers office ansaphone in the 1970's.

Quite creepy.

Might be someone mis-dialled them the first time, then pressed redial instead of dialling the number the second time.

Years ago when I lived alone, the landline rang and a man asked 'Hi is that X', I replied, no sorry you have the wrong number. He then asked 'is that '32 Your Street' - I lived at no 33! Could not work that one out, unless next door's phone no was very similar to mine?

Another time when I lived with my ex, I had trouble sleeping, so went downstairs at about 1am and put the lamp on in the front room - something I almost never did, ever. Within a few seconds of the light going on the landline rang. I answered it, and a man said 'Hello this is Joe' - I said sorry you have the wrong number, I don't know anyone called Joe. He replied 'you may not know me baby, but I know you' in a really creepy voice. I slammed the phone down, and was terrified that whoever it was was outside as it was so bizarre that he had called within seconds of me putting the light on. I woke ex and he was bloody useless said I was being over dramatic.

A few years back I opened a new phone contract, and at the time I wasn’t aware they recycled old numbers. I must’ve been about 18/19 years old.

One day I was minding my own business, when I recieved a whatsapp asking why their son had me saved in his contacts under “mum”.
Obviously I didn’t have a chuffin clue. It was his dad and he was fairly understanding that I had literally had the phone all of less than a week and not a clue what he was talking about, we left it there. Suddenly, who must’ve been “mum” was harassing me, telling me she will blast me on social media for having her young boys number and that I was obviously grooming him!! Obviously very confused I rang the phone company, they told me there’s chance of recycled number. I text “mum” back asking if this was her old number by chance; and she said yes. But she was still going to blast me on facebook.

She didn’t. She was just a batshit woman who
couldn’t grasp I had her old number and her son hadn’t saved her new one/deleted her old number.

Freak. I still get her gambling/betting deal texts to this day.

@SmellyOldOwls
This happened to me too. My mobile rang with a number I hadn't saved but looked familiar. I still lived at home at the time and went into the living room and asked my mum if she knew the number, she said it sounded familiar but no. I sat down and my phone rang again. Same number. When I looked at it I realised it was my mums number. (Can't remember why I hadn't saved it! This was in the days of Nokia and Blackberry) her phone was sitting several metres away from us innocently minding its own business on the face of it, but it was ringing my phone

I'm tickled that you read the number out to your mum and she only thought it familiar and didn't recognise it as her own