Prank call

Rigorous Intuition is always worth reading for a look at a frightening reality, but this post struck my scary bone:

When Kathie Davis, the principal subject of the book, was pregnant with her second son Tommy in 1980, she began receiving indecipherable phone calls every Wednesday at 3:00 in the afternoon. "Above a background noise that roared like a factory in full swing she heard a voice moaning and muttering and using no syllables [that could be understood]." The voice would neither acknowledge the other party nor even pause when asked to identify or explain itself. Sometimes Kathie hung up within moments, sometimes she listened for minutes, "fascinated by the weird sounds." (Her friend Dorothy and her mother Mary also answered Kathie's phone on occasion, and heard the same gutteral moaning and industrial roars.) During this event, Kathie decided to get an unlisted number. One Monday afternoon the telephone company called to say the change was in effect, and told her her new number. Moments later the phone rang: it was her strange caller, making the same bizarre sounds, though now with an angry tone. It was the only time, other than Wednesdays at 3:00 pm, that Kathie received such a call.

I don't know if that excerpt captures the freakiness of the entire post, but go read the whole thing for yourself.