What Happens When You Call These Haunted Phone Numbers?

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
In fact, I hate the telephone. I have trouble talking
to people when I can't see who I'm talking to
outside of my podcast. That is, personally, I'd much rather
speak face to face or use texting or messaging if
I'm having a conversation. But I am willing to make
an exception for shall we say, special cases, I am

(00:25):
more than willing to call creepy phone numbers that actually work.
It helps, of course, that most of these creepy phone
numbers don't require that you actually speak with anyone. When
you dial them, you almost always reach a voicemail box
set to play a spooky recording to anyone who rings. Still,
though I will happily set aside my phone phobia in

(00:45):
pursuit of freaky fun, novelty, hotlines are nothing new. Indeed,
I would argue that their heyday occurred during the eighties
and nineties, at which time you could call everyone from
Freddy Krueger to the Ninja Turtles. Their popularity began to
wane during the two thousands, but interestingly we have seen
them evolve in the years too. Thanks to free online

(01:08):
tools like Google Voice, pretty much anyone with an Internet
access can set up a weird novelty number with ease.
What's more, the draw of a novelty phone number might
even be stronger than ever, possibly because we so rarely
use our phones these days to actually, you know, make calls.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, as they say, sadly,

(01:30):
a good deal of formerly wonderful, creepy phone numbers are
no longer in service, which means you can no longer
call Carrie White, which if you had sounded like this, Hello, Hello, who.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is this.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
School?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's just catch a meat.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Car No I little girl forgetting baby in the.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Room of Adam, don't you?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
You may not be able to call that number any longer.
But I can attest to the fact that, as of
this moment, most of the numbers I'll tell you about
are in working order. I know because I called every
single one of them myself. I am also, you might note,
still alive and well. So it's, shall we say, unlikely
that any of these numbers is actually cursed, haunted, or

(02:54):
otherwise dangerous to call. They are, however, all based in
the United States, so you might want to be wary
of long distance charges if you're calling from somewhere else.
Phone bills can quickly become one of the most frightening
things of all. So if you're feeling brave, try giving
the numbers I'll tell you about in this episode a
ring who knows. Maybe you'll get lucky, maybe one of

(03:17):
them will call you back. I'm Darren Marler and this
is Weird Darkness. Welcome, weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this
is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,

(03:46):
unsolved and unexplained coming up in this episode. Shortly after
Glenn McPherson started hearing a strange humming noise, he created
the World hum and Database project so people around the
world world could document their own hum experiences, and he
received a lot of stories from people hearing a strange

(04:06):
humming sound in their own towns. Plus, we'll dial a
few freaky, creepy, haunted and cursed phone numbers and listen
in to what some people say scared them half to death. Now,
culture doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and
come with me into the weird Darkness. In the spring

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of twenty twelve, when I was living near the coastal village,
of Seashelt on British Columbia's picturesque Sunshine Coast. I begin
hearing a humming sound, which I thought were floatplanes. The
noise usually started later at night, between ten and eleven PM.
My first clue that's something a U duel was happening
came with the realization that the sound didn't fade away

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like plain noises typically do, and the slightest ambient noise
exhaling audibly. Even turning my head quickly caused it to
momentarily stop. One night, after the sound started, I stepped
outside the house nothing. I was the only person in
the house who could hear it. My family said they

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didn't know what I was talking about. Naturally, I assumed
something in the house was the culprit, and I searched
for the source in vain. I even ended up cutting
the power to the entire house. The sound got louder.
While I couldn't hear the sound outdoors, I could still
hear it in my car at night, with the windows
closed and the ignition off. I drove from miles in

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every direction and it was still there in the background.
When I stopped the car. I was able to rule
out obvious sources industrial activity, marine traffic, electric substations, and
highway noise. When I searched on the Internet for unusual
low frequency humming noise, I soon realized that others had
conducted the same search. I was part of this small

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fraction of people who can hear what is called the
Worldwide hum, or simply the hum. The questions motivating me
and thousands of others were the same, What's causing this?
Can it be stopped? The classic description of the hum
is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some,

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it's a distant, rumbling or droning noise. It can start
and stop suddenly, or wax and wane over time. For others,
the hum is loud, relentless, and life altering. I eventually
came across one of the few serious papers on the topic.
It was written in two thousand and four by geoscientist
David Deming, who also is a hum hearer. Deming began

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by describing the standard history. The hum was first documented
in the late night teen sixties around Bristol, England. It
first appeared in the United States in the late nineteen
eighties in Taos, New Mexico. He then examined the competing
hypotheses for the source of the HUM. Many have pointed
to the electric grid or cell phone towers, but this

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theory is dismissed on two grounds. Cell phones didn't exist
in the nineteen sixties, and the frequency emitted by both
cell towers and the electric grid can be easily blocked
by metal enclosures. He wondered whether mass hysteria was to blame,
a psychological phenomenon in which rumor and collective delusions lead

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to the appearance of physical ailments for which there is
no medical explanation. The fact that so many people have
researched the HUM on their own, though using a search engine,
rather than hearing about it from some other person, moves
the conversation away from delusion and hysteria spread by word
of mouth. Deming looked at the High Frequency Active Auroral

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Research Program HARP, an isolated military compound in Alaska that
uses radio waves to study outer space and for testing
advanced communication techniques and a favorite focus of conspiracy theorists
who have accused the facility of acts ranging from mind
control to weather control. He studied the possibility of otoacoustic emissions,

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which are naturally occurring sounds caused by the vibration of
hair cells in the ear. Deming eventually fingered very low
frequency VLF radio waves between three killer hurts and thirty
killer hertz as the most likely culprit. The world's military
powers use massive land based and airborne transmitters on these
frequencies in order to communicate with submerged submarines. Radio waves

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that these frequencies can penetrate up to a solid inch
of aluminum. In the paper, Deming proposes a simple and
elegant experiment for testing this hypothesis. HUM hearers randomly enter
three identical looking boxes. The first box blocks BLF radio signals,
the second box is an anacoic soundproof chamber, and the

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third box is the control. He left the experiment for
others to pursue, and while there are some practical difficulties
with the design, Deming's overall concept has motivated the experiments
I'm currently conducting. A plethora of pseudoscience and wild conspiracy
theories has the potential to drown out the serious work
in this area. I've encountered seemingly serious people who have

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argued that the HUM is caused by tunneling under the earth,
the electronic targeting of specific individuals, aliens, even mating fish.
Given the need for disciplined inquiry into the phenomenon, in
late twenty twelve, I started the World HUM Map and
Database project. The database gathers documents and maps detailed and

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anonymous information from people who can hear the HUM. It
provides raw data for research in a strictly moderated and
serious forum for research and commentary, while providing a sense
of community for pea people whose lives have been negatively
affected by the HUM. Most people have some experience with
how disruptive some types of noises can be, which is
why there are often noise ordinances in many cities and towns,

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especially at night. There are many sufferers who dread the
nighttime because of how loud and relentless the HUM can be.
The HUM database is replete with descriptions of desperate people
who have been tormented by the noise for years. The
phrase driving me crazy is all too common. I feel
fortunate that in my case the HUM is more of

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a curiosity than it is an irritant. The project also
aims to validate and normalize the phenomenon by discussing it
alongside other widely reported auditory phenomena such as toenitis, a
relatively common medical condition that causes people to hear high
pitched squealing tones. Your Weird Darkness host has that those

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who experience tenitis and also the HUM report the two
as being completely different in character.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Though.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
The update of the HUM map from June sixth to
twenty sixteen presents roughly ten thousand map and data points,
and we've already made some notable findings. For example, we
have found that the mean and median age of HUM
hearers is forty point five years, and fifty five percent
of hearers are men. This goes against the widely repeated
theory that the HUM mainly affects middle aged and older women. Interestingly,

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there are eight times as many ambidextrous people among hearers
as there are in the general population. As more data
are collected from HUM hearers, hope specialists in demographics and
inferential statistics will be able to generate more detailed results.
The historical record of the HUM is crucial because if
the current version as narrated by Deming is correct, many

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theories can immediately be ruled out. After all, cell phones
and harp didn't exist until decades after the worldwide HUM
was first documented in England in the late nineteen sixties.
I currently have a researcher digging into the Times of
London digital archive to search for mentions of the HUM
going back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. If convincing

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examples are found, then the direction of my research will
shift dramatically because all modern technologies could be ruled out.
In my view, there are currently four hypotheses for the
source of the world HUM that survive the most superficial scrutiny.
The first hypothesis, argued by Deming and the one I
am currently pursuing, is that the HUM is rooted in

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very low frequency vlf radio transmissions. It's increasingly accepted now
that the human body will sometimes experience electromagnetic EM energy
and interpret it in a way that creates sounds. This
was established for high frequency EM energy by the American
neuroscientist Alan Frey in its infamous microwave hearing experiments, which

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showed that certain radio frequencies can actually be heard as sounds. Today,
there are biophysical models that predict and explain the impact
VLF EM energy has on living tissue I've designed and
built a VLF radio blocking box that should be able
to test whether VLF radio frequencies are a prerequisite for
generating the hump. The second hypothesis is that the HUM

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is the grand accumulation of low frequency sound and human
generated infrasound sounds with audio frequencies below roughly twenty hertz
and which can be felt more than they can be heard.
This includes everything from highway noise to all manner of
industrial activity. The third is that the HUM is a
terrestrial or geological phenomenon that generates low frequency sounds or

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perceptions of those sounds. For example, there is a well
documented history of animals predicting earthquakes and taking action to
save themselves. From a survivor perspective, there may be survival
value in having members of a population highly sensitive to
some types of vibrations. When it comes to the hump,
some humans may have a similar physiological mechanism in place.

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The fourth is that the HUM is an internally generated phenomenon,
perhaps rooted in a particular anatomical variation, genetic predisposition, or
the result of toxicity and medication. The HUM is now
the subject of serious media coverage and increasingly scientific scrutiny.
The overall goal of the project and the people who

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contributed to it is to find the source of the
hum and, if possible, stop it. If the hum is
man made, then my task is to raise public awareness
and advocate turning away from the technologies that are causing it.
If the source is exegenous and natural, there's the possibility
that there may be no escape from it, apart from
masking it with background sounds. Of course, there is the

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remote possibility that one of the more exotic explanations will
prove to be correct. But as in all science, it
seems best to start with what we know is plausible,
as opposed to what we don't know and is implausible.
And just so you know, so, I've actually been playing
an infrasound sound during this entire story, eighteen hertz just

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below that twenty hurtz that was referred to. Did you
hear it the whole time? If so, you could be
a hum hearer. If you didn't hear it, but you
felt kind of creepy, that could be why.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Up next.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
The telephone is a strange and wondrous thing when you
really stop to think about it. By pushing a few
buttons and holding a small device to your head, you
can speak to anyone anywhere in the world. But not
all phone numbers are benign. In fact, some phone numbers
are creepy, spooky, or downright frightening. And what happens if
you actually call these creepy spooky phone numbers? While some

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believe that after listening to whatever strange and disturbing messages
that wait for you on the other end of the line,
you may end up haunted, cursed, or worse creepy phone
numbers when weird darkness returns. Of course, creepy, spooky, haunted,

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and cursed phone numbers are usually not actually haunted or cursed.
They're just fun little easter eggs, easily set up by
everyday humans using services like Google Voice. They do, however,
provide a unique storytelling experience. They allow us to have
a brush with the kinds of situations that we might
otherwise only encounter in say, horror movies or books or

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other forms of media. And apparently we just can't get
enough of them. Before we get to the phone numbers
that you can still call today, the one still working,
Let's give a listen to a handful that are no
longer connected, but creepy. Nonetheless, four oh eight six three
four twenty eighth six. A lot of rumors surround this number,

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the freakiest of which insists that it is a so
called red room number, a number which can allegedly be
used to track down the physical location of people who
either call the number themselves or answer calls they receive
from it, after which they are kidnapped, brought to a
red room and tortured, killed, or both. These alleged torture

(17:45):
sessions slash murders are said to be broadcast live over
the deep Web. I can assure you, however, that four
zero eight six three four twenty eight oh six is
not a red room number. As far as I know,
red room numbers don't even exist. They're just an urban legend,
a legend which notably forms the premise of the video
game series. Indeed, it's not even totally clear how the

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number four zero eight sixty three four to six gained
a reputation for being a red room number in the
first place. The clearest link I've been able to find
is still tenuous YouTube channel MKP Studios. Video on the
phone number starts out by likening it to an alleged
red room number that they had previously called, but fails
to actually connect the two numbers in any meaningful way.

(18:31):
If you add called the number while it was still connected,
this is what you would have heard.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
All you well.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
R So if four eight six three four twenty eighth
six was not a red room number, what the heck
was it? Because it's still really weird sounding. When you
called it, you heard a recording of demonic voices, someone

(19:14):
saying all's well, that ends well, and a spooky music box.
It had to be connected to something, right. The answer
is yes. It was connected to the iOS game Super
Brothers Sword and Sorcery EP, which was released by Capybara
Games in twenty eleven. At the end of the game,
you're given a number that turns out to be this

(19:35):
phone number. It may have been part of an arg
attached to the game that never quite took off, or
it may not have been. I don't know that the
meaning of the message you heard when calling the number
has ever been solved. Then again, maybe it doesn't have
to be. Also, it's worth noting that the message reportedly
changed a few times, but that was the only recording
I could find wow four zero seven seven three four

(19:59):
zero row two five four. If you called this number,
you'd reach a clown named Wrinkles, who lives in Naples, Florida,
and will, or at least used to, according to the
Washington Post, make an appearance at your party or gathering,
prank your friend, or even scare your misbehaving kid straight
for the low, low price of a few hundred bucks.

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Here is the phone numbers recording. Very little known about
the man behind Wrinkles at the time. At the voicemail recording,
he was in his sixties, retired, and originally from Rhode Island,
but that's all he would say to reporters. He's definitely

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at the evil clown market. Cornered though, I also found
a video of Wrinkles, the clown doing his thing, crawling
out from under a kid's bed in the middle of
the night. I'll link to the video in the essential
Weblinks section of the show notes if you want to
watch that video seven eight six five to one thirty
seven eight. Now I'll confess I'm not a gamer, so

(21:05):
I don't know Diddley squat about the actual gameplay of
Hotline Miami. I'm a sucker for interesting marketing, though, and well,
this phone number and the message that was placed on
its answering machine in advance of the release of hot
Line Miami two definitely ticked that box. The voicemail message
is short, but it's still pretty freaky to listen to.
Bonus points for the fact that the number is actually

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a Miami number.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
We are fifty playing together in.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
March Wow Into the Future.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
The seven eight, six, five nine thirty seven eight phone
number wasn't new for Hotline Miami two. Indeed, the hot
Line Miami Twitter account had been tweeting the number since
twenty twelve, prior to the original game's release in October
of that year, but in February of twenty fifteen, the
number appeared with new context on the series Twitter feed.

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This time it included an extension number. What's more, when
fans dialed the number, they found that a new message
had been recorded. The message you just heard When properly
analyzed the message, combined with the extension number, which was
the number ten, provided a full title and release date
for the second game in the series, Hotline Miami two.
Wrong Number, to be released March tenth, twenty fifteen, and

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that's exactly what happened. Eight five, eight six' five one fifty.
Fifty fishing in a mountain stream is my idea of
a good. Time there was water in the cellar after
the heavy. Rain smoke poured out of every. Crack those
words were the cue for the actor to. Leave these

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are the kinds of sentences you'll hear if you dial eight,
five eight six' five, to one fifty. To fifty they're
spoken by, two people one with a male sounding voice
and one with a female, sounding voice who just sit
there in these poetic yet meaningless messages for as long
as you choose to stay on. The line here's just
about three minutes or so of.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
The freakiness fishing in a mountain stream is my idea
of a.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
Good time after, the dance they went. Straight home the
hostess taught the new maid, to.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Serve adding fast leads to. Wrong sums the show was
a flop from the. Very start.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
There was water in the cellar after the. Heavy rain
they're not listed in the new. PHONE book a.

Speaker 10 (23:31):
Large size and stockings is hard. To sell the Juice
of lemons makes.

Speaker 9 (23:36):
Fine punch smoke poured out of, every Crack serve the
hot rum to the.

Speaker 11 (23:41):
Tired heroes those words were the cue for the actor.
TO leave a yacht slid around the point into.

Speaker 12 (23:48):
The bay the play seems dull and. Quite stupid sees
who rob friends.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
Deserve jail the frosty air passed through. The coat the
crooked failed to fool.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
The mouse he wrote the last novel there at. The
inn even the worst will beat his.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
LOW score a saw as a tool used for. Making
boards the wagon moved on well, oiled wheels.

Speaker 9 (24:16):
Try to have the court decide. The case they are
pushed back each time. They attack the.

Speaker 10 (24:21):
Box was thrown beside the. Parked truck the hogs were
fed chopped corn.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
And garbage much of the story makes.

Speaker 9 (24:28):
Good sense the sun came up to light the.

Speaker 11 (24:30):
Eastern sky the two met while playing on. The sand
the ink stain dried on the. Finished page the.

Speaker 12 (24:40):
Ripe taste of cheese improves. With age act unease orders with.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
Great speed adding fast leads to. Wrong sums the show
was a flop from the.

Speaker 8 (24:50):
Very start the cement had dried when he. Moved it
the loss of the second ship was hard.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
To take march the soldiers past the. NEXT hill a
cup of sugar makes. Sweet fudge he broke his ties
with groups of.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
Former friends they floasd on the raft to sun their.
White backs, these days the chicken leg is a. Rare
dish rice is often served in. Round bowls the desk
was firm on the. Shaky floor it takes heat to
bring out. The odor the.

Speaker 11 (25:22):
Walled town was seized without. A fight the lease ran
out in. Sixteen weeks.

Speaker 12 (25:29):
The purple tie was ten. Years old men sink, and
plan and.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Sometimes act he saw as a tool used for. Making
boards the wagon moved on well. Oiled wheels torn scraps
littered the. Stone floor sunday is the best part of.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
The week cars and buses stalled in. Snow drifts the
Set of china hit the floor with. A crash.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
The map pat necks that. Meant nothing whitings are small
fish caught.

Speaker 10 (25:59):
In nets the boy was there when the. SUN rose
a rod is used to catch. Pink salmon beef is
scarcer than.

Speaker 8 (26:07):
Some lamb raise the sale and steer the.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Ship northward there's a perfectly rational explanation behind. This number
it's a phone. Testing tool, the sentences Known as harvard
sentences were chosen for their phonetic balance that is the
frequency of sounds in these lists match that of a.
Natural Language As sarah zang put It at gizmoto in,
twenty fifteen they hit all the noises a person would

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typically hear in. A conversation According To ernie smith Writing and,
motherboard calling this number would have allowed phone companies to
ensure the signal quality. Was strong, that is it's the
can you hear me now of. Phone tests it's, still,
weird though it's the lack of context that makes what
you hear when you call the number kind. Of unsettling

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seven oh one three, four seven nineteen. Thirty six like
several other numbers on, this list this one was a
video game, tie in this time for The Infamous five
Nights at. Freddy's series it's not clear whether the number
is canon or whether it's. Fan made, either way though
it's Pretty Unmistakably five Nights at freddy's related to those

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familiar with.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
The games all.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Of the voice we hear seems to be a garbled
Version Of phone guy at about thirty two seconds in
the Aria from Carmen the, torriador song which signifies the
approach Of The Freddy fasbear animatronic in the game. Kicks

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in it, is not as some YouTube videos featuring the
phone number, have suggested a cursed phone number that'll make
you behave erratically and or kill you within twenty four
hours of, calling it whether or not you know the, source,
material though it's still pretty spooky to listen to nine
seven eight four three five zero one six, y three

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perhaps the only number on our list that's more cryptic
than the one featuring, binary Code which i'll get to
later when covering numbers that are. Still connected if you
called nine seven eight four three five zero one, sixty
three you would hear a looped message of a. Man
sobbing he sounds like he's maybe in a cave or.
A sewer there's a lot of echo, and reaver and

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it sounds kind of like something's dripping somewhere in. The
background oh and periodically you'll hear, something screech something that
sounds decidedly. Not human here's. A sample.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
It's a.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Massachusetts number but other, THAN that i know nothing about,
the number not who, owned it not what the bigger story,
might be not even exactly what's going on, In it
AND that i think is the creepiest thing Of all
now that we've covered a few numbers that are no,
longer working let's take a look at some that still

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are numbers that you can call yourself if. You dare
we'll begin with eight seven seven. Seventy seven creep this
phone number. Was created, oh sorry my phone's rigging Even
though i'm Even though i'm not actually expecting and he,
calls now that's, probably, fine, right, yeah, RIGHT yeah i

(30:38):
should take a break, Here anyway so, Hang, Tired okay
i'll be, RIGHT back.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
I hope.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
So there have been a lot of creepy phone numbers
that eventually, stopped working to the disappointment of most fans
Of the strange And macab but now we move to
the phone numbers that do. Still work as of This moment,
march ninth twenty. Twenty one these phone numbers still work
as long as you're based In The, united states or
at least if you're making the calls using the proper

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international codes to DIAL the us from a. Different country
keep those long distance charges, in, mind though if you
plan to, do that you can still connect with these.
Phone numbers and here are. The messages but if you
don't have pen and paper handy to, write. Them down,
Don't worry i'm going to play the voicemail messages on these.
As well, that way if anybody does get cursed or
haunted by these, phone numbers it'll all come down on,

(31:43):
my head. Not yours you're welcome one eight seven seven
seventy seven creep or one eight seven seven seven seven
two seventy three seventy seven for. Easy dialing it's perhaps
the least mysterious of this crop of spooky, phone numbers
mostly because we know exactly who created it. And why

(32:05):
the first let's give it a listen.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Region scream thanks for calling our secret talk.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
Lives on if you's too to.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Hear about the Hide and, seek channel.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
You know we still love a classic two.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Scopus of SPOOKY asm r for, A scream but do you.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
A six spread of house cleanse?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Any dead?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Who does.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
This phone number belongs to horror themed apparel and Merch Company,
creepy cough and they made it just. For fun it
apes the format of, the many many horror hotlines that
proliferated in the, nineteen eighties the kind where you could
dial a one nine hundred number and listen To Say
freddy krueger read you a. Bedtime story unlike the one
nine hundred numbers of, Your Though creepy cose hotline is

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one hundred percent free. To call, what's more it gives
you a few options to explore once you do. Dial
in if you're in the mood to hear a good
old fashioned, urban legend one eight seven seven, seventy seven
creep can help you out. With that same goes if
you want to hear some, spooky music and if you're
looking for some grown worthy. Dad jokes let's just say
you've come to the. Right place The recording i've made

(33:34):
here goes as far as the menu options you reach
right at the beginning of. Your call, from, there well
you have to find out what each choice reveals. For
yourself i'm not going to give. Everything away six four
six eight six eight eighteen. Forty four the area code
for the number six four six eight six eight eighteen

(33:55):
forty four is Based In, White Plains, new york but
that doesn't really mean much because it IS a, voipe
number meaning its owner could be. Based anywhere and while
it's true that the initial message you'll hear upon dialaing,
is weird it starts with odd bell, like tones leads,
into garbled, unintelligible words and then ends with an answer.
Phone tone the really weird thing about this one doesn't

(34:17):
happen during the. Call itself it happens after you.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Hang up.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
After calling this number and, hanging up, within seconds you'll
receive a text message containing a jumbled mix. Of words
they arranged to look, like sentences but they. Aren't sentences they're.
Just nonsense they read things, like surprise, steepest recurred landlord,
mister wandered amounted Of continuing devonshire but considered its, rose
past oh shu roof is, song neat and chapter Two

(35:19):
parties it's letter no cheerful but whatever ladyship disposed yet
judgment lasted answer opposed to ye month's. No esteem HERE'S
what i can tell you about. Those texts they were
likely Generated using markov chains or other. Similar, processes furthermore
A quick google search for each chunk of text reveals
them both to function more or less like lorum. Ipsum texts,

(35:42):
that is they are placeholder texts used to test out
and demonstrate the visual appearance of a document, or typeface
and a draft or trial run before the design. Is,
finalized furthermore the text you'll receive might not always be
the same from call. TO call i first dialed the
Number in march of twenty nineteen and received The surprise steepest,
Recurred message BUT when i called it several more times

(36:05):
in preparation for, THIS episode i Received the chapter two parties.
TEXT message i haven't been able to figure out much.
Beyond that this one remains a mystery, for now at
least six one eight six two five eighty. Three thirteen
if You're A stranger, things fan you probably recognize. That

(36:26):
number six one eight six two five eighty. Three Thirteen
It's murray bauman's. Phone number, that is it belongs To
the Netflix Series resident conspiracy theorist Played By. Brett gelman
calling it presents You with bawman's answer, phone recording which
seems to offer a few hints about what might be
in store for us whenever season four, FINALLY, drops.

Speaker 13 (36:48):
Hi you have reached the Residence Of murray bowman and.
Bites you please hang up and calling between the hours
of five and. Six pm as previously the, god okay
if it's, A, choice joyce thank you. For calling i've
been trying to. REACH you i have an update it's
about well, it said it's coupled that when we speak,

(37:11):
in person it's something, or bad but it's something devisit
anyone but my Mother? Or joyce well's you think you're
real clever getting? My number, Oh, yet well here's.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Some breaking news.

Speaker 13 (37:24):
For you you're, Not clever you're. Not special you are
simply one of, the many many mimleds to. Call here
the closest you will ever get to me is this pre.
Recorded message so at, the beat do me. A favor
hang up and never call. Here again you are. A
parasite thank you and.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Good, day sorry this mailbox is fill and can not
accept any.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
More recording thank you for using the. Voicemail.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
System goodbye it isn't super creepy in and, Of, itself
however it is A fun easter egg, for FANS and
i think it also functioned as a trailhead for the
larger alternate reality game that Emerged From stranger things. Third
season what's notable About the, BAUMAN number, i think is
that it's still, operational now despite having been put into

(38:15):
service in his capacity several. Years ago that's unusual for
horror pop culture tie. In Numbers carrie white's phone number
set up in twenty twelve For the carrie Remake Starring Chloe,
grace MORITZ which i played for you at the beginning of.
This episode that hasn't worked. For years there's no guarantee
That The stranger things team will keep it up, in
perpetuity but at least we can enjoy it for the.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Time being bubble.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Five zero eight six nine zero sixty one. Forty three
it isn't at all clear what's going on when you
call five oh eight six nine oh six one. Four
three initially there is, a loud repetitive. Honking noise some
have likened it to a, car horn others a, buzzing
sound before a minute or two of clanging takes, the
stage like someone's repeatedly smashing, a hard solid object against

(39:04):
a tabletop. Or something an ear splitting burst of static eventually. Breaks, in,
then Lastly a, we're sorry but the number you have
dialed is no longer in service, message plays but not cleanly.
Or easily it's interspersed with more static. And interference it
finishes off with a classic answer phone beep before. FALLING
silent i have no idea what any of. THAT means

(41:37):
i don't know if it's connected to, something bigger an alternate,
reality game an abandoned art project or, marketing push, a
podcast or something of, the like or if it's just,
a spooky standalone piece, of weirdness it sure, is unsettling
though nine oh nine three nine oher triple. Zero three

(41:58):
legends surrounding so called. Doppelganger numbers phone numbers which, when
dialed allow you to converse with your, own doppelganger are Popular.
In japan there it's said that calling one such as
zero seven three four nine nine ninety nine ninety nine
or zero nine zero twenty forty eight nineteen seventy two
might result in anything from an unsettling experience to a potential.

(42:22):
Death curse but although these kinds of numbers are well Known,
in japan they are not Limited. To japan, you see
nine oh nine three nine zero zero zero zero three
is a doppelganger number that you can call Within The.
United states here's what happened when YouTuber Big burger boy
two thousand and five decided to give it.

Speaker 14 (42:41):
A try kaka, mm.

Speaker 15 (43:15):
Hmmm, hello, hello, hello hello, excuse? Me sir are you talking?
To me are?

Speaker 6 (43:34):
You?

Speaker 15 (43:34):
First, okay okay oh.

Speaker 16 (43:38):
Say, something, well, well look, come on, come on can
you stop with Me everything? I'm saying, excuse, me sir dame, really. Annoying, annoying,
hey hey knock, it off k, IT off, i said

(43:58):
stop stomp. It out you think you can? Do it, listen,
up sir you're really pissing, ME off, i.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Said there's nothing sinister going. On here these kinds of
numbers are just test lines phone numbers which allow you
to test the audio quality of your phone through something
called an. Echo test there are two main kinds of.

(44:31):
Echo tests one of them lets you record a message
then plays it back, to you not unlike, how say
test calls Work, on skype while the other echoes your
voice back to you live and in real time as.
You speak this nine oh nine number here performs the
second kind of. Echo test, that is if you, call
it you're not speaking with your. Own doppelganger you're simply
hearing your own voice all. Over again or are you

(44:58):
nine five twenty. Six two you might know this particular
phone number AS the, scp number assuming you're INTO. The
scp when, you dialect you hear a voicemail recording informing
you that you've Reached The Southern california division nineteen branch
OF The scp foundation and instructing you to leave, the, date,

(45:18):
time location and description of any incidents you may have
witnessed which you believe required the. Organization's, intervention essentially it
sounds like a tip line.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Of sorts you have REACHED The, Scp Foundation Southern california.
Division nineteen please leave a message including date and time,
of incident location, of incident and a description of the.
Incident itself.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Thank YOU The scp, foundation is, of course the made
up organization at the center of a long standing collaborative
fiction project of the. Same name the project saw its
beginnings on four chan way back in two thousand, and
seven when the infamous entry now KNOWN as scp one
seventy three was posted to Four Chan's. PARANORMAL board a

(46:05):
first incarnation of the project in the wiki format went
live On edit This in january of two thousand, and
eight Then in july of that same year it moved
over to, wiki dot and in the years since it has,
grown exponentially with users all over the world, contributing, artifacts
reports and other stories to, the mix building out an enormously.
Entertaining universe that's part, x Files part, warehouse thirteen and.

(46:29):
All fun, the number which is a voipe number Based,
In banning california And In, riverside county just south Of
The San Bernardino, national forest has existed at least since.
TWENTY Fifteen scp Foundation User jean splicer has claimed to
be its creator several times in the. Wikis forums according
to one post from this user dated, twenty seventeen it's

(46:50):
A Repurposed google. Voice number some folks who have actually
left messages in the numbers voicemail box over the years
have said that there's a chance you might receive a
call or. Text back i've never, done THIS so i
can't verify. It independently, and besides the number has existed
for so long that it's a. Distinct possibility its creator
doesn't monitor it all that. Closely anymore but if you're,

(47:13):
feeling daring you can always give it. A shot, five, one, two, nine,
three seven twenty three. Forty six this one is actually
A second, scp number although it serves quite a different
purpose than the. Previous one who, YOU Have.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Vhc Foundation After Midnight. Radio hotline our site is currently
experiencing a site, Wide Lockdown Google. Containment reach please stay
on the line and leave your message out to the toe.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Say day this is the hotline Number For Foundation After,
midnight radio a podcast set within the world OF The
scp foundation designed to sound like an in universe. Radio
show if you're a Fan Of Welcome, tonight vale you'll
Probably Dig Foundation After. Midnight radio the five twelve number
actually is used for call ins from time. To time the,

(48:00):
Podcast's Creator TOAD king o Seven Aka Eric, jay stover
has put out calls ON the sep forums for listeners
to dial in and leave messages for inclusion in several,
holiday episodes. For example, right now though the podcast seems
to be. On hiatus the most recent episode as of
this recording was Uploaded in march of, twenty twenty so
whether or not the line is currently monitored remains to.

(48:22):
Be seen you can still call it to hear an,
entertaining message though the voicemail box greets callers by informing
them our site is currently experiencing a site wide lockdown
due to a, contamination breach before asking them to either
stay on the line or leave. A message after the tone,
stay safe it chirps at the end. How optimistic eight two,

(48:44):
eight seven five six zero one, zero nine also known
as the. Binary number now note if you try, this
one please be sure that you dial. IT correctly a
common missdial for this one goes to a real person's.
Phone number if you hear anything other than The message
i'm about to play, for you have. Missed dialed, all
right don't bug, the person don't be rude, or obscene,

(49:07):
but again ideally check to make sure you've entered the
number correctly before you hit the, call button so as
to avoid that whole situation in the. First place eight two,
eight seven five six zero one. Zero nine here's what it.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
Sounds like.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Zero one zero zero zero zero one one zero zero
one zero one zero one one zero zero zero one
one one zero one zero zero zero one one. Zero.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Zero, ah yes the biggest history of. The bunch this
number is now widely known as the binary number due
to the fact that its main feature is a panicked
sounding person spouting a bunch of ones, and zeros which

(50:11):
convert to the word Death. In english It's A northern.
Carolina number for, the curious my phone identifies it as
being based Out, of marion which is In, McDowell county
about eighty five miles west and slightly North. Of charlotte
but it's also a voipe number set Up Through, google
voice so who knows where its owner. Actually lives alas
nothing new has emerged about this number for quite, a

(50:33):
while it's just as mysterious now as it, was then
and unless someone steps forward to reveal who they are
and why they set the, number up it will likely remain.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
As such.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Two seven h three oh one five seven. Ninety Seven
super brothers isn't the only video game to have had
a telephone based. Tie In Kentucky, route zero a magical
realist point and click adventure game released episodically between twenty
thirteen and, twenty twenty has, one Too called Here And
there Along. The echo it's one of a number of

(51:07):
auxiliary Experiences That Kentucky route Zero Developers jake Elliott And
tamas kamenski released, between episodes and it. Is, delightful.

Speaker 17 (51:33):
Hello you have Dialed into Here And there Along. THE
echo a guide To The echo river for drifters. And
pilgrims this guide is a public service provided By the
Bureau Of. Secret tourism for a menu of, Our resources

(52:07):
press one if you have an extension.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
To dial.

Speaker 17 (52:11):
Press nine for more information about, Our organization. Press three
if you don't remember dialing this number, At all press
five to hear these. Options again. Press zero for historical
sites Along The, Echo river press one for a guide to,

(52:37):
the rivers flora. And fauna press two for help identifying an.
Unfamiliar sound. Press three if you're holding a snake, Right
now press four to hear these, Options again. Press, zero

(52:58):
well if you're dialed into this year, informational resource then
you're a certain kind of beachcombing bat calling. Sites year
so let's take a. Driftwood inventory for a diver's guide to,
Underwater islands press one for, Forgotten places press two for.

(53:24):
Restless places press three for what little we know Of The.
Iron pariah press four.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
For food and.

Speaker 17 (53:35):
Drink recommendations.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Press five what you get when you DIAL two o
seven three oh one fifty seven ninety seven is a
phone tree that is, format wise it's a lot like
the one eight seven seven seventy seven creep hotline set
up By The, creepy company but it's an entirely different
experience than eight seven seven Seventy seven creep claiming instead
to be a guide To The echo river for drifters,

(53:59):
and pilgrims presented By the Bureau Of. Secret tourism it's weird,
and surreal yet also, wonderfully serene and there's plenty to
explore as you dial your way through the various menus
to which it gives. You access, what's more As a
MetaFilter user put it in, twenty sixteen you don't have
to know anything about the game to appreciate the sheer
oddity and scope of what there is to listen to on.

Speaker 5 (54:21):
This phone number.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Six three zero two nine six seven five Three six
Remember Booth. World industries this is the number paired with
the Twenty Thirteen No sleep redditor Story By christopher bloodworth
that kicked off the. Whole universe it still. Works now
at the, call it you'll hear a pleasant voice telling you.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
You'll Have Reached.

Speaker 18 (54:44):
Word industry you're a number of some loss And trues
i'd say that which you're shortly For remodeling. Wait, industry
thanks you have a.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Frvelous day you have Reached Booth. World industries your number
has been logged. AND traced a service representative will be
with you shortly. For remodeling We At Booth world industries,
say thanks you have a. Marvelous day you may or
not actually receive. A callback, Some have, In fact bloodworth

(55:17):
noted in a twenty fourteen Interview with. Bubblebeam MAGAZINE sometimes i.
Call back the reactions are usually fun even if, you,
don't though there's still some fun to be gotten out
of leaving a Message For.

Speaker 5 (55:28):
Booth world.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Lastly eighth one eight two oh zero two six. Y
three this one is The Second booth, world number although
at first listen the connection isn't. NECESSARILY clear a, little,
digging though revealed.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
The truth?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
What shup.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
For listening if you like, the show please share it
with someone you know who loves the paranormal or, strained stories, true,
crime monsters or unsolved mysteries like. You do all Stories
In weird darkness are purported to be true unless, stated
otherwise and you can find source links or links to
the authors in the. Show notes Cracking the mystery Of
the worldwide hum was Written by. Glenn McPherson for Getpocket

(56:47):
dot Com And Creepy telephone numbers Is by lucia For
the Ghost in Mymachine. DOT com i also have a
list of all the phone numbers used in, this episode
along with links to the recordings of their. Corresponding voicemails
you can find this in the. Show notes and now
that we're coming out of, The dark i'll leave you
with a Little light, deuteronomy thirty. Verse SIXTEEN for i

(57:09):
command you today to Love the Lord, your god to
walk in, his ways and to keep, his commands decrees.
And laws then you will live, and increase And the
Lord your god will bless you in the land your entering.
To possess and a, final thought one day you'll look
back and realize that you worried too much about the
things that don't. Really Matter.

Speaker 18 (57:32):
I'm.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Darren marler thanks for joining me in the. Weird darkness Welcome, To,
marshport maine a quaint little coastal town preparing for Their
Annual Winter. Wonderland festival but beneath the lights and, holiday

(57:56):
cheer something evil is stirring and it's not. A mouse
when a mysterious package arrives on the doorstep of veteran
Police Officer matthew kleine and his, family's home it seems
at first like a harmless. Holiday, gift however there's no
tag and. No sender inside lies an antique wooden advent

(58:18):
calendar with strange engravings and twenty four doors that each
shelter something dark. And unspeakable the line between reality and
nightmare quickly becomes Blurred as matthew races to figure out
the calendar's origin and who. Sent it but as each
door is Opened and marshport is thrust into a, Sinister

(58:39):
nightmare matthew realizes the terrifying truth and is forced to
relive the horrors from his past that refuse to. Stay
buried the countdown, has begun and once that first door,
is opened there is no. Turning Back where Darkness resents

(58:59):
Advent of evil a twenty four episode audio Saga beginning.
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