Communicating with The Dead Through Phone Calls
by Taking a look into the possibility that there may be actual communication from the dead to the living through phone calls.
In the movie poltergeist 2 the telephone is an instrument in which the dead call the family after their grandmother’s death, however; in reality this peculiar phenomena is not a unique incident, it is something that happens quite frequently having been documented and reported by a wide range of people throughout the world.
In the 1970’s a parapsychologist named D.Scott Rogo, who was one of the most widely respected writer/journalists covering the all aspects of the paranormal, along with his colleague Raymond Bayless conducted a systematic inquiry into so-called phone messages from beyond the grave. They wrote a book with their finds in 1979 called ‘Phone Calls From The Dead.’
In most cases D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless found that such calls only lasted for a short amount of time. No more then a few words spoken with static interference which usually overwhelmed the voice. When recipients innocently suggested a meeting with their caller, the caller would always turn them down politely.
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An example from their work is of a woman named Mary Meredith, who in August 1977 returns home after a week in the hospital in Oklahoma, U.S.A. When Mary arrived home she found a letter from her mother informing her that her beloved cousin Shirley Jean had died. Just as she put the letter down the phone rang and a familiar voice said “Hi Mary, it’s Shirley Jean.”
Meredith accused the caller of playing a sick joke and slammed the phone down on the receiver angrily. The phone rang again and the same voice asked after Meredith’s health. The caller insisted she had been with Meredith in the hospital. The callers voice apparently rose and fell then faded all together with the interruption of static and the last words Mary heard was ‘Mary I will call you again.”
When D. Scott Rogo interviewed her several years later about this incident Meredith insisted she could not have mistaken her cousins voice as they had a very close relationship and spoke on the phone before her death on a frequent basis.
Their work inspired a comparable investigation in Italy. Emma Portpcalschi of Turin told the researcher G.M. Rinaldi of an incident that occurred with her in 1977. She just returned home from the hospital where her husband had died at 4 that morning. At seven o’clock the phone rang and a man asked ‘Emma ,why are you still at home?I am waiting for you.’
Stunned and frightened Portpcalschi recognized the voice as her late husband. Up to the day he died she had visited him at seven o’clock in the morning since he had been hospitalized.
A British author named Anthony Burgess who wrote a novel about a man who received calls from his dead wife in 1976 named the ‘Beard’s Roman Woman’ was asked by Rogo where the idea came from and Mr.Bugress told him the novel was essentially an autobiographical. The calls had taken place just as recounted in his book. “They were a damned nuisance,” Burgess admitted to Rogo.
D. Scott Rogo did not complete his investigations as he was murdered in his home in 1990 at the age of 40 and most parapsychologists now consider the evidence for for psychic phone calls too weak to be taken seriously.
Perhaps an explanation of this phenomena may be that the living simply cannot let go of their loved ones and derive comfort from believing they are still communicating with them. Or perhaps these calls do really happen and the dead actually have found a way to communicate with the living. Either way I am not sure which side to take but I will end this by taking a quote I wrote quite some time ago and let you decide, ‘Sometimes the impossible is possible which would explain the unexplainable.’
For more information about D. Scott Rogo or information about his research on the paranormal visit:Parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo
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Post Commentken bultman
On November 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Love these kind of stories especially when they are well written and documented such as this one. Job well done. Also love your quote. I shall commit it to memory. Actually, considering my memory, I shall commit it to my notebook.
LOVELYHONEY
On November 19, 2009 at 7:19 pm
my number when i am dead will be
abcdefg callme123
in any case…..upper/lower
pl do call me then
nice one
u mystify
lovely
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Prometheus Ridley Scott
On November 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Great write up. Science is taking such reportings with more of an open mind as with most things we find “odd” or of the paranormal.
xoxo
On November 19, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Communicating with a dead. Even if it would be my mom… it will creep me out. Nice post, Mystify. Some very valuable info.
Butterfly Musings
On November 19, 2009 at 8:13 pm
This is awesome, I always wonder how this interdimensional contact works. Excellent Job!!
AlmaG
On November 19, 2009 at 8:48 pm
This is a very interesting topic I really enjoyed reading this
drelayaraja
On November 19, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Explorable article.
CHAN LEE PENG
On November 19, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Very interesting read! This will create one’s interest to read on. Great piece!
deep blue
On November 19, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Well written, Tanya. Thanks for keeping the inquisitive spirit. Of course we are surrounded by them. Anything could happen and will happen.
svishnugopal
On November 19, 2009 at 10:38 pm
unbelievable..but very interesting and nice..
T.Rex McGoogle
On November 19, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Very interesting article, Mystify. Sometimes I do believe live people would be capable of doing that to avenge the dead. I’ve heard of such a case.
Patrick Bernauw
On November 20, 2009 at 5:07 am
Great article, well researched & well written! I’m going to blog this one on the GhostWritings Site!
lillyrose
On November 20, 2009 at 5:39 am
OH WOW… a really interesting write! I think it made me scared, I’m not sure if I want to talk to dead people! hahaha great story!
J J Neuman
On November 20, 2009 at 8:15 am
I certainly don’t rule this out as I think the deceased do reach out to us at times. There have been too many unexplainable things that I, or some of my friends or family have experienced that make the impossible, possible. Very intriging piece, Tanya!
Lee Ness
On November 20, 2009 at 9:09 am
Very cool. I will always like to think if you really love someone and they passed over and you need them they will be there somehow and let you they are near.
Thank you for awesome article on this topic.
This is near and dear to my heart
Lee Ness
Starpisces
On November 20, 2009 at 11:04 am
I enjoy reading this article, very interesting indeed..
martinpm
On November 20, 2009 at 1:44 pm
You come up with great articles and this one is no exception. Great work.
Sourav
On November 20, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Very very interesting! Enjoyed it!
Patrick Regoniel
On November 20, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Again, a classic from you Tanya. We should, however, be careful as it may be an evil spirit communicating through the phone. The dead do not return. See this interesting article about death in the bible perspective: http://www.anunseenworld.com/lifeafterdeath.html.
Thanks for a nice post…
Diverseblogger
On November 20, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Very bone chilling! I probably would cry because hearing from the dead would be too much for me. Very creative and interesting. Thank you for sharing
Hansika
On November 21, 2009 at 2:47 am
excellant share….
PhoenixRox
On November 21, 2009 at 2:56 am
You have put in a lot of effort and research into this one huh. Excellent work. I am not a great believer in “communicating with the other world”. But I can’t explain things like this, so it certainly makes me wonder. I also respect people who believe in it. Thanks for making me question these things.;)
Themax
On November 21, 2009 at 1:55 pm
really very interesting topic and nice to read,Thanks
CA Johnson
On November 21, 2009 at 5:03 pm
This is very interesting. I don’t know what I would do if I were to get a phone from the dead. I think I would freak out.
Ruby Hawk
On November 21, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Love the idea but I personally think it’s someones idea of a sick joke. It’s a cruel and heartless joke to play on anybody.I would love to get a call from my folks who have passed on and if it were possible they would have certainly given me a call.
clay hurtubise
On November 21, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Nice piece. After my sister died my phone started to emit a half-ring, then stop. It occurred at the time of her death: I was alone, holding her as she died. While I’m not a believer in ghost and the paranormal, since she has died I’ve seen her. My partner would get freaked out by the phone ring, just one half ring each night. So I bought a new phone, and the ringing continued for months. I called the phone company to have the lines checked, all OK. It stopped abruptly and it hasn’t happened in years. I don’t believe that it was her, but I have a more open mind and who really knows for sure?
Thanks,
clay
Mr Ghaz
On November 22, 2009 at 5:14 am
Nice one..well-presented and very interesting read..I Loved it..thank you..cheers
Joe Dorish
On November 22, 2009 at 10:51 am
If it were true that the dead could communicate through cell phones it’s both fascinating and scary.
Enlightenedpsych2
On November 22, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Hi there ! I loved this and completely agree that the use of technology, specifically phones, doorbells, computers and lamps–each have had some sort of interference unexplained by logical reasons therefore proving to me that my personal communications and contact was not just local to my personal surroundings but sparked by a universal consciousness.
Thank you for sharing a wonderful article
sharing the light,
miss erica hidvegi
the Enlightenment Advisor
delia66
On November 24, 2009 at 6:33 pm
From personal experience I can tell that if we can’t let go, believe in the wired or look for it it’s very easy to experience such phenomena. Why our brain works like that I wish I knew. It might be that there are moments we want to stay or come in contact with the spirit world, we might not even be conscious about it. Things like that happens generally to people who have lost a loved one, had/have an illness, are depressed or unhappy, or like me tonight. I remembered some people I once met in Brazil, why they suddenly after 26 years popped in my mind is any ones guess. I suddenly felt very ashamed to have lost a book I was given and had promised to cherish but instead lost it and from surfing the net for this book I ended up researching Macumba etc. and came to a side that discussed Christianity vs Paganism to this one. If I stay in this mood for a day or two I’m sure there will be some kind of I think I can call Paranormal experience. Unfortunately they are always rather scary it seems that the spirits, if those are spirits, don’t like me. I was 3-4 years old when it happened the first time. I woke up in the middle of the night and something was squeezing my legs like in an embrace. Not sure if any one can imagine what I mean, anyway I wish things like that wouldn’t happen or that I would be more in control of how I feel. I mean not to have to look for it like now. Call me weak but I can’t help it. Luckily most of the time I don’t believe in spirits and the like but as you can see I have my moments and it’s rather frustrating. Studding Psychology wasn’t a great help, as I mentioned above the brain works in wired ways.
Meekis_Chick
On November 25, 2009 at 6:53 am
i so agree with MMV Abad if i had a call from the dead even if it was my best cousin or my dad i would seriously be freaked out:| nice article thou:D
Kaligantsaros
On December 8, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I talk to the dead on the phone all the time they are BT and their automated phone system.
alvinwriter
On April 17, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Maybe next time, they’ll use Skype. Who knows what’s possible?
DiDi
On May 17, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I have experienced this twice in the last week. One week ago Sunday my ex-husband chose to take his own life. We have not been divorced but a few months and we share two children. For reasons I won’t divulge we had to divorce but we were together for 20 years and did & always will have feelings for each other aside from sharing a family. The kids are 15 & 19. His number & name are no longer listed in my contacts on my cell phone and as a matter of fact his cell # had been blocked through my wireless provider. This would make it completely impossible for my phone to receive a call from that number and his name would not show up on my phone screen as it wasn’t in my contacts. In any case Tuesday night I was talking with my son on the phone and my phone beeped, I look at the screen & it says “___________ calling” with his name on it. It was as though I was on two active phone calls at the same time, also not possible unless I initiated a conference call, which I didn’t. All I heard was static, quickly disconnected that call & went back to my son. He asked me if I was ok & what happened. I told him, he said you know Mom, Dad is just messing with you. The kids think it’s funny and like a joke from their Dad and it just completely freaks me out. It happened again today although I wasn’t on a call this time. It just rang & said “_______ calling” again. I answer and again hear nothing but like white noise & static. Very odd and very fascinating at the same time. I don’t feel scared just really flipped out. It’s weird! There is no other explanation and I know there are several folks who would question it and that’s fine but I know what happened and my daughter & son saw it as well. We have also had two instances of things happening with lights that should not have occurred when we were discussing him, one instance being right after the first phone call. I thoroughly believe that he is attempting to communicate with me. We haven’t had his service yet so I don’t know if it’s because there hasn’t been total closure to the death or if he’s just trying to stay in touch, let us know he’s still with us. I have no clue. But I”m here to tell you that this is very real and very possible.