20 Unsolved Cases Involving Mysterious Phone Calls

In 1980, Dorothy began receiving phone calls from a man who claimed to love her. He would recite poetry to her, but the situation turned into a nightmare when he began threatening to hurt her. After she disappeared from a hospital parking lot, he called her parents every Wednesday for four years.

Henry passed away after terrifying his family with a phone recording straight out of a horror movie. The recording features strange growls, a woman’s screams, and a voice telling someone to stop before the line goes dead. Henry’s body was found a few months later.

In 2008, while driving home, Brandon veered off the road and called his parents to come pick him up. He stayed on the line for nearly 45 minutes, until he suddenly let out a scream and the call was cut off completely. Despite an extensive search of the rural area where he was believed to be, no one has ever found any trace of him or his phone.

After the bodies of Barbara and Patricia Grimes were discovered in 1957, their mother received a phone call from someone claiming to be the perpetrator. The voice on the other end of the line mentioned details about the girls that had not even been disclosed to the media yet. This conversation suggests that the culprit was closely monitoring the family’s grieving process.

After receiving a series of strange phone calls and messages, Bill Comeans was found in the snow. The person calling him knew his schedule inside and out and had terrorized him for weeks. The police eventually identified a few suspects, but were never able to determine who was continuing to call him at all hours of the day and night.

In 1989, a young girl named Amy received a call from a man posing as her mother’s coworker. He convinced her to meet him at a local shopping mall under the pretext of buying a gift. It was a tragic incident that still haunts the Bay Village community to this day.

For years, Bill and Dorothy Wacker received phone calls and gifts left on their doorstep. On several occasions, the person on the other end of the line would let the phone ring without saying a word, while they could hear the person breathing. You can sense the distress in their voices: they simply wanted to enjoy their retirement in peace.

When Joan disappeared from her home in 1961, several neighbors reported seeing her acting strangely after answering a phone call. The kitchen was splattered with red, but there were no signs of a struggle or forced entry. It is generally believed that what was said during that final conversation triggered the series of strange events that led to her disappearance.

In Brazil, two technicians were found wearing masks made of duct tape and notes with dates written on them tied to their heads. According to phone records, their climb up the hill appears to have been motivated by the expectation of a phone call and some kind of “signal.” The mystery surrounding the identity of the person they were expecting to speak with and what they hoped to find remains a true enigma.

After the violent attack that took place in 1981 in cabin No. 28, a local resident called the sheriff’s office and apparently confessed to the crime. He then told the authorities where the weapons were located before they lost contact with the caller. If only they had kept the line open for thirty more seconds…

The Jamison family had been missing for some time already when their children told their parents about the calls they had received. They heard the phone ring for thirty seconds straight, with no one answering. This led them to believe they were being harassed either by members of a cult or by someone living in the neighborhood.

While most people have focused on the letters sent to Circleville residents, many victims have also reported receiving threatening phone calls. The voice was often distorted or muffled, and it ordered people to stop digging into the town’s secrets. One can’t help but wonder if the person making these calls was the same person who was setting sophisticated traps along the country roads.

Chuck Morgan was an employee at a escrow company who made a mysterious phone call to his wife. Before he disappeared, he told his wife that he worked for the government. After he disappeared, a woman called his wife to tell her that Chuck was fine, and then read her a Bible verse.

Four teenagers went into the woods and never came out, but one of them called his parents from his cell phone. He claimed to have seen humanoid creatures and demons moving through the forest in the form of lights. Three hours later, his phone went dead, and they were never found despite an intensive search.

In one of the longest-running cases of telephone harassment on record, Bashir Kouchacji received a call from someone claiming to be a spirit. He received more than 3,000 calls over nine years, sometimes while the caller knew his exact location. It is still unknown who put him through this.

In a New Zealand case that shocked the entire world, a family friend received a mysterious phone call several years after Amber-Lee’s disappearance. The person on the other end of the line claimed to know exactly where the body was buried, but hung up before giving a specific location. Whether this was a cruel prank or a genuine clue, it has left the grieving family in a perpetual state of uncertainty.

After a family was attacked in Tokyo, the assailant remained in the house and used their computer to browse the Internet. He reportedly also answered the phone when a relative called the next morning to check on them. The sheer audacity of this intruder, who was talking on the phone with the victim, is a detail that makes this case—which was closed without further action—particularly frightening.

Several ships picked up a distress signal from a Dutch cargo ship, in which the person transmitting the signal was shouting that everyone was missing. The last words heard over the radio were “I’m dying,” followed by silence punctuated by static. When rescuers located the ship, the crew members were all dead, their faces frozen in expressions of terror, but no physical cause has ever been identified.

Before a violent incident occurred at this isolated farm in Germany, the family had told their neighbors that they were hearing strange noises and receiving bizarre phone calls. They didn’t have a phone at the time, but “heard voices coming through their phones.” Because of these warnings that preceded the deaths, this case remains one of the most famous unsolved crimes in history.

Lars Mittank rushed out of a Bulgarian airport and vanished without a trace, but he made good use of his final words. He called his mother, in tears, and told her that four men were chasing him across Europe. His panicked voice during those final calls is the last record we have of a man who seems to have vanished from the face of the earth.