Well now, howdy folks, hope you’re having a fine day wherever you are. Howe Weird here, ready to spin you another yarn from the stranger side of life, and this one involves a phone call that’ll make the hair stand up on your arms, especially if you believe in things that go bump in the night.
Down in a rural part of Missouri, the 911 dispatch center got a call. Nothing unusual about that, you might think, except this particular call came from a landline registered to a house that was, well, entirely unoccupied. The story goes that when the dispatcher picked up, the caller just hung right back up. Now, protocol being what it is, dispatch called back to make sure everything was alright. On the other end, a woman’s voice answered with a simple, “Hello?” and then asked, “Who is this?” When the dispatcher identified herself and her agency, that mysterious voice on the other end simply said, “I think I have the wrong number,” and disconnected again.
Now, a situation like that, a hang-up from an unknown party, especially when they call back then claim ‘wrong number,’ raises a few eyebrows, as you can imagine. Concerned that someone might be in distress, officers were dispatched to the address. You know, back in the day, a working landline was the backbone of communication, like those trusty old phones you might’ve found at a place like Radio Shack (paid link). Seems this one was still doing its job, even without a soul around.
When the officers arrived at the specified rural house, they found all the doors and windows securely fastened. They knocked, naturally, but got no answer. Given the strange circumstances of the 911 call, they decided the best course of action was to force entry, just to ensure that nobody inside was in trouble or incapacitated. What they found inside, however, was certainly not what they expected.
That house was as empty as a politician’s promise. Not a stick of furniture, not a single personal belonging to be found anywhere. It looked like the place hadn’t been lived in for quite some time, with no signs of recent occupancy or any indication that someone had broken in. The officers conducted a thorough search, both inside and outside the property, but they didn’t find a soul, nor anything that could explain that peculiar phone call. The landline itself, believe it or not, was indeed connected and fully functional, capable of making outbound calls.
And so, the mystery of that phantom 911 call from an empty Missouri house remains unsolved. No one knows who made the call, or why, or even how, from a house that was completely vacant. It just goes to show, some things in this old world just defy a logical explanation, doesn’t it?
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Original story source: KMBC News