Phone calls from the dead are a fairly common occurrence even though incidents are almost never reported in newspapers these days. When they first started happening, as more phones were being installed inside homes, the stories were often passed around and printed in the local papers.
Take, for instance, a report published on October 24, 1927. Foltanski sent his wife and children to a forester’s lodge while he went to conduct business in another town in Poland. That night he received a telephone call from his wife. She said, “Henry, come at once and take the children away. They are not to weep at my grave.”
The husband was obviously upset by the call, but he also knew that there was no telephone at the forester’s lodge. He called the exchange to find out where the call came from and was told that no calls had come through the line.
At eight o’clock in the morning, a car pulled up and the driver stepped out to talk to the distraught husband. His wife had passed away in the night. She had had a heart attack, realized she was about to die, and desperately wished she could phone her husband to take the children away. She was not able to get to a phone and, it was believed, her spirit made the call after it left her body.
Source: The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser. Monday, October 24, 1927.
