![]() WAKE COUNTY, N.C (WTVD) - Local and national law enforcement officials have a message for students as the new school year approaches: Think before you post. I forgot many of them, but the gems include "Do you have children?", to which I told them "no, I'm still a kid" and their response was "No, you do have children and they miss you." Another good one was "Are you afraid to die?" and when I said no without thinking because I was so unnerved they replied with "You should be.Local and national law enforcement officials have a message for students as the new school year approaches: Think before you post. The second and arguably most creepy encounter was when they called and asked about something I don't remember. But when I asked "anything else?" to try and get the f*ck off the phone with them because they were wigging me out, they started asking me questions. I told them to ask their mom and dad for help, to which they replied "my mom and dad are dead." ![]() They said they weren't allowed to use the computer. So I eventually gave up and asked if they had a computer, because they could easily look it up online. I would explain it to them and they would keep asking me the same f*cking questions. Two of the most notably creepy conversations: the first one involved them asking me about trading Pokémon, something with which I am intimately familiar. There would always be this really weird pause before he spoke after I did. The conversations would start normally, them (wasn't sure if it was a boy or girl) asking about one game or another, specifically Pokémon. I would occasionally get calls at work, a video-game store, from a very eerie-sounding child that couldn't have been more than five or six-years-old. They started in 1987 and continued into the mid-'90s, right around when caller ID started becoming popular. Then I got a job back in my hometown, so we moved, and the calls started again. Then we got married, got our own place in a different city from where we lived and where we went to college, and the calls started again. I also got a couple over the summer when I was at home. She graduated a year ahead of me, and I was living in a different place at school, and I started getting the calls. Then as soon as we said something, they'd hang up. If we just picked up the phone, the caller wouldn't hang up, but we could hear a TV or music in the background. ![]() This is before cell phones or caller ID, so we had no idea who it was, and when your phone rings at 2 am, it's usually something important, so you answer it. As soon as we said hello, they'd hang up. Maybe once a week or so, we'd get a call, often in the middle of the night. But that first time was not fun.īefore my wife and I were married, we lived together while we were in college. It's happened maybe twice since and I just pick up the phone, say "go f*ck yourself" and hang up now. Practically shitting myself I took out my keys, unlocked the door and pushed it open. First I checked the toilets, just in case anyone was hiding out there and then tried the kitchen. I got a broom (the best thing I had to hand) and went upstairs. I hung up and realised that I'd have to go check the kitchen, as I'd just been downstairs and there clearly wasn't anyone in the bar. I picked up the receiver and I swear I could, very faintly, hear breathing. I was going through the door so I wasn't really paying attention and it was only when I got to the bar that it dawned on me that it was an internal call, the slow, single ring. I got done at about 3 am and was on my way up the stairs when the phone rang. I sent the staff home after they'd cleaned up around half-past midnight. One night it had been busy as hell and I had end-of-week accounting to do in the cellar. An internal call is one slow ring, pause, slow ring etc. A call from outside the pub rings twice, like a normal phone, you know ring ring, ring ring. To get an external line you have to dial nine, if you want to call one of the other floors you dial 21 (cellar), 22 (bar) or 23 (kitchen). The bar I work in has three floors and a phone on each floor.
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