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Telephones, cordless phones, cell phones... These communication tools have become indispensable parts of our daily lives. With them we can connect with just about anyone anywhere from virtually anywhere. Voices, conversations and the business of every day moving at the speed of light along wires, through fiber optics, across the sky, under the ocean and sometimes into space and back. Is it possible, however, that these electronic gadgets that we've come to take for granted sometimes make connections beyond what can be logically explained?
Consider these true stories from people who have had unexplained, puzzling and sometimes downright unnerving experiences with their phones.
The
Impossibly Cloned
Call
Many years ago, when
married to my first husband, I received a telephone call at about 4:20 a.m. It
was my elder brother telling me he had just gotten married. The call woke up my
husband and I spoke with my brother for about five minutes. I hung up and went
back to sleep. About a week or so later, I was visiting at my mother's home and
this same brother was there with his wife. I thanked him for calling me... and I
got this odd stare and his mouth fell open. He told me he had called our mother,
but he had never called me at all. I turned to my mother and she related the
entire conversation she had had with him, and then I related the entire
conversation I had had with him - and these conversations were literally
identical and at the exact same time. - Barbara
The Phones
That Called Each Other
This strange
incident happened in our home at Christmas. My husband had his cell phone on our
dining room table and it was turned off for the evening. My purse was in our
library, where my husband was playing a computer game with our daughter. In my
purse I had my cell phone turned on. As my husband and daughter were playing, my
cell phone rang. My husband picked it up and it said the incoming call was
coming in from his cell phone! He thought our son was playing a prank on
him and ran into the room we were in and told our son to stop messing around
with his cell phone. We laughed at him and asked him what he was talking about.
He said, "Your phone just rang and it said the call was coming in from my
phone!" This is where things get weird! My son and I were both in the same
room together talking and neither one of us had left the room. We weren't even
in the same room as my husband's cell phone at all. My husband checked his phone
and sure enough it was off just as he had left it. We can't figure out how a
call came into my phone from his phone when his phone was off and there was
certainly no one in the room with his phone! Strange indeed. We were all pretty
mystified over the whole incident for sure! - Janine
T.
The Phone
Call That Never Was
My mum usually picks
me up from work and she doesn't work far from me. One Tuesday night, we were
driving home when I asked her how my dad's computer classes were going. My dad
usually attended the computer classes every Tuesday night. She said she didn't
know as she hadn't spoken to him about it. She asked me why. I replied,
"Well, when I was speaking to him he said he was having some trouble. They
had been given three assignments to complete, but he couldn't finish assignment
number two as the computer wouldn't 'save as.' I think he eventually managed to
do them all though."
"Oh, right." she said. That night, with the conversation with my mum forgotten, I was sitting watching TV, when my dad knocked on my door. He said, "I was speaking to mum earlier about the conversation you had about my computer class. How did you know we had three assignments and I had trouble with the second one?"
Confused, I said, "You told me that on the phone."
"No, I didn't. There is no way you could have known that because I have just come from my computer class. You had the conversation with mum before I went, and what you told mum happened tonight. I couldn't have known we had three assignments as I missed last week's class."
We both just sat there looking at each other trying to figure out how I knew what was going to happen before it did. I was sure we had spoken on the phone about it, but how could we if it hadn't happened? The strange thing is, I can remember my dad telling me what happened on the phone, but I can't recall how, where and when. - Cian B.
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