Story 1. Phone calls from the Dead.

We have previously explored reports concerning the spirits of those who have passed on.

But this week, we will be examining a phenomenon which is even more bewildering.

Instances in which friends and relatives have received what should have otherwise been an impossible phone call from the dead. Oh, So, You're going to be. When the phone fixed the far wall of the kitchen began to ring,

Bonnie McConnell had been on the other side of the room preparing dinner.

It was a Sunday evening, and although she had not been expecting a call, her first instinct

was to answer it, something she could not act upon because of the thick layer of foodstuffs covering

her fingers.

Calling out to her husband who was sitting in the adjoining room watching television,

she finished what she was doing and hurried across to the sink to clean up.

While she quickly towed the remaining water from her hands,

Bonnie had listened out for any hint of who the unknown caller might be as her husband lifted

the receiver.

After a few polite words, he had turned and offered the phone to her, whispering that it was their old friend Enid Jolson for over a year.

The subsequent conversation had gone on for some time, with Jolson informing Bonnie that she was quite well and that she had recently

moved to a nursing home much closer to the McConnell residents.

The call had ended with Bonnie promising to visit the following day, and that she would purchase a bottle of Enid's favourite brandy on her way over.

But the old lady's tone had suddenly changed, remarking that she had no need for such vices anymore.

With that, the phone call ended. This unexpected contact from their old friend took up the

majority of the McConnell's dinner conversation that evening with Bonnie

eagerly looking forward to her trip across town.

The next morning, upon asking the receptionist at the nursing home which Rumine had was in,

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