October 30, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998 | Ghost Stories
Callers from across the country and around the world share their experiences. A retired New York City fire lieutenant recounts a story from Rescue 1, where a firefighter felt invisible hands gripping his ankles in a pitch-black bunk room, later discovering that a fireman had died of a heart attack in that exact bed 20 years earlier. A Charleston police officer describes a terrifying childhood encounter with a dog-like demonic entity that his brother independently confirmed seeing in the same house. A female truck driver reports a paralyzing experience at mile marker 163 on I-25 near Albuquerque where her body went numb and began to levitate.
A retired sheriff's captain recalls a ghost cat that attacked him in an old western courthouse, reportedly passing through his body according to a witness, before a ghostly man appeared at the top of the stairs and slowly dissipated.
Key Moments
Black belt punches pass through a smoky figure kneeling beside the bed: Art reads a submitted account from a martial artist who woke to see an almost transparent, expressionless man kneeling beside his bed, threw two quick punches at the intruder's head, and watched his fists pass straight through the entity as it drifted back into the night, only to be visited again days later when the figure grabbed his wrist.
Rescue 1 firehouse: a fireman feels hands climbing his legs at the exact hour a colleague died there 20 years earlier: A retired New York City fire lieutenant tells Art that a firefighter at Rescue 1 on West 43rd Street felt pressure on his ankles climbing toward his thighs in a pitch-black bunk room around 3 a.m., turned on the lights to find no one there, and learned the next morning that 20 years earlier on that exact date and hour an off-duty fireman had returned from a fire to that same bunk and died of a heart attack.
Charleston cop's demonic Cujo-like dog, confirmed years later by his brother: A Charleston, South Carolina police officer describes a six- or seven-foot tall figure of a dog with bloody matted fur, fangs and an overpowering smell of pure death that walked into his bedroom when he was a child, then says that years later his brother, also now a police officer, independently described the identical creature he had seen in the same house.
Art warns that talking about ghosts invites them: the pile-driver on his studio door: Art tells listeners he is becoming convinced that the more we talk about and consider these things the more we invite them, and recounts that during a previous Ghost to Ghost broadcast something hit his studio door so hard it sounded like a pile driver almost breaking it off the hinges, but when he ran over and opened the door there was absolutely nothing there.
Trucker paralyzed and lifted off the bunk at I-25 mile marker 163: A long-haul trucker calling from Ludlow, California tells Art that while parked overnight at the rest area at mile marker 163 on I-25 outside Albuquerque, her body went totally numb, an unintelligible noise came out of her mouth, and the middle of her body began to lift off the bunk while her husband slept beside her, only stopping the moment he woke up.