October 31, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998
A man in southern California describes a terrifying entity that pinned him face-down on his waterbed and bound his tongue, later learning the apartment was the scene of a shotgun murder. A Navy electrician stationed aboard the USS Enterprise shares how ghostly presences in the switchgear rooms would grab sleeping watchstanders by the hair, attributed to crewmen who had been vaporized by electrical arcs years earlier. A police officer from San Diego recalls spotting a bloodied man on a street corner at 3 a.m. who vanished in seconds with no trace.
Callers describe encounters ranging from a man in Minnesota who claims to have conversed with the spirit of John Dillinger during what he calls a circular gathering for the mortality impaired, to a grieving pet owner who found fresh paw prints pressed into his mattress the morning after his dog was euthanized. Art weaves in discussion of why spirits remain tied to specific locations and whether material objects carry memories of past events.
Key Moments
Hotel Del Coronado: a guest of Kate's ghost: Art reads a listener's story about visiting the Hotel Del Coronado after seeing a TV piece about its ghost Kate. Mysterious upgrades, free drinks, a stranger paying for dinner, and a stay that never appeared on her credit card bill.
Inheriting Mom's house and her ghost: Greg from El Cajon describes moving into his deceased mother-in-law's home with his pregnant wife. He sees a glowing female apparition down the hallway, later watches the ghost lean over her old dresser, finds a strange footprint in the carpet, and eventually sees demonic faces in the bedroom.
Stuntman's tuxedoed ghost on the Coral Gables fifth floor: Mike, a stuntman in town to shoot Bad Boys, checks into the Coral Gables hotel (Al Capone's old hangout). Phantom knocking, covers pulled off his bed, and a man in a 1920s tuxedo with a red carnation laughs and walks down the hallway. The next morning he learns the fifth floor was the WWII morgue.
Apparition in the road after a fatal Oregon crash: Marie from Wyoming recounts her daughter's friend's brother dying after a car went off an embankment in Oregon. For nights after, Marie sees the young man standing in the road with arms raised. After she visits the suicidal sister in the hospital and tells her it wasn't her fault, the apparition stops appearing.
Red-eyed silhouette at the basement door: Tracy in South Dakota, mid-divorce and considering an abortion, takes a job and moves in with an elderly Christian woman. After being warned by her pastor about a coming spiritual test, she wakes paralyzed in the basement to two slamming doors, the TV shutting off, and a black silhouette with red eyes saying 'come with me.'